My Projects I've Made: Mortal Kombat - revisiting my OC : Kalliste

This is Kalliste. My OC for Mortal Kombatt 11 speicifally. Early portrait, she has had since been touched up.

Name: Kalliste

Race: Outworlder (Experimented Mortal)

Affiliation: Formerly Shang Tsung, currently aligned with Shao Kahn’s court

Age: Appears early 20s | Actual age unknown due to magical augmentation

Role: Assassin | Sorcerer’s creation | Shao Kahn’s court member

Personality:

Quiet, observant, and emotionally repressed. Kalliste is strange, a little detached, and often misunderstood. There’s a haunting presence to her—a subtle madness underneath the surface. Raised without real family, she was molded by Shang Tsung into a living weapon. Though capable of violence, she’s more curious than cruel, with a dry wit and a tendency to mask her discomfort with sarcasm or silence. She’s introspective, introverted, and socially stunted, unsure how to handle affection or attention—especially from someone like Kollector.

Appearance:

Kalliste has platinum blonde hair with a streak of silver running through the left side—where dark magic has corrupted part of her body. Her left arm, shoulder, and part of her face are veined with a black-and-silver mottling, reminiscent of twisted birthmarks or magic-burn scars. Her eyes are heterochromic: one a rich blue, the other pitch-black. She wears dark, concealing clothes layered in cloth, leather, and straps to obscure her mutated side. Her figure is lean, and her movement graceful but cold—like a ghost trained to kill.

Abilities:

Dark Soul Infusion: Shang Tsung implanted fragments of Netherrealm magic into her, granting her destructive magical bursts, soul-siphoning strikes, and dark energy manipulation.
Shadow Step: Brief teleportation through shade or mist.
Serrated Claws: She can form claw-like blades from her corrupted arm.
Pain Tolerance: High resistance to pain due to her conditioning and magical alteration.

Backstory Summary:

Kalliste was a street orphan in Outworld, taken in by Shang Tsung not out of mercy, but as an experiment. He infused her body with dark magic, sculpting her into a living weapon. She became his silent assassin, shaped by obedience and emptiness. Now part of Shao Kahn’s court, she is watched with suspicion—but also fascination. Kollector, in particular, has taken a disturbing interest in her. For the first time, Kalliste finds herself being treated not as a weapon—but as something precious. And she’s not sure if that’s better… or worse.

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