Bandit and Nexus Characters

Bandit

• Basic Info

  • Name: Bandit and Nexus Characters
  • Gender: Female
  • Played by: PandaBerr

• Detailed Profile

  -General Info-
  
  Name: Bandit
  Pronunciation: That should be easy enough to figure out…
  Meaning: Theif, robber
  Nickname/Alias(es): Ban, Bandy (by Black), Auntie (by Neji)
  Pronunciation: Look above
  Nickname Meaning: None
  Kingdom: Animalia
  Phylum: Chordata
  Class: Sauropsida
  Superorder: Dinosauria
  Order: Saurischia
  Suborder: Theropoda
  Family: Dromaeosauridae
  Genus: Velociraptor
  Species: Mongoliensis
  Gender: Female
  Age: Older than dirt…or might as well be. She doesn't seem to show age much at all.
  Scent: Decay and lizard-like?
  Personality/Temperament: Complicated. These days she’s reverted back to more of her feral manner, rarely choosing to seek out company of any kind or socialize. She prefers a certain loneliness and isolation from all societies she once was a part of, and she’s been quite cross and short with those she has come in contact with. The softer, gentler side that she’s always had about her is still there, under all that rudeness, but it probably won’t be showing itself readily any time soon.
  Powers/Special Abilities: Increased strength, speed, chemical and biological resistance, and increased healing/regeneration. It is unknown if she could potentially re-grown a limb if it were chopped off - she's never really wanted to find out.
  
  -Physical Traits-
  
  Scale Color: Black with sanguine strips
  Eye Color: Sanguine
  Height: 4’ 2”
  Weight: 210 lbs.
  Length: 6’ 3”
  Claw Length: 7”
  Claw Color: Black with sanguine tips
  Scars/Markings: Fang shaped scar on the underside of her left wrist. Probably a couple more.
  Extra(s): None at the moment.
  
  One of the most unique aspects of Velociraptor is the "Killing Claw" it has on each foot. Each inside toe has a large (about 5 inches for a regular velociraptor, but Bandit’s is 7 inches long) hooked claw that is controlled by a strong tendon. This claw is held upward when the animal is walking or running. However, when it attacks, the tendon snaps tight and the claw snaps down with great speed and force, slicing deeply into the victim. Not a very pretty picture, but an effective way to inflict a serious wound.
  
  Velociraptor was a pack hunter, which would have allowed it to attack prey much larger than itself. It also had a very large brain relative to its size - it was one of the smartest dinosaurs. It was very light and very fast. Recent thinking is that it was also very close to being birdlike, and that it had feathers that it used both for display and insulation. It had very strong arms and claws, which were effective weapons by themselves. It had sharp, recurved teeth in its long mouth. (Taken from the Velociraptor entry of the Jurassic Park Institute website before it shut down.)
  
  -Family/Social-
  
  Pack: None
  Rank: Loner
  Dam: Unknown raptor donor female
  Sire: Unknown raptor donor male
  Brother(s): Many other failed raptor experiments
  Sister(s): Many other failed raptor experiments
  Other Family: Neji (adoptive nephew), Black Helix, Six Helix (adoptive brothers, both deceased)
  Closest Friends: Neji, Deny (sort of?)
  Interest(s): She hasn’t really been interested in anyone for a while.
  Courting/Courted By: She is being courted by no one.
  Mate: She has none.
  Spawn: None
  
  -History-
  
  Place of Birth: Isla Sorna
  Past Injuries: Plenty, but they healed quickly
  Backstory: *Being re-written* For now, the quick and dirty version is this: Some time ago in the Nexxus, the scientists of InGen decided to have a go at cloning dinosaurs again, but this time they went even further to genetically modify them and make them, as the song goes "harder, better, faster, stronger". Though they started with thousands upon thousands of embryos, only a few subjects survived, Bandit being one of them. With her increased intelligence and healing, she learned rapidly and was trained needlessly to defend herself.
  
  Then she escaped. There was bloodshed - none of it was hers.
  
  She came to find a wolf in the forest, but for some reason she didn't kill him. His name was Six Helix. In time she met his brother, Black. They became close, almost family, even though the two of them had families of their own. Six was killed. Bandit found a Utahraptor named Mongo whom she liked and a Deinonychus named Deny whom she really didn't like. She toyed with having a protege named Cale for a while. Then Mongo and Deny disappeared, Black died, and the only family she was left with was her nephew, Neji.
  
  She's been a little bitter since Black died, and as a result, has been rather hermit-like.
  
  *Note* I’m well aware of what Velociraptor’s were really like based on fossil evidence. But, considering this character’s background is in fiction, I’ve always gone with that story. It would be out of character now to change the long standing facts that have been roleplayed with and that many people recognized from Jurassic Park, both novel and movie. So, for the sake of correctness with the story (and since she’s been heavily genetically and mechanically modified anyway) she will remain featherless, tall, with a cat-like tail, etc.

• Connections

  Family

  Neji (played by Rubix)

  Acquaintance

  Schrodinger's Cat (played by PandaBerr)

• Rave Reviews

  • "Bandit is the coolest raptor ever! She's so much fun to play with, and it's hilarious to see her with her 'nephew' Neji!"
    -- Loki