Kaede Borialis

Kaede Borialis

22 || N/A || Female || Villain

PERSONALITY

POSITIVE
✔ Extrovert | Ambitious | Emphatic | Charismatic | Intelligent

NEGATIVE
✖ Manipulative | Cunning | Cruel | Sadistic | Self-Indulgent | Vindictive

LIKES
✔ Herself | Quirkers | Fluffy Animals | Candy | Interesting People

DISLIKES
✖ Non-Quirkers | Boring People | 'Heroes' | Unrealistic Optimism | Loud People

PERSONALITY
On a surface level, Kaede is just your average woman with a heart of gold. You can typically find her out and about making new friends and just getting to know people. She has no issue with lending a hand if someone needs it, be it through money or just with menial tasks. She's the type of person that you look at and know she's kind-hearted and reliable.

On a surface level.

In all actuality, Kaede is a woman who's best described as cold-hearted, cunning and manipulative. It's questionable if she even understands the concept of 'love' -- any emotions she may feel towards someone are unquestionably skewed. If she's protective of them, it's because she finds 'value' in them. In her eyes, most people are just objects, save for a select few who are worth her respect.

She holds a resentment for non-Quirkers, viewing them as 'relics of a past age'. In some ways, you could say she's a Quirker Supremacist who doesn't see a place for non-Quirkers in the world unless they're serving their betters. And that is her primary motivation -- to create a clear social hierarchy between Quirkers and non-Quirkers with her and those of her choosing at the top of the food chain. 

And in her eyes, 'heroes' are merely idiots who haven't acknowledged their own value. Regular humans don't deserve to be saved, in her opinion. At least not unless they're willing to provide some form of compensation; if you're too weak to save yourself, then you don't need to be saved. After all, hospitals charge to provide medical care to the sick and injured, so why shouldn't Quirkers be compensated to 'help' regular humans?

Kaede hates this hero ideology of power coming with responsibility. She looks at the world through a very hedonistic lens in which those with power should be able to enjoy and live life however they choose. Even if she doesn't like the 'hero lifestyle', she can at least respect their decision to act according to how they feel. Though, she feels as though it's her responsibility, ironically enough, to set them on the right path.

APPEARANCE

HEIGHT: 155cm.

WEIGHT: 64kg

HAIR/STYLE: Back-length white hair

SKIN/SCARS: Fair Complexion; a scar that runs from her right collarbone down to her shoulder.

EYES: Unnaturally red.

NOTABLES: When acting as a villain, typically wears a specially designed mask which can mimic and visually portray emotion. In addition to this, her 'costume' is merely a bell-bottomed body suit. Reference.

HISTORY

Born into a rich family, Kaede's views of people and reality have always been skewered. Her father was the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, and as she was his only child, she was the heir apparent. Wealth and a life of luxury is all she's ever known; the hardships of most are utterly lost on her. While 'suffering' for others may have been being bullied or starving, the only suffering she's experienced has been not getting the sports car she wanted in hot pink. And because of this, there was always an extreme disconnect between her and reality. She never really 'existed' in the same world as most people because, in her mind, there was nothing to connect them.

This is even apparent due to the contempt she holds for her mother, who was little more than a trophy wife. The woman did nothing in or with her life except provide companionship and a child to her father. As far as Kaede was concerned, the woman didn't deserve to even be around them. Despite the fact Kaede frequently overindulged in the wealth of her father, she was always committed to learning and bettering not only her academic knowledge but also her social skills so that, when the time came, she'd be able to inherit her father's company and prove she deserved what was rightfully hers.

She had no intention of being like her mother who's only value and worthwhile skill was laying on her back. And when her mother did pass away, Kaede felt nothing aside from absolute happiness and glee. The woman had been a stain on both her and her father's lives, and with her out of the picture, the quality of their lives would undoubtedly improve. But with her mother's death, a new curveball presented itself in the form of Kaede developing a Quirk. 

It was something unexpected, but for Kaede, it finally gave her that connection with the outside world she sought. She had been following and paying attention to Quirkers for quite some time, and to say she was enamored with them would be an understatement. And the moment she developed her own Quirk, she set about exploring the limits of it... In, objectively, the most inhumane way possible.

The city she lived in had a bit of a... Homeless person problem, so she figured she'd do her part in cleaning up the streets. Paid muscle would snatch up homeless people off the street and deliver them to her, where she'd test the limits of her Quirk until her victim died. The joy she derived from 'getting rid of the filth' was unnatural, and that's when she set about to become a 'villain' (though it could be argued she's a hero in her own eyes) under the guise of Apophis. 

The name was one she chose due to the fact she knew she would undoubtedly be bringing 'chaos' to the world as it was. But, in her mind, it's a necessary evil. She'll plunge the world into chaos, but from it will rise something more beautiful and powerful than anything else. And that is something she believes with the utmost certainty.