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Name: Keaira Mana

Meaning: Little Dark One (with) Psychic Gifts

Birthday & Zodiac: December 29 -- Capricorn

Age:  9

Appearance: She has straight, coarse black hair that falls down to her ankles, she never cut it since she was born and has bangs that come to the top of her ears that she usually sweeps off to the side.  She has eyes the color of dried blood.   Her skin is relatively pale, probably because she has been living in darkness most of her life.  She is always wearing something of a dark shade, and despises the few white things her mother had bought her.  Her nails are kept short because she sometimes bites them out of bad habit.  Some people would consider her somewhat beautiful but in a cold, cruel way.

Personality: Seen as a 'hard' person, never revealing her emotions and always keeping a dark appearance.  She always seems to be planning her next move to do something.  She never really played with the other kids, she never will, probably.  She always pays more attention to what has to be done to succeed and move on and doesn't pay much mind to luxuries.  She'll get to luxuries after she's done the work to get there.  She is very focused and tries to do her best without being thwarted.

Gemstone: Hematite

Favorite colors: Dark grey and black

Favorite food: Sandwiches

Least favorite food: Complex dishes

Favorite subject: Foreign language and history

Least Fav. Subject: English

Likes:  The unknown, darkness, death, night, Goth-like things...

Dislikes: Simplicity in explanations of things, bright light, happiness for an extended time, heat, etc.

Hobbies:  Learning about the supernatural, practicing things such as Voodoo and Wicca

School: Isis Academy

Grade: 4th

Status: Unpopular and disliked by most, she is the outsider that people stay away from.  She scares most people and even the bullies stay away from her.  She is often feared because of either her appearance or her excessive knowledge.  Most people will not look her in the eye or touch her because they are afraid she'll find out their secrets and what she can use to torture them.

Lovelife: She doesn't see any interest in anyone, yet at least.  She just sees most people her age too juvenile.

NPCs: Family:  Phoebe Mana -- Keaira's mother.  She is very bright and happy, quite the opposite of her daughter.  Keaira hates her mother because she is so cheerful and loving of bright, shining light.  Phoebe wished her daughter would enjoy the light as she did but was upset when she learned her child despised it.  Phoebe has shimmering bright blonde hair and ever-smiling blue eyes.  She is kind hearted and tries to be kind to everyone she meets, no matter how cruel they are to her.  She has skin a tone darker than her deathly pale daughter and is thin and tall.  Her long blonde hair is often kept behind her head with a bun and a few strands hanging out.  She has bangs to her eyebrows.  She is often child like and playing as she does her work, making things go along in a more happy manner.  She was never very rich, her family always had just enough to get by.  Sometimes she still does odd jobs for money.

Lloyd Mana -- Keaira's father.  His hair was always grayed and he never chose to dye it, he kinda liked it that way.  His skin is somewhat dark and his eyes are pale leaf green.  He's the midpoint between Keaira and Phoebe.  He is Keaira's favorite parent because he lets her be dark and depressing and Phoebe loves him because he can be bright and happy as well.  He's the worker of the family, making the money and keeps the family together for the most part.  He's away most of the day, but manages to see his daughter at least once a week, usually more.  He always encouraged Keaira, usually telling her, "It doesn't matter what you do, just as long as it makes you happy!"  He was always hardworking, even as a child and always wants everyone else to put their feet up and relax.  He works as a writer, editor and illustrator.  He'll do all the work, you can just watch him.

