Dravora Hensh

"I know it's a bit revealing, but I think it's quite cute, and it should still fit if I gain a little more bulk." Dravora responding to a comment from Dragyia about her casual clothing.
Dravora is a large Dragoian-Dragon Hybrid made in secret and the "daughter" of scientist Nimrel Hensh. Apart from secluded meetings with her "father" and Dragyia Agthe, Dravora hides inside a large suit of armour designed somewhat to look like a powered battlesuit operated by a male, while in her armour she is known solely as "Number 87".
==Profile==
*Name: Dravora Hensh (AKA Number 87)
*Birth Date: 1859
*Height: 13ft 7in
*Species: Dragoian-Dragon Hybrid
* Gender: Female
*Weight: 22,891 Kg
==Overview==
Created in secret by a few scientists from Project Hybrid who wanted to prove they could make a hybrid despite the dismal failure of Project Hybrid. Dravora effectively chose her father at the age of 1 when the scientists held a contest where Dravora herself had to choose between the two scientists willing to raise her in secrecy. She choose Nimrel over 70% of the time during the weeks the contest was held, and has no memory of the other scientist in the contest.
Dravora was raised by Nimrel on his own in the secluded mid-size house east of Hedes which Dragyia had arranged for Dravora to be raised in. Nimrel rapidly grew extremely attached to Dravora and always wanted the best for her, just like any good father and Dravora loved her sole father as if he actually laid her egg. During her early years, Nimrel tried to get Dravora interested in his passion for creating hybrid plants but she failed to show much interest in it except for taste-testing any produce and looking at the pretty flowers.
Dravora particularly enjoyed her visits from Dragyia, not just because Dragyia was one of the two people Dravora was allowed to know, or because she thinks of Dragyia as her mother despite knowing she isn't. Instead she enjoyed the visits because of what Dragyia taught her, including loyalty to the empire (or more specifically to Dragyia and Seldragia) and the ways of combat.
In 1880 at the age of 21, she was finally allowed by Dragyia to join the Casteless under the alias of "Number 87" and would be allowed freedoms unseen in the Casteless which allowed her to return home for a week or two every so often to see her "father". While in the Casteless, Dravora is given her own tent much like No56 and never takes her armour off even to sleep, only taking the helmet off to eat. She also has specific orders from Dragyia that supersede all other orders given to the Casteless as a squad, some of these specific orders are always in effect such as covertly protecting No56, and some that are short lived.
Dravora has often desperately pleaded with Dragyia to be allowed to reveal herself to No56 whom she considers a sister, but has been forbidden on the reason that it's best if No56 doesn't know. Dravora got close to her wish of revealing herself to No56 in 1957 when No56's then 14 year old daughter Georgina started to get quite pushy and started to really question Dravora's poor disguise on a consistent basis, going so far to deliberately hide in Dravora's tent and wait to catch Dravora without her helmet on, succeeding where many had failed before. Georgina and Dravora quickly bonded, with Dravora being happy to have a friend of any sort, and Georgina finally having another woman to talk to that wasn't her mother or Dragyia. Following their first meeting, Georgina put on an act that she did indeed see "the true face of Number 87", but that much to her disgust was just a normal Dragoian man in a powered armour suit.
==Personality==
Contrary to her hulking body and possibly due to her lack of social interaction, Dravora is actually friendly and pleasant. However, the need to keep herself secret makes her quite lonely and she will often beg Dragyia during their meetings to allow her be with her "father" just to have some company where she can both speak freely and not wear her armour.
When allowed to show her true self, she is playful and cute, which makes her really struggle to supress her true self while hiding in her armour. She occasionally lapses when she thinks nobody can see her, and some members of the Casteless claim to have seen her acting cute while in her armour, much to the disbelief of other Casteless members.
However, no matter how kind she can be, due to her loyalty to the empire, or more specifically her loyalty to Dragyia, she will still smash anyone who doesn't follow the empire into a bloody pulp and sometimes sneaks them into her tent to devour them, just to totally destroy them. She also enjoys swallowing humans whole, enjoying their brief struggles in her throat.
==Armour==
"It's cramped and confined, especially the chest plate, but it allows me to fight without revealing myself, and that outweighs the flaws! I can finally help the empire!" Dravora's initial comments on her armour.
Dravora's armour was designed to be very bulky and angular to look like it contained an augmented normal sized Dragoian male in a mechanised suit that's supposed to give them the strength of a female, not just actually be a large Female in a suit. In the fake "designs" shown to other Dragoians, the breasts and belly contain the hydraulic pumps as well as internal cooling systems.
The armour is designed to not only conceal Dravora, but protect her with heavy, thick, Rare Dragoian Metal plates with thick RDM chainmail over any joints. This level of protection is not only to ensure that Dravora survives any encounter, but also to ensure nobody ever sees inside the armour.
Ironically, the armour's weakpoint of concealment is the eye slits as they show Dravora's drastically different eyes (when compared to normal Dragoian), although confirmation cannot be proved due to Dravora's large snout blocking any view of her eyes from below, stopping anyone getting too close a look. The joints are also questionable, especially the hands, which are mostly chainmail and are too articulate to pass as a powered suit.
==Combat Style==
Dravora fights with a large RDM shield strapped to her left arm, and a modified heavy machine gun in her right hand. This allows her to move slowly across the battlefield and take minimal damage in the process as well as pack enough firepower to be useful. She also occasionally uses an Anti-Tank Lance for when the Casteless are up against multiple tanks and need extra anti-tank firepower.
She's not the most accurate with her machine gun, but makes up for it by effectively being a walking tank than can act as a shield. Her presence on the battlefield has actually upped Casteless survival rates, as she's a big target that many enemies think is more dangerous than she is and focus more on her than they should.
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