Titania

Ilya Kardiant (a.k.a. Titania)

Titania is the former servant and friend of Kyrios, one of the time anomolies that attacked TGC. Vulcan convinced her to leave Kyrios's side and join the Jumpers during their invasion of Nikopolis. Because of the circumstances, several Jumpers are suspicious of her, while others are willing to look past that and attempt to make friends.

Physical Description

Special abilities

The Heart of Tindalos: Titania's original dragon heart was replaced with the heart of a Tindalian, a procedure which resulted in numerous permanent changes to her physiology. The first being that her dragon powers were sealed, and she is no longer able to transform into a dragon like the others via normal means. In theory, Titania should be able to transform into a Tindalian instead, but is only able to manifest long, black claws as a result of her reluctance to pursue this power.
Her heart pumps black blood with unique properties. She has a high regenerative ability and a resistance to attacks that alter time, and her blood can be used as a weapon against others. Against living and organic creatures it causes paralysis; machines and mechanical beings are also corroded by it.

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Special Attacks

Snake Bite: Titania injects blood into a target using her sword's fangs. Organic beings will experience paralysis, steel and mechanical objects will experience corrosion, cyborgs and other hybrid beings will experience both and the tremendous pain that comes with them.
Drain Bite: Titania uses the sword's fangs to replenish its own blood or steal other forms of energy from the target. Works akin to the Snake Bite but in reverse. Any kind of blood absorbed will be transmuted into Tindalian blood regardless of its origin. As it absorbs blood, Titania can adjust the sharpness of the blade, making it sharper or blunter if needed.
Blood Spray: Titania sprays blood out the front of her blade, akin to a hose. On its own the blood has similar properties, but with less potency than a direct bite. Requires some stored blood to use.
Blood Rain: Titania releases the blood into the sky, causing it to rain down in all directions. Uses all the stored blood available meaning it can't be used consecutively.
Feint Slash: Titania strikes an enemy with her longsword; as they defend, she releases the segments to go around their defense and bite them.
Ground Slash: Titania sends the segments of her blade along the ground (or underground, if it's something that can be dislodged, such as dirt or her sand) and then has it bite the opponent's legs.
Hina Spin: Titania spins in place, causing her sword to form a razor-cyclone around her.

Apparel & Accessories

Outside of combat, she wears a long black gothic dress, occasionally with a maid's frock for a disguise. On missions she wears a shorter dress with short sleeves, or a jumpsuit.

Specialized Equipment

The Ophiuchus Queen: Titania's trademark weapon. Originally a nameless sword on Noize's ship, it's been reforged to a chain-like 'snake sword' composed of multiple segments that can move and extend at will, connected by a steel wire. By combining them it can be used as a traditional longsword, and it's usually stored this way on Titania's backside. This weapon contains a piece of Titania's heart in it and has its own blood supply, allowing her to replenish her own blood if needed and also release and inject it into others without injuring herself. The tip of the blade is capable of morphing into a shape resembling snake fangs for this purpose. This connection makes the weapon semi-autonomous. When it's near her, Titania can control like it she would her own tail (since she no longer has a real tail) and does not require using her hands to extend it. The blade is also capable of moving on its own, even if Titania is unconscious, as long as it has blood. Generally it will move it rapid, jerky motions in order to protect its wielder or to bite others who have "offended" the weapon, despite it lacking sentience.
Fang Necklace: A group of dragon fangs connected by a string. These fangs have the ability to store electric charges, and careful use of them can cause mechanical devices to run amok. One of the fangs (which only Titania can identify) contains the antidote to her poisons.
Ambrosia: A sweet gold nectar created by taking condensation from Titania's breath and extracting the poison. Both processes take several days and are usually done while Titania sleeps. She generally carries a vial of it with her. The nectar has curative properties and is able to heal most injuries and fatigue, however consuming large quantities of it will result in harmful growth spasms.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

