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Name: Keeya Johnson
Gender: Female
Age: 11
Genetics: Her ancestors were considered to be “African American” Before the wasteland formed.
Build: Lanky
Eye color: Spring Leaf green
Hair color: shades of Green
Skin color: a Milk-Chocolate like brown
Family: Aunt and Uncle. Parents both died early on in Keeya's life.
Class: Uppers/Middling: Lives in the theater district between the two.
Marked by: Edinkira, an African Tree Goddess


About Keeya Johnson:

Keeya Johnson is an eleven year old girl living in the harbor section of town with her aunt and uncle, and up until this point has lived a dull life, the most exciting thing she can remember up until the monsters deciding to move into the city being the bonsai tree she got for her tenth birthday and her beloved handme down, pawnshop jumping stilts.

Her parents died in an accident when she was four, so she has very little memory of them, except that they wore white coats and worked with plants and needles and those sands from outside the city.

Now she works in a ratty theater with her Aunt and Uncle, helping with the makeup and trying to draw in an audience with simplistic acrobatics, as well as running through the city for the sheer joy of being outside in the sun.

About Edinkira:
http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/african-mythology.php?deity=EDINKIRA
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/e/edinkira.html

One of the more secretive of African Gods and Goddesses, little is known about Edinkira other then she is a goddess of trees. She hasn’t done anything major to get herself noticed for anything up until this point to warrant any further descriptions in history.

Edinkira is normally a peaceful goddess, tending to her trees, sometimes holding long lasting conversations with them, and nurturing the animals that live in them, uninterested in power or fully devoted worshippers like the other gods up until this point. As long as there are trees, she would live, be strong, and healthy.

Unfortunately, now, her life is in danger.

With the wastelands spreading, the number of trees existing is dwindling dangerously low, and her immortality is slipping away with each tree lost to the toxins and the stress of living in a world with very little nature left.

While other gods jockey for power, she sneaks her own mark into our world in a last ditch attempt at survival, hoping to heal the earth and regain her strength in a fight for her very survival.

While peaceful, Edinkira, like the trees of her homeland, is not without her dangers. She can carry deadly poisons, can hold killer bees in her belly and Leopards in her branch like arms. And to smaller creatures her blood can trap them forever in history, locked away in the amber formed by each golden tear.



Q: But we know nothing about what Edinkira looks like.. How could we know what Keeya will end up looking like?

A: We don't, really, however, by mixing elements, such as amber colored "Tattoos" to represent the sap of a tree, and maybe draw on the markings of the leopard, which is something like a guardian of Trees (who would want to mess with a tree that has a leopard in it?). Plus work with the idea of her having tree like features -- unusally long limbs, a tree for hair, branch ears... and maybe even roots coming out of her legs.

While there are many possibilities, I have an idea of what I would make her -- but what she would really look like in the end is up to the artist

Powers Keeya has at her appearance in Endgame
Cause you gotta start somewhere...

(Main power)
Growth: Can make trees grow. The trees will grow bigger and faster as she develops.

Uses

Offensive: Having a tree grow under or around you suddenly could send you flying or can trap and (if you're an NPC monster) possibly even crush you.

Defensive: Creating a wall of thick, lush, green vegitation can create a guard from attacks, as well as can help her move rapidly up the trunk and through the branches.

Neutral: Filters out toxins of the wastelands slowly. Often pretty. Provides fresh air and sometimes food.


Pros and Cons

Pros: Eventually could turn into a rather powerful ability. Flexible usage.

Cons: Weak at the begining. Gives warning time. The swift can dodge. Weak to fire based attacks.




Supporting power

Agu: a protective spirit of a leopard. Keeya doesn’t really control the large cat, and isn’t even really aware of it’s existence at first since it appears to protect her when she needs him most, usually when left in a helpless state, so she thinks of the leopard as a figment of her imagination. She may gain control of the leopard of the tree branches as she develops -- if there are any leopards in a local Zoo, she could communicate with them, but wouldnt be of any real use.

Uses

Offensive: Agu can attack swiftly and appear suddenly. Physically strong.

Defensive: Can use large body to block attacks since it heals quickly. Can Carry her and others to safety.

Neutral: Companion. Can carry supplies.

Pros and Cons

Pros: Very useful for hit and run attacks. Protective. If killed just returns to spirit form to return after a break

Cons: No control at early stages. Breaks between depend on strength and health of Keeya, as well as rank in the games.





Second level power for Keeya as she advances in Endgame
Since the starting powers aren't very useful in a fight, you better Pray for something better, little Keeya..


