Medusa was KNIFE's second in command. She was also a former scientist and test subject for the Immortality Research Center. During the destruction of the project, she was recruited into KNIFE.
Appearance[]
Medusa was an attractive young woman with wavy blonde hair and pale yellow eyes. She wore a white dress shirt and a black high-waisted mini skirt.
During the events in the Immortality Research Centerafter for a while afterwards, she had long straight hair and wore a lab outfit while employed. Before the start of the series, it seems she had permed her hair, changing it from straight to wavy.
During Chapter 100 Medusa is seen as a man, he has much shorter wavy hair and a male figure.
Personality[]
In the past, she was kinder and morale, during the second massacre in the IRC she wanted to protect Orca from Baekmorae. She also tried to act as a good parental figure during Orca's childhood. Medusa was also never rude to Baekmorae in the past but this may have been out of fear, she also showed fear and disgust when she found out he was in love with Raptor, who was a child at the time. Currently, she is far more immoral and evil than before.
She gets pleasure out of mocking and belittling her opponents and is shown to only truly care about herself.
Some fans theorize that she could be a sociopath due to her personality. However, this is never explicitly stated in canon and might not be intentional.
Background[]
In her mid-20s, she joined the Immortality Research Project as a test subject for money, later becoming a researcher in exchange for more money. The experiments they put her through gave her a superhuman body, the power of fiber control, and a snake inside her stomach which she can bring out at will. When the lab was invaded, she survived both Raptor's and Baekmorae's - however, in Baekmorae's case, while shielding a young Orca, Medusa and Baekmorae made a deal where he kept her and Orca alive so he would have people to help him achieve his goals.
During the Children's Day Special the trio hang around the ruins of the IRC, where it is assumed they stayed as Baekmorae visited Raptor, Medusa is in the background supervising Raptor and Orca playing, this moment is where she learns that Baekmorae was in love with Raptor.
She is later seen relatively the same, presumably a few years later when Orca was a bit older. This time she asks Baekmorae to help her give Orca a gift for Christmas, next she is reading a story about Rudolph to Orca, which Orca is impressed by Santa's skills. Orca is later given gift for Christmas, inside a toy. Medusa is seen in the background encouraging him to open it up, and mistakenly assumes Orca's tears of fear are tears of joy. Three weeks earlier Orca chose between two toys, and Baekmorae and Medusa got him the latest edition of the toy.
At some point before or after Christmas, Medusa meets Songha and comments that his long hair is attractive, this causes Orca to get jealous and he grows out his own hair.
Story[]
Medusa was the second in command of KNIFE, though she did not participate in fights very often.
Her first fight was with Stell and Dana, where she annoyed Dana enough to the point where she could not use her powers. She then choked Stell in order to make him drop his weapon and then ran away to avoid his shockwave.
The second fight she took part in occurred after Baekmorae was captured. She released a gas inside the SPOON building that caused everyone inside to temporarily lose their abilities. She, Songha, and Orca then fought Guineung only to be overpowered.
She then fought with Rona until Baekmorae appeared. Baekmorae managed to bait Naga into "accidentally" destroying the building, allowing KNIFE to escape.
At the end of the series, she is being interrogated by the Winged Family, and they state that Orca was looking around before he was killed, and Medusa might be the reason as she had a Perfection that allowed her to see through other people's eyes. The Winged family imply that Orca was trying to warn Medusa about the area, but they ask why she stayed despite knowing, they comment on her doing the same at the IRC lab where she protected Orca and telling her it was because she bonded with Orca during their time there along with other lab elements. Medusa corrects them, and tell them that they were putting words in her mouth, as she says she worked there for money, and then moved onto her bond with Orca, which was true, but it was so he would not kill her when he broke out, and her actions were her choice.
The Winged Family offers Medusa a chance to live a regular life as long as she saved more people than she killed, but Medusa refuses. Later it is implied it is possible she felt regret for getting Orca killed or for making a strong bond with him.
Powers & Abilities[]
Cloth Control[]
Medusa is able to freely control fabric to hold someone down. The strength of the controlled fabric is strong enough to remain intact even when a force equivalent to that of a truck pulls on it. This power can even tie down someone as strong as Orca.
Venomous Snake[]
As a result of undergoing human experimentation, Medusa has a snake living inside her body. She uses it to deliver the "kiss of death" when in close range, where the snake comes out and bites the person. The snake is shown to a separate living entity instead of another part of her, as when she spoke with it in her mouth, the snake had shed a tear and she apologized to it.
Enhanced Body Capabilities[]
She possesses a great deal of physical strength, as shown by her being able to strangle Stell with a single hand and easily managing to trap a super-strengthless Dana. This ability seems to have been gained through the experiments as well, though it is unclear whether they were obtained before or after joining KNIFE. She is good at jumping to exereme heights as a result.
Relations[]
Baekmorae[]
They got along well in the past, but Medusa's opinion of him went down after discovering his love for Raptor. Besides disliking this love of his, it is also likely she dislikes him because of his irrationality and impulsiveness. Baekmorae does not particularly mind this dislike since, in the end, she was still helping him.
Orca[]
Medusa acted like a mother towards Orca as a child, although Orca ended up liking her romantically. Now, she is fond of him but is not romantically interested in him, making his crush one-sided. She is thought to have felt regret for allowing Orca to get killed at the end. She does not flirt with Orca or compliment Orca's appearance because she does not recognize him as a man due to knowing him when he was still a child.
Dana[]
Dana is Medusa's type, a fact that the rest of KNIFE find weird. They often fight each other since Medusa is the only person who can get Dana angry enough to lose her powers. Not much is known about how Medusa truly feels, though she did once comment on the fact that Dana is a "handsome woman", and that she would have been "all over" her if Dana was a man. This carries over in Chapter 100, where he spies on Dana through binoculars.
Stell[]
When fighting him she tries not to harm him, because Baekmorae would be mad at her for hurting his brother-in-law if it is believed he ends up marrying Raptor.
Trivia[]
- The reason Medusa looks so young despite being around her 40s is because she makes Sewol take her age. She does this because she cares a lot about her looks and hates having wrinkles.
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