Name: Cici Cross-Green "cici ceegee"

Gender: Female, bi

Age/DOB: 20ish, 2021

Origin: Repurposed Earth AAEC to BMRC; Currently residing in Rookery

Family: spliced mothers Collette Green and Gina Cross; brother Gary; half siblings Calanthe, Eden, Chet

Other: doesn't seem to know how adorably cute she is

Height: 5'4", considerably shorter than both moms

Weight: ~90* Icarus treatments radically reduced her weight and has made her remarkably lithe and flexible, though not a lot more strong overall (still around 2x stronger than typical)

Hair: coppery red, actually looks like wires in the right light, very straight, kept styled as shown shorter in back and long bangs with fringe

Eyes: dark green, almond shaped

Appearance: light skin that tans quite copper, a slightly more golden shade than her hair; most of her outfits are scavenged from the nearby ruins, but she will add protective gear that has been collected from enemies and creatures; she typically has a strong 'machine oil' scent about her, but hardly ever has visible oil stains anywhere somehow. Her voice is a bit nasal and high, though not whiny, she does tend to speak very quickly and use technical terms that go over many heads

Icarus Processing: yes, prepped when she and Gary were spliced, and finalized when they were around 2; this process decreased her weight radically and has given her much more dexerity and agility than normal. She can squeeze into very small and improbable spaces, and is very quick on her feet. Cici can run up to 4 times faster than a normal person but only for short bursts, however she can run up walls and scramble through vents at almost the same speed regardless if there's a reasonably clear path. This processing also improved her Vortal skills somewhat.

Image Credits: Rinmaru Post-Apoc

Genetic Abilities: she has only a modest ability with empathy, able to detect strong emotions in people 10 meters or less away from her. Her telepathic ability is very limited, though she can receive thoughts easily and others can spot her mind as it's quite 'active'. She and Gary have a tight Vortal bond, able to communicate at virtually any distance. She does have very strong senses, very fine tuned sense of touch able to discern individual threads in a silk scarf for instance, or 'reading' fingerprints left in old dust. This ability seems faintly more electric than physical, because she can actually start to feel something before she's even remotely close to it - she can read that fingerprint at over a centimeter away... Her vision is likewise remarkable, she's able to read newsprint text at around 50 meters, and her up close vision is extremely detailed, it's possible that she can see in ultraviolet wavelengths as well as infrared, as she's commented about seeing how hot something is - but that may also be due to her ability to simply wave her hand around and detect residual heat or particles in it. Though these abilities seem mainly 'preternatural', she can also detect Vortessence with them, by touch or sight, and discern who has used powers, where and when they were activated, and whether powers are being used within a 50 meter distance of her. This is why she may like being on her own a bit, because honestly having a crowd of highly powerful Vortal entities is a bit 'loud'.
Skills or Profession: a scavenger and remote repair girl, she's the one who has picked up on her mothers' scientific and engineering curiosity, and both of them contributed skill downloads to her expertise in the field. Though she's not one to work on their highly sensitive teleport device or some other things of that weird nature, she is definitely able to repair and even invent machinery fit for use by regular folks, and almost all of it from 'found' materials in the field. She can zip around a ruin with ease, spotting good vantage points or hidden treasures, and is strong enough to be able to pack a satchel with all of it and still run home free and clear. Among the only non-ELLs to use a Portal Gun, she does have her own, it's fit into a single glove and she can project a small portal - which only she really can fit into - on to virtually any mostly-flat surface. And yes, the "middle finger" is the one she uses to shoot it, laughing, as a Combine wonders where she's just vanished... Where her brother can look at maps and plot a good path, she can look over blueprints and architectural designs and understand just where to go, or what construction items might be needed to fix or demolish it. Even if she's fast enough to zip out of danger, she has been trained - not downloaded skill but practical training - with physical resistance tactics, and can evade capture from virtually any trap; she carries a modified Combine stun stick, which is tuned to their frequency of electrical energy, and thus she cannot harm anyone that is on the good-guys side with it.

Personality: focused, though only on her work, she's not easily distracted, and doesn't seem to realize how distractingly adorable that is. She's not hyper-focused, she can certainly be called to dinner or be reminded to sleep, but she is definitely packed with energy and vim. Though she does like the thought of at some point finding 'love', she honestly thinks that if she gets spliced up with someone that's fine too - she's not the really motherly type, and might feel a bit weighed down if she had to raise her own kids. At least now, it's in the post-Combine era on their native Earth. But over on the Rookery... now's not the time for kids just yet.

Events or History: (( See Gary's )) The pair waited at Acicade, but only Cici paired there!
A rain drakling that looked almost identical to her mother skipped forward a few steps and then sat down to look. Gegrunsh carefully nudged her forward, feeling this wasn't the time to play games. Four aspirants held their breath as the drakling meandered and advanced painstakingly slow. But she couldn't keep hiding her direction for long. She headed to the two spliced humans and sniffed them both, but in the end the sat down in front of Cici and said:
"I think we mezsh well, let'z have lotss of fun."

Cici Cross-Green and Rain Riossh (f)
trainer: Margharet & Rain Gegrunsh (Knight Training)

Dragon

Name: Riossh
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: Small 6'6" s / 22' l / 34' and 32' ws
Colors: Rain, silvery grey body, paler speckled grey wings, light grey mane and tail
Features: Drak, slightly furry hide, four legs with paw feet, four wings with 3 visible fingers, spiky mane on neck, spiky tail fluff mid-tail to end
Powers: Winged Flight
Portal teleport
Communication, language comprehension and verbal speech (hissing)
Acid Spit
Parentage: Clutch6: Rain Gegrunsh and Plant Naelos
Origin: Acicade Castle
Other Info: Quick in the air and easily the most agile for her size. Loves flickering around the countryside and helping retrieve goods for her knight to assemble.

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