Kula Diamond

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Kula Diamond is a female video game character who features in The King of Fighters.

Biography

Kula Diamond (Japanese: クーラ・ダイアモンド, Hepburn: Kūra Daiamondo)

She was kidnapped by NESTS at a young age and was apart of the Anti-K program; an experiment that alters the user's DNA to enable them to control ice. As a side effect of her surgery, her mental state has been turned back to that of a child.

NESTS orders Kula to exterminate the cartel's traitor, K' during the tournament. Despite the fact that their subject was a mindless puppet with no sign of emotions aside from being an innocent young girl. This was because the NESTS cartel was not willing to repeat the same mistake they made with K'. Therefore, NESTS created an android called Candy Diamond, who would monitor Kula's behavior and assure that Kula would accomplish her missions, providing assistance in battle if she was needed. NESTS also assigned two of their top agents namely Diana and Foxy to supervise and prevent any sort of betrayal by Kula. During the midway point of the Tournament, she freezes an arena, trapping K' and his team. She is often ordered by either Diana or Foxy to exterminate K'. The two fight, and K' came out the victor, forcing her to retreat. Later, before Zero could fire a second shot with the Zero Cannon, Kula and Candy destroys it while in orbit. This causes them to be caught in the blast and falls head-first to Earth, but Candy sacrificed herself to save her beloved sister.

The following year, NESTS orders Kula to enter KOF 2001, along with Foxy, Ángel, and K9999, in the hopes of eliminating all of their enemies. When the K' Team went to the NESTS space base after winning KOF 2001, Foxy was attacked by Ángel and K9999, critically wounding her. The two reveals to Kula that they were tasked to eliminate Kula and Foxy as the cartel sees the two as potential traitors. Kula escapes the two, and heads to the NESTS space base to find answers. After NESTS's destruction, she allies herself on friendly terms with her target, K' and his companions, understanding that both their lives were ruined by NESTS. Whip affectionately refers to her as the 'little sister' of the group.

Overview

Personality and attributes

Her official nickname was the Ice Doll (アイス ドール).

Before being a killer, Kula is a child. While working for NESTS or for Diana and Foxy, she would not fail to kill anyone she finds unworthy. During her time with NESTS, her feelings were repressed, as she was portrayed as a cold girl executing her mission. She has since been defrosted into being more childish as of late.

Kula tries hard to establish herself as a humane person, so people dud not look at her as if she is some kind of weapon. She doesn't use her powers to her full extent so that she doesn't kill anyone by accident, because she fears that it would make her go back to her previous ways, so she prefers close combat instead; Kula is usually worried about her foes upon defeating them at times.

Despite being this sweet innocent girl, she tends to have some anger management issues. They are mostly the results of people either talking down to her, underestimating her, or reminding her of her origins and calling her a weapon. She also gets angry whenever she sees flames.

Powers and abilities

Her powers were a manipulated form of Kyo Kusanagi's pyrokinesis, instead being altered into ice powers as a foil to the flames. It is also important to note that especially because of her altered Kusanagi genetics, she is not a descendant of the Kusanagi clan, and thus, has no control of the family heirloom, nor the authority/ability to seal Orochi if necessary. Kula has an impressive control over ice. When using her powers, Kula's hair becomes blue and her eyes turn magenta. When not in use of her powers her hair is strawberry-blonde and eyes are blue. Also, when her powers are active, she is surrounded by an aura of cold air that constantly swirls around her. Her ice powers are strong enough to freeze and shatter a space station made of steel, which means she can lower down the temperature around her as low as minus 200 °F.

Kula can create crystals of ice in her hand that could momentarily freeze her opponent, but its main use is to absorb incoming projectiles.

Kula can create ice spikes around her hands and freeze her hair, making it become dangerous pointed spikes. She can also embed her attacks with freezing cold air instead of ice, which she uses for her anti-air attack.

Kula can transform the air around her into ice, damaging anyone except herself, in range. This power is shown to full extent when she first appeared in KOF 2000, when she was able to freeze the entire stage.

Kula has control over her ice even when she has already used it on her opponent. She can completely freeze her opponent from quite a distance by encasing him/her in huge crystal of ice then shatters her ice crystal from a distance, dealing huge amount of damage to her opponent.

She has high flexibility, which allows her to kick high and with ease, so she can use her skates to their full extent. Kula is very acrobatic and agile, mostly relying on her speed and ice powers rather than brutal strength, though she still can concentrate her strength on a single hit. Some of her move can send characters as big as Chang Koehan flying across the stage. She also employs the help of her friends, Foxy, Candy and Diana, primarily the latter.

Notes

• Kula Diamond was created by SNK where she featured in the setting of The King of Fighters universe.

Appearances

• The King of Fighters 2000:

External Links

• SNK Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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