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| O'tlan of green Kadiith; brown Triumvirate | canine Genesis; Colossi | |
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| thefaeriesfyre | Jun 25 2016, 11:50 PM Post #1 |
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O ' T L A N![]() you either believe in yourself, or you don't BASICS RETIRE INFO: Retire both NAME: O'tlan (captain) GENDER: male PRONOUNS: he/him/his ORIENTATION: biromantic polyamorous bisexual BIRTHDATE: Spring 2726 AGE: forty as of Spring 2766 LOCATION: Semaca Weyr OCCUPATION: Weyrleader, wingleader, scout rider, Search rider, sun worshipper WING: Minuet APPEARANCE EYES: an uncomfortable shade of bright blue HAIR: brassy blond HEIGHT AND BUILD: six feet and two inches, muscle-bound PLAY-BY: Chris Pine FULL APPEARANCE: ![]() You'd think that a man standing six feet and two inches in height might be intimidating. Add in the heavy muscles, the confidence, and to those who hadn't met him before, O'tlan would be a scary individual. But this green rider does not carry himself with much importance. He walks quietly, and dresses in colors not designed to catch the eye, browns and tans mostly. While he looks good in blue, and stunning in gold, he does not like to stand out. Despite the brassy blond, gravity-defying hair, the stubbly beard coming in an early gray, and a plush mouth more inclined to grin than frown, his most prominent feature remains his eyes. They are intensely blue, both inviting and intimidating. He has an impenetrable grin, more shield than humor, that nevertheless serves the dual purpose of making him seem at ease and under the radar. No one questions a sunny disposition, particularly not when accompanied with light quips and teasing one-liners. PERSONALITY PERSONALITY: O'tlan is a quiet man with good ideas. He likes his privacy, but he also likes to spend time with other riders. He has always presented a bold, confident face to the rest of the world. Only a few, trusted individuals know more than the facade he presents. Given his well-known history, it's understandable that he would play things close to the vest. He has a bit of experience under his belt, and that means that he is a little steadier than many people think a green rider should be. Of course, as soon as people start dismissing his rank, he dismisses them. There are reasons Ista's Pride remade himself at High Reaches, and colorism is one of them. When it comes to lovers, other people are welcome in his bed up to the point where he has to make a choice between a lover, and his dragon. He has little patience for coloristic lovers, those who qualify his existence by the color his dragon happened to be shelled. They might earn his bed for the flight, but it's quite rare for someone to keep his attention. HISTORY FAMILY: Mother - Lady of Ista Hold Father - W'kik of bronze Hriseth, Ista Weyr deceased a plethora of half-siblings, including the heir to Ista Hold and a few riders the remaining Colossi, and their dragons SIGNIFICANT OTHER: Weyrhealer Chalay of green Oshuth Guard Captain Vella of green Vellask and magma Vesk BIRTHPLACE: Ista Island HISTORY: 2726 - Childhood one to twelve When the Lady of Ista Hold gave birth to her first son, no one truly expected the results. There were whispers and rumors during her pregnancy, but no one came right out to say that this was not the Lord's get. It wasn't until one of the bronze riders from Ista publicly claimed the child as his own that the truth came out. Ortilan was removed from the line of succession, and fostered between Hold and Weyr until he wasn't quite sure which was his actual home. 2736 - foster nine Eventually, little Ortilan would just say that he came from Ista Island. He spent his childhood traveling between weyr and hold, neither parent willing to relinquish their claim to the other. He spent a Turn, his ninth, fostered to Igen Weyr, but that quickly ended when the weyr's latest clutch yielded unexpected results. No one knew how to categorize one of the hatchlings, and neither the Lady of Ista Hold nor Bronzerider W'kik of Ista Weyr wanted their son anywhere near that chaos. Without a fire lizard of his own, the friendships Ista's child had made in Igen faded away. Despite a few attempts, no one was willing to let such controversial child Impress a fire lizard. Ortilan came to understand that until managed to get away from Ista, he would never be his own person. Just the mistake his parents made. 2738 - Adolescence twelve to fifteen After the experiment with fostering, his parents argued over whether or not he should Stand as a candidate when the time came. His father was convinced that he would follow in the family tradition, and Impress at least as high as brown. His mother - constantly pregnant to her Lord, yet somehow able to keep tabs on even adventurous Ortilan - wanted him to foster out again, to another Hold. In an attempt to settle the argument, W'kik had one of the weyr's Search dragons lay claim on his son. Only someone paying rather close attention would have noticed that the brown 'Searched' the solemn child a few days before he officially came of age to be Searched. Properly fifteen by the time the queen Flew, he didn't attach at his first two clutches. Ortilan held the secret hope that he would be allowed to transfer to another weyr, if he didn't Impress soon. By that time, he hated the island and everyone on it. It seemed like everyone knew him, or of him, and had opinions on everything from his parentage to his lack of Impression. 