Kyle Vivoka

"My kind don't involve themselves in the affairs of others."

Kyle Constantine Vivoka is the second-newest member of the resistance, before Nicholas. He is a fifteen year old male phoenix-human hybrid, the only one of his kind. When he speaks of "his kind" he usually means other purebred phoenixes.

Personality
Kyle is an all around joker. He can grasp the seriousness of situations, but he prefers to joke around and taunt his enemies in a fight. They are his sword and shield. The more frequently he jokes, the more he is stressed, nervous or upset. Kyle has no problem being someone's therapist, or even punching bag, due to his healing abilities. He occasionally angsts over his abilities, because he believes that they separate him from the rest of humanity, despite having met nonhumans before. If he suffers an injury that would instantly kill anyone else, Kyle will sometimes verbally or silently announce his hatred of his healing abilities, because he feels unnatural. He is not religious, though he still wonders if he has a soul because of his ability to survive decapitation. Despite the negative feelings over his powers, Kyle is, for the most part, predominantly proud of his abilities, though he makes an large effort to not appear arrogant. For the most part, except on rare occasions, he has accepted who or what he is. Also, he is known for being attractive enough to have girls (and guys) fawn over him, but if Kyle ever finds someone who he likes, he becomes tongue-tied and he absolutely FAILS at romance overall, due to being incredibly shy around them. He has a HUGE problem with authority figures, and even if they outmuscle him, he turns into a little spitfire and will verbally rip them apart.

Biography
Phoenixes live separately from the rest of the Shadow World, due to being immensely proud creatures. They used to have plentiful cities all across the globe, but now their numbers have dwindled due to environmental hazards caused by mundanes, any volcanic eruptions. Because of this, only two cities now remain. Ur'thereal'a(Ur-ruh-theer-ee-ul-ah, meaning "city of lights"), located inside the crater of Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, Africa. Ka'a(Ka-ah, meaning "city of war"), is the undergroud Phoenix Capital City, located inside Mount Everest. Kyle Vivoka was born a human, but he was human only very briefly. When he was a baby, Kyle's parents(who are unknown to him), discovered that he was sick, very sick, and that he would die very soon. Desperate, they spent a good portion of their life savings trying to find a way to cure him with what would become known as the Ouroburos virus, an extremely deadly yet nearly noncommunicable illness designed to convince the body that the organs inside itself are parasites that need to be expunged, so the body spends all of its resources wiping itself out. The victims usually dies one of too ways: the body works itself to death trying to get rid of every single organ inside the body, or so many organs are destroyed that it becomes impossible for the body to continue to live. During their time spent in Africa working with researchers in looking for a cure (the virus originated in Africa), Kyle's parents became infected with the virus as well, due to spending so much time around their infant son. One night, when Kyle was only a few months old, he began to cry because the sickness was making him very cold. The Phoenix King Ra, with his sharp senses, heard the boy's cries and decided to investigate, mostly due to boredom, as the night had been uneventful. When Ra saw Kyle and his parents, he witnessed the love that the parents had for baby Kyle, as well as their own selflessness to continue working despite having little time left for themselves, even though the virus would consume all three of them before a cure could ever be discoevered. Phoenixes are not known for their compassion, but Ra was especially moved by witnessing the family, having had barely any contact with humans for over 500 years, and believing them to be selfish and unreasonable. Ra approached the parents cautiously, and stated that he could eradicate the virus within Kyle, by transferring a part of himself within the boy and strengthening him. Since this process would be very draining, Ra warned the parents that this could only be done once, and that he would not have the strength to save all three of them. Not caring about their own lives as long as Kyle lived, the parents allowed Ra to "do whatever is necessary to save our son." Ra touched Kyle's chest with the tip of his beak, imbibing some of his power within the boy, literally merging phoenix DNA within Kyle's own body. Because of this, Kyle gained a tatoo on his chest of a phoenix rising and he gained a portion of Ra's near-immortality, causing the regeneration that Kyle has today. The regeneration wiped the sickness clean from Kyle's body, and gave him a new life. Kyle's parents arrived back home, telling no one except for their closest friends, the neighrboing family that lived next door. The neighbors took Kyle in and raised him as their own, and Kyle bonded with their own son James. Less than a month later, Kyle's real parents succumbed to teh disease, but Kyle was too young to be able to comprehend all of this. As he grew older, Kyle's wings began to develop, and he began exhibiting his powers, something that his adoptive family had been warned of. When Kyle was old enough, he was told the true story of his birth parents (he'd always known he'd been adopted). When Valentine unleashed hell on earth with the demons, Kyle was separated from his adoptive family, and he hasn't seen them since. Being gifted with the ability to use a small portion of the Phoenix Language, Kyle crafted his sword and gun from spare parts he collected in the surrounding area, and then he set off for New York City, hoping to find survivors in what used to be a more densely populated area. Because he shares Ra's DNA, Kyle is, through a technicality, the next hair to the throne, should Ra die, although Kyle feels that he is not Ra's true son, due to Ra not being a birth parents of his.

He travelled for many miles until reaching New York City, right at the time when several members of the resistance were cornering Taylor. Kyle decided to wait and watch, and after Taylor left, he was questioned briefly before deciding to join them. He has quickly proven himself to be a valuable asset and a talented fighter at such a young age.