Callista Paige

**Callista "Callie" Sheridan Paige** is the secondary main protagonist of the V2 Chronicles television series, V2 Universe. Originally hailing from Altria, she was sent to Central City for her Junior school year after the death of her parents.

Upon arrival in Central City, however, her files got mixed up, and so she goes to Amber Academy every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and Hereford High School every Tuesday and Thursday due to red tape hijinks.

Callie is a Code caster, one of the rarest and strangest forms of magical powers found in the Chronicles. Callista is portrayed by Makoto Kino, one of the closest friends of Usagi Tsukino, who portrays Princess Serena in the V2 Chronicles. She also has a secret identity (shhhhhhhhh).

## Personality

Initially, Callie presents herself as a hard-working, diligent student. She inherently defaults to 'sir' and 'ma'am' for almost all figures of authority, such as professors, politicians, and officers. The truth is more complicated than that - while Callie certainly is a bright and talented student, an emotional, impulsive 'bad girl' lies beneath the surface that often comes out during her escapades with the Vincent Five (who she notably has trouble referring to with formalities like 'sir' and 'ma'am', possibly due to her initial view on them as a popular gang rather than a legitimate organization). Given what Philemon said during her Transformation and how easily Callie will rebel against authority if the moment strikes, it seems that Callie isn't quite the perfect student she was bred to be.

Callie is opportunistic and impetuous, two qualities that have both opened a lot of doors for Callie but have also gotten her into a considerable amount of trouble. Callie winds up in the hospital or in intensive care frequently - V2, Philemon, and Shesthaal, among others, have all advised her to control her emotions and think rationally before jumping into a situation, lest it cost Callie her life (or worse).

Despite her relatively serious and straight-laced disposition, Callie has a lot of tics that show cracks beneath this facade. Upon arriving in Class 2-D, Callie immediately burst into tears, crying over how boring most of the students in said class turned out to be. Despite her tomboyish and confrontational attitude, Callie loves a great deal of 'girly' things, like gardening, fashion, cooking, and especially magical girl (*mahou shoujo*) shows (hence why she dons a magical girl uniform for her Overdrive transformation). Callie also shows hints of being a bit boy-crazy - she easily slips into flirty or flustered gestures around boys she likes. Indeed, one of Callie's personal goals is to get a boyfriend, or to at least get laid sometime in the not-too-distant future.

Callie often feels powerless, like the world around her moves too quickly for her. She feels she was powerless to stop her parents' death, and that her consistent streaks of bad luck are a result of this powerlessness (like being accidentally assigned to two schools instead of one). This is part of the reason she joins the Vincent Five - she wants to assert some level of personal control in her life, to chip away at that sense of powerlessness in her mind. This is likely why her Codeword is 'Power' - she deeply desires power above all. Despite wanting power for the sake of it, Callie doesn't seem to have any malicious intent - Callie views power as independence and self-control, rather than the control and subjugation of others.