Velox Raptoria

== Appearance ==
Velox has dark brown hair that reaches just past her shoulders.  Over time, she grew it out so she could hide behind it as a coping mechanism.  When she’s fighting or training, she ties her hair up in a ponytail.
Before the Earthen Catastrophe, she wore glasses, but she opted for contact lenses after realizing that glasses would be a hindrance to her new life post-Catastrophe.  She also got contacts because Brennan mentioned she looked more intimidating without glasses—she likes to keep her reputation of being ‘scary’ intact.
Before she became a dracosapien, Velox had dark brown eyes.  After gaining powers, her left iris slowly transitions from dark brown to a burnt sunset orange until she has heterochromia.
== Clothing/Accessories ==
Velox likes to wear dark colors with some feathered/fluffy accents to pay homage to the Velociraptor calendula group she lives with.  She can commonly be seen wearing some sort of form-fitted shirt and pants and a long overcoat with pockets.  The coat is usually black, dark green or navy.  She likes to wear combat boots or horseback riding boots, depending on her mood and what her outfit of the day is.  She carries around a hand lens in the form of a monocle and wears contact lenses.
After reuniting with (group name) and becoming a dracosapien, Velox keeps her clothing aesthetic more or less the same, only changing and altering things to accommodate for her new raptor-like features.  She also carries around dromaeosaur teeth and claws to use as long-ranged weapons, but her most prized possession is a velociraptor sickle claw necklace, which is the source of her dracosapien powers.  It is also a gift from her family for her birthday and she wears it to remember them.  She also designed and created a flight suit that resembles the feathers on a velociraptor’s arm and tail.  It is dark in color with bright blue or green highlights.
When Velox is attending a formal event, she likes to wear sleeveless, knee-length dresses, which are usually dark green, navy blue, or black.  If the dress has sleeves, it goes all the way past her wrists.  The dress also must have pockets because she likes to carry around and conceal small weapons on her person.  She wears black leggings and boots, no matter which type of dress she is wearing, and depending on her mood, and the type of dress she is wearing, she would wear an overcoat.  She wears a silver diamond earring on her right ear and also wears two rings; a pyrite dragon ring on her left thumb and a dark blue/black wire Parasaurolophus walkeri ring on her right pointer finger.
== Backstory ==
Before the Earthen Catastrophe, Velox was named Alecto and she was a paleontology student hoping to study the possible uses of Parasaurolophus walkeri crests when she got to her graduate degree.  She meets and befriends Brennan, Darius and Giles—the four of them would later form a group dubbed (group name)—as well as Lysander.  She started to develop feelings for Lysander, but never said it out loud or acknowledged it in her mind.
A few hours before the Earthen Catastrophe took place, Velox was at Brennan’s house party, but decided to go outside to get fresh air and talk with Lysander.  Because she left the house, she wasn’t ‘safe’ with the rest of the Last Humans when Brennan’s house got launched into space shortly before the Catastrophe took place.  She and Lysander were left behind, which prompted them to try and find a hiding place or a ship to escape unscathed.
They found an abandoned spaceship, large enough to fit both of them.  By the doors of the ship, they talked one more time.  Velox wanted to say what she felt about him, but couldn’t bring herself to, thinking that there would be more time for that later, when both of them were on the ship.  However, to her dismay, Lysander didn’t get in when Velox did.  She begged him to get in so he would be safe too, but he didn’t, or maybe he wanted to, but it was too late.  Either way, she could see resignation and acceptance on his face and felt angry, because how dare he accept his fate when there was a perfectly good way out of this situation right there.  She was distraught, upset, and fuming, so when Velox saw something similar to a pyroclastic flow coming her way at a speed higher than what she knew of, she instinctively slammed the doors shut and locked it to protect herself.  She only realized what she did when she looked around the ship's interior, half expecting to see Lysander with her, but not seeing anyone at all.
The pyroclastic flow overtook the small shelter she and Lysander had been hiding in, and when the dust settled, she managed to fly the ship away.  Most of that was done out of self preservation and shock—she didn’t want to die and also needed something to distract her from what she’d just done and witnessed.
