Post by Whim on Oct 17, 2012 23:27:35 GMT -5
Name: M'tu
Age: 24 (born in spring)
Sex and Gender: male
Sexual and Romantic Orientations: asexual and aromantic
Species: chipmunk Tailed (Long-eared Chipmunk)
Rank and Craft: blue rider, search rider at Cat's Paw Weyr
Place of Birth: Feldspar Hold
Current Location: Cat's Paw Weyr
Family: Merina (mother, 45), Tulor (father, 47), Melka (younger sister, 19), Jasim (younger brother, 17), Seral (younger sister, 16), Cerali (younger sister, 16), Annoli (younger sister, 13), Marov (younger brother, 10)
Pets: Jas - bronze firelizard, 4 turns
Hair: short, mostly dark gray with a patch of white behind each ear
Eyes: dark brown, with stripes of black fur going up the side of his nose and over to surround each eye
Height and Build: 5' 6", slightly thinner than average
Appearance: M'tu is a chipmunk Tailed, and has fur everywhere; as a result, he has some very distinctive stripes. Two black stripes start at the bottom of each side of his nose, go up, and turn to surround his eyes and cover his eyelids; a white stripe covers the middle of his nose, then splits into a T at his forehead, sitting on the black eye stripes and going up to his eyebrows, while two more white stripes run under his eyes. His forehead, hands, arms, feet and legs are covered in gray fur, as is his tail, while the rest of his face and sides are reddish-brown, and his front is creamy off white. His back is covered mostly by nine stripes; five black surrounding four white, with some more reddish brown on the sides.
M'tu is aware of how distinctive his stripes are, and absolutely certain that everyone thinks they're as gorgeous as he does, whether he keeps his fur carefully groomed or not (though he always does). He is equally attentive to the rest of his appearance: he only wears riding gear, which is always clean, wrinkle-free and precisely fitted, his boots are never scuffed, and everything he owns that can be polished, is. Despite this, he insists that he doesn't care about his appearance at all, "because only girls do that."
M'tu is quite certain that he's gorgeous, admired, respected and humble, and acts accordingly. While his words might be slightly more respectful to a prince rider than to an apprentice, his posture and expression won't change at all; he's still utterly certain that he's the better in the conversation, and also that he's graciously not pointing it out even though everyone can see it. He gets away with this mostly because many higher ranked riders find it amusing to tease him, and teasing him is a very easy thing to do.
Personality: M'tu is absolutely certain that he's the kindest, smartest, and overall best person to have ever lived, and that he's just as humble as he is great, and the world is jealous and out to get him because of it. None of this is remotely true, but M'tu is utterly oblivious to reality when it doesn't suit his opinions, and very skilled at twisting whatever facts he does know to support his theories.
One of the few good traits M'tu actually has (and, of course, rarely notes as part of his supposed greatness) is that he's a very hard worker. What he is going to do gets done quickly and thoroughly, and he will not be interrupted until it's complete; if he has nothing to do, he's most likely to be found wandering in search of something to do, even if it's technically someone else's job.
The one chore he avoids is cooking, as he considers it too feminine, and has ever since he tried to help cook and was shooed out after adding some chopped roots to klah, which he swore someone told him was soup, and then cutting his hand open trying to chop roots to replace the ones he'd ruined. He is also reluctant to sweep or clean, as the chores are "beneath him," but will do them anyway, while elaborately sighing and rolling his eyes at how lazy the current batch of candidates are and how this is far beneath his station but if no one else is going to do it, fine, he will.
M'tu is very sensitive about his dignity, and entirely oblivious to the fact that what he considers dignified, most people consider ridiculous. He is similarly convinced that he is being composed rather than melodramatic, generous rather than grudging, and patient rather than sulky. As a result, it's incredibly easy to mess with him, and he's often utterly speechless with indecision when trying to decide on a dignified way to react to any supposed offense.
History: M'tu was born in Feldspar Hold, the oldest of, eventually, seven siblings. His parents were average holders; his father fished, and his mother worked in the kitchens. He was a fairly normal child until his first younger sibling, Melka, was born when he was five, and suddenly his parents' attention was spent almost entirely on her.
