Full Name: CalandraRobyn Drakeler
Nicknames: Callie, Cal, Robbie, Callie-locks
Age: 25
Birthdate: April 9th, 2084(April 14th, 1975 on Earth)
Accent: Russian; sounds like Kath Soucie
Height: 5’6”
Appearance: Calandrais a very beautiful duck, even though she usually overshadowsher attractiveness. It is said that her back length black hairis the most radiant color upon Puckworld. Radiant and mysterious;like a raven. So when people talk about Calandra’s haircolor, they refer to it as ‘raven black’. She rarelylets her hair flow loosely. Most of the time Callie keeps herhair tied in a braid. Her feathers are white, except slightlya shade darker. Her eyes are a glittering amethyst violet color,with curly and lush eyelashes. Her figure is a graceful one,yet with some athletic features within them. She’s slightlycurvaceous around the breasts and hips. However, her appearancedoesn’t go un-flawed. On her back, from her left shoulderto the right side of her hip, she has a deep scar. She also hasa few bluish bruises on her thighs, from years of horse-back riding.
Weapons: CalandraIS a weapon! She was trained in the art of Jao Shan(a mixtureof Judo and Tae Kwon Doe) ever since she was four years old, withouther family knowing. However, her skills aren’t up to perfectionanymore, since it’s been a few years since she last usedthem. So she has a few weapons to make up for her somewhat-rustytechniques. She uses two laser crossbows, each the size of anine millimeter automatic, a black bullwhip, and several daggers,appearing to have been made of silver, even though the silveris really steel.
Attire: Calandraloves to wear anything that shows off her attractive figure, yetmakes sure that it’s not too revealing. Her fighting attireis a white sleeveless leotard, fitting over the curves of herhips. Her leotard has a zipper, the zipper piece at the tip ofher bustline, the collar flaring our slightly. Laced around herneck is a crystal white diamond necklace, shaped like a heart. In the center of her necklace is a smaller heart-shaped ruby,in the center. On each arm, Calandra has a golden arm band, asilver elbow pad, and a brown leather glove. Her arm bands holdup to any number of knives, from two to eight. Depends on thedesperation of the situation. Her left elbow pad has spikes connectedon them, for shedding blood when Callie jabs them with her leftelbow. Her gloves both have rectangular patches on them, showingsome of her feathers. Her right glove has metallic knuckles,with a communicator built upon her right wrist. Her left glovehas a thin, golden wrist band. Underneath her leotard, Calliewears bright violet tight pants, with a light green army pattern. Her brown utility belt, with the yellow buckle, holds a harasetton each side of her, holding her crossbows. On the front, side,and back of her harasetts, more over her knives are stored. Calalso wears dark purple knee pads like Mallory’s, with a darkgreen diamond in the center of each one. She also wears whiteboots with silver accents; her left boot holds one last dagger.
For everyday wear,Calandra would usually wear black jean style leather pants anda white sleeveless turtleneck. Or a purple waist skirt with smallslits at the side, a white sleeveless lace tee, with beige coloredstalkings and black heeless shoes. She also leaves her hair downand wears a bit of make-up here and there.
Personality: Calandrais the ULTIMATE adventuress! She’s one of those headstrong,audacious, vixen-like women. She THRIVES on adventure and danger! She also knows a lot about mythology and all types of exoticartifacts. She also has the heart of a thief and pirate. Thinkof Calandra as a mixture of Carmen SanDiego and Indiana Jones. She’s also a pure feminist. Doesn’t like being calledcertain names. She does have a soft side, a bit of a romantic. But she does have a violent side of her, which is displays incombat. She also has a passion for daggers and horses.
History: CalandraDrakeler is the daughter of Joseph Michele Drakeler and JulettaAriel Diamondfeathers Drakeler. Her father was once a championhorseback rider and a master fencer, the strongest one in Puckworld. Her mother was a golden haired beauty from Franzilian, men desperatelyin love with Juletta after first glance. After winning his 20thmatch, Joseph and his family were invited to dine at the DiamondfeatherMansion for a banquet. Joseph used to have a habit with sniffingup the skirts of a female. During the festivity, Joseph decidedto be naughty and looked up the skirts of one of the female guests. While a golden haired female duck was gossiping with the otherguests, Joseph ducked underwards. Making sure no one would seehim, he looked underneath the blonde’s white dress. Theblond felt something was wrong, and when she looked down, shesaw Joseph and shrieked. Instead of apologizing, Joseph onlysmirked and playfully slapped the girl’s butt. Little didhe know that the woman who’s skirts he sniffed was the host’sdaughter, Juletta Diamondfeathers. After being introduced toher few minutes after their previous ‘meeting’, Joseph’sfeathers went pale, and Juletta was mortified and hypersensitiveby his libidinous behavior towards her. For the first few weeksthat Joseph was in Franzilian, Juletta was cold towards him, refusingto be near him as much as possible. It took Joseph much patience,nearly four months, and many flowers, but eventually he won Juletta’sheart. They fell passionately in love with each other and marriedas soon as they could.