This incident is why she doesn’t open herself up much emotionally afterward, nor does she try very hard to push friendships beyond what they are if she does want it to be more—she doesn’t want people she cares about or loves to be hurt because of something she did.
The ship she was on crashed into the desert biome on Natura Caelestis, the planet where humans coexist peacefully with creatures from Clade Dracosauria, after an engine failed.  They are a slightly modified form of Clade Dinosauria, which includes all dinosaurs.  However, the difference with Clade Dracosauria is that it includes the dinosaurs, and the aquatic and flying reptiles from the Mesozoic Era.  All members of Clade Dracosauria has a plant symbiont, which correlates to the biome or environment they’re living in.
After waking up in the desert biome on Natura amidst the wreckage of her spaceship, Velox meets and gains the trust of a Velociraptor calendulae, a velociraptor with a calendula symbiont.  This is also when she chose to take a new name—Velox Raptoria—in an attempt to start anew and move on from her past.  She also befriends the rest of her Bonded raptor’s pack, which she dubs the “Raptor Squad”, after the four Velociraptors in Jurassic World.  She learns the raptors have this symbiont because they live in drier environments, which are more susceptible to fires.  Their symbiont gives them an additional layer of protection, with their feathers and saliva being things that could be made into a paste to soothe burns.
Her Bonded Velociraptor calendulae has feathers the color of the sunset and she later names her Hesperia, after the nymphs of sunset in Greek mythology.  Shortly after that, she is formally introduced to the rest of Hesperia’s pack, and after learning of Hesperia’s new name, they requested ones for themselves, with Hesperia translating for her pack.
One raptor has dark blue and green feathers with white flecks all over his coat.  Velox names him Nyx, after the goddess of night.  The second has countershading, with a light coloured belly and darker feathers on her back.  The feathers were arranged in a gradient, from pale orange and yellow to a rich sapphire blue.  It reminded Velox of sunrise, so she named her Eos, after the goddess of dawn.  The last one is different, in the sense that the raptor has a pure white coat with a stripe running down from around her eyes, along the length of her back and to the tip of her tail, not unlike Blue the Velociraptor from Jurassic World.  The stripe has a gradient, going from red all the way to a deep purple at the tail.  She names this raptor Iris, after the goddess of rainbows.
Later on, she and the Raptor Squad ambush and corner Greg, a young man she met on one of her missions with (group name) who became unhealthily obsessed with her, in the Naturian Gardens during the after party of Prince Aryn Saito’s coronation.
== Powers and Skills ==
Velox was granted powers from the raptors, which is stored in a raptor claw necklace she was wearing when the Earthen Catastrophe happened.  Because she lives with the Velociraptor calendulae, she has amassed a collection of shed dromaeosaur teeth and uses each one as a long ranged weapon.  Her favorite weapon is a chained sickle blade she commissioned from a Naturian blacksmith.  It has a carbon steel replica of a dromaeosaur claw on one end and a tooth on the other.  Both tooth and claw are sharpened and kept in the best condition possible.
Her powers include being able to run extremely fast, shifting into a partial raptor form with feathers and primitive wings, cursorial limbs with the characteristic sickle claw on each innermost toe, and enhanced eyesight.  She is also able to manipulate some form of light green/yellow energy that partially soothes burns when it touches the injury.
Velox is part of the (group name), which includes Brennan, Darius and Giles.  Each one of them has a call sign and powers, as well as armor pieces designed by her, which are inspired by prehistoric animals.  Brennan has a Spinosaurus inspired suit; Darius has one inspired by an opabinia; Giles has one inspired by a turtle.  They travel across the galaxies in a spaceship called the M, which she is the captain of.
She likes to draw and create things, and is fairly talented at both.  Later on, she uses this passion to design and create neurotech armor for her squad.  She also accepts commissions, and designed for some of the most influential figures on Natura, including members of the Naturian Court, and even designed outfits for Prince Aryn Saito and his inner circle for the coronation.
When in her human form, she likes to wear a flight suit that resembles raptor feathers on the arms and tail, which helps her fly and maintain balance, as well as a theropod-like helmet that covers her face and parts of her neck.  Like all the armor pieces she designed, it contains neurotech, which means it can be connected to her nervous system and she can control it as if it were part of her body.
