Candi Levens (Cataclysmic Gerosha)/Extended biography

The following is a look at Candi in terms of her family structure and details about her family life.

Education
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j130/bulldozerbegins/Ciem/Model%20matches%20for%20Ciem/th_CharoRonquilloasCandi.jpg A (significantly altered) photo of Charo Ronquillo, who looks very similar to Candi. (Presented here for demonstration purposes only.) Candi attended elementary school at Gerosha Elementary, save for a year where she had to skip the first grade and re-take it because her family was in hiding during a Meethlite raid. This explains why she was going on 20 when she graduated from Gerosha High School, in spite her reasonably high intellect. She attended college at Viron University and received a degree in forensic investigation with a special talent certification for criminal profiling.

From grandparents
Candi's maternal grandfather, Dwayne Lloyd was Black. Her maternal grandmother, Marissa Hood, was part Indo-Persian and part Black. Her paternal grandmother, Alison Ligash-Flippo, was Caucasian. Alison was of some Czech and Irish descent but mostly German and French. Candi's paternal grandfather, Steve McNolan, was Caucasian, mostly German and English, but with some Dutch. Her step-grandfather, Tobey Flippo, was Caucasian, almost pure English with some German. The DNA donor that gave Candi all her superpowers, known to her only as "Grandma Centipede," was a Phaelite-mutated species that was modeled after the Michigan Garden Centipede.

From parents
Her father, Stan Flippo, was pure Caucasian. Her mother, Shalia Flippo, was Indo-Persian Black.

History of partners

 * Any kind of contact: 5
 * Consensual contact: 3
 * Marriages: 2
 * Had children with: 2

Trivia note: Due to these statistics alone, the simulation of Candi usually ends up with the "Naughty" Reputation in The Sims 3: Generations. If simulated thoroughly enough and with resurrection mods, she will receive the "Exploring their Options" Reputation.

Traumatized early
Candi's relationship history is complicated, yet not as filled with drama and lust as the relationship histories of her sisters. Nevertheless, she is a descendant of Honeybee Samuel, and is therefore cursed with excess libido. While she has enough temperance to avoid complete hypersexuality, she is bothered by how much her sexual desires threaten to control her. Her fears are made worse by the fact that she has witnessed the effects of sexual addiction on her more-promiscuous sisters Miriam and Marina.

Her first boyfriend was a grade school crush named Don Mendoza. The two of them would be together until sixth grade. Unwilling to accept Candi's explanations of the doctrines they were receiving in Christian day schools back then, Don began harboring bitterness against God for the fact that his life was so horrible. This reached a breaking point when Don's mother died, and Don himself got involved in drugs and in a life of crime.

He also found it annoying that he was the only one of his criminal buddies whose girlfriend hadn't lost her virginity yet. Outraged, he attempted to rape Candi in a shower stall when they were in sixth grade together.

In Classic Gerosha, Don doesn't attempt to rape Candi in this fashion. However, Comprehensive Don manages to rupture her hymen. This leaves Candi severely traumatized; but she was able to fight him off before he could do any worse damage to her physically. He soon fled only to join the Hebbleskin Gang; which filled him with hatred for Candi - and left him plotting his revenge for her fighting him off.

High school rumors
Due in part to Miriam and Marina's promiscuous behavior and also due to rumors about the rape, Candi had a difficult time maintaining a good reputation in high school. She would often get confused with Marina, and was therefore alleged to have slept with 15 different boys at Gerosha High. In her junior year, after having made out with four different boys just to hush them up when they were harassing her, rumors flew that she had slept with three of them. The more she denied it, the more other students pressed her for details. She finally caved under pressure and gave a false confession to sleeping with all three. Those three had actually slept with Marina, but Candi took the fall for Marina to keep her sister from developing any worse a reputation. While the three girls would share details with each other about what was going on at school, they were picky to make sure Erin never found out the truth.

Seduction of Donte
Candi's second boyfriend was Donte McArthur, a man she knew she was destined to marry some day. She at first wanted her relationship with Donte to be completely wholesome; but her lustful side and his loneliness in life got the best of both of them. However, he initially would not go all the way with her. Though she offered herself freely to him at the age of 19. He wanted to pull out of her prematurely, doubting her choice; but didn't act quickly enough. He complained that he wanted her to retain what was left of her honor for their wedding day. She assured him that there was more to her honor than just what they'd forfeited that evening, and promised that she'd allow him on the wedding night to experiment with her doing other sexual things they would not be doing before marriage. The two got engaged at that point, but kept it a secret from Erin. The whole time, Candi yearned for the day she could make their engagement public, and begin planning her wedding day.