The Drakelers lived in Moscalovsan, Unistan(just think of Moscow,Russia). They were the richest family in all of Puckworld. Theirhome, Drakeler Manor, existed upon the Unistan cliff. The Manorhad existed for nearly 900 years. So not only was it ancientand had a fascinating history, Drakeler Manor was also luxurious.
Calandra is the youngest of ten children, having nine older brothers. Many would consider Calandra to be a spoiled brat, since everythingis handed to her upon a silver plate. She would automaticallygive up that luxurious life of being waited on hand and foot,without a second thought, for one thing: freedom.
Calandra was a very restless young girl, wanting to do more thanlearn the ways of an aristocratic lady. At around four, she leftDrakeler Manor. She wasn’t running away, though; she wantedto explore her home country. After exploring the candy shops,the toy stores, and everything else in the market places alongMoscalovsan, she stumbled upon a martial arts studio: The Spiritof Fire. Curious on what the label meant, Callie entered thebuilding to explore. There, she saw many young men, some as oldas seventeen, practicing the art of Jao Shan. She was slightlydisappointed that there were only a handful of females in theclassroom. The teacher, Master Spiritwing, an old duck, aboutnearly eighty, noticed Callie watching the students training. Curious on why a four year old would be in a dojo all by herself,he seem to have caught Callie’s attention. He also noticedthat she was very interested in trying to beat up one of his studentswith the techniques one of them used. The master allowed herfor that one time, thinking that it wouldn’t do any harmto give a child a shot. Being a fast learner, Calandra was ableto hit one of the brown belts hard in the gut, knocking him overwith a body slam when he doubled over. The teacher was very impressed,knowing that not many girls that young are capable of being ableto generate that type of strength.. He then decided to give Calandralessons, hoping to harness her skills. From then on, Calandrawas a student of the martial arts Jao Shan.
Calandra was also a student at Mrs. St. Quacklanson’s FinishingSchool for Girls. She was taught everything a student shouldlearn: math, science, history, etc. But at this finishing school,she was also taught how to serve tea, how to sew, acroetics(amixture of acrobatics, ballet, and gymnastics), music, and horse-backriding. She didn’t mind the music lessons much; Callie wasan amazing and gifted violinist. And the horse-back riding sheloved, as long as she wasn’t forced to ride side saddled. But everything else she HATED. There were too many rules aboutproper behavior for a lady. So many that it drove Calandra insaneto follow them.
At the age of six, Callie was wondering down the marble hallsof the mansion, when she caught her father placing his old fencingsword against the walls. Cal had ALWAYS wanted to learn how tosword fight, but her father refused to teach her. Her motherforbade the lessons, and Joseph was afraid of her scaring herbeautiful and innocent face. Calandra didn’t dare go againsther father’s word, for his punishments on disobeying himWERE severe. After gazing at his sword for a few minutes, shesaw an old miniature crossbow. She found the crossbow more toher liking than a fencing sword, seeing it was faster and couldbe used from a long distance. So she then taught herself on howto use the crossbow.
When Calandra was about eight years old, she discovered an oldsecret about Joshua Blazefeather, the Drakeler’s chef. Joshuahad yellow feathers and gray streaked silver hair. After sneakingback from a martial arts lesson, she caught Blazefeather throwinga type of meat up into the air, and tossing knives into them,pinning them against a wall. When he cracked a bullwhip back,obviously preparing to whisk the knives away, the tip of the bullwhipcracked upon the top of Calandra’s beak. He quickly apologizedover and over when he heard Callie’s scream, but she alreadyforgave him, knowing that it was an accident.
It was then that Callie learned that Joshua Blazefeather wasonce known as Josh the Heroic, a member of the Unistan Harlequinsters;the Russian circus of Puckworld. He was the top knife tosserand lion tamer in the circus, an ace with the bullwhip. However,the circus lost its business, due to financial problems. Aftera few days of looking through the paper, Callie’s fatheroffered him a job a their personal chef. He quickly took thejob, since he was a great cook and desperate for work. Calandrawas eye-wide and hanging onto every word of Joshua’s story,since she loved the circus and their talents. Seeing the interestin her violet eyes, Joshua decided to give Calandra lessons onusing the bullwhip and knife.
