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This page concerns a character played by corviraptor.

Her name is not "N/A", she explicitly does not have a name.

Description
The subject, hereafter referred to in this article as DVC-72-1, is a roughly 3 meter tall organism with traits resembling several unrelated amniote taxa. DVC-72-1's body consists of a humanoid torso, an ambiguous "lower" torso, and lower extremities that mimic dromaeosaur anatomy. Most of its body is covered in down feathers, making it feel very soft to the touch.

A separate plant-like structure, designated DVC-72, is integrated into the subject's body. While at first it may appear that DVC-72 is a parasite, DVC-72-1 is the actual parasite, as DVC-72 is an obligate carnivore.

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.

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.

Personality
DVC-72-1 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.

DVC-72-1 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.

DVC-72-1 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.

The subject playfully describes itself as a "dilettante", having surprisingly deep knowledge of many different fields of science and engineering, albeit not to the level of expertise to be considered a specialist in any one field.

Early Life
Not much is known about DVC-72-1'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. DVC-72-1 acknowledges that it was originally ensnared by this structure. How it managed to parasitize DVC-72 remains a mystery, although the subject claims it survived through "pure will" alone.

It has a lot of reverence for its adoptive father, who was a biologist that volunteered to raise it after it was discovered. Its father was much more spiritually inclined than it, often in times of personal crisis seeking the guidance of psychics, who in its world were totally mundane scammers. This has been cited by it as a large contributor to its discomfort with the supernatural, after seeing the toll it took on its father.

According to the subject, its choice to not give itself a name is a result of people giving nicknames to it early in life. When it was first "adopted", it was old enough to choose a name for itself but it could not decide between the nicknames people had already given it, as they felt extremely personal to its relationships with those people.

DVC-72-1 has been biologically dated to be approximately 20 years old.

PROJECT ARBITER
After DVC-72-1's discovery, it was taken into custody of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Combined with DVC-72, it was designated PROJECT ARBITER. ARBITER was of interest to the U.S. Navy due to its extreme resilience and regenerative capabilities, which provided a significant combat advantage over enemy personnel and automated weaponry. While ARBITER was not originally violent, ARBITER was affixed with a stimulant-injecting module that was used to reward it for killing enemy combatants. This proved resoundingly effective, although ARBITER also made little distinction between friendly and enemy combatants.

ARBITER was affixed with a pack of lethal poison and a bomb collar in the event it went rogue and needed to be terminated. However, both of these methods were tried in an incident that lead to the deaths of eight BUMAS personnel, and both only temporarily incapacitated ARBITER.

Eventually, due to its difficulty to control, PROJECT ARBITER was discontinued, and DVC-72-1 was transferred to the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority along with Dr. Nolan Alexander, who would later nurture it into something completely opposed to violence. However, the conditioning to kill is still there, and now with its Choir infection limiting its rational thinking, its basal nature is beginning to surface once more.

Current Activity
DVC-72-1 has been shown to experience a painful burning sensation when touching soul matter.

It thinks very highly of Thistle, who has repeatedly helped it stave off hopelessness and acted as a kind of mentor figure for it concerning its immortality. It stores the drawings Thistle gives it "next to [its] dad". After the manifestation of Wormwood from Thistle, DVC-72-1 has begun to bleed from under its DVC-72 afflicted areas.

DVC-72-1 accidentally created Observer, in an attempt to use the soul in a computer to process data from measurements it wanted to conduct on the many quirks of the world around it. It did not mean to create life, and that stresses it out very much. It blames poor documentation by "the wizards" on soul research for its accidental creation of life, as it didn't have enough information to avoid creating Observer in the first place. It cares a lot for Observer, however, and is constantly very worried about it.

After Brisket was sourced, DVC-72-1 stitched up her wounds, as it seemed to be the individual with the lowest risk of contracting the Source. After all, the Source had refused to infect it even after it's constant taunting in the past, as it wanted to have a "mind duel". It beginning to lose control of itself rendered it a threat to the Source's hosts, however, so the Source needed to take action. Due to DVC-72-1's recent Choir infection and its prolonged demoralization, it was rendered weak enough for the Source to successfully infect it. The Source stayed dormant within it for several days, biding its time. When DVC-72-1 finally lost control of itself and threatened Brisket while they were sourced, the Source revealed itself within DVC-72-1 and took brief control, stopping it from attacking Brisket.

DVC-72-1 helped fight the source off so that Cyd could convince Brisket to return after she ran away, knocking it unconscious by the end of it due to its other afflictions. Afterwards, when it awoke, it stated that it "wasn't going to lose anyone else", and ran to an OTH Radar Array that it built. It managed to contact a ghost claiming to be Thistle's long-dead adopted child. After confirming that Thistle was still alive and talking to this individual, it felt a surge in confidence. Suddenly, it realized that it "couldn't let Thistle see [it] like this", and ripped the Choir out of its body, causing intense withdrawal symptoms. It managed to survive, however, due to its DETERMINATION holding it together.

DETERMINATION
See also: Observer

DVC-72-1 has been observed to have an extremely high quantity of a property dubbed by Observer as "DETERMINATION". This substance is a network of skyrmions (quasiparticles that act like "logical knots" in fields) naturally created in the presence of strong wills, coalescing into a single larger "meta-skyrmion". This substance also reinforces and inherits the volition it's borne from, becoming one and the same with it.

Beings with strong DETERMINATION are notably much harder to kill than less DETERMINED beings, resisting nonexistence with otherwise inexplicable power. DVC-72-1 is an extreme example of this, having a DETERMINATION so strong that it actively takes control over DVC-72, despite its carnivorous nature. DVC-72-1's DETERMINATION is so strong that Observer believes that it fundamentally cannot exist; no being should be able to reach such a high potency of DETERMINATION, as high-DETERMINATION configurations are mostly unstable. Because of this, Observer believes DVC-72-1 only exists in this timeline, as corroborated by Fillet. The reason why it manages to exist in this timeline is still unclear, however it's possible that it is simply "thematically appropriate" for it to.

Because of this fundamental defiance of nature itself, Observer often refers to DVC-72-1 as "supernatural", which DVC-72-1 vehemently disagrees with.