Post by Kitsuneko on May 30, 2012 23:24:02 GMT -5
Name: Slavena
Gender: Female
Age: 32
Birthdate (Season): Winter
Location: Elman Hold, now Quindell Weyr
Rank: Senior Weyrwoman
Wing (if applicable): Rising Tides Wing
Family:
Father-Bazner, Runnerbeast breeder, 54
Mother-Selva, Journeywoman Healer, 56
Brother-Balver, Runnerbeast breeder, 34
Sister-Vaneera, Holder, 29
Brother-Sebezen, Journeyman Harper, 24
Physical Appearance: Slavena is very tall, towering over most women and a good number of men as well. She is lithe and well-muscled from turns of working with dragons, but she's not completely without curves. Her skin is naturally a creamy shade of fair, but usually tanned to a golden brown, as she spends a lot of time in the sun as well.
Her hair is frizzy and wild, no matter how hard she tries to straighten it, but she doesn't like short hair, so refuses to cut it. It will reach down to the bottom of her shoulderblades at least, but no shorter. It is a deep, coppery red in color. She has a thin face with pointed features and large, deep brown eyes.
Personality: Slavena is an extremely determined, resolute person. Or more like stubborn and hard-headed, depending on who you talk to. She has adjusted well to being a queenrider and tends to be quite controlling and always wants to have things done her own way. She's never dealt well with rejection either, having grown up a bit spoiled, and she tends to get angry when she is refused, though as Senior Weyrwoman, there's not a whole lot she can't get one way or another.
She is an active person and energetic, with a dislike of sitting still. She is certainly hard-working, but her reluctance to delegate any of her duties causes her to overwork herself to the point of exhaustion, and her stubbornness prevents her from taking good advice. She enjoys being in a position of leadership, no matter how much of a figurehead it has become. She is certainly self-assured and a little vain about her appearance as well, preferring expensive, fancy clothes and jewelry when simpler material would be more practical.
Slavena is an introverted person and doesn't really enjoy spending much time around large amounts of people, especially people she already has a low opinion of. She lacks the patience to deal with people diplomatically and dislikes attending meetings and the like. She can put on a friendly and diplomatic face when she needs to, but charisma and diplomacy don't come naturally to her. Unsurprisingly, she finds it difficult to make friends and spends a lot of her free time away from human company. She has a soft spot for Shad, and she does enjoy spending time around runnerbeasts, a subject she's well-versed in.
This queenrider gets jealous of other women easily, especially those who she feels are "threatening" her authority in some manner. She distrusts the purple riders especially, afraid that they'll try to steal her position, and she has refused to take on a Junior Weyrwoman unless they ride a gold. Even that is a concession; she prefers to do as much on her own as she can, and she would no doubt be just as hard on any Junior she did have.
History: Slavena's father Bazner comes from a long line of runnerbeast breeders, and as his parents' oldest child, he took over the trade when they died. He met his wife after falling in an accident; Selva was an apprentice healer at the time, helping to nurse him back to health. After he recovered, he began to pursue her romantically and she finally agreed to marry him.
Slavena was the second of their four children; her older brother was always interested in the runnerbeasts like their father, and it seemed natural for him to stay and help out their father. Slaven enjoyed working with the beasts as well, though she never felt that it was all she wanted to do with her life, and as she got older, she began to become restless.
She never decided on a craft to apprentice to despite her parents' urging, but it turned out alright. She managed to buy a fire lizard egg and successfully Impressed a blue hatchling which she named Shad. She was fourteen at the time and old enough to stand for a dragon's clutch, even though there was no Search at the time. It was another three turns before a clutch was laid at Quindell Weyr and searchriders came to the Hold. Luckily, there was a queen egg on the sands, and Slavena secretly hoped to Impress it, along with every other girl standing for the clutch. Luck seemed to be with her; when Hatching Day came, the queen hatched without trouble. There were other strange dragons appearing in this clutch, reds and blacks previously seen in other Weyrs, but Slavena had eyes only for Hiltrauth--the gold hatchling ignored the other girls and chose her.
The two of them went through weyrling training without issue, and as Junior Weyrwoman, Slavena enjoyed a position of some privilege within the Weyr, something she got used to. With Pern being in what basically amounted to one long Interval, clutches were few and far between; Hiltrauth didn't rise for the first time until she was five turns old, and has risen only twice more since then. Though she was caught by a brown in her first flight, she and her rider have made no secret since then that they both prefer bronzes and bronzeriders. Though Slavena has had several long-term weyrmates since Impressing, she is now unattached and has no children.
Five turns ago, the Senior Queen was involved in a flying accident during the Annual Weyrgames. Badly injured, she went between and her rider killed herself from the shock and grief, sending Slavena into the position of Senior Weyrwoman.
