Name: Chance Keegan

Gender: Male, straight

Age/DOB: ~16, 202x

Origin: Repurposed Earth AAEC

Family: Mother Carmen, father Harold Keegan; half-brothers Lucifer and Clark,

Other: Whatever this guy's Vortal power is, it attracts ladies like moths to a flame, he may very well need help figuring this out from Melissa and Malach, as they're the only other ones around who might have a clue about its uses or complications

Height: 5'9"

Weight: 130* Icarus has certainly reduced his overall weight, and boosted his muscularity and durability, though most of his physical traits remain normalish

Hair: Medium brown, curly and thick, kept short because otherwise it jew-fros up; takes styling very well though

Eyes: brown, when powers are active they go a bit orange-shaded, under heavy and high brows

Appearance: fair skinned with stubble and a decent amount of body hair, wears loose clothing to disguise the fact that he is a pile of abs and has glutes to die for, if people saw how hot he is under those clothes it would be quite messy... does like wearing simple grey and Aperture-Orange gear, though he does don military fatigues sometimes for stealth; has a pleasant voice with a loud laugh; anyone that is near him and has any sort of Vortal ability says that he smells delicious

Icarus Processing: Yes, at age 3 even though both his parents had it by that time it was clear that his power and Vortal ability would need a little fine tuning; it reduced his weight and strengthened his joints, and he is about 2x faster than a normal person. His self-heal is quite strong, and extends into endurance as well, he can keep up a good quick jog for over 5 hours without tiring. Jogging is the least of his activities...

Image Credits: Azalea's Dolls Snow King

Genetic Abilities: With a very strong Empathic and Vortal Sight ability, able to spot Vortal minds without details at over 200 meters, he can discern individuals or a group for their moods and background noise, at 25 meters. However, he can also spot specific Vortal powers or aura-based details at 15 meters, and begin altering them at 5. He can in fact alter the Vortessence around a Pantheon member, to disguise their aura, or to temporarily change their actual power. He can, for instance, adjust the range of a power's use, the intensity of its effects, or whether the power is 'visible' to normal eyes. He can't really change the power itself, from one to another, but with these tweaks active fighting the Combine is all that more fun. However, that's not where his alteration ability ends. He is a skilled healer, but with a fairly specific bent. He doesn't deal with injuries, rather he can detect and correct for DNA-based issues. He actively is able to adjust cells that have been damaged by viruses or bacteria, or just age, or outright change the overall DNA of someone with a degenerative disease or failing vision, anything that has a cause that is 'born that way'. Customizing children very, very similarly to Melissa's power over her own DNA, externalized like Carmen's. He can do this to himself, though, and will if asked be there to sire 'just this exact kid'. As mentioned above, he has a remarkably alluring Vortal aura, himself, though it's not 'visible' anyone who can sense them will just - latch themselves on to him if they can. He has had to work on dampening this, and does utilize a portable power nullifier for this reason. If he's at a meeting for Pantheon types, he uses it to keep people from being distracted. He really is that amazing, isn't he? Otherwise he does have a local telepathic power, though he can only communicate with other Vortal minds, and only within 100 meters. His abilities work only on Vortal powers, not as his father's that can also detect Combine psionics.
Skills or Profession: It was very clear that he ought to be in the medical and genetic field, and his mother appreciates the boost that he can give even her powers. So he has plentiful downloads for genetics, engineering them and using their potential, as well as the machinery and other medical processes that go along with them. He can operate the Medusa as well as the Icarus devices, but also the more mundane health care items found across the facilities. If one of the medics comes across a problem that they know is based on biology rather than external sources, they send the patient to him to try and suss out what's wrong. He has very practical hands-on experience with helping people out - he also knows how to operate a vision care center, and dental: straightening teeth and fighting off eye diseases, who needs glasses when you can just have your eyes actively altered to their logically best health? He does like working with normal people, as he feels that they get a bit shuffled aside these days, particularly in the Rookery - he can help fix what ails them, where others are apt to repair wounds. He has an exceptionally good bedside manner - and since non-Vortal people aren't as 'affected' by him, he knows their smiles and thanks are genuine and not just because he is so damn Vortally charming. All that said too though, he has been given the 'full monty' of personal skills: dancing, socializing, sex play, fashion.
Personality: Generous and much more kind and gentle than you'd expect the son of a fierce flirt and equally fierce fighter to be. Because his powers basically foist people on him, he's had to mitigate that, and is very keenly aware of the people around him, regardless of whether they're Pantheon or normal. He does like being the center of attention at times, though, and he'll certainly live up to any lady's expectations, no matter what she asks for. He ought to be out at New Vegas...

