Post by Zen on Sept 19, 2021 3:38:36 GMT -5
NAME: Vasheera
RANK: Apprentice Harper
AGE: 19 Turns (2742, 12th Month)
GENDER: Female
ORIENTATION: heterosexual
APPEARANCE: Vasheera is a near perfect clone of her mother, and so it is perhaps easy to see why her father became enamoured enough with her to take on her vast gambling debts. She is thin and graceful, standing at only 5’ 3”, with naturally warm, dusky colored skin, smooth and unblemished. Her hair is naturally wavy, a dark brown with golden undertones, and falls to her mid back when left down. Her facial features are quite well defined, with full lips below a petite nose, and rich brown eyes set under sharp, dark brows. She has feminine tastes and prefers skirts and dresses to pants, her outfits generally fitted enough to show off her womanly shape without being too immodestly cut, as she believes it is far more alluring to leave some things to the imagination.
PERSONALITY FAULTS: Jaded, Distrustful, Manipulative
Because of how her father has behaved her whole life, she has a natural distrust of most people, seeing how easy it is for her father to lie and manipulate those around him. How is she supposed to know everyone else isn’t doing the same thing? And honestly how is everyone stupid enough to keep falling for it? She is rather unimpressed with humanity as a whole, with a somewhat jaded outlook that she hides well. She learned well from her father how to manipulate as well, and though she dislikes such underhanded tactics, she has been known to fall back into the pattern of it because she is so used to doing it. Though she appreciates honesty, it does not come easily to her and she is slow to trust and open up to others, leaving her with mostly surface level friends that don’t really know who she is. It is a rather lonely existence, which is perhaps why she fills the void of it with the attention she gets when she’s performing.
PERSONALITY STRENGTHS: Charismatic, Kind, Patient
Her father raised her to be feminine and charming, and so she has a mild mannered disposition, sweet and polite to everyone, at least, until she has a good reason not to be. Despite her lack of faith in people, she does believe in being kind until someone proves they don’t deserve it from her. She has an incredible soft spot for young children, for their open curiosity and wonder, and their blunt honesty most of all. You always know a child means what they say, and the few times when they don’t, they are always very easy to see through and their adorable little manipulations are generally not malicious in their intent. She has an incredible amount of patience for children, though a deal less for adults. She enjoys the spotlight, enjoys entertaining others and sharing her talents, and being admired for them, and she has a certain natural charisma that really shines when she’s performing. Music is the only way she really tends to connect with others, being too guarded otherwise, but she is never more open and honest than when she is practicing that which she’s most passionate about.
FAMILY:
Father - Vashemin (+24 Turns)
Mother - Leerani (deceased)
Step-Mother - Haliya (+14 Turns)
Half-Brother - Vahalish (-6 Turns)
Half-Brother - Halimin (-9 Turns)
Half-Sister - Liyami (-15 Turns)
HISTORY:
Her father Vashemin was Bitran born and raised and became a rather unscrupulous man. Gambling became a huge vice for him at a young age. Her mother, unfortunately, had the same problem, and was far more unlucky. The two often ran in the same circles and Vashemin became enamoured with Leerani. She turned down his every advance, until he offered to take on her debts and pay them off if she would marry him. On the cusp of cutting ties and fleeing Bitra to escape her extensive debt, Leerani agreed, intending only to use him to her own ends, until her debt was gone, but it never would be as the pull of the next bet was too much for her to ignore. Needless to say it was hardly a happy marriage and Vashemin isn’t even entirely certain Vasheera is his. Leerani was known to offer herself as payment when she was desperate enough. Vasheera looks nothing like him, but she does look incredibly like her mother so it’s hard to say if she just took strongly after Leerani or if there really is nothing of Vashemin in her.