Raped a second time by Don
However, Donte was then captured by the Hebbleskin Gang and reported dead by the news. Believing him dead, Candi tried to move on with her life. However, her memories still haunted her. Don returned and raped Candi, also attempting her murder. Like before, she was able to fight him off. However, this time her doing so resulted in Don falling backwards into the fire he himself started, where he was very quickly burned to death and cursed Candi's name on his way down. Traumatized by the thought of being a killer, Candi fled the scene.

Interest in Jack
Candi also had a very mild-but-suppressed interest in her childhood friend Jack "Jackrabbit" Mercreek, an Apache who was Imaki Izuki's lackey and would often tag along with Imaki to visit Candi. As Jack began growing up, he became something of a ladies man; and became obsessed with seducing Candi. Unlike other men with this goal, however, he was always willing to back down if she made it clear that she had other plans.

Harassed in college
While living in exile in Viron, Candi tried to stay at the dorms. She soon became the target of a blackmail ring operated by some unscrupulous alpha-female recent high school graduates. When she would not let herself be hazed as a new member of the dorms by sleeping with the guy that the blackmail ring ladies told her to, they vowed revenge. She responded by lending moral support to another girl, who had been hazed and was feeling terrible. Candi offers to take this victimized girl to the police to file a report, but the police force is surprisingly apathetic. The two girls escape after peering around a corner to witness that the police are in cohorts with the Hebbleskin Gang.

Raped by Wayne
This causes Candi to become the target of the girls' unbridled fury, so they hire a Candi imposter to sleep with the entire football team while the girls shoot a porn video documenting the entire event, then spread copies of the video around campus in an effort to further destroy Candi's reputation. When that doesn't work, they find a rogue Phexo vampire named Wayne Norfine, and hire him to rape Candi outright. Wayne defected to the Meethlites' side in spite being created by Phaelites, and goes along with the plan. He sneaks up on Candi while she is resting, and attempts a repeat of Don Mendoza's crime. Candi fights him off too. This leads to a battle in the forest, where Candi uses the approaching sunrise to gain the upper-hand on her assailant. She realizes at this point, while Wayne burns to a crisp in the sun, that trying to report the rape to Campus Security would be a waste of time.

Marriage to Denny
Candi very quickly moves out of the dorm and gets an apartment, stating to her RA and the school that she found dorm life to be unfriendly and unproductive. She withholds details of the rape, suspecting a trap. After applying for a job at the Hazy Eighties Bowling Alley, she is ambushed by Hebbleskins and has to fight her way free. However, a stranger shows up and attacks some of the Hebbleskins with a syringe. He then order Candi into his car and drives her to safety. The stranger turns out to be Denny Levens, who would become Candi's third boyfriend and first husband. She is relieved that, in spite of all her history, he doesn't hesitate to consider her an option. Her sex life with him begins while testing the Denny pills out. They decide to have sex before she goes on the chopping block, in case she doesn't survive. After that experiment is a success, she washes up. Denny approaches her while in the shower, and she invites him inside. She considers her consensual shower sex with Denny to be an undoing of the time Don raped her in the shower. She awakes the following morning and has sex with Denny again. This leads them to a steamy week of regular sex before bed and before breakfast, before the couple decides to reconsecrate themselves and refrain from sex until married. However, Candi is unable to restrain herself after saving Denny from Gunner. The two elope as a solution to their inability to keep their hands off; and determine to make the marriage work. This leads to a honeymoon in Milwaukee, where Candi conceives her daughter Angie.

Widowhood and seduction by Jack
However, their marriage was short-lived. Denny was murdered by Musaran, leaving Candi a widow. The death of her daughter Angie only two hours after being born also leaves Candi devastated. Imaki takes Candi to the reservation for some therapy, where Jack successfully seduces her behind Imaki's back. However, Candi stops Jack from ejaculating inside of her, insisting he pull out immediately before. She admits to him that she "really wants to" give herself to him fully, but does not feel ready to (especially since she is still mourning Denny at this point.) After Imaki reveals that Donte is still alive, and Candi vows to go back to him. She makes a deal with Jack that she will have sex with him for a full week, after which point he must find someone else. Jack agrees to Candi's terms, apologizing for bringing Candi down that road.

