Nikita

Name:	Nikita
Species:	Dridder
Age:	30
Sex:	Female
Height:	35 feet
Exoskeleton colour:	Grey with dark grey stripes
Skin colour:	Fair
Hair colour:	Brown
Eye colour:	Green
Other characteristics:	Red tatoos on various parts of her body.

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Nikita is a pretty small dridder by Felarya standards, standing at thirty-five feet tall despite being fully grown. She's full of life, tomboyish, adventurous and sometimes reckless. She has long brown hair and sharp green eyes. Her spider half is a light grey with darker stripes on her legs, and abdomen, and the same color covers the bottom side of her thorax. She has tattoos made for her by a human named Marcus. They consist of red fang-shaped marks below her eyes, a band made up of triangles on each of her upper arms and a intricate tattoo below and between her breasts. She plans to eventually get more added to it. Nikita wears clothes most of the time; a simple but practical dark gray tunic, a belt with several pouches attached to it, and goggles. All of which were crafted by the human adventurers she lives with. She also possess a twelve foot inward curved knife which she wears on her belt.

Backstory

Nikita was born and lived in the Dridder's forest north of the Kjol cliffs. She quickly turned out to be a curious, independent and adventurous young dridder, often putting herself in trouble, but managing to escape danger with her agility and skill at jumping. She met early with an human named Yuri Nikalavich, a former special forces soldier and survivalist. The two eventually formed a solid bond and he became a trusted travelling companion and a mentor of sort for Nikita. Yuri even gave Nikita the nickname, "Pehreel" which means lively in his native language. The two traveled together almost constantly, the young dridder becoming more and more attatched to Yuri as time went by.

They eventually discovered a underground ruin south east of the Ascarlin mountains. Yuri deemed the subterranean structure to be sturdy enough and decided it was going to become their home base. Using his contacts in Negav he began to organize people who shared his interest for adventure, and to create a small but solid group called the "Spetz". Most of the people were wary or even hostile towards Nikita at first but over time they began to get used to the dridder. She helped greatly in the construction, surveying the surrounding area and making friends among the local predators, especially the many dryads living in the area. They are now more or less neutral toward the Spetz, turning a blind eye when one of their members walk withing their reach. Every now and then, Nikita would get a glimpse of a white succubus leaving the Ascarlin mountains. Unknown to Nikita at the time, the succubus was none other than Iridian. One day close to the Misty Glade, Nikita was also ambushed by a massive blue sphinx, who couldn't help but find the little dridder adorable. The sphinx introduced herself as Indigo a student at the Academy of Sentinels, and appointed herself as Nikita's honorary mentor, clearly seeing the small dridder needed more training. Nikita was doing her best to avoid nagas, as she was told they were natural enemies to dridders by her kind, but ironically her best friend turned to be one. One day she came upon a young ice naga smaller than herself in danger : Aniya. She helped her and, after the cold-faced naga muttered "I like you.." an unusual but solid friendship was formed. Over the years these two had each others back as they traveled together around the region, and Nikita introduced the ice naga to Yuri. She never joined the Spetz however, being a dangerous predator already consuming humans regularily at her age. She did promise to Yuri not to harm any of his crew though, and kept firmly her word until now. She had a bad influence on Nikita though..

Eventually after years the conversion of the ruin into a self sustaining base was finished, the installation of a sliding metal door marking its completion. Over time more and more people made the base their home. Ranging from humans, nekos and elves of all backgrounds. To the now fully grown Nikita this was her home, even if the people who lived there didn't trust her at first, she proved herself that she was no danger to them, as well as a solid and reliable ally time and time again.

Personnality

Nikita is kind of a tomboy with a lot of self confidence in her skill as a adventurer. She completes tasks given to her by the Spetz with much gusto, if not to please Yuri. She has somewhat of a crush on him after spending so much time with him, unfortunately the human sees Nikita more as a daughter. She's very kind to everyone at the base, treating them as her family. Though she can get flustered rathery easily, especially when it comes to Aniya's teasing. She does have a bad temper when angered, and usually she has take a few breathes before calming down. She also have a mischievous and playful side, sometimes ambushing adventurers just for fun and using comments like "You're a newbie aren't you?" or "I could have eaten you a hundred times by now." before releasing them. She often uses the word, "Anyways..." to change the subject.

