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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 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 do not enable flight, but assist with climbing and stabilizing while running bipedally.

DVC-72-1's 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 diaphragm. 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.

DVC-72-1 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.

DVC-72-1 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 DVC-72-1 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
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.

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.

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.

It has a strong love of life, and vows to never let life be wasted. In this regard, it is deontological, refusing to allow death even if it preserves more life in the future.

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.

She commonly ends her conversations with "Stay safe, or I'll make you stay safe myself!". She does not realize that this phrase is not as comforting as she thinks it is.

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.

DVC-72-1 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 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.

DVC-72-1 comes from an Earth, with the only known abnormalities aside from DVC-72 and DVC-72-1 being that everyone there plays VHS instead of Dead by Daylight and that everyone uses PDAs instead of smartphones because PDAs adopted cell phone technology shortly before the release of the iPhone, causing it to be a massive commercial failure. It has also stated that VHS tapes went out of style "50 years ago", indicating that it may be from a near-future version of Earth. This Earth, by its account, exhibited nothing supernatural and had no observable souls to speak of.

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 she 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 her into something completely opposed to violence. However, the conditioning to kill is still there, and now with her Choir infection limiting her rational thinking, her basal nature is beginning to surface once more.

Current Activity
DVC-72-1 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.

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.

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.