Khrowlos - Journeyman Healer

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NAME: Khrowlos
RANK: Journeyman Healer
AGE: 20
GENDER: Male
ORIENTATION: Hetero (as far as he knows)
DRAGON: None
PETS: None yet



APPEARANCE: Face of Lucky Blue. He is 6' 3" with a slight build - he is still clearly masculine, but with softer edges and not so bulky. He works out just enough to keep fit and nice looking - but he generally eats healthy to keep his figure slender - not that he needs it, he has a fast metabolism. His skin is a pale tan and get's slightly darker in the sun, but still considerably white. His eyes are a clear blue, the color of clear ocean in Southern. They're framed by dark eyebrows - the color of his natural dirty blonde hair, but you wouldn't know that by the way he bleaches his hair. As a healer he experimented and finally found the perfect dye that would leave his hair a beautiful (or, what he believes is beautiful) slate white color. He wears pale colored clothes, white being his favorite (it's just so clean, like a blank slate). The most distinctive part of Khrowlos (though his hair is starkingly white) would be the single piercing in his right ear. He has a delicate long silver chain with a small blue jewel on the end the color of his eyes. He is very eccentric, knows it, and loves being different and surprising people. 

Personality Type: ESFP-A, Entertainer

PERSONALITY FAULTS: Flirtatious/Player, Vain/Crow/Hoarder, Messy, Coward(Avoids Things), Addictive/Sensation Seeking

He is very flirtatious and loves all beautiful women. He is a bit picky on what a 'beautiful' woman entails - but the more beautiful to him, the more tempting. He loves to 'win' women over, and takes it pretty hard when he's rejected or dumped. Though, he is a flirtatious player, he only pursues one woman seriously at a time, and as soon as they are 'won' over, or if he gets bored, he'll disappoint and move on to his next love. He doesn't really mean to, but he is a heartbreaker, and easily is heartbroken himself. He doesn't really have an understanding how love could only be applied to one person and applies it a little to liberally. Perhaps he mixes lust and love a little, too. 

Khrow is very vain and believes a lot of his worth is reflected on how he looks. What's the point in living, if he can't be beautiful? He spends a lot of time in his specially made looking glass making sure he looks good. As a healer he has spent a lot of his extra time mixing creams and oils to treat his face. The most unique thing he does is create a concoction for his hair to bleach it just the right hair of white-ish silver. He loves things that make him smell good, or coming up with things for others, because even though he is selfish with his time, he thinks everyone needs his creams and assumes that everyone needs and/or wants them. He's somewhat a salesman - he'll convince someone they need something, for a price of course. With an extra mark here and there, he spends his marks rarely, but on extremely fine things. He loves to collect jewelry especially - or just anything that is considered 'precious'. He is definitely attracted to shiny beautiful things and collects them readily, because he doesn't throw things out either (a bit of a hoarder). 

While he may look impeccable, his room hardly does. He will stuff things into bins or kick things under his bed if he knows he has company coming. He likes to think he has organized chaos, for while it may seem chaotic to the onlooker, he always knows exactly where something is. 

If an encounter gets too heated/angry, Khrow is good at trying to diffuse situations because he really doesn't like contention or confrontation. He is not necessarily a coward when it comes to avoiding hard things, but he will avoid situations that make him feel uncomfortable and work around them. 

Perhaps it stems from the period of time around the drugs of Pern, or something deeper - but he is easily addicted to substances and doesn't have much fortitude when it comes to stopping. He gets a bit obsessive, whether over drugs or women. There is definitely a connection to trying to distract himself from his past and in search of himself - but mostly things to distract himself. He's definitely a dare devil, sensation seeking sort of person - looking for the next exciting thrill, whatever it may be. 

PERSONALITY STRENGTHS: Easy Going/Friendly, Gallant/Smooth, Essentric, Lenient, Healing

Everything is fine - or can be fine or fixed. He has a good attitude and is easy going. He's friendly and enjoys the company of others. He likes to figure out what makes people tick, so he can be rather nosy, but doesn't normally make people uncomfortable in the process. Curiously friendly. 

He has a formal way of speaking that he picked up from the 'royalty' holder brats that he hung out with in his youth. He is romantic and galant. Despite the way he breaks hearts, he does it as tactfully as one can. He likes to make people feel happy and good about themselves. He compliments readily and in all other ways tries to be respectful to everyone. 

He is unique, different, and revels in it. It does not phase him - what others think of him. Positive or negative, all attention is good in his mind (unless it is the attention of confrontation...). He is also creative and thinks of things from a different perspective from most, coming at problems or situations and coming up with unconventional ways of solving them. 

