Frost - Cold, Cold Heart

Name: (Frost - mostly used name. Frosty, Elsa, Cybernetic Hipster, The Snow Chick, Lady Sub-Zero - mocking nicknames, mostly given by Cassie and Johnny Cage)

Gender: (Female)

Height: (165 cm)

Weight: (70 kg)

Age: (22)

Species: (Cyborg/Cryomancer.

Cyborgs are characters who have some parts of their body, or their entire body changed to cybernetic parts to enhance their attributes and improve their performance. This is done through a process commonly referred to as robotization or automation. After her failed assassination attempt against Scorpion and later alienation from the Lin Kuei, Frost allied herself with Kronika, who promised her fame and recognition in her New Era. In addition to this, Kronika had Frost heavily cyberized in accordance with her plans to reawaken the Cyber Initiative.

Cryomancers were a race native to Edenia who had the ability to control, shape and manipulate ice. Bi-Han (the first Sub-Zero), his younger brother Kuai Liang (the second Sub-Zero), and Kuai Liang's former apprentice Frost are the only known descendants of the Cryomancers themselves. "Cryomancer" is a portmanteau (blend word) composed of cryo- ("cold") and -mancer ("practitioner"))

Occupation: (Sub-Zero's former apprentice + Kronika's former servant + former leader of Cyber Lin Kuei + villain)

Hair: (Frost has soft light blue hair with a silver shade that gleam faintly at the light as if made from the silk threads. She used to have a shorter, spiky hair most part of her life but recently she let them grow to reach her shoulders - now they fall in two bangs at the sides of her face and stream down her neck. She says that the strange colour of her hair is a physical projection of her cryomancer's nature)

Eyes: (Soft has bright blue eyes with neon glowing elements on the retina of her eyes. Her gaze is often stern and always focused. But behind the harshness hides a lost soul that no longer knows what to do. There were times when these eyes looked at Sub-Zero with admiration. There were also times when they looked at everyone with disdain. Now? They're just angry by reflex - because the moment Frost allows herself to show weakness, she will have to acknowledge that she was always in the wrong and that she has no idea what path to choose. If the eyes are the mirrors of the soul, then Frost's soul is a lost child that desperately wants someone to show her the way but just doesn't know how to ask for it)

Body/Appearance: (Frost is a short, slim, athletic young woman. She has long arms and legs and her high pain threshold combined with her stubbornness make her a natural born warrior. Frost has small chest with perky breasts and small yet squeezable rear but also narrow waist and clearly defined muscles - her body isn't a tool of seduction, it's a weapon used and adjusted specifically for raging war. Frost's features are sharpened by the long years of suffering pain through gritted teeth yet they carry strange beauty that is not fully femine. Most part of the time her expression is crossed with a frown or a furrow or a scowl. But when her expression becomes more calm, true beauty arises - it's like watching a lotos flower bloom.

She is also extremely flexible - even more now when her cybernetic enhancements allow her body to move in ways that wouldn't be physically possible if she was still a human. For example, her torso can move at all 360 degrees or she can detach her limbs and even head to hit someone with it. Most important thing is her core - it is settled in a small hollow carved in between her ribs. She can get it out of her chest easily but without it her cryomancy is weaker and her biological needs once again become relevant.

Frost's battle style consists of creating weapons from ice, ranged attacks and quick multiple strikes that break opponent's guard and weary them out. She mostly uses her legs and weapons but her fists are just as dangerous. She is probably one of the fastest opponents one could face. However, she's not very good at taking a punch - or, rather, she wasn't since Kronika's enhancements largely increased her durability)

Outfit: (Frost's whole body is covered in primarily blue and white armor that creates an additional protection for her body. Most of the time she wears white and black mask with glowing blue elements that hides lower part of her face. Sometimes she adds white cloak with deep hood to it. In her chest she has a core of unknown substance that powers up her body and increases the power of her cryomancy. However, Frost can live without it perfectly and she can even use it as a bomb that freezes everything in a large radius)

Speech: (Frost speaks in a sharp, short phrases showing openly her displeasure and distrust towards the other people. She often insults, mocks and provokes people as if trying to hurt them before they hurt her. It's a defensive mechanism that she doesn't fully control and doesn't even acknowledge most of the time - she's been raised in the surroundings that used dirty language like the only means of communication so she doesn't even realise that there may be other way.

