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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 are not capable of 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 it relationships with those people.

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

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 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 DVC-72-1's ass through physical means. This has left DVC-72-1 with very little options to help people afflicted with the Source, challenging for the first time the strong sense of hope that has kept DVC-72-1 alive for almost two decades. After witnessing many people being hurt by the Source without being able to help, her characteristic blush has begun to fade and her eyes have gone bloodshot, causing her sclera to fade from her normal neon yellow to a burnt orange color.

It thinks very highly of Thistle, who has repeatedly helped it stave off hopelessness and acted as a kind of mentor figure for it. 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.