Even as he leaves a messy trail in his wake, he is very good at being a healer. He is particularly good at making good at making straight lines with stitches or cleaning things up in a way so they'll heal well. It's all about appearances, he does not think scars are pretty - at least, not normally, unless they're maybe unique looking. Also, despite how he treats his women, he does have a strange way of making things seem like they're okay when he leaves (and then does the avoiding thing). His healing abilities does transcend the body and does want people to be whole within, even if he is not. He likes using a mixture of oils and words to help people, if they are willing. 

FAMILY:
Father: E’los (rider of Blue Wareth at Southern)
Mother: Khalfiera of Green Sreenith
older half-brother - A'zael (By his father)
younger half-brother – K'los (by his father, weyrling rider of Green Arkyloth at Mavros)
younger half-brother – Nalosan (apprentice harper, by his father)
younger half-sister – Eliana (by his father, candidate at Southern)
younger half-brother – Lokilan (by his father, candidate at Southern)
niece - Azora (6, weyrbrat at Mavros)
niece - Zaelin (infant)
aunt – Ceria [Ceela’s mother]
cousin - Ceela

HISTORY:

His mother is a fantastical woman, outgoing and bold – but with a romantic fault. She religiously betweened after each of her green’s flights. E’los caught her green and she was enamored by the man, but still betweened the first time. She had a couple other flirtatious interactions with him, so later in that turn, his blue happened to catch her green again. She imagined that how he felt about her had to be different than how he felt about other women, since his reputation with women was not a secret. She’d always wanted to be a mother and had watched her sister with some jealousy at the many children she had with the bronze rider.

So in a moment of weakness, she decided to not between after that flight, lying to him at first when he offered to between with her, that she would do it herself. She coaxed him to bed a few more times after that, thinking that it was the beginning of their relationship, when in reality it was the beginning of the end. When she knew she was pregnant, she kept it a secret for a little longer, until she couldn’t anymore and told him – assuming the reaction she’d get would be favorable. It was the opposite, suddenly he was avoiding her and openly with other women.

She was far enough along that she didn’t feel comfortable betweening the pregnancy, and still had that desire to be a mother. When Khrowlos finally came, she doted on her son, but as he got older, she got more distant, since he reminded her of E’los too much, and for a guilt that she doesn't quite understand herself. Khrowlos does know who his father was, but he didn't see much of either of them. He got into trouble to try and get attention from his mother – anything for the crèche workers to call his mother in to try and talk sense into him.

He didn’t have much desire to stay within the Weyr walls. He came across a boy who was the son of a Lord Holder and he was intrigued by the boy’s polite mannerisms. He came to find he enjoyed the company of the 'royalty' clique, but in a Weyr it was hard to spend a lot of time with them. When he got old enough, he took an apprenticeship in Southern Hold with the healers there. Hanging out with royalty is where is preteen awkwardness gave way to teenage awkwardness as he looked for exciting things to fill his time - anything that would mark himself as different and nothing akin to where he came from. He got easily bored after a few turns of learning and doing the same thing over and over again. He started to experiment did a lot of burning himself and stupid things - or turning his hair yellow before he was able to control the potency in the bleach that he currently treats his hair with. The effect was immediate as far as the attention or heads turned because of his hair. His condition started to snowball, looking for creams to treat his hair and skin with. 

He kept hanging out with the rich Southern Hold brats and felt the difference in status, mostly in the way he was garbed in contrast to the way he dressed. He started to wear clean clothes - white ones. And started to save his marks one by one so he could afford something nice that would mark him as expensive as his peers. In one of his healer trips to smaller holds near the coast, he was introduced to black market drugs by nosing where he shouldn't have. It opened him to a whole new world of new and exciting things. He was easily drawn into the new crowd - realizing as a healer with his knowledge of herbs, that he could participate and make extra marks in order to reach his goal in getting fine things to fit in with his friends. 

From 16 to 17 he spent a lot of time skipping his duties and getting mixed in with the wrong crowds. It was a dark time in his life, and he lost sight of why he had started it in the first place. He had a mentor, Duanu, that cared for the rebellious boy, even if he pushed back any efforts of acting like a father to him. It was a long process, but in a couple of years he was 'clean' so to speak, at least in the eyes of the mentor, though he still did a little dealing here and there when he needed an extra mark. It was in his seventeenth year also that he started chasing and filling his time with women - just a different kind of drug, but his exasperated mentor was just glad it wasn't worse.   

Finally after focusing the boy to finish his apprenticeship, he was made journeyman at age twenty. Mavros happened to have a request out at that time and he took it, glad to further himself away even further from his home and the intrigue of new adventures. He wasn't so excited about being at a Weyr, but supposed it was just good it wasn't his home. 

CANDIDATE SECTION
PREFERRED RIDER ABBREVIATION: Kh’owl
COLOR PREFERENCE: I see him on a Blue, maybe Green, but open to anything!
MUTATION?: <3

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.

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