Post by alaurasmith on Dec 1, 2010 23:59:19 GMT -5
Deceased: Died in Selenitas Earthquake Plot
Humans:
Name: Aroya
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Rank: Candidate
Physical Appearance: Aroya stands at five foot seven and has a slender appearance after years of working out in fishing. She has dark brown eyes that are completely dark due both parents having dark eyes and have no other colors in them. The hair which are not that common for Southern Hold which includes a curl to it. While there is some lighter brown high lights in it that is not natural at all it comes from being out in the sun. The young woman has darker skin color which is very noticeable for the amount of time spent out in the sun. It is genetic in the hold after her family has always lived in the Southern hold and after several generations the tan became genetic.
Her complexion is very clear due to no excess oil after being out in the sun on a fishing boat for most of her life and clear complexions run in her family. She has piercings except a tatoee shaped in the form of a wave on her left shoulder from going out with her brothers one night. It was a joining experience that they did because they thought she was just as good as them and wanted to do it with her. The tatoee is a dark coloring due to the method's currently available on Pern. She got the tatoee by having a instrument that has a metal end with black ink on it that is long and pointed which was lightly tapped with another took with a flat end into her skin. It first creates a pattern by injuring the skin and then the pattern fills up with ink. Aroya normally covers it due to if her dad found out he would ultimately be very disappointed in her.
While there a scar down her back from when being knocked over by a anchor and it hitting the back that went from one side to the other. It is actually a proud scar because it shows that she can stand a man's work. The young woman wears dresses when going to community functions.and will wear pants when out on the ocean. She is just a comfortable in a skirt as in pants and a wher jacket due to the outdoor life that she has too endure.
Personality: Aroya is outward a very quiet woman with inner strength that comes out in actions not words after growing up to take care of everyone in her household. She is quite clever coming up with inventive situations to use everything without having to buy new things and to get things that the family needs. The young woman is very compassionate about everything that she does always caring for others before herself. It has lead to many occasions of putting herself in harms way to make sure everyone else has what they need.
In a situation she likes to observe all situations before acting and will stand back taking in the entire picture in order to make a right decision. When she makes a decision to handle different things and how to handle the annoying situations with her brothers. It has always been Aroya when it came to handling things and has been difficult to give up control as more women have came into the family.
Her faults lay in her stubbornness and always having to have the last say in what a argument is about which lead to many fights with her father. The father doesn't want her to leave until he thinks that his daughter has found a place where she can belong. His been trying to get her into more social situations because if she became more social then it would be possible for her to find a mate. She's social in a situation when need be though doesn't seek people out and has to be pushed in a situation. It's a shyness that came from her mother that was very shy in nature after years of isolation at home.
History: Aroya was born over seventeen years ago to Astrid and Hain in a village that belonged to Southern Hold. The family we're fisherman where everyone was involved in the family business and started at a very young age of cleaning fish. She was the fifth in sixth children that came from the family and lost her mother in the birth of a still born baby brother. It happened that her father had their widowed aunt come live with them to help raise Aroya and to run the household.
While stories of dragon riders came and went she never put a lot of thought into it after all who would chose a fisherman's daughter. They young woman didn't know that about a few generations back there was weyr blood thought it was just old wise tales. She had a blue rider and a bronze rider in her family though because it happening such a long time ago they we're just old family stories. When someone from their family impressed they're family we're happy for them and it was always a hope that the young children would impress due to their blood and nature. Aroya herself doesn't know that she has weyr blood and though exhibts several of those traits that they did.
It was the year of 3006 she was just a young girl when hearing that someone else then the Weyrwoman's daughter had impressed a gold. She had giggled at the thought finally someone besides just a weyrbrat would ride gold and dreamed of maybe someday it happening to her. The thought of a average person riding gold amazed her and gave hope to others. In the year 3009 the young woman was just a child though there we're rumors of a new dragon rider at Selentias Weyr one of gold. It had amazed Aroya even when she was younger and wanted very desperately for the change to ride gold.
She had gone to sleep at night just thinking about it though later she just put this off as childhood dreams and something to put away for more grown up things in life. A few nightmares happened after terrible rumors of drugs used on dragons and thoughts of disfigured dragons came into the picture. The thoughts of some people of how the natural way of things we're being messed with thought nobody dared to interfere for fear of consequences and the day to day struggle.
There we're stories of weyrwomen being killed in the year 3010 and of weyrlings being kidnapped from their native weyrs. It mattered little to her family because in that year there was such a low catch and very little to eat that the family came close to starving. If her grandfather had stepped in to take care of them and help them with their food needs then their small family would have perished. In the year 3013 when the Southern Fever kills many people her own family lost two sons because of the rapid fever. She was personally thankful that no more of her family had been taken and just added to the pressure of her trying to help her family. The situations involving the weyrs destroying each other and their constant fighting of each other didn't really affect the home life of a fisherman. Her family often heard rumors of when High Reaches Weyr was destroyed by Fort however as long as there was food on the table not much else mattered to her family.She did attract men as she got older who wanted to marry her as young as fourteen yet turned them down to be with her family. While things changed at home that included three older brothers and her father marrying that lead to a lot more help. Aroya felt overwhelmed for the situation and thought that maybe there was something else out there.
