Role-play Background: (A rather lengthy sketch of her life...) 

The Early Years:

Kavaria comes from a rather ordinary town with ordinary citizens. Her father was a ne'er do well who came and went, and then came again... lying to and stealing from everyone, including herself. Her mother was very loving, but also very weak. She was often incapacitated by her grief, or by her fears, leaning on her daughter for support. Eventually, she died, while Kavaria was still in her early teens, leaving her with only her ne'er do well father. She stayed, faithfully playing the part of the dutiful daughter, for about 2 years after her mother died. Finally, unwilling to any longer put up with her father's lies and criminal way of life anymore, she left home at the age of 16 and traveled from her hometown of Ridanya to the distant town of Mira Donair.

She pursued a career in dancing for a while, for she loved to dance, and to sing, though she could not write music herself. She traveled a few times on tour, but her main home remained in Mira Donair. After about a year she met a young male canine who she fell in love with almost at first sight. They got married a year later and she spent 4 years with him, before he was killed on the job in a mining accident. Kavaria was devastated and decided she could no longer perform on the stage. She was left with many fans, but no real friends. At the age of 22 she set off with her pack and little else to see what she could find in the world, looking for a place to belong, and mourning her losses. She caught a ship leaving Mira Donair's harbour, and never looked back.

A New Direction:

A couple of years later in her wanderings, she bumped into a furre named Krazy Katten one day, and took an instant liking to him. She thought it might be nice to have a companion in her travels, and a friend with whom to share her experiences as she explored, though she made it clear she wasn't ready for anything more than friendship. He agreed to travel with her, and they began exploring.. but before long, he took up with a very young female who seemed to have him totally bewitched almost as soon as she met him. Kavaria was rather sad to lose her companion, but was glad to see him finding happiness... until she discovered his lover was lying to him. She set out to prove it to him, for she could not stand to see him being deceived in such a manner. This, she managed to do finally. Katten left the girl and resumed traveling with Kavaria. However, she and Katten were then afraid for their lives, because the girl he had been seeing was a strong magic user. They set out to find someone who could tell them if they had any talent towards using magic and how to utilize it, as a means of protecting and defending themselves.

They very shortly encountered a wise old mage by the name of Gemini Moon. Gemini saw a lot of potential in Kavaria and her companion, so he agreed to teach them some of what he knew of the art of magic. Under his tutelage, they began to learn how to use their magical talents. Still, Krazy Katten feared that his former lover would come after them, and that they were not learning fast enough. Continuing to learn from Gemini, the two of them also joined Balamb Garden Academy, hoping for both sanctuary and additional learning in how to protect themselves.

Katten and Kavaria quickly learned the ropes at the Academy, being accepted as students and progressing as quickly as they were able to. Kavaria found that her strength lay in healing magic, while Katten seemed to be more talented with fire magic. They hadn't been at the Garden for all that long when Kavaria had a talk with the then-current Headmaster, Squall Centra one day. She had previously spoken to him and offered her help if it was needed for anything around the Garden. He always seemed overworked, and she had a real desire to help him out. Squall had eventually set her to helping keep Balamb Garden's internal computer records up to date. This day though, she was surprised to hear him say that he was planning to leave the Garden soon. It gave her a sad feeling. Although she and Katten had recently passed their SeeD exam and graduated to be SeeD, she wasn't sure if she would want to remain at the Academy with a new headmaster.

A few days later, to her astonishment, Squall came and asked Kavaria to take over as Headmaster of the Garden. It was with mixed feelings that she agreed to don this responsibility. She promised him, that she would take good care of his Garden, and all the furres in it. What followed was a time of upheaval and change, both for Kavaria and Katten as well as those in the Garden. Kavaria began a huge re-modeling project on the Garden, and Katten helped her to make the plans she had into reality. Many attacks were made on the Garden, and a few times assassins were sent directly after Kavaria herself. Through it all, Kavaria protected the Garden, and the SeeD and students protected her.

Struggling with too many Responsibilities:

There came a day though, when neither could do enough. In her office, with a student she had recently accepted to the Academy, Kavaria was attacked by a villain named Crayle and 3 of his gang. They demanded that she give them a stone, but she didn't know what they were talking about. After a brief struggle, Kavaria was knocked out, and the student, Lynalei, was killed. Crayle and his fellows made off with a brooch, which Kavaria had been wearing.

