PRT Threat Assessment: Keiga (Patreon)

Profile shot of Keiga, circa 2007

Cape Name: Keiga

Civilian Name: Chiyo Wang nee Yoshimoto

Alias: Hydro Dragon, Tide Star

Disposition: Government Official

Location: Historically, primarily around the Japanese Archipelago. Of late, the Western Mediterranean and Mid-Atlantic

Date of Birth: October 2nd, 1979

General Information: Born to middle-class Japanese Office workers, Chiyo Yoshimoto triggered when she failed her college admission exams. She gained water manipulation powers that were on the lower end of the scale, as those tend to be. She was recruited into the Sentai, the government-sponsored state team of the Japanese Constitutional Monarchy. She served for two years as a cape, before the Leviathan attacked Kyushu and was present for the first Endslaying. 

Shortly after this, Keiga was one of the first capes to swear loyalty to the Raiden Shogun. Initially, she continued to serve as a mid-level cape, but had a notably close relationship with Kenta Wang, better known as Mushu. After approximately a year and a half of courtship, Chiyo married Keiga at the Wisteria Wedding, and her life was changed forever.

Speculation as to just what exactly the Raiden Shogun did to Chiyo Wang is still hotly debated, but a few things are clear. Prior to the wedding, Chiyo possessed no Changer powers, and was rated at best as a Blaster 3, Shaker 3. During the wedding, the Raiden Shogun performed a ritual that imbued Chiyo with the Heart of Leviathan, which seemed to be the remains of the Leviathan itself. Chiyo was physically transformed, gaining horns and pointed ears, as well as a staggering boost in power.

This display, along with a few other factors, resulted in the cementing of Archon Theory as the general explanation of how Visions appear, as this was the Raiden Shogun clearly taking what had once been an ordinary parahuman and granting them powers on the level of the most powerful capes in the world, and indeed, on the level of an Endbringer or even, some argue, an Archon. 

After her marriage, Keiga became one of the Japanese Bakufan’s most prominent and powerful capes. She assumed co-leadership of the Tenryou Commission, and became one the most influential and powerful members of the Japanese government. Overnight, this apparent nobody became an absolute nightmare. 

She is also suspected to somehow be the source of Hydro Visions, as she was the first to manifest and wield Hydro Elemental Energy. 

She has a daughter with her husband, Bailu Wang, who has her own entry.

Addendum: This has been disproven with the emergence of Focalors. Keiga is not an Archon, though she continues to wield power on a similar level. She has been classified as a Dragon level threat, along with her husband, Thressa Richter, Farasha, █████ █████, and ███ ███████.

Personality: Keiga has been described as motherly and warm to those around her, particularly her own family and Ami Raiden. To her enemies, she is a stern foe, though she has been observed to grant mercy to those who surrender to her. In negotiations, she is as intractable as the sea, though not without reason and empathy. She tends to be the most approachable and polite of the Japanese high officials, though those who make the mistake of threatening her daughter or those under her protection will meet a swift and terrifying end. 

Classifications: Brute 7, Mover 6, Thinker 8, Blaster 7, Shaker 10+, Striker 6, Changer 9 Trump 5

Brute 7: Keiga is incredibly durable and has a massive healing factor. In her clashes with the Endbringers, she has proven to be able to weather blows from them for extended periods before she needed to withdraw, and even then her healing abilities ensured no lasting damage. Notably, her healing factor can be passed on to others by summoning rainstorms that have healed entire battlefields of injuries. She can also survive the depths of the ocean, having been tracked multiple times at the bottom of the Narukami trench, and indeed in the Marianas Trench. The period of time she can survive at such depths appears to be indefinite. 

Mover 6: Keiga is capable of flight matching a passenger jet in speed, though she has never been observed flying above sonic speeds. The water, however, is another matter. Keiga has been clocked at what were thought to be impossible super-sonic speeds in water, matching and exceeding the Leviathan in this area. 

Thinker 8: Keiga seems to be able to monitor all activity over absolutely massive amounts of water. She has responded to distressed ships from hundreds or even thousands of miles away, while submerged and completely out of radio contact. She also seems to have a limited form of precognition, which has also been commonly observed in those who practice what is called “Hydromancy.” This is not the predictive precognition of parahumans, but rather the more mystical fate reading that as of yet, is unexplained. 

