Name: Rowan
Age: 12
Sex: Male
Sexual Orientation: Not sure yet
Craft: Mining (wherhandling)
Rank: Weyrbrat / Apprentice
Location: Western
Physical Description: Rowan is small for his age, often giving the appearancce of being younger. He has the same fair hair as his sister and soft features, and the same ice-blue eyes as the rest of his family. His hair is medium length, slightly curly, with a ruffled look.
Personality: He doesn't like to be babied, which is a shame, because he's got two older siblings who err on the side of over-protective. He can't really fault them for feeling like that, since their parents died when he was still very young, the two of them had basically raised him. He's extremely close to his two siblings, never feeling like he was left out despite their being twins, so he'll begrudgingly put up with it, if it's them. And he's never afraid to tell them when it's going too far. With other people, he's more likely to get annoyed, wishing things wouldn't always be about what he can't do. Unfortunately, Rowan can be reckless in his quest for independence, taking on things that he really shouldn't. And he often needs his siblings' protection more than he'd like to admit.
A little bit neurotic and a little bit OCD, Rowan is easy to frustrate: just move his stuff around his workshop. Rowan is studious in his work, sometimes getting so absorbed in it that he loses track of everything else. Introverted, although not particularly shy, Rowan may have trouble making friends. In fact, 'friends' doesn't even enter into his vocabulary. There's just people he knows and people he doesn't know, and of he ones he knows there are some he likes more than the others. Few have ever really reached his inner circle, besides his brother and sister really, not even his uncle, but of those that do, he is extremely close, even clingy, despite his independent tendencies. He isn't scared of showing emotion. He honestly doesn't care what all but a few select people think of him. He has a blunt honesty, edging on rude. If asked, he'll always tell you exactly what he's thinking. The truth is just more efficient. With no facial cues to go by, he finds it annoying when people cloak what they mean in niceties or intimation.
Rowan has a determination to achieve things, no matter what. He's a realist. He knows there's some things he can't do. But of the things he can, he pursues them relentlessly. He's a kid with a lot of heart, whose blunt and sometimes callousness is really just a way to shield his (perhaps naive) hopefulness.
Positive Trait List Persevering, Hopeful, Loving
Negative Trait List Blunt, Independent, Particular
History: When Rowan was five, a fever swept through their small Hold. Many were killed, including both of his parents, and most of those that survived were robbed of their sight. Rowan was no exception. Before he had even seen five full turns, his sight was snuffed out forever, leaving only murky shadows behind. Yet despite his apparent misfortune, in many ways Rowan was lucky. He was lucky to have lived, a young child, when so many in the prime of their life did not. He was lucky that his sister was a beastcrafter and was could help him train a flitt to guide him around and do basic tasks for him. He was lucky to have two siblings, and an uncle, who loved him.
Growing up in a Weyr was certainly a better life than they could've had elsewhere. Still he felt different and isolated from other children, preferring to keep to himself or his siblings, and struggling to make friends. With the kinds of crafts he could do, and the masters willing to take him, somewhat limited, his uncle asked his friend if he would take him on as an apprentice. The man was a miner and wherhandler, who worked in the Weyr to excavate and repair tunnels, new rooms, and weyrs. Despite not being given many options, Rowan actually liked the craft quite a lot. Among miners who were used to working in the dark, he was at less of a disadvantage, and he enjoyed helping to look after the whers.
While his siblings go on to impress dragons, Rowan hopes to one day impress a wher of his own.
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