Post by meah on Sept 8, 2008 22:33:37 GMT -5
Application:
Character Name: Tanawic
Age: 17
Gender: male
Preference: both, but mostly girls
Previous Position: candidate
Current Position: wher candidate
Appearance: Tanawic is one of those strange people who has very blond hair and blue eyes and yet somehow still manages to be one of the darkest looking people you will ever have the misfortune to meet. His eyes seem to bore into people's skulls, and they have a marked creepiness to them. He's not particularly tall, but he's tall enough, and his wiry frame makes him seem to loom over everything. He just looks like a brooding, angsty teenager, but in an almost scary way. Because of that, most people tend to avoid him. When he smiles, it looks like he's smirking, even when he isn't.
Personality: Tanawic, or Tan as his few friends call him, is a very isolated person. He chooses to be that way because he's quite cynical and rather disillusioned with society. One of his hobbies to to disillusion other people and crush their hopes. To him, it's kind of funny, and it's better for them to realize now that they're not going to get what they want in life anyway. Most people think he's a really mean person for it, but he's doing it at least partially out of pity. And partly out of schadenfreude.
Tan's not the most social of people anyway, because most people don't understand his rather morbid sense of humor. He's made a habit of scaring away anyone who doesn't like his ironic laughter. That may be why a large portion of the population finds him genuinely scary. Once he gets to know someone, though, he's as sweet as can be. Because he has so few friends, he tends to latch on to them. It's not that he's clingy so much as he's afraid of being alone. When he is friends with someone, though, he'd die for them. He's the one of the group who's quiet, kind of scary to outsiders, and extremely over-protective of his people when provoked.
Poor Tanawic can get obsessive over things if he's not careful. Mostly, he does stuff like this with the one girl he's liked forever. He'll never reveal who it is, but he spends a fair amount of time moping over her, to the chagrin of all his friends.
He values loyalty more than anything else in other people, and he hates people who turn out to be back-stabbing jerks. It's in part his upbringing, and the fact that he was aware of how often his parents were being manipulated in their naivety.
Tan's rather blunt, when he's in the mood to talk to you. It makes people mad quite frequently, but he doesn't care very much. If they can't appreciate his honesty, they're probably spending most of their time lying to themselves anyway.
History: Tanawic's mother and father were simple hold-folk when the dragons first came and started Araelen. He was a small child, but they moved there as soon as they could, because his father was one of those odd people who has a fascination with things they don't understand but think they do. Thus, he ran around like an idiot at the weyr from the time it was founded. Perhaps it was when he first met Sitareh that he became disillusioned with society. While his parents were both optimistic creatures, he was better at seeing through other people's crap. Sitareh was so obviously full of crap, in his mind, that he couldn't help but say what was on his mind.
At first, he didn't say anything to Sitareh of his opinions on her, in part because his parents meant too much to him and in part because he was just the peasant-son of the village idiot who wanted a dragon but was too old to impress. His parents were old, though, for having a young son, and shortly after he turned sixteen, they died of completely natural causes. It was his father's last wish that he should be a candidate, and so he became a candidate.
The candidates were being evaluated. Of course, he thought it might be fun to enlighten Sitareh to the way of the world at about the same time. At the time, he though she was kind of stupid, but he spoke with full honesty. A bit too much honesty. He told her that eventually, she'd lose all her power and be replaced. Needless to say, she didn't take too kindly to that reaction. When he found a notice on his bed stating that he was being moved to a much danker set of quarters and that he would be changing in rank, he was a bit confused, but instead of being bothered badly by it as some people would, he simply hated Sitareh more for being a lying jerk and fell in love with one of the girls who was staying there. She was the one, in fact, who informed him that they were to be candidates for a watch-wher.
Position in Family: only child, I suppose, but it doesn't really matter
Pets: none
Alignment: he'd be a rebel, if he weren't destined to be rejected by even the regular rejects to the dregs of society, the wherhandler
Relation to Existing Character: none, I guess. Unless someone wants their wher-candidate girl to be his obsession
Special Requests Application reason: do I have to have one for his pissing Sitareh off?
RP History: must I think?
Familiarity with Pern: felina's my encyclopedia
How you found out about our site: felina
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Desired Wher Colour: iono brown or bronze, I guess
Reason for this Preference: he's not a colourful person. Yes. That's my reasoning. He would look strange with something bright and colourful like blue or green.
Syllable Numbers for Name: n/a
Preferred Starting Letters for Name: n/a
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Preferred Dragon Ability: n/a
