Karis Nikolaus

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> ### Full Name
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> Karis Marie Viskna-Nikolaus
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> ### Alias
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> * Grey-Eyed Gorgon
> * Ersa Rabbit (codename)
> * Crybaby (used by Vio and \*&\*)
> * Bedpost Queen (used by Vio)
> * Mouse, Baby Claws (used by Alex)
> * Bunny, Honeybee (used by Oz)
> * Strawberry, Squishy (used by her mom)
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> ### Birth
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> December 14th, 2790 on Eliko Farm's, Nikola Island, Sāgara
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> ### Age
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> * 20-24 (Academy years)
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> ### Homeworld
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> Olympia/Sāgara
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> ### Species
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> Human - Esper
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> ### Gender
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> Female
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> Ink black
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> Grey
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> ### Height
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> 5'1" ft
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> O-
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> ### Relative(s)
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> * Selena Nikolaus (mother) †
> * Jack Viksna (father - estranged)
> * Ziggy Nikolaus (oldest son)
> * Theia Morningstar (youngest daughter)
> * Oz Viksna (paternal older half-brother)
> * Atena Dragavei (paternal oldest half-sister)
> * Vioara Viksna (paternal younger half-sister)
> * Tobi Viksna (paternal youngest half-brother)
> * Tati Nikolaus (maternal aunt and legal mother)
> * Agrippa Nikolaus (maternal aunt)
> * Alexius Nikolaus (maternal uncle)
> * Nymphadora Nikolaus (maternal first cousin)
> * Theodora Nikolaus (maternal first cousin)
> * Bithiah Nikolaus (maternal grandmother) †
> * Elijah Nikolaus (maternal granduncle) †
> * Diana Nikolaus (maternal great-grandmother) †
> * Valda Viksna (paternal grandmother) †
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> “It is a heretic that makes the fire, not she which burns in't.”
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> ― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
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**Karis Marie Viskna-Nikolaus** is the oldest child and daughter between Selena Nikolaus and Jack Viksna but was adopted and raised by her aunts Tati and Agrippa Nikolaus, her siblings are named Oz, Atena, Vioara and Tobi.

Karis mothered two children named Ziggy Stardust and Theia Marie, her son was fathered by her rapist and her daughter was fathered by Luci Morningstar.

## Appearance

Karis is an attractive young woman with long ink black hair that reaches her mid-back that she usually stylizes in a ponytail or a tight bun on duty along with intense grey eyes. She has an oval-shape face, with a strong Roman nose and full lips. Karis also has a full and voluptuous body with large breasts, strong thighs and shapely calves.

As an Esper, Karis mutations are her nails are metallic green-black nails (she tried to bite them short, but they would not yield to her teeth), bright silver and blue wings and pronounced pointed ears like a bat.

She has two piercings in her right ear, three in her left, a septum and her belly button but it closed after she took it out while pregnant with Ziggy.

### Tattoos

* She has "Just as a snake shed its skin, we must shed our past, over and over again" by the Buddha. It is on her left thigh that is almost covered by her underwear.
* On her left inner bicep, she has a woman with angel wings being entrapped by a snake based on the medieval art of Lilith.