Blaster 7: Keiga can shoot forth jets of water that can cut steel with ease, and sustain those jets for minutes at a time. She appears to have broad scale hydro-genesis powers thanks to her control of Hydro Energy. The sheer weight and volume of water at the pressures she can produce is incredibly deadly, and it is an aerial threat as well. Generally speaking, one should not ever expect to find Keiga lacking for ammunition, and most barriers are ineffective against her. 

Shaker 10+: Much as the Leviathan could inundate entire coastlines and create massive tsunamis, Keiga can do the same, but with the added hazard that she can spontaneously create water where there was none. She has been known to summon forth rainstorms that produced enough water to be measured in hectares. Keiga is a serious existential threat not just to coastal regions, but anywhere that is even mildly vulnerable to flooding. 

Striker 6: As a massive dragon, Keiga is incredibly dangerous. Her blows are strong enough to level buildings, but they are not purely physical. Her attacks are imbued with Hydro Energy, which means she can generate elemental reactions. She is especially dangerous when paired with her husband, or worse, a Pyro wielder. She has hit hard enough to damage endbringers with just her claws, and should not be underestimated. 

Changer 9: Like all those classified as dragons, Keiga can assume the form of a massive draconic beast. In this case, a traditional Eastern Dragon of a length of up to 90 yards long. She is not as bulky as her husband, nor as large as Farasha’s draconic form, but she is still bigger than the original Endbringers, matched by only the Alpha Behemoth and Apep in size. She resembles an aquatic serpent with smaller legs and pink, stag-coral shaped horns. Despite lacking wings, she is fully capable of flight. 

Trump 5: Calling Keiga’s abilities mere Hydrokinesis or Hydrogenesis is, unfortunately, a gross simplification. She has broad powers over Hydro Energy, to the point where she was a potential candidate for the source of Hydro Visions. She can command water and those who wield it with a degree of power only matched by the other Dragons and indeed, the Archons. This includes manipulating elemental reactions and the powers of those who use Hydro to a degree that is hard to quantify. Troopers and capes alike are warned not to use water-based attacks or abilities on Keiga, as she could very easily turn them back on the wielder or shut them off entirely. 

Recommended Strategies: As a Dragon level threat, Keiga is frankly too much for anything short of the Protectorate’s best to handle. PRT troopers are expected to clear the area of civilians and take precautionary measures only. Hydro Vision holders are cautioned against engaging her directly but would be required to counter her own Hydro Powers to protect teammates. Evacuate civilians and enact Endbringer protocols. That is the best you can do. 

Keiga is expect to turn immediately hostile should the Raiden Shogunate become hostile in turn. Troopers are NOT to harass Keiga, but even more so, not to threaten Bailu in any way, shape, or form. You would be better off attacking the mother dragon directly than harming her child. 

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We have figured out what is creating the dragons. Unfortunately, we are going to need to coach this in religious terminology, as it’s the best analog we have for now. Dragons are Divine beings imbued with Authority over an element and granted an Aspect of reality over which they reign supreme. This is done by an Archon, with Kusinali being responsible for the Anemo, Pyro, and Dendro Dragons, the Raiden Shogun the Hydro and Electro Dragons, and the Tsaritsa the Cryo Dragon. Keiga is the Aspect of Restoration. Particularly when it comes to Justice. She may be a healer at heart, but sometimes, destruction has to come before the healing can begin. 

Since the reveal of Focalors, Keiga has spent more and more time in France. It is uncertain if she would side with Focalors and the EU against the Raiden Shogunate, but she seems increasingly to be loyal to Focalors herself. This explains a great deal of her behavior in years prior. 

It should be expected that collaboration between the Archons is inevitable, especially when it comes to the Dragons. We already saw this with Farasha, and Keiga’s action make ever more sense if viewed through the lens of a pan-archon alliance. We are still figuring out where the Tsaritsa and her traitor dragon fit into this, but given his nature, he is explicitly hostile to us.