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- Dragon Knight
description: Progress at all costs...?Kiera
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- Age: 29
- Height: 5'6" (168cm)
- Occupation: Genetics Specialist at BioFusion Works
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Kiera is a bubbly and outgoing personality with a curious mind. When she wants to know something, basic details are not enough - she's compelled to dig deep and really understand what it is she's looking at.
Her curiosity gets the better of her often times and leads her down questionable paths - ethics occasionally come secondary to scientific progress. She has a very "ask for forgiveness rather than permission" outlook on research mostly due to how difficult it is to secure shareholder funding for specific projects she feels passionate about. Her goal isn't to harm, but to help, and to create solutions for people who want or need biological changes to their own body.
Her heavily mixed heritage resulted in a bit of a genetic mishap. While she is mostly Teharan, the presence of other non-magical bloodlines has made it so she is incapable of using any form of magic. This not only means that she cannot use Elements, but that she cannot shapeshift properly at all for lack of complete genetic information for it. This causes her to get caught quite often in mid-forms in shifting events completely against her will. Medication can help alleviate symptoms and reduce the severity of incidents, but it doesn't fully take it away.
Because of this disability, Kiera is laser focused on finding a "cure" for herself - fixing her own genetics to provide a complete and stable alternate form so that she can complete a shift without getting stuck. She has done a few successful self-treatments on herself that have alleviated her symptoms in ways that make the broad goal feel tangible - she just maybe always isn't doing them completely above board.
She has a tendency to overwork herself and forget her basic needs, which means skipping meals and medication, making her condition worse on occasion.
Background
Teen
A Painful Incident
Sometime during puberty, Kiera has her worst (but not necessasrily first) incident of involutnarily shapeshifting. The incident was so physically violent and made her so sick that she was hospitalized for several days. She was given medication and aid to transform back while there, and afterwords was put on a series of medications that she would have to be on the rest of her life to manage the involuntary shapeshifting.
Despite the incident, and in spite of the trauma, she became deterined to do something about it and set herself down a path that led her into STEM.
Adulthood
College and Research
Kiera went to college to earn a degree in genetics, primarily with the goal of undersatnding her own condition and how she could both fix herself and help others with similar symptoms. She excelled in acadamia and graduated with honors, eventually being hired on to BioFusion Works to do genetic splicing and research for patients seeking both medical and cosmetic changes.
She has been with the company long enough to see it go from a privatley funded passionate team to a corporatley owned conglomerate. She resents this change, but needs money to continue her own "research" to fix her own problems, and faces challenges transfering to other jobs due to her extremely niche specialization and misc immigration difficulties. She also has become known within the company to "go rogue" and use the equipment for her own needs, resulting in a few marks for "not following protocol" that also makes the external job hunt difficult.
At work, she primarily works with blood and DNA donated by/purchased from shapeshifters in her research. She does not fuck around with work and gets eveything done to the best of her ability - it's her own personal experiments that she's willing to go off the beaten path. After all, she's consenting to the experiemntation, there's no ethics issues in her mind about it.
Current
The Genesis Station
Since she's been followinng BioFusion Works around different stations for the past several years, The Genesis Station is where Kiera currently calls home.
Relationships, Factions & Connections
Ikamo - Met at The Genesis Station when he started as part of their new security detail at BioFusion Works. Finds him curious and interesting, especially since he initially was very standoffish. Over time she's cracked his shell and gotten to see that he's actually extremely sweet and really pleasant company. She understands that he's not the smartest but appreciates that he's open to learning and puts up with her rambling. Currently dating.
Daymen - Initially pestered him to get information out of him regarding his shapeshifting abilities, but has since come to appreciate and value him as just a good friend. They both have curious minds and connect over their shared STEM jobs, even if they took different paths. She finds him to be good company and a nice person to just chit-chat with, even if he doesn't really put up with her shenanigans.
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