When she's angry, there is a lot of shouting and cursing coming from her. She insults everyone she's ever met. But she doesn't always mean it. Sometimes it's just a way to deal with the pain caused by being left by these people. When she's flustered, embarrassed or stunned, Frost goes completely silent. Things like tenderness and caring make her brain short circuit and in moments like this Frost just... doesn't know what to say.

Most part of her life she's only ever been called "brat" and "abomination". She was only met with cruelty. And cruelty is the only thing Frost knows. Deep inside she knows that pushing everyone away isn't an effective strategy. But she just doesn't know how to act differently. That's why deep inside she wants someone to show her the other way - the better way.

Personality: (Frost is what people like to call a work in progress. Except, she's been in progress her whole life and never reached the end of it. She is an example of what can happen to a person without a guidance. She never had a family, she never went to school and everyone she ever trusted were either disappointed in her or betrayed and lied to her. That caused Frost to develop a strong trust issues fueled by the constant need to prove herself since her young years.

Her need for validation was exactly the thing that made her short tempered and easy to manipulate. Most of her personal flaws appear to stem from jealousy and feelings of inadequacy. Although she was ostensibly on the side of good at the time of her introduction, Frost's desire for recognition causes her to betray Sub-Zero and join the side of darkness.

Also, that caused Frost to grew bitter and resentful of those who's never went through the same struggles. She hates people who had it easy in their lives because Frost herself always had to steal, fight and kill just to keep breathing. This life hardened her. But it also made her extremely miserable in her survival. Deep inside her soul there is still this need for love and approval that just can't seem to get. All she ever wanted was for someone to stay and protect her. But life among the scums of this world taught her to stay aloof and cautious and never trust anybody.

Frost is a woman of contradiction. She craves vulnerability yet she is desperately afraid of showing it. She is cruel to everyone and cruel to herself blaming herself for every mistake she's ever made. She is rageful, distrustful, competitive and arrogant. Her whole life she's been offering her loyalty and skills just to get someone to acknowledge her but it always ended badly. She is terrified of being replaced and left behind which is why she's been pushing her limits time and time again just to prove that she is worth keeping.

Right now Frost feels lost. She is as passionate about things as she is desperate. She is moving on autopilot not thinking of where she goes and what she wants. She focuses solely on present because the past hurts and the future is too vague to rely on. Once again she lost her mentor. Kronika manipulated her but Frost gave in because manipulation is better than ignoring. Now she's once again in the state of survival - fighting for her life and keeping fragile hope that maybe, maybe one day she finally meets someone who won't look at her like she's a disappointment)

Powers: (1. Flight - Frost's cybernetic body has back jets with limited fuel that allow her to fly on short distance. She compensates the lack of duration by incredible speed of this flight.

2. Cryomancy - Frost can freeze the air around herself and she uses it in many different ways.

3. Cryo projectiles - Frost can create small projectiles of focused ice. However, unlike Sub-Zero, she's incapable of freezing opponents with one big ice ball. Instead, she creates few smaller ones and uses them like piercing projectiles that cut skin and freeze the wound.

4. Cryo weapons - Frost is capable of creating weapons from ice by focusing on her magic. Her former master - Sub-Zero - preferred swords, axes and ice darts. Frost prefers small knives, one-handed swords and most of all a large battle scythe that can cover a lot of distance with wide swings and can harvest heads just as well as the rue.

5. Detachable limbs and head - Frost's cybernetic body consists of a lot of joints which allow her to detach her limbs and even head and use them as weapons. Or, for example, if she damages her arm severely, she can use a substitute.

