Post by Mello on Jun 14, 2010 23:04:38 GMT -5
Player:
Name: Jordan
Are you 17+?: yep
Contact Information:
AIM: firelizard035
Email: vadragonwriter@yahoo.com (but I never really check it, so it’s not the best way to get in touch with me)
Past RP Experience: I’ve been off and on different boards since I was about 13 or 14. Most of what I’ve done is DRoP, although there were a few others.
Character:
Name: Ranen
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Considers himself bisexual
Occupation: Candidate
Description:
Ranen is slightly smaller than average. He is slightly below average height, and has yet to grow out of his more lanky teenage build, with some indication that he never quite will. His movement does not often reflect his lankiness, although he does have periodic moments of clumsiness or awkwardness in his movement, especially when he is being distracted by something. While it is not very apparent, his wiry frame does hide some strength in the form of muscles toned from turns of labor.
His hair is a medium brown reminiscent of tree bark, often with natural highlights of a slightly lighter brown due to long hours spent outside. He likes to keep it short, but often puts off getting it cut until it begins to get into his eyes, so it is more often than not at or nearing that point. His eyes are brown as well, a few shades darker than his hair.
He tends to not be very selective with regards to his clothing, settling for whatever fits. He is used to second hand clothing, and has rarely owned anything new. He does, however, take care to make sure he has clothes that are in good condition and suitable for work. When he has a choice, he prefers clothes that are not flashy at all, generally plain and in more neutral colors. His one constant when it comes to appearance is a necklace, made of a simple leather band holding a small clay ornament in the shape of a disk at the end, which he made for his mother when he was small and kept after she died. It’s one of his most prized possessions, and he very rarely takes it off.
Personality:
Ranen puts a very high value on strength, both physical and mental. He will eagerly follow those who he sees as strong, but has a much harder time when he is put under someone who he thinks is weak in some way. He tends to look down on those who he perceives as capable of being strong, but who choose in some way to remain weak, such as by avoiding physical labor of some sort or by refusing to learn the skills necessary to be useful in a new situation. On the other hand, he does not tolerate bullies at all. If he sees someone being bullied he will interfere against the bully. If the one being bullied seems simply resigned to their fate, however, he will not hesitate to berate them after he saves them.
He was never very strong with formal education, despite his love for stories, so he does not read or write particularly well, and only learned a minimum of songs from the hold’s Harper. Similarly, he was never very committed to his lessons as a candidate, although he has spent so much time in the role. However, his need to adapt has led him to gain a great deal of understanding simply from being a part of a Weyr. He also has picked up a little of knowledge in several skill areas, especially in the areas of chores that are commonly assigned to candidates.
He can be very stubborn at times, especially when he decides to do something to better himself in some way. This has encouraged him to learn a lot about the Weyr, including many of the jobs needed to keep it running. On the other hand, before coming to the Weyr his determination led fairly quickly to success. His time as a candidate, so far a failure in his eyes, has led him to begin to doubt his own determination and its ability to take him anywhere he wants to go, something that has been an important part of his outlook on the world for most of his life.
Ranen’s view of the world is further conflicted by his change from the hold to the Weyr. He spent many turns following the values of his father and his brother instead of determining his own beliefs, so he can find it hard to separate who he really is from who they expected him to be when it comes to views of strength, views of what a man should be, views of women, or many other aspects of life. This can lead him to back away from situations if he can’t determine how to act, which can appear as shyness when he is in new settings. However, the longer he spends at the Weyr, the more comfortable he is with himself, and the more he is able to connect to new people and situations in a shorter amount of time.
After many turns, hiding his love of stories has become a sort of habit. However, his love has not diminished any since he first listened to his mother’s tales. He still likes to be by himself on occasion, to dream up new stories in new faraway lands, but has never learned to admit this secret love of fantasy and imagination.
History:
When Tyald, a small holder near Southern, met Issbel, the daughter of another local holder, the two quickly fell in love. They married with dreams of starting a family together, with plenty of boys to help Tyald with the difficult work required to keep the small hold running. It wasn’t long before those dreams began to be realized, when Issbel gave birth to a boy, Tanil. A turn later another boy, Coyer, was born, followed two turns later by the couple’s first girl, Aldzia and then barely a turn later by another boy, Tanon. As the children thrived and the hold flourished, it appeared as though they were going to get everything they had wanted.
