Deftgunner Vaxx

Deftgunner Vaxx (born Speja Overge, known as Vaxx Hoxxdottyr prior to being titled) was a batesian soldier in the army of Kriegstox. Orphaned from a young age, she was raised by a human named Steelmender Hoxx, who raised her as a human girl, using his sway as a weapons-mender to "fix" the necessary documents. Though her father tried to keep her out of the public eye for too long to avoid drawing attention to her true identity, he was helpless to stop her from being drafted into the military when she came of age.
When the army was called on to quell the Tradhage Uprisings in the year 201 SCV, Vaxx proved a competent soldier in the coming conflict. Though sometimes rash and impulsive, she was awarded a Feather of Barihx for her leadership in the Vetloss Offensive, what many consider to be the tipping point of the Uprising. She would go on to earn various other medals of valor and heroism in her career, even attaining some measure of celebrity in Kriegstox. In the year 215, on a publicized visit with then-president Dreamspinner Jutt, she unmasked herself on air, declaring herself for the first time as a batesian, and urging Jutt to reconsider the laws restricting their rights in the country, and the public to reconsider their distrust in her kind.
With such a prominent symbol of heroics revealed as a batesian, civil rights movements went into an uproar, and Vaxx left active service to join a campaign to repeal the laws that continued to foment distrust in the human-mimic species. She campaigned such until the year 217, when on a fateful lunch with a senator, Vaxx was shot and killed by an unidentified gunman.
Her death, contrary to the gunman's likely intent, only furthered the national conversation on rights for batesians, and Vaxx was quickly held up as a martyr, the victim of the unjust society she had been forced to hide herself to survive in. A novel based on her life, titled simply Unmasked, became a best-seller not just in Kriegstox, but the entire planet of Fervidus, bringing the Deftgunner to a wider audience than she had ever reached while alive.
Then, in the year 221, Kriegstox declared war on the nation of Vruikt Barr, in what would come to be known as the War of Fire. To inspire confidence in their decisions in the public, shadier politicians started to once again stoke the flames of paranoia in the human-mimics, propaganda posters positing that even your neighbor might be a batesian spy of Vruikt Barr. Memory of her life already growing stale, public perception of Deftgunner Vaxx began to plummet as her years hidden as a human woman came under scrutiny, and the fear of backlash had a film adaptation of Unmasked scrapped. Once a symbol of cultural revolution, many now cite the Deftgunner's story as a cautionary tale of trying to change the unchangeable.
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