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Basic Information:
Name: "Crystals"
Race: Raqiellan
Birthdate: ?
Era: Post-202 Years
Affiliation: None
Status: Alive
First Appearance: Session 30 (Shattered and Adrift)
Quote: "....”
Appearance:
Crystals is a slender female alien with pale, sea-glass–toned skin marked by faint veining and subtle semi-luminescent qualities. Her build is narrow and lightweight, lacking visible musculature.
Crystalline growths protrude from her head, shoulders, and arms. These formations are jagged yet display a consistent symmetry, resembling natural armor integrated directly into her physiology. The crystal structures exhibit a faint shimmer under ambient light.
Her eyes are always glowing, with occasional visible energy flicker observed under certain conditions. No pupils or sclera abnormalities have been recorded beyond this effect.
Crystals is typically seen wearing a fitted, utilitarian bodysuit of Dominion origin. The suit shows signs of age and wear but remains structurally intact.
During movement, the crystalline growths have been observed to emit low resonant vibrations, indicating a reactive property linked to internal activity rather than external stimulus.
Personality:
Crystals maintains a distant and reserved presence, exhibiting minimal outward emotion in nearly all circumstances. Her demeanor remains consistently controlled, giving little indication of internal response. She speaks infrequently, favoring short, direct statements when verbal engagement is necessary, and defaults to silence rather than elaboration. Conversation is something she tolerates, not something she seeks.
Her behavior shows little visible reaction to pain, fear, or environmental stressors that would typically provoke response in others. She does not engage in social rituals, seek reassurance, or offer emotional validation, remaining functionally detached in most interpersonal settings. This detachment is not hostile, but absolute, creating the impression of someone operating adjacent to social norms rather than within them.
Crystals demonstrates high situational awareness. She observes others closely and often without comment, tracking behavior, patterns, and intent rather than words or emotional cues. Her attention is directed toward outcome and utility, and she appears largely uninterested in emotional framing or verbal justification. What matters to her is what someone does, not what they claim or feel.
In combat, her conduct becomes overtly methodical. Crystals applies force with precision and restraint, acting without hesitation when action is required and without excess when it is not. There is no visible aggression or enjoyment in violence, only execution. Her movements are efficient and unembellished, reinforcing the sense that combat is a task rather than an expression.
When aligning with others, Crystals does so selectively and for practical reasons. She does not form attachments easily, and continued cooperation appears contingent on reliability and demonstrated competence rather than familiarity or sentiment. Trust, for her, is not emotional. It is operational.
Origins:
Named "Crystals" by Kaikias, Crystals was born among the Raqiel, a rare and largely undocumented alien species whose physiology naturally generates crystalline structures fused with psychic energy. The Raqiel were not a warlike people; their culture revolved around introspection, dream-communion, and resonance-based communication across vast distances. Their homeworld—name unknown—was believed to contain vast crystalline caverns that amplified thought and memory itself, allowing their kind to preserve history not through writing, but through ambient mental impressions stored in the land.
The Dominion saw potential.
During a focused sweep across fringe systems, Dominion operatives identified the Raqiel as high-value targets for psychic weaponization. Crystals, only a child at the time, was one of dozens taken from her world. Others included species with rare biological or energetic traits—each chosen to test the limits of Dominion research. These subjects were designated as part of the Synthesis Conduit Program, a classified effort to extract, modify, and replicate alien traits for military and intelligence purposes.
Labeled Specimen #C-213, Crystals underwent extensive experimentation across multiple facilities. She was subjected to neural conditioning, adaptive stress trials, and forced resonance events—where her crystalline systems were overcharged to induce unpredictable psychic feedback. Her body adapted with surprising efficiency, forming new growths that responded to pain, focus, and proximity to living minds. While many other subjects degraded, mutated, or lost coherence, Crystals endured.
Eventually deemed "stable," she was placed into long-term stasis aboard a vessel stocked with similarly shelved specimens. This vessel became a drifting archive of Dominion ambition—a gallery of test subjects waiting for the next phase. Whether the Raqiel ever attempted rescue, or even survived the sweep, remains unknown.
Crystals does not speak of her world. Whether her memories were buried, damaged, or locked away is uncertain. But in rare moments, when she is alone or caught off-guard, her gaze drifts—toward something long gone, humming beyond the stars.
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