Three turns later, Issbel gave birth to another boy, who they named Ranen after Issbel’s favorite uncle. At first Ranen was just like his older siblings. However, when he was five the boy came down with what seemed to be a cold, but quickly turned into something worse. Although not generally the type to panic, Ranen’s illness scared his mother so badly that she convinced his father to send for a healer. Luckily, the healer was able to save him, but as a result of the sickness, Ranen seemed more likely to fall ill than his siblings, even his infant baby brother, Kalar.
Issbel had been shaken by the illness, and by the colds that persistently followed, and took a special interest in Ranen. While his older siblings were needed to work, Ranen was kept indoors with his mother for several turns, helping with the work around the house or just outside, but spared the more grueling work in the fields because of his health. There were many days where it was just Issbel and Ranen in the house with baby Kalar. Issbel used the extra time with her son to tell him the stories she had grown up with and enjoyed so much. His afternoons were filled with tales of heroic dragonriders, evil villains, daring plots, and faraway lands filled with strange people. Ranen loved the tales, and even began to make up his own endings to some of his favorites.
However, eventually he began to recover from his illness, and his bouts of sickness became less severe and less common. By the time he was eight, he was deemed well enough to begin working away from his mother, learning the skills his older brothers had been learning all their lives. In addition to being the youngest working, he had also missed out on several years of experience doing the easier jobs which nevertheless would have built strength and endurance. Small for his age and ignorant to the practices of the work of his brothers and father, he quickly became a target for the ridicule of the older boys. The more Ranen’s health improved, the more he was allowed to work in the field, and the more he was teased and bullied by his brothers. Occasionally, the situations even turned slightly violent, and while Tyald always managed to appear to stop those before they became life threatening, there was more than one occasion Ranen had to go home with a black eye or a cut on his arm. He quickly learned that telling his parents the truth might get them extra chores, but it would also result in even more torment, and so he finally stopped telling them. His creative energy, once used to think up stories about faraway lands, now was directed towards creating stories about how he hadn’t seen that log until he tripped over it and hit his face, or how he had run into the fence accidently.
By the time Ranen was fully healed, Issbel was distracted by the antics of the toddler Kalar and by her own pregnancy. Tragedy struck, however, when she went into labor. Although the baby was a perfectly healthy girl named Essny, Issbel didn’t recover from the birth and passed away. Issbel’s passing was hard for the whole family, but Ranen felt the loss especially strongly. He felt as though he had lost the one person he could count on to listen to his stories without mocking them.
With his mother and her world gone, Ranen threw himself completely into the world of his father. He became determined to learn everything he had missed about farming and holding, and even began to learn a little about hand to hand fighting by watching his brothers wrestling and by consulting anyone who would listen to him. Eventually he was no longer the lost, weak little boy who didn’t know anything about the world his father and brothers lived in. He remembered the stories, and tried to find time to spend in his own imagination, but being lost in his own mind simply led to a return of the teasing, and so he learned to limit such activities to when he was alone, which ended up being rarer and rarer.
Things continued in pretty much the same way for some turns. However, when Ranen was 15, he was visiting Southern Hold with his father, brining in some of the most recent crops, when he was stopped by a rider. At first he was sure that the man was joking with him, involved in some kind of prank initiated by one of his brothers, but when he took the teenager to see his blue dragon, Ranen realized that some of his earliest dreams, dreams he had long ago pushed away, actually had a chance of coming true. At first, his father wouldn’t agree to let him go, saying that he was needed at the hold. To Ranen’s surprise, his older brother Tanon came to his defense, pointing out that it was what their mother would have wanted for him. Finally his father gave in, although he sternly warned Ranen to not come back if he would just be a disgrace to the family.