Friends:  Blythe Anwar -- a 'friend' of Keaira.  She's just like Keaira's mother, wanting Keaira to be happy and wear nice, bright things and not bathe in the "horrid" darkness.  Blythe is only friends with Keaira because she felt sorry for her at first.  She didn't really know much about her, but the more she knows, the more she wants to get far, far away from Keaira and forget everything about her.  But Blythe still tries to make Keaira happy...  She just fails time and time again.  Blythe has chin-length white hair and orange eyes.  Her skin is about the tone of Keaira's mother.  Phoebe and Blythe have been happy to meet one another and share conversation about happy things and leave Keaira in her room, stabbing pins into their Voodoo dolls.
Corby Donovan -- Keaira's one true friend.  Corby sees Keaira as someone to look up to, even though they are the same age, even close in their birthdays.  She marvels at all of Keaira's things.  Corby wishes she could be just like her friend.  They both enjoy the darkness and the supernatural.  Corby always tries to get the things that Keaira has, and she gets some and makes some and asks Keaira to help her with the things she's confused about.  Corby's friendship is a good experience for both Keaira and Corby.  Corby learns and Keaira learns how to teach.  Corby has dark brown hair and tanned skin, something she's trying to alleviate.  Corby's hair is shoulder length, but she's trying to grow it out, and her eyes are dark brown.

History: On Earth: Keaira was reborn many times, once before the rest of the senshi, but she died again, by accident,  and was reborn 9 years before the story takes place.  Now she is the youngest of them all.  She has memories of all her past rebirths, which there were many of, and often gets visions of them.  She has been interested in all things that are unnatural and unknown since she was born and her parents let her do what she wanted because they wanted to help her along in life as best they could.  She quickly had her room painted dark, dark blue dotted with a few stars on the ceiling to look light her favorite time of day, night.  She always favored the darkest colored things possible.  She always was fascinated by the way that things worked, mostly how the human mind worked.  She has a sort of psychic power, so she could always tell people whom she knew nothing of their names by looking deep into their eyes or touching them.  She can learn all about them, about all the torture they've been through and all the good times as well.  She often emanates an ominous vibe, making most people around her frightened.  She was able to talk at a young age and is smarter than the average nine-year-old.  She has a very extensive vocabulary and knowledge in general.  She often gets visions of former lives and her body becomes very stiff when this happens.

On Indus: The most trusted of all the Indus senshi, Crater was much as she is today.  She was cold and dark, hair long and black, eyes cold and piercing dark red, skin pallid.  But her wisdom came with her age in that life, not in those before.  She was always hardworking and focused, but some of those whom she was working with weren't.  She always tried to get her 'co-workers' to be hardworking as well.  She was the most faithful to Scorpius, treating her like a goddess.  She never wished to be anything but a servant of Scorpius and never tried to be anything else.  She was happy to know that her power was that of darkness, something the Queen always favored.  To know that the great color black would be something that she wore as a soldier, Crater was thrilled.

Henshin: "Crater Black Star Make-Up!" She cries out the phrase and puts her hand up while grasping her wand (black with a small dark grey bowl on top, held together with dark grey stars) as something that looks like oil spills over her arm, and continues until it covers her entire body, except her open eyes.  The dark 'oil' stretches to form her fuku.  Keaira closes her eyes and the oil slides off her face and reveals her tiara.  It slides off of her neck and shows her choker. It then slides off her shoulders onto where the edges of the bow would be and shows her scarf and shoulder puffs.  It slides down off her arms, which are at her sides, and she shakes off the excess, revealing her gloves. The 'oil' then slides down off her chest, showing her dark grey bow and black star.  It then rolls down and shows her blindingly white bodice and roll, and then drips off her skirt which is dark grey with a black stripe at the bottom, and also forms a black see through skirt over that.  The 'oil' then slides down her legs to show her dark grey tights and ballet slippers.  She crosses her arms over her chest and spins as the view spirals up to show her whole fuku.  She then opens her arms out as the camera pulls back to show her entire body.  She then finishes posed with her eyes closed and her head leaned down so her lips touch her folded hands, as if she's praying quietly. The background of this is black with dark grey splashed randomly on it.