Upon awakening, she found the student and attempted to heal her, then passed out again. When next she woke, the student was simply gone. Kavaria still wonders what happened to her. It was later discovered that the stolen brooch had been mere casing for a summoning stone for a very powerful Guardian Force. It was eventually recovered by Pyrus Whitefire and Blixtion when they discovered Crayles hangout in Timber.

After many hours of study and meditation, Kavaria gained  a better understanding and knowledge of how to use the summoning stone which she had unknowingly carried with her for so many years. And she realized, after Crayle was finally defeated and another summoning stone was discovered in the ashes of his remains, that she had been given this stone for a purpose. It was up to her, to find the rest of them. Find the rest of the Guardian Forces. They would be needed. Why, she wasn't sure... but she knew that it was so. She developed a rapport with the Guardian Force she held the summoning stone for, although direct communication is almost impossible. Feeling her way through the emotions and images evoked when trying to communicate, she got some very definite answers to a few things though.

Still very much learning and searching for more information about Guardian Forces, as well as the locations of the rest of the stones, she stepped down as HeadMaster of Balamb Garden and asked her trusted friend and SeeD Pyrus Whitefire to take over this post. However, shortly following this, Pyrus' wife and children suddenly disappeared from a beach near Balamb Town. The letter sent to him at the Garden to inform him of their fate made it seem as though a Guardian Force had been responsible for this, and that they had been killed.

Pyrus himself took this hard, but seemed to be coping at first. A couple of weeks later, Kavaria got an urgent summons from Lorelai Leonhart about something she'd found out in a desolate area near Timber. Arriving at the scene via Lorelai's teleportation , Kavaria scarcely had time to examine the strange half creature half ship which seemed both fierce and forlorn all at once. Eden's gemstone, hanging from her neck, reacted immediately and in a few seconds, the huge form had vanished with, quite literally, a flash of blinding light.

Kavaria attempted to make sense of this. The next day, Pyrus Whitefire brought her something he'd found on the scene where his wife and children had disappeared. It appeared to be a fragment of a gemstone. At Kavaria's urging, Pyrus went back and combed the area to find more pieces of this shattered gemstone. When they had gathered them all together, Eden's stone reacted once again, and the fragments were melded back into a whole. Another summoning stone. This seemed to support the theory that a Guardian Force had destroyed Pyrus' family.

Kavaria was unwilling to believe this, however, and took to meditating with both stones in an attempt to ferret out the truth. After a week or so of this, she thought she had discovered the strange and mysterious events that had actually occurred, though there were many details she couldn't be sure of.

Then more strange events occurred. An imposter showed up at the Garden one night claiming to be Pyrus. Very shortly after he left Pyrus himself showed up, very badly injured and physically very much altered. Kavaria had to step up and take back the position of HeadMaster at the Garden again. Pyrus left as soon as he was well enough to travel, saying he had to seek out those who had done this to him. Kavaria gave him Ark's summoning stone to take with him, as her meditation had revealed that the Guardian Force had a desire to be with him; perhaps out of remorse for what had happened to his family, though she wasn't sure of that.

Unknown Terrors:

There followed an extremely confusing and tragic series of events. First, Garden student Chaz Belcqua attempted to attack someone inside the Garden, and had to be expelled. Next, he mounted attacks on Kavaria herself when she was in Balamb Town trying to investigate the mystery of the fish shortage. While she was leading Chaz on a merry goose chase out of town to keep him from harming anyone else, she fell victim to an ambush set by someone else and was captured.

She was taken to a cave, deep in the desolate wilderness between Timber and Deling City. Here, much to her surprise, she found Pyrus Whitefire, Crystal Hi-Kitai, and several others that she knew as well as many other furres she'd never met before, all being held captive. Some were badly injured. Pyrus, despite his dragon-strength had been unable to break free, and because the captors had removed his necklace which gave him control over his dragon form he was himself the cause of some of the injuries of those present. Kavaria immediately set to trying to work out a way to keep the rest safe from Pyrus should he happen to transform again and healing those badly injured. After two days though, she fainted into a coma for a couple of days from over-use of her magical talents. After she awoke, she learned to moderate their use... healing only what was life-threatening and attempting to save her strength. The days wore on interminably.

All the captives were taken at least once to some sort of laboratory where they were heavily sedated and some sort of experiments were run on them, then they would be roughly thrown back into the holding cell with the rest in the darkened cave. Hope was thin, but Kavaria and Crystal managed to keep everyone alive though there were injuries they couldn't properly heal since Kavaria had to save her abilities for only the most serious of wounds and... and those were all too frequent as it was. Crystal had no medical supplies or such, so could only perform the most basic of first aid on the lesser wounds.

