Name: Uriell

Gender: Female, bisexual

Age/DOB: ~10 / 2023

Origin: Repurposed Earth, AAEC, Alabama

Family: All ELLs are her sisters, spliced from numerous sources ** Eventually has a spliced son, Domiel, with Holiday

Other: As with Norell and Tariell created to replace those lost over time

Height: 5'9"

Weight: 135* quite muscular and with good upper-body strength, weighs less due to Icarus, might even be called 'burly'

Hair: Brownish black, loose afro curls, usually kept up in wrap or with tie, otherwise past shoulders

Eyes: dark grey, brown tinted, round with heavy lashes

Appearance: brown-tan skinned, with small moles and freckles, considered to be quite beautiful by basically anyone, it's a good thing she likes the attention; full lips, a broad nose, and strong jaw line; prefers to wear the bright yellow-gold Icarus-based outfit shown, but does sometimes also put on an overcoat of dull brown, gloves, and sports equipment if need be. Has attachments for both right and left handed Portal gun use, and long-fall heels.

Genetic Abilities: where most of the ELLs are considered great at fixing items and maintenance, Uriell is more the take-it-apart type, with a Vortal eye for weak points and structural lines almost as though she can 'see through walls'; also, she's just incredibly strong, around 4x normal, and heals at a rate around 3x quicker than normal. She does take damage, but hardly notices it. Also has a telepathic and empathic connection to all ELLs, with a richly golden aura that any Vortal sense can pick up.

Icarus Processing: Yes, before being aged and released, treatments increased her physical strength and durability, lightened her weight, and bolstered her Vortal sensing.

Image Credits: Valve Portal 2 concept PotatoFools + Monolith (logo)

Skills or Profession: Though given the full ELL maintenance and upkeep suite of skill downloads, her concentration has been more in demolitions and restructuring, than putting anything back together. She works with others to clear passages in facilities, always checking that the area is secure and won't collapse if things are moved around first using her Vortal senses. Uriell has consulted with both Mars and Arne about explosives training, and seems to be quite interested in that Holiday fellow, and not just because he's an ordinance man...
Personality: Gregarious and somewhat louder than most ELLs, Uriell packs quite a bit of a punch in all situations. She doesn't particularly need to be the center of attention, but when the spotlight is on her, she doesn't shy from it like many of her sisters. As with many of the 'strong' types around, she eagerly participates in lifting and throwing contests, while clearing out locations in need of restoration. And oddly like some of them too, she truly does feel like she 'should' become a parent ... if she finds the right folks to pair up with, or perhaps just ask Melissa to help out. **

Events or History: Norell, Uriell, and Tariell were created to replace a number of ELLs gone over the past years, and they have all stretched out into territory that none had gone before. In personality and functionality, no longer being restrained by Armacham's production lines, Uriell quickly became popular among 'normals' even with her tremendous strength and the fact that she and her sisters all basically move and look around them exactly the same way when they're in the same room. She uses that unnerving feature to take people off guard, and enjoys their responses when she puts them at ease. With dragons in the mix, she is a front line ground fighter, as well as working on the improvements or gathering of supplies for the facilities.

When not needed for clearing spaces in the Rookery proper, she loves spending time in the Ranch, mostly watch Buffet play with the Antlions and stir up sandstorms on the perimeter.

Dragon

Name: Buffet
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium, 10' shoulder / 43' l / 80' ws
Colors: Overall buff sandy cream, with tiny specks of tan/caramel on all cream parts, armor is brighter yellow-cream with faint white or pale yellow speckling, with a tan and white-speckled center stripe, wingsails and fin are bright yellow mottled with cloudy white patches, horns, claws are caramel yellow, eyes are grey, tongue is black
Features: Sandwing, four strong limbs with 5 and 4 sharp claws and heel-claw on hind, two leathery 4 fingered wings with elbow strut and wrist claw (too short to be a digit), scaley skin with softer belly, large overlapping spade shaped scales on sides, fronts of limbs, back and neck, tail, dorsal fin from head to mid-tail, tail has large venom stinger, head is blocky with short nose horn, high jaw nubs, external ears, and short backswept horns, forked tongue
Powers: Winged Flight, Buffet lives up to her name, forcing great volumes of air under her slightly-ragged wings. She can fly under almost any bad condition, but it does come at a cost, her wingsails require maintenance, and she hopes that at some point one of the Humans or even the Vorts might be able to heal her left wing a bit. Even with the damage, she can still speed through calm air like nobody's business, and in the dry warm desert air she can soar with greater ease even with those tears. However, she does tend to be on the ground a lot more than typical flying dragons, and can dig like crazy.
Digging, though she doesn't actively burrow underground, if she's in loose dirt, dry sand, or other such substances, she can easily tear away great piles of it to bury herself or items in moments. She's of tremendous use in this regard when it comes time to hide things near the Rookery, because not only can she cover it up, she remembers flawlessly where any buried goods are, and can uncover them with her wings later.
Verbal Communication, Buffet speaks English, Vort, and Draconic, picking up terms from one or another and occasionally mixing and matching. Only her little Human friend and a few others (Particularly Lane and his children) can really follow her speech when it wanders like that. But she understands a lot of technical details, including information about explosives, construction and destruction, and materials required for all of those things. In other words, when Holiday asks for a blasting cap she's not going to hand him a baseball cap...
Venom Stinger, Sandwings come equipped with that nasty stabby bit on the end of their tail, and hers she uses more as a club than to inject venom. Her venom is still potent, but she reserves it for Combine soldies, preferring to chase and kill her food prey by flying or running... or digging traps. The stinger is reinforced, she can and does stab right through Combine transport vehicle walls to kill what's inside.
Fire Breath, though she does use her fire breath to help keep enemies at bay, her aim with it is not all that great, and it's only good for short, 25 to 30 meter accuracy at best. It is quite hot, definitely more so when she's had the chance to bask in the sun a while, so it will melt weak metals and burn flammable items easily in that short area.
Parentage: Unknown purebred Sandwing parents, she is Spackle's mother with Mudwing Grit
Origin: Adopted from Furrygamer2003 at Deviantart
Other Info: Buffet is a bit older and considers herself wiser than many of the younger dragons found at the Rookery, and she's not really wrong about it. Though she tends to make quite the first impression, she is calm and sensible outside of combat or adventure, and will go to great lengths to protect her Human and Vort friends.