Kamala Braith

* Current
* Original

### Relatives

Gardner Braith, Sterling Braith, Viola Braith, Zelena Braith, Viorel Braith, Tahlia Braith

## Media

### First Appearance

Page 164 *(silhouette)*
Page 328 *(full)*

### Music Theme

"Awake"

**Kamala Braith** is the leader and eldest sibling of the Braith Family, the main antagonists of the RAIN Comic. Her weapons of choice are Vindicatress and Harsh Reality, a pair of Hidden Sword Arm Cannons.

## Appearance

Kamala is a woman of twenty-six years. She is of average height, with white skin and bright red eyes. Her dark red hair hangs limply in front of her face at the front, and is tied in a high ponytail at the back. On her lower eyelids she wears red eye shadow, and has slightly prominent eyelashes and lips.

She wears a simple white v-neck tank top, over which she wears a brown waist cincher and a red leather jacket with rolled up sleeves. She wears red leather gloves, dark brown gloves and heeled knee-high boots.

## Personality

Kamala is extremely aggressive and sadistic. Her entire goal in life is to render humanity extinct in retribution for something that happened to her family in the past, to the point that her grip on reality and morality have long since faded. Anything that gets in the way of her goal is met with rage and violence, even her siblings, and causing pain and destruction incites glee in her as she perceives it as justice.

Kamala also has a tendency to guilt trip her siblings into aligning with her ideals. She constantly tells them she is trying to do what's best for them, and suggests they do not believe or support her - making them feel bad so that they fall in line. When consistently failed by one of her siblings, Kamala will resort to causing them harm.

## Abilities and Powers

As the leader of the Braith family, Kamala is one of its strongest members as she has maintained dominance despite her siblings being exceptionally skilled in combat. She is easily able to take on both Orion Lincoln, a lifelong warrior, and Robin Lincoln, a fairly skilled second-year huntsman academy student, with little effort and an almost unenthused demeanour.

She has also been shown to shrug off direct dust-infused attacks, such as on Page 358 when she negated a lightning dust infused aura slash by simply blocking with her weapons.

### Semblance

*Main article: Puncture*
Kamala’s semblance supplies an area of effect that allows her to punch straight through aura when a foe is in proximity to both her and her attacks, making her an extremely dangerous opponent to battle. One wrong move against her extremely powerful weaponry could result in death.

### Weaknesses

Like the other Braiths, Kamala's aura is unstable to the point that increasing her emotional state too much will cause it to shatter.

## Relationships

### Gardner Braith

Perhaps due to their closeness in age, Kamala treats Gardner with a begrudging respect and allows him slightly more leeway than their younger siblings. However, she is quick to anger when he questions her, and will resort to harming him despite how much more physically imposing he is than her.

### Sterling Braith

Despite failing to eliminate Nyssa Noirette, Kamala is quick to trust Sterling with grunt work - such as eliminating the rest of RAIN or leading the Crazy Bunch. Due to his ego, Sterling usually demands a deciding role in the family's plans, but only when Kamala is absent - he is never seen talking back to her, and in fact speaks very little in her presence.

When Sterling loses one arm in combat and the other is severely damaged Kamala shows exceptionally little regard for his health, not even recognising it to begin with. This is the first time Sterling truly talks back to her, but she appears unfazed by it - she judges his maiming as a fateful punishment for failure.

### Viola Braith

Kamala shows very little respect for Viola, to the point that she has actively questioned what value her sister has to the family. She remarks that Viola is 'very easy to replace', but eventually keeps her around - but not without enacting something upon her sister that will 'fix' her. Viola is next seen extremely deferential to Kamala, and entirely wordless.

At the end of Arc 3, Viola communicates with Kamala that she understands what they are trying to achieve, and that whatever Kamala did 'cleared it up' for her. Kamala is pleased with Viola's plans to enact 'phase three' to the point that her change in mood spares Zelena from potentially being blinded.

### Zelena Braith

Kamala holds a higher opinion of Zelena than most, trusting her to keep Sterling in line and outright stating she hoped for better from her when they return from Unsei Ridge empty-handed. She threatens to blind Zelena with her weapons, but is interruped by a transmission from Viola which lightens her mood. It is unknown whether she would have followed through on her threat, but given her traits it is likely.

### Viorel Braith

Kamala and Viorel are on fairly pleasant terms. Kamala shows anger when Viorel acts on their own - such as experimenting with their semblance or inviting the Crazy Bunch to Zenith - but seems to let them off with minimal 'punishment' for their actions. While she is very blunt with her sibling, they appear to be aligned in regards to their end goal with little argument.

### Tahlia Braith

Of the Braiths, Tahlia is the one Kamala clearly dislikes the most. She introduces her youngest sister to the Lincolns as 'the other one', implying she views her as an outside. When she is not being physically abusive to Tahlia, Kamala merely regards her with complete disdain or disregards her completely.

## Trivia

### Allusion

* Kamala alludes to the deadly sin of Wrath.
	+ Like the other members of the Braith family, she also reflects a colour of the rainbow. Kamala's assigned colour is red, which is often associated with anger - 'seeing red'.

### Colour Naming Rule

* "Kamala" means "lotus" or "pale red" in Sanskrit.
* Braith is a Welsh unisex name derived from the word *brith*, meaning "diversely-colored," especially black and white or red and white.

## References

1. ↑ http://neopoliitan.tumblr.com/post/173487042734/kamala-wrath-gardner-gluttony-sterling-greed