Kalmia Grahm

The Deceiver

Cross over that wire. I dare you...

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A cutesey looking student who hides a heart full of anguish and hate. Currently one of the main engineers who develops special gadgets and tools for the Assassin's club. Specializes in hidden mechanical gadgets.

Kalmia's past is shrouded in mystery, much to her pleasure. She despies anyone who pries too far and won't hesitate to lash out at people for doing so.

As a child, Kalmia was a prodigious engineer who's intellect was beyond most of her peers, aided by her eidetic memory. Her potential was crushed when a gang of thieves invaded her house, killing her mother and father and looting the house. The one thing that stuck out was the unusual gadgets they used, invisible wires wrapped between their fingers, a mechanical tool that completely overrode the houses door locks. As she laid under the bed, mattress soaking with blood from where her father was stabbed through the gut with a sword... Kalmia remembered.

She was sent to the orphanage that very week after, though her primary caretakers note that she was oddly quiet and detached from reality, often sneaking out in the middle of the night.

As she snuck out, Kalmia tinkered. She developed, she remembered, and she created. LockShatter tools. RazorShred grenades. Smoke grenades mixed with sleeping gas. Hidden switchblades installed inside a coat sleeve.

After months of risking her throat being slit in the city slums, Kalmia searched. She searched and searched, committing every single detail to her unfailing memory. After several years of searching and planning, she found them. Much blood was shed, as the gang of thieves were completely caught off guard by a little girl using enhanced version of their own tools. Within a haze of gore and violence, she emerged from the thieve's den victorious, but changed forever.

Unfortunately, Kalmia failed to understand that causing such a commotion will eventually get the law looking her way. Before she could even blink, she was slapped with handcuffs and forced to sit inside an interrogation room. It was there when acting Headmistress Yuumi offered her a choice: Put her mechanical genius to good use, or rot in prison for the rest of her life.

From there, the choice was obvious.

Kalmia's weapon of choice is a gruesome one, a set of hidden Garotte wires embedded into her combat gloves named "Paroxysm". The wires can be infused with her own Mana, causing them to become nearly indestructable and incredibly sharp. She also has a set of hidden blades surgically implanted into her wrists, which can activate an injection protocol that enhances her combat capabilities by 25%, but only for 5 minutes.
Her fighting style focuses on subterfuge and laying down traps, rather than direct combat.

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Eternal Imprisonment: Gilded Cage
"鳥籠是囚禁還是保護?"
Creates a massive mana cage around the enemy. The floor beneath the cage will have a spider web slowly etch its way across. Should the enemy make skin contact with the webs, they will lose their sanity and recklessly charge at the user.

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