"Great, so now I'm supposed to be the responsible one?"





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Name: Crank (Previously, Syl' Aerhart)
Bond: Brass-Striped Silver Veren Dragon Ahbreviaka
Bonded At: Infusco Vere, Clutch 01.
Age: 17
Rank: Ship's Second
Sex: Female
Height: 5' 1"
Skin: Pale Caucasian
Hair: Plugged in: Shoulder-length and layered, black
Unplugged: Pixie-cut, brown
Eyes: Blue-Grey
Appearance: Plugged in: Crank's residual self-image has gone through some major changes from the time that she was first awoken to the present. Where at first her appearance often seemed unruly if not chaotic, it has eventually settled into something far more toned down and held-together, reflecting her slow mental transformation from that of a rootless, newly awoken, to a freedom fighter with a definite cause. Where before she often wore clothing that was a mess of vinyl and fishnet in all the wrong places, she typically prefers a virtual wardrobe with more cover. She still wears nothing but black and whites, and she still tends to work in knee-lenght-or-shorter skorts and tighter shirts, but she's dropped the fishnet entirely, along with the piercings and the heavy facial makeup. Her hair, where before it was shaved on one side and dyed with a checkerboard pattern, is now entirely shoulder-length, black, and as thick as the unshaved side of her head from her earlier days. She does not wear shades, nor trench-coats, nor anything that is likely to get caught on anything inside the Matrix. Her poise has not yet reached the stage of a freedom-fighter who has been doing her job for many years!

Unplugged: Outside of the matrix, Crank has a boyish figure, with a flat chest and short, brown hair. Her skin is a nearly translucent shade of white, while her eyes are pale grey-blue. She has wide but nearly as pale lips, and a lanky frame covered with the typical grey-brown Zion-made garb. She often gets passed down remanents from other crew-members, so--aside from her painfully gained experience with learning how to sew--she is often the shaggiest dressed aboard the Corinthian.

Personality: Crank is still very much 'just a girl', and that's very apparent in her actions and attitude. She can be rebellious and sullen at times, sometimes demanding and even whiny, but she's slowly learning her niche in the real world. She is surprisingly good at working under pressure and threats, which makes her an excellent member on board the Corinthian, and added to that, her near premonition-like ability to determine a person's attacks has made her invaluable.

When things are going well, Crank is typically cheerful, and talkative, quick to try to make friends with a new arrival, and often able to hold up a one-sided conversation with social-failures like the human-formed machine, Core, for hours at a time. She is, however, still extremely sensitive to how other people regard her, and when she feels that someone is disapproving of her, she'll often jump to conclusions and avoid the person until they manage to sort things out with her.

Her recent relationship with the Operator aboard the Dragonchaser, Derfegertz, is a tentative one at the moment, at best. While Crank isn't the kind of person who can easily offer affection, she often requires it in large amounts. Thusly, she tends to stumble through relationships with alarming clumsiness. At least hers and her dragon-bond, Ahvi's relationship is fairly simplistic: Ahbreviaka treats her like a younger sister and provokes her whenever possible, 'training' Crank to 'grow a spine'. Even if Crank doesn't like it much, at least it's helping to teach her to fight back instead of slinking away at the nearest hint of trouble.

History: Coming Soon
Images: n/a




~I did it all for that look on your face, darling Crank.~




Name: Ahbreviaka (Also known as 'Ahvi', and 'Malice' to those who would prefer a self-chosen name.)
Bond: Crank
Hatched at: Infusco Vere, Clutch 01
Current Residence: The Specus Zion
Age: Young Adult (1 1/2 at present, Full grown at 2 1/2)
Sex: Female
Species: Brass-Striped Silver Veren Dragon
Size: Medium
Height: 14'
Length: 42'
Abilities: Telepathy, Teleportation, Strong Control over Residual Self Image
Ahvi is vulnerable to electromagnetic pulses.
Appearance: Plugged in: Ahbreviaka is as a dazzling sight inside the matrix as her machine creators intended her to be. Like all Veren dragons, Ahvi' is a metallic creature, although unlike most others of her kind, her silver hide is impressed with complicated brass stripes. She has the typical all-purpose Veren build: a sturdy six-limbed creature with three-tined, webbed wings, four spines jutting back from her head, down-swept horns and an arrowhead tail. A glitch in Tech and Coder's data-injection into Ahvi's clutch has caused her wing webbing, belly-plating, horns, tail-spade and head-webbing into a ghostly window, reflecting the code that the Matrix is composed of. This is a defect contained to her clutch-mates and her, only.

Ahvi' has shown a great deal of focus in her residual self image: through Crank, she has learned to create a human form for herself. At first it mirrored Crank's exactly, but with time and practice, Ahvi has been able to construct for herself a highly individualized self-image of just what she would look like if she were a human! In this state, she is an achromatic being, with white skin and black and white clothing--even her hair is black on one side, and white on the other! It's only her eyes, which are they same brass-yellow as in dragon form, that remain the same.

Unplugged: Outside of the matrix, Ahbreviaka is a fair amount more dull-coloured. Her hide just doesn't reflect florescent or torch-light the way that it does that of natural sunlight. Still, she is very healthy-looking, being significantly less armored then her siblings, which is also an indication that she requires less nanobot-assistence in maintaining her body then other unplugged dragons. Aside from the plugs that line her body, Ahvi's only real plating is on her feet and wing-hands, at her wing-shoulders and the base of her neck, along her muzzle and her tail-tip. Her tail-spade is replaced by a stubby, grate-like fan. her head-webbing is incomplete in places, allowing for her jack-in plug to remain functional.

Personality: Ahvi is a difficult dragoness to get along with at the best of times, and only seems possible to work with during dangerous missions, when her attention is fully occupied on the matters at hand. She has an extremely acerbic sense of humor and doesn't really understand that other people and dragons have feelings, which leads her to make fun of them at her expense. She is extremely good at alienating herself and her bond from the rest of the Specus and, as independent-minded as she is, this doesn't bother her one bit. She's learning to work with a team simply out of necessity, but if it were up to her, she'd sweep Crank off to travel around the real world and say goodbye to Zion forever.
History: Coming Soon
Images: Plugged In Image | Hatchling Image
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Lineage
Siblings
Veren Brass-Tigerstriped Silver Ahbreviaka
Veren Silver-Pointed Bronze Brandiliea
Veren Copper-Pointed Silver Cheyata
Veren Copper-Pointed Bronze Gomorrah
Veren White-Gold-Pointed Silver Janayea
Veren Gold-Mottled Copper Kahme
Veren Silver-Striped Platinum Lyra
Veren Blue-Silver Navasardian
Veren Brass Orust
Veren Bronze Sciodor
Veren Bronze-Pointed Copper Sodom
Veren Silver-Pointed Platinum Taludir
Veren Tarnished Green-Silver Vanar
Father
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Grandfather
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Great-grandfather
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Great-grandmother
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Grandmother
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Great-grandfather
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Great-grandmother
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Mother
Veren Chrome Notris
Grandfather
Unknown
Great-grandfather
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Great-grandmother
Unknown
Grandmother
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Great-grandfather
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Great-grandmother
Unknown
Offspring
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