## Abilities and Skills

* **Esper Physiology** - Karis is an Esper like her roommate Sarada but is an extremely rare kind of Esper called an Phenex and is a legacy, but is also a first generation due to being born on Sāgara.
	+ **Accelerated Regeneration** - Due to her Phenex self, Karis can heal at an unnerving rate for example when she was six Meg broke her leg while surfer due to getting her leg caught under a border the doctor said it would six months to heal, her leg healed in five weeks. After the birth of her son, Karis learned she could regenerate new limbs after having a finger chopped off it came back after a few days.
		- **Resurrection** - As a Phenex, Karis can self-resurrect herself a total of nine times, she is currently on her third resurrection.
	+ **Fire Manipulation** - Karis is capable of pyrokinesis (mental control over flames). She can mentally generate fire, projecting flames from her hands or having it surround her body in a protective cocoon. She has also, on rare occasions, been able to levitate with her fire, but this is a fairly uncommon occurrence. Her powers are extremely volatile and are capable of a very wide radius and measure of destruction; when her powers first awoke, she killed over a dozen people without effort.
	+ **Enhanced Hearing** - Karis like other members of her family has enhanced hearing due to their unique ears which are shaped like a bat.
		- **Echolocation** - Karis can emit sound waves and use the echoes that return from various objects to locate and identify the objects. Alternately, they can use ambient sounds to do the same. Since this ability isn't based on sight/light, Invisibility is useless against it, as are most forms of Camouflage.
	+ **Wings** - Karis can pop in and out her wings that she often uses instead of getting a cab because it's cheaper.
* **Expert Chemistry Skills** - Karis is an expert in the field of chemistry. Karis is a brilliant chemist, able to calculate a plethora of chemical substances with a variety of effect. At the academy, she was even able to induce chemical embrittlement to a four-hundred-pound ball of tungsten carbide, an incredibly dense substance, turning it to dust by mere touch afterwards. Her knowledge in chemistry is thorough enough for her to calculate and input custom chemicals in her head at incredible speeds without having use of calculator or a computer. She also invented the Chem-Gun that many non-Mana users in the Alpheratz Union and was the invention that promoted her to Lieutenant while still in the Academy being only an Ensign rank for about six months.

### Possessions

* **Snake Armband** - Karis on her seventeenth birthday was given by her aunt an armband that originally belonged to her mother, it is a metal snake with ruby eyes and in its mana activated state becomes an electrum-based whip

## Etymology

* Karis is the modern form of the Ancient Greek name Chares which is derived from Greek χάρις (charis) meaning "grace, kindness".
	+ It is also possibly a form of Carys which is derived from Welsh caru meaning "love". This is a relatively modern Welsh name, in common use only since the middle of the 20th century.
* Marie is the French variant of Mary, which is the usual English form of Maria, the Latin form of the New Testament Greek names Μαριάμ (Mariam) and Μαρία (Maria) — the spellings are interchangeable — which were from Hebrew מִרְיָם (Miryam), a name borne by the sister of Moses in the Old Testament. The meaning is not known for certain, but there are several theories including "sea of bitterness", "rebelliousness", and "wished for child". However, it was most likely originally an Egyptian name, perhaps derived in part from mry "beloved" or mr "love".
* Viskna is directly taken from Latvian *vīksna* "elm tree". This name was recorded in medieval Latvia.
* Nikolaus is the German form of Nicholas is from the Greek name *Νικόλαος (Nikolaos)* meaning "victory of the people", derived from Greek *νίκη (nike)* meaning "victory" and *λαός (laos)* meaning "people". Saint Nicholas was a 4th-century bishop from Anatolia who, according to legend, saved the daughters of a poor man from lives of prostitution. He is the patron saint of children, sailors and merchants, as well as Greece and Russia. He formed the basis for the figure known as Santa Claus (created in the 19th century from Dutch *Sinterklaas*), the bringer of Christmas presents.

## Trivia

* Karis is associated with the red and yellow rose, a symbol of joy and happiness.
* Karis is bisexual.
* Karis has asthma.
* According to the Databook(s).
	+ Karis hobbies are painting, reading books, gardening and surfing.
	+ She is allergic to pennyroyal.
	+ Karis favorite meal is blackened redfish with sweet potato dumplings and a fresh cucumber salad.
		- Her second favorite meal is crispy salmon croquettes with spicy roe curry rice and remoulade sauce on the side.
	+ Karis hates pork.
	+ Her most treasure collection is her rare types of paint.
	+ Karis enjoys classical, world music and rock music.
* She doesn't have a sweet tooth and has never had a cavity.
* She is an expert at cheating in poker.
* Karis has ornithophobia.
* She started smoking at age eight.
* Karis hair seems to grow at a very fast rate, likely as a trait of her Phenex regeneration ability. This is likely the reason she constantly changes her hairstyle.
	+ Karis also has an extremely fast metabolic rate meaning that she sweats very easy, and bathes whenever she can.
* Karis doesn't use deodorant and only takes bubble baths.
* She is fluent in sign language.
* Karis apparently kept a large supply of stationary underneath her school uniform to use as weapons, although how she was able to hide them remains a mystery.