Name: Tabitha Saito

Gender: Female, hetero

Age/DOB: 17ish, Aged, 202x

Origin: Repurposed Earth AAEC

Family: Mother Tina, father Bruce, half siblings aplenty on mom's side including Drew, Arachnae, Theseus; was spliced, rather than naturally conceived, mostly because Bruce was painfully shy at that time... However, she was spliced after Bruce had Icarus, so both parents contributed to that; of note, she was born from a normal surrogate, though immediately placed in an aging / post-processing tube for further downloads, cloning, and work on her skill sets

Other: notably she has 6 clones - who everyone calls 'Alt Tabs' - who have Icarus processing and are treated with the same methods as Paxton's Replicas - they lack their own will and minds, but she can easily split herself up into them quite a bit like he does. Tina's daughter is able to keep up with her half siblings with ease, all of them are quite formidible and not just because Paxton was their dad...

Height: 5'5"

Weight: 110* looks way more curvy and muscular than her weight implies, thanks to Icarus treatments, is actually quite strong

Hair: coppery-brown, heavy, wavy, and kept around shoulderblade length, prefers to keep it natural, but allows others to style it for her when they're bored

Eyes: brown, in light they're almost entirely copper colored, under attentive and well-kept brows

Appearance: lightly tanned skin with quite a few freckles and some moles, freckles grow in light and she likes it when people see them; has a slightly broader nose than she likes, lips are 'cute' with a bit of an overbite; quite busty, with strong legs and hands, athletic in the way that an aggressive head chearleader could be. She does in fact wear cheerleading outfits, found among the ruins of a school near the Mansion (on Repurposed Earth, that happens to be duplicated on the Rookery, that's a pleasant surprise!), and will wear shoes with no socks as shown. She is the in-your-face sort of happy, with a bold voice, quite unlike her father's.

Icarus Processing: Yes, both while being constructed in the lab, and after gestation; this definitely improved her physical traits, she's around 2x stronger than normal, and has an almost inexhaustable ability to run or be physically active. However, it more strongly boosted her Vortal abilities, as shown. The Icarus done to her Alts is less extensive, but allows her access to all of her normal abilities as well as physical traits, they just lack their own minds.

