Character Name: Patricia Smith
Character Species: Coelophysis bauri - a species of Triassic carnivorous therapod about 200 million years old, looks and is about 14-15 though. Is cold blooded with all that that entails.
Physical Description: About one metre high and two and a half long, mottled light green/yellow/black dinosaur coloured...well...dinosaur. Female, although you wouldn't be able to tell without some zoological and paleontological knowledge, and about three quarters of the way to full maturity.
Equipment: Always wears a black fleece jacket and in cold weather various socks/fabric tubes over her neck and legs for extra warmth. Her rucksack contains a wallet with various cards and about £15/equivalent in loose change, a towel, a rope, a couple of good novels, an emergency chemically exothermic hot water bottle and half a large packet of Revels.
Abilities: A good melee fighter if needs be, posesses quick reflexes, predator eyesight and good technique with sharp claws and talons. No real abilities other than that but she is reasonably intelligent for a dinosaur and has a tough hide somewhat more resistant than human skin, though far from impenetrable. Has a somewhat heightened sense of smell compared to humans.

Biography: Patricia's story began when a slightly eccentric divorcee, Colin Occupantsofinterplanetarycraft, found an almost perfectly preserved egg walking along the Pembrokeshire coast one early morning, and was surprised when two days later he was woken in the middle of the night by it hatching to reveal a juvenile dinosaur. Rather than report this to the police - presumably Dyfed-Powys Police's Anachronistic Beings department - he decided to attempt to raise the chick by himself, and was surprised when it began to exhibit sentience and an awareness of its surroundings. She took her first name from a TV movie and her last name from her father (thankfully for all concerned, his middle name), who taught her to speak using ventriloquism and pulled some strings to get her a place at a primary school in Haverfordwest, where she recalled semi-fondly being treated about halfway between a strange scaly student and a class pet. On leaving she started semi-obsessively reading everything in the local library relating to dinosaurs and biology in general in an attempt to find out more about herself and how she could have come to exist 200 million years in the relative future, and why on earth she was as human as she'd turned out - this didn't work too well but she did integrate loosely into human society and passed two A levels (with the aid of a scribe) with the knowledge she gained. She was still trying to find her purpose and reason for being when her adoptive father died from stomach cancer, which prompted her to move from Haverfordwest to seek the aid of science and outside scientific expertise to find the answers she was seeking, and was travelling to the Natural History Museum in London when she fell asleep on the cold train and was only woken up when the train had inexplicably pulled into Melded Central station with no discernible way back.

Skills: Gymnastics, rock climbing, particular adeptness at melee fighting (largely as a result of the aforementioned gymnastics)