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This page concerns a character played by corviraptor.

Description
Subject is a roughly 3 meter tall organism with traits resembling several unrelated amniote taxa. Its body consists of a humanoid torso, an ambiguous "lower" torso, and lower extremities that mimic dromaeosaur anatomy. Most of its body is covered with down feathers, which also compose its "hair" in humanoid regions. Some pennaceous feathers are present, composing the tail fan and wings that characterize its lower set of arms. Its primary feathers are, unusually, distributed along its fourth digit, allowing it to fold its wings for quadrupedal locomotion similar to pterosaurs, with feathers standing in for the membranes that characterize pterosaur wings.

Locomotion consists of a nearly even mixture of bipedal and quadrupedal movement. Hexapedal movement does occur in rare circumstances, typically when climbing large sets of stairs. Its wings are not capable of flight, but assist with climbing and stabilizing while running bipedally.

Internal organs are largely concentrated in the lower torso, although most of the upper torso's volume is taken up by an enlarged heart in order to sustain the individual's large and often upright body mass. Its respiratory system is typical of that of a bird's, featuring seven large air sacs that bellow air through its body in lieu of a proper diaphram. Its air sacs constitute 10% of its volume, in contrast to most birds' 15%, and are distributed between the upper and lower torsos evenly. It is believed that this reduced volume is a result of the subject's flightlessness.

The subject is mesothermic. Due to gigantothermy, the subject has trouble handling hot weather for prolonged periods of time. Due to its sheer mass and its feathers insulating it, however, it takes a very long time for its body to heat up in these circumstances.

The subject is able to modify its own body structure over time, being able to modify integumentary features within minutes; however, larger scale changes can take months to complete.

A plant-like structure, designated DVC-72, is incorporated into the subject's body. Originally, DVC-72 was thought to be a parasite — however, researchers discovered that the subject actually extracts nutrients from DVC-72, making the subject the parasite and DVC-72 the host.

Taxonomy
While morphologically it may appear that the individual is a remarkable example of chimerism, genetic samples from across its body firmly place it as a member of the species Corvus cornix, the Hooded Crow, consisting of a single distinct genotype. Despite this, many still refer to it as a chimera.

DVC-72 is actually a currently undescribed species of terrestrial macroalgae. Its resemblance to azalea is likely a form of Emsleyan mimicry, evolving to attract pollinating & herbivorous animals to consume and incorporate into its larger mass. DVC-72 is the only known instance of this species. Samples of arbitrary size taken from the organism invariably die within minutes of losing contact, and fragmentation has never been observed. This indicates that its genome may have been adapting across the individual for millions of years, making it possibly one of the oldest multi-cellular organisms in existence. The mechanism for this adaptation is currently undescribed.

DVC-72's complex behaviors and capabilities previously thought impossible for protists to achieve appears to be a result of cellular structures, proteins, and genetic instructions from organisms that it has incorporated. The organism contains genetic information from nearly every native organism in its region, including species extinct for hundreds of thousands of years — genetic mutations and degradation make positive identification of older species impossible. Some researchers point out that, were it not for DVC-72, the genetic information from these extinct species would be lost thousands of years ago — making incorporation with it a grizzly evolutionary success for these species.

Behavior
Subject is easily excitable, yet also easily flustered. It is very prone to neurotic behaviors and will tear up when feeling any emotion to a strong degree. It is often described as "dog-like" in demeanor, which inspired its dog-themed attire. It appears to enjoy hugs, but would probably cry if it tried to ask for one.

It is often characterized as mischievous, and has a generally irreverent, carefree attitude — although it does care a lot about the people around it. It doesn't seem to fear much for itself, strongly fearing for others instead. It places a lot of responsibility onto itself to help others.

It has uncharacteristically strong volition. Keeping itself from being overtaken by its host causes constant mental exertion, but the subject appears to remain unconcerned by this. It has a natural strong desire for survival when the odds are stacked against it, and an immense respect for others who do the same.

Subject is averse to the supernatural, believing that everything has an underlying natural explanation, even if it is not currently known. It does not have a proper soul, and it does not believe that it needs one.

It refuses to prefer any given name for itself, but has a fondness of the nicknames others give it.

Early Life
Not much is known about the subject's origins, as it appears to purposefully keep itself mysterious. Due to its genetic identification, it is believed that it originally was a mundane Hooded Crow before contact with DVC-72. The subject acknowledges that it was originally ensnared by this structure. How the roles were reversed remains a mystery, although the subject claims it survived through "pure will" alone.

Subject has been biologically dated to be approximately 20 years old.

Current Activity
The subject has erected structures of considerable size by manipulating its host, growing angular, rock like structures from it that actually result from petrifaction of DVC-72's "bark". The areas afflicted with its host are abnormally cool, even in the hot climates where they tend to appear. The subject has developed a fascination with technology and weaponry, despite not having much reason to use the latter.

It has challenged the Source to infect it on multiple occasions to try and "mind duel" the Source with its strong will, but the Source remains disinterested, mostly preferring to kick the subject's ass through physical means. This has left the subject with very little options to help people afflicted with the Source, challenging for the first time the strong sense of hope that has kept the subject alive for almost two decades.