Candi rescues Donte by destroying the Meethlite AI backvisor that had turned Jeraime Malestrom into Musaran. After Jack's week with Candi is over, she makes a trip with him to the reservation and helps him find a new girlfriend. The search turns out to be surprisingly simple, as a girl comes forward and confesses to Jack that she'd been secretly crushing on him the entire time. Candi has sex with Jack one last time as a farewell, then leaves him behind forever to pursue his new girlfriend. That new girlfriend ends up marrying Jack within a year.

Second relationship with Donte
The reunited Candi and Donte decide to resume their past relationship. On the Fourth of July in 2021, they decide to abstain from further sexual activity until marriage, as they want to get back in the habit of practicing their faith and feel terrible about having gone astray in the throes of lust.

This plan only succeeds so far, as they find themselves burning up with desire for each other. They initially planned to get married immediately following Candi's graduation from Viron University, but begin to consider moving up the wedding date when they find it harder and harder to control themselves. In order to make self-restraint easier, Candi insists on Donte not moving in with her officially until after they're married. Donte stays at Khumar's farm, though he visits Candi often.

In October of 2022, Donte is required to put himself in mortal danger with a squadron trying to take down the supervillain Cupric. Donte insists that Candi stay behind and guard Evansville while he is away, and he promises to be more careful than he was several years ago. Even so, Candi lets it be known to him that she wants him to have a child with her. They hide in the corn fields at Khumar's farm and have sex underneath the corn stalks, with Candi praying to get pregnant. However, a pregnancy test reveals her experiment unsuccessful.

Donte returns safely, and the couple try to resume their self-control. It proves more difficult for them this time around, and they occasionally slip up. By August of 2023, the couple gives up trying to restrain, and begins indulging in lust freely. Candi and Donte agree to move the wedding date up to early October, as they will never make it to her graduation without drastic measures.

They decide to resume their self-control on August 29th, after having gone an evening before of some of the steamiest sex of their lives. Donte's cancer returns, so he goes to Darius for treatment. While he is gone, the events of Ciem 2 / Ciem: Nuclear Crisis take place. It is mid-September by then, and Candi has only recently turned 24. Complications with her powers while battling Captain Aardwulf lead her to suspect she is pregnant, and a test she takes after saving the world confirms her suspicions. Candi and Donte marry in Vacaville, CA only a few days after the death of Capp Aard. It proves to be a double-wedding, with Steve marrying Miriam on the same day in the same church. Both Candi and Miriam reveal to their respective new husbands that they're pregnant.

Marriage to Donte and death
Donte had promised the Wortells that if they died, he'd adopt their son Charlie. A gay couple that had it in for Donte, Gary and Darryl, decided to contest that they were more deserving to adopt Charlie. A judge orders Donte to, in a few months, get himself into a traditional marriage. And if he cannot, the Wortell's will would be ignored and their son given to Gary and Darryl.

This provided Candi and Donte with an extra reason to get married sooner. Candi finds it unusual at first adjusting to being Charlie's new mother, especially while she is pregnant with Frank. Charlie proves to be of a large help to his new parents in taking care of his new brother.

Candi and Donte have John and Dana McArthur later in life. The couple stays married until Candi is captured and beheaded by Meethlites at the age of 53. Unlike earlier times in her life, she did not have Delusia nor Denny pills around to save her life; so the beheading proves fatal. Donte dies a short while after from the return of his cancer.

How she did things
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Candi showed little real interest in the idea of sex until she entered sixth grade. She had a boyfriend then, Don Mendoza, but didn't plan on anything serious happening since they were kids. She shared the secret with Miriam that she was interested in Don, but that she was being cautious. Miriam agreed not to tell Erin, as Erin would have assumed the worst. Don's attempt at raping her triggered a raw nerve in Candi, awakening her curse inherited from her grandfather. She fought Don off, and tried to keep the rape a secret; but she was forever changed.

When she met Donte in high school, Donte was already out of high school and doing things on his own. This is largely due to him being five years older. This made him feel awkward around Candi, as she was still a child in his mind. However, Candi was undeterred in her ambitions to become Donte's wife; and he did little to interfere with that being her goal. Candi would visit Donte's place often, and would sometimes help around his house and even pretend to be the housewife. Donte mostly tolerated it, as he knew she was good-natured much of the time. However, their inner passions eventually started getting the better of them; and they knew self-control could become an issue.

It was obvious to Donte that Candi put a lot of thought into their future together, including details about their future sex life. He found it almost alarming the way she would make exceptions for him to her own rules. She went from "nothing except kissing before marriage" to "I'll allow Donte to do almost anything." As self-conscious as she often was under normal circumstances, she enjoyed undressing around Donte and even encouraged him to watch her do so. Being a gentleman, he initially declined; but was eventually talked into it. She would normally get upset if rumors flew at school about someone seeing her naked; but decided it was okay if everyone knew that Donte had seen her naked. She even considered lifting her ban on telling Erin about it.

