Alani Kelso

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## Alani Kelso

### Occupation

* US Army Ranger (formerly)
* CIA Paramilitary Officer (formerly)
* Division Agent

### Rank

* Sergeant (Army)
* First Sergeant (honorary tombstone promotion)
* Senior Division Agent

### Education

* United States Army Ranger School
* SHD Training

### Affiliations

 United States Army (formerly)
  75th Ranger Regiment (formerly)
 Army Rangers (formerly)
 Central Intelligence Agency (formerly)

### People

* Manny Ortega (friend)
* Skyler Brooks (former friend)
* Brayden Jameson (recruiter, former friend)
* Ruby Rose (ally, surrogate daughter)

### Weapons Used

* Custom P416
* Marine M780 Shotgun
* SHD Bombardier Drone
* SHD Airburst Seeker Mine

### Aura Color

Red (Non-Canon)

**Alani Kelso** is the senior Division agent based in Washington D.C. Although the Division is a fully autonomous unit, Kelso is the closest thing the Division has a commander. She works closely with Manny Ortega and the DC branch of the Joint Task Force. While she spends most of her time at the White House, providing coordination and assistance to agents in the field, she is not afraid to get her hands dirty, and has been known to serve in the field on a regular basis.

An old friend of Skyler Brooks from their days in the Army Rangers, Kelso was the one responsible for Riley Brooks' accidental death, and therefore, the catalyst for Brooks desire for revenge against the Division. Kelso feels a heavy burden of guilt over her actions, and a deep sorrow that she has unintentionally driven her friend down a dark path.

However, she knows Brooks has to be stopped, and in her opinion, she no longer recognizes the woman Brooks once was. While she often has doubts over the Division's mission, she is a firm believer in the cause, and knows that even though they're not perfect, the Division is the best hope for America to survive Dollar Flu and return to some semblance of how they once were.

## Biography

Kelso was born and raised on Kauai, in the state of Hawaii. When she was a child, she lived through Hurricane Iniki, and was left without power for several weeks. She would later speak to Skyler Brooks about how Hurricane Iniki would become the reason that she joined The Division. She joined the Army out of high school and would later become one of the first women to complete U.S. Army Ranger School, where she demonstrated an aptitude for out-of-the-box solutions and foul play.

She would later go on to serve overseas in Afghanistan with Skyler Brooks and Brayden Jameson, achieving the rank of Sergeant, before the trio were injured in a convoy ambush.

Her time with the Rangers made her highly attractive to the Central Intelligence Agency, and for some years she performed Covert Operations as a paramilitary agent in the National Clandestine Service. There she acquired a mixed reputation, as some of her superiors found her methods questionable even though she always got the job done. She was eventually recruited by The Division by her old colleague Jameson, who had risen to a high rank within the Division, and she even worked as an instructor before taking on active agent status.

## Weapons and Equipment

Kelso is a Division agent armed with a Custom P416, Marine M780 Shotgun, SHD Airburst Seeker-Mines, SHD Bombardier Drones and Flashbang Grenades.

## Powers and Abilities

### Semblance

*Main Article: Tempest*

*Note: This Section is Non-Canon and applies only to Phoenix Fall: Written Petals.*

Having acquired Aura after being severally wounded and later awakening her power, Kelso's Semblance **Tempest**, grants her the ability to generate and manipulate the elements related to the weather, specifically wind, electricity, ice, heat, rain, snow, and fog, giving her abilities to similar to the Maiden Power. This allows her to turn the tide of the battlefield towards her and her allies favour, using the various elemental aspects of her Semblance to perform stealth and combat operations, which has enhanced her combat training and capabilities as both a former Army Ranger and Division Agent.

After managing to evolve her Semblance, Kelso was able to form makeshift but effective melee weapons from the elements, one of these being a shaft of crystallized lightning that can discharge bolts of electricity, and melee weapons such as a battle axe or a sword made from ice. In addition, Kelso can summon and manipulate meteorological tempests, such as lightning, thunderstorms, hurricanes, blizzards, tornadoes, mist, and typhoons, to a small degree, though depending on the geographical environment, Kelso can summon snow and fog, to limit the vision of any hostiles while infiltrating a enemy location.