For the next two turns, Ranen lived at Southern Weyr as a candidate. He stood at every Hatching, but always unsuccessfully. While he was there, he threw himself into learning the skills needed to be useful to the Weyr. Still, his continuous failures began to wear at him. When he heard that the remnants of Silver Cove Weyr were relocating to Cerulean Weyr, and were in need of people, including candidates, he volunteered to transfer, hoping that he would have more luck at the new Weyr than at Southern.
Fun Facts:
He can get slightly claustrophobic at times.
Puntius Brown
Name: Olloth
Description – BBAC81 – The Puntius Brown is mostly a pale sandy brown in color, though the lack of luster to his hide negates the otherwise likely possibility of being mistaken for a small bronze. Somewhat larger than the average brown, his limbs and wings are all fairly proportionate to his lightly muscled body, and he strikes a cutting figure in the sun. The sandy color deepens around the outer tips of his wings and the line of large, jagged ridges down his back in an almost variegated pattern of light stripes. The novel coloration isn't easily visible unless struck by light in the correct angle. One other large patch of the slightly darker color covers nearly his entire left foreleg, a bit more noticeable than the stripes.
He has shortish headknobs and a more rounded head. All in all, this brown is fairly typical of his predecessors in endurance and maneuverability, though his slightly lengthened wingtips will give him better dive management. He walks with a bit more grace than can usually be noted of the larger dragons, seeming more at ease with his form on the ground than is typical.
Personality – This brown is fairly vocal, happy to trumpet his feelings on whatever his fancy carries at that moment. To this point, he is efficacious in getting others to join in with him, and he can sometimes set off the entire Weyr in a uproar over something silly, or for the simple joy at being alive and healthy. He quite enjoys the company of other browns and even bronzes over many of the other colors, but he has a need to be around people and dragons period. He will likely develop into a more independent adult dragon, but as a hatchling he will want his bonded around him constantly.
To his rider, they are equals. Clearly, he chose his bonded because he was worthy, right? He loves his rider, but has difficulty expressing it in a way that wouldn't make him feel overly needy – a conundrum that he battles with as he needs to be around his bonded but tries to not show it. He likes to feel self-motivated and self-sustaining, despite how much he admires his bonded. To this end, he would do well with his rider in a Wingsecond position as he holds himself to that high of a standard as well.
Name: Jordan
Are you 17+?: yep
Contact Information:
AIM: firelizard035
Email: vadragonwriter@yahoo.com (but I never really check it, so it’s not the best way to get in touch with me)
Past RP Experience: I’ve been off and on different boards since I was about 13 or 14. Most of what I’ve done is DRoP, although there were a few others.
Character:
Name: Ranen
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Considers himself bisexual
Occupation: Candidate
Description:
Ranen is slightly smaller than average. He is slightly below average height, and has yet to grow out of his more lanky teenage build, with some indication that he never quite will. His movement does not often reflect his lankiness, although he does have periodic moments of clumsiness or awkwardness in his movement, especially when he is being distracted by something. While it is not very apparent, his wiry frame does hide some strength in the form of muscles toned from turns of labor.
His hair is a medium brown reminiscent of tree bark, often with natural highlights of a slightly lighter brown due to long hours spent outside. He likes to keep it short, but often puts off getting it cut until it begins to get into his eyes, so it is more often than not at or nearing that point. His eyes are brown as well, a few shades darker than his hair.
He tends to not be very selective with regards to his clothing, settling for whatever fits. He is used to second hand clothing, and has rarely owned anything new. He does, however, take care to make sure he has clothes that are in good condition and suitable for work. When he has a choice, he prefers clothes that are not flashy at all, generally plain and in more neutral colors. His one constant when it comes to appearance is a necklace, made of a simple leather band holding a small clay ornament in the shape of a disk at the end, which he made for his mother when he was small and kept after she died. It’s one of his most prized possessions, and he very rarely takes it off.
Personality:
Ranen puts a very high value on strength, both physical and mental. He will eagerly follow those who he sees as strong, but has a much harder time when he is put under someone who he thinks is weak in some way. He tends to look down on those who he perceives as capable of being strong, but who choose in some way to remain weak, such as by avoiding physical labor of some sort or by refusing to learn the skills necessary to be useful in a new situation. On the other hand, he does not tolerate bullies at all. If he sees someone being bullied he will interfere against the bully. If the one being bullied seems simply resigned to their fate, however, he will not hesitate to berate them after he saves them.