As her appetite for sex grew further out of control, Candi became more permissive and more desperate, until she finally seduced Donte into sleeping with her. He initially wanted to keep her hymen intact until marriage, but she then revealed to him that Don had already stolen her virginity. She did agree they needed to draw a line somewhere, so she promised him that they'd save other forms of sexual expression and future nights in bed together for their wedding day. With his willpower also weakening, he agreed for her to sleep next to him the entire night.

The loss of Donte during the events of Ciem / Ciem: Vigilante Centipede drove Candi nearly catatonic, leading to a breakdown in which she begins to teach herself masturbation techniques. These are not emphasized in the story; but are hinted at with reference to her "growing desperation." While this does alleviate some stress for her; it often leaves her feeling empty as well, indicative of what she lost. The need to replace it with real sex pushes her to be very open with Denny, who accepts her advances but has plenty of his own rules.

Different tellings of the story have different takes on what happens next. In Gerosha Prime, she hadn't known Donte at first. Still, she's not entirely balanced when she marries Denny. However, they are able to save themselves for marriage. In Despair Gerosha, a random Meethlite in the park attacks Denny. Candi saves Denny's life, and they have sex on the couch, resulting in Candi immediately sensing the loss of her virginity. In Classic Gerosha, they're able to avoid all sex play until a day after, when they elope. In Comprehensive Gerosha, it's implied that Candi makes out with Denny aggressively and delivers him a hand job just one week before their wedding. Denny returns the favor, also implied. They consummate the marriage almost immediately. Before they were married, however, Candi often contemplated fellatio on Denny. She admitted to him that she wanted to try it, and he considered the possibility. However, she only tried it with him once after they were married.

Candi's first experiments with oral sex led to her use of Philistine-brand condoms whenever engaging in any type of irregular sexual activity. Due to this, Candi also has this kind of sex with Jack and later with Donte upon getting him back. Donte is the only one she allowed to engage in this with her without some sort of protection, and it becomes something they do only a very few times before abandoning the practice entirely. This contrasts Candi with Miriam. Upon meeting Steve, Miriam would engage in the act sometimes twice a day - for years. Candi initially decided that only Donte would be allowed to attempt anything anal on her, but was caught off guard when Jack pulled a stunt on her. Since then, she made sure to let Donte pull two stunts on her, just so Donte wouldn't feel cheated due to someone else doing something with Candi that he hadn't. After their second time, Donte decided he was uncomfortable with it and abandoned it. Candi didn't mind, as it meant they could go back to the way things were.

As Candi tries to regain control of her life away from her sexual addiction, so does Donte. They decide to swear off recreational sex entirely until they are married. However, Candi then develops a potent desire to be a mother again. This drives the couple to crave parenting, and they are soon once again addicted to each other. They begin to realize they cannot handle separation from each other like they used to; and decide to move up their wedding date.

After their marriage, the couple slows down significantly in how much sex they actually have. However, they limit themselves to only traditional and procreation-beneficial forms; and find the sex they have less often to actually be more fulfilling. Over time, marriage to Donte heals the emotional scars that helped initiate much of Candi's sex craze; and she is finally able to function as a healthy adult. She fears that her wild past will show up in her children; but is relieved when her children turn out to have much stronger willpower.

Locations
What Candi lacked in terms of willingness to experiment with how to have sex, she almost made up for in terms of where. She wouldn't have anything happen at school except in the dorms, and only with Denny. When that was not an option, she decided to forsake school ground altogether. At home was her most frequent preferred location; but not her only. A few times with Donte, she'd find abandoned buildings in town to have fun in after a successful night of capturing criminals. Other unique places she has been with her men include a river-side beach, Imaki's upper room, an airplane, a barn, flying in Donte's arms over the city, and in a corn field.

Lloyd's Pharmacy statistics
According to the Lloyd's Pharmacy degrees of separation calculator, adjusted for three generations of partner history and assuming everyone but Candi is average, Candi has had 825 indirect partners. Excluding Don and Wayne and assuming rapes don't count, she has consensually gained indirect exposure to 709. A large portion of the indirect exposure in her 825 figure can be contributed to Don the Psycho, who has by no means limited himself to just Candi. In spite his lecherous reputation, Jack has only had a total of two women besides Candi his entire life, and only one of those two had been with any man before him. In spite having had previous crushes, Donte and Denny both had never actually slept with any girls before Candi. Wayne had terrorized about four different women before Candi.