Fuku:  Black ballet slippers adorn her pale feet.  Both legs and feet are covered with dark grey tights.  Her dark grey skirt has a black stripe on the bottom of it and a black see-through skirt over it.  Her white bodice, which ends in a roll, is higher up on her body, the roll rolling the skirts into it.  In the middle of her chest, there is a black five-pointed star.  Coming out from it is a dark grey bow and a dark grey scarf that goes over her shoulders.  There are three puffs of white fabric from the bodice that come out from under either side of the scarf.  On her hands are dark, dark grey gloves that come to the end of her hand and roll up at the end.  She has a choker on her neck and a tiara on her head, both made out of a nearly invisible chain, her tiara has her symbol, a bowl shape, in dark grey in the centre.

Attacks: "Crater Darkness Pit" - Sailor Crater holds up her left hand, clenched in a fist, and throws down a little ball of blackness into the ground.  This triggers the ground to ripple out into a giant crater whose bottom falls out and it becomes a large pit, completely black inside.  If she is weak, it may only last a few seconds, but it usually last about 5-10 minutes, then closes back up.  During the time it is open, anyone around can be pushed or fall into it and when it closes they'll be in a place of complete darkness and can only get out when the attack is used again.
"Crater Darkness Cloth!" -- Sailor Crater rips a piece of cloth off of her fuku, a small piece, and throws it in the air.  As it falls, it gets bigger and bigger until it's big enough to cover the victim of the attack.  The higher she throws it, the bigger it gets.  The cloth then is tied to the victim's legs by a dark grey rope that appears.  The victim can move around, but their legs remain stationary until Sailor Crater stops the rope from holding them.  Inside the cloth, the victim can see nothing but black, and they're stuck inside this darkness cloth until Crater gets bored.  The cloth is nearly indestructible, but if the victim has some sort of very sharp object, like a sword, they can get out of it.
"Crater Black Madness" -- The area around Crater and her victim turns dark, so that all they can see is one another. Crater crosses her arms over her chest and leans her head, with her eyes closed, onto her right hand.  She opens her eyes and holds her head up in a questioning manner.  She leans her head forward as she looks into their eyes.  She pulls her head back to a straight position and opens her arms out, pulling the left over the right.  A pool of darkness forms in front of her and out comes a black, shining blob that begins to change its shape.  It changes into whatever scares the victim the most.  Everyone sees something different, or most people see something different.  Crater sometimes sees her own fear in the black semi-liquid.  Sometimes she can also change the liquid into something she wants it to become.  The black creature will attack the victim in a mad frenzy until the victim gives up or goes crazy.  When the victim is 'finished', Crater will put her hands back, crossed over her chest, and the creature will turn back into a puddle that then dissolves.  She closes her eyes and leans her head on her right hand and the darkness around Crater and her victim dissolves away.  This is a major attack for Crater and she can really only use it once per battle, it takes a while to recover from.

The writing sample:
 Keaira stared up at her star-dotted ceiling from her black-covered bed.  She sighed as she looked from one constellation to another.  All they were were dots of light that supposedly made pictures.... But all she bothered to watch were the black spots in between, the place where nothing was, not for a long while anyway.  She sighed.  There was always going to be that god-forsaken light there....
 She closed her eyes and let the darkness of her room encompass her and take her thoughts and dreams into the dark space where no light could escape to ruin her good thoughts.  She looked from her place of darkness and opened a portal into somewhere she'd been before.  She let the darkness open for her and shed a small bit of light into her cavern.  She swam through the darkness into the hole.
 Keaira floated into the room and sunk slowly down onto the floor, not hurting herself.  As the young girl looked around, she saw the senshi laying there, in the darkness with a small bit of light coming from all around, just enough for all persons to look upon the senshi's faces, their eyes closed in rest and their faces emotionless.
Keaira walked over to the one who looked like her, the one wrapped in black and grey and even a bit of white.  She knew this was her, this lady.  But she could not become like her again, she did not know why.  Perhaps she didn't desire it badly enough or she was too young.  Keaira prayed that age wasn't the question.
She softly touched the pale lady's face, brushing away a few cold, black strands of hair.  'I hope to be like you someday, senshi,' Keaira thought as she opened another portal out and stepped through it, watching the senshi of darkness.  'May I someday be like you, darkness.'