Name: Linda Dixon

Gender: Female, straight

Age/DOB: 28, December 16

Origin: Aperturth, Chicago Illinois

Family: unknown, deceased parents; in RY12 she starts a family with Remi, Luke their son and Ruth their daughter; however shortly before this time she was tapped for an ELL project, and briefly carried Lantanell for it, though the ELL has always visibly been 'older' than her same-birthdate siblings

Other: had been actively dating, but not serious with any specific man

Height: 5'4", looks quite a lot taller than she is until you get right up close

Weight: 120, muscular and quite fit though if she had a desk job she'd probably be a bit out of shape

Hair: reddish-brown, quite a lot of it, afro, really enjoys fun puffy styles

Eyes: brown, round, usually a bit darkened from lack of sleep or research

Appearance: very dark brown skin, prefers red and copper colored makeup though she hasn't had access to it until locating the Carnies... oh fun. Can make almost any otufit look bold and stylish, and does enjoy getting pretty and dolled up for dancing or a date

Genetic Abilities: surprsingly strong plant control, likely triggered from exposure to numerous Portal Storms, Aperture passive experiments, and Aperturth's Resonance Cascade. Linda was always apt to be a garden-lover, plants seemed to bloom longer and brighter around her, and she was never allergic to even the worst of the pollen in the air in spring. Now, she can actively control both living plants, and processed or cut plants. Any flowering plant will automatically focus on her, and she can seemingly bring dead plants back to life with just a few soft words. Her power to sense and manipulate plants is wide and constant, she has to concentrate to stop 'hearing' the leaves and vines around her in a sphere around 50 meters across. She can cause a plant to spore or spew pollen at will, to wilt prematurely, flower in the middle of winter, or otherwise adjust their growth within its normal levels. But also she can with concentration cause vines to grow wildly bigger and stronger, make virtually any larger plant 'move' to wrap itself around an enemy, or grow limbs from a tree in weird ways including steps or shapes. Lastly she also can certainly make cut wood, including paper or raw lumber, change its shape and properties. Even coloration, though that's a bit hard. Linda must have been in physical contact with the lumber or other dead plant matter in order for it to work.

Icarus Processing: None, and Melissa asserts that even though she doesn't have any other Vortal powers, she's already on par with Eden, which is saying quite a lot.

Image Credits: Icon/City of Heroes

Skills or Profession: Swat officer, so she's had plenty of police training as well as a 2 year stint in the military before joining the Chicago police force. Has extensive training in weaponry and tactics, but she's also very well versed in reading body language, communications, and has expertise with hostage situations and bodyguarding. She much prefers to talk down an enemy than to shoot, but will not hesitate if combat is needed. She's oddly quite good with math and statistics, and had considered a career in economics, but the pay for security was considerably better.
Personality: Fearless and bold, though this may be due to deeper insecurities she's hidden from most people. She does have some physical quirks, such as picking at scabs and adopting whatever 'illness du-jour' is going around, but largely is healthy and reasonably fun to be around. She likes football, and dislikes smokers, perhaps that's due to her plant nature? She does love a good barbeque steak, and thinks her dragon friend's color scheme is da bomb.

Events or History: Her teenage years were spent lying and stealing for a group of small time hoods, which she avoided after her basic training and Army time. Even though she clipped coupons and was very frugal, she's never quite recovered financially but had been slowly making progress... and then whatever happened at Aperture... happened. How she got caught up with all this nonsense she'll never really know, but she's glad that she and Clipper can make a difference.

As she is an adept plant shaper, and Clipper a Leafwing with similar abilities, they tend to remain on at the Grounds, though she refuses to partake in the Hippies' activities - her days of getting blind drunk or high with the gang are long behind her, and she feels like someone needs to be responsible around them. Usually is found at Dragon Tower 6, the eastern long-range protective tower, which is also near enough to gardens and grainaries that they can still do food production as well as defense.

Dragon

Name: Clipper
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium 10' s / 52' l / 70' ws
Colors: main body, face, wing arms, limbs and tail greyish green with dark green inset armor cells; neck, belly, behind limbs, under tail olive green; dorsal armor from neck to tail, head armor, backs of horns, stronger green; wingsails dark green with brighter green slash patterns, webbing dark green, and spines bright green; eyes grey; claws dark green-black
Features: Leafwing standard
Powers: Winged Flight, Clipper is a speedy, low-altitude expert, who can buzz low over treetops or just barely above a wheat field, hardly disturbing a single blade of grass or leaf. Remarkably light for such a large dragon, she can blend in with a taller tree and wraps around them to observe, and takes off in a flurry that looks much more like crows flying off than a dragon. She's strong enough to lift a bus-sized object, but not carry it for very far before tiring.
Communication, Clipper's voice is quiet, high pitched, but friendly and kind sounding. She is gifted with medical knowledge and understands the differences between her homeworld's wildlife and the Rookery's, and can hold her own in conversation with scientists and hippies alike. She has a strong Vortal connection to Linda, due to their shared powers more than likely.
Photosynthesis, as with some Leafwings in the Rookery, Clipper maintains herself without the need for eating large quantities of meat - she will always prefer algae and seaweed, mushrooms, and the like, to any kind of animal matter - and Linda occasionally ribs her for it, but they both know it's in jest. Clipper requires about an hour a day of 'recharging' in full sunlight, and when that's not available, she does tend to be slower or use less of her energy, walking instead of flying, and not particularly doing any shaping.
Plant Shaping, she's extremely talented at plant growth, knowledge, and alteration. From small mushrooms to giant redwoods, Clipper can take care of any plant as long as she's had a little time to study it both physically and Vortally. She is used to larger-sized plants, on her homeworld, but also she's been thinking about how awesome it might be to grow a large ring of thorn trees around the Grounds for protection. All she'd need are some seeds, and didn't that man-that-looks-like-the-other-man say he has some?
Parentage: unknown pure Leafwings, both of which were likely talented shapers.
Origin: Adopted from SoaringHeights on Deviantart
Other Info: She does get a little confused by humans. They're so small, she has difficulty telling them apart visually, so she goes by smell - and some of them seem to be ... the same smell? Yes, she's confounded by the presence of not one but two Lanes, but also by any other twins that have very strong similarities, and let's not even get into Paxton and Max. She likes the Carnies - they are colorful and tend to stand out from one another.