Kali Verantes

## Origin

Colombian born multi-hyphenate and second daughter to a network newscaster Gia Verantes & real estate magnate and angel investor Nestor Verantes. Kali Verantes grew to be talented and resourceful at a young age, learning to design clothing and mix liquids to craft hair dyes for her dolls. These visual talents did not impress her parents as much as her older sister Kaina's wunderkind pursuit for encyclopedic knowledge and athletic ability. Her mother kept Kali busy as her assistant in her FEVER workout dance videos. The young Verantes charisma over the camera attracted fashion designer Penny Tone, founder of the PANTONE fashion house. PANTONE fashion house designed costumes for not only celebrities, politicians, the rich & fabulous, television & film; PANTONE crafted superhero costumes. Tone casted her to play the young sidekick of the villainous femme fatale Sheairra in a FALL/WINTER superhouse collection advert titled "GRAPEVYNE". The cast and crew loved Kali and Kali loved the rush of playing fantasy in front of cameras and an audience of people.

The GRAPEVYNE advert brightened Kali's star power more, attracting acting and modeling agencies. She penned an infamous five million dollar modeling deal with the Swedish agency, MUSE. She met a collection of child stars on the agency and befriended the likes of Jotaro & Echo Tsukazaki. Part of her contract required her to enter a mandatory modeling training camp that lasted for six months. Kali never speaks on the activities and knowledge she gained from the cached camp, but blog sites like CRAZY DAYS & NIGHTS drop blind item nuggets of info consisting of dancing, fights and weird dream-syncing devices. Once she completed the MUSE training camp, she penned contracts to be in bit and supporting roles for acting on television and film. Private tutors, competing in pageants, singing and dance classes, tennis and fencing a young Kali jumped from hobby to hobby only seeming to take a personal liking to exercise, being pampered and shopping. Her mother Gia attempted to glean a career out of it by putting her on camera as her assistant in her series of workout tapes.

To Kali, Nestor, her father seemed to take a liking to her older sister Kaina. Famous fashion designer and superhero Penny Tone scouted Kali for her beauty and swan-like neck. She casted her in fashion campaigns and as a child actress for her Grapevyne limited-series as a project to advertise her superhero fashion designs. She played the young sidekick of the femme fatale and villainess fatale Sheairra.

Acting agencies and fashion designers wanted to hire Kali to model and serve as youthful representation as their clientele. She played supporting roles through the ages of 6 to 14. Her roles as Vivianny the clever daughter of a Miami drug kingpin, Enrique and

Her father pulled her out of showbiz to shelter her from the subjugation and abuse the industry volleys at their talent. Kali loved the glitz and glamor the industry afforded her and protested. Her father cracked and made the agreement of limited showbiz work under the close supervision of her mother, Gia. When Kali hit puberty an bioluminescent mutation blossomed. This conflicted with her ability to work on film projects and runways, having uncontrollable episodes and flares of her mutation. Abruptly pulling out of her contracted projects, her family kept her at home until she learned to control her abilities to avoid harming herself and others.

Kali was enrolled into Armand-Croix Academy private boarding preparatory school located in Van Nuys, California. She quickly learned the school was full of people like her. There was comfort in learning there were other people like her, but the first-year restrictions and inability to leave the campus grounds made the school feel like prison more than an educational environment. She spent her last five years of primary school in the school until until graduating into Ivy League for medicine

## Powers and Abilities

###### Light Manipulation

* Blinding: Bright flashes or long emissions of light that blind onlookers.
* Invisibility: Bend light waves to render her, other people or objects invisible.
* Moon Beams: Hard light constructs she can generate to attack or defend. This is also how she creates her "Moon Arrows"
* Constructs: Hard and vaporized light constructs that can emit colors from the spectrum.
* Memory Erasure: Light burst that can erase memories within a hour this light is a binary on/off switch for a specific part of the hippocampus.
* Illusion: Light constructs can be used to create three dimensional images.

### Siren Mutation

Retractable sharp teeth and nails confused for vampire

##### Iridescent Wings

* Retractable appendages that are apart of her Ch'ia lineage. Can secrete a hallucinatory drug she dubbed "Moon Dust" from wings that can take effect from swallowing, inhaling or skin absorption. The wings have been suspected to manifest from a combination for her aptitude to manipulate light.
* Flight: Her wings allow her to fly.

With an innate sensitivity to the supernatural channel Kali has a strong aptitude for spellcasting and otherworldly endeavors.

### Chi'a Witchcraft

* Chi’a: A Book of ancient spells found in Topaga coal mines detailing spells and rituals.
* Identity: Copy, transfer or swap the personality of another person or her own to complement her grifting abilities.
* Charm: Disarm people and gain the trust or attraction of others at a quicker rate than naturally possible.
* Fear: Mortify people to the point of a flight response. There is a spectrum to this that can be used to create emotional discomfort that helps her perform intimidation over outright fear.
* Spectral: A plasma form of Kali can manifest while conscious or even in an unconscious/coma state.
* Astral: Can raise her consciousness from her physical body to travel the cosmic plane. She has used this to consult her posthumous mentors and communicate with people via dream state.
* Scrying: Black mirors, glass mirrors, puddles of water, dew drops Kali can peer through reflective objects to gain sight into remote locations her human eye cannot see.
* Karma: Reverse curses and spells placed upon her and others she chooses to help.

### Survivalist

Kali has been trained on how to attack, sustain and defend herself in emergency situations.

Hand-to-Hand: Taking martial arts lessons as a child and into young adult years Kali has learned self-defense at an above average skill. Amateur criminals could not rob or best her easily both armed and unarmed.

Archery: Kali has been trained to hunt with arrows as a little girl at the behest of her father Nestor. They practiced and applied this skill via hunting bushmeat before it was outlawed in her native Colombia.

Marksman: Along with archery, Kali has been trained how to proficiently shoot and maintain firearms, pistols and rifles.

Knife/Axe Throwing: Coupled with the ability to craft these weapons from scratch. Kali is proficient with throwing weapons and impaling and/or piercing her targets.

First-Aid: Knowledgeable on the procedures, materials and craft needed to administer or create life-saving tools. CPR techniques, tourniquet use to prevent high blood loss

Animal Husbandry: A high understanding of animal acclimation and healthy reproduction.

Horticulture: Kali has produced and maintained her own plots of gardens to grow food and plants to use for potions and witchcraft.

Grifting: Kali is a trained method actress, able to take on a completely different persona to change her identity.