She started to help out with the fishing and spent long hours out at sea while wandering what else laid out there beyond the horizon line. Her father has been trying to find a way to get Aroya married or into a craft somewhere yet nothing seems to be working.The young woman continued to help out with her father and vowed one day that she would find her way in the world. Aroya was very much wanting to get out of Southern Hold where and see the world which lead to when trading was to be done with Selentias Weyr. In her father sent her along with a older group of fishermen because it was becoming desperate to get the fish traded due to his personal sickness and lack of male relatives that we're available at the time to help. He knew it had to be done despite the wastelanders taking over Selentias.
The young woman was sent with two loads of dried fish and entered Selentias Weyr where they spent the night. It was a situation that would change her life forever due to how attractive the freedom of women had at the Weyr and they didn't seem pressured to marry. It seemed that here she saw that women we're very unlikely to die in childbirth like they did in the holds and actually live to a decent age unlike her mother. She had heard stories of the freedom and wanted more then anything to not end up like her mother dyning in childbirth just to give a man another son.
In this situation she found a job in a lower cavern which wasn't perfect yet seemed a good way to make her way in the world and sent a message back to her father explaining. He ended up letting her go because the family was no longer responsible for feeding and clothing the child and that everything from this point on was her deicison. She disappeared into the kitchens where learning there was always something to do and learned different skills that might take her further. Aroya was very interested in the dragonrider's lifestyle and wondered if it was possible one day she might get one. If she never flew that was okay with her just being around such exciting place and meeting new people awed the young woman. Her normal day includes cooking and cleaning in the kitchen which starts at sun up to sundown. She doesn't want to really be noticed by others and combined that with her quiet nature wraps her hair up in a bun with a face often covered in soot from cooking. The young woman just likes to do what is required of her and go unnoticed until she figures out what is to come next in her life.
Candidates Only
Name Contraction (Males Only):
Queen Only? (Females Only): Yes
Desired Dragon Color: Gold
Dragon, Wher, or both?: Dragon
[x] By checking this box, I am saying that I have read the Rules and History, and will follow them.
Humans:
Name: Aroya
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Rank: Candidate
Physical Appearance: Aroya stands at five foot seven and has a slender appearance after years of working out in fishing. She has dark brown eyes that are completely dark due both parents having dark eyes and have no other colors in them. The hair which are not that common for Southern Hold which includes a curl to it. While there is some lighter brown high lights in it that is not natural at all it comes from being out in the sun. The young woman has darker skin color which is very noticeable for the amount of time spent out in the sun. It is genetic in the hold after her family has always lived in the Southern hold and after several generations the tan became genetic.
Her complexion is very clear due to no excess oil after being out in the sun on a fishing boat for most of her life and clear complexions run in her family. She has piercings except a tatoee shaped in the form of a wave on her left shoulder from going out with her brothers one night. It was a joining experience that they did because they thought she was just as good as them and wanted to do it with her. The tatoee is a dark coloring due to the method's currently available on Pern. She got the tatoee by having a instrument that has a metal end with black ink on it that is long and pointed which was lightly tapped with another took with a flat end into her skin. It first creates a pattern by injuring the skin and then the pattern fills up with ink. Aroya normally covers it due to if her dad found out he would ultimately be very disappointed in her.
While there a scar down her back from when being knocked over by a anchor and it hitting the back that went from one side to the other. It is actually a proud scar because it shows that she can stand a man's work. The young woman wears dresses when going to community functions.and will wear pants when out on the ocean. She is just a comfortable in a skirt as in pants and a wher jacket due to the outdoor life that she has too endure.
Personality: Aroya is outward a very quiet woman with inner strength that comes out in actions not words after growing up to take care of everyone in her household. She is quite clever coming up with inventive situations to use everything without having to buy new things and to get things that the family needs. The young woman is very compassionate about everything that she does always caring for others before herself. It has lead to many occasions of putting herself in harms way to make sure everyone else has what they need.
In a situation she likes to observe all situations before acting and will stand back taking in the entire picture in order to make a right decision. When she makes a decision to handle different things and how to handle the annoying situations with her brothers. It has always been Aroya when it came to handling things and has been difficult to give up control as more women have came into the family.
Her faults lay in her stubbornness and always having to have the last say in what a argument is about which lead to many fights with her father. The father doesn't want her to leave until he thinks that his daughter has found a place where she can belong. His been trying to get her into more social situations because if she became more social then it would be possible for her to find a mate. She's social in a situation when need be though doesn't seek people out and has to be pushed in a situation. It's a shyness that came from her mother that was very shy in nature after years of isolation at home.
