Name: Dr. Rachel Cooper PhD

Gender: Female, hetero

Age/DOB: *30/1956 (placed in stasis in 1979, removed 2030)

Origin: Seattle Washington, Repurposed Earth (and others)

Family: Deceased parents, no known children before being reawakened; when Melissa was putting together newer 'reborn' friends, she tossed in a tiny touch of Rachel for Laura; was mixed with spare DNA by Rookery GLaDOS and is the 'mother' of Rose and Prisma of the Color Guard

Other: Had a massive crush on and actually dated Winslow Freeman, that is: Gordon's father, in high school.

Height: 5'8

Weight: 135, muscular, but not toned, underweight at times because of forgetting to eat

Hair: red headed stepchild red, more than wavy, frizzy in dry weather, doesn't much care for style so every once in a while she just lops it off with whatever scissors she can reach.

Eyes: blue-green, pale, 00ac9e hex

Appearance: Creamy fair skin, freckles in sun, but not obviously scarred. Almost always looks like she's been up too late, and has had too much coffe. Pretty much likes wearing jeans, lab coat, and tee-shirt, Doc Martin boots before they were popular. Sometimes adds an HEV-like body armor with helmet, and usually has a tool belt or portal devices somewhere near her. Adds fingerless (or rubber) gloves as needed. Voice: low for a woman, speaks with a bit of a twang mostly from her time at Aperture, does not get loud unless something's really pissed her off.

Genetic Abilities: None known, but is exceptionally intelligent.

Icarus Processing: none, though has seriously considered doing so just to see what happens. She is a good candidate, according to Melissa.

Brains (raw smarts) 8
---Education (schooling) 8
---Genius (associating information) 9
---Knack (grasp of new things) 7
Brawn (raw body ability) 5
---Strength 4
---Size 5
---Endurance 6
Subtlety (social skill) 6
---Wit (politics, quips) 7
---Charm (body language, coyness) 6
---Looks (physical appearance) 5
Reflex (body reactions) 5
---Dexterity (hands) 7
---Speed (reaction time and running speeds) 5
---Nimbleness (full body reflex) 4
Other (psionics? hacking? science?) SCIENCE! 8

Image Credits: DollWizard, elouai+tektek / Icon/City of Heroes

App, short for Aperture (male white flitter)

Skills or Profession: Teleportation Technology, Computer Programming, Electronics and Mechanical Engineering. Rachel is good at computers, technology, and thinking with Portals. She's also great with arguing with artificial intelligence, making sure things don't go completely south when a disaster occurs, and scavenging for parts when needed. Exceptional at appraising an object for its component parts, ripping them out, and using them for something else.
Melee Weapons: do not go near her when she's holding tools. Ever.
Ranged Weapons: She will also throw those tools – preferably screwdrivers – into your face. Uses a hunting rifle reasonably well, can shoot paper wad baskets unerringly.
Other Weapons (explosives, etc): Prefers a portal gun and/or a gravity gun for their propelling and movement options, is an excellent shot using the grav gun and a small object.
Armor: none, other than dodging.
Personality: open and honest, unafraid to point fingers when necessary, but generally keeps to herself unless there's something worth complaining about. Is not a go-getter type, but works well on her own. She is a shameless flirt, and in the swinging 70s could have been accused of sleeping her way to the top of Aperture's departments. But she wasn't actually even trying to do that, it's more likely that her superiors wanted to keep her on hand - for whatever, because she was good at everything they put her on. She is not too keen on heights, doesn't like airplanes, and prefers a quiet environment to a loud one, for working anyway. Rachel likes to enjoy life, but at her own speed. Sometimes that speed is hyper-caffeinated, and sometimes it's sipping brandy in a nice fire-lit den, and others it's toking up with a bunch of Rastafari musicians.