Image Credits: Doll Divine Shidabeeda Frock/Folly

Genetic Abilities: Command and Conquer! Tabitha is able to link not only Vortally-active minds and her own Alts, but normal people's minds as well. This is new to both her parents, and partly the reason why she had to go in for further adjustment on skill use. She's careful to ask first, unless it's an absolute emergency, because she's heard the tales of Paxton intruding on people's minds, and doesn't want to give 'that' impression. At a distance of about 200 meters, Tabitha can sense, sense through, and command any non-Combine human mind. Vortigaunts are thankfully excluded from this command, however she can still communicate with them at over 20 miles easily. She does feel that normal human minds are much more difficult to manipulate than Vortal ones, 'they're missing the right strings', is all she can describe. While she can link up minds very well, up to 20 individuals within a 50 meter sphere, she more or less lets mom and dad do that work. She has Alts and isn't afraid to use them. Her range on controlling a single Alt is over 200 miles, though at her full six of them, the range is effective at 50 miles. Through them, she can sense and speak, use her abilities to perceive, and even command others from them. This is exhausting, however, so she rarely is called upon to do that - she can split her attention up quite evenly and smoothly, from herself to six Alts to another half dozen people each, though with every step the range is weaker and the power consumption higher. She can easily exhaust herself if she must gather a large group, which she has had to do at least once or twice in emergencies. (The tremendous advantage of being able to herd with 6 of herself, as she can pass commands down a lengthy corridor while hundreds of refugees are shuffled away from a battle site... and then collapsing for three days to recover...)
Skills or Profession: Search and retrieval, but also called upon to help capture or defeat Combine enemies. She's been trained with sniping and exotic ranged weaponry such as harpoon guns and crossbows, both of which are inexplicably available in quite a few locations around any given Earth... Navigation and pathing are easy for her, and she has a remarkable memory for locations and landmarks, able to flesh out her mental map using the Alts, and then passing that information along via her network to others. However she is also gifted with psychology, and will evaluate nearby people just in case there's someone needing space, or help. She has experience as well as downloads with commanding Alts as well as troops - with clear and short instructions given to the right people at the right time. She does expect her commands to be followed promptly and correctly, as she sometimes doesn't anticipate what might happen if they are failed or go off too slow. In the Rookery era, as with the Post-Combine world she's from, she is best suited to exploration and cartography, and retrieving those who are lost among the ruins. She's not much of a fighter, but could certainly hold her own. If she's being sent out to a dangerous locale, she will make sure that her Alts are in pairs, and two of them are with her when they're in the field. When they are together like that, they're effectively ELLs in behavior patterns: one of them is talking while the others are nodding or carefully moving in tandem.
Personality: Though she is certainly a cheerleader type, the sort who worked her way to the top of that pyramid, she still does enjoy her down time and private moments. She is not one to give away all her personal details to strangers, and doesn't ask more than that of anyone she meets, either. Not curt, but definitely pointed in her direction of others. With her own Alts available, she hardly ever really gives orders to anyone but herself, unless Paxton or her mother are needing to have more eyes on events. She likes cheering others on, though, rather than barking commands.
Events or History: Born shortly before the Reborn groups were being made, as Melissa was practically beside herself with, well, everything in her life. She'd put herself to work in the labs at both the Medusa and the Enrichment Center, and realized there were a few 'combinations' she hadn't seen being done naturally. So, as Bruce had just come off of the Icarus table himself, his daughter was created using post-Icarus cells. He would check in on the surrogate mother frequently, drawn to his child, and Tina surely did as well, though more later because the lion's share of her powers were showing up in this girl. In short order, she was born, cared for around five months, and the moved back into the Icarus facility mainly for downloads and to have her Alts made. Even as an infant she was able to manipulate people, and anyone who had strong Vortal sight claimed they could actively see who was the focus of her attention by how connected their heads were. She was aged to about 10, and given both instruction and reinforcement for her use of the Alts. Over time she was tapped for exploration duties along with her siblings, but didn't do active combat at any time, before coming to the Rookery proper.

Dragons of Tabitha and her Alts: Tabitha is able to ride and manually control and communicate with a trio of dragons, one primarily bonded to herself, and the other two are Whiptails that are used by the Alts for the most part, however she's trained them herself and is easily apt to ride one while managing the others.

The Whiptails species and adoptables from DragonsAndVideoGames, on Deviantart; individual images below