Toxic spines: can create Candelabra Tree spines and a deluted version of the poisonous Sap of the tree to use like daggers and darts. Also has immunity to said poison, allowing her to handle the sticky latex without her skin blistering. Causes painful blisters with skin contact, as well as swelling, fever (sevarity depending on the person), and temporary paralysis when it gets into the system. Spines in various sizes -- Blowgun darts, Throwing "knives" and pick daggers (has a handle of a different type of wood).


Uses

Offensive: A highly offensive power, while the toxin is not as dangerous as the true Candelabra Tree latex, the daggers and darts, if used with the right pressure in the right spots (eyes, throat, between the ribs, etc), are dangerous in their own right, and extremely painful. Blisters, swelling, and Paralysis can weaken and slow others, or even put them temporarily out of the running.

Defensive: Immunity to toxin allows Keeya to apply it to door handles or on items she does not wish others to touch, and can be set as a trap.

Neutral: Without the toxins, the spines can be used for knitting or for creating hand and foot holds for climbing.

Pros and Cons

Pros: Flexible useage. Doesn't have to be there for traps to work, providing a safe distance between Keeya and the Target.

Cons: Like most toxins, the bodies reaction differs per person. Toxins take time to react. Can't control who might accidently touch the latex and get the painful blister/chemical burns.




Stick it To Em (Sap):


Uses

Offensive: If large ammounts are used on the face, it can temporarily blind or even sufficate enemies.

Defensive: Slows ground and climbing enemies.

Neutral: Can be used to make climbing surfaces easier.


Pros and Cons

Pros: can be used in many ways. Could create amber to use for trading.

Cons: Can get herself stuck if she's not careful.







Possible future powers for as she advances in Endgame



Bees in the Belly: Can open mouth and have larger then normal African Honey Bees (Also known as "Killer Bees") fly from her stomach individually or ina swarm and act on her beck and call, and return to her by the same method. Often simply allowed to die since returning is just as painful as summoning, and in death they automaticly return to the belly without passing through the mouth and throat, revived.

Uses

Offensive: Hidden weapon. Extremely painful. Can be deadly if allergic or stung too often, usually just puts others out for the count for a while.

Defensive: swarm of bees can act as a smokescreen, as well as can check enclosed areas for airborn poisons.

Neutral: Helps tend flowers. Can be used as a method of communicating by having them carry small letters.


Pros and Cons

Pros: Can be overwelming to others if unprepaired. Can keep her and allies in sync. Helps with Tree tending.

Cons: Meathod of summoning and unsummoning the bees is uncomfortable. Controling large swarms takes lots of focus, leaving Keeya open for attack. Messages can be intercepted






Digging in Deep: Can set root systems under ground, causing cracks or swells in the surface of the cement of the city. This is used to set up many other powers, but could also be used to capture or trip up enemies, or even splitting rocks or opening up passage ways.

Uses

Offensive: Tripping or capture could hurt feet and lower legs (hands and arms if hands are near the ground)

Defensive: Slows progress of enemies

Neutral: Quickens Growth, and allows for the next two powers.


Pros and Cons

Pros: Is needed for enhancing Growth to have less warning time/quicker control over growth of Trees. Sets up other powers. Slows down enemies. Can reduce stone and cement to rubble.

Cons: Takes lots of time to set up larger networks. Causes unwanted damage to the city. Can also slow allies. Splitting rocks and wall shrapnal can hurt Keeya and Allies.






Getting back to your Roots: Using the root system set up in "Digging in Deep", Keeya can actually vanish into the system and travel through and to anywhere the vines grow. She can use her powers from underground with this ability.

Uses

Offensive: Can pop up anywhere and attack stealthily or even use powers from below.

Defensive: Keeps her away from most attacks and move out of harms way.

Neutral: Good for traveling quickly.


Pros and Cons

Pros: Fast and stealthy. Strong Defence.

Cons: Root System can get severed in areas and force her to surface where she has been herded. Cannot Carry others with her. Cannot see above ground and has to sense it through sound and other vibrations, which can cause her to make attacks on allies.






Heard it on the Grapevine: Can listen in on conversations and speak through the pre setup root system

Uses

Offensive: There is no offensive use for this.

Defensive: Knowledge can keep her safe

Neutral: Good for spying on and talking to others. Not as easy to intercept


Pros and Cons

Pros: More secure and less painful way of communicating from a distance. Allows her to sense enemies from underground.

Cons: Not very useful in battle except for sensing where enemies are from underground.

Types of African Tree's

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