Events or History: Born and raised in the burbs of Seattle, Washington, it was a quirk of fate that sent Rachel on her science path. Well, actually, a mad crush on a certain dark haired, green eyed geek. Rachel went to high school with the infamous Winslow Freeman (That's Gordon Freeman's father, by the way), even going so far as joining the science club to maybe attract his attention. She did get it, but their teenage fling was just that, a fling, and he was accepted to a university a bit before she was. She began to study in earnest about computers, engineering and applications. This led to a degree in computer technology and a published work about artificial intelligence (which was in its infancy) and its potential in both military and domestic use. Though she applied to several companies, Black Mesa included, they didn't have the area of research she wanted to go into, and thus her application to Aperture was accepted. The Borealis time travel program was already well on its way by the time she arrived and for whatever reason she was placed with the think tank there to aid in some nutball device that Cave Johnson wanted made.
Age: 16 Event: High school pool party incident with Winslow. Heh. You know the one.
Age: 18 Event: Attending local University for a semester before being able to leave for MIT
Age: 22 Event: Graduates MIT with several degrees in technology and engineering.
Age: 23 Event: Hired by Aperture to work on Borealis time travel device. Note that by this time she'd certainly attracted Keenan's attention and was under observation along with several other employees. However, he had encountered her much earlier, while attempting to entice Winslow to work at Black Mesa, rather than his eventual gig remaining in Seattle with Armacham's main branch. She was more apt to move around the country.
Age: 26 Event: October 1979, Rachel takes a 3 week vacation to Jamaica, at which time the Borealis is turned on, and leaps forward to 2006 without her. She is put in stasis by Keenan.
Age: 26 Event: though technically still thinking she's heading home to work on the Borealis, when Keenan opens her stasis capsule it is in the year 2030 and after a considerable amount of historic events. Rachel gets used to the new technology available very easily, adjusting to the world as it is quickly enough.
Age: 29 Event: Along with several others, Rachel enjoys leaping from dimension to dimension, spending some quality time stealing Portal Corp and Crey technologies while at Paragon City, and then equally enjoying hitting up the bizarre technology and magic classes at Carramba High. And then, dragons happen.
With the return to Rookery Earth, she is quite intrigued by the fact that they have a Borealis that wasn't a think tank, but more a ship? She and others are up there in the frozen north, and it seems that at least her dragons are fit for the weather and ice!

Dragons

Name: Silent Night (lol not so silent actually)
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: medium-large / 12'9 shoulder (bipedal) / 32' long (including tail) 44' wingspan
Colors: White, Orange, tabby / deer camo colored, colored lights
Features: Deer-like dragon, hoof feet with thumbs, bipedal, slender horns, nose hook, bare tail, single fingered wings, light bling!
Powers: Brings the Bling - affects lights and ambience in local area (up to 4000 square feet/volume), Cause or Fix Electrical Short, Improbably Land On Things (ledges, rooftops), Impeccable Balance, Surprise (invisibility?), Verbal Speech (almost always singing), Telepathy (minor, usually only with bond), Teleportation (seasonal, works only in Winter)
Parentage: Unknown, originally supposed to belong to Shiolar and has been reclaimed
Origin: Winter Gather 2005, by Rachel (the Nexus participant, ironically, not the character in question)
Other Info: Enjoys the portals that Rachel can work with, and really loves lighting up the dreary interior of the Rookery. Is unfailingly cheerful, though not obliviously so - does comprehend that the world they've entered is a bit bleak, so he does his level best to make people happier.

Name: Fenyobundath (hungarian: fir / fur)
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: medium-large / 12' shoulder / 40' long, 70' wingspan
Colors: Green and Red, evergreen and foxfur
Features: Cyanide dragon - huge clawed feet, double-spaded tail, very muscular, finned ears, jagged jaw, sharp horns, 3-fingered huge wings with clawed wrist
Powers: Telepathy (strong with bond, good distance), Winged Flight (huge, huge wings), Fire and Frost Breath (burns very hot but for a short time, can frost over anything when there is a bit of moisture in the air), Plant growth (can aid ailing plants, sprout seedlings and grow to maturity as long as there's enough space and nutrients)
Parentage: Unknown
Origin: Winter Gather 2004, by Cyanide
Other Info: Though quiet, Fen is somewhat active and enjoys patrolling the scrubland looking for good trees to enhance. She's a good self-starter, and prefers to be outside, primarily due to her massive wing size. She really loves soaring over the foot hills and canyons of New Mexico, after all it's not all desert and flatness there - they're near enough to mountains and the Grand Canyon that plenty of fir trees grow.