Kari Zel
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Name	Kari Zel
Also known as	Legion
Status	Alive
Condition	Drylon tech user
Occupation	Multiple, including manager at of Null Technologies
Previous occupation	Freedom fighter
Affiliation	Vanguard, Mortal Alliance (formerly)
First appearance	BTI 022
Character Information
Age	34 years
Year of birth	6 BN 1990 AD
Species	Myridian
Gender	Female
Orientation	Bisexual
Relatives	Kiros Zel (husband), Ariel Zel (daughter), Imani Zel (daughter), Azure Zel (daughter)
Hair color	Purple
Eye color	Blue
Height	5’7″ (170.2 cm)
Weight	140 lbs (63.5 kg)
Unusual features	Purple hair

Kari Zel (ˈkɑri ˈzɛl IPA , Καρι Ζελ in Myridian) is the first extraterrestrial member of the Vanguard. A survivor of the Demeter tyrannical rule over her planet Myridia and a thrill-seeker at heart, Kari uses her power to create thousands of duplicates of herself to help her team and explore Earth’s culture.

Biography

Born on planet Myridia under the tyrannical rule of the Oracles, worshippers of the goddess Demeter, Kari was orphaned when she was just five years old. Rescued and raised by Old Man Vor, she lived most of her life on the run from the theocracy.
A skilled martial artist and a survivor at hearth, her Myridian heritage gives her the power to create thousands of duplicates of herself.

After Noriko’s fight with Demeter she joined the Vanguard and embraced her new life on Earth, one of the many, many, many lives she has at once.
Kari proved herself to be an invaluable member of the team, using her duplicates to keep in touch with the rest of the Galaxy and with various Earth locations.

Kari later married fellow Myridian Kiros, and the two have three daughters: the oldest Ariel and the twins Imani and Azure.
Kari’s original body resides on Myridia to raise them, with her duplicates continuing her adventures with the Vanguard.

Powers and abilities

Myridian physiology: Kari’s strenght, durability, stamina and reflexes are about three times those of a woman her age in peak physical condition.

Superior combat abilities: Kari has mastered several martial arts, both from Myridia and Earth; she has been called the greatest martial artist of her Galaxy, having been trained both from Old Man Vor and by the goddess Inanna.

Fast learning: Like all Myridians, Kari is naturally adept at gathering information from her various bodies and integrating them. She’s able to learn a foreign language in a few months.

STANDARD MYRIDIAN POWERS

Body duplication: Kari can create exact duplicates of her body with almost no mental effort. Each duplicate is a perfect copy of her body at the moment of the duplication; it will then be completely separate and independent from her. Each duplicate can create new duplicates, without permission from the original Kari.

Duplicate disintegration: Duplicates will disintegrate if subject to enough force to cause an injury; the duplicate will feel pain before disappearing, but it will not be shared by other duplicates. By minimal mental effort, Kari can make her duplicates disappear at will. She doesn’t need physical contact to do so. Duplicates can self-disintegrate at will, without permission from the original Kari.

Duplicate integration: By re-absorbing duplicates into her body, Kari instantly learns all the knowledge and experience gathered by the duplicate. She needs physical contact in order to re-absorb a duplicate.

Clothes duplication: Kari can only duplicate her own body and cannot duplicate any object she’s carrying. Only specifically tailored Myridian clothes can be duplicated.

10K RISE

Kari’s greatest power boost was discovered during the “Strongest Under The Heavens” tournament, after her training with Inanna. By channelling the power of the Monolith into a single body instead of creating new duplicates, Kari can increase her strenght, speed and durability by a factor of 10,000.
She cannot create new duplicates while the 10K Rise is in effect.
The technique puts a great strain on her body; she can only sustain it for a few minutes.
Activating the 10K Rise engulfs Kari in a glowing pink aura.

LIMIT BREAKER

After being exposed to an unprecedented amount of virtual particles while she was imprisoned by the Amazons, Kari can push her body to the absolute limit by having the 10K Rise power itself, resulting in a power increase of 100 million (10,000 times 10,000) in her strenght, durability and speed.
This puts an even greater

 

Weaknesses

Limited duplicates: The maximum limit of duplicates that can exist at the same time is 10,000; it doesn’t make any difference if the duplicates are created by Kari or by another duplicate. Attempting to generate more duplicates after the limit has been reached causes her to collapse from exhaustion.

Limited duplicate durability: Duplicates disintegrate after receiving enough force to cause an injury.

Original body: The true Kari is vital to the existance of the duplicates: if she’s killed, they disappear. The original body is still mortal; anything that would kill a human would be fatal.

 

Equipment

Battle Bracelets: Designed by Noriko Null, they access Kari’s duplication powers and allow her to recreate specially designed weapons, at the cost of reducing the number of duplicates she can create.

Shotgun Bracelets: Designed by Noriko Null, they greatly increase the kinetic energy of the user’s punches.

Personal relationships

FRIENDSHIPS
Noriko Null is her closest friend in the Vanguard; Kari has even asked her to be present at her wedding to take the place typically reserved to a sister. She is still very close to the other members, especially Quantum.
Unlike the rest of the team, Kari is still friends with Todd Slate after his breakup with Noriko.

ROMANCE
Like most Myridians, Kari is openly bisexual and very blunt about it, much to Noriko’s annoyance.
Kari has made no secret in being sexually attracted to Noriko and Vesta, sometimes still teasing them despite their disinterest and embarassment on the matter.
She has asked most of the regular cast to have sex with her, with only Quantum accepting. She only neglected to ask Bob Null, on Noriko’s request.
Kari keeps an extremely busy sexual life, having multiple relationships at once. Despite this she is in love with her husband Kiros; duplicates sleeping with other people is not considered cheating in Myridian society.

Notes

• Together with Quantum, Kari is the only other member of the Vanguard with a secret identity. Her rarely-used public identity is Legion, and when operating on Earth she covers her face with the helmet of a Myridian armor
• “Zel” is her mother’s last name, since Myridian families are matrilinear

Trivia

• Not counting gods, Kari has lost in hand-to-hand combat only with the Mist.

Gallery

Art by KodamaCreative