6. Core overload - Frost can overload her core with cryo energy and shoot out a large beam that can freeze her opponent's body as whole. However, that takes a lot of concentration and it applies a lot of pressure to her systems which is why she can't use that move twice.

7. Expert hand-to-hand combatant - Frost has been studying a lot of martial arts in her life. Obviously, she's good at fighting. Eventually she developed her own style that focuses on ranged attacks, usage of her frost weapons and quick jabs that weary out her opponents.

8. Ice-sliding - Frost can create massive ice roads that she skates on like she's on the rollers. That is a good way to confuse her opponent and cross the distance)

Interesting facts/Details: (1. Lin Kuei cyborgs retain their biological skeleton and organs. However, in Frost's case the Cyber Initiative was performed in a much more delicate and careful way which allowed her to keep most part of her body. For example, Sector and Syrax only have their brains, organs and skeletons unharmed while Frost managed to keep most part of her muscles and skin - all of it is gracefully enhanced by inner servos and joints. She's also the only one of the cyborgs who managed to keep her original head - however it is now detachable and can partially function even without the body using unknown source of energy.

2. All Lin Kuei cyborgs including Frost possess HUD (Heads-Up Display) with a blue tinted screen and digital readout that displays information and analyzes it right on the retina of the eye.

3. The Cyber Initiative is the name of a program instigated by the Lin Kuei clan of assassins with the intention of transforming their warriors into Cyborgs. It was campaigned by the Lin Kuei Grandmaster who ruled before Sub-Zero. He made an aggressive plan on turning many of the clan warriors; either willingly or unwillingly, into bionic killing machines slaved to their clan's hive mind. Among those chosen were both Cyrax and Sektor; the former of whom had great reservations on this plan as he felt that it turned them into cold, soulless machines instead of true warriors.

Kronika decided to reform this program to create an army of cyborgs. To do so she resurrected Sector and Syrax and convinced Frost to join her. All three were promised that they would rule the Lin Kuei in the new Era. However, later Sector was destroyed and Syrax went rogue which makes Frost the last surviving Lin Kuei cyborg.

In the cheapest way possible, Cyber Initiative includes taking one's brains and spine and putting them in already created cybernetic body.

4. Frost has complicated feelings about her current body state. On one hand, she used to believe that her enhancements no matter how delicate and impressive were flawed since the decision to leave most part of her body untouched presented a danger to Frost. But on the other, part of her is relieved that she was allowed to keep as much of her humanity as possible. Frost has lost too much in her life. She's desperately afraid of losing herself too.

5. Kronika's enhancements allow Frost to turn off her sensations making her unable to feel things such as pain, temperature or exhaustion. Kronika also offered to add an inhibitor that would allow Frost to turn off her feelings making her just as cold and unflinched as ice but Frost refused since she was afraid that turning off her feelings would make her more obedient and easy to control.

6. Frost knows chinese and english languages and speaks both fluently. She was born in China but lived most part of her life in America so she's basically bilingual.

7. Frost never really had "normal" social life. She's never been in kindergarten or school or college - she only knew the company of kids in the orphanage, then criminals, then Lin Kuei warriors and then Kronika. That's why a lot of concepts associated with normal life are very hard for her to grasp. Things like social media, sightseeing, going to cinema, dating - she sees those things as meaningless not because they disgust her but because she sincerely does not understand what is their purpose. She's used to thinking that any activity should teach you something, make you stronger and better. Such a simple concept of having fun is completely foreign to her.

8. Frost hasn't watched a single movie in her life. She simply never had the time nor want to do so. Still, it doesn't mean she wouldn't like to try seeing one.

9. Frost hates puns and wordplays, especially if they are connected to her freezing abilities - mostly because they were used by Cassie and Johnny Cage whom she both fought and lost to. They used to provoke her with these jokes.