Josh decided to teach Calandra the bullwhip first, since theart of knife throwing was much more advanced and she was so young. Calandra had a hard time learning the basics first, since shewas so tiny. But after two months, she was finally able to tacklethe more advanced tricks. When she became ten, Josh had enoughconfidence in Calandra to teach her the art of dagger throwing. He had to go very slowly, since she was a young child. But everyweek, he’d increase the speed by a notch or two. By thetime Callie was thirteen, she could throw knives more swiftlyand gracefully than any other knife thrower on the face of Puckworld. Of course, Joshua could still out do her, even if he was blindfolded,but Calandra knew that there would always be someone better thanher. However, she didn’t know that she would need her newtraining so soon.
When Calandra was fourteen, her father donated the Drakeler Diamond,the most prized jewel of the Drakeler family since the time ofDrake DuCaine, to the Puckworld Museum of Historical Jewels. Callie protested against the very act, since there was the riskof the jewel being stolen. The historians and guards assuredthe Drakelers that the jewel would be protected by their newestsecurity system and themselves, of course. Calandra didn’tbelieve that they’d be able to protect her family’ssacred jewel against Duke L’Orange and Ernie Falcone, thetwo greatest thieves in all of Puckworld. So she then decidedto take matters into her own hands and try to stop the thievesherself.
On that night, dressed in black leather from head to toe, Calandrasetted of towards the museum. Dodging guards and security beamsfrom left to right, she stumbled upon the room where the jewelwas kept. After waiting for half an hour, she spied Duke andFalcone attempting to steal the diamond. After waiting for theright moment, Calandra threw an object onto Duke’s wrist,badly bruising it. When she tried to flip over and apprehendthe two crooks, the rope cracked and she fell flat on her buttright in front of the two. At first, Duke had the upper hand,since he was older and stronger than her. But Calandra was ableto outsmart him because of the size of his ego. After trappingFalcone and Duke in a candelabrum, Callie prepared to make hergrand escape. Unfortunately, the two thieves were able to breakout of their corona prison and escape before the cops could findthe two.
Callie was trapped inside the museum with guards at every door,so she decided to wait until the crowd died down. Unfortunately,Falcone was the first to find her and attempted to murder her. Luckily, Joshua’s lessons paid off well, and she was ableto tie Falcone up tight like a Christmas goose. She then attemptedto try and do the same to Duke. But Duke wouldn’t be fooledso easily by someone much younger than him. Before she couldreact, Duke pinned her against the wall. Callie expected Duketo try to kill her, but instead he KISSED her. Calandra was surprisedby this reaction; she even tried to fight it. But Duke’scharms were impossible to resist, even for her. So instead ofresisting, she decided to turn the tables and use that momentto HER advantage. She pretended that she wanted Duke to makelove to her right at that moment. He even gave Calandra a chanceto be let into the Brotherhood of the Blade, the ring of thieveshe was to lead in the future. Instead of taking the job, Callieraised a knife into the air and jammed it at Duke. She attemptedto murder him right then and there, but instead she cut his righteye out. Since then, the two became enemies, vowing to destroyeach other, one way or another.
Calandra tried to continue on with her life, but still felt astrange surge of emotion for Duke. Either love, or a remarkablystrong lust towards the ruggedly handsome thief. Only three peopleknew about Calandra’s meeting with Duke: Joshua, her mom’shandmaid Isa, and one of her earlier brothers, Slayde, who shecould trust with secrets. When Calandra was nearly eighteen,she then found out that she was to be married to Kirtland Quackson,the son of Carlton Quackson, mayor of Moscalovsan. Calandra refusedto be married to a man like Kirtland, for she knew that therewere only two reasons why he wanted to marry her: her father’svast fortune, and her beauty. Callie knew that the Quacksonshad a bitter reputation with the women; always had a passion forwine, women, and song. However, her refusal for the marriagewas denied. Her father and Kirtland’s father signed a contractto seal the marriage. Calandra knew then that the only way toescape the arranged wedding was to leave Drakeler Manor and allof Unistan for good. But she had to find a way to make sure thatthe others wouldn’t track her down. After a good amountof thinking, she decided to fake her death to keep the othersfrom pursuing her. So the night before the wedding, Calandrapoured fake blood all over a fake manican dummy that looked everythinglike her and stuck a knife into her. She then ran away from herhome on her pet horse.
