Season One

Cardina Lu was not a good or popular person. She grew up without friends, her father had killed himself, her sister left home with his passing, and her mother tuned out. Despite that fact, Cardina survived and graduated high school top of her class. After high school, she began looking into ways to bring her father back.

She found Remira Thorn, who taught her all she needed to know. With Remira’s help, Cardina brought her dead father back to life by filling his corpse with machinery. The act got her marked by a demon for a ritual she was to be a sacrifice in at the hands of her sister. When trying to escape the ritual, which enhanced her greed, Cardina got in a fight with Remira, kidnapped people and experimented on them, turned her base into a giant trap house, and turned her mechanical father into a death monster--also bearing the curse.

Cardina managed to kill one member of her sister’s party, but unluckily for her it was the one person who could come back from the dead apparently. Cardina got shoved into stasis, and stayed there for almost an entire year--only removed twice and once was to ritualistically remove the mark from her and free her from the curse--before she found herself ejected back into the world.

Season Two

She was returned to the world with her father’s disembodied hand. After some quick searching she found she had been declared dead, and thus lost all of her bases and hideouts. Cardina moved in with her sister since she seemed to not want her dead.

Six years later, Cardina was wrapped up in a death game that she wasn’t even meant to be in. She worked as the team’s medic and used her inventions to disable enemies. Most fights, while bloody for everyone else, went well for Cardina herself. One fight in particular didn’t go well for Cardina though. She eliminated a man who could regenerate endlessly from any level of death or destruction. With the temporary removal of the man, Cardina herself was removed by the curse upon him. She along with two of the others on her team had been shoved into their own person Hells. Cardina was trapped in a room that was entering stasis. There she spotted all her other teammates frozen, including the one person who had been kind to her on her team, Damien Finch. After attempting to leave and failing, Cardina sat down next to the frozen facsimile of Damien, held his hand and reassured him that everything would be okay. It would end eventually. As she settled in for the freeze, she was shown what to say by writing on the wall. Realizing she needed to say the words, Cardina admitted to her faults and her need for the other’s help. Unfortunately for her, by releasing the curse on herself and her companions, the cursed man died. With his death, he placed the memory of his attempted escape from the ranks he was a part of and his own sister’s death. The memory haunted Cardina and forced her to learn some perspective.

Cardina was reluctant to learn the lesson and tried to have her teammate, Aiden, wipe the memory from her head. Regardless, her new consideration of other’s feelings to some degree remained. She made a deal with Aiden that she would help him save his brother as long as it didn’t kill her.

Cardina recruited Remira to help her find a way out of the death game they were trapped in. Remira obliged. Remira traced the game back to Loki, and led them to his location. In the process of helping them change the rules of the game to no longer be to the death, Remira was petrified. With saving her life from the game, Remira gave Cardina an instrument. A cage to trap a god. Anything could be contained within it, and it would only work for her. Cardina struggled with why Remira would give her such a thing, and vowed to find a way to talk to them again.

In the end, Cardina got to use the God Cage. She and her companions trapped Dionysus, the mastermind behind the game. The game was ended, and her companions were saved. Unfortunately, it triggered his true plot. Her group was instrumental in triggering a war with the Angels.

The Angels had apparently come to Earth at some point after the gods had already been ruling it. The Angels harvested human souls instead of letting them return to the natural cycle of the Earth, and caused a conflict that drove all gods to destruction or damnation where they were labeled as demons. At the catalyst for this 9 year war that would ensue and decimate life as was known before, Cardina and her companions were offered a choice, to stay on the surface and to fight and possibly die or to work under a god and be ensured protection. Cardina chose to work under Loki after a long conversation about benefits and dental plans as a researcher for the gods. She and Loki had a similar interest in undoing the petrification of someone close to them.

Post Season Two

Her research went well with the advanced and magically imbued technology in Hell. Cardina was finally able to work with technologies on par with her own knowledge. Everything was going well, until she noticed some changes to her physical form. Her teeth had become sharp as daggers, and her fingers began to turn red and develop claws. Other humans who had sheltered from the war in Hell experienced similar changes. The demonic mutation she underwent was due to the environment causing the rapid evolution of her form. Once she discovered this, she rushed to move out of Hell.

Above the surface, she made progress on her research and managed to free Remira from their petrification. While they still were made of wood, they were able to move and talk. Cardina and Remira are now working together on ways to continue to undo the effects of the curse and experiment with ways to attempt to undo the demonic mutation.