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Kaira | |
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Ce-Matoran | |
Occupation |
Healer
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Element | |
Kanohi |
Noble Mihini
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Status |
Alive
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Location | |
Pronunciation |
KAI-ruh
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Kaira (Afterverse) contains spoilers.
This article contains spoilers for Rock Bottom: Remastered. Continue reading at your own risk. |
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- "All I’ve ever been able to do is pick through dead bodies, and I’ve learned more from sticks than I have from those."
- ―Kaira, Rock Bottom
Kaira is a Ce-Matoran originally from the Tren Krom Peninsula. She currently resides in the sunken city of Mahri Nui.
History[]
Kaira once lived in the village of Boreas on the Tren Krom Peninsula, where she was apprenticed to Turaga Jiko to learn the art of herbalism and healing. For many years, she learned the secrets that the Turaga of The Green knew, helping the Matoran of the village.
After many decades in this roll, she was severely injured by a Muaka while gathering herbs. Jiko attempted to heal her, but was unable to restore her body to the level of functionality she had before. Unwilling to put in the time and energy to heal and retrain her body, Kaira insisted on being sent to Karzahni to be repaired. Jiko attempted to convince her not to, as he had heard whispers that those that went to Karzahni did not return. But Kaira would not be swayed.
Arriving on the island was a rude awakening, as she realized Jiko had been correct. She was given a new body, one smaller and weaker than before, and shipped off from the nightmarish realm to the deepest parts of the Southern Continent so that she would not be able to reveal the secret. There she began to sulk in her own mistakes, becoming a hermit only visited by those who desperately needed her help. She remained in isolation for many years, until the Great Cataclysm launched the section of continent she lived on up and to the surface of Aqua Magna, where it became Voya Nui. Knowing that many Matoran would be hurting, she pulled herself out of her isolation and made for the closest village. For a while, she wandered, providing help to those who were injured or lost during the catastrophe.
Mahri Nui[]
After several years, a settlement began to emerge on the island. Mahri Nui was a large village with aspirations on becoming a city appeared on the coast of the Voya Nui Bay. With most of the island recovered, Kaira no longer felt the need to wander and settled down on the periphery of the young city. Due to her extensive knowledge of medicine and Matoran anatomy, she became the village healer, healing the injuries and ailments of the Matoran of Mahri Nui. She even began to find peace in her new predicament, being able to continue her work even despite that hardships that had befallen her by fate, and those by her own hand.
But this peace was not to last. Even as the city began to thrive and draw in Matoran from across the island, a series of earthquakes destabilized it, eventually culminating in the entire city plunging into the depths of the Voya Nui Bay. Kaira was one of lucky two-hundred and sixteen Matoran to survive the initial descent. Once again, she was thrust into disaster relief mode, healing those Matoran who needed it.
Eventually the brutal status quo of Mahri Nui established itself. Kaira was left to care for those who were injured while trying to merely survive: the Sentinels, who guarded the city against the multitude of threats present at the bottom of the bay; the farmers, who tended to the airweed that kept them alive; the scavengers, who brought back the raw material they needed to survive; and those unlucky enough to drink too much of the vile waters that twisted the bodies of anything that drank it. Setting up a hut on the edge of the city, Kaira resigned herself to her role, spending her days helping the lost and desperate. She found it a fulfilling but tiring existence, and her old cynicism returned in full force.
Roughly a decade after the city sunk into the Bay, a Sentinel named Kyrehx was attacked by Vampire Squids, only surviving because another Sentinel pulled her back into the Air Domes and brought her to Kaira in hopes that the Ce-Matoran would be able to fix her. Unfortunately, Kaira was only able to stabilize Kyrehx, and the the Ga-Matoran remained in a coma. However, she was able to study the cadaver of one of the Squid, provided by the salvager and inventor Defilak. During the examination, she discovered that this particular squid had been killed by something else, something much larger and more deadly.
Before she could inform anyone else of this, a massive crab-like monster began approaching the city. Kaira had been struck by a flash of inspiration, reasoning that if air was toxic to the Vampire Squids it might be toxic to this creature. She and Idris acquired several Zamor Sphere Launchers from the Hall of Gifts to arm the Sentinels, and then watched from the sidelines as they engaged, ready to do her best to care for anyone who is injured in the fight. She witnessed as Glace joined the fight and helped Idris slay the creature, and helped resuscitate Idris after she almost drowned in the mutagenic waters of the Bay.
Personality and Traits[]
Irritable on a good day, Kaira has horrible bedside manner, and will say whatever she's thinking regardless of what it is or to whom is nearby. This extends to her actions as well, as she always does exactly what she thinks needs to be done, regardless of what others might suggest. This often causes her to clash with others in times of conflict, and generally keeps most Matoran from visiting her except when in dire need of her assistance.
While Kaira is antisocial and would prefer to be left alone to her own devices, she is not so insensitive as to turn away a Matoran in need, finding the act of caring for and healing others to be deeply fulfilling and cathartic. Her closest relationships are with those who have seen that passion within her, often former patients who owe their lives to her.
Powers and Equipment[]
As a Ce-Matoran, Kaira has a natural resistance to mental probes and attacks. In addition, she had a considerable about of brainpower, making her "smarter" than most other Matoran in the sense that she has a particularly strong memory and processes knew information with almost supernatural speed.
While not in possession of weapons, Kaira has a variety of tools used for scientific and medical purposes. Her hut boasts an extensive collection of scalpels, magnification devices, and all manner of odd yet useful trinkets. She wears a Noble Kanohi Mihini, the Mask of Biomechanics, specially forged with a telescopic lens back in her old village on the Tren Krom Peninsula.
Appearances[]
- Rock Bottom (First appearance)
Non-Canon[]
- Rock Bottom, Original Version
- Hellbound
Matoran Residents of Mahri Nui (v|e) | |||
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Idris • Kaira • Kyrehx • Kyros • Leeta • Lemiddus Mati • Navek • Paka • Reysa • Sarda • Velika • Whevn |