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|Earth Name|
Melody Archer | The name she tells others
|Gender|
Female
|Age|
200 in Ildi years | 25 in Earth years.
|Sexuality|
Heterosexual
|Race|
Ildi

|Powers|


Caclia's form of dark fire is manifested in the form of a dark purple flame. She is able to create both dark and regular fire on her own, generating them from her hands. She can only control one form of fire at a time, meaning she cannot control regular and dark fire at once. If she tried to, she would over exert herself quickly. If there is pre-existing fire she can control it, but only if she is not controlling dark fire at the same time. She is unable to transform regular fire into dark fire. Caclia is immune to being burnt by regular fire. She can be burnt by dark fire, but only if she were to be completely engulfed in it. There's little chance that she would accidentally burn herself because she has built up a strong tolerance for it. White fire will definitely burn her.
She has three main methods for attacking. The first is the use of dark fire projectiles. If she is only controlling one fire projectile, she is able to control it with extreme precision. As the number of projectiles increases, the less control over their movements she has. This method of attacking is her preferred because she can stay at a distance while still doing some damage. The second method is the use of a dark fire wave. A dark fire wave goes in whatever direction she sends it. After she sends it out she has no control over it. It could spread out or shrink-- it's unpredictable. Depending on the size, the use of the dark fire wave will tax her energy greatly. If she is angry, she will not immediately feel the effects of the wave. Her anger will also create a larger, but more unpredictable wave. The third method is her least preferred because it usually means her enemy is close to her. She is able to create blade weapons out of dark fire. However, given that they are melee weapons she has to be close to an enemy to do any harm.
Her main methods of defense are to create a shield of dark fire, which should burn anything that is hurled at her, or to shoot down something being shot at her with a projectile. If that fails she will try to retreat to somewhere farther from the enemy so that she can use projectiles against them.


On her right forearm is a sort of tattoo. When she was exiled from Ild, the government marked her to identify her in case she tried to return. She was burnt with white fire, which left a lasting scar on her skin with a tattoo appearance. The tattoo looks like this, with the flame directed upwards on her arm (towards her upper arm). Due to the tattoo's placement and the nature that it was put on, she cannot remove it. She wouldn't want to remove part of her arm because her hands are her main way to control fire. She also can't remove it from the skin because it is permanently burned there.

|Personality|

Caclia is not a very sociable person. She doesn't like or trust people-- why should she? She was kicked off of her home planet, abandoned by everyone she ever knew and trusted. While she feels a connection between herself and the rest of the super villains, she feels distant from others. She has a fear of rejection which leads her to shy away from social interaction. She is more of an observer. While she doesn't like people she is curious about human culture.

|The Ildi|


While using and practicing controlling fire is encouraged, the Ildi government does try to manage fire use. After all, fire is destructive. If there is not an immediate need for one to use their ability, then they are advised not to use it. The government has ways of knowing after all. Excessive use of fire for unconstructive purposes or personal gain can result in a hefty fine or imprisonment. The Ildi government also prohibits the use of dark fire due to it's extremely destructive and relatively unpredictable nature. Using dark fire can result in being imprisoned, exiled, or killed. In extreme cases, an offender's offspring may be killed due to the possibility of them having the gene to control dark fire. Needless to say, the use of dark fire is the highest crime on Ild and will always be punished.
In only one case has a dark fire user been allowed to remain free. It is believed that he was coerced into helping the Ildi government. However no civilian has proof that such a person ever existed or exists. This Ildi is a myth to many and a legend to others.
The ability to use dark fire, while sometimes genetic, is generally random. Those who can use dark fire are few and far between. They are regarded by the Ildi race as defects. They control something dark and destructive, thus they must be flaws in the Ildi gene pool. Almost all Ildi believe this, with the exceptions almost always being the ones who are consider defective. Should one be found to be a dark fire user, they will be rejected and abandoned by everyone they know. In many cases it is their own friends and family who turn them over to the government.
Opposite of dark fire users are white fire users. These Ildi are considered to be heroes of their race and regarded as superior. White fire users are seen to be pure of heart and innocent. They are given special treatment and almost always recruited into the government. There, they enjoy comfortable lives. On occasion they will be asked to deal with dark fire users such as Caclia. During such occasions they will either mark the dark fire user or they will be asked to execute them. A white fire user must mark any exiled Ildi because the white fire will forever scar a dark fire user. However, they can decline to execute a dark fire user in which case a regular Ildi will do it.

