Kerienia Nalm

"She didn't have many redeeming qualities, but at least she had a pretty body. Now she's a crap leader with a huge hideous belly that only seems to be getting bigger and I really struggle to find anything redeeming about her." An ASF SOG2 talking to another SOG2 about Kerienia in 1971.
Kerienia Nalm is the Commanding Officer of the Ayvoid Security Force and is the only Ayvoid to ever grow taller than 11ft.
== Profile==
* Name: Kerienia Nalm
*Birth Date: 1943
* Height: 11ft 3in
*Species: Ayvoid - Drakgnon Hybrid
*Gender: Female
*Weight: 5779 Kg
==Overview==
Born as an Ayvoid/Drakgnon Hybrid thanks to a secret experiment conducted by members of the ASFI on her egg before she hatched, Kerienia was the only daughter of the Commanding Officer of the ASF, Herin Nalm, and his wife Leirinia, but their 4th child overall. Despite her "unsightly" teeth, navel, and "Baby Breasts", all a result of her being a DragonKin Hybrid, she was her parents' favourite child by far with both Herin and Leirinia wanting a female heir to be the next Commanding Officer.
As was typical for a Commanding Officer's child, Kerienia was spoilt as a child having nearly everything she ever wanted as she grew up. Herin loved her and spent so much time playing with her he actually forgot to teach her how to be a good Commanding Officer before his sudden death in 1963 from a heart attack, which left a 20 year old and woefully unprepared Kerienia inheriting the Commanding Officer role much to the ire of her three brothers who already hated her for stealing their parents' attention.
Aware she had not fully received the proper training, she attempted to take over her father's job and made numerous changes to give the Colony Chiefs more power than normal to try and take the strain off her doing a job she only partly knew how to do. This backfired as several of the Colony Chiefs decided to abuse their new power within a few years forcing a still inexperienced Kerienia to not only have to take away the extra power she gave them, but actually do her job with just her advisors. This made her deeply unpopular with the Colony Chiefs and the 100 Colonies of Avia and gave her a lasting reputation as a terrible Commanding Officer which wasn't helped by her expanding gut which while unrelated gave the general population the impression she was lazy and spent more time eating than working.
In 1969 her three brothers tried to depose her with support from numerous Colony Chiefs which while quickly ended by ASF Intelligence, crippled Kerienia's already poor reputation as the ASFI's response to the attempted coup was quick and effective and gave Kerienia an unearned reputation as a tyrant who would use the already despised ASFI to crush any opposition. The only benefits to Kerienia from this attempted coup was a closer if somewhat unwanted relationship with the ASFI and a general fear of her throughout the ASF that stopped her being a target from the power hungrier members of the ASF.
Following her mother's death from old age in 1981, Kerienia had stopped trying to be a good Commanding Officer as she just couldn't shift her bad reputation and had lost the one remaining person who loved her, and settled into a slump of being a lazy and ineffective Commanding Officer. Unlike her previous decades of trying to be a good Commanding Officer, being lazy actually shifted her bad reputation from being hated as an incompetent tyrant to merely being loathed for being lazy and incompetent.
==Appointment Ceremonies ==
When ever a new Security Chief or Colony Chief is appointed, they are handed their new Enforcer Pistol by the Commanding Officer. During these ceremonies she is often bored senseless but prior to 1981 tried her best to stay awake and be positive, but after events in 1981 she let her boredom show, and made the bare minimum of effort during these ceremonies.
These ceremonies would usually be held weekly and could occasionally drag on for hours, with Kerienia occasionally trying anything to get out of doing them, including faking illnesses, which as a DragonKin Hybrid she could never have, which almost always failed as her advisors would see through her uninformed act and threaten to reveal this childish behaviour to the public if she didn't go out and hold the ceremony.
==Appetite ==
Kerienia always had a massive appetite, even as a child she would constantly eat more in one sitting than a typical Ayvoid would eat all day, including things most Ayvoid wouldn't consider edible such as bones, a habit her parents were both willing to feed after noticing that while their daughter weighed more than several Ayvoid put together, she was never visibly getting fat and never had any health issues despite her excessive and unusual diet, and agreed they would only stop if Kerienia had health issues or got visibly fat.
