Lara Kai

* Spiras-DEKA-Verse
* Official Art, Gallery, and Miscellaneous

## **Overview**

***Lara Kai (海ララ "Kai Rara")*** *is the future self of the main protagonist "Lara", and is the primary overarching antagonist of the DEKA-Verse franchise.*

*Born from a forbidden fusion of two different variants - the Final Drifter and the Elementalist, Lara Kai is less of a human being and more of a force of nature. She becomes what the Drifters called the "Dayosa" - an entity that surpasses the Drifter species, and was often pictured and depicted as a loving and maternal artistic entity who created many universes. In the Illumina universe, the Dayosa is said to have created the world through a single tear of joy and memory, wishing to create a place similar to the one she left behind and loved long ago.*

However, they are yet to see the true colors of their Dayosa, and the horrifying truth underneath layers of lost memories and tales.

## Personality

Unlike the human Lara, who had goodness in her heart despite being emotionally unstable, the Dayosa herself lacks any sense of good or evil in her soul. Lara Kai is more aligned to that of a force of nature - staying true to the things that made her who she is, never departing from her only purpose in the universe. She harbors deep resentment and anger against those who suppress others that had potential that can exceed the "mundane" reality they live in, going as far as to eliminate them from existence entirely without a single regret.

However, Lara Kai bears a softer side to the sight of little children and lost or adrift travelers. Just as the human Lara had optimism in her former years, the Dayosa has motherly affection towards souls, children, and the adrift ones. She would treat them as her own brethren, knowing their struggles and their pain throughout their lifetimes. She doesn't judge by their surface traits or their actions, but focuses on their intentions and the inner workings of their psyche to find understanding in them. In simple words: she is an ideal mother humanity needed yet deserved.

When not in her motherly state, Lara Kai is a twisted mastermind. She is everything Lara (and possibly DECALINE too) is, was, and will be; she is everything she feels, desires, fears, and hates. Lara Kai is, by element and her existence, an unstable paradox that can make anyone near her go insane just to amuse this transcended woman. Being the Dayosa, Lara is also sadistic and condescending towards even other villains of the franchise, but also towards her human self, seeing her as a fragment of her own soul that "fell from the tree, but not too far from it".

## Appearance

Lara Kai is a woman with nearly fair white skin, which was caused by excessive usage of her own powers. She has electric blue irises, with white diamond-shaped pupils surrounded by a dark blue border. She has long black hair with bangs swept to her right, covering her scarred right eye. Being the Final Drifter and the Elementalist combined, Lara Kai has shark teeth and two pairs of fangs.

Her main attire often consisted of pale white bandages, which was a result of multiple injuries in both lifetimes. She sports tight thigh-length grey shorts that functions as her leggings, and a black tattered poncho-like top that hides her torso bandages. Her main feature is her abyssal teal left arm, which is corrupted during her stay in the Nether realm. Her bandaged right arm is a reminder of her past life as the human Lara, who used her wrist to direct the mana to her heart, which burned her own arteries and veins if it wasn't for the immortality she had as a Drifter.

## Name Origins

* The word "Kai" (海) is the On-yomi reading for the Japanese word "ocean".
	+ Subverted, due to the nature of the Dayosa in the DEKA-Verse as foreshadowed by the Elementalist's bottomless resentment and Lara's endless rage. The Kanji of "to break" is "Kowa" (壊), usually accompanied with "su" (す). In On-yomi readings, the Kanji "壊" can be read as "Kai", instead of the Kun-yomi reading "Kowa". This word can describe the destructive potentials of Lara Kai's true power, had she been not sealed away by her own creation "Niji Iro".
		- Alternatively, the name "Lara Kai" can also be written as "壊ララ" (Kai Rara), while still retaining the same sound reading. However, the Kanji of "break/decay" and the Kanji of "ocean" can be interchanged, but they hide a darker meaning when so.

## Trivia

* Lara Kai is the mascot for the Savant page in the Arcane Odyssey Wikia.
	+ She is the only character that is used to contribute to a work outside of the DEKA-Verse.
	+ To add to the fact that of all the DEKA-Verse characters, Lara is the only character that is openly promoting the franchise as a whole.
* Lara Kai is a variant of the Drifter Lara that has become mad with power caused by a tragedy, resulting in her fulfillment of vengeance.
	+ The Mad Savant arc is confirmed in the DEKA-Verse's concepts, resulting in the skin "The Elementalist" (Design will not be revealed until another track releases).
* DECALINE had revealed the character early in an Art RPG in efforts to seek improvement for character design. However, don't expect all information to be final.

## References

*All art currently is created by DECALINE herself. Other artworks made by other artists will be credited here too.*

## References

1. ↑ https://www.paperdemon.com/app/g/pdarpg/character/16532