Four turns later, Hiltrauth rose once again, choosing bronze Eredith as her mate. The clutch had no gold in it, but she did lay a purple. While some of the riders have urged her to train one of the purpleriders as a Junior Weyrwoman in case something happens to her, Slavena has refused. Hiltrauth is still a young queen, she insists, and has plenty of time to lay another gold. Yet just a month after the clutch hatched, an alien race attacked Pern, and Ista Weyr was attacked. Quindell's Weyrleader, R'dres, took a wing of riders to go help them, but he, and many of the dragons that went with him, were killed by the attackers.
Pets
Name: Shad
Species: Fire Lizard
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Color: Blue
Physical Appearance: Shad has a small and very thin build, but he's quite long, so ends up on the larger end of the scale when measuring length. Being so light, though, he is very fast and agile in the air. His hide a pale, sky blue that tends to blend into the daytime sky, when he prefers to fly. His chest and belly are lighter still.
Personality: Shad is surprisingly intelligent for a fire lizard, especially for how the blues are usually perceived. He picks up on things quickly and is sensitive to Slavena's emotions, showing up or getting lost as the situation calls for. He is a fast learner and has become an invaluable help for passing along messages and the like, though he is friendly and outgoing, so doesn't always return right away.
Dragon
Image drawn and colored by Kitsuneko
Name: Hiltrauth
Color: Gold
Size: 45 feet
Age: 15
Hex Code: CED102
Physical Appearance: Hiltrauth is in the middle of the size range for golds and nothing extravagant to look at, though you wouldn't think so from the way she acts. She as a bulky, muscular build and is quite powerful; she is proud of her physical strength and endurance in the air. Her hide is a medium shade of gold that gradually fades to a much darker shade of gold on the top parts of her body. All four of her legs are slightly paler than the rest of her as well.
Personality: Hiltrauth is the queen of the weyr, and Faranth help you if you forget it! She insists on recieving all the respect due a senior queen and despises feeling as if she is being talked down to. Fiercely protective of her clutches, she dislikes anyone on her sands when she has a clutch, and she flat out refuses to share the space with a purple or red. She barely tolerates the candidates touching her eggs on the one day they're allowed to do so. As protective as she is of her eggs before they hatch, she loses all interest in the dragonets once they've hatched and Impressed, and she harbors the same subdued dislike of the mutates whether she clutched them herself or not.
Extremely possessive of everything around her, that does extend to the dragons of her Weyr. She may mistreat them, but at least they are hers to mistreat (to her mind). When they're in danger from an outside source, she will drop everything and force Slavena to pick up a flamethrower if necessary to defend them. She is possessive of Slavena as well; she resents any time the Weyrwoman spends away from her, and though she may not usually let it show, she can be quite passive-aggressive about her dislike of her rider's friends, and she easily becomes jealous whenever Slavena has a weyrmate.
Gender: Female
Age: 32
Birthdate (Season): Winter
Location: Elman Hold, now Quindell Weyr
Rank: Senior Weyrwoman
Wing (if applicable): Rising Tides Wing
Family:
Father-Bazner, Runnerbeast breeder, 54
Mother-Selva, Journeywoman Healer, 56
Brother-Balver, Runnerbeast breeder, 34
Sister-Vaneera, Holder, 29
Brother-Sebezen, Journeyman Harper, 24
Physical Appearance: Slavena is very tall, towering over most women and a good number of men as well. She is lithe and well-muscled from turns of working with dragons, but she's not completely without curves. Her skin is naturally a creamy shade of fair, but usually tanned to a golden brown, as she spends a lot of time in the sun as well.
Her hair is frizzy and wild, no matter how hard she tries to straighten it, but she doesn't like short hair, so refuses to cut it. It will reach down to the bottom of her shoulderblades at least, but no shorter. It is a deep, coppery red in color. She has a thin face with pointed features and large, deep brown eyes.
Personality: Slavena is an extremely determined, resolute person. Or more like stubborn and hard-headed, depending on who you talk to. She has adjusted well to being a queenrider and tends to be quite controlling and always wants to have things done her own way. She's never dealt well with rejection either, having grown up a bit spoiled, and she tends to get angry when she is refused, though as Senior Weyrwoman, there's not a whole lot she can't get one way or another.
She is an active person and energetic, with a dislike of sitting still. She is certainly hard-working, but her reluctance to delegate any of her duties causes her to overwork herself to the point of exhaustion, and her stubbornness prevents her from taking good advice. She enjoys being in a position of leadership, no matter how much of a figurehead it has become. She is certainly self-assured and a little vain about her appearance as well, preferring expensive, fancy clothes and jewelry when simpler material would be more practical.
Slavena is an introverted person and doesn't really enjoy spending much time around large amounts of people, especially people she already has a low opinion of. She lacks the patience to deal with people diplomatically and dislikes attending meetings and the like. She can put on a friendly and diplomatic face when she needs to, but charisma and diplomacy don't come naturally to her. Unsurprisingly, she finds it difficult to make friends and spends a lot of her free time away from human company. She has a soft spot for Shad, and she does enjoy spending time around runnerbeasts, a subject she's well-versed in.