2742 -Impression sixteen The clutch that held his dragon was, itself, a controversial clutch. It was sired by a mutation, a great monstrosity of a male neither bronze nor brown, and black as night. In the chaos of the hatching, which included both a second mutation and a gold, O'tlan's Impression would be been completely unremarkable. His parents being who they were, that wasn't the case. Because when he did Impress, finally, he disappointed both of his parents. Actually, his father completely disowned him on the spot, and was transferred to another weyr - Benden - for the duration of his son's weyrlinghood. Instead of a fine bronze, or a sturdy brown - or even a blue, which would at least be male - attaching Ista's Pride, a dainty green had claimed him. She knew him as soon as she hatched, and laid imperial claim on the gangly sixteen-Turn-old. O'tlan? Kadiith would like you to feed her. Why are you conflicted? Don't you like your Kadiith? 2742-2745 Weyrlinghood sixteen to nineteen W'kik had told his son stories of his weyrling class. O'tlan had always assumed he was just trying to make weyr life more enticing, because neither weyr nor hold had much appeal. He was proven wrong as he grew very close to the other riders in his class. They were a controversial bunch, from the petite, hidebound Kallia who attached Pern's newest gold to androgynous, vulgar Taz, who had the apparent misfortune to Impress a mutation. They were called the Colossi, and they banded together against a world out for their blood. And with a batch of weyrlings that included silent Erro and flirtatious, unstable Kl'yne, something like being the result of a mistake could be overlooked. It was the first time O'tlan was seen as his own person, and he rather liked the sensation. He made friends, the easiest he'd ever made friends, and that would turn out the be a life-long bond. Kaddy was one of the first greens of the clutch to Rise. She led seven males on a merry chase that nearly ended in a fist fight. O'tlan had grown into a much more attractive version of himself during lessons, and one of the riders of the losing males took offense to Kadiith's choice. He was a bronze rider, and it was in that moment that solidified Kadiith's immense dislike of bronzes. It wasn't bad enough that Hriseth hissed death threats whenever he saw her, but now one ruined her first Flight? ![]() 2746 - Rider twenty From that day forward, Kadiith despised most bronzes on sight. She never picked one for any Flight, and took umbrage whenever one would give her orders, unless it was another Colossi. Despite the cards being stacked against them, Kadiith and O'tlan rose through the ranks. They eventually became wingleaders themselves, taking the wing over from the retiring blue rider. 2752 - Transfer to Telgar Weyr twenty-nine It took ten Turns for O'tlan and Kadiith to leave Ista Island. There was always some reason to delay a transfer, whether it was a new weyrmate or the distress of his fellow Collossi, but O'tlan hated Ista Island with a passion. They transferred to Telgar Weyr as a wingrider, giving up his rank in favor of leaving the island he hated so much. The weyr welcomed him, a chromatic rider, in the wake of another clutch that yielded a mutation. No mutation had ever repeated itself, but many riders feared what these sport dragons might mean for Pern as a whole. He made friends slowly, but many of those he met found him charming and trustworthy. It only took another two Turns before he became a wingsecond again, this time to a brown rider. There were always rumors that he had only been made a 'second because Kadiith chose the wingleader's brown in Flight more than once. 2755 - Armistice, Impression part two thirty-two The Interval War left no corner of Pern untouched. Telgar flooded with refugees, and the green pair were forced into battle. Both dragon and rider were reluctant to take lives, but their opponents seemed to have no such compunctions. Kadiith racked up an impressive kill rate, one that leaves her rider uncomfortable. His own kill rate is a little higher, and he was never severely wounded or maimed in the war. W'kik of bronze Hriseth died in a High Reaches attack just before an armistice was reached. O'tlan did not so much as shed a tear for the bronze rider's death. His mother sent him a message when she heard. He did not send