Calypso

**Calypso** (カリプソ, *Karipuso*?) or more widely recognized as **The Doctor** (医者, *Isha*?) is a world-renowned European-Japanese marine biologist and scientist, quirk researcher, a diplomat and maritime historian born with an quirk called Mermaid, granting her the characteristics to that of an mermaid. She's an deep sea diver that ventures into the ocean with depths exceeding the limit an normal human body can withstand. More often she's greatly been called the **Sea Goddess** (海の女神, *Umi no Megami*?) due to her capabilities to go extreme depths and be almost unaffected by the depth pressure.

While she is not an certified hero by any means, Calypso is often hired by the Police Force to locate missing persons due to her quirk allowing her to quickly locate and identity the persons in the water. Her quick speed in the water makes her able to reach to them quicker then anyone could, including even saving them by sucking the water out of their lungs if need be to exchange oxygen to survival. While she has given the advice in becoming an pro hero, she refused as it would ultimately distract her from her main passion; study of marine biology and the go to the deepest depths of the ocean. She has been known to been an vivid educator for school field trips at the Marine Life Institute, being their hostess and relying information of various aquatic life and their nature.

## Biography

### Birth

Calypso was born a undisclosed country located in Europe between an native European man and a Japanese woman. The resulting however would lead to the cause of her mother's death due to her quirk, Mermaid that has sliced through her mother's stomach and lower intestines, causing death by bleeding out internally. When she was born, she was shown not being what a newborn would be, but someone who looked at least five years old with the intelligence of an 12 year old. After her birth however life gotten harder when Calypso's father viewed her as an monster, an unlucky omen and blamed her for her mother's death.

Despite that, Calypso's father attempted to raise her and began to teach her language, with Japanese language being taught as her first at her mother's request, then the English language (with a unknown third being their country of origin by a tutor). In the first five months of being born, she showed intelligence of an 12 year old, having already able to speak both Japanese and English almost flawlessly with some few hiccups along the way. Her intellect has been compared to dolphins, though it is not a accurate comparison due to her human nature with her Mermaid quirk.

After her birth however life gotten harder when Calypso's father viewed her as an monster, an unlucky omen and blamed her for her mother's death. Eventually unable to handle being in her presence, her father threw her into the ocean as "where she belonged" only after five months being born. She was then forced to survive in the wild ocean by herself but her hopelessness was taken when dolphines which in a unlikely premise took her in as one of their young, taking care of her in providing everything she needed such as food.

### Early Life

For at least five years, Calypso lived and swam alongside her "adoptive" dolphin parents, learning how they act and communicate and being able to mimic those sounds. This relationship started her curiosity in aquatic life in the sea, and began to do her research as she travelled the ocean.

### Found & Captured

At some point in her life at sea, Calypso was decided to swim out of her dolphin parent's usual swimming routes and was eventually caught in a large fishing net, being pulled from the water and onto the fishing ship. One of the fisherman was startled to see her and called for their captain. As the captain arrived to see a human girl with a fish tail, the captain knew it was her quirk and told everyone to back away due to the terrified face she had. The captain informed her on taking her to the United States, the nearest country where they'll get someone to see her.

Calypso was taken by an group of people calling themselves the Faculty who took her in the disguise of "caring" for her as she was transported in an specialized armoured car. However in truth they were taking her to an experimental research facility outside of the city where she realized the ever-presented danger she was in. Before she could react despite her quirk, she was injected by an drug that placed her into sleep in order to be transported inside the unknown facility.

As she was being tested on for a unknown amount of time, where soon after she was placed inside a cell, the facility alarms went ablaze when a captured individual Calypso herself was able to escape. The being in question was massive in size, inhuman looking being taller then the corridor she is located in. The being turned to face and broke the cell open before being grabbed by the muscular being and took her with it to escape. The being named herself Eternita as they smash through the facility's walls, revealing a forest region. Eternita explained that she will help her escape and back to the ocean, which Calypso was extremely grateful for.

## Appearance

Calypso is a beautiful young woman born in Europe with Japanese ancestry. She has fair skin with pink wavy hair tied to be split into two that goes down to her waist. She ocean blue eyes with a curved, almost hour-glass figure. Due to her quirk Mermaid she is given the lower body of an aquatic being, having the tail of a fish. The lower is pink with the scales as it ends with two light coloured fine for propulsion in the water, and around her waist is where two additional appendages are locomotion and quick turns in the water. She also has fish-like ears in place of the human ears

In most cases, Calypso more often wears an single dress with an apron, more often looking like an maid then a marine biologist, but she believes it looks better on her then the scientist uniform. The attire is made specifically to her and can be used in and out of water. The lower dress of the attire has two holes to allow her two additional appendages to go through. At times she may wear longer dresses thay can cover her entire tail, but she often doesn't want to as it makes it harder to moisturize it.

