TwinBragia (Ancient)

"That's one of the new colonies that's still being built isn't it? I'll take that one if you two don't mind, would be nice to put my size to a constructive use after that war." TwinBragia (Ancient) discussing with her triad about the new duty rota.
TwinBragia (Ancient) is a giant Ancient Dragoian/Dragon Hybrid who is a Dralkyria as well as the original TwinBragia.
==Profile==
*Name: TwinBragia
*Birth Date: -38,243
*Height: 36ft 7in
*Species: Ancient Dragoian/Dragon Hybrid
*Gender: Female
* Weight: 583,853 Kg
==Overview==
The product of a project to enhance the strength and might of a Dralkyria by combining the DNA of an Ancient Dragoian (with Dralkyria implants) and one of Dragoia (Planet)'s native non-sentient Dragons. While considerably larger and carrying a lot more proportional strength than a typical Ancient Dragoian, the Ancient Dragoian/Dragon hybrid was dropped when the only subject that met the project's goals, TwinBragia, started getting an insatiable hunger (See Eternal Hunger) at the age of 8, the same time she started to grow noticeably larger than a normal Ancient Dragoian adult.
As with all Dralkyria, she started to receive the intensive training as soon as she was able to walk and talk. As a result of this training, she is nowhere near as bad tempered as her brutish appearance suggests and cares deeply about the other Dralkyria, especially her current Triad, Sedsaigia and Drarfiaes, as well as her past Triad, Leivash and Klinara.
While some military officers and some other Dralkyria saw her huge size as a bad by-product of being a hybrid, it was actually intended. With various smaller hybrids being created and then destroyed before perfecting the procedure. Some of these earlier hybrid mixes were used in recent times by the Dragoians despite being marked as failures by the Ancient Dragoians. The reasoning for being huge by design was never explicitly given to TwinBragia, but as she grew up she came to the realisation that it was likely a response to the Androgians.
During The 300 Year Conflict with the Androgians which started in -38208, TwinBragia saw the most combat out of all of the Dralkyria, often deliberately taking the most dangerous assignments despite her extremely young age. She did this mostly because she wanted to minimise casualties and knew she was the most powerful Dralkyria purely down to her own immense size but also her massive lance, but she also did it out of a sense of duty to the scientists who created her, believing that she was created to counter an Androgian.
She is known to grumble about the size of things, mostly doorways and Wormhole Rings, which many suspect is down to the inconvenience of going through them. However, this is untrue, as her primary gripe with them is not the personal inconvenience itself, but the often undignified way it has to happen and the amount of damage she can accidentally cause doing so.
==Family==
Having been created in a lab rather than naturally hatching, TwinBragia (Ancient) was always without family, leading to a very strong bond with members of the Dralkyrian Order over the years to the point she considers all of them to be her family.
=====Main Article: SinBragia=====
In early -37937, as the 300 year conflict was really calming down and had fewer and fewer ground incursions, TwinBragia decided to have a child by breeding with a normal Ancient Dragoian, specifically her old triad member Leivash. This daughter was named SinBragia by TwinBragia with Leivash choosing to keep her involvement a secret from everyone except TwinBragia, Sedsaigia, Drarfiaes, and Klinara. SinBragia was equal parts experiment to see if cross-breeding with an Ancient Dragoian would fix the eternal hunger issue without compromising on the increased size and strength, as well as genuine desire to have a daughter.
SinBragia was abnormally mentally unstable at her hatching, even more so than TwinBragia herself was, although by this point TwinBragia couldn't let her go and decided to raise SinBragia and see if she could be civilised the same way as she herself had been. This backfired as SinBragia was stubborn, spoilt, anti-social, and lacked the self-control to not devour other Ancient Dragoians despite being trained not to her entire life.
No matter how much TwinBragia punished her daughter, SinBragia refused to behave, resulting in TwinBragia having to do things no mother ever should. These decisions weighed heavily on TwinBragia, and even had her questioning if she was fit to be a Dralkyria any more.
==Strength ==
Proportionally stronger than her Dragoian era clone TwinBragia, TwinBragia (Ancient) was widely regarded to be the strongest land dwelling creature on Dragoia (Planet) and would often prove this while on a surface patrol by neglecting her dralkyria weapons and merely using her strength to kill the non-sentient Dragons by ripping them apart. This close quarters fighting style makes her a popular Dralkyria among surface dwelling Ancient Dragoians as her fights with the Dragons are often seen as an entertainment event as well as the service of ridding the area of a Dragon.
== Death ==
TwinBragia died in -37827 along with the vast majority of her species after a valiant but ultimately pointless defence against the Soul Dragons. During the beginning of these months, TwinBragia forced her daughter SinBragia to join an off-world stasis project in a desperate hope of preserving her. A few months into the invasion when the Ancient Dragoian forces realised the Soul Dragons were going out of their way to not kill the Dragoians or humans, TwinBragia was one of just 27 Dralkyria to still be alive and rallied the remaining Dralkyria not for a desperate final assault, but to collect the dead and their lances, with the aim of burying the dead and preserving the lances, along with their own, in the ancestral crypt of the Dralkyrian order seeing the extinction of their own species inevitable, and wanting to preserve something of their kind for the surviving Dragoians to remember them by.
The remaining Dralkyria came to the agreement to commit mass suicide, with TwinBragia choosing herself to be left behind so that she could bury the others. Upon finishing her duty to her order, she sealed the crypt and prepared to accept her fate, finding a remote but exposed spot several miles away from the crypt to await her inevitable death. Her death came later than she expected, with no sign of the Soul Dragons and her eternal hunger starting to become unbearable, she took her own life before she did something she'd regret in the starvation frenzy.
== Combat Style ==
TwinBragia's combat style is considered odd among the Dralkyria preferring to use her Lance as a giant heavy club rather than using it's beam function while most Dralkyria would use the beam whenever possible and only club with the lance when it is unsafe to use the lance's beam. However, TwinBragia (Ancient) may choose to not bother using her lance at all and just use her fists and feet, either crushing her foes underfoot or tearing them apart. She has also been known to grab and devour small foes if she is really hungry and not being watched by non-Dralkyrian Ancient Dragoians.
Her preference for a lack of lance usage is partly down to her lance being considerably larger, and more powerful, than the standard Dralkyria lance which makes it a dangerous weapon to use due to it's high power resulting in collateral damage even if used sensibly, and partly due to TwinBragia finding it to be unsporting against foes that would already struggle with her personal shields.
When fighting the non-sentient Dragons of Dragoia (Planet), she will often not bother with her lance at all, only using it if someone else is in direct danger, and will instead just smash the Dragon's scales with heavy punches or rip the Dragons head, or other limbs, off. Sometimes she will even take large bites out of the Dragon if she is feeling hungry, with just one bite normally being enough to bring the Dragon down. However, she is unlikely to do this, as the Dragon is a much enjoyed food source for any surface dwelling Ancient Dragoian and are too scarce to be used to sate TwinBragia's or SinBragia's Eternal Hunger.
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