Ahazir, Candidate

[ASTROLOGICAL!!]

I live in this country now
I'm called by this name
I speak this language
It's not quite the same
For no other reason
Than this it's my home
And the places I used to be far from are gone

Name: Ahazir
Age: 22
Sex and Gender: Male, identifies as female
Sexual and Romantic Orientations: Panromantic pansexual
Species: Lemur-Tailed
Rank and Craft: Dragon Candidate, former Caravan Guard

Place of Birth: in the wilds between Hold land
Current Location: Cat's Paw Weyr

Family:

• Ahaza, Mother, 42
  
• Iral, father, 46

Pets: N/A

Hair: Red, long, unkempt
Eyes: Red, highly reflective
Height and Build: 5'8", muscular
Appearance:

Ahazir is fortunately blessed with an androgynous voice. Her black-and-white banded tail is almost as long as she is tall, and she usually carries it around her waist. One of her furred ears is pierced with two gold hoops, symbolizing her position in the Caravan. Unfortunately, she has a masculine build, with a strong chest and slightly large arms that look strange in most female garments. She doesn't look pretty as a woman and is used to being mocked for what she is.

She has a scar on her chest from the time a wild feline attacked the caravan, and she ended up being unable to use her knife for quite a while.

Personality:

• Quiet
  
• Patient-- it takes a lot of time and effort to learn to use a knife
  
• Asocial, almost shy
  
• Doesn't trust easily
  
• Easily offended
  
• Defensive
  
• Feels unaccepted by most people on Pern
  
• Commitment issues
  
• Insecure
  
• Assumes the worst in any situation
  
• Stoic
  
• Observant
  
• Hyper-focuses
  
• One-track mind
  
• Honor-bound

History:

• Born in a trade caravan to a Guard and a trader. Ahazir took after her father at age eight, learning the tools of the trade.
  
• Ahazir never felt comfortable being called a boy, though, and preferred the company of girls. She felt a little more confident wearing a tunic cut for a woman, though her father would have none of that and passed it off as "wrong and unnatural."
  
• At age 14, the caravan was attacked by wild felines. Ahazir was injured in the process, but fought bravely and was accepted as a member of the Caravan Guard as soon as she healed.
  
• However, she felt uncomfortable and strange and wrong acting like a man all the time. When the Caravan stopped at a Hold for the winter, she befriended Theras, a Holder man who had been born female. Theras eventually led Ahazir to realize that she wasn't a man at all.
  
• The Caravan, however, disagreed and Ahazir feared her father's wrath, so she kept quiet until Thread began falling.
  
• Just before Mareth's Clutch, a Red Searched her. She has been at Cat's Paw ever since, identifying as female tentatively and fearing some form of disapproval or scorn for it.
  
• Living in one place is also hard for her, because she's used to wandering.

Candidacy Opinions: Of course she wanted to be Searched. With the Caravan winding down, there's no need to protect her people with knives. It's time to fight with fire; she wants to fight Thread.
Candidate's Preferred Color: A dragon has wings and can fly. She doesn't see the differences other than gender and size, and finds the idea of ranks to be slightly silly.
Your Preferred Color: Preferably not Lash, definitely not a bronze rank. Lash wouldn't be protested, just not preferred. Bronzes are a firm no for me, unless they're genderbent, though I trust you won't Impress her based on her sex.

Orange or a blue/brown rank would be cool.
Injury: I don't care what happens.