|History|











Caclia was an above average student, completing her education after 12 Earth years. While by no means a prodigy, her talent and natural ease of controlling fire helped her excel at her studies. She was well liked by her peers and had a core group of friends. Her friends and her family meant a lot to her. Though there was some lack of attention due to her being one of nine, she never felt ill will towards her parents or siblings during her education years. They were her family after all and she loved them unconditionally, though she would soon find out that they would not love her the same way.
During her studies, Caclia found that she generally disagreed with the Ildi government. She learned about the rules and the proceedings the government took to ensure the Ildi were kept under control. Caclia didn't like this. They were a race who all had the ability to control fire. It seemed against her race's very nature to restrict their use of fire. Why shouldn't they be allowed to use it freely? Technically nobody could burn another person with their fire as all Ildi are immune to being burnt with regular fire. Structures and land could be brunt, but with so many others around, anyone could easily quell the flames in a matter of seconds. One would have to be secluded to be able to do any serious damage and even then there would not be much damage to property because they would be alone.
Caclia also did not like the idea of white fire users being praised by even the government. In theory, these so called "pure" Ildi could easily sway the government into whatever they wanted. While this wasn't likely due, it could happen. Then it would no longer be the elders and the prodigies who ruled, but someone who had been spoiled their whole life. So what if they could use a pure flame? That did not mean they deserved to be treated as anything more than herself or any other Ildi.
Towards the end of her studies, when the policies of the Ildi government were especially bugging her, Caclia attempted to create white fire. After all, she was a good student and what should stop her from being treated as a royal? If others could create and control white fire, why couldn't she? Then she could live a charmed life and try to change the government's ideas on fire use.
However, she found that creating white fire was not a piece of cake. She tried for days and days to create a single, small flame, but to no avail. Angry that she was unable to create white fire, she began to hurl fire projectiles at a rock. After she had let her anger out, she noticed that the rock was engulfed in a purple flame. Instead of creating white fire, she had created dark fire. She quickly extinguished it before anyone could see it. Though she knew the government's and her people's view on dark fire, she was ecstatic. Perhaps she should have been fearful, but instead she was amazed that she could create dark fire. She had been meant to be a dark fire user, not a white fire user. It was a dangerous and illegal path, but the idea of using it against the government thrilled her.
Caclia continued to practice manipulating dark fire while still maintaining her skill with normal fire. After her education was finished, she began to focus more and more on dark fire. She found it difficult to control at first, but with years of practice she was able to control it well. She could have a ball of dark fire perform a whole routine, bending it to her will. She learned how destructive the dark fire could be, burning small things much quicker than normal fire ever could. However she did not dare to expose herself as a dark fire manipulator. After all, she didn't want to be jailed, exiled, or killed.
After 24 Ildi years (or 3 Earth years) of practice and research, Caclia felt that she was ready to start sabotaging her government. She would do minor things at first such as burning down government run buildings and businesses. There was nothing that could tie these fires to her though, as it could be anyone in her town that was burning these down. Nonetheless the town went into a state of fervor to find the dark fire manipulator. Though Caclia was confident that she wouldn't be caught, she didn't want to be too careful. Under the guise of wanting to see other parts of Ild, she left her town to destroy buildings elsewhere.
For the next 40 Ildi years, or 5 Earth years, she would travel the planet with as much discretion as possible. She was highly cautious as she travelled, making sure to stay in one place for a good chunk of time. She didn't want to seem like too frequent a traveller. She also generally liked the places she visited. Some had places to burn, others did not. She kept it varied. She burned only one or two buildings in a town, but after 37 years she began to become more reckless. She liked destroying things, even if they weren't always government affiliated.
