Game: Blood of the Dragons
Area: Telgar
Position: Candidate
On-Site Profile: Profile
Dragon:
Flits: Green Antigone
Local Species:
Pets: Canine F Fiora
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Name: Deoxys
Nickname: Deo
Position: Candidate
Past Ranks: Herdcraft apprentice
Gender: Male
Sexuality*: Pan
- Note that all sexualities are fluid or basically pansexual, due to ness's own sexual mindset. All characters are at base pansexual; they could go for anyone based on personality over gender. Some of them may lean, and have a gender preference. Some may be more bisexual. Bigenders, transgenders, and other genders may not be an issue on pern, so that aspect may not be an issue. Point: Personality over sexuality, which is why they will be listed as Pansexual with a potential lean.
Looks
Deoxys is long in the habit of wearing bulky clothes, so whenever he's seen in them, it's hard to tell what shape he is beneath them. When he takes them off, it's slightly surprising. A round face, with almond-shaped blue eyes, and long features stare out at the world, expression usually blank. His skin is pale, and his form is quite lanky: there's very little fat on him, which may explain his fondness for the warmth of bulky clothes. His hair is black, and goes about to his ears. It's flat and strait, though the edges of it are shaggy, as if he trims it only as an afterthought, with a beltknife.
Personality
Deoxys is much more comfortable with himself then he is with other people. He's always been that way: he was a shy, nervous child, and has grown into a shy, wary adult. This may explain why he immediately jumped into a life where he could exist on his own, with his dogs, surviving by his wits.
He's a little bit skittish, especially in new situations and around new people. He doesn't stutter, but he also doesn't trust easily, and he tends to avoid being touched: putting juuuust a little more distance between himself and strangers at the dinner table then is strictly normal, for instance. It's not out of an assumption that people mean him harm, or anything: just a natural wariness that makes him keep the world at arm's length.
He'll come around, however. Unlike his cousin, Nyxis, he is not misanthropic, and actually likes people.. just, generally conceptually. He'll take awhile to get comfortable, but when he does, he's quite pleasant to be around. He'll never be completely at ease or laid-back, and he's not given to much outwards affect, but he'll be good conversation, and he'll smile and be sociable. More importantly, he'll be a close, close friend, especially to specific people who win him over: He's loyal almost to a fault, and will go to the ends of the earth for people he cares about— sometimes literally, if his dog team were capable of it. He's very sweet, and means well: even if he weren't' comfortable with someone, he wouldn't want to cause them any kind of harm or unhappiness.
Needless to say, he loves animals: that much was bred into him, and it bred true. He's especially fond with and good with dogs. It's here that his patience comes out, though he can apply it to people, too- if he's dealing with a scared dog, or a dog that won't come around, he won't get frustrated or force the issue. He'll sit down and wait for the dog to get comfortable in his presence and approach him. He'll readily admit that dogs make a lot more sense to him than people do, and he communicates more easily through body language then words.
He's also very dedicated and driven; you kind of have to be, to spend most of a 6-9month winter out of your house and going to place to place, with a handful of dogs at your disposal.
Though it's more of a learned skill than an inherent personality trait, Deoxys is a survivor, complete with the skill set. He knows how to hunt, and butcher his kills. He's quite skilled with a bow and arrow, and usually goes after big-game. He knows how to tell the weather, he knows how to gather food, he knows what's poisonous and what isn't. He can track, too, though his skills for this are more short-term and game oriented then following people. He knows how to make camp, set fires, find shelter, keep warm, keep off hypothermia, treat minor medical ailments that happen on the trail— all of that. This also shows his inherent strength: he's a strong person, emotionally as well as physically.
History
Deoxys comes from a long line of herders, and is, in fact, related to candidate Nyxis: they are cousins. Their climates of origins, however, are great opposites: Nyxis comes from family in the deserts of Igen, whereas Deoxys's family lives up in the northern section of high reaches, where winter is the status quo.
This would explain the particular specialty of his family there. Though they work with all canines, their special-specialty is dogsledding. There are more efficient ways of travel, of course, but when high-reaches mountains are full of snow and you can't find a dragon, the dogs make a convenient way of getting from place to place, and carrying messages. In this way, his family also act as package-delivery and runners, though they take stints at it. Some only breed and care for the dogs, others do a few runs a winter, and some- like him- were out constantly, making runs and surviving on his wits and the wits of his dogs.
