Post by **Auria (etc)** on Sept 24, 2008 16:11:21 GMT -5
Character Name: Auria
Age: 17 turns
Gender: female
Preference: Males
Previous Position: Dancer in an entertainment caravan
Current Position: orphan and now sole guardian of her young nephew, Rannell
Appearance: Auria is about five feet, six inches tall, slender to the point of “skinny” but very wirey and surprisingly strong for her frame. This is due to her dancer’s training. Her hair is long and straight, a medium brown with golden-red highlights, and her eyes appear too large for her face, round in shape, and are a rich cocoa-brown with long reddish lashes. She has a heart-shaped face, little pointed chin, and a small nose that ends in a “button”, making her look much younger than she is. She is, or was, quick to smile, until the very recent past. Her skin is fair and she has a liberal sprinkling of freckles across her nose and cheeks. Most probably would refer to her as “cute” rather than “pretty”. She moves with a dancer’s grace.
Personality: By nature, Auria is fun-loving and light-hearted, but this has been stolen from her recently by Thread. The sparkle in her eyes has been replaced by the shadows of horror. She has a touch of mischief in her, and is just enough of a tomboy that she has always been known to ride, climb, run and swim as well as any of the boys in her clan. In fact, she always tended as a child to prefer playing with the boys than with the other girls, for they would look down on her as being “unladylike”.
History: Auria is – or was – the second child of four, three girls and the youngest a boy. The births were spread out a bit, with her two younger siblings quite a bit younger than herself, the brother being only five turns when Thread fell on Pern again. Her older sister, twenty three, had a child of her own, and Auria was in charge of watching her little nephew, age two turns, when tragedy struck. Her mother (Kantra) and sisters were all singers and dancers, like herself. Her father, Rand, had a magnificent tenor voice and was a skilled musician on many instruments. However, rather than training officially as harpers, the clan had come from a long tradition of travelers, and would stop at Gathers, and anywhere a group of people needed cheering, putting on plays and entertaining. Some would dance and sing, others would tell fortunes, others would run gaming booths.... Their caravan was, thus, out in the open the day the Thread returned.
Auria will never recover from the memory of screaming pain, the sickening sight and smell of her family and their dreybeasts being devoured. The monsterous thing even consumed their wagons.... She wanted to save them, she wanted to so badly ... but only she and the baby, slung on her back in his carry harness, made it to the water in time.
When the sweep rider found them, she was clinging tightly to little Rannell, promising him she would never leave him. The toddler had cried himself out and slept, exhausted, whimpering in his nightmare dreams, all the way to the Weyr.
He was all she had left in the world.
Position in Family: Second oldest of four.
Pets: None
Alignment: She will lean toward Loyal ... because the dragonriders have been proven right. Thread really has come back.
Relation to Existing Character: none
RP History: many years
Familiarity with Pern: very
How you found out about our site: existing member
Candidates Only Section:
Desired Dragon Colour: gold or green
Reason for this Preference: though she’s tough as nails and enjoys “boyish” sports, at heart Auria is quite feminine and decidedly heterosexual, so would be more suited to a female dragon.
Syllable Numbers for Name: no preference
Preferred Starting Letters for Name: no preference
Age: 17 turns
Gender: female
Preference: Males
Previous Position: Dancer in an entertainment caravan
Current Position: orphan and now sole guardian of her young nephew, Rannell
Appearance: Auria is about five feet, six inches tall, slender to the point of “skinny” but very wirey and surprisingly strong for her frame. This is due to her dancer’s training. Her hair is long and straight, a medium brown with golden-red highlights, and her eyes appear too large for her face, round in shape, and are a rich cocoa-brown with long reddish lashes. She has a heart-shaped face, little pointed chin, and a small nose that ends in a “button”, making her look much younger than she is. She is, or was, quick to smile, until the very recent past. Her skin is fair and she has a liberal sprinkling of freckles across her nose and cheeks. Most probably would refer to her as “cute” rather than “pretty”. She moves with a dancer’s grace.
Personality: By nature, Auria is fun-loving and light-hearted, but this has been stolen from her recently by Thread. The sparkle in her eyes has been replaced by the shadows of horror. She has a touch of mischief in her, and is just enough of a tomboy that she has always been known to ride, climb, run and swim as well as any of the boys in her clan. In fact, she always tended as a child to prefer playing with the boys than with the other girls, for they would look down on her as being “unladylike”.
History: Auria is – or was – the second child of four, three girls and the youngest a boy. The births were spread out a bit, with her two younger siblings quite a bit younger than herself, the brother being only five turns when Thread fell on Pern again. Her older sister, twenty three, had a child of her own, and Auria was in charge of watching her little nephew, age two turns, when tragedy struck. Her mother (Kantra) and sisters were all singers and dancers, like herself. Her father, Rand, had a magnificent tenor voice and was a skilled musician on many instruments. However, rather than training officially as harpers, the clan had come from a long tradition of travelers, and would stop at Gathers, and anywhere a group of people needed cheering, putting on plays and entertaining. Some would dance and sing, others would tell fortunes, others would run gaming booths.... Their caravan was, thus, out in the open the day the Thread returned.
Auria will never recover from the memory of screaming pain, the sickening sight and smell of her family and their dreybeasts being devoured. The monsterous thing even consumed their wagons.... She wanted to save them, she wanted to so badly ... but only she and the baby, slung on her back in his carry harness, made it to the water in time.
When the sweep rider found them, she was clinging tightly to little Rannell, promising him she would never leave him. The toddler had cried himself out and slept, exhausted, whimpering in his nightmare dreams, all the way to the Weyr.
He was all she had left in the world.
Position in Family: Second oldest of four.
Pets: None
Alignment: She will lean toward Loyal ... because the dragonriders have been proven right. Thread really has come back.
Relation to Existing Character: none
RP History: many years
Familiarity with Pern: very
How you found out about our site: existing member
Candidates Only Section:
Desired Dragon Colour: gold or green
Reason for this Preference: though she’s tough as nails and enjoys “boyish” sports, at heart Auria is quite feminine and decidedly heterosexual, so would be more suited to a female dragon.
Syllable Numbers for Name: no preference
Preferred Starting Letters for Name: no preference