In an alternate timeline, dragons waged an intergalactic war with a machine army of their own creation. Locked in a perpetual stalemate, both sides turned to increasingly aggressive and ruthless methods to gain an edge over the other. Titania was one of several young dragons who were kidnapped by machines to use for experiments. By experimenting on captured dragons and other living beings, the machines hoped to create bioweapons to vanquish their enemies once and for all. In one of these experiments, Titania's heart was replaced with the heart from a Tindalian, a vile species found in the darkest corners of space. Titania went into shock as a result; her hair and eye colors changed from their natural colors into the blonde and red they are today, and she agonizingly shifted between fever dreams and vivid nightmares as the machines struggled to keep their experiment from ending in cardiac arrest. As her new heart began to work, her blood changed to a dark purple, and it became highly corrosive and toxic to everything around her. As this extended to her breath, machines surrounding her began to corrode and decay, and in the resulting confusion she managed to escape her captors. Just as the dragons did before them, the machines had also created their own natural enemy.
Titania met up with Rock, who would eventually become Kyrios in this timeline, and their combined abilities proved instrumental in taking down the machine armies. However, still fearful of her own ability and outside dangers, she would hide behind Kyrios as the 'hidden maiden' of Nikopolis as he continued to wage war across dimensions, trapped in a military-industrial complex. However, her status as a non-combatant allowed her to visit the other Paradox villains' outfits prior to their final showdown on TGC Prime. While her visits to Deadsoul and Walpurgis mostly consisted of silly games and tea parties, she acquired an unnamed sword on the Kurogane Symphonia that would eventually become her signature weapon.
After the Jumpers defeated Kyrios; the compassionate Vulcan Blitz insisted they spare Titania, realizing she played little part in the atrocities of Kyrios and his other underlings, and knew she was hardly with a threat with him defeated. With nowhere to go, she opted to accompany the Jumpers and assist them with her marginal fighting abilities and knowledge of the alternate timelines, forming an uneasy alliance. This alliance was ended when Titania shot Old Rock (of the present) with the Merz Bow, hoping to grant him a new ability, but inadvertently destroyed him in the process. However, after the Jumpers learned that Rock 'survived' via reincarnation, she rejoined the Jumpers to finish off the remaining Paradoxes once and for all.
After the events of Paradox, she was still on an uneasy footing with many Jumpers and unknown to the Arbolisk public, so Titania left the main continent for Heidia, where she settled in the dragons' society. Claiming the entire crashed island of Nikopolis as her own, this was enough to grant her the title of Duchess, placing her just below the Dragon Princesses in terms of status. Wanting to move on from Kyrios, she returned to using her original name, Ilya, instead of the one that Kyrios gave her after they ascended. She had her nameless sword reforged into the Ophiuchus Queen, and honed her swordsmanship into a style that incorporated her abilities, which she would call the Bloodthirsty Fang. Having obtained respectable strength to fight on her own, she created the Investigators of Dimensional and Extraterrestrial Activities Squad, or IDEAS for short. This team of researchers and combat specialists carved out a new niche on Heidia which didn't exist before; a team designed to prepare the continent for attacks from other planets and dimensions. Although their numbers are much smaller, they serve an analogous role to the Jumpers on Arbolisk, and function as an important social network for Titania.
The group's first investigation begins with the arrival of the PCC, and with a newfound confidence, Titania is ready to face the darkness.

Employment

Titania functioned as Kyrios's guardian prior to meeting this timeline's Jumpers. She maintained the Akashic Library, the mainframe in Nikopolis where data from previous timelines was stored. She also served as his healer, restoring him in case he ever died.

