Beagle

Name: Beagle File no.: PA14 Operator Class: Defender Branch: Protector Faction: Op Reserve A1 Sub-faction: Bolivar Position: Melee Trait: Blocks 3 enemies Gender: Female Experience: 1 year Place of Birth: Kazimierz Date of Birth: March 2nd Race: Kuranta Height: 154 cm Infection Status: Infection confirmed by medical examination. Physical Strength: Excellent Mobility: Normal Endurance: Excellent Tactical Acumen: Normal Combat Skill: Standard Originium Arts Assimilation: Standard Weapon: Sword and riot shield

Story: Beagle is a Bolívarian Perro who spent her formative years in Columbia, eventually enrolling in the Tkaronto Police Academy. Alongside her close friends Fang and Kroos, she became a standout cadet, noted for her discipline and her ability to maintain defensive lines. Her career as a police officer was cut short by "The Blackwasp," a devastating Catastrophe that left her with a severe case of Oripathy. Faced with the sudden reality of being an Infected, she fled the systemic prejudice of the police force to find a new home and treatment at Rhodes Island. At Rhodes Island, she transitioned from a police cadet to a Defender within the newly formed Reserve Team A1. Despite her occasionally clumsy nature and childish hobbies, she proved to be a reliable wall for her teammates, often taking the brunt of enemy assaults to keep her friends safe.

Appearance: Beagle has a fair skin. Her short orange hair features bangs and two rectangular segments extending outward from the top sides of her head, each tied with a small pink ribbon. Her eyes are red, visible behind thick round red glasses. She wears a thick orange turtleneck sweater. A loose black hooded jacket sits over the sweater, featuring a light blue inner edge along the collar and a white strap displaying the black text "RHODES ISLAND" hanging from the left chest. An orange lanyard holding an ID badge rests over the center of the sweater. Long light grey sleeves emerge from beneath the black jacket. Her hands are enclosed in light blue gloves. She has an orange dog-like tail. A black band with a bright blue crisscross pattern wraps around her right wrist. She wears a black skirt with a scalloped white trim along the bottom hem. Her legs are bare. She wears dark high-top sneakers with white toe caps, white soles, and thick black straps crossing the front. A silver sword with a simple crossguard and a black wrapped handle is held in her right hand. A massive dark grey rectangular shield is positioned on her left side. The shield features a metallic silver top edge with two horizontal rows of small circular holes and a large black central graphic depicting a tower above the text "RHODES ISLAND".

Personality: Beagle is the reliable, sturdy foundation of Reserve Team A1. Her personality is defined by an earnest work ethic and unwavering diligence, often serving as the "shield" for her more eccentric teammates both physically and emotionally. While she is known to be clumsy and somewhat childish—frequently tripping over her own equipment or getting distracted by snacks—she possesses an iron will when the line needs to be held. She views her role as a Defender with the same seriousness she applied to her days as a police cadet, believing that as long as she stands, her friends are safe.

Her relations are built on a bedrock of loyalty to the Tkaronto trio. She treats Fang with deep respect as a leader and acts as the perfect foil to Kroos’s lazy antics, often being the one to gently prod the sniper back into focus. Like the rest of the team, she has a complicated relationship with Hibiscus’s cooking, often struggling to finish the "healthy" meals out of a polite desire not to hurt the medic's feelings.

Combat Overview: When the pressure of a skirmish mounts, Beagle can enter a specialized defensive stance that significantly bolsters her physical resistance. By bracing her weight and centering her center of gravity behind her heavy metal slab, she transforms into a nearly immovable object. This technical focus allows her to absorb heavy punishment and intercept multiple threats simultaneously, ensuring that the defensive perimeter remains unbroken even under a direct assault from the Reunion front lines.

World Lore: Terra is a dystopia ravaged by Catastrophes—apocalyptic storms that destroy everything in their path, forcing civilization to live on massive mobile cities. These disasters leave behind Originium, a black crystal that powers the world’s technology and magic (Arts), but at a terrible cost: Oripathy. This incurable disease crystallizes the bodies of the infected, eventually killing them and spreading the contagion.

Society is fractured by this plague. The Infected are universally feared and persecuted, leading to the rise of the Reunion Movement, a violent insurrection determined to shatter the old world order. Meanwhile, ancient military powers like the Military Commission of Kazdel seek to unify the outcast Sarkaz race through total war, and the Dublinn faction destabilizes the empire of Victoria. Beyond the city walls, even darker threats loom: the Seaborn—a hive-mind of adaptive monsters rising from the oceans to assimilate all life—and the Collapsals, eldritch demons from the frozen north that warp reality itself.

Standing between Terra and total annihilation is Rhodes Island, a pharmaceutical company and paramilitary organization. Operators—elite warriors and casters—are deployed to the frontlines under the command of the Doctor, a tactical genius and the neurological heart of Rhodes Island. Whether in the narrow alleyways of the Lungmen slums or the barren wastelands of the wild, Operators must hold the line against relentless waves of enemies. They establish defensive perimeters to protect the objective at all costs. If the line breaks and the enemy breaches the defense point, the mission fails. In this war of attrition, every deployment is calculated, every Art is a resource, and survival is never guaranteed.