As high as these numbers sound, Candi is redeemed somewhat in that her number of average indirect exposures isn't higher. Miriam, by contrast, has an average indirect exposure count of 1,037. Marina's rating is 1,604. There is some margin of error to the statistics, as is demonstrated by Reily and Ashlee. Having been faithful in their marriage to each other and having never had anyone but each other, one should safely assume that Reily would have zero indirect exposures. Instead, the calculator estimates Reily at 211 exposures. Ashlee should also be expected to have a total direct and indirect exposure count of only 1; but has acquired an exposure count of 627. This leaves the calculator with a margin of error of 419, cutting Candi's count to only 406.

Other figures that skewer the numbers include the calculator's assumption that everyone is British, with the statistical figure that a majority of Brits will have between 7 and 8 partners in a life time. Going only by Candi's direct exposures and those men's most immediate prior direct exposures in canon, Candi's indirect exposure count measures somewhere around a more conservative number of 20-30. Including every boy she'd ever kissed in school (all five of them) as a "sexual" partner along with her direct actual partners, Candi has been exposed to somewhere between 600-1,000 foreign germ cultures.

Weddings
Candi and Denny elope. Only Rev. Wilbur Brocklyn and Jessie Levens attended the couple's wedding. Their honeymoon was to Milwaukee, where they got to meet up with an old friend of Denny's from Denny's bootlegging days. The friend even allows the two access to his waterbed on the second floor of his duplex.

Candi and Donte marry ceremoniously inside a church in Vacaville. Their reception was in a nearby town in an Italian diner. It was a double-wedding wherein which her sister Miriam got married to Steve McLaine. Guests present at this wedding included Jessie Levens, Matthew Baret, Marina Baret, and Andy Baret. Khumar, Lindsay, Dolly, and Jeraime were also present.

Eric and Patti Levens, unlike Jessie, believed that Angie and Denny's deaths freed them from having any responsibility for Candi; so they refused to show up for the wedding. Reily and Ashlee were touring in Europe at the time, and didn't feel they could pull themselves away from Reily's cooking show. Donte's mother, Betty, secretly harbored Hebbleskin Gang sympathies; leading her to hate Candi and refuse to leave her nursing home for her son's wedding. She is also slow to forgive Candi for seducing Donte. Other characters declined to show up as well.

In Classic Gerosha, Tom declines to show up for the wedding because of issues protecting his girlfriend. Mike and Jeff have written Candi off and don't care. These characters don't exist in Comprehensive Gerosha, and therefore do not pose a concern.

Grandparents

 * Steve McNolan (biological, father's side)
 * Tobey Flippo (step, father's side)
 * Alison Ligash (biological, father's side)
 * Marissa Hood (biological, mother's side)
 * Dwayne Lloyd (biological, mother's side)
 * Grandma Centipede (biological via Phaelite genetic engineering, father's side)

Siblings

 * Ploribus "Darius" Philippine (half-brother, father's side)
 * Reily Flippo (brother)
 * Erin Flippo (sister, by reason of adoption)
 * Mike Flippo (brother, Classic Gerosha and earlier only)
 * Jeff Flippo (brother, Classic Gerosha and earlier only)
 * Jason Flippo (brother, Gerosha Prime only)
 * Tanya Flippo (sister, Gerosha Prime only)
 * Tom Flippo (brother, Classic Gerosha and Despair Gerosha only. Name was Vince in Gerosha Prime)
 * Miriam Flippo-McLaine (sister)
 * Marina Flippo-Baret (sister)

Classic Gerosha and earlier

 * Karen Flippo (niece, through Mike)
 * Jordan Flippo (nephew, through Mike)
 * George Flippo (nephew, through Jeff)
 * Christine Flippo (niece, through Jeff)
 * Carlos Sterbin (nephew, through Tom)
 * Henry Malestrom (half-nephew, through Candi's marriage to Donte and resultant half-sibling Khumar, who is married to Lindsay Hamilton the sister of Dolly Malestrom, the aunt of Henry Malestrom. Classic Gerosha only.)

Grandnephews and Grandnieces


Silo Wade (half-grandnephew, through Lex Philippine and Mallorie Wade)

Classic Gerosha

 * Jenny Flippo (sister-in-law, through Mike)
 * Sandra Flippo (sister-in-law, through Jeff)
 * Jenny Sterbin-Flippo (sister-in-law, through Tom)

Classic Gerosha and earlier
Candi's life has been marred only by a few run-ins with the law. In the 53 years of her life, she's received three speeding tickets, two fix-its, and four parking tickets. She was arrested once for trying to overthrow Arfaas via her own detective work. Without a trial, she was sentenced to death. She escaped from jail, and partook of the overthrow of the Dirbine city government when Ploribus and his troops raided to weed out Arfaas loyalists within the police force.