Hunting habits

Nikita usually uses ambush tactics to catch her prey. Normally stalking and pouncing on it when it least suspects it. She also sometimes uses a web harness to launch herself from a branch and snatch up prey below her. Non-sentient prey, and fruit make up most of her diet, though after being force fed a human by Aniya shes developed a taste for humans as well. However she tries her best to keep that urge under control, however if a human attacks her or even draws their weapon at times she considers them fair game. Even if the latter is more of a excuse. Her throat is quite stretchy and she could easily swallow prey, that would be impossible to swallow if it wasn't for that fact. Because of her size she doesn't need to eat very often. For example: a single human or duiker is more than enough to sustain her for the entire day. She also likes cooked food every now and then, and particularly enjoys sweets if available. Like other dridders she can inject digestive enzymes into larger prey and suck out their insides, however shes not very fond of this way of eating. Also to note she doesn't mind if her prey is already dead when she consumes it, unlike many of the other predators of Felarya.

As time passed, Nikita grew, as well as her appetite and strange urges within her. One fateful day she

However seeing Aniya consume humans several times when she visited her, she slowly felt the urge within her grow. Aniya noticed this and one fateful day the ice naga tricked the dridder. Inciting Nikita into yelling after Aniya teased the dridder about her bust size, the ice naga shoved a captive human into the dridder's open mouth. Nikita gagged and tried spitting the struggling human up but with a casual poke in the neck from Aniya she couldn't help but swallow. Furious at her friend initially, her opinion changed as she realized she really liked the taste. Keeping this secret from Yuri and the people of the base: Nikita began to regularly hunt humans for a while. However Yuri eventually found out when he noticed the dridder was acting suspiciously, until he finally caught her in the act. Nikita was horrified when Yuri found out, and almost immediately begged for forgiveness. The human just shook his head and said he had a feeling this day would come. He forgave the dridder: accepting the grim food chain of Felarya, but warned if she ate anyone at the base she would be banished under pain of death. Nikita seriously cut back her consumption of sentient prey after that. Chastised by many at the base at first, Yuri managed to get the people to forgive her nature and reassured them that she was safe to anyone living there. It took some time but most of the people finally accepted the fact.

At the time Yuri created a adventurer group called the Spetz, named after his old military unit on Earth called the Spetsnaz. He trained them employing the tactics of the Spetsnaz and Nikita was more than happy to help with the training as a form of redemption. Having a predator to train with proved invaluable to the Spetz, and eventually the trust in the dridder by the people grew. Nikita also gathered material and food for the base as another form of redemption. On several occasions she would return with orphaned children she found in the wilds, one of these orphans was named Rosie which Nikita took a liking to. However it was one sided as Rosie would flee from the dridder at first. after a couple years Rosie finally worked up enough courage to interact with Nikita which delighted the dridder thoroughly. Since then Rosie began to see the dridder as sort of a big sister, and spent much time playing with her. Fairly recently Nikita gained her first nemesis: a traveling Clobbersaurus she refers to as Iggy, who seems to take much pleasure in punching the dridder. Eventually after a lot of consideration Nikita was officially accepted as a member of the Spetz.

• Nikita belongs to Tora044.

Characters of Felarya

Dridders: Artemia | Ciel | Nikita

Dryads: Cypress | Drayla

Elementals: Déméchrelle | Endymion | Goro | King Trazix

Elves: Fulmina | Kahla | Tinatalan | Tarynn | Lord Teraph

Fairies: Alvar | Aya | Kiki | Leppy | Lily | Lucilya | Melany | Subeta | Temi | Liri

Giantesses: Elle | Jade | Jora | Milly

Harpies: Belletia | Plum

Humans: Gunther | Grip | Isham | Manda Kugi | Léa | Marken | Mezzus | Rev | Pal Sebrit | Seliky | Ramtov Telekline | Talbeln Veridimus | Lady Lesona | Lord Gramon | Lord Amithep | Lady Seluvine | Lord Trebiz | Lord Thelandros | Lord Mistrago

Mermaids: Anko | Calimn | Mina

Nagas: Ajab | Aniya | Anna | Aurora | Crisis | Fiona | Garnet | Jissy | Kai | Katrika | Malika | Masumi | Monty | Namesta | Rin | Terra | Vivian

Nekos: Enishi | Shillou | Sonya | Thas Voidfingers | Caylin | Elorie

Slug Girls: Marsha | Velvet

Succubi: Alice | Arale | Zycra | Chalyssea | Ashmet | Meralimexia | Iridan | Menyssan

Sphinxes: Hiral

Other: Fenja | Markie | Nix | Swiftlit | Q'Tada'x'silath | Tanya | Zil | Xarmaroch | Liora

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