Kalliope Tempest

Picture Credits: Sophia Bush @ Celebs Central.net

Age: 476
Birth place: Italy
Animal: Lioness
Bird: Kestrel
Element: Air
Soulmate: None
Family: Mother; Eithne. Father; Unknown. Brother; Pairs. Cousins; Diana and Artemis. Uncle; Sage.
Words: "I'm a bitch, I'm a tease, I'm a goddess on my knees." (Meredith Brooks; Bitch)

A born Tempest, Kalliope was not created by anyone.

History: The second child of Eithne, one of the Original Tempests, she never knew her father. He was one of the many men her mother met during her wild times. The only fact Kalliope has concerning her father is that she does not share him with her brother Paris. Her childhood was a whirlwind of travelling with her mother and brother, until Paris was sent to Japan. By the timeEithne deemed it time for her daughter to be trained she had already regained contact with her brother and other Tempests. So instead of being sent away, Kalliope trained with each of the Sects before finally choosing Sect of the Devil.

While her mother was a sharp-witted commander, Kalliope was intelligent. In her younger days her intelligence went unnoticed due to the role of a woman, so she travelled and learnt. She used immortality to its fullest and found her way to most of the great thinkers of the time. When the modern world bloomed she held a wealth of experience and in the end settled as a lawyer. It was the control over a court room, and winning without the use of magic, that Kalliope lived for.

Appearance: Kalliope is all woman, dark and mysterious, earning the meaning of her name; beauty. Sophistication mixed with sexy, she is a vixen and cleverly disguises this under the image of a lawyer. Her clothes are tailored to fit her form, and she can turn the most conservative skirt into something to watch. Her hair is several shades darker than her mother and brothers, a deep chocolate brown, and she keeps her hair shoulder length due to it's thickness. She makes a point of keeping her eyebrows perfectly slender and defined, and Kalliope is always using them to express herself. Her eyes are a dark teal and are clearly inherited from her father, and not her mother who has eyes the colour of honey.

Personality: Men still don't seem to understand that a woman can be intelligent without being a little angel, and Kalliope delights on stringing them along and playing the innocent. As a lawyer she is nothing but perfection. She is charming, nice, polite and innocent. In reality she is a vixen, a sexy little devil who lives for partying and going from man to man. It isn't that Kalliope never intends to settle down, it's that she does not think that any man can ever equal her. When she was younger and the world did not give women any freedom, Kalli soon proved to herself that she did not need a lasting relationship to be happy; thats what friends and family are for. She has a close relationship with her mother, and is on equal terms with her brother.

Kalliope is not entirely heartless, she does care for more than just herself. Her mother's attitude of never forgiving or forgetting has rubbed off on her, making her indepdant and as bitchy as her mother. She does not back down, and has learnt long ago not to say something if you are going to regret it. Her personal knowledge of critical thinkers helps her to approach situations from different angles, and when one doesn't work she will try another. Suprisingly, Kalli does not care who she defends in court, and has no interest for crusading for justice. It isn't that she has a blured idea of right or wrong, it's that she simply does not care. She is a Tempest not a human, and she will 'crusade' for her own species only.

Talents: A naturally charming person, Kalliope finds that element of Cardinal Sins particularly easy, although she refuses to use it when in the court room. Her ability to get exactly what she wants from a witness is her own talents and involves nothing magical. Fuelled with determination to do the best (she is a poor loser), she does her research and applies a way of thinking from one of the many great thinkers she visited in her life time. Her personal knowledge includes law, psychology, sociology, critical theories, politics and various spells for various things. She is a knowledge whore, an intellectual sponge and has a bit of an ego because of it.

While Kalli has the knowledge for a lot of spells, a lot of the time she does not have the power to actually complete them. She can write you a spell, tell you the physics of one and even set one up for you, but if it requires a lot of magical power she simply does not have it; she's too young. Her element is air and with the help of her mother she has control of it, although can only use it to cause moderate gusts of wind. Since the first level of cardinal sins comes easy to her, Kalliope can plant simple suggests using a few sins in a mind. Usually it works better if that sin is already present in that person and she excels in using lust, anger and pride. Despite being an intellectual, she is not afraid of violence and is very skilled in Ju - jitsu. Time spent with her mother means that she is also fairly adequate in forms of weaponary, especially a sword.