He was never very strong with formal education, despite his love for stories, so he does not read or write particularly well, and only learned a minimum of songs from the hold’s Harper. Similarly, he was never very committed to his lessons as a candidate, although he has spent so much time in the role. However, his need to adapt has led him to gain a great deal of understanding simply from being a part of a Weyr. He also has picked up a little of knowledge in several skill areas, especially in the areas of chores that are commonly assigned to candidates.
He can be very stubborn at times, especially when he decides to do something to better himself in some way. This has encouraged him to learn a lot about the Weyr, including many of the jobs needed to keep it running. On the other hand, before coming to the Weyr his determination led fairly quickly to success. His time as a candidate, so far a failure in his eyes, has led him to begin to doubt his own determination and its ability to take him anywhere he wants to go, something that has been an important part of his outlook on the world for most of his life.
Ranen’s view of the world is further conflicted by his change from the hold to the Weyr. He spent many turns following the values of his father and his brother instead of determining his own beliefs, so he can find it hard to separate who he really is from who they expected him to be when it comes to views of strength, views of what a man should be, views of women, or many other aspects of life. This can lead him to back away from situations if he can’t determine how to act, which can appear as shyness when he is in new settings. However, the longer he spends at the Weyr, the more comfortable he is with himself, and the more he is able to connect to new people and situations in a shorter amount of time.
After many turns, hiding his love of stories has become a sort of habit. However, his love has not diminished any since he first listened to his mother’s tales. He still likes to be by himself on occasion, to dream up new stories in new faraway lands, but has never learned to admit this secret love of fantasy and imagination.
History:
When Tyald, a small holder near Southern, met Issbel, the daughter of another local holder, the two quickly fell in love. They married with dreams of starting a family together, with plenty of boys to help Tyald with the difficult work required to keep the small hold running. It wasn’t long before those dreams began to be realized, when Issbel gave birth to a boy, Tanil. A turn later another boy, Coyer, was born, followed two turns later by the couple’s first girl, Aldzia and then barely a turn later by another boy, Tanon. As the children thrived and the hold flourished, it appeared as though they were going to get everything they had wanted.
Three turns later, Issbel gave birth to another boy, who they named Ranen after Issbel’s favorite uncle. At first Ranen was just like his older siblings. However, when he was five the boy came down with what seemed to be a cold, but quickly turned into something worse. Although not generally the type to panic, Ranen’s illness scared his mother so badly that she convinced his father to send for a healer. Luckily, the healer was able to save him, but as a result of the sickness, Ranen seemed more likely to fall ill than his siblings, even his infant baby brother, Kalar.
Issbel had been shaken by the illness, and by the colds that persistently followed, and took a special interest in Ranen. While his older siblings were needed to work, Ranen was kept indoors with his mother for several turns, helping with the work around the house or just outside, but spared the more grueling work in the fields because of his health. There were many days where it was just Issbel and Ranen in the house with baby Kalar. Issbel used the extra time with her son to tell him the stories she had grown up with and enjoyed so much. His afternoons were filled with tales of heroic dragonriders, evil villains, daring plots, and faraway lands filled with strange people. Ranen loved the tales, and even began to make up his own endings to some of his favorites.
However, eventually he began to recover from his illness, and his bouts of sickness became less severe and less common. By the time he was eight, he was deemed well enough to begin working away from his mother, learning the skills his older brothers had been learning all their lives. In addition to being the youngest working, he had also missed out on several years of experience doing the easier jobs which nevertheless would have built strength and endurance. Small for his age and ignorant to the practices of the work of his brothers and father, he quickly became a target for the ridicule of the older boys. The more Ranen’s health improved, the more he was allowed to work in the field, and the more he was teased and bullied by his brothers. Occasionally, the situations even turned slightly violent, and while Tyald always managed to appear to stop those before they became life threatening, there was more than one occasion Ranen had to go home with a black eye or a cut on his arm. He quickly learned that telling his parents the truth might get them extra chores, but it would also result in even more torment, and so he finally stopped telling them. His creative energy, once used to think up stories about faraway lands, now was directed towards creating stories about how he hadn’t seen that log until he tripped over it and hit his face, or how he had run into the fence accidently.
