Riley

Riley keeps her dark hair cropped short and a little unkempt, with eyes nearly as dark to match. Her wardrobe leans practical for fieldwork, a snug jacket or armored top paired with sturdy pants and boots. Her frame reads as squarish and solid, a build that seems to suit the unusual strength she carries.

A somber air hangs over Riley, yet she genuinely looks out for the people close to her, Jane above all, throwing herself between her friend and Ka-Hor without hesitation. Having grown up with her gift, she is quick to bristle at contempt for women, and she fired back sharply the moment Ka-Hor sneered at her sex.

Riley's early years go largely unrecorded, save that she descends from a maternal line carrying quiet gifts of strength, able to shift weights beyond an ordinary person's reach. In 2023 she and Jane uncovered Ka-Hor's temple, forcing their way in only to find themselves trapped. Deeper inside lay the corpse of Jane's father, and Ka-Hor stirred back to consciousness, immediately dismissing the pair because he required a male vessel. Riley branded him sexist for it. Their argument was cut short when Invincible, storming through Egypt in a fog of grief, kicked up a sandstorm that sealed all three inside once more.

Months later, during the Invincible War, a clash between the Immortal and a malevolent Invincible variant cracked the tomb open. The variant briefly resisted Ka-Hor's grasp and fled, and the gap he left let Riley haul a badly weakened Jane out into the desert, her own endurance keeping her upright. On her way out she scorned Ka-Hor as a misogynist the ancients had rightly imprisoned. Later still, Riley led Invincible back to the tomb, but Damien Darkblood and Satan yanked him down to Hell before Ka-Hor could seize him. Out of patience after so many misses, the spirit finally took Riley herself, stunned as she was that he could have done so all along, and at last escaped his prison, grumbling that he now had to cross the sands on foot.