Game: Benecio
Area: Benecio Weyr
Position: Weyrling
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Dragon: Amethyst Joreth
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Name: G'salt
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Pre-impression name: Gestalt
Position: Weyrling
Past Ranks: Holdbrat, Harper Apprentice, Candidate
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
Of average height, G'salt is about 5'7". His features are sharp and angular, and his body a little on the long side— long limbs and long fingers. His eyes look a touch too big for his face: large, gray and lamplike, with a long, slightly crooked nose to match. His lips are thin and expressive, even when he doesn't want them to be. His hair falls to his shoulders in thin waves, and no matter what he does with them, they look messy.
Personality
G'salt seems.. well, an odd choice for anything. He was an odd-choice for a harper, he's a stranger choice for a dragonrider, and he wasn't expected to get as far as either when he was first being taught in his childhood.
G'salt is withdrawn and has trouble connecting to people. He seems to operate on a slightly different level then the rest of humanity: he's very abstract, mentally, and will leap towards a set of connections faster then most people, or connect two things that people don't judge to be related. He'll do most of this silently, and it will translate on his face as a series of odd confused expressions.
He has some trouble communicating, not only due to his abstractness of thought, but due to his body language— he tends to slouch and wear his odd expressions on his face, which can deter people on their first impulse to approach. Despite this, if you can translate his eccentricities, he'll come out of his shell and actually shine quite brightly.
Possessing a sort of dyslexia, G'salt has a lot of trouble with written words and numbers. Their symbology seems rather obscure to him, and he has trouble making his mind bend in the appropriate ways to think about them. He takes longer reading then most people, and struggles slightly— his relationship with numbers is even further strained. It's not the language that's hard for him, though: indeed, verbally, he's as skilled as anyone, and perhaps ahead of the curve for his level as a harper apprentice. He speaks very well, which is only surprising if you know how much trouble he has with the writing/reading aspect of language. Similarly, visual arts is one of his skills— he enjoys painting and drawing, and any "notes" he takes are a series of chaotic doodles, which occasionally pertain and/or illustrate whatever he was taking notes about.
He's subdued and wary, partially an ingrained response to the frustration of his early teachers with him. He's especially wary of authority figures: he worries about disappointing them, and is typically given to expect their wrath. He has no real ambition, other to live happily and comfortably. The headwoman especially will terrify him, even if he's very friendly.
He tends to doodle on everything. He can't really help it— if there are utensils he can use to write with, anything around him will quickly be covered in odd little pictures and fun things. It's his most natural expression of himself. Similarly, he tends to give visual cues as to his mood without realizing it, especially relating to color. Colors have special meaning to him, so he'll dress according to his mood— a lot of blue for hope, red for sullenness, black for calm.. things like that. Though he can initially be quite distant, G'salt doesn't really stay that way when you get to know him— when he gets attached to something, he gets very attached to it.
History
On an immediate level, G'salt seems an odd choice for a harper anything, considering his issues with the written word. He was born to the hold, and was slow in his lessons: several teachers gave up on him entirely, thinking him doomed to be slow and stupid for the full entirety of his life. However, at the age of 7, a new journeyman was assigned to the hold, and he recognized something altogether different in the young Gestalt: the boy wasn't stupid, he learned differently. The harper recognized a little bit of himself in Gestalt, and with a little patience engaged the boy on his own terms: Lots of visual art and verbal stimulation, and a ton of slow patience and progression with written word and numbers.
It worked beautifully, not only at teaching Gestalt his basics, but in awakening in him a passion for the Harper arts. Against all expectations, he signed up for apprenticeship at the age of 11, going back with the journeyman at the end of his rotation.
His progression was slow, but steady. He, as always, had trouble with writing, which was a huge portion of harpering. However, the visual arts and the verbal arts were much more his forte: these he excelled at, and whenever the other things grew too frustrating, he submerged himself in these until his mind was sufficiently recovered to once again attempt wrapping itself around other things.
That all progressed in relative normalcy until shortly after his 19th turnday. Search ran to the hall, on it's ordinary circuit, and though he'd been passed by in the past, this time he went down and stood amongst the hopefuls. It was his luck that day, he was chosen with a handful of other harper candidates, and taken to the weyr. When the day of the hatching rolled around, it was further his luck: He was not passed by, as many had thought he would be, but instead chosen by Joreth- his wonderful, lovely Joreth.
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| Name | Relation | Location | Position | Dragon | PC/NPC/Adoptable? |
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Dragon
Joreth
Amethyst M Dragon
Joreth looks like he's had a bit of a nasty tumble, with all of his dark markings. His hide is uniformly a creamy plum shade, broken only by the darker patches of deep purple, in spots along his sides. That color also dominates his right back leg, fading in along the thigh and reaching it's darkest point at his ankles, before fading away abruptly to leave his toes a creamy purple. He's long and streamlined, and small even for his color— he'll be lucky to reach 25'.
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