Since then, Calandra became a free women. To keep people fromnoticing her, she dyed her hair pink and changed her name to FelishaDeMalard. She then needed to look for work. Callie, aka, Felisha,tried to enter the life of a race jockey, since she knew nearlyeverything about horses and was a great horse-back rider. However,all the jobs were taken. There were no work for horses anymore,on the count that all the positions had been filled. Callie wasin despair, until she learnd that P.W.S.F.(Puckworld Special Forces)needed new recruits. Since that was the only job available, andshe was a pretty good fighter, Callie immediately joined.
After she joined the military, Callie met Mallory McMallard,P.W.S.F’s Flight Commander. They became fast friends, bothhaving the same love for fighting. Calandra kept feeling a pingof guilt, never telling Mallory her REAL name. Little did sheknow the opportunity would come when she least expected it.
Half a year after Callie joined the army, the Brotherhood ofthe Blade struck again. Calandra and Mallory were on late nightduty then, when they saw two men sneaking out of the missile base. It was then that Calandra knew their identities: Ernie Falconeand Duke L’Orange. They managed to chase them down to anold factory that made carbonated acid for their peacemaker missiles. The acid was harmless if you stayed in there for no more thanten minutes. Any longer and your skin would start to burn. WhenCalandra tried to capture Duke, he threw her down into the tankof the freezing carbonated acid. Mallory had a choice then: tothrow the two in custody, or rescue her friend and partner. Makinga hasty decision, Mallory dove down into the tank of acid andpulled Calandra out of the container. However, the acid removedthe pink dye in Callie’s hair, and her true form was revealed.
Admiral Featherson, the one in charge of P.W.S.F., was furious. Not because of the escape of Duke and Falcone, but because oneof his top recruits, Felisha DeMalard, was actually Calandra Drakeler. He was about to kick her out of the military, when Mallory backedher up, defending her. Admiral Featherson had to admit that Calandrawas one of the best recruits he hired, and he couldn’t kickher out for all the loyal service she put in. So instead of firingCalandra, he just demoted her from Lutenit to Sergeant, SecondClass. It was then that Callie confessed the truth to Mallory,not leaving out a single detail. Instead of blowing up like araging volcano, Mallory was calm about the entire ordeal. WhenCalandra was twenty, the Saurian Invasion hit.
During the Invasion of the Saurian Empire, Calandra served asa spy for the Resistance, once again using her alias, FelishaDeMalard. Before Canard, leader of the Strike Force, was goingto attack Draguanus’s Headquarters, Calandra’s lastmission was to blow up the prison camp her Icecanstovan, anotherRussian city in Puckworld. There, she met her father, who wasvery sick from the lack of fresh food, pure air, back-breakinglabor, and severe beatings. Callie tried to help her dad outof there, but he kept telling her to leave him behind; he saidhe had nothing left to live for. When they were halfway downthe secret escape tunnel, the two had an encounter with KirtlandQuackson. In distracting him with a broken wall above his head,Callie was able to get her father away from the dungeon. However,Lucretia DeCoy struck a knife into his back, shedding much bloodfrom his body. It was then that Joseph Drakeler discovered thathis daughter wasn’t dead on the night before her wedding;she was right before him. Before Joseph died, he told Calliethat her mother was killed by the Saurians, five of her nine olderbrothers were dead from assasination from her ex-fiance, and toldCalandra to make Draguanus pay. Then Joseph died, in his ownpool of blood. After shedding many tears and escaping the blownup dungeon, Calandra vowed to her father to make the Empire payfor murdering her family.
However, Canard denied Callie’s with to join them in themission against Draguanus’ Headquarters. He said that shedidn’t need to do anymore for them; that she did MORE thanher duty. But the REAL reason, one he refused to admit out loud,was because he was afraid that if she encountered Draguanus, heremotions would cloud her judgement. Even though he understoodthe rage she felt with the Empire, since he gave the orders tomurder her parents and five of her nine older brothers, Canardwas still afraid that Calandra would sacrifice the safety of themission and her comrads to avenge her family. So she stayed onPuckworld, helping to rebuild the cities, destroy remaining torturecamps, and kill any remaining people that worked for the Sauriansor were the Saurians themselves. Three years after the Resistanceleft, the remaining few of P.W.S.F.’s soldiers tracked downthe Resistance. However, no one would volunteer to go and retrievethem, until Calandra bravely volunteered herself into going. After being warped from Puckworld to Earth, Callie heard screamingand gun blasts at a nearby bank. After examining it, she realizedthat a civil war was breaking out in there, and that a littleboy was right in it. IF she had waited a few more seconds toinvade, the boy would’ve died right then and there. Theducks were surprised to meet her, Duke the most. In fact, hewished deep down that she was dead....somewhat deep down, thatis. However, their grudge and hatred against each other onlylasted for a day. On a mission on an old abandoned volcano island,the ducks splitted up into groups; Duke with Calandra. Therethey discovered Draguanus mining for Balirium Crystals in theold volcano. Callie distracted the Saurians and Hunter Droneswhile Duke destroyed the Balirium Crystal supply. The SauriansWraith, Seige, and Chameleon were defeated, and Duke and Calliesurrounded the two. Before the three made their escape, Chameleonblasted a hole underneath Callie’s feet, nearly having herfall into the lava pit. However, Duke managed to grab her wristjust in time. When he pulled her body out of the gun-made pit,she fell into his arms. Then, their true emotions came out, andthe two fell passionately in love.