## Relationships

### Skyler Brooks

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>  | *Listen to me, Sky! You are my best friend, alright?! You've always been my best friend! We survived Ranger School! We survived Afghanistan! You survived eighteen fucking years of raising a son! I AM NOT losing you now! (Maybe this...is justice. After all the lives I've taken....God deciding to tip the scales back. Maybe Riley would be better without a killer as a mother.) Don't say that. You are not dying! I am not telling Riley I let you die!*
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From the moment they met in Ranger School, Kelso and Brooks became fast friends. The contrast of a somewhat older, more tactically minded Skyler and the somewhat brash and hot-headed Alani made from an unlikely yet balanced friendship. It's been noted often that Alani was Skyler's only and best friend in her life, as Skyler had often shown no interest in making friends, instead choosing to focus on personal improvement and challenging herself with sports and academics.

Their friendship grew stronger in the fires of Afghanistan, as when they and Brayden Jameson were injured in an RPG convoy ambush, Skyler bravely chose to exit the vehicle and chase down the terrorists with only her sidearm while Kelso and Jameson got to safety.

Later, as agents, when Skyler was shot by an Outcast she was attempting to reason with, Kelso repaid Skyler's bravery by taking her to safety, holding Skyler's wound with one hand and fighting off Outcasts with the other, all the while fighting to keep Skyler alive and telling her she wasn't going to let her friend die. Kelso and Brooks would often disagree over the methods used by the Division and whether their enemies could be reasoned with. And despite Kelso's often black and white views, she agreed to help Brooks and Riley leave D.C., even if it meant Skyler would be going AWOL, after Skyler tearfully confessed that the stress of the job, combined with a traumatic incident involving an Outcast child, had proven too much for her.

After the death of Riley Brooks and Skyler's defection from the agency to the True Sons, the two have developed a fierce, personal blood vendetta towards each other. Kelso has stated, at least according to her logs, that she feels no remorse for the killing of Riley, seeing it as self-defense, and that she no longer sees her friend as human. She has stated often that she feels it is pointless to attempt to try and understand Skyler's mindset, as "*it's pointless trying to understand crazy".* She has repeatedly affirmed that her only focus now is killing Skyler and all of her followers, no matter the cost.

### Ruby Rose

*This is considered Non-Canon and is related to Phoenix Fall: Written Petals.*

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>  | *(Back when I was about to ascend in the Ever After, I found out that my mom, Summer, lied to me and Yang on the mission she was going on before she disappeared. Even though I have my friends to look after me, I don't know if I can look after them when Salem comes after me.) Ruby. None of that is on you. (You don't understand.) I struggled for a long-time about what I did to Skyler. No matter what, you keep finding something to fight for.*
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Kelso's relationship with Ruby started off complicated. They first meet at the White House during the Siege of D.C. Kelso insisted that she and her team get down to basement to avoid the risk of getting killed. After finding out that Riptide contractor Carter "Goblin" Reyes and later Skyler was targeting Ruby, as the latter wanted to personally hurt Kelso at her most vulnerable. Kelso was emotionally conflicted of whether or not, to part ways with Ruby early on, as of this point, believed that parting with Ruby was for the best because she did not trust himself enough to her safe, and doesn't want to be held responsible for another person's death, especially Ruby, who sort of reminded her of Riley Brooks, and was still quietly guilt ridden for killing Riley, that set a chain of events that led to Skyler becoming into a violent and manipulative monster.

As time went by, Kelso bond with Ruby became stronger, as she became a mentor and surrogate maternal figure towards Ruby demonstrating a deep parental love towards her.

## Background History

* 2003 - Enlists in the United States Army, assigned to the 1st Infantry Division
* 2004 - Joins the Army Rangers, where she displayed unorthodox solutions and foul play
* 2005 - Archives the rank of Sergeant
* 2006 - Honorably discharged, joins the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division

## Trivia

### Allusion (non-canon)

* Due to the relationship between her and Ruby, Alani Kelso may allude to Joel Miller from the video game The Last of Us by Naughty Dog.

### Others

* Coincidentally, Kelso resembles Summer Rose, Ruby Rose and Yang Xiao Long's presumably deceased mother. Though they also, share a similar facial features as well.
* Following the death of Skyler Brooks and the end of the True Sons-GSA War, Kelso along with several of their allies with current & former military receive several commendations and promotions to higher military ranks. With her receiving the honorary Tombstone promotion to First Sergeant.