a reply, being far too busy with his own affairs. Sixteen Turns after leaving his parents' influence, Ista's child had finally procured a fire lizard egg. (He noted privately it was ridiculous that, for a native of an area with an abnormally high population of fire lizards, he Impressed his own in a land-locked region.) While many others had chosen their egg for size, hoping for a bronze or a gold, O'tlan aimed for cleverness. The egg he decided on had been passed over many times. It was relatively small, compared to others in its clutch, and had a flat, dull grey color that nearly promised a dud. The only variation was two dots of red on one side, and a slightly larger dot of blue on the other. Where it showed great promise is in its aura. When O'tlan touched it, as he bribed the mother gold to be allowed to do, it promised to never let him down. A brown hatched from his egg, a damp little brown who creeled most piteously when food did not immediately appear. O'tlan rectified his mistake quickly, and stuffed his new friend round. He went without a name for nearly a month, until a chance conversation with one of Colossi brought him the perfect one - Triumvirate. Being a weighty name for a little lizard, it was promptly shortened to 'Tri'. 2757 - Transfer to Fort Weyr thirty-four Many riders transferred weyrs in search of more opportunities, or to follow a new weyrmate. O'tlan left Telgar to get away from his weyrmate. It started well enough; a brown caught Kadiith. The riders got along, and kept seeing each other. All was well, until the next time Kadiith Flew, and was caught by a blue. Weyrs were supposed to be less strict abut weyrmates, because dragons were often so finicky. Not so this rider, who had come from a Hold. The resulting fights led O'tlan to flee Telgar, straight to Fort. He couldn't know, at that time, that he was only the first of his clutch to transfer to the oldest weyr. 2758 - Tenth Pass begins thirty-five Time trudges on, even when humans would wish otherwise. The cosmos cares little for the squabbles of humans, even when those squabbles lead to death, chaos, and the unease of a plant. The Red Star began its deadly campaign on Pern, and O'tlan and Kadiith rose to meet the threat. They flew with Daylight Wing. 2760 - Chaos thirty-seven For a Turn that held so many good things, it held things the world would always hold in contempt. A new mutation began in the fire lizards, the first to repeat itself, and spread. Whers caught the new mutation, garnet, a few months later. O'tlan, who rode a daughter of Pern's first mutation and was rather fascinated with them, was delighted with this self-replicating new color. Kadiith was less impressed, even when one of Imorith's clutches proved that dragons had the color, too. Pern's dragons had another new trick to teach their humans, one that shook many hide-bound traditionalists to their bones. A bronze Impressed to a woman. O'tlan was in the stands, his forearm stuffed into his mouth to stifle his laughter. He was no stranger to flouting the rules, but this was even better than anything he'd done! But best of all was when the Colossi came to join him in his new home. The circumstances leading to their arrival were tragic, certainly, but with Kallia and Imorith - send to help Fort get back on its feet - came Hecate and Cabadath, and most of the Colossi. Fort filled up quite a bit, that Turn. Beside the clutches, and the Colossi, refugees fled High Reaches. Fled the Mad Golds, for all that Golre had declared her weyr 'peacekeepers'. One of these refugees was a tall, charming, and very cute brown rider. O'tlan made friends, and Kadiith got herself acquainted with the brown. During their time together - Kadiith chose him for her Flight twice in a row - O'tlan learned all about the knottiest weyr on Pern. Even compared to Ista, the High Reaches were a piece of work. Spring 2762 - Transfer to High Reaches Weyr thirty-eight By this point, O'tlan was no stranger to death. He'd caused it, he'd seen it, he'd escaped it several times. Death was a part of life, and he'd come to grips with it. Or so he'd thought. Then Kallia was poisoned. Of his clutch siblings, she was the one he got along with the least. Her hidebound ways declared men unfit to ride female dragons, and they clashed over that view. He claimed that it was the dragon's choice, but both weyrwoman and queen were disdainful of greens in general. It was the nastiest way one of his clutch had died. The Colossi scattered in the wake of her death. Many returned to Ista, while some stayed at Fort. O'tlan transferred, for the third time. After the war lead by High Reaches, and the death of the Mad Golds, Fort sent chromatic riders to High Reaches to lead. O'tlan was one of the greenriders who went. He was uneasy about the location, but welcomed a brand new chance to remake himself. At High Reaches, he could be both respected and a greenrider. Not the mistake of Ista Island.