Name: Hopper
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium-small 9' s / 55' l / 100' and 40' ws
Colors: *some change; belly from chin to tail tip, behind legs daisy yellow; face, antennae, neck, body, limbs, wing arms, tail rust orange to yellow-gold on feet and red-rust on wing fingers; central strip, case marking vibrant green*; face armor, inset spots, limb armor, dorstal strip deep blue-indigo*; wingsails main and neck frill web grade from bright lime green to sunny butter yellow at tips, silk wings muted with inset pale cream and lined in goldenrod; horns, dorsal ridge, claws graphite; eyes yellow
Features: Rainwing Silkwing hybrid, strongly Rainwing with face, antennae, and second wings Silk, also powers
Powers: Winged Flight, Hopper is truly speedy at very short distance flights, flicking into the air with incredible speed, and moving to a new spot in moments, hardly beating his wings. Obviously this is the source of his name. He can do more lengthy flights but isn't remarkably strong for carrying more than three human-sized items, and prefers to carry only his rider. He doesn't do that super-fast hop with anyone in tow, the speed and sudden acceleration is deadly. He can get a good head of speed with his main wings, and do extremely tight turns at speed using his tail and second wings, though if he has to zip around a lot he will get tired pretty quickly. On the other hand if he's not required to do much other than just soar or do a slow sweep, like they do when they're mapping an area, he can maintain about a ten mile an hour slow flight and reach up to around 35 without tiring for hours. His 'hop' speed has been recorded as over three hundred miles per hour, so there's that. He does prefer lower, slow flights above a landscape he can rest on, to conserve energy.
Communication, while Hopper can speak, in a clear but faint voice, he prefers to chirp and chitter, making musical sounds with his antennae and feet, as well as, oddly enough, his silk. He can understand Draconic, English, and apparently insect songs (he thinks they're pretty repetitious...), and speaks all of those quietly. He and Tabitha however had a good Vortal bond, and he can easily tell the difference between the 'real one' and the 'other bits of her'.
*Color Shifting, Hopper's trim markings, on face, neck, framing between belly and body scales, and limb armor are the only scales that are able to change, and they can become quite vibrant or dull in a complete rainbow and then some. Usually in the lime and indigo shades, they can reach yellow, white, grey, and darker greens, as well as violet, cyan and sky blues, or even black on the armor. He can control whether they're changing, but not exactly what they change to.
Silk Senses, using his antennae and even his neck frill fins, Hopper is able to hear both ultra-high and sub-sonic noises, discerning them from other sounds with ease even in a busy and noisy area. He'd be able to pick out footsteps in a crowd, and a sniper rifle's sight lens being adjusted... He can also direct his silk strands in ways that he uses as a spider might, to detect movement and vibration. Any of these senses are above and beyond normal hearing ranges, and normal touch sense, but they are also restricted to an area about 200 meters sphere with him at the center.
Silk Production, even though he has a Rainwing's body and limbs, he can produce silk from his forefeet that is of use more for sensing and triggers, than anything else. He can use a dab of it on a wall, that is nearly invisible, and will attach gently to anything that passes by - almost like a halo of micro-thread - and this thread then catches on stronger lines, a web of detection that only he is capable of using - he hears the breakage of those tiny fibers, rather than feeling them through silk lines elsewhere. This candyfloss-like stuff is left in areas where they know Combine is going to patrol, and he can sense when they've passed, to know when to send someone to investigate. He can produce other silks, including a tough rope-like strand that his rider can use to dangle herself, or pick up other people to do a quick rescue. That rope doesn't last very long, and will immediately dissolve on contact with water (which the other strands do not), so it's not of use in rainy or wet conditions. The fine fibers will eventually degrade entirely after about a week, but until then if you get it on your skin it'll feel scratchy almost like house insulation until it wears off.
Rainwing Claws, Tail, and Spit, though his venomous spit is weak, it's still capable of paralyzing animals about half the size of a Human, and delivering a reasonably painful sting to anything else. It won't kill anything on its own. His tail however is still remarkably strong and prehensile, along with the claws that normal Rainwings sport helping him to move through vertical areas with ease. He often scratches a spot with his claw and then directly spurts webbing into the groove.
Parentage: Unknown Rainwing mother and likely a Rain-Silkwing hybrid father, unrelated to those in the Rookery
Origin: Adopted from LunarSolstice981, original base lines Luna-the-Nightwing, modded by GuildKnight, on Deviantart; WoF by Tui Sutherland
Other Info: Hopper tolerates the Whiptails mostly because they're often with the other versions of 'his' human. But he can be a bit snippy toward them, as well as being quite protective of Tabitha overall.

