Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2012 19:29:43 GMT -5
NAME: Karredy
RANK: Senior Weyrwoman, Apprentice Weaver
AGE IN TURNS: 19 (Birthday: Seventh Month)
DRAGON: Gold Zalmaranth
FAMILY:
Father Gerran (49)
Mother Layka (46)
Brother Greym (30)
Sister Gisellaine (26)
Sister-in-law Nehauka (32)
Nephew Nereym (11)
Nephew Greyston (8)
APPEARANCE: Karredy doesn't look much like her older sister at all, aside from being dark-haired and female. She has medium-length straight brown hair that gets slightly wavier at the ends, dark brown eyes, and fair skin that she is VERY proud of. She is often seen smiling, although she can get extremely moody when she wants to. To her chagrin, her features are very rounded and soft, and she still has traces of baby fat--both of which make her look a few years younger than her real age. As an apprentice weaver who specializes in sewing, she is often seen wearing clothes that she's made or altered herself--while they are largely made of common, dependable fabrics, she gets around that by either embroidering intricate designs or using high-quality trim.
EDUCATION/SKILLS: Standard Harper education, basic reading and writing, and apprentice weaver training.
ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
BASIC PERSONALITY: The differences from her sister are even more evident here: Karredy isn't a delinquent, but she isn't very disciplined either due to her parents having settled into their lives. Being the sister of a dragonrider is something she likes to mention in conversation, and she is often subject to romanticizing things. Despite her genuine admiration for Gisellaine, she has no idea what a dragonrider's life is like aside from having a steadfast companion and protecting Pern from Thread. Mostly, though, she's not much different from the standard teenager: Outspoken, temperamental, and a little bit impulsive.
*FAULTS: Karredy is a tad lazy and rather vain, as her skin tone is rare "in the desert"--never mind that her family's cothold was far from the actual Igen desert, and that she's come back from several Turns in Southern Boll. She sees everything in a warm and fuzzy light, which means she doesn't grasp how serious the return of Thread really is. To her it means Gisellaine can finally do her job of protecting Pern like in the Teaching Ballads, and the fact that it's such a high-risk life actually makes Karredy want to Impress even more. She is slightly too enthusiastic about the weavercraft, with several boxes full of fabric and clothes, and has a habit of buying already-made clothes just to alter them. That doesn't mean she'll even wear them when she's done--however, she is kept in check by her father threatening to sell it all if he thinks she's wasting too much money, space, or time.
*STRENGTHS: She's very good at planning and a quick learner; her unstudious personality is the only reason she's a Turn or two over the usual journeyman age. She can pick out faults in whatever garment she looks closely at, and often has to restrain herself from fixing the garment on the spot (though whether or not it's on a person means little to her). Despite her romantic inclinations, she knows when she's actually being lied to--it's probably a side-effect of being raised by a father with Turns of experience reading human and animal body language. She's the more active kind of optimist, and tries to help others directly instead of just offering advice or trying to cheer them up.
FEARS: Hand injuries that would render her unable to sew, or finding out Gisellaine died in some drawn-out and painful fashion.
DREAMS: Becoming a Masterweaver or Impressing a dragon.
*HISTORY: As the youngest child of Igen holders, Karredy didn't start out too special. Nothing out of the ordinary, unless you counted her father being a beastcrafter and having a pack of large, well-trained canines unusual--which, evidently, the more fanciful people did. There were even rumors going around that he was training them to attack people, which anyone who knew about canines could refute after getting to know the canines (and her father) for a few minutes. Since her oldest brother Greym got married when she was very young, she thought of him as family but reserved most of her attention for her sister Gisellaine.
When she was eight Turns old Gisellaine got Searched, and the way Karredy reacted, you would have thought she herself was the lucky one. Her sister was going to be a dragonrider! After discovering a talent for the Weavercraft there was a bit of a dilemma on what to do, since the Weavercraft Hall was in Southern Boll, but luckily she was taught the basics by a local journeyman after testing her for specific talents--which in her case was making clothes. She doesn't really remember the two Turns Gisellaine spent at Igen Weyr, but after going to Gisellaine's third Hatching in Ista where she finally Impressed, Karredy immediately stated her plans to go to the Weavercraft Hall when she was twelve, despite several perfectly acceptable teachers stationed in Igen.
The only reason she wanted to go was to show off her dragonrider sister the minute she arrived--which, while rather selfish, was a glimmer of the intelligence already coming to the surface. At the Hall, she was discovered to be something of a prodigy and progressed through the essentials of Weavercraft in a matter of months. Unfortunately, her less-than-studious personality meant that she stayed an apprentice at least a Turn later than the masters expected of such a bright girl.
The return of Threadfall didn't affect her very much, as she was safe in the Hall and protected by Fort Weyr, but knowing that Gisellaine was among the dragonriders fighting Thread increased her hero-worship and gave her an extremely strong desire to Impress and follow in her footsteps. Upon Gerran's announcement that they were heading to Mavros, she jumped at the chance and went home immediately. Surely an up-and-coming Weyr needed crafters like her and her father--and she might even have a chance at Impressing.