She is skilled in martial arts and likes to spar with bo staffs.  She specializes in chained weapons and long wooden staffs, as these easily allow her to keep her opponents at bay.  Her favorite defensive tactic when restrained is to twist herself free and break her assailant’s elbow.
== Relationships ==
=== Interactions with people in general ===
Velox is fiercely loyal to those she cares about.  If she cares about someone, they’d know.
She isn’t in a relationship with anyone, preferring to keep things platonic as it is what she knows and what she is used to.  Another reason why she isn’t in a relationship is because of things that happened to her, both before and after the Earthen Catastrophe.  She prefers to keep calm and cool on the outside, never betraying her true emotions.  This is based on her desire to maintain a reputation she gained in elementary school, where she was known as the ‘scary, emotionless one’ to the other students in her grade.  Because of this, she rarely acts upon her feelings, something she regrets after the Earthen Catastrophe.
If Velox disliked someone, she wouldn’t associate herself with them.  If someone she knew disappointed her, she would make that very obvious, and make them feel the way she felt.  She would only forgive them if they delivered a sincere apology and meant every word of it.
Her displeasure could manifest in the form of disappointment or rage.  She would choose the appropriate one based on the situation.
She has severe survivor’s guilt after the Catastrophe, and because of that, she could come across as cold and detached.  Even after she met up with and was reunited with her friends and the Last Humans, she still carries this burden with her and struggles to move on.
=== Lysander ===
Before the Earthen Catastrophe, Velox met Lysander in school and the two became friends.  Over time, she started developing feelings for him, but never said anything because she expected it to go away in time.  The two have chemistry, but she never tried to take it beyond friendship because she didn’t know what to do or how he would react.  Their conversations consist of banter and almost flirtatious comments, most of which go over her head but still make her confused and flustered.
She only directly acknowledged her feelings for him after the Earthen Catastrophe, but by then it was too late; Earth was destroyed, along with everyone who didn’t escape in time, including him.
Shortly before explosions and natural disasters started happening, she was invited to Brennan’s house party along with many of their other friends.  She decided to leave earlier to head home and sleep and Lysander offered to walk her home.  The two struck up a conversation, and were nearing her home when they noticed the slight tremors and cracks in the pavement.
Realizing what was happening based on the current news stories, they tried to find shelter before figuring out what to do.  After acquiring an abandoned spaceship, they got into an argument of what to actually do; to wait it out or to escape like everyone else.  She wanted to leave and tried to convince Lysander to go with her, but he was sure they could wait it out in the shelter.  Angry and conflicted, she went into the ship, asking him to go with her once more but he stood his ground.  At the same time, she caught sight of a pyroclastic flow heading in their direction and once again asked him to go with her, but this time, she was begging him—he was her friend and she didn’t want him to die.
The pyroclastic flow was faster than any she’d read about, and, knowing it was going to overtake the shelter and destroy it along with anything or anyone that was inside, she instinctively slammed the doors shut when it drew closer.  The doors had an automatic locking mechanism, and a thirty second delay to open which allows the user to decide if they genuinely want to open the doors or not.  She could see Lysander through the window and he was giving her a look of resignation and acceptance.  Feeling sympathetic and guilty, she tried to open the doors again, but the pyroclastic flow had caught up.  She knew in the thirty seconds it took to open the doors, they’d be overwhelmed, so she didn’t.
She only stared at him and tried her best to convey how she felt with her eyes.  She didn’t think to mouth any words, or to try and show it with her actions.  She regretted that almost immediately, but she hid and took cover in a cabinet when the flow overtook the shelter, ignoring the frantic knocks on the door that grew weaker as time passed until she couldn’t hear it anymore.  She only emerged from her hiding place when the dust settled, but even the knocking and creaking of the ship as volcanic ash and tephra struck the exterior reminded her of Lysander’s last moments.
She managed to steer the ship away from what remained of Earth after a few moments of shock.  But even after she found refuge on Natura Caelestis, she never forgot him, nor did she really get over him.
In an attempt to move on and forget the heartbreak and pain she felt, she started over on Natura and took the name ‘Velox Raptoria’, after the theropod dinosaur Velociraptor mongoliensis as it was one of her favorite dinosaurs to ever live.