This queenrider gets jealous of other women easily, especially those who she feels are "threatening" her authority in some manner. She distrusts the purple riders especially, afraid that they'll try to steal her position, and she has refused to take on a Junior Weyrwoman unless they ride a gold. Even that is a concession; she prefers to do as much on her own as she can, and she would no doubt be just as hard on any Junior she did have.
History: Slavena's father Bazner comes from a long line of runnerbeast breeders, and as his parents' oldest child, he took over the trade when they died. He met his wife after falling in an accident; Selva was an apprentice healer at the time, helping to nurse him back to health. After he recovered, he began to pursue her romantically and she finally agreed to marry him.
Slavena was the second of their four children; her older brother was always interested in the runnerbeasts like their father, and it seemed natural for him to stay and help out their father. Slaven enjoyed working with the beasts as well, though she never felt that it was all she wanted to do with her life, and as she got older, she began to become restless.
She never decided on a craft to apprentice to despite her parents' urging, but it turned out alright. She managed to buy a fire lizard egg and successfully Impressed a blue hatchling which she named Shad. She was fourteen at the time and old enough to stand for a dragon's clutch, even though there was no Search at the time. It was another three turns before a clutch was laid at Quindell Weyr and searchriders came to the Hold. Luckily, there was a queen egg on the sands, and Slavena secretly hoped to Impress it, along with every other girl standing for the clutch. Luck seemed to be with her; when Hatching Day came, the queen hatched without trouble. There were other strange dragons appearing in this clutch, reds and blacks previously seen in other Weyrs, but Slavena had eyes only for Hiltrauth--the gold hatchling ignored the other girls and chose her.
The two of them went through weyrling training without issue, and as Junior Weyrwoman, Slavena enjoyed a position of some privilege within the Weyr, something she got used to. With Pern being in what basically amounted to one long Interval, clutches were few and far between; Hiltrauth didn't rise for the first time until she was five turns old, and has risen only twice more since then. Though she was caught by a brown in her first flight, she and her rider have made no secret since then that they both prefer bronzes and bronzeriders. Though Slavena has had several long-term weyrmates since Impressing, she is now unattached and has no children.
Five turns ago, the Senior Queen was involved in a flying accident during the Annual Weyrgames. Badly injured, she went between and her rider killed herself from the shock and grief, sending Slavena into the position of Senior Weyrwoman.
Four turns later, Hiltrauth rose once again, choosing bronze Eredith as her mate. The clutch had no gold in it, but she did lay a purple. While some of the riders have urged her to train one of the purpleriders as a Junior Weyrwoman in case something happens to her, Slavena has refused. Hiltrauth is still a young queen, she insists, and has plenty of time to lay another gold. Yet just a month after the clutch hatched, an alien race attacked Pern, and Ista Weyr was attacked. Quindell's Weyrleader, R'dres, took a wing of riders to go help them, but he, and many of the dragons that went with him, were killed by the attackers.
Pets
Name: Shad
Species: Fire Lizard
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Color: Blue
Physical Appearance: Shad has a small and very thin build, but he's quite long, so ends up on the larger end of the scale when measuring length. Being so light, though, he is very fast and agile in the air. His hide a pale, sky blue that tends to blend into the daytime sky, when he prefers to fly. His chest and belly are lighter still.
Personality: Shad is surprisingly intelligent for a fire lizard, especially for how the blues are usually perceived. He picks up on things quickly and is sensitive to Slavena's emotions, showing up or getting lost as the situation calls for. He is a fast learner and has become an invaluable help for passing along messages and the like, though he is friendly and outgoing, so doesn't always return right away.
Dragon
Image drawn and colored by Kitsuneko
Name: Hiltrauth
Color: Gold
Size: 45 feet
Age: 15
Hex Code: CED102
Physical Appearance: Hiltrauth is in the middle of the size range for golds and nothing extravagant to look at, though you wouldn't think so from the way she acts. She as a bulky, muscular build and is quite powerful; she is proud of her physical strength and endurance in the air. Her hide is a medium shade of gold that gradually fades to a much darker shade of gold on the top parts of her body. All four of her legs are slightly paler than the rest of her as well.
Personality: Hiltrauth is the queen of the weyr, and Faranth help you if you forget it! She insists on recieving all the respect due a senior queen and despises feeling as if she is being talked down to. Fiercely protective of her clutches, she dislikes anyone on her sands when she has a clutch, and she flat out refuses to share the space with a purple or red. She barely tolerates the candidates touching her eggs on the one day they're allowed to do so. As protective as she is of her eggs before they hatch, she loses all interest in the dragonets once they've hatched and Impressed, and she harbors the same subdued dislike of the mutates whether she clutched them herself or not.
Extremely possessive of everything around her, that does extend to the dragons of her Weyr. She may mistreat them, but at least they are hers to mistreat (to her mind). When they're in danger from an outside source, she will drop everything and force Slavena to pick up a flamethrower if necessary to defend them. She is possessive of Slavena as well; she resents any time the Weyrwoman spends away from her, and though she may not usually let it show, she can be quite passive-aggressive about her dislike of her rider's friends, and she easily becomes jealous whenever Slavena has a weyrmate.