In the privacy of her own home and around friends, Calypso would merely wear an swimsuit custom made to her body, making it easier to move around in the inside pool (to note, her entire house is custom made to be a indoor pool).

## Abilities

**Genius-Level Intellect**: Calypso is an polymath owned to her various, if not all forms of subjects involving maritime from history, geography as well maritime laws, navies and marine biology. She's an world-renowned marine biologist whose studies has been dedicated to the biology of the marine life. She's capable of recollecting information pertaining to these subjects on the fly, deduce biological connections and her quirk being Mermaid makes her have a closer bond to the life in the ocean as an whole. At the time of her birth, it was said she held the surprising intellect of a 12 year old despite only being between 1-5 months old, with almost perfected mastery on both Japanese and English languages. Upon taking an I.Q. examination, she was recorded to achieve 320, being able to calculate and give accurate, clear answers almost instantaneously. She possess what one calls "near-photographic memory" as she can recall details with the highest accuracy when she was only 5 months old.

**Marine Biology & Sciences Specialist**: Calypso is a world-renowned marine biologist and scientist who spent over ten decades investigating, categorizing and discovery new and fresh data about the ocean and the creatures and organisms that live in it. She believes by learning more on marine biology could she unlock secrets about her own quirk.

**Quirk Research Knowledge**: Calypso has been investigating on what quirks how and how they been obtained with human evolution, outside her normal studies of marine life and history. She explained by investigating quirks as a whole can she also advanced her knowledge on her Mermaid quirk conjoined with data of marine life.

### Quirk

**Mermaid** (人魚(マーメイド), *Ningyo*?): Calypso is born with the quirk that gave her the characteristics of a mermaid with a fish lower body, allowing her to adapt and survive underwater and the deepest depths of the ocean. She's been able to withstand pressure as low as the location of the Titanic and suffered no side effects where it would easily crush the average man. She can go to high velocities to outspeed speed boats with ease, her vision is practically augmented when underwater and she can be propelled to extreme accelerations. Due to her quirk, she got into marine biology and began to study aquatic life, and began to understand more on her quirk due to its connections to marine life. She also has two additional limbs around her waist for underwater manoeuvrability.

* **Superhuman Swimming Speed**: Calypso's speed while underwater is virtually unrivalled, being even faster then Selkie where she is able to achieve over 100 miles per hour while underwater, making her faster then the sailfish of only 68 miles per hour.
* **Enhanced Durability**: Her fish tail at least is a very thick, almost rubbery in its design with scales all over it, granting her a very durable tail which she can actually use to attack others and protect herself. However she noted that it be wise to not utilize her tail in a defensive measure as it was made to endure high speed and pressure, not blunt direct attacks.
* **Enhanced Hearing**: Calypso hearing is greatly enhanced while underwater, being able to pick up sounds much more easily then that on land. She was even able to deduce how far something is underwater based on sound alone.
* **Gill Manifestation**: In order to survive underwater, she is born with gills on her body that allows her to extract oxygen from the water and release carbon dioxide as well to remove water as it passes into her mouth. She is even able to still verbally speak by an additional facet of this organ that it isolates the vocal cords from the body.
* **Enhanced Lung Capacity**: Calypso noted that she is able to hold her breath for far longer then most humans, being able to hold and not breath for over 5 hours before requiring to take a breath. This is due the fact she does not require as much oxygen as humans overall and thus is capable to survive with oxygen still inside her lungs for prolong period of time.
* **Protective Eye Lens**: This specific part is an additional plate of her eyes which allows her to perfectly see underwater without the need of equipment, as well to protect them during high-speed swimming as the waters hits directly at them.

### Weaknesses

**Dehydration**: While Calypso can be out of water and not die much like most forms of aquatic life, she is not out of being in danger. Much like how humans staying in water for prolonged time can cause osmosis and other factors that water can cause damage to one's cells, for Calypso staying out can have dire effects of dehydration to her body, losing water and hydration. This can be remedied with being moisturized or even ingesting water to stay healthy.

**Ground**: Due to her lower body being that of a aquatic "fish tail", she has no legs and incapable of travelling on land, forced to be a wheelchair.

### Stats

Calypso's stats, according to the creator.

## Trivia & Notes

* Calypso's alternate name, **Subject 2022-5-19‎** refers to her designation by the Faculty;
	+ 2022th is her captured number, which means there is over 2000 individuals captured which her being 2022th captured.
	+ 5th is the group for organizational purposes.
	+ 19th refers to her position in group five, being the 19th added member.
	+ It's also the date (year/month/day) of the character's creation.