History: Aroya was born over seventeen years ago to Astrid and Hain in a village that belonged to Southern Hold. The family we're fisherman where everyone was involved in the family business and started at a very young age of cleaning fish. She was the fifth in sixth children that came from the family and lost her mother in the birth of a still born baby brother. It happened that her father had their widowed aunt come live with them to help raise Aroya and to run the household.
While stories of dragon riders came and went she never put a lot of thought into it after all who would chose a fisherman's daughter. They young woman didn't know that about a few generations back there was weyr blood thought it was just old wise tales. She had a blue rider and a bronze rider in her family though because it happening such a long time ago they we're just old family stories. When someone from their family impressed they're family we're happy for them and it was always a hope that the young children would impress due to their blood and nature. Aroya herself doesn't know that she has weyr blood and though exhibts several of those traits that they did.
It was the year of 3006 she was just a young girl when hearing that someone else then the Weyrwoman's daughter had impressed a gold. She had giggled at the thought finally someone besides just a weyrbrat would ride gold and dreamed of maybe someday it happening to her. The thought of a average person riding gold amazed her and gave hope to others. In the year 3009 the young woman was just a child though there we're rumors of a new dragon rider at Selentias Weyr one of gold. It had amazed Aroya even when she was younger and wanted very desperately for the change to ride gold.
She had gone to sleep at night just thinking about it though later she just put this off as childhood dreams and something to put away for more grown up things in life. A few nightmares happened after terrible rumors of drugs used on dragons and thoughts of disfigured dragons came into the picture. The thoughts of some people of how the natural way of things we're being messed with thought nobody dared to interfere for fear of consequences and the day to day struggle.
There we're stories of weyrwomen being killed in the year 3010 and of weyrlings being kidnapped from their native weyrs. It mattered little to her family because in that year there was such a low catch and very little to eat that the family came close to starving. If her grandfather had stepped in to take care of them and help them with their food needs then their small family would have perished. In the year 3013 when the Southern Fever kills many people her own family lost two sons because of the rapid fever. She was personally thankful that no more of her family had been taken and just added to the pressure of her trying to help her family. The situations involving the weyrs destroying each other and their constant fighting of each other didn't really affect the home life of a fisherman. Her family often heard rumors of when High Reaches Weyr was destroyed by Fort however as long as there was food on the table not much else mattered to her family.She did attract men as she got older who wanted to marry her as young as fourteen yet turned them down to be with her family. While things changed at home that included three older brothers and her father marrying that lead to a lot more help. Aroya felt overwhelmed for the situation and thought that maybe there was something else out there.
She started to help out with the fishing and spent long hours out at sea while wandering what else laid out there beyond the horizon line. Her father has been trying to find a way to get Aroya married or into a craft somewhere yet nothing seems to be working.The young woman continued to help out with her father and vowed one day that she would find her way in the world. Aroya was very much wanting to get out of Southern Hold where and see the world which lead to when trading was to be done with Selentias Weyr. In her father sent her along with a older group of fishermen because it was becoming desperate to get the fish traded due to his personal sickness and lack of male relatives that we're available at the time to help. He knew it had to be done despite the wastelanders taking over Selentias.
The young woman was sent with two loads of dried fish and entered Selentias Weyr where they spent the night. It was a situation that would change her life forever due to how attractive the freedom of women had at the Weyr and they didn't seem pressured to marry. It seemed that here she saw that women we're very unlikely to die in childbirth like they did in the holds and actually live to a decent age unlike her mother. She had heard stories of the freedom and wanted more then anything to not end up like her mother dyning in childbirth just to give a man another son.
In this situation she found a job in a lower cavern which wasn't perfect yet seemed a good way to make her way in the world and sent a message back to her father explaining. He ended up letting her go because the family was no longer responsible for feeding and clothing the child and that everything from this point on was her deicison. She disappeared into the kitchens where learning there was always something to do and learned different skills that might take her further. Aroya was very interested in the dragonrider's lifestyle and wondered if it was possible one day she might get one. If she never flew that was okay with her just being around such exciting place and meeting new people awed the young woman. Her normal day includes cooking and cleaning in the kitchen which starts at sun up to sundown. She doesn't want to really be noticed by others and combined that with her quiet nature wraps her hair up in a bun with a face often covered in soot from cooking. The young woman just likes to do what is required of her and go unnoticed until she figures out what is to come next in her life.
Candidates Only
Name Contraction (Males Only):
Queen Only? (Females Only): Yes
Desired Dragon Color: Gold
Dragon, Wher, or both?: Dragon
[x] By checking this box, I am saying that I have read the Rules and History, and will follow them.