Para

**Para is an OC created by Seraphim8core.**

Para is a panda spirit in Seraphim8core's upcoming graphic novel *Istos*. In the story, Para is a vagabond that searches the human realm for scattered magic relics. Para is moody and reserved in personality. She is about 600 years old, slightly younger than Kara. She has 4 forms, each somewhere in between human and panda. Para can ironbend in her panda form and has superstrength in her human form.

**Appearance:**

Para has the appearance of a ~21-year old and stands at 5 ft 4 inches. Para most often wears a cropped Chinese dress, with a teal kimono (Kara's from back in the day) and sandals. She wears her hair in a bun but occasionally lets it loose. Her skin has blue spots and stripes, similar to a panda's black patterns. Para has 4 alternate outfits (as seen in reference)

Para's true form. In this form, Kara can make the most of her iron control abilities but lacks the physical strength and mental fortitude of her human form.

**1/4 human:**

1/4 human form has strong iron control abilities and mildly strong physical strength.

**2/4 human:**

2/4 human form has mildly strong iron control abilities and great physical strength.

**3/4 human:**

3/4 human form has no iron control abilities but maximum physical strength. Para is significantly less happy in her human form because "being a human just isn't as fun as being a panda." That's why she looks moody all the time.

**Lore (Istos canon):**

Para was born sometime around 1400 in China. She eventually moved to Korea and formed a family with a small group of monsters. Later, Kara would join this group. One day while Kara was away, a group of Korean exorcists caught and killed the monsters, with the exception of Kara, who was away at the time, and Para, who was rescued and hidden by a defected exorcist (The man who later became Kara's husband, unbeknownst to either). Kara, who thought the exorcists had killed all of her family, completely razed the town. Centuries later, Kara had succeeded in killing every exorcist in Korea, and decided to move on to Japan. While there, she met the defect exorcist who saved Para (she didn't know it) and eventually married him. Soon, the village Kara lived in killed the defect for living with a monster, and Kara would have leveled that town too, had Para not finally found her again. Para convinced Kara not to destroy the humans again. After taking a sisterhood blood ritual, Para and Kara decided to found an institute/organization for monsters where they could teach them how to live with the humans. This school would be located in Istos, a subspace dimension that humans cannot access. Kara became a teacher at this academy, and Para set out to find help for this gargantuan undertaking. Once sufficient help had been obtained, Para became an archeologist and travelled the Earth in search of long-since discarded magic items. She was responsible for finding the husk of Pandora's box, the antigravity boots Kara wears, the magic scaler (accurately determines a monster's magic attribute as well as spell type inclination), The automoton Furai, and various other items.

**Lore (Gartic canon):**

    -If para is in an image during a gartic round and it has a sideways "C" marker, it means the image is canon. It is followed by issue numbers showing the order of canon images. This helps document what the current Para is going through in her gartic canon. As of the time of writing this (Mar. 11,) Para is currently on her 2nd canon image.

**Trivia:**

    -Para once snuck into Atlantis as part of her search for magic artifacts. Haldrys, one of Luma's royal guards, saw her in her 1/4 panda form and mistook her for a gremlin. He then proceeded to put the Atlantian Navy on high alert and informed the customs officer that Atlantis "was under attack by gremlins." This became known as the "underwater gremlin incident" and Haldrys hates it when people bring it up around him.

    -In her less human forms, Para becomes way too energetic, unlike Para, who becomes less energetic the further she is from human.

-Para can speak in English, Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese, German, Arabic, Spanish, and Esperanto. Her collar is a magic item she found that translates her thoughts for her (in a limited amount of languages)

-Para was originally created as a card for a board game. This board game also has a design called mechapanda, which is completely non-canon to *Istos.*

-Para's pants' legs are a gate to a pocket space in Istos that she can pull her weapons from. This easy storage makes it so that Para doesn't have to carry 50 tons worth of weaponry with her everywhere.