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Name: Vimeran
Age: 20
Nameday: 3556.05.25
Sex: Male
Sexual Orientation: ...eh
Craft: N/A
Rank: Candidate
Location: High Reaches
Physical Description: Vimeran is a lean young man with a hard look in his brown eyes. He looks a bit older than his Turns suggest, a creased brow and a slight grimace an almost constant on his face. His brown hair is cut short out of first necessity, then habit, and there always seems to be a bit of a scruff on his face. Never a full beard, mind you, just enough to prickle should you get close enough to touch. His nose is a bit crooked from being broken when he was young. Though he has good posture he's not especially tall, topping out around 5'10 on a good day. His clothes are worn but well looked after, testament to his previous living situation where you had to make things last.
Personality: Vimeran has seen too much bad to not be cynical. All he knew growing up was the greed and self-importance of other people and it is hard for him to see past the veil that's been drawn over his eyes. He thinks everyone is capable of committing a crime and is of the firm belief that most people have at one point or another. He certainly has, so what makes that random lady over there any better? Vimeran has an equal dislike for just about everyone, with very few exceptions. Those exceptions, however, he is fiercely protective over. It takes a while to earn his trust and love, but once you do he's in your corner for life. Vimeran's small group of people he actually cares for is very dear to him and he would do anything to keep those people from harm of any kind, hence why he's become so focused and determined to succeed as a dragon rider now that Thread has returned. Its his way of keeping those he loves safe.
Vimeran has an incredibly strong sense of justice and he isn't afraid to let it show. He has no time for those in positions of power that abuse their station in life and he has a soft spot for those who grew up like he did, poor and trying to make things work. He knows there are those that live in the dregs of society that are just as bad as the ones at the top of the food chain that use their power for ill, but in his mind authority figures are the main perpetrators. He does not stand for injustice of any kind no matter where it comes from and he will always stand up for the underdog, the abused, and the persecuted even if he doesn't particularly care for them. Part of that is what made him want to be a guard in the first place, to protect those who couldn't protect themselves and to ensure the other guards didn't step out of line.
Vimeran has a rather fiery temper which turns on with little to no warning. There is no building rage, there are no warning signs. If someone says or does something that makes him mad, that person will know very quickly. Vimeran will often let his anger get the best of him initially, but his own obsession with accountability will grab him by the collar and give him a shake. Since he was little he was constantly aware of the fact that he could do good, or he could do bad. He did bad for so long in his young life it became a habit, but once he was aware that there were options he's striven to do the right thing. Vimeran's anger is hot and fierce but he usually gets it under control before he does anything irreversible, always holding himself to his internal promise of doing good.
When all is said and done, Vimeran will stick to his beliefs above all else. He has a strong sense of morals that he follows and he will not go against them if he can help it. He knows it will be hard at times, but he has to constantly prove to himself that he can do it. The one thing that slips past his firm resolve and morals are his addictive habits. When he was younger it was stealing. It gave him a rush of adrenaline and he was addicted to that sensation. Now Vimeran helps dull his cynical world views with alcohol, finding that while drunk his mind isn't quite as busy and he's not as wont to worry about doing the right or wrong thing. He's usually more concerned with finding his cot to crash on.
Positive Trait List Protective, just, accountable, unshakable
Negative Trait List Cynical, irascible, anti-authority, addictive
History: Vimeran was born to a single, poor mother in Bitra and had to grow up quickly. He learned to be street smart from a young age and he grew up watching the different types of people that found their way to the corrupt Hold for one reason or another. Vimeran didn't like what he saw, people stealing and swindling others out of their money, their clothes, their lives, all with a grin and a pat on the back. Other things went on in Bitra that he saw that slowly shaped him as he grew, painting a very unfortunate picture of humanity to the young boy. Once he was old enough he began to run with a young gang of boys, learning tricks of the trade from the elder kids while trying not to have his meager belongings nicked off him by them. The only person in the world he trusted was his mother and each day only proved to him that humans were awful.
He was about twelve Turns when he began to realize he didn't have to steal. Everyone else was doing it, yeah, but he knew that wasn't right. People came here to have a good time - and lots of people did - yet so many people left here broken and lost. Some people never left, they just ended up circling the drain, the humanity and life slowly draining from them. Vimeran didn't like picking pockets and lying to drunks...what was stopping him from stopping?
Vimeran turned a very strange corner then. He stopped hanging out with the gang he'd been running with for so long, started trying to do good in his Hold, attempting to prove to himself that just because he could do bad things didn't mean he would. It was a challenge every day: he used to come home with Marks to give to his mother, but now he was lucky if he found something in the gutters. He knew he had to get some sort of job if he wanted income which was what turned him in the direction of the guard. To say that Bitra had a guard at all was laughable, but there were a few stationed there in the richer sections to keep little scamps like Vimeran had once been away from the wealthy tourists.
It was when he was searching for one of these guards to inquire about being trained to join their ranks that Vimeran was greeted by woman clad in riding leathers, a green dragon stationed not far from where she stood. A short conversation had Vimeran heading home to pack his few belongings and promise his mother he'd write from High Reaches where he was being taken to be a Candidate. To say his mother was proud was an understatement and as Vimeran boarded the dragon with her rider, he felt a little flicker of hope within him. Perhaps he was doing the right thing.
High Reaches, it turned out, was a blessing and a curse. There were so many rules to follow, so many things Vimeran didn't agree with, so many dragons and people and it was all quite overwhelming for the young man. He pushed back against his mentors and suffered for it, stuck in remedial lessons and doing extra chores and even sitting down with the Candidatemaster a time or two to talk things over and remind him that he didn't have to be here, and should he rock the boat too much they would send him back to Bitra. What kept him in the Candidate program was his own sheer willpower to prove that he could do this. He could become a dragon rider. Vimeran was constantly at war with himself, knowing he could do the bad thing, take the easy way out, quit before he even really started...but he didn't. That dragon had seen something in him, thought that he was worthy of having a dragon of his own, and Vimeran had to see if it was true.
Thread returned a year into his Candidacy and things got more intense. Vimeran thrived under the pressure even if he hated it, doing much better in his classes and training now that he had a goal. His mother was out there and needed protecting and, though he didn't feel a sense of duty to the whole planet, Pern did need saving too. If he could keep this up until a dragon picked him Vimeran might finally prove to himself that he wasn't his childhood, that he could be good enough for a dragon to pick him. And if not...well. The training here was tough. He could probably go back to Bitra and join up as a guard much easier. At least he had options.
Other: While Vimeran is anti-authority he's not going to rock the boat in that regard here. It's more for the corrupt Holders and such. There might be some colorist riders that curl his lip but he's not looking to overthrow the Weyr. All things considered, he's pretty happy with how things are run.
Candidate Specific Questions
Do you want them to have an official Search RP? No
Do you understand they will age every passing year regardless if you're there to RP the or not? Yes
Do you want them to have a possible Stands Impression? No
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