Ika

Ika is a Sea Demon who is a military spy from Quarium. She is currently in Squad 1. She is an elementalist, so her aether type is Adaptive & Alternative. Her elements are Water and Demonic.

She made her first appearance in Book 1, Chapter 1

Backstory
Ika is a deep-sea demon in the underwater military. Her birthplace, Quarium, strongly believes in military power, with over 250,000 people in their military. Being a militarist kingdom, they wanted to mass produce soldiers that were genetically altered to be stronger than the average sea demon. As an experiment, 50,000 eggs were mass-produced. Despite this number, only about 8 eggs actually hatched. These 8 demons were highly respected by the Sea King, because he saw them as the strongest in the 50,000 eggs. They were the only survivors and were all appointed to directly work under him as they grew. He saw them as his long lost children. Ika was one of these, and she was the eighth and last egg to be hatched, thus her last name is 00008. Unfortunately, because artificially making eggs consumed too many resources, and the fact that only 8 hatched out of 50,000 eggs, the project was put on hold.

The experiment wasn't a complete failure though, the genetic alteration worked. As a mere infant, Ika was a prodigy, along with her other siblings. For this reason, the 8 of them were trained very rigorously and brutally to serve the Sea King and do special missions for him. She was the more calm and collected one out of her siblings and had amazing aim. For this reason, when Ika was 10 years old, the Sea King pulled her aside one night and told her that she was selected to go on an important mission: to go to the surface and study humans.

It was known that the Sea King despised humans. He saw them as weak creatures with nothing special to back them up. He publicly expressed these views to everyone in Quarium, which is why so many Quarians, including Ika, hate humans. He didn't see them as worthy to be living on the mainland, and he wanted the resources Capellus had for himself to produce more eggs. However, he had virtually no information on their power and how they lived their everyday lives, which is why he wanted Ika to spy on them.

Ika is secretly not happy with this mission though, she'd much rather fight alongside the King than spy on humans and "share the same air as them." Her 5 siblings treat her differently, because they see her as 'the weirdo that hangs out with humans', except for 2 of them, she's the closest with these two. However, she didn't have much of a choice and didn't want to defy the king out of loyalty, so she accepted the mission and began training.

Five years of hard work had passed, and she was finally ready. She consulted with demon alchemists to cast an oxygen breathing spell on her, making her travels much safer. She quickly ran to the city and immediately started to observe the humans. Day after day, she studied humans and frequently went back to the sea to discuss her progress with the King, and talk to her 2 closest siblings while avoiding the other 8 as she doesn't wanna get made fun of. One day, she is approached by a half demon named Phantom. She was originally hostile to the half breed, as her kind feels superior. However, Phantom looked past these hostile behaviors and started following Ika. Eventually, she warms up to him, and allows him to tag along with her. She also finds Endie, an orphan Vampire Scientist, and they quickly become good friends because of their personal missions.

Appearance
Ika's most defining characteristic is her grayish blue skin. She has long, poisonous horns protruding from her forehead, shoulder length blue hair, and dark blue eyes, characteristics belonging to almost every Sea Demon. She can be seen wearing her default military uniform often, but if she doesn't have anything to do that day, she will stay in the base with a messy bun and her casual outfit.

Personality
Ika is known to wear a straight, unimpressed face. She's quiet and serious when it comes to missions and quests. She developed a hatred for humans based on propaganda and sees them as a sort of obstacle to the Sea King's goal.

She likes rain and food, preferably desserts like cheesecake. Because of this, she can be seen working at various places like restaurants.

Pois Guns
Both guns fire poison ink bullets that debuff the enemy. The poison is very potent and just inhaling it can amplify your senses and make you very confused. Because she throws up poison ink, her guns were specially crafted from the Quarian blacksmiths to utilize this ability. The bullets have a sort of paintball effect. When the bullets hit you they don't just go through you, they sink into your skin slightly and make a tiny explosion akin to paintball pellets. The bullets also have a unique property where if, for example, 2 are fired together in close proximity, they get attracted to each other and combine to form a bigger bullet.

If her bullets don't come into contact with anything, they explode anyway after a certain amount of time. This can allow her to shoot 5 pellets up into the air. Once they all combine and burst, they form a sort of cloud that rains poison ink until they run out.

Waether Blade
She uses water, dubbed Waether, as a sword by shaping it into one. This sword can hit 3 times before it loses shape and she has to use more aether to reform it again. She can create double swords if she's underwater or if it's raining.

She can also infuse this blade with her poison by shooting it. This makes her blade more potent because it allows the poison to directly go into the opponent's bloodstream.

Equipment
Ika has numerous outfits that she possesses, but she often wears her main military uniform, which is mostly black with white accents, silver buttons, a belt with gun holsters and a squid-shaped buckle, a red string, a red brassard, and a blue pack on her back. She has a casual outfit, which is a white sweater with holes in it, and she also has an outfit reserved for training. Her uniform changes later into the story.

Her brassard is very important to her, so she almost always wears it no matter what. It is unsure what exactly she carries around in her pack, but it is most likely things she brought from Quarium, like potions or sentimental objects. The soles of her boots have a special suction property that allows her to walk on walls.

Alignment
Lawful Neutral

Arcana
The Hermit

Tier
S

Abilities
Ika has various basic abilities, such as:
 * Can breathe underwater
 * Able to converse with any type of sea creature (doesn’t mean they’ll listen, though)
 * Has the upper hand whenever water is involved
 * Throws up poison ink
 * Her horns are poisonous to the touch and irritate your skin
 * She can pull moisture from the air and form it into basic things depending on the humidity
 * Her aether pool is pretty much unlimited whenever she is underwater or when it's raining
 * She can encase herself in water and camouflage herself, or she can use it for defense

Demonic Aura
Her aura creates sharp tentacles out of water, which increases her attack power greatly because she’s able to do what she couldn't with her guns. She can also create an elemental shroud. Visually, it looks like a hamster ball made out of water, which renders her immune to fire attacks and repels bullets for a limited time. However she can’t create the tentacles and the elemental shroud at the same time. She's either sacrificing defense or sacrificing attack, depending on the situation.

Later in the story, she is able to create a huge water kraken with her aura. It is deadly towards opponents but uses up much of her aether. She can also create 2 of her swords without being underwater or it raining because her aether capacity increases.

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