---UPDATE 1---
Having come to Mavros strictly as a crafter, it was a shock to everyone when she Impressed from Asurath's latest clutch; and it wasn't just any dragon, but the large and intimidating queen Zalmaranth. The gold's entry into the world was a dynamic one, what with attacking two Candidates on her way to Karredy--and then Gisellaine, after Zalmaranth decided that three feet was too close to her newly-Impressed rider, and being Karredy's sister was irrelevant. They're all alive and intact, and Karredy is wisely exerting quite a bit of control over Mavros' latest queen. But with no prior experience of Weyr life and a fiercely anti-social gold, she certainly has her work cut out for her.
---UPDATE 2---
Karredy's weyrlinghood ended in a haze of strangeness, with Zalmaranth's first clutch interrupted by Karredy's illness, almost-death, and mistaken burial--and she was promptly dug back up when her father Gerran heard her screaming in the coffin. Even some of the healers hadn't encountered such a thing except in half-remembered teachings, so they scoured the records to find that a long sleep like hers was called a "coma" by the Ancients; and the only healer who'd encountered a comatose patient in real life was C'mor's father, thirty Turns ago. Her recovery over the next Turn was a constant back-and-forth between her weyr and the infirmary, and she's only been healthy enough to actively be a Weyrwoman for about a month or two. (And that can get cut down further to several sevendays, if you're counting solid health without the last few bouts of minor illnesses.)
Between landing her Weyrwoman status alongside once-a-generation medical issues, Karredy feels like her old self--the vain, bubbly weaver with a bit of a selfish streak--must have died somewhere, either in the first shock of the coma or the Turn of recovery from it. She doesn't look much the same, after all: She's finally lost the baby-fat and looks like a young woman instead of a teenager--and her "slightly wavy at best" hair has become a mass of nearly-black curls over two Turns in Mavros' moist heat. On a physical level, she's bounced back from her health issues and then some, and most people would say Karredy looks like a Weyrwoman from a ballad. (Of course, Weyrfolk would point out all that means is "she's pretty.")
To her family's dismay, she rarely smiles anymore, and if she does, it's a polite and gracious Weyrwoman's smile: Not lying, but not very specific, either.
On the plus side, she doesn't get angry very often, because Zalmaranth is angry enough for both of them. She gets hungry at the proper times, but she won't remember what it tastes like the next day; she compliments the food if people ask, or if it's for a celebration, but mostly because it's the nice thing to do and it doesn't taste bad, not because she has particular feelings about it.
In fact, Karredy rarely feels anything strong enough for people to notice, but if she does, it's usually fear: The exhausting dread that's been hanging around since Oria's death, or the fear that something went wrong, or the fear of having to smooth over whatever Zalmaranth's done this time.
She only has cut-and-dry, "this is what happened" memories of anything besides her family, as if she's hearing a ballad or watching someone else go about their lives. The only things she remembers with feelings attached are her Impression, the shock of Weyrwoman Oria's death, and Zalmaranth's mating flight--she felt she handled the flight itself fine, but she remembers the day after most clearly: The first day of her long, cold fear that she was the Weyrwoman now, because Oria died, and who in the world was going to help her with it?
She's effectively lost any non-familial relationships she could have had (being sick for her first Turn as Weyrwoman doesn't leave much room for friendship), has no idea what her relationship with Weyrleader A'zael even is aside from "we don't hate each other(?)", and she's constantly stuck mediating between Zalmaranth's functional, temperamental command and, well, everyone else in the Weyr. It doesn't help that Zalmaranth's quite happy to stay like that.
So now she's saddled with a desperate, bitter longing for things to be better. She wishes her recovery hadn't been so long or at least not so severe, she wishes she could have kept up a relationship with someone outside of her family, and she wishes her presence made more of a difference: She doesn't seem to affect or impact the Weyr now that she isn't "dead" anymore, apart from doing hide-work and supply logistics well enough, and that is hardly a job to write ballads about.
After getting grounded from Threadfall due to a panicked stunt with rescuing C'mor, one of the newly-graduated riders, Karredy knows on a logical level that she isn't mentally suited for being Weyrwoman. But she doesn't know enough to say if she's even doing a properly BAD job to begin with; she gets logistics and hide-work done, she goes through the motions of making sure everyone's doing well, but she has no presence--somewhat literally. Aside from an unwelcome new tendency to panic like someone a good handful of Turns younger, the rest of her personality seems to have drained away; such things like drinking, hobbies, or talking about personal matters would take energy that Karredy often doesn't have anymore.
She sometimes hopes that one day soon, she will be quietly, benignly forgotten, outside of mating flights and any public appearances she needs to do--and maybe people will finally stop talking to her.
She does know that such thoughts aren't ideal or even healthy; the problem is, she can't get the motivation to care anymore.
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.