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| thefaeriesfyre | Jun 25 2016, 11:50 PM Post #2 |
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| thefaeriesfyre | Jun 25 2016, 11:57 PM Post #3 |
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K A D I I T H![]() My dearest one, my darling dear Your mighty words astound me But I have no need of mighty deeds When I feel your arms around me -- "For the Dancing and the Dreaming", John Powell BASICS NAME: Kadiith (Kaddy) from the Vulcan 'kaiidth', the philosphy of 'what is, is' BIRTHDATE Winter 2742 AGE: twenty-three as of Early Spring 2766 CLUTCHING CLUTCHING: NO RUNS/FLIGHTS: two CHILDREN: Lonely Heart APPEARANCE LENGTH: twenty-seven feet HEIGHT: seven feet WINGSPAN: forty-one feet COLOR: green HEX CODE: #2F5B47 FULL APPEARANCE: Proportionally, Kadiith is very dainty. She isn't quite tiny, for a green, but she is most definitely on the smaller end of the spectrum. It can be quite the mind bender to picture this dainty green with her muscle-bound rider. The reality is, of course, that even a very small green can dwarf a large human, but people seldom remember that. Kadiith doesn't generally mind. Her O'tlan fits her perfectly. Her conformation is perfect. She would tend towards chubbiness in less active times, but in this time and place she runs at a very healthy weight. Up close, she has even more muscles than her rider. Her lush green hide is sleek over graceful muscles, neither excessively fat nor disgracefully bony. In color, she maintains mostly a dark green that is nearly blue, but for a few graceful curves of light yellow along her ribs. PERSONALITY PERSONALITY: Without a doubt, Kadiith's most defining trait is her pragmatism. She has lived long enough - by now - to have at least tangential experience in confronting just about anything (as far as she's concerned). Even if she does not know how a situation is likely to play out, Kadiith is a very fast thinker. Being quick on the wing is only an asset when it comes to Threadfall. Whatever the most practical solution is, that is what she will do. Concepts like 'sleek' escape her, as do short cuts and alternate practices. This means that she is not a very philosophical dragon. She is not interested in 'might', or 'better than that' conjectures. Engaging in this type of thinking is likely to make her dismiss someone. What she has yet to consider is that dismissing those who think differently drastically denies her the opportunity to learn. Voice: Kaddy has a low, rich mind voice. It frequently seems like she knows something the rest of the conversation does now, and what she knows amuses her. She speaks with the confidence that she is always right, and bluffs almost instantly when she is proved wrong. Edited by thefaeriesfyre, May 1 2018, 09:04 AM.
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| thefaeriesfyre | Sep 1 2016, 02:09 AM Post #4 |
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T R I U M V I R A T E BASICS NAME: Triumvirate BIRTHDATE Late Summer 2755 AGE: Nine as of Early Spring 2766 APPEARANCE COLOR: Brown HEX CODE: #EDC9AF FULL APPEARANCE: Tri is a brown of light coloring. His body does not deviate from the same light shade, similar to the sands of Igen, or the Hatching Sands. There are hints and teases of yellow along his wingsails, and a perfect dot of off-white on his left forepaw. The only other place his color deviates is a threadscore scar on his right flank. Unlike the other two in his bond, Tri is a thin, lithe creature. He has no more muscle than he absolutely needs, and he tends towards bony despite attempts to fatten him up. For all that it's hard to believe, there exists a fire lizard who is not in love with food. Shocker, right? PERSONALITY PERSONALITY: As if to balance the falsely sunny O'tlan and the viciously pragmatic Kadiith, Triumvirate is a happy-go-lucky excuse for a brown. He follows only the most rudimentary training commands, when he feels like it, but he is not rash. He does not play pranks, though he will distract riders long enough for his brethren to prepare one. Where his human is rarely actually in a good mood, there is little that can shake Tri from his perpetual good mood. O'tlan says that is because Tri isn't the smartest lizard in the clutch. He could be right, because it often takes the brown a few tries to understand what is being asked of him. Once he does, his contrary nature takes over, and he may or may not obey. His antics bring a genuine smile to O'tlan's soul, and even pragmatic Kadiith is no match for Tri when he's being charming. Edited by thefaeriesfyre, May 31 2017, 11:49 AM.
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| thefaeriesfyre | Nov 8 2016, 02:31 AM Post #5 |
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G E N E S I S![]() BASICSNAME: Genesis SPECIES: canine BREED: herder SEX: female BIRTHDATE Late Winter 2764 AGE: just over one as of Spring 2766 APPEARANCE COLOR: black, grey, white, brown - blue eyes FULL APPEARANCE: As an adolescent just over one Turn of age, Genesis is still awkward. She is growing into her paws, but the rest of her is gawky Still predominately white and grey, she is speckled with black and splotched with tan. O'tlan has been convinced that herding canines need to work, so her weight is evening out. She carries a little extra, though. He still likes to spoil her. PERSONALITYPERSONALITY: Genesis has a strong prey drive, pouncing on anything that moves and following whatever looks interesting. She is an active baby, always struggling out of any restraints to get on with her next adventure. When not hunting everything that moves, Genesis likes to wash her human's fire lizard, and when sleeping, she likes to be snuggled in her human's bed. Edited by thefaeriesfyre, May 31 2017, 11:48 AM.
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