Yaara Khen

Maya Khen (younger sister) †

Maya Hargrave (oldest daughter)

Eden Hargrave (youngest daughter)

Ruth Adler (maternal grandmother/legal guardian) †

Businesswomen (currently)

Student (graduated; formerly)

* Artio Dorm

The White Tights

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**Yaara Li Khen (**Hebrew:יַעֲרָהלִיחֵן**)** is one of the main protagonist of A Lie Called Hope. She is the only child and daughter between an Israeli Diplomat Shlomo and a Mossad Agent turned Housewife Ester.

Yaara is the mother of two daughters named Maya and Eden with her longtime boyfriend turned husband Kieron Hargrave.

## Appearance

Yaara is a teenage girl of fine build, and is 5'9" ft. She is characterized as especially beautiful, with fine facial features and bodily proportions. She has full, dark and wavy waist-length hair; a mole above her right breast and dark eyes. She also has prominent, arched eyebrows.

Yaara has a style unique to herself having a closet which is a mixer of modern styles like crop tops, and high waisted jeans and a 80's style having long gypsy skirts, jean jackets, wraps and jewelry that adds to her aesthetic. She often wears sandals, slip-on shoes, creepers, loafers, Mary Jane's, and wedges.

### Piercings

* She has three piercings in each ear and later got an industrial piercing

## Personality

Yaara is the most flawed out of the main characters. Throughout the show she can be observed as the most "real" representation of a high school teenager. Yaara is a ambitious young girl who will do anything to gain popularity. She is incredibly insecure and can be overwhelmingly jealous. Even so, Yaara is also one to fight for what she believes in and to stand by those she loves. She has always been a loyal friend and accepts her friends for who they are.

Yaara's most recognizable character trait is her obsessive love for Kieron, which she explains as appreciation for men with potential rather than perfect people, whom she considers boring, and admits outright to becoming obsessive about anything she likes. Her love takes an overtly psychopathic turn when she decides to kidnap him and attempt to brainwash him into reciprocating her feelings, as well as forcefully training him into fitting an idealized picture of himself. Upon Kieron revolt, she goes completely berserk and is willing to hurt, or even kill him in order to keep him for herself. Once she is defeated, and then immediately saved by Kieron in spite of what she put him through, Yaara sees the error of her ways, becoming genuinely infatuated by his heroism, and as such begins to fully respect his privacy and feelings. After beginning a true relationship with Kieron, she appears much more mellow and relaxed.

Aloof and "insanely tough" (as described by Kieron), Yaara is often cold toward people and maintains a steely, unwelcoming expression, except for in the presence of Kieron, with whom she acts sweetly and warmly in an excessive fashion. She is irritable, blunt and prone to lashing out, particularly when something gets in her way. When angered, her left eye also twitches. Yaara frequently and violently uses her ability, Human Nature, against anyone she feels would hurt her chances of captivating Kieron, resorting to lethal force in the worst case. She has also been described as the type of person who lives in her own world and tends not to listen to others, expecting things to go her way and for people to follow what she says. Even when something goes wrong, she tends to blame it on others and refuses to find fault with herself. Despite the insecure comments in her introduction, she has immense pride in her appearance and hair, even threatening to murder Kieron once he damaged her hair during their fight.

Due to her pride in her own abilities and a strong sense of responsibility, she refuses to take credit for other's doing and always admits her mistakes, although she's unable to speak up to teachers due to the trust they have in her.

## Abilities

**Human Nature** - Yaara possesses the ability known as Human Nature, in which a part of her Qarinah heritage influenced her powers. Human Nature actual belonged to her mother originally but when she died it transferred to her in her mother's dying moments.

* **Hair Manipulation** - Yaara has complete control over her hair and others, allowing them to freely alter, grow out, chance texture, color, etc., shape and manipulate it as if it was appendage, weave the hair into different shapes, etc. Due to hair lacking nerves or being directly affected by changes in the nervous system, attacks and damage are virtually harmless.
	+ ***Prehensile Hair*** - She can make her hair move and use it to hold/manipulate objects like a limb, to attack opponents, etc.
* **Piezokinetic Combat** - She can infuse her pressure with physical combat allowing them to have most of the applications of Pressure Manipulation such as making weapons, armor, and etc.

* ***Absorption Kiss*** - She is able to drain the life force of other beings through lip contact.
	+ **Insanity Inducement** - She can cause madness in a person or group of people that have no mental illness, depending on how the victims may go slightly loopy or lose total grip of reality becoming delusional, lose control over themselves, paranoid, catatonic or hostile.
* **Prehensile Tail** - Yaara also has a tail that she keeps hidden most of the time.
	+ **Mind Entering** - She has the ability to enter another person's dream with their tails. To do this, the end of their tail opens like a flower which they then put on the intended target's head before entering the person's mind.
* **Telescopic Claws** - Yaara can grow claws out from her fingers that can easily cut through trees and enemies with ease. After training for a month her claws became sharp and strong enough to easily slice through metal guns and weapons.
* ***Flight*** - As a Qarinah, Yaara possesses bat wings that give her the natural ability of flight.

## Trivia

* She is associated with XIX (19) which is in reference to The Sun.
	+ She is also associated with the Minor Arcana card Queen of Wands.
* Yaara suffers from TheatricalHistrionic personality disorder.
* Yaara is described as smelling of apricot blossoms.
* She also suffers from bulimia.
* Her favorite designers are Eiko Ishioka, Vivienne Westwood, Coco Chanel, and Trisha Biggar.
* Her favorite smell is lavender, and usually buys lavender oil.
* Yaara most of her maternal family can speak Hebrew.
* She is a talented singer despite not wanting to become a singer. Emma is a extremely talented pianist that she states she does want to purse a career as a pianist.