M'tu was not at all pleased by the sudden loss of attention, and his beginning to spend time learning from the Hold's Harper initially did nothing to help. He didn't want to be there, and didn't want to learn, and eventually the Harper told his parents how badly he was doing. His parents were not at all pleased, but not extremely surprised, and his parents tried to convince him to learn; his father by threatening punishments, and his mother trying to tell him he needed to be a good role model for his younger sister.
Eventually M'tu was convinced, accidentally, when his mother unintentionally implied that if he was able to be a good older brother for his sister, then his parents would be able to spend more time with him. This convinced M'tu, and he began trying to learn, eventually managing to catch up with the rest of his class. When he did, his father made a point of spending an evening with M'tu, and M'tu was thereafter convinced that working hard was a good thing.
As M'tu grew, so did his number of siblings, though by the time his twin sisters Seral and Cerali were born, he was no longer jealous of the attention, and instead was determined to be a good older brother and teach and protect them. As M'tu learned from the Hold's Harper, he would come back and try to teach his siblings anything he'd just learned, with varying degrees of success.
When M'tu began learning to fish it was impressed upon him that learning to fish was very, very dangerous, and that young children shouldn't be learning. His siblings, however, still wanted to learn, so instead M'tu told them (often exaggerated) stories of what he learned, or the stories that fishermen told him about storms, giant fish, and other events.
It was while M'tu was learning to fish, still well before his brother Jasim would begin to learn, when a dragon came to the Hold to search. M'tu was not entirely happy to be searched--he didn't know much about Weyr life, but did know that his siblings weren't at the Weyr, and didn't particularly care about anything else. His siblings, however, were entranced by the idea of dragons, and collectively demanded that M'tu go. While M'tu might have been able to refuse the dragonrider, he was completely unwilling to refuse his siblings (or, for that matter, his parents), and so he went.
M'tu did not enjoy life as a candidate any more than he'd expected to, especially as he was not chosen in his first two hatchings. He did Impress, however, during his third hatching, to blue Rith. M'tu immediately began to treat Rith like another little sibling; making absolutely certain that Rith was never hungry or bored or upset, and teaching him everything he could, even if neither could imagine why a dragon would ever need to know how to steer a ship in a storm. Rith was not entirely sure why M'tu thought he should know any of this, but was perfectly willing to learn if it made his rider happy, and besides, it meant spending time with M'tu. As a result, Rith knows a truly ridiculous number of fishing-related details for a dragon; what types of fish can be found at what depths in what seasons, how different tides affect different sizes and types of boats, how nets are made and used.
Rith, it turned out eventually, was a search dragon; M'tu found this quite amusing, considering his initial aversion to being Searched, which led Rith to deciding that as soon as he could go Between, they were going to Feldspar Hold so he could thank M'tu's siblings for sending M'tu to him. M'tu didn't have many arguments to offer, and so when Rith was two years old, they went, and Rith startled quite a few people in his search for M'tu's siblings.
During this visit, Rith also located and thanked M'tu's parents, who were thoroughly pleased to finally have confirmation that their son had Impressed, if a bit startled at the dragon's behavior. M'tu's father also recalled that a firelizard clutch had been found recently, and convinced the Lord Holder than M'tu should have an egg--after all, he was a dragonrider now, and from Feldspar Hold; they didn't want to look like they didn't treat their own well. The Lord Holder agreed, and so M'tu was sent home with one of the larger eggs, which eventually hatched into the bronze he named Jas, after his brother.
While M'tu's family might accept him, however, the Weyr is somewhat less dazzled by his status. He is recognized as a responsible rider, capable doing what he is told to, but he's also recognized as a general pain to be around. He was transferred through a few different wings--entirely oblivious to the reason--before he settled into a wing that could tolerate him relatively easily, just before Thread began to fall.
M'tu was absolutely certain that Thread would be no problem whatsoever for him and his dragon, even if they were young, inexperienced, and not used to working with their wing. For the first few falls, this seemed true, and the pair became more confident; on the third, however, Rith's wing was caught by Thread. They went Between quickly enough that the injury was not particularly dangerous, and back to the Weyr.
