Reva

Reva is the main protagonist in *Scarred*. She is a young cyborg dinosaur who gets captured by humans and struggles to adapt to a dangerous new world.

## **Physical Appearance**

### **Current**

She is a subadult *Ceratosaurus* of massive size, being bigger and more muscular than a normal adult. She has a mainly red hide with orange venom glands on her shoulders, thighs, lower back, and around her mouth, a yellow underside, and black stripes. The upper half of her head is black while the lower is yellow. Her large eyes are bright yellow with black slit pupils and a thick black stripe runs down her back; a row of sharp, metal black spikes will grow out when she's angry. She has a large, silver, dagger-sharp, blade-like, stainless steel nasal horn that curves upward and backward implanted to replace her original horn. Her arms and legs are made of black stainless steel with large clawed hands and feet; her hands have five fingers with large, sickle-like claws, while her feet have only three toes, the third of which are armed with huge sickle-like claws like on dromaeosaurs. She has a long, powerful, durable, mechanical, skeletal, scorpion-like tail made of black steel and equipped with a long, serrated stinger on the end. The serrations hold the venom in her body, and her nose horn, claws and serrated, blade-like teeth are venomous as well. She has three scars over her left eye and another three on her right flank.

### **Initial**

Before her modification, Reva had her primary body coloration. Her organic tail match the rest of her body and her organic arms and legs were black. Her hands and feet were smaller and she had larger eyes. Her nasal horn was smaller, black-colored, and blunter. She had no venom glands.

## **History**

### **Early Life**

Reva was the last-born of her mother's litter. As a hatchling, she was the runt of the litter due to her small size, and was often ostracized from training by her larger brothers as they thought she was weak. However, at her mother Lucy's insistence, Reva trained to hunt and fight nearly twice as hard to make up for her size, which impressed her brothers. Despite this, she was forbidden to go on family hunts and was often the last one to eat. She soon became adept at survival and learned teamwork alongside her family; her mother finally allowed her to join hunts when she proved herself by taking down a young *Allosaurus*.

## ***Scarred***

### **Chapter 1: The Hunt**

Reva naps in a willow grove in her family's territory and is dimly aware of Collis roaring her name. Feeling her stomach growl, she remembers the previous day's events: she and Kett fought over a hunk of Stegosaurus meat he wouldn't share, which attracted nearby humans, and Lucy forbade her from eating as punishment. Half-asleep now, Reva becomes slightly more aware of Collis approaching her and feels his nose poking her left flank. Calling her a lazy girl, he tells her to wake up. Reva looks up at him to see a teasing expression on his face as he tells her they're going hunting. The former rasps if they're doing it again, unable to remember when she last had a good drink. The latter rumbles his confirmation, adding that they're had to search for food all morning because of the commotion Reva and Kett caused yesterday. He tells her to follow him and that the others are waiting. Waking up fully, Reva rises and follows him out of the grove,

She approaches the rest of the family beside a pond. Kett, being the first to notice her, grumbles that it took her long enough. Reva irritably tells him to shut up, still annoyed about Yesterday's incident. Lucy snaps her daughter's name, stomps over to her, and says that's no way to talk to her brother. She then glares at Kett and snaps they both know it was stupid to go after the *Stegosaur* carcass. Kett whines that Reva started it, and the latter argues back that she needed the extra food. Sick of her brother's selfishness and arrogance, she rants it's not fair she always gets the last scraps during meals. She then asks if they're hunting or not and is met with silence as everyone is too dumbstruck to answer. Reva snaps at them to follow her and walks away.

She catches the smell of a *Camarasurus* herd in the large plain a few miles from the forest border. Brian walks up beside her and asks her, prompting her to report her findings. Reva adds she didn't smell any other predators nearby, much to her relief. Kett, Collis, and Lucy catch up, with the former sarcastically congratulating her. Reva's anger towards Kett gets the better of her; she whips around and snaps that she'll claw his eyes out if he doesn't shut his face. An exasperated Lucy barks for both of them to stop arguing, saying if they carry on like this, they'll never get any food. She breaks them up by telling Kett to go to the back and keep quiet and telling Reva to stay of front to lead the way to the *Camarasaurs*, putting her in charge of the hunt. Kett disbelievingly cries that his sister should be in the back of the group as she's the one who attracted the humans yesterday. Reva sneers as Lucy rhetorically asks what she just told him. Put in his place, Kett shuts his mouth and doesn't open it again as he heads to the back of the group. Reva sniffs the air again and, realizing the *Camarasaur* scent is fading, snaps that they're wasting time and heads after them, with her family keeping up.

