Meet Kahgetah! (Kah jeh tah)
Her name comes from the name Kanta, changed to fit Drath of course.
Her parents are Tehge and Erdai. She's adopted.
In the "timeline" of events she doesn't come around until one and a half Thardahk years after the Battle of Butting Horns.
At my sort of "midpoint" on the story timeline her egg hasn't even been laid yet.
She's dropped off at the capital camp where Erdai, Tehge, and all of their friends are staying, with a blanket and a basket but no note. No one has any clue where she came from, or how they managed to get into camp, which is relatively active 50 hours a day, 7-8 days a week, drop off a whole, hatched child, and leave without being noticed.
They try to find a nursery to put her in, but the ones they can find are full from the war, and everything else is far away.
Erdai and Tehge agree to look after her at first just because they have enough to keep her from going hungry or getting bored. They say as soon as a nursery opens up they'll send her to it cause the leaders of a brand new country, aka a coal miner turned revolutionary leader and the ex-heiress to a tyrannical empire, are not at all prepared to take care of a child, but with some time and tips from family and friends who have raised kids, they adjust to having her in their lives and wind up forgetting about sending her to a nursery.
In that way she becomes a foster fail, and becomes a permanent member of their weird little eclectic family.
She's raised around family friends with war stories for days. Who have failing eyes and failing legs, yet can still spin a knife like it's a toy. Her cousins are royalty, and her aunts and uncles have coal stains that will never grow out. She's one of the few Drathah who will never meet her grandparents. She's raised in cozy, cramped tents and temporary homes well into her teen months. She's taught how to throw a punch first and how to be kind second. Her upbringing is weird, but she winds up a good person. Because of it, or despite it, is up to interpretation.
As for more information on Drathlihgs:
No, that is not how Drathlihgs are supposed to sit but the stars would have to come down from the sky itself and make her stop doing it.
Drathlihgs come out of their eggs as these wet, wrinkly, peach fuzz covered grubs. Kahgetah is about 4 Thardahk months old here, and she's well into the phase where she learns she has limbs and can use them to get into shenanigans.
She's kind of skinny for a Drathlihg, part of it's just her body biology, part of it is being raised in an ex-war camp, in a brand new and recovering country, by very busy parents, part of it's the fact that she's VERY active for her age. She does still have some chub on her tail and around her middle though.
Drathlihgs start out pretty chubby, largely in the legs and torso, with plenty on the tail and arms. As they start to get mobile though, (Crawling, running, jumping, they're sort of like puppies, quadrupedally fully ambulatory), they burn the fat around their legs and arms, then as they really grow at the start the process of transitioning to bipedalism it starts to become muscle mass around their legs, as well as their arms once they start to carry stuff and use tools and furniture, and they fill out again, with their mass redistributing.
Kahgetah is definitely in the weird gangly popsicle stage here, though she was always gangly and will remain gangly for her whole life. She hits 9'6" (2.8m) at 2 years old (adult aged) and upsets her 8'1" and 8'3" (2.5m) parents.
Part of learning to use your limbs when you're a sapient, technologically advanced species, is learning how to use your hands. Part of the problem when it comes to raising Kahgetah is that she's part of the population with a prehensile tail, and the tail is so much easier to use then her hands, so getting her to Actually Use Her Hands, and not her tail, is a big problem in her toddler years. It gets better once she learns to talk and can be bribed with treats or her favorite game.
She is a frequent thief of the Drathah equivalent of a cookie jar.
(No I haven't world built for the Drathah equivalent of a cookie jar yet.)
All 4 of her ears do work, but both ears on one sides lead to the same set of internal ear bits, and her bottom ears only really hear her hair because of how they flop. I imagine when she's older she actually plugs the bottom set so she doesn't have to keep hearing her hair, and pulls them along with her hair to keep them out of the way.
Her wings also grow big enough for her to use. That's a fun nightmare for her flightless parents. Trying to teach their kid to fly without getting her killed.
Like, most of this information is gonna mean absolutely nothing to most people. Just know she's the equivalent of those fanfic OC kids you give to your favorite OTP as part of your AU future fix-it fic.
The Bobby of Juno Lazylittledragon's Steddie AU if you will.
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