Events or History: After Harold Keegan went through the Icarus processing, and had to deal with being an even brighter Vortal lure, he and Carmen hit it off pretty well. She was there for him, and he recovered into a brave Pantheon soldier because of her. So this pair actually did raise their boy, who was born before his half-brother Luce, who's counting, everyone knows Luce was conceived before... For a while he could have passed as a reasonably normal kid, but when somenone came in from the ruins with a sickly child filled with allergic reactions to everything, Chance gave the girl a hug - they were basically the same age and size at that point - and she was fine from then on. He'd calmed her body's immune system, and Carmen knew she had a little healer on her hands. Trained from then on, and set up with Icarus when he was ready, Chance fit in very well with the medical community at the Mesa.

In the post-Combine era, his work has been cut out for him, but he has gone the distance, healing and re-fitting a tremendous number of refugees as they come to the facilities, making sure that any inborn issues will never come up or never be a problem for them. The future for those people is so much brighter - and clearer, they can see again! He wants to bring that bright future to the Rookery world, and with a dragon can be on the move as well. Since the Rookery is pretty well set for healers and health care after a while, in RY12 he moves over to the North Aperture facility, and is set up in Shaft 6, Sphere 5, with the others in the in-progress area.

Dragon

Name: Anunit, named after an ancient goddess of the morning star and moon; it's unclear whether she had this name before arrival to the Rookery, as it's a fairly specific name
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium (broad) 11'6" s / 45' l / 80' ws
Colors: belly from chin to mid-tail, behind legs, lips accent, inset scales* soft yellow; face, limbs, body, tail, neck, wing arms dark graphite; face and limb armor grades bright yellow at feet/nose to soft golden-orange at wings and horns; wingsails grade black to yellow with varied small star spots that glow and move, and are absolutely 'somewhere out there'; horns, claws, back spines medium blue-grey; eyes coppery; tongue black
Features: Nightwing with atypical features, including coloration *Is a more powerful Nightwing than most, with the distinct tear-shaped insets
Powers: Winged Flight, Anu is good for short flights carrying very heavy weights. She can keep a patient safe and secure on those flights from a battlefield or ruin, into the facility, or carry delicate machinery with precise enough flight that not even an open container or vial of liquid is spilled. However, she isn't particularly fast, even without a passenger, and she does rely on careful movement rather than aerial acrobatics. She can definitely move in measured distances, and is quite strongly aware of her surroundings; she can go to an exact height or spot near a wall or building, and thus if someone needs her to head to a depth in the Shafts and look for a particular item in one Sphere there, she is going to find the right piece and bring it back exactly as needed. This may very well be part of her added power.
Communication, *thanks to her numerous-moon birth, Anunit can communicated telepathically with those around her, even non-Vortal minds, at distances over 2 miles. Her connection to Chance is Vortal and strong, they share moods and information on a constant basis. She isn't 'attracted' to him - thankfully that's given to bipeds and humanoids (she chuckles at the thought otherwise) (and then notices that there are small humanoid-bipedal dragons in the Rookery and kind of worries...) Otherwise she speaks clear Draconic with her peers, but English and Vortigese flawlessly with humans and vorts. She can understand all the technical language that is thrown around in the Testing Facility, so she has no trouble with fetching those exotic and exacting devices for those in the area.
Warmth, she does not have a fiery breath weapon, rather Anu is a moon-goddess - she offers a kind of reflected light, warmth from her body and wings, but also can cool a hot area with it, to a moderate degree. She is immune to all effects of heat, though not radiation, so she can open her wings and protect people behind her from a massive explosion or gout of flame. She tends to patrol the deeper portion of the place making sure that there aren't any outright flame hazards before people go in. She can heat a radius though, and even in water ... so any time she takes a break down in the clear waters below, it becomes a hot tub party!
Wing Light, the stars on her wings are actually there, real-time, and cast their own faint glow up close. There is never a time around her when there is absolutely no light: so if you need a complete pitch black area, she's... gonna have to pass. The stars cast tiny beams, she cannot really control them but she can fold her wings down so that they aren't as distracting.
Parentage: Unknown Nightwings, possibly with some other influences such as Sandwing in her line; she is Dynasty and Frit's mother with Leopald as a mate, and Gold Dust fathered by In Brightest Night
Origin: Adopted from LunarSolstice981 with PeregrineCella lines on Deviantart, WoF by Tui Sutherland
Other Info: Precise and measured, but also she does love doing cannonballs into that deep water... She will occasionally surprise people with gifts she's uncovered in the mess below, and loves how Humans act when they are given such a gift.