While it was not dangerous, however, it was extremely painful, and M'tu could feel it just as well as Rith could. There wasn't much to be done other than cover it with numbweed and let it heal, nor much of any risk that anything worse than some pain--easily cured with numbweed--would happen to Rith while it healed. Despite this, M'tu insisted on staying with Rith as if he had been in vital danger, eventually getting into a screaming match with the healer who tried to insist that he at least go to eat. M'tu won, as the healer decided that M'tu would see reason once he got hungry, and the argument was distracting him from treating patients. Since then both have respected Thread much more, and M'tu's obvious lack of composure, and panicked care for his dragon, is a significant part of why many of his wingmates tolerate him.
Name: Rith
Age: 6 turns, born in fall
Color: blue
Place of Birth: Cat's Paw Weyr
Current Location: Cat's Paw Weyr
Appearance: Rith has very few markings; he is almost entirely a medium, ocean blue, with darker blue edging on the back of his wings, and lighter blue around his eyes. There is, also, a tangle of lighter blue scars at the front of one wing, where Thread caught him. He is particularly fond of sunbathing, and can often be found with his wings spread out flat on either side of him, to catch more warmth.
Personality: Rith is not nearly so arrogant as M'tu is, though he does have the common draconic habit of believing that he, somehow, is the best dragon ever (as his rider insists is true). He finds his rider's behavior a bit silly at times, and will occasionally indulge in pranks, such as startling M'tu when he's eating so that he'll drop food on himself, or "accidentally" splashing M'tu as he dives into the sea to swim. M'tu isn't entirely convinced that these pranks are accidents, but not able to be mad at Rith anyway, so he lets it go.
Rith also particularly enjoys swimming and catching fish to eat; most of the time, he'll bring whatever fish he can catch up to M'tu so they can identify it before he eats it, and once in a while he'll insist on bringing a particularly large fish back to the Weyr to donate to the kitchens. That the kitchens generally have more than enough fish already doesn't matter; Rith caught a huge fish, and he's going to be generous and show it off at the same time, even if the generosity isn't actually needed. M'tu encourages this, and sees no reason why the kitchens shouldn't appreciate Rith's gifts.
Age: 24 (born in spring)
Sex and Gender: male
Sexual and Romantic Orientations: asexual and aromantic
Species: chipmunk Tailed (Long-eared Chipmunk)
Rank and Craft: blue rider, search rider at Cat's Paw Weyr
Place of Birth: Feldspar Hold
Current Location: Cat's Paw Weyr
Family: Merina (mother, 45), Tulor (father, 47), Melka (younger sister, 19), Jasim (younger brother, 17), Seral (younger sister, 16), Cerali (younger sister, 16), Annoli (younger sister, 13), Marov (younger brother, 10)
Pets: Jas - bronze firelizard, 4 turns
Hair: short, mostly dark gray with a patch of white behind each ear
Eyes: dark brown, with stripes of black fur going up the side of his nose and over to surround each eye
Height and Build: 5' 6", slightly thinner than average
Appearance: M'tu is a chipmunk Tailed, and has fur everywhere; as a result, he has some very distinctive stripes. Two black stripes start at the bottom of each side of his nose, go up, and turn to surround his eyes and cover his eyelids; a white stripe covers the middle of his nose, then splits into a T at his forehead, sitting on the black eye stripes and going up to his eyebrows, while two more white stripes run under his eyes. His forehead, hands, arms, feet and legs are covered in gray fur, as is his tail, while the rest of his face and sides are reddish-brown, and his front is creamy off white. His back is covered mostly by nine stripes; five black surrounding four white, with some more reddish brown on the sides.
M'tu is aware of how distinctive his stripes are, and absolutely certain that everyone thinks they're as gorgeous as he does, whether he keeps his fur carefully groomed or not (though he always does). He is equally attentive to the rest of his appearance: he only wears riding gear, which is always clean, wrinkle-free and precisely fitted, his boots are never scuffed, and everything he owns that can be polished, is. Despite this, he insists that he doesn't care about his appearance at all, "because only girls do that."