What good that did come out of their marriage was Vashemin’s attempt to leave gambling behind for himself in the hopes he could pay off Leerani’s debt and get them out of Bitra without anyone dogging them, turning his focus more on the trading business he inherited from his father. Leerani’s continued gambling would have completely ruined him, had she not died in childbirth when Vasheera was three, taking the babe with her. Finally able to pay off his wife’s debts, he was able to build up his business, throwing himself into it after her death as a means of distraction. Shrewd and charming, he flourished as a trader and Vasheera was taken along on his ventures to nearby Holds outside of Bitra as he continued to build connections. Her relationship with her father was never a terribly affectionate one, what with his doubts about whether she was his or not, and he took to using her as a tool. A single father raising his daughter after the death of his beloved wife garnered plenty of sympathy and opened pockets as well as hearts. From a young age he trained her to play along with his sob stories, which to her were just fun games of pretend with her father where he actually showed her some affection that she was so starved for.
It was on a venture to Lemos when Vasheera was five that Vashemin met Haliya, who took to Vasheera quickly, the young woman quite suckered in by Vashemin’s sob story and the wonders of his life of travel. It was all so romantic to Haliya that when Vashemin asked her to marry him and come with him after his short visit to Lemos was over, she agreed. Unfortunately Vashemin’s opinion of women had been soured by his first wife and the romance of it did not last long for Haliya, particularly when she caught him still trying to play the same sob story, despite having a new wife, and he even took to gambling again. For a time the girl thought she could change him, but eventually resentment grew as Vashemin even stopped trying to hide his infidelity from her. But by that point they already had two children and she didn’t know what to do but to stay with him, grin, and bear it for their sakes, and for Vasheera, who she loved as her own and couldn’t imagine leaving behind.
Her father continued to use her as a tool when it suited him and she was willing for a time, still seeing it as a game, but with age, and Haliya’s protests, she began to realize that what her father was doing maybe wasn’t a game after all. But she’d already been an obedient daughter for so long that one frustrated backhand was all it took for her not to argue again and do as she was told. Vashemin may have apologized to her, but he still turned it back on her, made it seem like her fault, because if she had just been obedient he never would have hit her. At 11, she wasn’t willing to risk it again, but her own resentment started that day. It was only a couple turns later, looking to escape debt he had accrued in Bitra, that he heard of the disastrous founding of Mavros and decided to take his chances and disappear there, packing his family off on a ship bound for the island where he was sure no one would follow them. Isolated at Mavros, things actually started to get better, at least a little. The Mavrosi struggle left little opportunity for her father’s gambling to come back and bite them, and when the holders began voting in their leaders her father saw an opportunity and even made some effort to mend his relationship with Haliya, for appearances sake. He told her he wanted to start over at Mavros, and Haliya couldn’t help but want to believe him.
Vasheera was recognized by the Weyrharper for having an innate talent for music when she and her siblings attended lessons and her father allowed her to apprentice under the man, though not to be sent to Harper Hall in case he found himself in need of her at any time. She had a gift for composition, an instinct for instruments, and she took to lessons with Master Clintock with incredible enthusiasm. Though Clintock tried to convince her to go to Harper Hall, without her father’s assent she couldn’t, not if it risked displeasing him and possibly souring this ‘new start’ of his, nor did she want to leave the rest of her family to face whatever wrath he might have if she left. Mavros was enough, and she found she enjoyed teaching the younger children at the Weyrhold most of all. Her father’s relationship with Haliya has indeed been better, and if he has strayed from her he has been careful about it. Though he does gamble on occasion, on hatchings and dragon races, it is not in excess, and he even managed to earn the respect of the Mavrosi holders to be voted in as Holder Elect several times, but to be honest, it seems too good to be true to Vasheera. Haliya may insist he’s a changed man, but that’s easy to say when everything is going his way. What will happen when he loses the power and respect he’s come to enjoy, as is looking more and more likely as the Turn’s End vote draws near? She fears Haliya will have her heart broken all over again.
CANDIDATE SECTION
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PREFERRED RIDER ABBREVIATION: None
COLOR PREFERENCE: Green if anything probably
MUTATION?: Yes, but probably not xD
IN THE EVENT OF YOUR SUDDEN, UNEXPLAINED DISAPPEARANCE FROM THE SITE AT ANY POINT IN TIME, WHAT DO YOU WISH TO BECOME OF THIS CHARACTER AND ANY CREATURES THEY MAY IMPRESS?
b. Turn them into an NPC who may be killed off or used for plot purposes but who will not be played by someone else.