Personality Characteristics

Likes & Dislikes

Likes: Tea time with her friends, gothic fashion and architecture, classical music, scary stories, finding new adventures and studying magic
Dislikes: Most of forms of robots, machines, or heavily advanced technology, and with a vehemence. Dislikes scientists and particularly ones that perform experiments on animals or people.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Rock: Because of Titania's intimate connection to Kyrios, she's able to read Rock like an open book, even without his aura 'giving him away'. This frustrates Rock to no end, who considers his mystique to be part of his charm and takes stock in his ability to read others, but knows he is hopelessly outmatched by Titania in a direct contest. Feeling responsible for his existence and knowing no one is more suited the task, she treats Rock as her own child and considers it her duty to ensure he grows up to become a proper dragon, as opposed to someone like Choco. Rock begrudgingly accepts this and refers to her as his "Mom" in a half-joking manner, which tends to make Titania giggle. But deep down, he knows Titania is his most important connection to Heidia, and Titania knows that Rock is her main connection to Arbolisk, and they have the bond of true family.
Matreyka: The 5th princess of Heidia. When she met Titania, Matreyka was still a recluse who shut herself away following the apparent death of her elder, but developed a rapid friendship and began to come out of her shell, culminating with her becoming the 2nd member of IDEAS with Titania. They share a bond regarding their similar pasts as girls who lived in the shadows immensely powerful dragon lords. Although Titania is comfortable with their intimacy, Matreyka harbors a more possessive, jealous love that she hides from Titania. Despite these secrets, the two are best friends and inseparable on the island.
Rinoa : The swordsmith Titania sought out to hone her blade, figuratively and literally. With the help of Rinoa's prowess and insight, Titania developed her own sword and style, and has a favorable relationship with her as a result.
The Jumpers: Titania knows her initial impression with the Jumpers was unfavorable, so she's somewhat more reserved around them than she otherwise would be. The notable exceptions are Rock and Vulcan, who she has a relaxed demeanor around, and Dr. K and SB, whom she reviles. However, she knows that (most) of them are important to Rock and is willing to cooperate them when the need arises.
The Dragons: For a 'foreigner' (to this timeline) she has a surprisingly popular status, no doubt aided by her heritage and cheery disposition. However, she still has her own detractors; some remain suspicious of anyone connected to Matreyka, and Titania herself tends to quarrel with the more technologically minded dragons, such as Voira.
IDEAS: The group Titania founded to investigate unusual activity, primarily things that originate offworld or from otherworldly dimensions, such as herself and the other anomalies encountered during the Paradox War. It operates out of Heidia and primarily investigates activities relating to the dragons or their island, but she is willing to travel to other regions if needed to investigate the source of events that reached the island. The members are required to be either dragons and/or Heidian citizens. While Titania has modest clout in her own right, Matreyka's presence gives it a strong air of legitimacy outside the island as well.

Social Aptitude

A classic perky goth, Titania has a cheerful and friendly demeanor, almost to the point of being annoying, and coming off as crude in contrast to her darker tastes and the nature of events surrounding her. A surprisingly hardy girl, Titania has adopted an attitude of 'Never Look Back' and always thinks of a brighter future ahead. She cherishes the bonds with her friends and allies and will fight tooth and nail to defend them.

Fight Style/Role in a Fight

Titania has encountered a number of dangerous scenarios in the past, and fights with the intent to immediately restrain or dispatch enemy combatants before they can display the full extent of their powers. To this end she employs a great deal of deception. Her demeanor and outfit are generally designed to look unimposing while also concealing her weapon and abilities, so that she can land a crucial snake bite on her target. She also may feign the true nature or appearance of her blade in order to further this goal as well.
If a trick stab is out of the question, she prefers to take advantage of her weapon's range and fight from afar, knowing her modest strength is likely to be outclassed in a close-range fight with swordsmen or other brawlers.

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Trivia

-Titania taught Rock how to use the Virgo, Scorpio, and Aquarius stances in his power set, as she understands his aura better than he does. Rock prefers to say she "inspired" the stances out of pride.
-While Vulcan, Rock and the other dragons would normally refer to her as Ilya, the other Jumpers and non-Heidians would still refer to her as Titania, which she still uses as a code name. (I've also used Titania when writing just to avoid confusion until people here are used to the change.)

Species

Dragon

Year of Birth

9986 23 Years old

Eyes

Scarlet

Hair

Platinum blonde

Height

5'6"

Weight

115lbs

Theme - A Side: "Morning glow" by yuyoyuppe
Theme - B Side: "A Sense of Distance" by CROW'SCLAW