Post by miashin on Nov 19, 2012 3:44:23 GMT -5
Name: Lasela
Age: 23 (Early Winter)
Sex and Gender: Female, Genderfluid
Sexual and Romantic Orientations:
Species: Tailed - Heron (Great Egret)
Rank and Craft: Journeyman DragonHealer
Place of Birth: Topaz Hold
Current Location: Cat's Paw Weyr
Family:
Father: Temold, Topaz Hold Elder, 69
Mother: Tiasca, Topaz Hold Elder, 52
Living Siblings: Nenuck, 34 (Topaz Hold, Farmer), Nolani 30 (Topaz Hold holder), Yasheeta, 27 (Harper Hall, Journeyman); Rikera, 26 (Topaz Hold holder)
The extended family is much larger with cousins, nieces, and nephews (and that's just counting the living), so we'll leave it at this.
Pets:
Arock: Often called Rock, a bronze firelizard who earned his name when Lasela commented that his egg looked 'like a rock.' It stuck.
Hera: Born from what was an otherwise unremarkable looking tan egg, this blue firelizard is in fact female leading Lasela to name it after her tailed species.
Hair: Long blonde hair, reaching well past her shoulder blades, and usually loose. During treatment she usually binds it with a long scarf.
Eyes: Light blue with no other significant features.
Height and Build: At 5'2" but with a surprisingly sturdy build.
Appearance: Due to her height, facial features, and the very loose clothing (usually in shades of white's and blues) she prefers, it's easy to assume that Lasela could be broken by a nasty breeze. Her long blonde hair, pale complexion, and facial features (which never completely lost their childish roundness) only add to the delicate appearance. Her tail, a plume of long thin pure white feathers, does add a bit of grace though.
She usually carries herself proudly, with a straight posture, and is very aware of 'proper' behavior and manners. She can most often be found moving about or engaged in any available task (not necessarily even restricted to her healer craft). As mentioned she prefers loose fitting clothes of white and blue, though one should not be surprised to see her in clothes that might have been white at the start of the day but are now rather terribly stained and dirtied by the days work.
However her biggest and most striking physical features is her lack of breasts. Normal for her type of tailed but not so normal for most other humans.
Personality: Indomitable is the best description for Lasela. She doesn't dwell on set-backs or problems, and depression isn't an emotion she seems to be capable of. Though her strong will generally serves her well, she is also very prone to ridiculous stubbornness and not knowing when to just leave things well enough alone. She's more likely to take 'can't' as a challenge than a statement of fact, though in such situations her strong personality is a boon as she's not put down at all even by inevitable failure.
She's also very much a busy-body. When not having any tasks of her own to complete she can often be found assisting others in their work. She'll gladly help anyone that needs an extra pair of hands, be it the cooks, drudges, or harpers. Work, having things to do with her hands, and the simple thought that she's helping somebody are one of her two greatest pleasures in life.
Dragons are her second. The only time she can be found not actively engaged in any task is when she is watching the dragons and firelizards of the weyr. She can be perfectly and happily content for several hours simply watching them at rest and at play, and for a very active person such as herself that's quite a stretch of time.
When interacting and speaking with others she is very cheerful. She always has a friendly smile for anybody and a kind ear for their troubles (though on more than one occasion she has gotten a little too caught up in trying to help resolve said troubles). She prides herself on her proper and polite speech and manners. She almost never raises her voice and would rather choose silence than argue even if she disagrees.
Overall these things tend to give people the impression that she's air-headed. A very terrible fallacy as she's very intelligent and sharp, often noticing the slightest details. She simply, more often than not, has too little time or attention to pay to anything other than her current focus. She's also quite adept at picking up emotions (be they human, firelizard, or dragon) though she by no means can be considered capable of hearing all dragons.
However, when treating a patient (especially a dragon) her personality does a 180. She becomes very strict and demanding to the point of becoming downright frightening. Though she'll eagerly take competent advice into consideration she generally has no patience for anyone that interferes with her work where the life and health of another is concerned. She's equally strict in her after care and it's best to follow her 'advice' in such situations or risk being stalked by a borderline furious heron.
At the end of the day it's not unusual at all to find her half asleep over whatever task she last set herself too and on occasion it can take quite a bit of coaxing for her to call it a night. It's fortunate then that where she lacks in physical strength and capability she more than makes up for in endurance.
Romantically she may initially give the impression of being uninterested simply because of always being busy. In actuality she is quite promiscuous and does enjoy the 'company' of others regardless of their sex/gender. But these tend to be very loose or temporary relations. To put most simply, her busybody personality makes her rather flighty in social life. She has yet to meet a person that manages to interject themselves so deeply into her thoughts as not to be swept away in the endless stream of work and tasks.
Due to her physical traits (mainly the Heron lack of breasts), she is quite fluid with her gender, not caring how people perceive her or which pronouns they use to refer too and address her with.
History: Lasela's family is a long running, though sometimes quite sad, point of humor in Topaz hold. Her mother a Heron Tailed has birthed a child for ever year she's been married. However, as is the case with most heron's, infant mortality is quite high leaving her with only four siblings. Not to worry though because those siblings certainly have inherited her mother's fertility.
If it weren't for her workaholic nature Lasela would probably have followed in the footsteps of the rest of her holder family, marrying young and producing a prodigious amount of children. But even from an early age she was always eager to work, following on the heels of anyone that had a spare moment to give her a task or, better yet, teach her a new one. She very quickly gained the attention of Topaz Hold's master healer because of her eagerness as well as her ability to learn quickly and accurately. By her eighth turn she was all but an officially named apprentice of his. With the blessings of her parents and his recommendations she moved to the Healer Hall in the spring of her tenth turn.
Her move also heavily influenced her. As the traders had been delayed that year a blue rider of Hawk Wing Weyr, who'd been scouting at the time, took her to the Healer Hall. About the same time as his blue dragon came out from between above the hall she decided that she would become a dragonhealer, and she has stubbornly and diligently worked towards this goal since. She loves dragons deeply, and it would not be a stretch to say that this experience didn't impact her choice of preferred colors for her clothing.
It was also at the Harper Hall that she impressed her two firelizards, both hatched from eggs that had been donated to the hall by Hawk Wing Weyr, and which are now invaluable as companions and irreplaceable as assistants.
She earned her Journeyman status at 19 turns of age and had requested to continue her studies in Hawk Wing Weyr, however the weyr at the time already had nine Journeyman and two Masters and was rather crowded in so far as healers were concerned. Thusly she was directed to Cat's Paw Weyr and has worked, studied, and learned there ever since.
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This is a little separate as I'd be more than happy for her to Impress, but at the same time it's not an immediate concern/goal for this character.
Candidacy Opinions: She was offered the opportunity to stand on the sands but declined. If she were a candidate then who would help care for the dragonlings if they got injured during the hatching? But then again, things do happen, and hatchlings don't always impress to candidates on the sands.
Candidate's Preferred Color: Like most young ladies, Lasela has on more than one occasion amused and entertained herself with the thought of impressing a queen, but those were simply daydreams (and considering what kind of a workaholic she is...). She also would be more than overjoyed with riding a blue. Ultimately though, riding is not her main goal.
Your Preferred Color: Who doesn't want shinies? But more practically Lasela would probably be better of with one of the smaller females simply because of her flighty workaholic nature. I'm not sure she'd be a good fit for a leadership position as she'd end up trying to do too much and running herself into the ground.
Injury: Hey it's a danger of the profession. If she gets hurt she'll deal with it.
