Karen Hylnara

"You find a Dragoness who could accidentally flatten you into a pulp cute?" Karen talking to a human tourist.
Karen is a midget of a Shadraxian who was raised by humans after being transported away from Shadraxia shortly after hatching by her parents to protect her from Shadraxian law that mandated that because she was a midget by Shadraxian standards, she had to be killed.
==Profile== 
*Name: Karen Hylnara
*Birth Date: 1896
* Height: 55ft 3in
*Species: Shadraxian
*Gender: Female
*Weight: 1,583,195 Kg
==Overview==
After hatching at around a quarter of the average size, Karen was smuggled off Shadraxia by her Shadraxian parents to stop her being killed under a law which states that midget females must be removed from the species. As a result, she was packed, somewhat awkwardly due to her tiny size of around 2ft 7in, into a tiny box filled with soft material and air holes in the boxes walls. Alongside this box was a note consisting of written Shadraxian and also of a pictorial diagram to try and explain to the humans how to care for, what would be to them a giant lizard, as if she was their own child. The diagram also had an image what would happen if the lizard child was abandoned/killed/kept as a pet, this image was effectively a female Shadraxian crushing a group of humans.
While being transported to the non-spacefaring human world of Lalgrath far from any common shipping routes and outside of Shadraxian space, Karen's Shadraxian parents researched the human world's technology using data from their ship's database and made a few audio recordings on the only audio technology the survey vessel believed the humans had, vinyl-like-material record discs. These audio recordings were made in-case the humans couldn't translate the written Shadraxian language and provided information on common Shadraxian eating habits, behaviour patterns, instructions on how to raise a Shadraxian child and also some information on Shadraxia and the Shadraxian species. The idea of cultural pollution did cross their minds, but they just shrugged it off as they knew the humans would encounter an alien eventually.
The box containing Karen and the audio recordings, with the written/pictorial instructions attached to the lid, was dropped off at a human house in the middle of the night by Karen's Shadraxian father who took special care not to damage the human property or leave any visible marks but avoided using the shuttle's transporter due to the radiation being potentially fatal to an undeveloped midget Shadraxian. As a result, the shuttle was landed and was glimpsed by some of the humans starting a UFO myth which was confirmed by Karen's distinctly non-human appearance.
Karen's box was found in the morning and her appearance caused an instinctive gag reflex in both of her new parents. Her first year being raised by humans were rough, as her human parents didn't love her and only raised her because they were scared of a response if they neglected her, although by the time she had learned to speak they had started to care for her less out of fear and more out of caring.
Karen's human parents tried to keep her a secret and did their best to home school her until she out-grew their garage at the age of 7, at which point they accepted the fact that Karen would keep growing and couldn't be kept hidden forever and contacted the local council, who laughed at them during the initial phone call for making such a silly story up and even made the point to mention it was even less believable than the UFO stories, but eventually relented and believed when Karen was sighted by neighbours who persistently bothered the local authorities until they actually sent someone out to confirm that there was a big purple dragon living in someone's backyard.
The revealing of Karen to Lalgrath was a rough few weeks for her and her family, with the military and scientists threatening to take her away for study and threatening to put her family in prison for knowingly hiding an alien. The military once tried to take her away by force, but failed due to her being near enough impervious to their weapons and her bulk was considerable enough that she couldn't be bound and carried away without her easily breaking free. The military then attempted to blackmail her into coming with them by threatening her family, which worked as Karen didn't want her family to suffer, and went on the condition that they wouldn't be harmed or imprisoned. Eventually, through numerous pleas and all evidence pointing towards it, Karen was declared as not a threat and was allowed to live with her human family.
As she no longer had to be hidden from others, her parents hired a tutor to give her an education which she took to poorly, being described to her parents by her tutor as "A nice person, but not academically minded", with the tutor privately wondering if she was abandoned by her clearly alien parents because she was mentally defective.
She also ended up becoming a tourist attraction which benefited local businesses in the area she lived as people travelled from all over the planet to see the friendly alien dragon. She never cared for the attention she got, and tried her best to be a useful member of society, using time she wasn't being educated to do odd jobs in her local area that could benefit from a giant dragon's touch in exchange for food money.
==Adult Life==
When Karen stopped growing shortly after her 25th birthday, she decided to go wandering and stop being an incredibly expensive burden on her human family, having previously helped her parents feed her by working on numerous local construction sites where her large size was a help for both construction and destruction.
Her wandering led her mostly to other places where a 55ft Dragoness could find work in heavy industry, earning just enough to purchase enough food to keep her fed. The wandering also had the intentional side effect of being harder for tourists to follow her, as she would rarely stay in one place for more than a week.
==Clothing==
Karen's unique clothing is very close to typical Shadraxian female designs, including the unique trousers held up via a large belt which Karen decided would be perfect for mounting a few pockets/pouches on. The jacket with it's long sleeves, wing holes and under breasts strap was designed to fit her hulking form yet be loose on the sleeves for maximum comfort.
Karen also decided to wear her hair in a giant ponytail as soon as it became long enough claiming it to be both cute and practical.
Karen's underwear is homemade and stitched together from various sheets of extra thick fabric and was made quickly so that Karen wouldn't offend. However, her other clothing (adult only) was custom made at a large expense due to the large amounts of materials and labour needed.
==Human Traits==
Karen developed a few human traits during her upbringing, the most noticeable is her use of makeup (which is actually high strength paint) around her eyes, painting both her eyelids and an area above her eyes. She also does not consider humans to be food like the majority of DragonKin.
== Name ==
Karen is oddly named for a Shadraxian, having a very human first name yet a very Shadraxian last name. This was due to Karen's Shadraxian parents requesting on the first audio recording that the child was to be named a typical human name with the Shadraxian family's last name of Hylnara. Karen's human parents chose Karen as a name as this would've been their choice for their own child if it was a female.
==Size==
Karen's size is abnormally small for a Shadraxian, being small even by midget standards which are classified as any Shadraxian under 3/4 average size, with Karen being closer to 1/4 average size. 
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Category:Shadraxians