Character Name: Galeia
Created: August 10, 2010
Age: 19 (18 at creation, updated 6/28/11)
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Rank: Apprentice harper and Candidate
Family:Mother: Lower caverns woman
Father: Brownrider
History: Galeia was born in the lower caverns of Benden Weyr, the daughter of some brownrider’s tryst with a healer. She knew both parents, but their relationships were distant. She might eat with her father when she saw him, and her mother might buy her a hair bow once in a while, but usually she had as little interest in her parents as they had in her. Galeia was raised like most weyrbrats – with a kind but no-nonsense fostermother and many playmates like herself. She grew into an observant, quick-witted adolescent, and learned to enjoy the company of the teaching Harper more than her fellows. It wasn’t long before she garnered a love for music as well and set her ind to getting an instrument so the Harper could teach her to play. For the first time, she sought out her father begged one thing in place of the parenting he never gave. Whether out of guilt or simply to get the girl out of his hair, the brownrider bought her a guitar, and she took to learning it with gusto. When puberty reached her, a teenager’s spite soon followed and she began resenting her mother for giving her up so to a foster mother. Unlike her father, the woman didn’t even have a dragon as an excuse. Life went on, but when she became old enough to Stand... she didn't, choosing to focus on her craft instead and put off dragons. In her mind, it was better to pause her studies when she was older and a turn or two of delay wouldn't put her as far behind. She began Standing at seventeen, and practiced her instrument and singing diligently in her free time. Her Candidacy has delayed her learning record keeping and other vital skills, but her musical signature and skill with her instrument has matured. Perhaps because she finds her work soothing, or else because she rarely sees her parents anymore, she’s begun to lay her resentment for her mother to rest after many pronged turns of antagonism. While she thinks the woman is silly and stupid as a wherry, she’d giving hate to rest for a tired sort of lenience
Physical: Galeia inherited much of her father’s looks. Tight curls make a black froth of her hair, and she possesses high cheek bones, arched brows, and a small curved mouth. Her delicately boned frame would make her look elfin were it not coupled with her long, lanky frame, flat chest, and supple muscles. Instead, she seems more feline and prowling. Her eyes are large and dark but kept inexpressively blank. Very rarely does emotion seem to reach her eyes, and she would have an alien sort of beauty if she learned to keep her scowls and sickly grins to herself – or at least make them less unattractive. While she also garnered fashion sense from her mother, she does not often implement it, instead choosing simple clothes that don’t bind or restrict movement. In Benden’s colder climes, her distaste for excessive cloth often leaves her chilled, but she seems to prefer cold to discomfort, as if the two didn’t overlap.
Personality: A girl apart, a girl judging, a girl scheming, a girl loving but reserved. Galeia is a weyrbrat that lives in Benden’s lower caverns like a self-proclaimed, half-fledged oracle. She is usually withdrawn from her peers to practice her instrument, but she is interested in people. She likes watching them, listening to them, hearing out their complaints and fears and hopes, and playing advisor to anyone she is senior to in rank or years. Why? Because Galeia is a girl of indescribably strong will and confidence, and she is, of course, more mature and sensible than most people. She’s absorbed her foster mother’s no-nonsense attitude and is accustomed to looking after younger children, to the point that she assumes most people less mature than herself until they prove themselves equal.
She might never find someone ‘superior’ though. She is too full of her own over-confident opinions for that. She does respect rank though – as long as it makes those who have it easier to handle, but she doesn’t really ‘listen’ to the advice of others, as she prefers doling it out. Her ego is such that if you were to ask her, she would say she hasn’t Impressed because she does very well on her own and does not need a dragon. If one comes to her, it will either be equally self-sufficient or need her. The advantage is that she’s not very bothered over her lack of Impression (having a trade that she loves waiting doesn’t hurt), but when she does voice her haughty opinions, she can rub people the wrong way.
She has a great love for those trod upon and abused, and is quick to really to the defense of underdeogs. Either by advising them to strength or helping in their battles, she takes true comfort in helping others in need. Still, her ego keeps her from sharing the weight of her own troubles. One day, the burden might catch up with her.
RP Opportunities:~~~ Galeia can always be counted on for sound advice. She does not, however, have the patience to put up with endless sob stories from those who don't listen to her.
~~~ Having musical inclination, Galeia is always ready to preform. She owns a guitar and a few cheaper instrument, and has a very clear, soprano voice that best caries longing emotion, but she enjoys rowdier ditties as well.
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