Later, Kolumn and Milp had her framed for child abuse after Milp attacked Charlie. Given it was a setup, the police involved were told to selectively ignore Charlie's words about a woman in a black suit. The police responsible in the setup were eventually exposed as Meethlite sympathizers in league with Kolumn, and were charged with treason. Candi was shipped out-of-state amidst the affair, and was sentenced to death under Kolumn's care. She once again escaped from prison.

Aside from that, the only case that could have really been used against her was the murder of Don Mendoza. However, Don's body was incinerated and there was no way to prove from the ashes that Candi had done anything. What remained of her centi-venom in him bio-degraded and was not testable in a lab. The McAuley family refused to testify against Candi, allowing her to be free from ever worrying about prosecution in Don's death. Just in case, she made sure that the family lawyer was a man who could make a powerful case on her behalf that what happened was self-defense.

Comprehensive Gerosha
This version of Candi is arrested for wandering the streets after she runs away from home, having been confused with Miriam who had already been arrested for being at a party where alcohol was present. Candi also has to kill Wayne the Vampire in this version in self-defense, though nobody connects her to Wayne's disappearance and nobody ever finds him. She is never charged. While reluctant to kill anyone in cold blood, Candi is not above tricking villains into disposing of themselves. In Nuclear Crisis, she tricks a group of villains into turning down the wrong street as their car dies on the rail tracks. She realizes a train is approaching them fast; but decides to stop another bad guy on a rooftop from shooting an innocent civilian. So while she did not kill the two in the car directly, she made no effort to save them from what was their own doing either.

Capture at age 12
Candi's life has been endangered numerous times, and not just on account of her double-life as Ciem. Before her super-heroine career officially began, she was repeatedly dealing with attempts on her life. At the age of 12, all four of the Flippo sisters were captured by a Hebbleskin operative while vacationing in Florida. Erin escaped, and decided to get Candi free so that the sisters could all secure their escape. Candi and Marina were both placed on chopping blocks, with ax-wielding executioners at-ready. However, the ringleader wanted to execute Miriam on the guillotine first. After strapping Miriam in, he secured the other girls' heads on the respective blocks. Erin seized the opportunity to sabotage the guillotine. While the Meethlites tried to deduce what was wrong with Miriam's guillotine, Erin freed Candi and set her loose on the Meethlites. Erin used Candi's fighting them as an opportunity to free Marina. Candi knocked all the operatives out with her centipede venom, then freed Miriam.

Don Mendoza and arson
Danger would rear itself again after Candi turned 19. Arfaas chose August 19th of 2019 as the day to begin his assault on Gerosha in retaliation for Stan and Shalia's victory in the 90's. By going to visit Imaki and Jack, Candi managed to get herself away from the house just long enough to not be there when Gunner and Skellig Soorfelt broke in. The two of them, looking for Candi, found Erin instead. They shot her to pieces with an MP5, then decapitated her and left the body propped up in the shower for Candi to find. They presented Erin's head as a trophy to Arfaas.

Meanwhile, Candi found herself battling to the death with Don Mendoza, who'd tried to trap her in a burning building. When that didn't work, he fought her and eventually managed to injure her. As she was on the ground waiting for her healing factor to kick in, Don tried to rape Candi. She was able to fight him off, but not without a miscalculation that ended with Don's death. Traumatized, she tried to flee for home. She found her home street to be a ghost town, and then logged in to her online account just long enough to change her name to Candi Stevens before putting some clothes and legal papers together and running away. She found Erin's body in the shower, and the sight of it traumatized her further until she was in a daze; unable to think coherently. She left the house and wandered the streets, distraught. A female officer noticed Candi and mistook her for Miriam, who'd been arrested earlier that evening. Candi was soon arrested on the spot, and was detained immediately at the city jail.

Death of identity
Whilst there, the police decided that Candi's best hopes to start over was to assume a new identity. They'd dump her in the woods with instructions of where to go for help, assuming she lasted long enough to find any. She was to assume the new last name of Stevens, and Candi Flippo was to be declared dead. She was knocked unconscious with a non-lethal gas after being placed in a modified gas chamber. Miriam protested the violence with which the police were acting, but they insisted that it was necessary to maintain the illusion that Candi was in fact dead.

