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Jihad positions:
Company Commander, Div. 2., VRDET
Natural form:
50 meters tall at the shoulder, 125m long (50m long tail) no wings, four-legged with modified forearms for hands. Th-varian blue eyes, metallic cobalt blue scales, royal purple eyebrow ridges and crest of spines, and webbed fins attached to the lower jaw protruding backwards towards the neck, turquoise in color.
Winged form:
Same as natural form, except only 40m tall at the shoulder and 110m long, no front legs, and wings the same color as the head-fins.
Winged form with forelegs:
Same as winged form, except only 30m tall and 100m long, forelegs as well as wings.
Humanform:
6'3", blue eyes, dark brown/black hair, mildly hawkish features
Aristalarus, or Aris to her friends, didn't actually want to come to this dimension. She was looking for a vacation and made the mistake of asking a friend who was, unbeknownst to her, living in the Jihad/b'harnate war zone. She managed to arrive just as a magical attack by b'harnii's forces disrupted the portal. After reorienting herself, she decided that whatever had attacked needed to be taught a good lesson.
After getting her scales pounded flat, she decided that a little more forethought was a good thing, and joined VRDET. Rumors are she spent some time in TRES, but she doesn't like to talk about it.
More relevant information:
Aris in humanform is a tall, relaxed woman, dressing most often in either a black jumpsuit, dancewear, or whatever feels comfortable at the moment. Unlike some people she could name, she understands the necessety for a uniform, and will actually wear one if it's important, but not on missions. (Wear something like that when you're trying to fight? How silly!)
She seems to have picked up some military hand to hand training somewhere, but the style she favors is worthless without claws. She has demonstrated an affinity for weapons of all times, and while not having any sort of aim, usually can take out a large number of spoungin through a wild spray of plasma or bullets if nothing else.
She has demonstratedd an ability to cast spells also, but her magic ability seems comparable to her aim. More under control is her shapeshifting, which she refers to as 'fisking. Out of long practice she is able to shift to the forms described here, but she doesn't try anything else, complaining that it hurts. Nobody has tried to contradict her.
Aris has, in humanform at least, a plain black daypack with a single zippered compartment. This pack can hold an amazing amount of stuff, without seeming to grow heavy or change shape. Aris has at different times pulled out several Heinlein novels, a CD case, a 'box' she calls an Ono-Sendai VII and brags that it belonged to Bobby Quine, and a cellphone that doesn't look manufactured anywhere recognizable. As for weapons, Aris was recently given a sword called Marr'irr'anaka which she wears on her hip. Marr'irr'anaka looks to be a modified bastard sword, with a handle that looks covered by a bike handlebar grip set. The sword also has a hollow hilt and a trigger, and a large fire opal covering a compartment containing a standard American power cord with adaptors for most major countries.
Along with the sword, Aris recieved a rather unique suit of armor in the form of a unitard that has been woven and rewoven with protective charms, sigils, light armor, psionics, techno-wizardry, et and cetera. As Aris said, "enchanted with protection spells six ways from Sundae." It doesn't seem to offer any protection against blunt instruments, though it's bulletproof.
Aris has a healthy sense of duty, and responsibility to her friends. Of course, she also sometimes carries this to helping total strangers when she's in a good mood, or even when she's in a lousy one if someone asks. This "it never hurts to help" attitude has managed to land her in trouble a few times. Also, for a dragon her magic and psionic defenses seem astonishingly undeveloped. And she seems to have some connection to a cat named Tangaloor Firefoot, but who he is is anyone's guess...