Name: Tina Saito; Beh lah'chackt - she who links

Gender: Female, bi, more hetero

Age/DOB: 25ish / 1998

Origin: Armacham-Aperture Genetic Lab

Family: Has several common splice donors with a few of the Pantheon including Soo-Hyun Lee; has both a daughter and son with Paxton, Arachne and Theseus; son Drew with Cedric; as well as a spliced daughter, Tabitha, with Bruce

Other: Is flirtatious enough that she has several unspliced but unborn offspring with a number of Pantheon members

Height: 5'6

Weight: 120, average build with good musculature though not particularly strong, attractively built

Hair: black, slightly wavy when very long, kept to mid-back as shown, rarely in tails or braids

Eyes: dark brown, angled and narrower with age

Appearance: Tan skin with a few moles, pretty and enjoys skirts more than pants, loves dressing up (as shown) but knows the value of practical wear. Often smiling, has a fun smirk.

Genetic Abilities: Very strong telepathic group linking with any mind within range; very long range telepathy (up to 100 miles), works as a 'conduit' for sharing information between individuals or from one to a group (does not require touch but is used to holding the hand of the sender at least), Strong empathy particularly with groups, somewhat susceptible to emotion controls by strong persons, also can exert some amount of control over weaker persons.

Image Credits: Doll Divine Sari Maker / Tektek Maker / Rinmaru Mega Steampunk (below)

Skills or Profession: Had Tina been allowed, she would have been involved with the Perseus command training as Paxton had. The male-dominated field of military projects however precluded this and it always galled her. She is exceptional with group-linking, and as a 'switchboard' for messages between too-distant individuals she's unmatched. Melissa had suggested on numerous occasions that she should clone Tina a few times to see whether she'd be just as good at it - or maybe better - as Pax is. (She would be, in fact, better by a good margin. This is known due to any contact with the Zekiran version...) Information gathering and observation of emotions was the focus of Armacham's intentions for her, though, but she did sneak in some post-Event downloads for controlling soldiers or scouts.

Tina is absolutely invaluable to the Pantheon. Even extremely distant scouts on patrol can count on her to receive their weak telepathic sendings, and it has become not just second-nature, but her primary nature, to relay those thoughts to Paxton or one of the others when he's out. She is very much his match, in that regard.

Personality: Tina is a little jumpy around new things or people, and slightly distractible when there are things she's actually interested in going on around her. But she is extremely reliable even under stress or duress. She is fully capable of putting aside her own personal fears or desires, even her distracted flirting, when there is something more important to be done.

She is easily one of the most intelligent members of the Pantheon, but it's hard to really get her to admit that. Because she is a conduit, she has had access to a huge amount of information as it's passed between minds. The Vorts have insisted that this is information that she still carries with her, her aura they say is absolutely packed with it. Where Melissa's memories are all kept soundly within her brain cells, Tina's appears to be kept in her Vortal space.

Events or History: Tina has always been a curious and knowledgable girl. She was given both Icarus processing and information-gathering training from an early age, and thus everything her eyes can see, ears can hear, and mind can touch - she knows. She doesn't speed-read, but she reads voraciously. She takes care to learn more about something before making any assumptions, and with that in mind, she has a confidence about her that extends to everyone.

Even as a young girl, she was reliable when the Pantheon needed to take down GLADOS, find their strays in the Enrichment Center, take their Outlands journeys safely, and combat the Combine forces they encountered. Not only relied upon by Paxton to relay his thoughts or instructions, Tina has her own methods to gather knowledge, though they're more subtle than his, and you'd never know when she's prying on your Vortessence.

The Vortigaunts have named her Beh lah'chackt, she who links, because she is a Vortal conduit in both essence and conscious behavior. She facilitates things in a way that hardly anyone even notices, but enjoys that anonymity where Paxton thrives in his attention.

Her dragon's boost to her range and power level is obvious, Anakatono is herself a link to knowledge.

Dragon

Name: Anakatono (to mix)
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: Small (long noodledragon) / 5' shoulder / 35' long / 20' wingspan
Colors: White body with cyan spot markings, blue tail scales mottled in reflectivity, cyan and blue feathers on wings, brilliant white tail tuft feathers, black horns, crimson eyes
Features: Kaelrin species, four legs with thumbed foreclaws and larger 3-clawed feet; two feathered wings; scaled tail, long noodly hide-covered body; face is narrow and 'gavial-like', with large eyes and solid conical back-pointing horns; feathered tail tip; can pass nearly any feature on to offspring
Powers: Absorb Information - from any source, be it a book, scroll, sign, verbal language, body language, scribbled notes (she can in fact read 'messy doctor script'), cryptic chanting, screaming... Anything can be 'decoded' by this dragon; Winged flight, verbal and Vortal communication, world-walking (via magic spell use)
Parentage: Unknown Kaelrin
Origin: Gingerpatch-59 colored/adoptable, species by Nai-alei, rehomed from Katt2015
Other Info: Though Anakatono was not among the 'alpha' level Kaelrin in her group, it seemed that their goddess and great mother Analchemy bestowed some form of blessing on this brightly colored child. From a distant Earth filled with dragons and magic, to the Rookery where she was most needed, Anakatono realized immediately that there was a bond to be found among the strangely powered Humans of the area. One in particular drew her attention, Tina, Beh lah'chackt, who had similar powers to her own. She knew how to use those powers, almost as well as her instructors!

Since Anakatono can fly, she can easily reach the edge of Tina's mental limits - but her own are much wider. Since there is little in the way of interference with her magical power - Vortessence can be seen and manipulated but she isn't distracted by it (say, by the chunk of Xenian crystal that Tina wears in a necklace, which for other Vortal people might prove to be shiny and entrancing in both physical and Vortal eyes) - Anakatono can effectively multiply her bond's range by tenfold. She eagerly does so - this dragon takes greatly after her goddess, but has such a strong dedication to her bond's task that Agape also seems to have touched this dragon.