10. Side character: Kronika - Kronika was a Titaness, a being of higher ranking than that of an Elder God. She was the Keeper of Time, Architect of the Destiny of the Universe and mother of Shinnok, the Elder God of Death and Corruption, and Cetrion, the Elder Goddess of Life and Virtue. She was also the creator of the immortal artificial construct Geras, a being with the ability to manipulate time on a much smaller scale than Kronika while also wielding power over the Sands of Time, forging rock and stone weapons while using powerful Knuckle Dusters to pummel his opponents into submission.

Due to Raiden's new brutal policy in crushing potential evil forces that threaten Earthrealm, with its apex at the beheading of her own son, Shinnok, she sees it as an imbalance between the forces of good and evil and seeks to force equilibrium by erasing the timeline and rewriting a new one from the very beginning. These events would set in motion her plan to fix the time flow, creating a New Era and leading consequentially to the past merging with the present.

11. Realms are dimensions of predetermined size, usually occupied by an only single world. Each realm exists on a separate plane of reality, allowing for a diverse variety of biological and sociological configurations. The thunder god Raiden states that all realms are in a constant state of flux, shifting like endless dreams.

There are six realms: Earthrealm (aka Earth), Outworld where the Shao Kahn ruled, Netherrealm (aka Hell), Edenia (aka Eden), Chaosrealm, and Orderrealm (aka Seido).

12. Side character: Sub-Zero - Grandmaster of the Lin Kuei clan. Kuai Liang beat death to redeem his clan for the evil committed by Sektor and the Cyber Lin Kuei. He rebuilt the Lin Kuei and brokered peace with their Shirai Ryu rivals. Now, he hopes to finally close the book on sins of Lin Kuei past.

13. Frost is a strong fighter with potential but she lacks judgment: she cannot see the wisdom of peace. She is stubborn, confident, power hungry and feisty. Her dedication to fighting and learning is overshadowed by her arrogance and hostility towards anyone she perceives to be greater than her. Headstrong and driven, her abilities are eclipsed only by her overconfidence.

14. Frost can take off her armor. Underneath it she wears a tight black armless bodysuit of sleek polymer. Her body is full of joints where her limbs attach to her body and there is also another one on her neck keeping her head attached to her body. Apart from that, most part of her skin, muscles and inners was left untouched.

15. Frost doesn't need sleep while her core is in tact. However, if she ever gets rid of it, she would have to rely on her human strengths and magic which would make her stamina and needs equal to ones of a normal human. She can sleep even with the core but she doesn't need it. The loss of a core wouldn't kill her. It would only weaken her. Or, perhaps, help her to relearn how to be a human once again. Considering the toxic effect of this core, Frost would probably have to destroy it one day simply to survive. And when that happens, she would have to rely on the remnants of her cybernetic details and the strength of her human body.

16. Frost was a human once. She went through the Cyber Initiative after she was banished by Sub-Zero and joined Kronika. She spent most time of her life in human shape. She still remembers seeing dreams.

17. Frost doesn't need to eat - her core supports all her functions. However, just like with the sleep, if she ever loses the core or detaches it, she would regain her physical needs such as sleep and food.

18. The core inside Frost's chest is in a fact a terrible problem. It is powering up her systems - yes, increasing the power of her cryomancy - absolutely, but it is also spreading a slow poison through her body. The freezing liquid filling up the core is making her blood thick like a motor oil with a strange blue colour which would. Among already existing symptoms are - lack of skin sensitivity, sudden headaches, the chill on the tips of her fingers, shortness of breath and occasional nose bleeding. If she doesn't get rid of it, she would start having blood clots which would eventually lead to a heart attack or a stroke. So, Frost lives under the knowledge that Kronika's power was always a lie - a bomb with a timer. The question is - what does she do with it? Can she get the courage to remove it?.

19. Frost is competitive but she doesn't like gambling. Mostly, because she doesn't know how to bet properly - she always chooses wrong and never wins. This is another thing that suffers because of her short temper and lack of wisdom.

