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Desdemona Maiveri is a biomedical scientist and cryogenics researcher employed by the Caduceus Medical Research Foundation. She was previously responsible for organizing and performing research within the company before the launch of the Caduceus Cryostatic Crypt, in where she assisted with the preservation of the patients onboard. She is among the last 25,000 human beings currently alive and known to CMRF.

A "keeper of the dead" of sorts, Desdemona is offputtingly macabre, sarcastically deadpan, and straightforwardly honest to the point of being mean at times. She's not interested in the drama of friendships, let alone relationships, knowing that much like life, they all come to a bitter end anyway. It's very obvious to anyone around her that Desdemona is not a happy person: no one who works as much as she does, smokes as much as she does, supplements sleep with black coffee as much as she does, could possibly be satisfied in life. Her distaste for white lilies, too, suggests that she's been gifted them in condolences far too many times.

Desdemona was the first human to re-awaken onboard roughly five thousand years after the launch of the Caduceus Cryostatic Crypt. After revival, she immediately found herself swept into a world of extraterrestrial war, religion and politics with her in the center, as the chosen host of the legendary symbiote Synthcestoda ferro. Capable of transforming her body into a manic superhuman weapon -- beautiful and grotesque, revered and damned all at the same time -- Desdemona finds herself put in between a rock and a hard place; sacrifice her autonomy in the name of the human race, or preserve herself in the name of a less effective solution?

Synthcestoda ferro is a species of parasitic extremophile newly discovered to the humans of the Caduceus Cryostatic Crypt, but appears to have been circulating among Hircine and their myths for a very long time. Physiologically, it is a small, long worm barely visible to the naked eye, capable of manipulating the cellular structure of the body of its host. It uses this remarkable ability to prime the body of its host for defense and offense, likely because the survival of the host body is imperative to its own survival. In addition to its host, the symbiote is also able to manipulate the cells of its own body, capable of reflexively taking on the form of a humanoid woman, ascribing herself the identity of Tynkakota . (It is unclear where, or who, she learned to take this form from.)

A sentient symbiotic being speculated to be at least thousands of years old, Tynkakota shows impressive intelligence that surpasses that of human and Hircine, though her memory is quite poor, as she loses some of her memory every time she goes dormant. Key memories of her previous hosts are fractured, and the ones of ages past are gone altogether. Though Tynkakota herself insists that she has no personality, insinuating that she is nothing more than a mere creature who only desires survival, it is clear that she has her own wants and needs. Her socially stunted nature -- often coming across as dense and oblivious to social cues, her want to push the boundaries of social interactions and the world around her out of curiosity, her animal-esque mannerisms and her odd speech pattern -- is more than enough personality on its own.

Tynkakota awoke from dormancy to the smell of fresh blood, a fatal wound inflicted upon Desdemona Maiveri for which she could infect her through. In that moment, Tynkakota saved her life -- but also ruined it, in a way. Synthcestoda ferro and its hosts are revered among the Hircine as legendary heroes of myth, the slayer of tyrants who set the world right through extreme, bloody violence. Desdemona is no warrior. She is no soldier, or general, and she certainly isn't Hircine. Yet Tynkakota insists, because she knows that what humanity needs right now is a solution... And that she can make a legendary hero out of Desdemona yet.

Unlike keratinas of old, historical slayers of corrupt God-Kings, Desdemona is not in it for the fame, or military power, or climbing the rungs of social dominance, or is even Hircine at all. In her transformed state, broadly referred to as infected Desdemona, her manic mind becomes overcome by Desdemona's innate need to protect the helpless, cryostatically preserved residents aboard the Caduceus Cryostatic Crypt, her reverence for the pseudo-deceased patients under her care driving her into a frenzy of violence. Switching between contentment and crash-out at the drop of a hat, infected Desdemona is impossible to reason with and a force to be reckoned with.

It is truly hard to tell where Desdemona ends and Tynkakota begins, if they're even seperate in this form at all. It almost appears as though infected Desdemona is her own person altogether, an identity where both parties get lost in one another and a new one is formed from their mutually-assured destruction. At the end of it all, though, after bullet holes and torn limbs and vitals reconstructed after bodying wounds that would outright kill mere mortals, infected Desdemona leaves the two of them back as they were before -- and Desdemona, back in her normal body and self, falls to the ground unconscious for a good little while.