Name: Sugar Dust (Larger, Right facing)
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium-large (long/wings) 9' s / 90' l / 84' ws
Colors: underbelly from chin to tail tip mushroom white-cream; face, neck, body, limbs, tail peach; body from mid-neck to rump has very faintly darker soot color under brighter mushroom-white dust; wingsails graded brown through peach highly transparent; horns two tone tan and beige; orange eyes
Features: Whiptail as above link, on the larger size for Rookery Whiptails
Powers: Winged Flight, Sugar Dust is a good distance flier, and can build up a good head of speed when she needs to, but overall she is a steady and light dragon in the air. She is not known to panic in battle or stressful situations, and can be relied upon to grab things and take to the air in moments, and has an excellent mental map of any given location even without her rider's commands. She can lift a large amount of weight, and in rescue missions does have a harness that is fitted for up to a dozen human-sized people or goods. She doesn't do a lot of stunts in the air, she gets in and gets out, safely.
Communication and Skills, Sugar is very bright, and understands verbal commands from her rider as well as the overall tone of those around her, and can distinguish someone being snarky from someone actually needing to get her to do something. She has a very wide array of commands that she understands with non-verbal cues, though those are exclusive to Tabitha (a pat on the shoulder, a specific hand gesture, etc). She doesn't really distinguish between Tabitha's Alts, but that's never been a problem because there's always more of her than people - or dragons - expect. She can convey instruction to lesser dragons, other Whiptails in particular do listen to her chittering and barking with interest.
Tail Smash, of the Whiptails to use their tail, she definitely does, and doesn't regret it. As a defensive maneuver she has been known to smack an entire squad of Combine soldiers off their feet and fly off with her precious cargo. It's possible that she's lost most of the feeling in the tail itself, over time, but she does know that when it breaks it does sting, and she gets it checked out after any battle. Thankfully there are dragon healers on hand now for this purpose. Since she's quite long and half of her entire length is that tail, she also uses it to 'stunt' in the air when needed, pulling it around to do rapid direction changes, or to 'snipe' from above if she spots an enemy within range while flying.
Parentage: Unknown Whiptails, unrelated to any in the Rookery, though she's quite the catch and some of the males have expressed interest in mating
Other Info: Sugar Dust does seem a bit put off that Hopper doesn't like her. It's clear that she wants to have a good working relationship, she likes knowing her rank among a group, and will be sure to visibly do what Hopper wants, perhaps in the hopes that eventually he'll be okay with her. Since she is usually tasked with an Alt Tab, they don't always need to cross paths while working.
Name: (Copy)Pasta (Smaller, left-facing)
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium (long) 7'4" s / 70' l / 56' ws
Colors: base color pale cream; face, neck, body, legs, tail all have pale buff tan broken rosettes; thin starburst markings on neck, belly, back in brown; wing elbows marked in mottled dark brown; wingsails highly transparent gold; horns cloudy tan; eyes bright green
Features: Whiptail standard
Powers: Winged Flight, Pasta is quite the stunt flier, though with less durability or distance to his tricks. He's the one that you call in to distract or interrupt, while others do more serious work. Fast in the air, and remarkably agile, he can do loops around a Strider while it's trying to find a target, and even wrap his tail around its gun port while it's trying to fire! He has been injured on numerous occasions but keeps right on getting up in the enemy's face, until the battle is done, or he's too exhausted to do any more. Of all of the Whiptails in the Rookery he is most likely to require healing after every encounter, so Tabitha keeps a close eye on how often he's actually out doing field work. He cannot carry much more than three human-sized weights, but is often out there with ammunition drops for the ground and other dragon troops.
Tricks and Commands, Pasta takes orders from Tabitha (and Alt Tabs) only, though he's not dumb and certainly understands the difference between screams of 'get out of there' and 'I need help here'. When one of the Alts is riding him she does use a harness, and he responds to those same hand and body signals as Sugar does, though sometimes he is a bit headstrong - or just too in the moment and misses them.
Tail Whipping, he definitely likes smacking at things with his tail, and to that end, when they're in the field he has been given a 'tail wrap' that snugs around his tail, to reinforce it. He's getting used to the weight of it, and Tabitha thinks maybe at some point it'll get armored and carry bludgeoning weapons too. He is very accurate with it, after all, so why not exploit that as much as possible?
Parentage: Unknown, certainly not 'wild' Whiptails, unrelated to others in the Rookery system but his markings are similar to some others.
Other Info: He is quite ... brave. One might say incredibly stupidly brave, that one might be literally everyone around him. Tabitha loves him for it. Also, notably, Tabitha has approached Melissa about getting Icarus done for this dragon. Since they don't have any compelling evidence that it might help, she's resisted so far, but there are plenty of reasons to try... It might help him regenerate, or just reinforce his tail, so there is pretty good reason behind the request.