Caren

Caren is a pale grey and blue haired ankylosaurus, the second-in-command of the Dinosaur Rebellion, and a character featured in Dinosaur Creek.

## Appearance

### Antrho Form

Caren is a pale grey ankylosaurus with short, messy blue hair and purple eyes. In her anthro form, she has three rows of armored back plates and spikes thta extend from her neck to her tail. She spots two horns on her head and two horns on her cheeks. Two more horns are shown on her tail club. She has armored eyelids, which she usually has painted purple to resemble eye shadow and also has her claws painted purple. She wears a black, puffy shirt taht exposes her shoulers, a black lace on her neck, and a purple skirt. The inside layer of the shirt is bright purple.

### Human Form

In her human form, she has pale skin with black hair and gains purple shoes. Her outfit remains the same. As of Part 2, Caren changes her hair from black to blue.

## Background

Most of Caren’s background is unknown, but she was born a normal ankylosaurus in the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago, alongside Tex and Kireina. Just as she was being hunted by the two T-Rex’s, the three were captured by Terrarium troops and experimented into an Anthro dinosaur. She had a hard time trusting Tex and Kireina at first because they tried to eat her, but she got well-acquainted with Shane and Blaster, despite the latter flirting with her at first. She then was befriended by dog-like Didelphodon and named him Rover. When discovering the city of Hell Creek, she stopped by a books stand and spend the afternoon reading and learning from them. Following reuniting with the group, meeting Emily and learning of Terrarium’s treachery, she follows Tex’s lead of rebellion and escapes Terrarium with the other dinosaurs. They stay in a house in the forest of a national park with help of park ranger Revit Allen. She eventually earns Tex’s trust and becomes the teams second in command thanks to her assistance in leading the team. She gains a secret hang out shack to herself in the park's abandoned graveyard.

## Personality

At firts, Caren is portrayed as having a quiet, isolated, and goth like persona. But upon getting aquainted with the team, she becomes more expressive with her emotions. Caren eventually comes off as a responsible, mature, and deemeaning woman who will do whatever it takes to keep herself and her friends safe and in live. Though she is expressive with her emotions, Caren still retains her creepy and gothic nature, such as asking to choose an old shack in an abandoned park graveyard as personal hang out spot to herself.

Being an ankylosaurus, Caren is a hardcore introvert. But she is never afraid to face others when confronted by or if she feels to need to confront someone herself. Caren's primary follow up in life is to stay responsible. She believes in always getting the job done and never giving into anybody else's advice unless it's made by herself. She is, however, keen on opening up to other people's ideas if they are close to hers and might work.

Her special interest at heart when being introduced into the human world is books. She prefers to read hard covered books to learn about the world as oppossed to technology. This makes her grow a distates for tech, seeing it as a threat to hard covered books. Since learning about the growing tech world from Dom Winters, Caren gains a special integrity for learning about things the old fashioned way and entices herself into learning through her books. Her favorite book she often carries around is titled *Stradegy 101*.

So far, Caren as a vague, but harsh idea about relationships towards other people. She becomes the first in the team to notice Tex and Emily's interactions together and grows suspicious from it. Reading a book about relationships, she grows ideas that involved the two doing anything "romantic together." Those ideas easily make her angerd and grossed out, especially if such events would occur behind hers and the team's back without their consultion. She even goes far enough to freak out into total anger if she thinks about it too much.

Caren has a blunt way of speaking. She will often say things that are sarcastic or obvioius to the situation. Often times, she will speak deadpanning or say thinks abrut and out of the blue.

## Abilities

* Intelligence - Despite being an ankylosaurus, Caren shares the same intelligence levels as Shane, except hers is more basic and undertsnading compared to his technical know how. She is smart enough to learn how to do things exactly from the books, such as test chemical tubes and train in combat fighting.
* Body Armor - Covered in thick back plates makes Caren hard to hit from the back side. Her plates were thick enough to repel a shurikin blade thrown by Kireina, with the blade only sinking into a plate crack.
* Tail Whip - Caren's common feature when fighting is her tail club. Having more flexibility with it in her human form, she is capable of controlling where to swing it and how hard to hit someone. This ensures some of her hits aren't fatal to anyone she doesn't intent to injury fatally.
* Combat Fighting - Once learning how to fight from her books, Caren gains know how on how to fight like a fully trained combat fighter. Her combat skills have exceeded her into becoming one of the best fighters in the team.
* Whip Proficiency - As of Chapter 12: Infiltrate, Caren gains a whip to use as a weapon. She grows to use it as a long distance weapon and can easily strike anyone who comes at her in a distance.