By the time Ranen was fully healed, Issbel was distracted by the antics of the toddler Kalar and by her own pregnancy. Tragedy struck, however, when she went into labor. Although the baby was a perfectly healthy girl named Essny, Issbel didn’t recover from the birth and passed away. Issbel’s passing was hard for the whole family, but Ranen felt the loss especially strongly. He felt as though he had lost the one person he could count on to listen to his stories without mocking them.
With his mother and her world gone, Ranen threw himself completely into the world of his father. He became determined to learn everything he had missed about farming and holding, and even began to learn a little about hand to hand fighting by watching his brothers wrestling and by consulting anyone who would listen to him. Eventually he was no longer the lost, weak little boy who didn’t know anything about the world his father and brothers lived in. He remembered the stories, and tried to find time to spend in his own imagination, but being lost in his own mind simply led to a return of the teasing, and so he learned to limit such activities to when he was alone, which ended up being rarer and rarer.
Things continued in pretty much the same way for some turns. However, when Ranen was 15, he was visiting Southern Hold with his father, brining in some of the most recent crops, when he was stopped by a rider. At first he was sure that the man was joking with him, involved in some kind of prank initiated by one of his brothers, but when he took the teenager to see his blue dragon, Ranen realized that some of his earliest dreams, dreams he had long ago pushed away, actually had a chance of coming true. At first, his father wouldn’t agree to let him go, saying that he was needed at the hold. To Ranen’s surprise, his older brother Tanon came to his defense, pointing out that it was what their mother would have wanted for him. Finally his father gave in, although he sternly warned Ranen to not come back if he would just be a disgrace to the family.
For the next two turns, Ranen lived at Southern Weyr as a candidate. He stood at every Hatching, but always unsuccessfully. While he was there, he threw himself into learning the skills needed to be useful to the Weyr. Still, his continuous failures began to wear at him. When he heard that the remnants of Silver Cove Weyr were relocating to Cerulean Weyr, and were in need of people, including candidates, he volunteered to transfer, hoping that he would have more luck at the new Weyr than at Southern.
Fun Facts:
He can get slightly claustrophobic at times.
Puntius Brown
Name: Olloth
Description – BBAC81 – The Puntius Brown is mostly a pale sandy brown in color, though the lack of luster to his hide negates the otherwise likely possibility of being mistaken for a small bronze. Somewhat larger than the average brown, his limbs and wings are all fairly proportionate to his lightly muscled body, and he strikes a cutting figure in the sun. The sandy color deepens around the outer tips of his wings and the line of large, jagged ridges down his back in an almost variegated pattern of light stripes. The novel coloration isn't easily visible unless struck by light in the correct angle. One other large patch of the slightly darker color covers nearly his entire left foreleg, a bit more noticeable than the stripes.
He has shortish headknobs and a more rounded head. All in all, this brown is fairly typical of his predecessors in endurance and maneuverability, though his slightly lengthened wingtips will give him better dive management. He walks with a bit more grace than can usually be noted of the larger dragons, seeming more at ease with his form on the ground than is typical.
Personality – This brown is fairly vocal, happy to trumpet his feelings on whatever his fancy carries at that moment. To this point, he is efficacious in getting others to join in with him, and he can sometimes set off the entire Weyr in a uproar over something silly, or for the simple joy at being alive and healthy. He quite enjoys the company of other browns and even bronzes over many of the other colors, but he has a need to be around people and dragons period. He will likely develop into a more independent adult dragon, but as a hatchling he will want his bonded around him constantly.
To his rider, they are equals. Clearly, he chose his bonded because he was worthy, right? He loves his rider, but has difficulty expressing it in a way that wouldn't make him feel overly needy – a conundrum that he battles with as he needs to be around his bonded but tries to not show it. He likes to feel self-motivated and self-sustaining, despite how much he admires his bonded. To this end, he would do well with his rider in a Wingsecond position as he holds himself to that high of a standard as well.
