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What is needed of a wingsecond: All the normal duties, plus the ability to put up with the wingleader meddling in their lives, and the ability to mitigate the meddling of P'kav in the wingrider's lives.

The Wing Leader:

Extended!

Name: Tsuyat
Age: 29
Sex: Male
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Weyr: Western Weyr
Rider Rank: Wing Rider(currently)
Previous Rank/Craft: Apprentice Massage Crafter
Physical Description: Standing just above average for a man, Tsuyat has dark features and hair that is usually at odds with his strong boned face. Black hair shoots out of his head in angles that can only be contained by clipping it short to his head as it is super thick and unruly. The tan he has comes from days spent in the sun and only serves to deepen the dark features he was born into naturally. Strength shows in his arms, shoulders and chest from years working in Western Hold as a massage crafter. Though he has been spending the past few years as a rider the soft nature of his hands haven't turned to rough callouses yet, though he has been assured that over time this will change.
Personality: To give things is part of Tsuyat's nature, he wants to help he wants to give people things and time, it's just natural to him. If he has something that someone wants he's prone to just giving it to them without a second thought, something that meshes up with his blunt nature rather well since he'll often tell people things witout a second thought too. Anyone that wants to recieve something from him need only ask and he'll give others anything from his jacket to a massage on the fly to ease sore muscles from a day spent fighting Thread. All that time working as an apprentice gave him a long sort of patience that fits well with the other traits in his nature not the least of which is his kindness.

If his giving nature didn't give away his kindness then his desire to help others with everything gives it away pretty well. He'll spend time talking to his fellow wingriders if they're having a hard time and go above and beyond to see that they're content. No one need be sad around him if he can help it, though he might step on their toes if they ask for his opinions without expecting his blunt responses. It comes without much surprise that it's exacerbated with alcohol and he even becomes a bit coarse if spoken to roughly, belaying all of his kind words and helping natures until he wakes the next morning with a pounding headache. As sucn he rarely drinks any longer, be it at a party or a feast, his dragon is not happy with it when it happens anyway.

If pushed roughly he can shut down and become rather passive, willing to let others walk across him in the interest of keeping everyone happy, he isn't agressive by any means but he can be crafty and twisted when someone angers him. If he's come up with punishments that were a bit more creative it's only because he doesn't want to see anyone screamed at for hours and he'll twist it up so that they learn something even if they aren't enjoying it. What's the point of a punishment if someone doesn't learn something after all?
Positive Trait List Giving, Kind, Patient, Helpful
Negative Trait List Blunt, Crafty, Passive, Coarse when Drunk
History: Western Hold was a good place to grow into one's self compared to some of the other Holds on the wild Western continent so far from the traditionally poplulated areas of Pern. Tsuyat's father was a dragon rider and his mother a local healer that took the man in after a bad crash he suffered during a flight show with a traveling troupe. The rider had never intended to stay very long after the accident but the woman's kind nature and gentle hands convinced him to sweep her off her feet and the two still inhabit the area even after Thread began to fall. Growing up alongside his gentle mother and showman father with his playful blue dragon, there was little hope that the boy would be anything other than interesting and he chose his path quite early in life though he was a bit too young to follow it then. He stayed with his mother and learned techniques that would later serve him well in the Courtesan Hall with his chosen craft, but if his father had a free moment he would take him up in the air on the back of his blue dragon to see Pern from above. Only after his wife forced him to promise he would not risk their safety, of course.

And so it was that Tsuyat joined the Courtesan Hall when he was ten, wanting full well to use the techniques that his mother taught him but in a way to bring people happiness and relief that didn't involve him constantly stitching up cuts or seeing much blood. He did well in the Hall and advanced at a fair pace through the training thanks to the strength in his hands and arms and his willingness to learn in order to help people. That desire alone helped him in the eyes of his masters and it was a shock to them when he was Searched out from under their nose by a blue that resembled his father's quite strikingly. There was never a chance that he woudn't say yes after all the flights he went on, there was never a chance that he wouldn't use the things that he'd learned either and he quickly made a name for himself as the boy willing to spend his free time giving out massages for free just to keep his skills sharp. Learning in a Weyr was quite different than a Hall where he learned his craft almost exclusively, it was a challenge to know that his focus would be torn between so many things but he managed to keep his head above water and out of danger of failing for the first two years.

It turned out that was all he had to do, keep his head above water for two years until he met his perfect match on the Sands. Having not been expecting it as the rest of those around him, it hit Tsuyat as odd that all these Candidates around him that had stood for so long were left waiting on the next clutch while he walked away with his wonderful partner in crime only two years into it. But he couldn't argue with the bronze dragon's choice, he wouldn't have been allowed to even if he wished it! Where Tsuyat was hoping for a blue to return home with that might be able to join his father in his acrobatic displays that thrilled much of his home Hold, Yudueth demanded his attention and offered his love and gentle sweetness to his newly bonded lifemate to make up for any boistrous ideas that he might have intended to run off and employ. In fact the boistrous thoughts left his mind instantly and Yudueth brought out in him the general kindness and quiet hard working nature that his mother had instilled in him for years when he watched her work. He came to settle comfortably into the Weyr life and the wing he was placed into but he aspired a bit to something more.

