Post by jilli on Mar 5, 2013 6:26:51 GMT -5
Hanako
Name: Hanako
Pronunciation: Hah-Nah-K-Oh
Age: 18
Season Born In: Winter
Gender: Female
Sexuality:Hetero
Appearance:
Hanako isn't the tallest woman, measuring in at 5'5''. Her skin is a pale beige that burns easily in the sun. The only marks marring her body is a dusting of freckles across her face and arms and a dark long scar running down her leg from about mid thigh to upper calf.
She has a quirky smile that never shows her nearly perfect teeth. It lifts at one corner, but the real success of the smile is in her eyes. They are a rich brown with golden flecks. Her eyes change with the tilt of her head, darkening and lightening with, of course, the light. They are her most expressive feature.
She's not exactly the thinnest person around, but she's by no means in the fat category. She has a healthy build, semi-well endowed in the bust area. She's usually to be found wearing well fitting pants that flare just slightly toward the lower part of the legs and sandals. A white or tan cotton shirt completes the ensemble, and her long auburn red hair is usually falling in riotous curls that frame her face.
Personality:
Hanako is happy even when she isn't. What I mean to say is, even when she's unhappy, she always puts on a brave pleasant mask. Its extremely rare for others to see her when she's not upbeat, sometimes annoyingly so. She can't stand the thought that her actions or emotions would have a negative effect on others.
She takes rejection hard. Hanako works hard to be a valuable part of whatever she does. Sometimes it doesn't go all that well. At that point she becomes selfconscious and withdrawn, berating herself for screwing things up. It gets a bit much when she gets rejection and admonition from outside sources. It's not like she doesn't see herself as above reproach from others, but it's like their input makes her feel twice as bad because in her own mind she's already worthless.
Where she's outgoing and almost always happy around others, she is the exact opposite when she's alone. It feels like she has no one who cares for her or needs her. She wants desperately to be needed, to have SOME sort of purpose. With no one there she reflects on things inwardly and they tend to all come out with a negative light.
She loves Children. Actually, she loves anything she can take care of. It's an immense achievement for her to see something grow under her nurturing guidance. It also helps her not be so depressed.
Family:
Mother- Sadina 45 rider of Green Sovoth
Father- Kaldon 48 fisherman
Older sister- Kiritora 23 of brown Ekoth
Location: Trelis
Rank: Searchrider
Wing/Pack:Weyrleader's Wing
History
She had a very happy childhood for the most part. She was loved by her parents and older sister. She spent most of her childhood playing with her mom's green or tagging along after her big sister. It was a rather uneventful childhood. She spent her days playing and her nights tucked in a warm bed to play the next day.
That all changed when her sister became a candidate. Hanako was lost. She didn't know what to do without her older sister there, so she started spending more time with the other weyrbrats.
As she got older, she found herself having a crush on the runnerbeast caretaker, Garrick. She began spending more time near the corrals each day. They became friends. He taught her about the animals. She soon spent her every free moment with him even though he was about 10 turns her senior. Slowly, against her family's wishes, the friendship grew to love. Their age difference made no difference to her. She was happy.
He grew attached to her as he taught her. There was something intimate in bringing a life into the world alongside someone. He admitted to himself he loved her after staying under a blanket cradling her against his side to keep her warm as they waited for a colt to be born. He gave her that colt for her birthday. It was her first pet. His name was asfolath and she adored him.
When her sister impressed to a brown it was like the girl became a different person. She insisted that Garrick was bad for Hanako. She began trying to convince her sister to leave him. She finally had one of her friends drug Garrick's klah one night, dragging him back to his house and slipping into bed with him as if they'd been together.
That was the sight that greeted Hanako when she arrived that morning. Her young heart was broken. She spent weeks asking herself what she had done wrong. Meanwhile he was asking himself why she'd stopped coming to see him.
Her sister and mother were, of course, quick to introduce her to a young man they approved of. Hanako couldn't stand him. The young man Mallem, was fairly well to do. He was aware of that fact and seemed to never wish to grow up. She missed Garrick's maturity. She missed how, when she was with him, she trusted everything was going to be okay.
To keep her family happy, she put up with the boy. He followed after her fawning over her. It wasn't what she wanted. She took it until she couldn't anymore. She had grown tired of everything. Her sister's elitist attitude, her mother's hinting that she should marry the boy.
Garrick found her one day at the paddock she kept Asfolath in, and they had a long talk. She found out about her sister's lies and plots. She was happy again. They were going to leave and go somewhere far away from her family to be together. Then the thread hit. Garrick was taken from her that day, and that pain helped her make up her mind.
She packed her bag and rode her Asfolath to freedom. Asfolath's swift hooves brought her to Trelis, where over a year, she had worked her way up from being a common drudge to becoming the headwoman's assistant until she was searched to be a candidate.
Hanako had nearly feinted. She was sure that everything was a mistake and that she couldn't have been chosen for such honor as possibly being selected by a dragon. She had gone along with it, fully intending to withdraw herself back to her old duties after the first clutch where she was sure she would not impress, however fate proved her wrong again and she was bonded to the puff of smoke green Orphelyth.
Orphelyth
Name: Orphelyth
Pronunciation:Or-Feh-lith
Age: 2 turns
Rank: Green
Size: 22.7 ft
Color Codes:
Body: 020d0a
Head: 3b6250
Wisps: 4d8467, 4d847a
Markings: 5edb8d
Appearance:
Sleek and slim, Orphelyth is a rather dainty looking dragon. Her curves are smooth, her form gentle and relatively small for a green. She is a lady through and through, from her delicate face to her long wispy tail. Her wings as well are long and thin. Add in her naturally skinny, almost starved belly and there are times she looks almost too frail to go about her business. Her frame is lacking muscle, and indeed this green will need to work hard to build up the strength to do her duty. Her legs are skinnier than average, and will often look like they could never support her, though somehow she is just as active and mobile as any dragon. Her front right ankle, for no known reason, is very weak at her hatching, and she seems to have a hard time putting too much pressure on it.