He grew up taking care of the dogs, and his apprenticeship with the other herders in the area was slightly abbreviated: he jumped directly into his specialty, and was paying for it with a slightly longer general-apprenticeship. He started learning to dog sled at 10, and was actively making runs at 13- by 15, he was spending most of the long winters running sled teams, though he'd take a month a season cumulatively to stay and work on his general herdership.
Running messages was actually how he was searched. He had an especially long run to Crom hold in the dead of winter, and once he'd reached the hold, he afforded himself and his dogs a long rest-period, to recover their strength. In that lay-over, a dragonrider on a green visited the hold, and he happened to be out in the bowl, playing with his pack (14 strong, so no small feat) while the dragon was waiting for her rider to come back.
When the rider did come back, he informed Deoxys that his dragon— from Telgar— had thought him a perfect candidate for a clutch at the weyr, and would he consent to being searched.
The decision was hard for him: on one hand, who hadn't dreamed about riding a dragon and defending pern that way? Deoxys certainly had, from a young age. On the other.. he had fourteen dogs before him, and he was growing increasingly fond of his lifestyle, wherein he spent his winters doing runs of various length to all sorts of places, and surviving by himself and his dogs. It was a level of independence he didn't want to give up, and he'd certainly have to give up his team if he went to the weyr. He told the rider he needed to go home, first, and that it would take a long time to get there with his dogs.
The rider offered him something better: to give them all a lift. The dogs weren't quite as thrilled with this: they had to be loaded onto crates and then onto the dragon's harness— but it was only a short trip, when all of them had been added, and they were back at High Reaches.
Deoxys attended to his dogs, and all the while thought about it. His family backed him up, too, pointing out that a dragon was a once-in-a-lifetime chance, and few people from his line were rarely searched— they just never even got the chance to be around at the right time. With these arguments, Deoxys consented— but on the condition that he could bring one of his lead dogs with him.
At the weyr, he went through candidacy— he was one of the later candidates, and thus it was abbreviated. Unfortunately, he was left standing on the sands, but the searchrider had deliberately sought him out with his dragon afterwards; they still had a lot of potential, and there would be another clutch soon. Just one more attempt; it would certainly be worth it, the searchrider said.
Deoxys consented to that too, and that is where he begins.
Family
| Name | Relation | Location | Position | Dragon | PC/NPC/Adoptable? |
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| x | x | x | x | x | x |
Dragon/Wher
Firelizards
Antigone
Green F Firelizard
Pets
Fiora
Red Canine F
This is one of Deoxys's lead dogs, and though he insists vehemently he had no favorites, she might've been an exception to the rule. She's a touch small for what people imagine to be a sled-dog, with a mutt sort of appearance: none of his dogs were of THE quintessential breed of sled dog common on pern, since those dogs were bred more for strength then insurance. She's all muscle, though, underneath a shaggy double-coat. A creamy white is her base-tone, though rusty reds look to be conquering her back and creeping down her face, staining the top of her muzzle and moving down around her cheeks, claiming every part of her face above them as red also. The red's down her back, occasionally clouded and pale with some white hairs, and down the front of her legs, but it doesn't touch her underbelly. Markings of a lighter reddish cream make their appearance too, mostly in patches accenting the red: bordering it along her back, for instance, and across her left cheek and eye. The cream is also on her paws and her ears, one of which stands strait, the other of which flops cutely. Her tail is curled, though it wags frequently, and her heterochromatic eyes: the left blue, the right brown: look as mischievous as the dog-grin she usually wears. She sheds everywhere, and needs frequent brushing.
Fiora is an intelligent dog. It's why she excelled as a leader. As such, she needs stimulation, or she gets bored— and boy, does she get destructive when she's bored. She also needs tons of energy, and Deoxys can frequently be seen exercising her in the weyrbowl. He even has a small little wagon he hitches her to, sometimes, when she really needs to be worn out. She's clever and cunning, and is always devising new ways to get around obstacles— especially when those obstacles are between her and stealing food. She's also incredibly affectionate: well-socialized, she'll walk up to anyone and let them give her a thorough petting: just be careful, because you'll inevitably get covered in dog hair if you do that. She loves playing with just about anyone, and will play-bow and dance around people when she feels so inclined.
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