M'tu is quite certain that he's gorgeous, admired, respected and humble, and acts accordingly. While his words might be slightly more respectful to a prince rider than to an apprentice, his posture and expression won't change at all; he's still utterly certain that he's the better in the conversation, and also that he's graciously not pointing it out even though everyone can see it. He gets away with this mostly because many higher ranked riders find it amusing to tease him, and teasing him is a very easy thing to do.
Personality: M'tu is absolutely certain that he's the kindest, smartest, and overall best person to have ever lived, and that he's just as humble as he is great, and the world is jealous and out to get him because of it. None of this is remotely true, but M'tu is utterly oblivious to reality when it doesn't suit his opinions, and very skilled at twisting whatever facts he does know to support his theories.
One of the few good traits M'tu actually has (and, of course, rarely notes as part of his supposed greatness) is that he's a very hard worker. What he is going to do gets done quickly and thoroughly, and he will not be interrupted until it's complete; if he has nothing to do, he's most likely to be found wandering in search of something to do, even if it's technically someone else's job.
The one chore he avoids is cooking, as he considers it too feminine, and has ever since he tried to help cook and was shooed out after adding some chopped roots to klah, which he swore someone told him was soup, and then cutting his hand open trying to chop roots to replace the ones he'd ruined. He is also reluctant to sweep or clean, as the chores are "beneath him," but will do them anyway, while elaborately sighing and rolling his eyes at how lazy the current batch of candidates are and how this is far beneath his station but if no one else is going to do it, fine, he will.
M'tu is very sensitive about his dignity, and entirely oblivious to the fact that what he considers dignified, most people consider ridiculous. He is similarly convinced that he is being composed rather than melodramatic, generous rather than grudging, and patient rather than sulky. As a result, it's incredibly easy to mess with him, and he's often utterly speechless with indecision when trying to decide on a dignified way to react to any supposed offense.
History: M'tu was born in Feldspar Hold, the oldest of, eventually, seven siblings. His parents were average holders; his father fished, and his mother worked in the kitchens. He was a fairly normal child until his first younger sibling, Melka, was born when he was five, and suddenly his parents' attention was spent almost entirely on her.
M'tu was not at all pleased by the sudden loss of attention, and his beginning to spend time learning from the Hold's Harper initially did nothing to help. He didn't want to be there, and didn't want to learn, and eventually the Harper told his parents how badly he was doing. His parents were not at all pleased, but not extremely surprised, and his parents tried to convince him to learn; his father by threatening punishments, and his mother trying to tell him he needed to be a good role model for his younger sister.
Eventually M'tu was convinced, accidentally, when his mother unintentionally implied that if he was able to be a good older brother for his sister, then his parents would be able to spend more time with him. This convinced M'tu, and he began trying to learn, eventually managing to catch up with the rest of his class. When he did, his father made a point of spending an evening with M'tu, and M'tu was thereafter convinced that working hard was a good thing.
As M'tu grew, so did his number of siblings, though by the time his twin sisters Seral and Cerali were born, he was no longer jealous of the attention, and instead was determined to be a good older brother and teach and protect them. As M'tu learned from the Hold's Harper, he would come back and try to teach his siblings anything he'd just learned, with varying degrees of success.
When M'tu began learning to fish it was impressed upon him that learning to fish was very, very dangerous, and that young children shouldn't be learning. His siblings, however, still wanted to learn, so instead M'tu told them (often exaggerated) stories of what he learned, or the stories that fishermen told him about storms, giant fish, and other events.
It was while M'tu was learning to fish, still well before his brother Jasim would begin to learn, when a dragon came to the Hold to search. M'tu was not entirely happy to be searched--he didn't know much about Weyr life, but did know that his siblings weren't at the Weyr, and didn't particularly care about anything else. His siblings, however, were entranced by the idea of dragons, and collectively demanded that M'tu go. While M'tu might have been able to refuse the dragonrider, he was completely unwilling to refuse his siblings (or, for that matter, his parents), and so he went.