After traversing through the woods, they enter the open plain and can see their prey, which have stopped at a watering hole to rest. Reva immediately notices one of the youngsters lumbering toward them, oblivious to danger. She studies the landscape, seeing no cover, which allows the adults to easily spot them, although they're too busy resting and drinking to pay attention. She and the others are perplexed when the young *Camarasaurus* continues lumbering in their direction; however, as it nears them, Reva notices it's blind. She informs the others, ordering Kett and Brian to circle behind the prey and cut it off while she and Collis attack from the front. Grateful that Kett wordlessly obeys her without objection, knowing he has the sense to be quiet during a hunt. Seeing her two brothers sneak up behind the *Camarasaurus*, Reva gives the order to attack.

All four subadults tackle their prey, with Reva relishing the feeling of taking it down as she claws the animal's back. She delights in seeing the blood welling from the scratches and hearing the *Camarasaur* cry out in pain before biting its neck and choking it. She and her brothers are overjoyed upon subduing their food, and Reva tears voraciously into the meat, relishing its taste and savoring the meal. She rebuffs Kett when he tries to join her by kicking him aside. When he snaps at her, she snarls that she gets first dibs since she led the hunt and tells him to back off. Collis agrees with her since she's proven herself and persuades his brother to let her eat first. Kett relents, backing away, allowing Reva to eat undisturbed. Once full, she allows the others to eat and they all return to their territory after finishing their meal.

### **Chapter 2: A Sign of Danger**

Synopsis: Reva and her family find five baby Allosaurs (accompanied by their parents) wandering around in their territory and realize they're in danger. They try to come up with a plan to get rid of their new neighbors.

### **Chapter 3: Eat and Run**

Synopsis: When Lucy narrowly escapes death at the jaws of the two Allosaur parents while hunting and gets injured, it's up to Reva and her brothers to get rid of the predatory family before things get worse. The siblings succeed in killing and eating all the baby Allosaurs, but their mother, returning from a hunt, catches them in the act upon seeing Reva devouring one of her sons. She attacks Reva and gives her a minor wound, but Reva fights back, prompting her brothers to join in. The commotion attracts the attention of the nearby father *Allosaurus*; the ensuing fight results in Collis losing his life and Kett losing an eye. Lucy, who's hiding in the woods nearby, calls the remaining three siblings, prompting them to retreat. Reva, being the last one to do so, snarls at the Allosaurs for injuring her and killing her brother.

### **Chapter 4: Assault Gone Awry**

Synopsis: After witnessing Collis' demise, Lucy, despite her injuries, is desperate for vengeance and waits until nightfall before leading her remaining three children to the Allosaurs' den. They are able to use the element of surprise and gang up on the father, who the children badly wounded in the previous battle; they quickly inflict so many injuries on him that he collapses and soon dies afterward from blood loss. The mother, even though she's devastated by the loss of her family, is completely healthy and proves to be more than a match for the Ceratosaurs. The ensuing fight results in Brian's death and Reva being heavily injured. The mother Allosaur then slashes Reva's face and rips all her limbs off, fatally injuring her and wanting her to suffer like she did. The Ceratosaurs watch as the mother Allosaur violently dismembers Brian's corpse and walks away. Knowing they can't help her, Lucy and Kett sorrowfully bid Reva farewell and leave. Watching in horror as her mother and remaining brother abandon her, Reva is condemned to a slow, agonizing death.

## **Personality**

Reva is calm most of the time, but tends to become frightened, or more often angry and hostile, when dealing with stressful situations. However, she is sometimes prone to angry outbursts and can be stubborn. She often holds grudges against those who wrong her and prefers to avoid them. Like most dinosaurs on her home planet, she loathes humans; her hatred of them deepened when she found out they captured her and planned to use her for their own desires. Upon learning she was turned into a killing machine, she became insane and began plotting to overthrow the human race.

## **Skills and Abilities**

* **Stealth:**
* **Hunting/Tracking:**
* **Fighting:**
* **Intelligence:**
* **Shapeshifting:** Due to her DNA being spliced with that of all known carnivorous dinosaurs (and crocodilians), she is able to shapeshift in any of them.