There is something ancient in Kaia's eyes. Something yet to be revealed. 

Yet Kaia herself is a gentle soul. Believing in people. Far too much, some would say. 

By day she works as a journalist for the Division Corporation, chasing stories through dim alleyways and blood-stained streets with camera and notebook in hand with far too much excitement for the given situations. Witnesses talk easily around her, criminals underestimate her, and she always seems to arrive exactly where something important is about to happen or has already passed. Kaia lives for the truth. For the thrill of uncovering what others hide. Every case, every interview, every photograph is another thread in a larger mystery she feels pulling at the edges of her life.

Especially since the death of her parents, a memory she neither knows whether she wishes to forget or fight to keep.

The deeper she digs into their past, the more impossible the story becomes. Files disappear. Names are redacted. Some investigators refuse to speak to her at all. Calling it just a mistake in the system. And somewhere buried within those secrets lies the truth her father once fled from, the truth of what she really is.

Kaia doesn’t know it yet. But something in the dark does. Something patient. Someone is amused.

From the shadows, The Puppeteer watches, curious to see what kind of story the girl with the glass eyes will become. Eager to have a hand in said story.

Because if Kaia truly awakens to what sleeps inside her…

The city will not be ready for the wakened tide that follows.

(Would LOVE to see how people portray this character. Feel free to try any versions with an accent. Do note that her voice is youthful yet calm/soft. She is naïve but ABSOLUTELY not child-like. She is mid 20s)

NOTE: Kaia is equally as important but in this particular short only has 3/4 lines hence the lesser pay THIS TIME (She will have her own animatic in the future since this is Ephemeris's introduction.)

(Note image profile is temporary and just from Pinterest)