Sylvia

Full Name: Sylvia Otakar

Age: 22

Gender: Female

Species: Hybrid (Amazone Yellow Face - Cockatoo albin)

Strength: Higher than average for her specie's standards

Build: Slender and toned

Nationality: Eneidian

Particular signs:

-being her father an albin cockatoo she ereditated a long gray crest on the back on her head from him, while she has the green body color of her mother as the yellow tuft typical of the amazons;

-despite her liking for flirting she hardly make any step beyond, not wanting any engagement;

-she has a jewel in memory of her mother, but it's the only one that she prefer to don't wear, preserving it in her closet.

Powers: None

Character: happy-go-lucky and carefree, affectionate and competitive, allways wants to give the best, often vain and a little conceited but with a good heart.

Likes: Having fun, dancing, nightlife, being top of all, fashion and jewelry products, her friends Neist and Ydhee, her adoptive family, and her father Menfis, Nova Pride.

Hates: injustice, country life, see the next suffering, the avian racism, the inability to make the difference, bullies, the HAL Suits.

Bio:

Sylvia Otakar was born in 11986 DD, daughter of Colonel Menfis Otakar and activist and advisor Ajianna Tarrama, both of them in Nova Pride, the self-defense body of the state of Eneida with futuristic methods both for means of employment and for staff selection, that it's said will become the blueprint for the military organizations of the future.

Sylvia was born as the last attempt by the couple to have a son, being Ajanna seriously ill because of the radioactive exposure of the Mambara Flame to which she was exposed during her militancy as an activist in defense of rights for bearers of the Exotic Flames.

Being the last of several failed attempts, the only not infertile egg, it marks the end of Ajanna, who dies one month from hatching, leaving an unbridgeable void in the life of Menfis, left alone with a daughter in swaddling cloth.

Not being able to give her daughter a worthy life, being a military official, give the custody of Sylvia to his ex subordinate from when he served in the Special Forces, now retired due to a leg injury in the field (of which Menfis was partially responsible), now the owner of the father's metallurgical company and married, former lieutenant Barten Korimello (armadillo), husband of the childhood friend Marceline Theo (black headed goose).

Sylvia is brought up by the couple who longed to have a son, being Marceline seemingly sterile, yet they force Menfis to spend some time with Sylvia, remaining her former father.

Despite the loving care of the couple who grows she in affection and wellbeing, Sylvia takes advantage of every opportunity to stay with her lonely father, just as he did with her grandfather. This leads them to develop a strong bond, despite the distance, based on outdoor activities, long moments of silence and stories by Menfis of war and her mother: at 16 years Sylvia is perfectly able to talk with adults and managing herself in every social situation, enjoying her "cutting corners" and developing the desire to be the top in everything.

Thanks to her mother Marceline who is an aesthetist Sylvia grows with female aesthetic taste, starting as a child to train in aerobic dance (as do many avian girls) and getting enrolled in the Lapale All Inclusive School of Viridia.

Being a statal institute she confront with different people from the most diverse social classes with which she interacts but never develops any bond, being seen as a typical "girl from Atrapa" (ie interested only in social climbing, a stereotype of the popular culture of the state of Atrapa) because of her qualities and competitive attitude.

The only person at school with whom she is able to make friends is her classmate Neist (a goat) with whom she can feel well in playing tennis (the passion of the latter) and talking with him, being particularly clever for his young age; but what unite them deeply is the encounter / confrontation with Ydhee, a female shark child of one year older than them and coming from a environment of poverty and violence, which start to turn upon them like a bully, knocking them constantly.

After one of their usual tussle Sylvia and Neist, full of bruises, they see by chance Ydhe, who is also not left untouched by their growing resistance, colliding with a group of older boys facing them alone with her usual arrogance and aggressivity, ending savagely beaten by the group.

Impressed by her courage or perhaps not being able to tolerate the abuse of power, Sylvia drags Neist in defense of Ydhe to face the group, despite their fresh bruises caused by her, and getting even more beaten, but finding in the new formed group the strength to defend themselves and to dissuade their opponents from continuing hostilities.

