Kalia Song

Despite the wonderful surroundings, Kalia's world was hardly pleasant. For the better part of her childhood, she was the only child of a dysfunctional home. An absentee father and a constantly depressed mother fostered in her a resentment for life. She took it out on everyone and was always in trouble at school. A constant disappointment to her parents, she only seemed to make things worse on her mother and she often tried to act defiant in that she would shout how much she didn't care at the top of her lungs. She thought she would be better off without them both even if it meant being some sort of street rat.

There was no silver lining in her world. When she was eight, her mother disappeared never to be heard from again. As she got older, her father eventually told her that her mother killed herself, but she doesn't know this to be true or not. She never had the desire to find out either. She was always at ends with the man and could never bring herself to call him father. A Navy man, she only ever called him "Chief" even though that was not a position for which he was eligible the majority of the time.

When the Gulf War came, he was deployed and unceremoniously returned home months later due to injuries sustained at landfall. He was effectively disabled because of them and took to living off the money from the government rather than try to make something of himself. She was launched into poverty, but it didn't phase her at all on the surface.

Come high school, she had already maintained a negative outlook on life and with it, a terrible attitude toward others. Her fierce nature and snappy tongue earned her a popular seat in school, and also the admiring eye of the worst of the worst cliques to hang around. By the time she got to her sophomore year of high school, she had been living it up and living hard. The only miracle granted to her was that she never caught anything life threatening, and never had the desire to so much as touch a needle or cigarette of any kind.

Just as things couldn't seem to get darker in her life, she was kicked off the cheerleading team for being constantly late for practice and too out of it to do the cheers at all much less the moves to go along with them. She was even threatened to be kicked out of school, and it was shortly thereafter that she ran into Yang Ji Nan. She abhorred his presence at first, but his calm nature eventually started tempering hers the more she found herself around him. Curiosity prompted her to go to class more and even went as far as to try and gain his attention. She slowly left her life behind and by the time they had graduated high school, she had in him a dear friend and weight lifted off her shoulders.

She got into community college at Honolulu Community College. She later went to the University of Hawaii at Manoa and received a bachelor's there though she didn't pursue any further schooling. While she was going to University, her father passed away and she was left essentially with nothing afterward. So, she moved in with her boyfriend and had been there until the outbreak. When the pulse transpired, she had been up pulling an all-nighter editing something for the next day's paper. All of her information had been lost, so she went outside to take a walk and pout to herself when she found herself completely overwhelmed by infected.

She ran until she couldn't anymore and managed to protect herself with a stardust forcefield and slipped away. She ended up in a nearby hospital to try and rest, but the mental screams of one of the infected incapacitated her. For well over a month, she had been incapacitated with a flickering forcefield around her. She was emaciated by the time the project found her, and had it not been for her energy manipulation sustaining her in the end, she would have died.

The Project recovered her and was unable to do anything for her until they could properly clear the area and bring in telepaths to try and fix the damage done. She had been in and out of consciousness on a regular basis and difficult to transport due to her abilities, so the hospital she had taken refuge in became the first "liberated" place in Honolulu. It has taken some time, but she has gotten her wits about her again.

after the pulse

• 05/29/09 — Went to steal a helicopter with Ming, and wound up attached by darkseekers. Kallie discovered her abilities for herself.

• 06/06/09 — Went to the beach with Yang, Ming and Sayuri. She stayed after with Yang to talk about what had happened to her originally after the pulse.

• 07/05/09 — Attended the Peace Concert with Yang and Ming for her birthday.

• 08/18/09 — Ran into Ming as he was attacked by Garradors.

• 10/31/09 — Attended Vanness' Halloween party in Taipei.

• 01/19/10 — Went to Heathcliff's birthday dinner party.

• 01/31/10 — Swapped powers with Suzume and had to later leave work early because of the empathy overwhelming her.

• 03/22/10 — Helped out fighting infected when the hospitals were overrun.

• 05/10/10 — Participated in the Lee Hyori Charity Games.

Once a reckless girl, Kalia had a reputation for being an unpleasant bitch by the time she started high school. The friends she kept were terrible influences. She would cut class, treat even her teachers badly, and could care less about her grades. Certainly having touched upon the underground club scene and dabbling in ecstasy didn't help matters any. It didn't seem like a wake up call could save her with the way things were going. That is, until she met Yang. If not for him, she asserts that she would never have pulled herself up on her own two feet and turned over a new leaf.

Over time, she let go of the caustic attitude she had from before. Before she used to be bitchy, nasty, and inconsiderate of others. Now she goes to great lengths to help others, and as such has developed an incredibly unbreakable self-sacrificial mindset. It took a long time to clean herself up even with help, and so her self-confidence took quite a blow. She has become modest and sometimes too giving. Most people who see her from high school are shocked, as she almost always wears a smile and has the grace of a young lady brought up with the morals she lacked for the better part of her teens.

Though she is hardly sensitive, she can become depressed when it comes to hearing about drug addictions and the like rather easily. She is more inclined to reach out for those people and as such, she often volunteers at rehabilitation centers to try and make a difference in this way. Ninety-nine percent of the time, she's good-natured and friendly. She's one of the hardest people in the world to anger, but if you mess with anyone she's got an emotional attachment to or harm something that she feels doesn't deserve it?

God help you.

Photonic Energy Manipulation — Taking the energy created by light itself and condensing it into blasts or stretching it into forcefields to protect her from other light-based attacks, projectiles, and other physical attacks. These appear as stardust. She can also use this to propel herself in the air as though she is flying with a trail of stardust behind her. While she is incapable of doing it willingly, if she is in immediate danger and mentally incapacitated to a degree, she will automatically retain this energy to keep herself alive.

Memory Projection — The ability to project three dimensional images of a person's memories, provided the subject is a willing participant in the process. This could eventually change; however, this is simply what she is capable of currently.

Truth Sense — She has the ability to sense the truth (so she can tell when you're lying barring mental wards/telepathy immunity), and then coax the truth from a target.