Ari was driven hard by her father to be strong and unyielding. In a sea of mammals who did not like their kind and believed them to be inferior to their own, there was not much room for sympathy. She and her father needed to be stronger than most to be taken seriously and even then, they needed to go underground when the Zabokar High Council denounced their project, declaring it illegal and immoral. Her father, the Arbiter, was a very intelligent and talented individual. A tortoise of incalculable age that was a master of the technological arts and paranormal. He created Ari to be what she is, a hybrid between a crocodile and tortoise. He knew she would not have an easy life and was very hard on her, imposing grueling training on her daily. Without much room for rest, she would slip and fail, injuring a leg or losing an eye. All these he would replace and enhance with cybernetics infused with magic - a field he specialized in. He would sometimes assure her these made her look 'pretty,' but she knew better. Every now and then, her cybernetic eye would need to be removed, cleaned and cleared of all dust and grime before being replaced back into its socket and reconnecting back up into her brain. This was the part she hated the most.