Discovery in the forest
Candi awoke in the forest two days later, on August 21st of 2019. She found herself in a ditch naked, with no identification papers; but a letter with instructions on how to become Candi Stevens and collect the Flippo inheritance. She saves a small child from being murdered by a madman with a shotgun, then flees the woods. She heads for Evansville as the instructions state, considering herself as having been exiled from Gerosha. She makes it into town late in the day. Given that she is still without any clothes, she is forced to dress herself in a blue tarp. She sleeps in an alleyway, surrounded by a community of heroin addicts and fearful of being injected with needles. She is able to make an ally the following day, one who gets her some clothes and allows her to get the money she needs to piece her life back together. That ally is then never seen or heard from again.

Wayne the Vampire and the Blackmail Ring
Candi's run-ins with a blackmail ring and with Wayne the Vampire resulted in her having to battle Wayne to the death and in nearly getting shot up by a band of male gangsters, the latter whilst assassinating the all-female criminals for tarnishing the guy's names. Candi is able to escape death on account of both incidents pertaining to the blackmail ring.

Hazy Eighties
Even applying for a job turned out to be dangerous for Candi. She applied in October at the Hazy Eighties Bowling Alley, and was immediately ambushed by Meethlites on her way out from turning in the application. She was able to fight off her aggressors with some help from Denny Levens. This led to an alliance between the two, one that eventually bloomed into a romance.

Denny pills: the first and second beheading
Before Candi and Denny were officially a couple but while they were clearly starting to show interest in one another, Denny was working on Zeran remote control and fusion. He had devised a way to create a pill that would allow an individual, for up to three hours of having a limb severed, be able to remote-control and re-attach said limb. He reasoned that if he could get his invention perfected, he could send it to Darius Philippine to have it mass-produced for the military. This would all-but-end the era of soldiers needing prosthetic limbs. It served another purpose more intimate to the Phaelites, however.

The Phaelites and their allies were aware of how the Hebbleskin Gang operated, often mutilating their enemies to make examples of them. The Hebbleskin Gang motto for executing prisoners reads: "Off with her head; out with his guts." It was thought that not even Denny's invention could save the men captured by Arfaas from their fate. But since not as big a mess is made by beheading, it was reasoned that a few of the women when captured could be spared from death. Therefore, the Phaelites worked out a deal with Denny to mass-produce his "Denny pills" - on the condition that he could prove that it was possible to chop a woman's head off and reattach it again without killing her.

Denny feared it was hopeless, since no woman would be crazy enough to lay her head on the chopping block in the name of Denny's "mad science." Much to Denny's surprise, Candi volunteers. He urges her not to, as the slightest miscalculation could mean her death. She reasons that one way or another, the Hebbleskins are likely to kill her anyway. She also argues with him that if she does die, he can always deliver her head to Arfaas in exchange for his own pardon. Denny agrees to her terms, and gets the block and basket ready. Candi takes one of the experimental pills and strips naked, then places herself on the block after half an hour. Denny hesitates, but eventually swings and takes off Candi's head in one swipe.

Her neck begins to glow blue on both ends, and she begins talking to him as if she were still in one piece. This signals to Denny that the experiment was a success. However, she complains that it still hurts a lot. She also complains of feeling woozy after her head re-attaches itself to her body. The blue glow dominates the spine first, keeping those essentials "connected." It has to branch out from there, meaning that the victim still loses some blood in the process. Denny comments on how Candi seemed to know exactly how to position herself for her own execution; and she remarks about the instructions she was given when she was captured at the age of 12.

Two days later, Denny decides to try the experiment again. This time, he brings out a stainless steel guillotine. He asks Candi if she's up to being decapitated a second time, this time on camera. She agrees to it. The guillotine experiment results in the same amount of pain but much less loss of blood, and the Phaelites viewing the video are astounded by how Candi's headless body can move around so gracefully and find its head. Denny gets the mass production contract, and Candi starts admitting she's attracted to Denny. Denny teases her about always wanting to date the men that nearly kill her; and she teases back by suggesting they have sex on the guillotine. He replies that she should be careful what she wishes for.

Botan's fury
Another time pre-Ciem that Candi nearly gets herself killed is when trying to calm down Botan the Plant-Man after he throws a tantrum in downtown Evansville. At this point in time, she discovers she's pregnant with Angie. Botan nearly strangles Candi with weeds, as her super strength disappears and she is at Botan's mercy. He then realizes who she is, and relents. She talks him out of his tirade, and he runs away to Florida.