=== Greg ===
Greg is the name of a young man Velox met after the Earthen Catastrophe.
After Velox was reunited with the Last Humans—but more specifically, the (group name)—she meets Greg on a several-month-long mission the group was on.  According to him, he “loved her the moment he laid eyes on her”, but Velox never noticed that, nor did she care.  After overhearing a conversation she had with the rest of her team about Lysander and her feelings in regards to that situation, he took advantage of her vulnerable and emotional state of mind, thinking he could use her desire for comfort and affection to make her want him.
Because she still hadn’t gotten over what happened to Lysander and what she unintentionally did to cause his death, she wasn’t able to see the red flags.  She didn’t enter a relationship with Greg, nor did she really form a friendship with him, but he acted as if the two were together from the moment they met.  He gaslit and manipulated her into thinking she cared for him, called her pet names, and was overly affectionate with her, all of which was ignored and never reciprocated.
Velox was still heartbroken from what happened to Lysander and she was still emotionally unstable and vulnerable.  Because of that, mentally, she wasn’t functioning at the level she would be if she wasn’t traumatized, so she went along with it, but never reciprocated the gestures, nor did she tell him to stop.  The latter was something she admitted to being her fault, but she knew that anyone with a decent understanding of social cues should know that someone acting cold and distant toward them means something they’re doing was wrong.  She knew that anyone else would ask to communicate, but Greg didn’t do that, only increasingly becoming more and more overbearing.
Three months after meeting Greg and barely managing to tolerate his actions, she told her teammates of the situation.  They talked with her, pointed out all the warning signs, and she was able to analyze the situation with a clear mind.  Having made her decision, she asked her team to drop her off at Natura Caelestis, wanting some time to think and recollect her thoughts, but also to get away from Greg.
Undeterred by Velox’s actions, Greg followed her across the galaxy, somehow managing to end up exactly where she was, and for the same amount of time.  He did this at Prince Aryn Saito’s coronation, trying to corner her or get her alone, but she was always with someone else.  He never tried to approach her if she was with someone else, especially if the other someone identified as being male.
Eventually, being fed up with the situation and being hurt that someone would try and take advantage of her emotions like that, Velox lured Greg into the desert biome on Natura, where she first met Hesperia and her pack.  There, she and her Raptor Squad ambushed and confronted him.  He tried to talk his way out of the situation, but Velox had the raptors surround him.  He only realized he was in the wrong and tried to beg for mercy when Velox’s Bonded raptor, Hesperia, lunged at him with her claws outstretched.
The raptors severely injured him, though Velox was the one that landed the killing blow—a clean, sharp cut to his neck that severed his jugular vein.  She did this slowly, wanting him to feel the pain she felt.
After this, Velox felt lighter and more at ease, though she swore off relationships for good and was careful about how she acted around those she didn’t know very well.
=== The Raptor Squad ===
The Raptor Squad is a group of four Velociraptor calendulae that Velox met when her spaceship crashed into the desert biome on Natura Caelestis shortly after the Earthen Catastrophe.  The leader of the group is a raptor with a sunset-colored coat that Velox named Hesperia after nymphs of the sunset in Greek mythology, and she becomes Velox’s Bonded dracosaur.  The other three raptors have coats the color of the sky at different times of day and night, so Velox names Nyx, Eos and Iris after sky deities from Greek mythology as well.
=== Brennan ===
Brennan is a paleontology student that Velox met when she was in school.  She is always able to pick him out from the crowd based on how he is dressed, and she gets along with him fairly well.
Before the Earthen Catastrophe took place, she was invited to Brennan’s house party.  She stayed for a while, but decided to leave early to go home.  Because of that, she wasn’t with the Last Humans when Brennan’s house got launched into space.
She reunites with the Last Humans after she gained the trust of the Velociraptor calendula group and forms a team with Brennan, Darius and Giles, dubbed (group name), and together, the four of them travel the galaxy on different missions on the spaceship M, which she is the captain of.
=== (Group name) ===
Velox forms the (group name) with Brennan, Darius and Giles after reuniting with the Last Humans and what remained of her friends from Earth.  The four of them travel across the galaxy on missions in Velox’s spaceship.
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