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Name: Wen
(meaning born in winter.)
Band: Mudvayne (I usually pick a song for each character. Wen managed to get himself a genre... heavy metal )
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Asexual? (Truthfully he is Homosexual, he just lives in a barracks surrounded by men he thinks as his uncles. Not the easiest dating atmosphere ever.)
Craft/Rank: junior ranked guard/runner apprentice
History:Wen is the sole child of his father; his mother died in childbirth trying to bring into the world his sister. He doesn't remember her well or the event. He knows he takes after her in height and built instead of his father. His father has always been a part of the guard at Atlini Hold. Wen when younger was mostly raised by his father's elder sister till he could keep up. By the time he was eight he was running small earns for the other guards and ended up unofficially in their ranks by the time he was twelve. Wen mostly ran errands, tailed guards going on routine safe calls, and training with new recruits. He officially became an apprentice guard at fifteen. For the last year and a half, Wen has been traveling back and forth to Trine Weyr to bring important missives from Atlini and during his last was chosen as a candidate to stand for the current clutch.
Wen is between excitement and unease about being in Trine with the current predicament. He supports the Weyr, but being in a strange area and surrounded by civilians let alone being unarmed on the sands makes him uncomfortable.
Description: The first thing people notice about Wen is he is so short, at 5'1'' he is dwarf by even women. The second thing has to be his long white blond hair. He keeps it in a tight braid during work and often shoves it under his issue hat. Wen may be physically short but he isn't squat; Wen is leggy and slim, with a trim waist and narrow shoulders. His skin is soft copper, warm burnish brown. His eyes are heavy lidded and grayish blue. He has full lips with a very slight pout.
Scars: Wen has a few scars from work... he has some thin raised slashes from a knife fight down the inside of his left arm. He also has a nasty wide rough road rash like scar from hip up his ribs and down his leg from a fall from a runner onto some very rocky ground.
Personality: Shards! Boy, where did you come from? Wen is inconspicuous, unobtrusive little thing. He is quiet, relaxed, and waits often just out of sight for his superiors to finish and often startles the crap out of them. He tends to be soft spoken and tends to get lost among his more boisterous age mates.
Mischievous, he enjoys being a sneaky little thing and startling the crap out of people. He also tends to play mostly non harmful pranks, such as tilting his head quizzically and asking 'Weren't you suppose to be on the night shift with so and so today?" The new recruits get a bit irritable on being prank; the older guards find it amusing. Wen is teaching the new recruits a lesson of know your shifts and patrols. He also a bit of a reminder if a shift ended up changed due to illness.
Diligent, Wen gets his work done. Perhaps a little latter then his much more muscle bound brethren but it is well done, with an attention to fine details and accuracy. Wen is going to focus so his work only needs to be done once.
Calm, Wen is short. It doesn't bother him that he is short. It puts him at a rather good advantage when in a fight because he can box someone's kidneys. He doesn't rouse to anger easily, and tends to get more amused than frustrate when handling drunks and other problems.
Why didn't you call in kid? Wen has trouble admitting he needs a break, or is sick, or any number of things because he should be able to keep to the schedule. He has shown up to work, red with fever and nearly hallucinating. He has taken other shifts till he has no free time and then his captain has to come in and fix it. Take a break, shard it all. You are not use to me dead from exhaustion, kid.
Distant, Wen comes across as guarded and cold. He isn't very talkative outside of work, and when he is it tends to be more teasing and amused at someone else's expense. He tends to keep to what needs to be said when on the job. Yammering and gossip is not very professional and he is really just not that interest in his co-workers life outside the job.
Wen does have a few friends at work, they are all older veterans and while not much is discussed, they have a quiet companionship thing going on. He not overly picky who he works with, but he is rather picky about who he is friends with.
Pressure, Wen is very good at handling pressure. He just not good at knowing his limits. Injuries, Wen first response to an injury depends on the damage. With his leg, he looked at it, said ow, pushed a cloth against it and managed to get on his runner and back to the hold. Where he then threw up and went sort of numb. With his arm, he sort of poked it, noticed that it really needed stitches, clapped his hand around it and sort of walked to the healer and demanded he fix it.
Other: He rides a variety of runner beasts in his job; he also knows how to care for them. He is skilled in archery, knife fighting, and hand to hand defense. His small size makes him unable to excel in offense and larger weaponry.
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Wen by Ryu 3
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