DragonKin/Non-DragonKin Hybrid

A DragonKin/Non-DragonKin Hybrid is a type of hybrid creature made from the genetic material of at least one DragonKin lifeform and at least one Non-DragonKin lifeform.
== Overview ==
DragonKin/Non-DragonKin hybrids are almost exclusively made via genetic manipulation of an unborn/unhatched Non-DragonKin lifeform, although natural hybrids may rarely occur in nature when DragonKin and Non-DragonKin of similar body shapes co-exist on a planet. DragonKin/Non-DragonKin hybrids, artificial or natural, are exclusively female, with cases of using exclusively male genetic material ending up with a high mortality rate but occasionally perplexingly creating a female.
For a hybrid to survive, the DragonKin genetic material must be fused extremely early in development, with roughly a quarter of the gestation period being considered the point at which if no fusion of genetic material has taken place, the hybrid will either fail to become a hybrid and be born as a normal non-DragonKin, or will die painfully.
DragonKin/Non-DragonKin hybrids that are created artificially or are the children of those artificially created tend to possess more DragonKin qualities than those hybrids that are created entirely naturally, often bearing the naturally brilliant white bones and sharp teeth found on almost all species of DragonKin and having the often hulking body proportions, breast sizes and broad shoulders commonplace on DragonKin. Such artificial hybrids are often designed by their creators to be a superior form of the Non-DragonKin, binding the strength and powerful resilience of a DragonKin with the appearance and rough size of the Non-DragonKin. Despite the best intent of the creators of DragonKin/Non-DragonKin hybrids, artificially created hybrids will nearly always come out noticeably taller than a natural member of the Non-DragonKin species, regardless of the specific DragonKin genetic material used, while naturally occurring hybrids range anywhere from merely tall for their Non-DragonKin species, to the noticeably unnaturally tall ranges an artificial hybrid would be. Artificial hybrids also gain all their DragonKin traits and qualities from birth/hatching, while natural hybrids will slowly become more DragonKin as they age, ceasing to have Non-DragonKin qualities such as having functional genitals or needing to defecate by the time they reach adulthood.
DragonKin/Non-DragonKin hybrids, both artificial and natural, are roughly half the weight, proportionally, of what they would be if they were a purely DragonKin being, with this lesser weight coming from having less scales and those scales containing less DragonKin Base Metal than a typical pure DragonKin would, but also due to lower concentrations of DBM found throughout bone structures. This makes a hybrid proportionally less durable than if they were an identically sized pure DragonKin, but still considerably more durable than the non-DragonKin species they are a hybrid with.
As a weird oddity, DragonKin/Non-DragonKin hybrids are unusually receptive to Ixnara, with those being given the condition self-stabilising it after growing to roughly double their original size and gaining greater DragonKin Base Metal density throughout their body, at the expense of having more of their DragonKin features become more prominent in a particularly agonising process. 
== Hunger ==
DragonKin/Non-DragonKin hybrids, as well as DragonKin/DragonKin hybrids, are notorious for possessing the urge to consume their own kind, be it other DragonKin or whatever Non-DragonKin species they were created with in the case on DragonKin/Non-DragonKin hybrids, often resulting in hybrids possessing cannibalistic tendencies. These cravings are usually manageable and can be safely ignored with even basic willpower, especially in the children of artificially created hybrids, but in rare cases almost exclusive to heavily "designed" hybrids, these cravings can become impossible to resist, eventually causing the hybrid to enter a crazed state where she will all but lose her mind and viciously attack anyone until she eats either the meat of another DragonKin, or the meat of her own non-DragonKin species in the case of DragonKin/Non-DragonKin hybrids. This particularly nasty form of craving has been referred to as the Eternal Hunger by those afflicted by it.
Common theory is that these urges to cannibalise come from a latent but primitive DragonKin trait to devour their prey, being corrupted by the nature of being a hybrid.
== Known DragonKin/Non-DragonKin Hybrids ==
* Athea Snaoca - Natural - Dragoian/Human
* Jackie Rowne - Artificial (Heavily "Designed") - Dragoian/Human
* Jarellia Valk - Child Of Artificial - Drakgnon/Ayvoid
* Jessica Keal - Natural - Dragoian/Human
* Karellia Valk - Artificial - Drakgnon/Ayvoid
* Kerienia Nalm - Artificial - Drakgnon/Ayvoid
Category:Genetic Conditions