M'tu did not enjoy life as a candidate any more than he'd expected to, especially as he was not chosen in his first two hatchings. He did Impress, however, during his third hatching, to blue Rith. M'tu immediately began to treat Rith like another little sibling; making absolutely certain that Rith was never hungry or bored or upset, and teaching him everything he could, even if neither could imagine why a dragon would ever need to know how to steer a ship in a storm. Rith was not entirely sure why M'tu thought he should know any of this, but was perfectly willing to learn if it made his rider happy, and besides, it meant spending time with M'tu. As a result, Rith knows a truly ridiculous number of fishing-related details for a dragon; what types of fish can be found at what depths in what seasons, how different tides affect different sizes and types of boats, how nets are made and used.
Rith, it turned out eventually, was a search dragon; M'tu found this quite amusing, considering his initial aversion to being Searched, which led Rith to deciding that as soon as he could go Between, they were going to Feldspar Hold so he could thank M'tu's siblings for sending M'tu to him. M'tu didn't have many arguments to offer, and so when Rith was two years old, they went, and Rith startled quite a few people in his search for M'tu's siblings.
During this visit, Rith also located and thanked M'tu's parents, who were thoroughly pleased to finally have confirmation that their son had Impressed, if a bit startled at the dragon's behavior. M'tu's father also recalled that a firelizard clutch had been found recently, and convinced the Lord Holder than M'tu should have an egg--after all, he was a dragonrider now, and from Feldspar Hold; they didn't want to look like they didn't treat their own well. The Lord Holder agreed, and so M'tu was sent home with one of the larger eggs, which eventually hatched into the bronze he named Jas, after his brother.
While M'tu's family might accept him, however, the Weyr is somewhat less dazzled by his status. He is recognized as a responsible rider, capable doing what he is told to, but he's also recognized as a general pain to be around. He was transferred through a few different wings--entirely oblivious to the reason--before he settled into a wing that could tolerate him relatively easily, just before Thread began to fall.
M'tu was absolutely certain that Thread would be no problem whatsoever for him and his dragon, even if they were young, inexperienced, and not used to working with their wing. For the first few falls, this seemed true, and the pair became more confident; on the third, however, Rith's wing was caught by Thread. They went Between quickly enough that the injury was not particularly dangerous, and back to the Weyr.
While it was not dangerous, however, it was extremely painful, and M'tu could feel it just as well as Rith could. There wasn't much to be done other than cover it with numbweed and let it heal, nor much of any risk that anything worse than some pain--easily cured with numbweed--would happen to Rith while it healed. Despite this, M'tu insisted on staying with Rith as if he had been in vital danger, eventually getting into a screaming match with the healer who tried to insist that he at least go to eat. M'tu won, as the healer decided that M'tu would see reason once he got hungry, and the argument was distracting him from treating patients. Since then both have respected Thread much more, and M'tu's obvious lack of composure, and panicked care for his dragon, is a significant part of why many of his wingmates tolerate him.
Dragon
Name: Rith
Age: 6 turns, born in fall
Color: blue
Place of Birth: Cat's Paw Weyr
Current Location: Cat's Paw Weyr
Appearance: Rith has very few markings; he is almost entirely a medium, ocean blue, with darker blue edging on the back of his wings, and lighter blue around his eyes. There is, also, a tangle of lighter blue scars at the front of one wing, where Thread caught him. He is particularly fond of sunbathing, and can often be found with his wings spread out flat on either side of him, to catch more warmth.
Personality: Rith is not nearly so arrogant as M'tu is, though he does have the common draconic habit of believing that he, somehow, is the best dragon ever (as his rider insists is true). He finds his rider's behavior a bit silly at times, and will occasionally indulge in pranks, such as startling M'tu when he's eating so that he'll drop food on himself, or "accidentally" splashing M'tu as he dives into the sea to swim. M'tu isn't entirely convinced that these pranks are accidents, but not able to be mad at Rith anyway, so he lets it go.
Rith also particularly enjoys swimming and catching fish to eat; most of the time, he'll bring whatever fish he can catch up to M'tu so they can identify it before he eats it, and once in a while he'll insist on bringing a particularly large fish back to the Weyr to donate to the kitchens. That the kitchens generally have more than enough fish already doesn't matter; Rith caught a huge fish, and he's going to be generous and show it off at the same time, even if the generosity isn't actually needed. M'tu encourages this, and sees no reason why the kitchens shouldn't appreciate Rith's gifts.