Good Points: Callieis one of the toughest female fighters, next to Mallory. Eventhough her fighting skills aren’t perfect, they’re goodenough. Her adventuress nature makes her brave, the one anyonewould be willing to hire for a mission where the chances of survivingwere nil. She’s the only one of the ducks who has talentin the art of dagger throwing and the bullwhip. Since she wasinvolved in acroetics, she’s agile and graceful in her martialarts. She’s also a tough notch hockey and ice-skater. Someof her acroetics she practices on the ice, equivalent to any professionalfigure skater. However, she only figure skates to keep up heragility and gracefulness in fighting. She’s also a talentedviolinist and horse-back rider, being blessed with ‘Ksd Vnmyezgdmvdnye Snrsds’, which’s Russian for ‘The Confidenceof Horses’; the ability to speak and communicate with horses.
Bad Points: Callie’sadventurous personality always lands her into hot water. Sheusually has doubts about her abilities, always thinking that theyneed much more improvement and that she could never be as goodas someone else who shows more talent. She’s also a ragingfeminist; she’ll beat up ANYONE who dares to call her babe,baby, doll, chick, sugar, girly-girl, toots, hotty, or anythingrelated to those mentioned earlier. She’s also too muchof a romantic; usually wishes that her life would be the sameas the character in the latest romance novel she’s read.
Pets: On Puckworld,Calandra had an Arabian Stallion named Spirit. On Earth, shehas a female Himilanx(cross between a Himilyan and a Manx) catwith a diamond and sapphie collar named Jewelina, a reunion giftfrom her older brother, Slayde(from Clash of Flame; coming soon)
Likes: Duke, daggers,horses, romance novels, anything chocolate, cherries, grapes,felines, martial arts, hockey, ice-skating, family, music, shopping,fashionable clothes, and the violin.
Hates: Kirtland Quackson,the Saurains, Phil, Kleeghorn, people that slay horses, whores,sluts, murderers, men that abuse women, death, crime, rapists,egoists, tricksters, the wealthy life, not being allowed to makeher own decisions and choose her own life, bounty hunters, mercenaries,and people that hurt the innocent.
Other: CurrentlyDuke and Calandra have been having an affair. Even though everyonein Anaheim knows that they’re dating, they don’t knowthat they’ve been sleeping together. And although Calandrais Russian, she can also speak French.
~Quotes Overheard~
ExCUSE me?! Didyou just call me BABY?!
Are you saying....thatmy father....and yours...want us BOTH...to MARRY?!
Moi amour vous, Duke....(Ilove you, Duke...; translated from French)
Tvz bootsdag! Shsvntskg tvz!( You butthead! How could you!; translated from Russian)
~Said of Her~
Kirtland: You area good liar, ma sharie.
Duke: You’reso ravishing, Calandra. It’s so...overpowering.
Joseph: Calandra,my angel. You look beautiful tonight...
Songs of Her:
‘Dreamlover’Mariah Carey
‘Take My Chances’ Mary Chapin Carpenter
‘One Way Ticket(Because I Can)’ LeAnn Rimes
‘No Scrubs’ TLC
‘Reflection’ Christina Augliera
‘You Can Still Be Free’ Savage Garden
‘These Boots are Made For Walking’ Nancy Sinatra
‘What’s Love Got To Do With It’ Tina Turner(?)
‘I Have Always Loved You’ Enrique Iglesias(Duke’semotions towards Calandra when he was younger)
‘Livin La Vida Loca’ Ricky Martin
‘Could I Have This Kiss Forever’ Enrique Iglesias andWhitney Houston (Her emotions towards Duke, and vice versa)
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