Name: Dr. Darnold Pepper

Gender: Male, gay (he is fond of 'queer' himself)

Age/DOB: 38 @ RC / unknown

Origin: Aperturth, Black Mesa

Family: unknown direct relatives, in a very casual relationship with Tommy Coolatta

Other: he's insanely charming, and a lot of people like him, but he is also a bit weird and won't hesitate to test out potions on people even if he doesn't know what it will do; this has caused him to have a few enemies or at least people unwilling to work with him... though they're probably all dead; Created thanks to the HLVRAI character voiced by Logmore in the RadioTVSolutions stream group

Height: 6'

Weight: around 170, a bit on the padded side, though not unhealthy, not remarkably strong

Hair: salt and pepper black afro, cut close, loosely wooly, has a nicely trimmed beard and mustache as shown

Eyes: very dark brown, small, slightly baggy, always looks quite cheerful

Appearance: medium to dark brown skin with a number of small scars from potion incidents as well as lab accidents (yes there's a difference!) tends to wear casual-Friday outfits every day, loves bright colors and prints, and loafers - when he's not in a labcoat with jet boots and goggles, big gloves, and protective gear; has a slightly nasal and high pitched voice, but a large vocabulary. Always sounds a little like he's judging you, but he rarely actually is

Genetic Abilities: Unknown, but it seems he is able to concoct liquids with ease, which may very well be a Vortal power somehow; also he seems to be reasonably impervious to the effects of drinking, say, gasoline and mercury...

Icarus Processing: none, though being around all that Powerade for years (and the radioactive waste, and the otherworldly influences) at Black Mesa may have altered his DNA a little

Image Credits: Meiker / kaspbarks

Events or History: Though the world seemed to end around him, Darnold didn't really notice until it was over. Then they robbed a bank. Fun times. He is generally speaking a pacifist though what he's doing working for a military contractor like Black Mesa, ???

He and Potion attend the Checkerboard Ball, working the bar and also performing in the Mixology demonstration!

Dragon

Name: Potion
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: large (big wings, long tail) 12' s / 54' l / 40' ws
Colors: body creamy peachy off-white, with peachy paws fading from darkest to light at body; tail also peach-tan ended, and first set of feathers; body at neck, chest, belly, and hips has sharp peach striping; wings have pale yellow at first joint, redder peach, and brilliant sunset red-orange to incredible sunlit yellow primary tips; eyes blue; horns and claws also pale off-white with peach variations (slightly redder on horns/neck feathers)
Features: Feathered Icewing (whether this is a real Pyrrhan variation or not, she is all but unique among her kind here in the Rookery and flaunts this); paw-like feet with short curved claws, floofy feathering on entire body with very tiny feathers and down, longer accents at shoulder, fronts of forelegs, and rump near tail, along neck, and jaw; tail is feathers in a large fan and almost half total length; head has a beak-like mouth, long and narrow shape,, with hooked jaw accents, external ears (floofy), and two back-pointing very jagged short horns; neck has feather crest; All of these things seem to have evolved for a 'keeping warm' rather than 'ignoring the cold' exterior, similar to a snow leopard
Powers: Winged Flight, if you watch the sky at sunset or dawn you might catch a glimpse of this magnificent flier as she executes both intricate turns and rolls, and speed dives to hunt. Her favored times are paired with 'cloudy' and 'foggy' but she's undaunted even in stiff winds or chill blizzards. In fact those are good too, when her coloration mixes with lightning or underlighting from street lamps or search lights.
Verbal Speech, though she can and does speak Draconic - it's with a dialect that many others from 'that world' don't recognize, so she sticks mostly to English and technical (or made-up) jargon thanks to residing with a Mixologist like Darnold. She has a very big vocabulary and does not fumble, if she doesn't know how to say something, she will wait until she understands the context or finds a better word.
Warm, Dry, Uplifting, where many Icewings concentrate on forcing cold to obey their magical whim, Potion stirs the very air currents, to provide a blanket of warm air when it's chill, dry breezes when it's too wet, and lift for when the air is heavy or turbulent. She has 'weather control' in a nutshell, and because she has a keen mind and knowledge of physics as well as chemistry, she knows just how to counteract the worst storm, or brew one up in her local presence. She can sense through the winds if they're mild, detecting the eddies and motion around large objects, or the steady movement of things going through them - from the vibration of a hummingbird's wings, the breath of hunting creatures, or the unnatural fan blowing a Combine drop ship through their territory - she can sense how fast something will be 'too close for comfort'. And if she's within about 2 miles, she can create difficult patches to get through. Dropping the temperature in one spot, freezing a fan up. Mixing warm and cold and dry quickly, boom - thunder and a touch of lightning. Wet and cold, oops snow just covered the tracks you were following sorry. She's very good at this.
Also very good with Chemicals and Mixtures - improbably, she can claim to be a 'natural chemist', mixing and matching all kinds of liquid matter until it 'works'. Whatever that means. Ask Darnold. He'll probably drink whatever it was she just made.
Parentage: Unknown feathered icewings
Origin: adopted from TerrorTheArtist with lines by Eclirra on Deviantart, WoF by Tui Sutherland
Other Info: She and her rider attend the Ball, and she has actually put in for a spot on the Speed Dating event. Who might she find?

Currently also instructing at Carramba High, the Practical Draconic Chemistry course periods 3, 7, 8