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APPLICANT INFO.
NAME: Luna
CONTACT: pm
CURRENT CHARACTERS: n/a

CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Kidagakash 'Kida' Nedakh
CANON: Atlantis: the Lost Empire
AGE: 8,400 (equivalent to 28)
APPEARANCE: omg dad please // world's ugliest tiki costume
CANON POINT: right after speaking with her father, before taking Milo for a hike.

BACKGROUND: Wiki link! I've written up a summary about Atlantis' history for you, to better understand Kida's canon.

A hundred thousand years ago, the kingdom of Atlantis stood upon an island big enough to form its own continent. A meteorite fragment crashed into the prosperous city, and its people discovered they could harness the sentient rock's godlike power to heal, to extend their lives, and to provide energy to their machines. It made them all but immortal, and each Atlantean wore a piece of the rock around their neck. They called it their Heart, and as their pursuits turned to war over the centuries, they dominated any culture or nation that rose against them.

Kida's father was Atlantis' king, and in his pride he couldn't see that over-using the Heart would lead to disaster. An accidental blast discharge triggered a vast tsunami; bonding with the Heart, Kida's mother the queen was able to save the city, at the cost of her life. Looking directly upon the Heart at its peak of power made the king go blind, and despite the queen's sacrifice the city still sank deep beneath the ocean.

Following the Great Flood, fearful of another misuse of the Heart, the king had all records of Atlantis' history wiped out, and the crystal itself buried beneath the city. Still recovering in their new cavern home, the remaining people and children lived in absolute ignorance, their lives effectively ground to a halt.

The film Atlantis: The Lost Empire begins almost eight thousand years after the flood, following a linguist and his companions as they seek out—and find—Atlantis. At the time of joining Futurology, Kida has only just met them, and welcomed them into her city.

PERSONALITY:

The first time Kida meets Milo, she uses her crystal to heal him; her father later comments that a thousand years before, she would have dispatched him easily. The exchange highlights the weight Kida feels at her people's predicament, stuck underground with no possibility of change, of evolution. As future Queen, she feels responsible for their well-being, and is increasingly frustrated with her father's draconian prohibition on contact with outsiders. Looking outwards, not inwards, is what Kida believes will save Atlantis, but it's only after centuries of distaste that she's relented to seeking outside help. Kida feels a tremendous amount of pride in her country and people, and an acute desire to know more about them and, by extension, herself.

At eight thousand, five hundred years old, it's easy to forget that by the reckoning of her people, Kida is still young. She feels and acts as old as she looks, a young woman still eager to explore and discover, insatiably curious. For example, when she finds an ancient Atlantean vehicle called a ketak, she immediately has Milo the linguist translate its operating manual for her...because she's eager to know how fast it can go, of course. The poor man gets carted around Atlantis as Kida seeks to have him elucidate the secrets of her people, kept from her all these years. Milo doesn't have to do any exploring, because Kida has already discovered every nook and crevasse for him, even ruins deep underwater. Kida is unable even to read, to parse the Atlantean script, and she feels the absence of the skill. It's not to say she feels self-conscious about these things--if age has brought her anything, it's an unflappable assurance, confidence that she can overcome whatever is ahead of her--but it keeps her from being, or becoming, as effective as she could be. She dislikes feeling stymied, boxed in, especially by her father, a man whom she loves deeply but who she considers stuck in his ways.

Brave and boisterous, she isn't always as level-headed in a crisis as a queen is meant to be, rather becoming easily aggressive until she's reigned in. She finds it easy to step into a leadership role, however. She leads a scouting troupe at home and takes charge of the outsiders when they enter the city. In Atlantis, the only person Kida has to answer to is her father, and while the pair butt heads over tradition, she obviously inherited his stubborn streak. When Rourke (the film's primary antagonist) attacks her father, Kida becomes incensed--her father is the only family she's ever known, and given the class divide between herself and her subjects, likely one of Kiden's closer friendships.

Like her father, Kida can be deliberate. In the pursuit of her goals, Kida is single-minded and unabashed, willing to stalk, cheat and force her way to knowledge or victory. That said, Kida is very kinetic but not naturally prone to violence nor lies. When push comes to shove she'd sooner harm than heal, but she holds herself to a high standard of dignity. Atlanteans hold their royalty in high regard and Kida is aware of how her behavior reflects on her: she observes ritual and protocol when she is aware of it. Her people know and love her, and they treat her with a respect that is mutual. She eats with the people, socializes with them. With those she's closest to, Kida shows a warmer, less rowdy side, and her physicality becomes sensuality. She has no shame in her body, and most Atlanteans seem to prefer comfort to modesty. Usually rather straightforward, she has a subtle sense of humor, but not unkind, formed mostly of pranks and gentle ribbing. For example, she tells Milo his accent is 'provincial'--though the last time Atlantis had anything resembling a province, Kida was in diapers.

Kida is a very old being with the life skills and knowledge of a teenager. She can't read, hasn't really seen the sky in several millennia. Her pride can become haughty or condescending, her desire for knowledge becoming stubbornness, her hotheadedness becoming violence or leading to inflexibility. She's loyal and fierce in the way ancient things can be, used to the inexorable passage of time. She will and has killed to protect what's dear to her. Her comfort zone is small and there's so much she doesn't know, but she's willing to work hard to learn--ideally, so she can return to her people with a permanent solution to their exile.

ABILITIES:

Kida is a human at peak athletic capacity, with eight thousand years of combat and hunting experience under her belt. She's stronger, faster and more durable than average, an excellent climber and capable of great stealth. She can use the spear (though given the shape of Atlantean spears, it's more apt to say the scythe) as well as the knife in combat.

She picks up new skills with great efficiency, and chief among these are languages. By the film's logic, since Atlantean is the 'root language' from which all others were formed, this makes human languages incredibly easy for Kida to pick up, as she is theoretically capable of speaking every human language to some degree. (Disney pls...that's not how root dialects work...)

Finally, Kida's pendant. Itself a sliver of the Heart of Atlantis, it won't be useful for powering anything in-game, but Kida can use it to heal herself and others of small wounds only: bruises, cuts, scrapes, etc. Incidentally, the pendant also maintains Kida's exceptionally long lifespan: removing it will cause her to age normally.

INVENTORY:

- one scouting outfit...tiki mask...thing plus furry bracers and single shoulder pauldron did tetsuya nomura design this
- one atlantean hook-spear
- one hunting knife, sheathed at the thigh
- one bikini...lointcloth thing
- misc jewelry, incl. one earring, a leather hair tie, an armlet and her pendant

WRITING SAMPLES.

NETWORK SAMPLE: "I do not know if I count electronics. What is an electronic?"
LOG SAMPLE: She doesn't want to admit that looking at the stars gives her vertigo, and makes her feel impossibly insignificant.

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