Who Is Kai? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Kai is a In the Public Domain comic book character, with over 55 comic issue appearances. Character from The Snow Queen by H.C. Andersen. With a shard of troll mirror in his eye, he can see the evil in men.

Who is Kai?

Origin Kai is a character from the story "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen . In the original story, a shard of glass from a demon's mirror becomes lodged in his eye as a child, causing him to see only the evil in people, and none of the good. It even made him turn on his neighbor girl Gerda . This causes him to go willingly with the evil Snow Queen, whom as a result of the shard, he finds beautiful. Major Story Arcs Fables In the Fables universe, Kay is older, living in the Mundane World, but apart from Fabletown . Its unknown whatever happened to his childhood friend Gerda. He is first seen when Bigby Wolf approaches him to have a look at the newly arrived Red Riding Hood (as he can see any misdeeds in a person's history simply by looking at them) but finds Kay blind, as he gouges out his eyes every few years because seeing only people's darkest sides leaves him miserable. When Beast becomes sheriff after Bigby resigns the post, he calls on Frau Totenkinder to grow a pair of eyes for Kay, so that he can use him to discover traitors.

Key facts

Kai is of human origin. The character is published by In the Public Domain. With 55 recorded issue appearances, Kai ranks among the most featured characters in comics.