While in the capital city of Brann, she was able to enter a few government buildings and destroy official documents. Caclia was trying to infiltrate a building she believed to have documents on her when she was caught by spies of the Ildi government. They had followed her after becoming aware of her frequent travels and the tendency of dark fire to destroy buildings in the towns she visited. She had grown comfortable with her routine and that had cost her. They arrested and imprisoned her within the capital.
She was told that for her crimes against the Ildi government and its people, she would be banished from the planet. The only reason she was not executed was because she had not killed anyone. She was announced publicly and throughout the city as a dark fire manipulator, an impure and flawed Ildi. She was the prime example of what and who not to be. She was evil, one that all Ildi should hate. In a humiliating public display, she was burned by a white fire manipulator. The manipulator wore a white cloak, hiding their features. She stared into where she guessed their eyes were through the whole ordeal. She winced in pain and silent tears left her eyes. The pain of being burned with white fire was almost unbearable. Perhaps even worse was the knowledge that this mark, a dark flame, would be on her forever.
Caclia was granted one final visit with her closest friends and family before she was banished. However, only her parents came to see her. Actually, they did not see her. They would not even look at her. The parents who had created her, raised her for so many years, and loved her all her life now refused to look at even a hair on her head. She talked to them, asking them questions about her siblings. They did not answer her, only stared at the ground. Confused, she asked them why they would not look at her. She demanded that they look her, their daughter. They did not respond. Angry and desperate to hear her parent's voice she began to yell at them. She blamed them for her anger and her use of dark fire. Even this could not stir them to speak to her.
"Do you still love me?" she asked finally, falling to her knees in her cell. She looked up at her parents. To her surprise, her mother looked her in the eyes.
"No."
Her parents left. She sat alone, too shocked to cry. Her mother had just told her that her parents, and presumably her whole family, no longer loved her. She was about to be exiled from the only home she'd ever known and she still had the physical pain of being burned by white fire. But that physical pain was nothing compared to the emotional. She was devastated and dejected. How could her family simply not love her anymore? It couldn't be true, could it?
The next day, she was exiled. Loaded into a one person pod, she was sent away from Ild into the vast expanse of the universe. As she idled in space, she began to think of all that had happened to her. She realized that she now hated her family as much as she had once loved them. How dare they walk away from her, their own flesh and blood. How dare they refuse to look at her when she spoke. They were cowards, afraid to acknowledge what she had become. To them she was a black sheep, an evil and defective Ildi. She was nothing to them now, even though they had been everything to her. Her family was supposed to love her no matter what, yet they had completely disowned her.
Drifting in space with nothing to do but think quickly changed who she was. She was now angry and hellbent on proving to her planet that they'd made a mistake in not keeping her on Ild. She was too powerful for them, that's why they despised her. She would show them that she was indeed powerful, powerful enough to destroy anything or anyone that she wanted to. Yes, it would take time, but Ildi could live to be over 1000 years old (125 Earth years).
After a few Earth years in space, she decided to go the planet Earth. She had briefly researched other planets, but thought that Earth would suit her best. She has been on Earth for a little under a year. She learned to speak English fluently from being around humans and also from many hours of intense studying. She named herself Melody Archer in accordance with human name traditions. To the civilians she sometimes walks among, she is Melody.
Six months after her arrival on Earth, Caclia began to destroy buildings with her dark fire. Like when she was on Ild, she started small at first so as to avoid suspicion. However dark fire on Earth is pretty noticeable. She relocated a few times before setting foot in Violet City a month ago. Here, she destroyed a building or two which caught the attention of the media. Seeing the reports and thinking that he could use her as part of the Fifth Column, John recruited her.
She lives at the factory in an office. Her room has many human/Earth objects that she finds interesting. {1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9}