Back in the outside world, a clone had been set in place to replace Kavaria so that her absence would go unnoticed. She didn't realize she was a clone, however. She continued everything just as Kavaria would have, and no one realized that the real individual lay worn and desolate... but stubbornly refusing to give up, in a cave. Kavaclone (to clearly indicate who I'm speaking about) was, however, not entirely well. She was tired frequently and felt sick often. When she seemed to be doing better, she went to Balamb Town one day for lunch with Krazy Katten. They ran into Blixtion, Pyrus Whitefire, and Crystal Hi-Kitai outside the Mystique's curio shop. Crystal had gone berserk and was attacking Pyrus, who was already seriously injured and lay on the ground. Blixtion was attempting to break up the fight.

Kavaclone and Katten pulled Pyrus inside the Mystique's shop to get him away from Crystal. He refused, although he was clearly dying, to allow Kava to heal him. The shopkeeper attempted to help, bringing out some herbs and bandages. Suddenly, Crystal barged in after them with Blixtion hot on her heels. Kavaria and Katten stood to shield Pyrus and the shopkeeper as the two battled through the small store. When Crystal had finally left, Kavaclone and Katten discovered that Pyrus had died. Discussing the aftermath of the battle though, the shopkeeper revealed that Pyrus had slipped her a note to give to Kavaria just before he died. The shopkeeper gave this to Kavaclone.

The note was confusing. It told her to find Pyrus, and something about tracks in Timber. Kavaria wanted to start a search immediately to try and discover why a dying Pyrus would leave her a note that told her to find Pyrus. Upon returning from Balamb Town, however, she fell ill again. Katten took her to their home nearby where she lay ill for several days. As soon as she felt ready to depart, they left immediately for Timber. They began a search, but her tiredness and illnesses only got worse. Several times she fell into a deep sleep and didn't wake for days. Finally, however, they found what they'd been looking for. In a darkened portion of the Timber tracks, covered by an archway where a road crossed over the tracks at that point, they found Pyrus' sword. With it, they found a small dragonet who seemed to come to life from the etching on the sword itself.

Kavaclone fed the dragonet, and it followed her and Katten back to the hotel, and then back to their home near Balamb Garden. It appeared to be telepathic somewhat, but only spoke to Kava, and wasn't always understandable. It directed her to go back to the shop in Balamb Town where Pyrus had died. Here, Kava discovered that Pyrus had left Ark's summoning stone with the shopkeeper, and she realized that the real Pyrus must be alive. She got back the stone from the shopkeeper and returned home to plan what to do next.

However, Kavaclone fell into a light coma again for several days. Upon awakening, the dragonet told her to go to Deling City. They left the next day, leaving word at the Garden to please send a squad of SeeD as backup if possible. In Timber, they ran into Rinoa Glasshart, who joined them in journeying to find Pyrus. Once they left Timber, they got only halfway to Deling City before the dragonet directed them off course and straight to the cave where Pyrus and all the others were being held.

There followed a fierce battle where Katten, Rinoa, Kavaclone, and the few SeeD who had been sent as backup fought off all those remaining that were holding the captives. There didn't seem to be that many there. Kavaclone was killed in the battle. Rinoa purged the drugs and chemicals that had been used to keep many of the prisoners sedated from their systems, enabling them to help in the fight. All the prisoners were released, and they retreated immediately back to Timber to recuperate and heal those injured. They travelled very slowly back to Balamb Garden. Pyrus and Kavaria, along with the others from the Academy who had been held hostage were rather weak at first and needed a lot of food and rest.

Troubled but Whole?:

Troubled by the ordeal she had endured, and unable to solve the mystery of who was behind it, Kavaria nevertheless soon settled back into her duties as HeadMaster at the Garden. She was badly shaken, though she tried not to show it. She requested that everyone involved not reveal to anyone else that she herself had been one of the captives who had been cloned. They have honored this wish. Pyrus insisted upon leaving again to go after those responsible, though she begged him not to go alone. His eyes had been permanently damaged during their stay in the cave in a way that even she was unable to heal. Eventually, Kavaria asked Rinoa, who had settled back into the Garden as an Instructor, if she would take over as HeadMaster of the Garden. Despite her inability to find those responsible for her experiences, Kavaria knew she still had to find the rest of the Guardian forces.

Rinoa agreed to this, and so Kavaria stayed another week or two to help her get settled before departing to an undisclosed location in search of more information on Guardian forces.

To be continued.... {After more of her history gets old enough for me to put it here! :p}