Ever since becoming Commanding Officer, Kerienia got more adventurous with her food, and more gluttonous, sometimes ordering the entire menu for an evening meal and mixing it up in an unusual way. During one of her first meetings with one of the Ayvoid's Human trading partners, Kerienia kept looking at the humans and wondering how they would taste, and spent most of the meeting skimming through Ayvoid laws on her Enforcer to see if eating a Human was illegal or not. After not finding anything in the laws, she ended up looking elsewhere and all she could find was that an Ayvoid eating a Human was frowned upon, but not actually illegal due to the common Ayvoid belief of being superior to Humans. This prompted Kerienia to spend the next few days in between her work researching how best to obtain a Human for the sole purpose of eating it, eventually settling on having ASF Intelligence do the procurement part.
Once ASFI had procured and delivered a selection of Humans in secret to Kerienia's residence, she decided to vary the ways she would eat them over the coming week with one Human a day. After trying numerous ways of eating them varying from minced to steaks and coming to the conclusion that while they were tasty they weren't worth the effort to obtain them, she decided to eat the last two alive, much to their horror, to see if eating them alive would make them taste better. The first was chewed apart and gave Kerienia a new appreciation for how good Humans tasted, but it was when she attempted to swallow one whole that she realised she had found her new favourite food, finding their struggling to complement their taste to make them a truly enjoyable, if quick, meal.
After a few years of stuffing a human down her maw at a rate of at least one a week, Kerienia started to get a little bit fatter to the point she was starting to very slow out-grow her uniform, but also started to get a little bored with eating Humans and started wondering what an Ayvoid would taste like. This desire to eat an Ayvoid was often dismissed without much thought because it was illegal and not even a Commanding Officer could get away with cannibalism, but the desire kept coming back and she eventually had a discussion with Intelligence Chief Karellia Valk regarding it, on the logic that the ASFI dealt with Anti-ASF terrorists and such terrorists effectively renounced their status as an Ayvoid. Having eaten Ayvoid herself and being a fellow Ayvoid-DragonKin Hybrid, Karellia understood the urge Kerienia was experiencing and was willing to give Kerienia a terrorist bound for execution via her ship's incinerator to devour as an alternate death. Kerienia enjoyed this terrorist so much that she savoured every bite and begged Karellia for more Ayvoid to eat in the future, a scenario Karellia had anticipated and accepted on the condition this Ayvoid meal was to be provided at Karellia's discretion, not Kerienia's whim.
By 1973, after several more years of massive meals, weekly Humans, and the occasional Ayvoid, Kerienia got so fat she had to have a new uniform made to contain her massive gut, and when she started to outgrow this uniform, she decided to finally cut back, but only on her normal food, reducing her meals from roughly four large portions per meal to roughly 3 large portions per meal. This stopped her getting even fatter, but didn't help her lose her now massive gut. Her now massive gut was hard to explain, with many ASF officers who had seen her eating habits calling it delayed karma for being such a glutton.
==Genetic Condition==
Kerienia was born as an Ayvoid - Drakgnon hybrid thanks to an experiment conducted on her egg in secret by members of ASFI under Karellia Valk's orders, with the supposed goal to exploit the Nalm's desire for a female successor and give them a stronger and longer-lived one than they would naturally be able to make.
Her excessive weight, sharp teeth and navel perplexed doctors across Avia, with the only thing they could agree being that there was DragonKin Base Metal in her body that was likely the cause of her massive weight, but despite agreeing on the likely cause, none of them could figure how a rare metal normally only used in weapons and starship manufacture that was well known to be lethal to an Ayvoid if ingested could be found in a living Ayvoid body. Despite these "Defects", both of her parents loved her greatly and finalised their plans to have her succeed Herin as Commanding Officer.
==Combat Style ==
Kerienia prefers to stick with her Enforcer pistol and has hers tuned to a higher level than normal giving it considerably more firepower than a typical Enforcer. However it rarely sees any firing outside of a shooting range as Kerienia prefers not to get into fights if she can help it and as first the daughter of a Commanding Officer and later as Commanding Officer she is rarely in harm's way.
Despite sticking to just her custom Enforcer outside shooting ranges and other training locations, she enjoys using other weapons finding the minigun to be particularly fun, although her skills with these weapons aren't really combat-worthy, as she primarily uses them for fun.
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