Nimrel Hensh

"My daughter in her armour looks like a male in a custom built suit, let her fight in the military. Surely that is why you funded me?" Nimrel pleading with Dragyia Agthe to get his "daughter" into the military.
Nimrel is a mid tier caste member of the Dragoian species who worked as a scientist on both Project Dralkyria and the doomed Project Hybrid. After the ban on genetic engineering following Project Hybrid's failure, he and a few other scientists from those projects continued working on creating a Hybrid in secret with funding from house Agthe, and ended up creating Dravora who he kept and raised as a daughter.
==Profile==
*Name: Nimrel Hensh
*Birth Date: 1633
*Height: 10ft
*Species: Dragoian
*Gender: Male
*Weight: 1,874 Kg
==Overview ==
Born in a small rural town south of the city of Flappe, Nimrel always wanted more out of his life than to just be a farmer and tried his hardest in school to get into university while also helping out on his family farm.
It wasn't until 1667 that he finally saved up enough to go to university, choosing to take a biology course in the hopes that whatever he learned would be useful to a farm. During his studies he took a particular interest in selective and cross breeding which continued after graduation, having moderate successes in raising hybrid plants and wrote a paper in 1734 which while laughed at when published, suggested that with the right equipment and techniques that more extreme hybrid plants could be created by directly manipulating their genetics. This somewhat outlandish paper got Nimrel scouted for a top secret project in 1792 that got underway in 1793 and finally got named in 1800 as Project Dralkyria.
During his time working on Project Dralkyria, Nimrel was initially mockingly known as "Plant Guy" by the other scientists due to his background being mostly focused on plant biology rather than animal, human or Dragoian biology. However as time went on and the scientists started to get along, Nimrel's unique perspective got more accepted and was even essential in getting past some hurdles with getting the Dralkyria DNA to bond with the Dragoian DNA.
Following the conclusion of Project Dralkyria in 1815, Nimrel, like many of the scientists, was offered a teaching position at a university of his choice, but respectfully declined the offer in the belief his time was better spent creating hardy hybrid crops, but also made it clear that he was willing to undertake a genetics project similar to Project Dralkyria again.
In 1853 Nimrel was once again contacted by the Dragoian Empire for involvement in a top secret project which turned out to be the ill-fated Project Hybrid. Despite almost all of the other scientists involved having previously worked on Project Dralkyria, Nimrel could sense the differences from the earlier project, including a clearly smaller budget and team size as well as a less clear goal. Like many others on the project, Nimrel was unhappy with how Project Hybrid turned out, and ended up begging with Dragyia Agthe to let the project run another year when she came to shut it down. Nothing came from these begs until after the genetic engineering ban in 1856 when Dragyia invited Nimrel and a few other of the more passionate scientists of Project Hybrid to finish their research.
The completely off the record revival of Project Hybrid had a few more restrictions than even Project Dralkyria, but the less stressed working environment as well as the genuine passion of the small but experienced team led to their first subject being created and hatching in the latter half of 1859. The hatchling looked mostly Dragoian, and while large and possessing an upper snout disturbingly similar to TwinBragia's which caused concern, was deemed a possible success. Although work went on to prepare another hybrid just in case the existing hatchling, now named Dravora, failed to meet standards or turned violent. Such preparations were never used as the hatchling remained docile for her first year of life and showed none of the violent tendencies TwinBragia did during her first year. At the risk of calling it too early like Project Hybrid, an irony not lost on the scientists, they agreed to disband in success, leaving just the awkward decision of who would raise Dravora as their daughter in complete secrecy. All but two scientists pulled out due to not wanting to spend the rest of their lives with a child they couldn't show the world, leaving just Nimrel and one other who decided that the fairest way was to let the baby Dravora choose. After a "contest" held over several weeks to ensure Dravora's choice was more than just a fluke, she ended up choosing Nimrel over 70% of the time.
Nimrel struggled to raise Dravora on his own in a secluded mid-size house east of Hedes, which Dragyia had arranged for whoever would raise the hybrid, having never raised a child full time before, let alone having to keep said child hidden from the world. He would often slip up in his duties of keeping her hidden and would only be reminded by Dragyia's random visits. Nimrel rapidly grew extremely attached to Dravora and always wanted the best for her, just like any good father. During her early years, Nimrel tried to get Dravora interested in creating hybrid plants but she failed to show much interest in it except for taste-testing any produce and looking at the pretty flowers.
Nimrel got so used to Dravora's presence at home that when she grew up and joined the casteless he would get lonely and often made trips to visit his family farm just so he wasn't lonely, a luxury he couldn't really afford while raising Dravora.
==Combat Style==
Nimrel is a civilian and only barely passed the mandatory combat training in school. Over the centuries, his skill with firearms degraded from just about passable to barely knowing which end the bullets come out of.
When his daughter was receiving combat training from Dragyia, Nimrel was often persuaded by Dravora to shoot with her. This resulted in a slightly terrified Nimrel every time a shot was fired. After just a few times of shooting a rifle, he vowed never to use anything more powerful than a Hydra Pistol again, even considering the often gutless pistol to be too much.
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