This dainty dragoness’s hide is, primarily, a deep, dark green colour, appearing almost black when not in the bright sunlight. Her head is a soft, grey-green colour. The same light green travels in wispy lines across her body, reaching from her neck down along her torso and tail. From the very tip of each wing and across the wings sails are another batch of lines that meet on her hip and continue down her tail. Orphelyth’s face and the tip of her tail, as well as the tips of her toes and wing fingers, sport splotches of a bright green that almost seems to glow after being cleaned and oiled.
Orphelyth always carries herself with a subtle elegance and grace. Her steps are so small and dainty that she almost seems to glide along the ground as she moves. This is one dragon that will look just as graceful on the ground as in the air. The only un-ladylike thing about her appearance is a strange quirk. Her tail, regardless of whether she is awake or not, twitches ever so slightly to a constant, even beat.
Personality:
Strong-willed, Loves Music, Determined, Calm, Loyal, Passionate
Orphelyth is a calm dragoness. She is not promiscuous, nor does she have the short temper often associated with her colour. She is a lover of all things, from the delicate flowers in the Weyrbowl to the avians in the sky. She feels particularly fond of huntyres, though even she doesn’t know why. This green is also a lover of music. Singing is one of her favourite past times and it is not uncommon to hear her humming to herself.
She hates pain, or rather, she hates causing pain. She'll do everything in her power to avoid causing pain to others. If avoiding it is impossible, such as when eating, she will try her hardest to bring forth a quick death. It will take her quite some time to be comfortable with hunting however. She dislikes violence and tends to outright avoid fights, or, if she feels Hers is in danger, she may try to calm the situation.
A friendly dragoness, Orphelyth has very little problem getting along in most social situations, and indeed grows quite fond of her friends easily. However, she will rarely go out of her way to help others unless she has been asked to. Call her selfish if you will, but it's not that she doesn't want to help, it's just that hers will always come first. This dragoness takes the loss of a friend hard. She may try not to show it, but there is no worse pain than losing a loved one, and you can be sure she will keen and sing for the dead. Despite her strong grief however, Orphelyth believes one should never look back. She lets out her emotions in a quick, strong display before hardening her heart and doing everything in her power to move on.
Though she may seem soft and sweet on the outside, Orphelyth has a will of steel. Once she sets her mind on something she will do everything in her power to see her goal complete. Be it rescuing a feline from a tree, learning a new aerial maneuver, or rescuing a beloved friend in Threadfall, she won’t give up until it becomes an impossible feat. One such goal is her desire to always protect the ones she loves.
Mind-Voice (If applicable):
Never look back Mine. Keep your eyes forward and we can achieve the impossible.
When Orphelyth speaks it is like the whisper of a lover in your ear. Soft and gentle, she rarely seems to raise her voice, and even then it almost feels like she is speaking from far away. Despite the low volume of her voice, there is a sing-song tone to it that is pleasant to listen to
Bonding
The Puff of Smoke Green had been taking her own sweet time looking at her ankle, her tail twitching constantly as she observed. There didn’t seem to be anything wrong with it, as far as she could see anyways, but every time she tried to put weight on it, it hurt. How very strange… Perhaps she should go and find Hers… maybe Hers would know what to do? After a moment of tentative trying, the Puff of Smoke Green finally stood, keeping her weight off of her ankle and taking tiny steps towards the candidates. So small and graceful were her steps that, coupled with the surprising speed she seemed to move with, it almost looked like she was gliding along the sand.
She knew there was someone out here for Her. That person she remembered as an egg. She knew that person was meant for her. Her bonded would be waiting for her. The Puff of Smoke Green made a sad noise, wondering where exactly that person was. The sound, though not quite a croon, was oddly musical in its tone, a song of longing, of seeking. Oh, there she was! The moment her eyes fell on the girl, the Puff of Smoke Green knew she had found the one she was searching for. Like a long lost lover, the dragoness reached out her mind, her eyes whirling with rainbows as her mind merged with the girl’s. It was not words that would first reach her human’s mind. No, it was a melody that was heard. The same melody the Puff of Smoke Green had felt in the girl so long ago as an egg.
Hanako, my love, my life. There is such sorrow within you… I don’t mean to bring up such sad memories of yours HanaLove… but your Orphelyth is here for you now. Please my love… it is a beautiful day, and a wonderful time to start our new life together. Oh… but my stomach is quite empty. Do you know where I might find something to eat?
Inspiration:
Orphelyth is based off the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, a tragic tale of love and loss in which the mortal Orpheus, after losing his lady love to a snake bite, travels to the underworld in the hopes of reclaiming his lover. He plays his lyre the entire way and convinces Hades and Persephone to let him through the gates to reclaim her. He is given permission to lead his love back to the surface, but is told that he cannot once look back. He succeeds but as he approaches the exit he looks back in his excitement and loses Eurydice to the underworld forever. Orphelyth was based on a combination of Orpheus’ musical abilities, and the overpowering feeling of love and loss in the story. Her appearance is a representation of the underworld, with the marks on her head being the outside world, and her tail being the lost lover. The wisps represent the journey of the spirits. Orphelyth’s name is a combination of Orpheus and his instrument, the lyre.