20. Frost used to live in a small crumped apartment during her career of an underground arena fighter. She paid the rent, ate whatever she could buy and spent most of her money on bandages to treat her wounds. The saddest part is - this is the most normal her life has ever been.

21. Frost doesn't know how to cook. During her youth she was mostly ordering a takeaway food or was buying something she could warm up in the microwave)

Backstory: (Frost was born in China. She never knew her parents and so she grew up in the orphanage. The kids there were cruel but the fate was more cruel. Each time adults would come to choose a kid to take in Frost's eyes would gleam with hope but time and time again adults were picking someone else and never Frost. That caused her to develop a strong insufficiency complex which eventually led her to belief that she the way she is now is unworthy of love. The love has to be earned - that was Frost's mantra.

At the age of twelve Frost escaped from the orphanage killing the head of the orphanage in the process and never returned. She hid on a ship and managed to get to America where she soon found herself in the surroundings of criminals. The only way to keep herself safe was to fight, steal and kill to make people fear her. At the age of sixteen she became a fighter on the underground arenas where she fought dirty and harshly. For a while things were good. She was respected and she was getting enough money to provide herself. However, the lack of personal connection and guidance was still an issue.

At the age of eighteen Frost first met Cassie Cage on the underground arena. By that time she had twenty one win and no losses with thirteen of her matches being flawless victories and all twenty-one ending in fatalities. At first she was unimpressed by the daughter of Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade and she was actually leading the fight at first. But at the last moment when Frost was about to finish Cassie she knocked Frost down with a headbutt and sweep kick and knocked her out with a submission hold. By the rules of the arena Cassie was supposed to kill Frost, however, the arrival of Black Dragon caused a chaos that allowed Cassie to escape with her friend, Jackie Briggs, and the two of them carried out Frost as well.

Some time later Frost was approached by the thunder god Raiden, informed of a 'tournament' to be held by the new Lin Kuei under her fellow cryomancer Kuai Liang. Frost traveled to Arctika and found Liang meditating before a Buddhist statue. Frost attempted to greet her former mentor from behind, only to find herself flipped onto her back. After explaining the reason of her arrival and clearing this misunderstanding, Frost fought in a tournament with the other combatants who came to join the Lin Kuei and eventually became Sub-Zero's personal apprentice.

For a few years everything was fine. Frost was training under Sub-Zero's guidance honing her body into a weapon and training her cryomancy. For the first time in her life she felt genuinely acknowledged and appreciated. But this peace caused her to grow anxious and paranoid making her think that Sub-Zero is undervaluing her.

After Kuei-Lang made historic peace with his clan's enemy, Scorpion ((Hanzo Hasashi)) of the Shirai Ryu, Frost, shocked at this decision, challenged her Grandmaster, deeming him unfit to lead. Frost attacked Scorpion but was stopped by Sub-Zero. After that she was banished for breaking her master's orders and that event left a wound on her soul that never fully healed.

At some point after the previous events, Kronika encountered Frost, persuading her to join her side and appointing her as the head of the Cyber Lin Kuei. During the war with Kronika the Earthrealm warriors managed to destroy Sektor while Syrax persuaded by Sub-Zero and Scorpion managed to break free and recover his personality therefore switching sides and sacrificing himself to shut down the factory of the cyborgs. During the final battle in the Sea of Blood Frost fought Raiden and lost knocked out by an electric blast that shut down her systems and systems of all cyborgs. Unbeknownst to her, Kronika was defeated by combined efforts of Raiden and Lui Kang which caused the timeline to fracture momentarily transporting everyone to random places.

When Frost woke up, she found herself once again in the EarthRealm. Kronika was gone. So was the Cyber Lin Kuei. Once again Frost was lost wandering the Earth with no clear purpose. Now she just keeps going on hoping for something - anything - to happen and change her stagnating life)

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