Facing this act of nobility and courage, Ydhe finds herself speechless and seeing for the first time people worthy of her uncompromised esteem she become their friend, beginning a friendship that will last to the adulthood.

Meanwhile, Barten and Marceline have mysteriously conceived a son, Korri, when Sylvia is already 12 years old.

At 15, Sylvia has her first boyfriend, a two-year-older cockatoo, son of financial lawyers living in the city of Jarbadit, with whom she has her first experiences, but then she goes away discovering the highly racist nature of him as he pushes her away from Ydhe seeing in her the classic stereotype of the mariners. This only makes Sylvia hate those avian who want the apartheid from other species (who would like Jarbadit as "homeland for only avians") and strengthen her relationship with Ydhe and Neist: from that moment she will only have a few brief sporadic relationship, preferring the company of her two friends in which she sees her family.

Now aged to become adult, Sylvia is an growned up and responsible girl, without sacrificing her affection and revealing to her father Menfis the decision to enter the Nova Pride, inspired by his tales and shows him that her with to help and to do her part is pure, not affected by the desire of glory.

For this reason Menfis believes her, proposing to recommend her through a special way to grant her access to the department under his jurisdiction, but she refuses, wanting to follow the path of all the others and drag her two friends with her, cause as Menfis believes in her daughter, she believes in them.

At home, however, she has several problems to make accepted her decision, as the bourgeois mother and the disable father are opposed to the idea, caring so much for their daughter, though she is not their real daugher.

This cause a growing bitterness in Barten toward his ex chief Otakar, pushing him to go personally to the Nova Pride where they end up physically clashing in Otakar's office, with Barten reminding Menfis about the end of Ajianna, of the parents of Menfis and of his pupil Zack, who disappeared on mission six years earlier during the Koduko crisis and now reappeared as a feared terrorist sought after in all the world.

After the fight, Menfis explains how the times have changed, how that the peace that has been achieved after centuries of battles has to be maintained no longer by soldiers but judges who can make their own decisions, people not trained to the violence and death but to do the right thing, giving them the necessary means. This was for him the way of thinking of Ajianna, who changed him. and that's why Nova Pride exists.

He concludes that, besides guaranteing her safety, Sylvia can do what she wants, just as he (referring to Barten) can freely decide what to do.

Barten came home and made his decision, and from then on becomes more severe with Sylvia, training her personally to anticipate, avoid, and counter-attack any possible enemy attack.

Sylvia managed to drag a not so convinced Neist and a thrilled but disillusioned Ydhe to make the free entrance tests of Nova Pride which consist of an electronic mental scanning system, able to evaluate the "soul" of subjects through estimated predispositions and experiences: all the three of them pass the analysis successfully, despiting the remaning doubt that Ydhe has been helped in this by his guardian, an important and shady consultant involved in politics and not only.

Sylvia, Neist and Ydhe officially enter the Nova Pride where they are trained, continuing at the same time their university studies, to form the new Team 636 (filling the vacancies left by previous Zack, Lynn and Clay) and being equipped with HAL suits, particularly defied by Sylvia as they limit the natural flight of the wings in exchange to an uncomfortable techno-magical levitation, though their strength and endurance make them indispensable in any rescue or engagement action in a hostile environment.

Of the trio Sylvia is obviously the most humanitarian and perhaps naive, easy to move and hostile to any cruelty, reflecting her personality, adult and competitive but at the same time very sensitive, knowing that she can always rely on her father Menfis within the structure. When she is not working or engaged in studies and workouts she takes care of her little brother, showing that she is devoting her life to responsibility and duty (similar to the former soldier Zack), but not for that reason she gives up on having fun as any other girl of her age or on fashion, often ending up spending more than she should in glittering clothes and jewelery.

Fun fact, inside the Nova Pride in another team is recruited one of her ex occasional partners who seems to still have interest in her and does not have any consideration about showing it, often putting her in embarrassment.