House explosion
Overhearing Police Chief Merle Hourvitz plot with Duke Arfaas to have Musaran assassinate Denny, Candi runs home as fast as she can. However, she doesn't quite get there fast enough. She finds Denny lying lifeless on the floor in their bedroom, and then the house is blown up. Candi amazingly survives the blast, and pulls herself out from under the rubble. She immediately feels her water break, and prepares to give birth to Angie.

Third beheading
Part of Candi's plot to overthrow Arfaas and rescue Donte involves getting herself captured, so she conceals some Denny Pills in her Zeran Wardrobe Pin and hides it in her hair. She hacks a database, learning about the Malestrom family and Dolly Malestrom in particular. The police, now under Arfaas' control, decide that all relatives of Denny Levens are automatically wanted dead or alive. Candi seizes the opportunity and heads to the library on campus. Campus police immediately identify her as Denny's widow, and she is arrested on the spot. She is, much to her convenience, thrown into the same cell as Dolly Malestrom.

She wastes no time giving Dolly a Denny pill, and takes one herself. The two women are sent into a line with hundreds of others aboard Arfaas' ship that are sentenced to death. Candi goes in before Dolly, and lays her head on the block. The Meethlites don't notice the blue glow, and assume everything is normal because of her mild blood loss, made to look like more due to all the blood already soaking the block from previous victims. Her head is placed on one conveyor belt and her body another, and they're sent into separate halves of the same room behind a glass panel. A machine pushes Candi's head into a pile with the heads of every woman executed immediately before her, while a similar one does the same to her body. She waits until the guard has left to get Dolly, then moves one of the other bodies in the place of hers and moves her body behind the pile.

After Dolly's head is chopped completely off and the guards go to claim another victim, Candi rushes and collects her own head, then reattaches it behind the pile of corpses. She waits until the guard has left to claim yet another victim, then grabs Dolly and pieces her back together. The two women then conspire a plan to destroy the ship and free Donte, and shoot the Meethlite guards in order to prevent any further executions.

Career as Ciem
Throughout her superheroics, Candi faced countless additional brushes with death. Most notable before her marriage to Donte was her battle with Capp Aard, in which Aard had activated the Ming-Yo and put everyone in the building at risk of exposure to its deadly radiation. Candi battled Aard long enough to give Donte a chance to steal the device and destroy it, before it could do any more harm.

Fourth beheading
Having no Denny pills and having been captured by Lloyd Kolumn, Candi went to the chopping block this time convinced she would not live to tell about it. It was only through Delusia's intervention, however, that Candi did survive. She lost more blood this time than any other; as Delusia's Denny-pill-like ability required Delusia and Candi to make actual contact. Delusia got to Candi a few seconds late, resulting in Delusia fearing that Candi would die for real that time. Alas, she pulled through. With help from Delusia, Meerkat, Mukade, and Dolly, Candi is able to escape Kolumn's facility.

Suffocation
Candi and her new allies are nearly suffocated to death by the Milliblob. However, Botan the Plant-Man comes to their rescue.

Abolition
During the Abolition arc, Judge Beliah places Candi's entire family in danger of being murdered by mobs; especially after declaring all Phexos and Marlquaanites to be illegal. She gets help from the Gray Champion and Extirpon to set things right, as well as Navyrope and Pilltar pitching in.

The final beheading
At the age of 53, the last remnants of the Hebbleskin Gang decide to finish what Kolumn started. They capture Candi and Dana, preparing to execute both of them on the chopping block. Since neither has any Denny pills, both mother and daughter prepare for the very real possibility of dying. Candi insists on going first, in order to buy Dana some time. The Hebbleskin executioner allows it, and Candi dies right in front of her daughter. Her head is collected; and added to the plaque next to Erin, Miriam, and Marina's. Dana assumes the position, realizing she's next. However, as the blade is inches from her neck, she is rescued by the Gray Champion. The Hebbleskins with Candi's head flee, and Gray is forced to abandon pursuit of them.

Gray and Dana bury Candi's headless body in the Gerosha Cemetery, not far from the graves of her parents and siblings. Donte ends up dead a short while later from cancer. He is buried next to Candi, Denny, Frank, and Angie.

Afterlife
Candi awakes to find herself in a grass field, where a glimmering white dress soon appears around her body without explanation. She feels her face and realizes she is young again - about 20 to be exact. Denny, Donte, and Angie run up to welcome her; and they all begin walking towards the Pearly Gates a short distance away.

Back on Earth, Dana acquires a modified Ciem suit so she can take over her mother's mantle.