Raksha

Brotherhood servitude
Raksha was originally a servant bred by the Brotherhood of Makuta, working to infiltrate enemy territory and assassinate high priority targets such as Turaga, Order members and certain Toa who had proven to be troublesome. She also did special "inside ops" for Teridax, such as assassinating or subduing power rivals or traitors within the Brotherhood. However she was completely oblivious to the fact that she worked with evil, as she had been told by Teridax, her "creator", for as long as she could remember, that it was the BoM who were fighting for good, and that the Turaga, Toa and the Order were the ones oppressing the Matoran.

Raksha continued to do this for years, until she bit off more than she could chew when she attempted to infiltrate the Order's headquarters and assassinate Helryx. Raksha easilty infilrated the building, but Derict, an esteemed Order member and veteran warrior, was waiting for her. Raksha immediately tattempted to infatuate Derict with her powers, but his Hau Nega made him immune (the negative energy inside him is immune to the influences of Positive Energy, which makes him immune to most powers, except for shaodw, which has traces of Negative Energy in it). Realizing that she would make a valuable assest, Derict ask Raksha to join the Order, saying that Teridax had turned good an d evil on thier heads,that it was in fact the Brotherhood who wanted to opress the Matoran and rule the universe, not the Toa, Turaga, the Order and the others, and that she has been lied to her whole life. Raksha was at first reluctant to believe Derict, but slowly, she put the pieces together, and believed him. She was then indoctrinated into the Order of Mata Nui.

With the Order
Under Derict's guidance, Raksha became a respected and accomplished Order member, even earning a seat in the courtroom with Derict, Titus and some others, along with Helryx herself. Raksha was always handier with smaller weapons like pistols and knives, and so never uses larger weapons like swords. She almost always uses her hands, however, using her stealth to quickly dispatch enmies by snapping thier necks or knocking them unconscious, only using her psitol for targets not in immediate reach, and keeping her knife in reserve for close-combat emergencies. She became close friends with Derict, and it wasn't long before she was allowed to hold the Trainingclasses with him.

However, while Raksha may have matured since joining the Order, she was stil a "girly girl" at heart, and was sassy and slightly voluptuous, wontonly "asking out" random order members for a joke, and often not doing what she was told. At least, not to the letter. She alos took a shine to anything gem-like or valuable looking, and had amasses a plethora of stolen valuables, which she preferred to call "worldy goods" from her missions, whihc she preferred to call "travels". Most of the uppity order members looked down on her, referring to her as a "voluptuous waif" (she preferred "confident lady"), or a "thief" (she preferred "collector").

The name that Raksha had made for herself as a bouncy and sassy femme fatale always sat well with fresh-faced Order recruits, who appreciated her eccentricity and enthusiasm, despite the fact that being a Traning Instructor was, in comparison to other positions in the Order, rather meinal and not fitting of her rank. When she was told this, she simply pointed at Derict, who was equal to her in rank, huffed in disgust and strutted away.

Assault on Daxia
During the BoM assault on Daxia, aksha often accompanied Derict or Aerah (who she had become good friends with prior to this event) during the campaign, but sometimes working with (alternate) "Brutal" or Atan to secure garrisons or vital territory, or as a scouting party. She had developed a strong rivalry with Makuta Iccira, due to the fact that she was her clone, or "sister", as she referred to her, when the BoM was developing Dark Toa, in an operation known as the Neogen Project (Raksha and Iccira were originally two Kraata foeti that shared the same test tube, and were referred to by Teridax as "dughters of shadow"). The pair had always had clashing views and personalities, and it was the final straw for Raksha when she found out that Iccira had possessed Rii's corpse (Rii was also a close friend of hers, along with Waru and Siegfried), and she ghrew to hate her "sister". They fought several times, Iccira colldy (as her name suggests) tauning Raksha about what she had lost, and how she was worthless, and other insulting slurs.

Raksha eventually fought and killed Iccira when Iccira infilatrated the Vault, below the courtroom in the Order HQ. Iccira was attempting to push the stiff valve to open the Vault for BoM forces when Raksha interrupted. Raksha smashed Iccira into a large tube of liquidzed Midak Syblaster ammunition, and Iccira's spirit was oblitereated by the light in the viscous fluid. Rii, being a Toa, was unaffected, however, and her spirit slipped back into her body.

After the Daxia War, Raksha went with Derict and some others to live on Spherus Magna.

Powers and Tools
Raksha's shadow powers were slowly lost after she joined the Order, but her power to infatuate enemies remianed, though she only used it for infiltartion, or to make law-abiding beings buy her "worldly goods".

She uses her hands to fight, keeping a pistol and a dagger in reserve.

Trivia

 * Despite the seemingly complex origins of the Neogen Project, Raksha (and Iccira) are, quite simply, female Rahkshi.


 * Raksha is homosexual (That's right, I believe in a free society, so kill me)


 * Despite being, essentailly, a Rahkshi, Raksha is not controlled by a Kraata (nor are any other feamle Rahkshi)

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