Tsuyat got his wish for more when Thread returned and he was thoroughly surprised by how skilled his dragon was at burning it from the sky, even if the two of them scrambled to respond with the rest of their wing. Between his wingleader's quick-witted calls and Yudueth's swift flying they didn't lose anyone but there were scars and wounds to be had everywhere, even his dragon's tail was scarred up a bit. Many shifts the first few days wore them out but served to galvanize this new reality as the Pern that they were to live in for what would likely be the rest of their lives as finally members of their own wing were lost. He hated it. Tsuyat wanted nothing more than to be able to help the riders that he could, he spent his free time when he should have been sleeping with his dragon giving out massages to sore and run down riders so they could get back into the air. He sacrificed his own time for theirs and wanted to do even more, keeping his eyes open for a chance to do just that by advancing through the wings.
Other: Sometimes people need to tell him when he's giving too much of himself and his time to others and that he should focus on himself before he burns out.

DRAGON
Name: Yudueth
Age: 13
Color: Bronze
Size: 36'
Physical Description: Prone to being a little thin for his size this bronze is still strong despite that but if he isn't fed steadily on a schedule he can get far too thin for his frame and loses his stamina. When in peak condition, as is common as Tsuyat will force him to eat after he got too thin twice, Yudueth is formed well with strength in his torso and tail to keep him in the air for quite some time and help his acrobatic flairs. He has a few Threadscore scars over his tail from the first few days fighting it and miraculously avoided having any worse damage done with his skin by sheer force of skill while flying.
Personality: Yudueth is a kind and gentle dragon that cares about others almost as much as his rider, though he tends to view the world in a much more pessimistic vew than Tsuyat. The world is harsh but the bronze tries very hard to twist his own pessimistic thoughts into a soft kindness that he gives to others to show them how he cares. The softness aside, he does not at all take kindly to riders or dragons that look down on chromatics as if they weren't worth just as much as himself or any gold and he is more than willing to share his rather liberal opinions with any that cross him. It was his luck that he Impressed to his rider at Western rather than High Reaches because he might have upset the status quo and ended himself in a world of hurt with such views against his own metallics.
Yudueth's personal taste leans more towards green dragons than the glittering gold queens even if he'll chase the larger beauties and has on more than one occasion been guilty of making a show for them. Despite being smaller than most bronze dragons his body is lithe and acrobatic, leading him to take every opportunity to show off his flying prowess. This makes him more than a match for the slight green dragons during a flight, though Tsuyat usually holds him back with explicit instructions to not show off the way he likes. Yudueth still shows off to anyone that will watch, his eyes always open for a chance encounter.
Dragon Art or Proof of Obtainment: CC

Name: Lhuzana
Age: 42
Sex: Female
Sexual Orientation: Aromantic Bisexual
Weyr: Western Weyr
Rider Rank: -- hoping for a search and rescue type of job for them. Sweeprider?
Previous Rank/Craft: Jny Harper, Maps and exploration, HarperHall spy
Physical Description:
Overall, she is not a remarkable-looking person.

In in size, she is only on the tall side of medium with a slender, wiry frame and broad shoulders, as well as a straight back. She has the confident air of someone much larger than herself. She does not throw her weight around, nor does she shrink back from conflict, real or implied. Her bearing and good posture could have come from noble breeding just as easily as intellectual studies.

With ash-blond hair, which features almost silver highlights, her greying temples and intermittent streaks are not readily noticeable. She keeps it long and it falls into natural curls; it could be wavy if she styled it or wild with ringlets if she did not.

Regarding her beauty, she has regular features that are merely pleasant to look at and even easily forgettable. She has no abnormal or striking features. Her body is tanned all over, including her face, but her skin has taken a only a moderate amount of weathering over the Turns. As a result of this and the fact that she rarely frowns or smiles, she has a minimum of wrinkles except around her eyes. She will likely age gracefully. As such, she could be any age between twenty-five and fifty. She can disappear into a crowd because she could be anybody. That is exactly the kind of person HarperHall likes to employ as a spy!

Clothing has typically not been an indulgence she could afford. That is to say, her life has been more or less nomadic, and over the Turns has on several occasions had to leave with little more than the clothes on her back. Regarding personal possessions as something she needs like she needs a dramatic romance, nevertheless she does enjoy dressing up for a Gather on the HarperHall's token, and since moving to the Weyr has enjoyed that permanence that would allow her to keep her own laying around. Or in a sturdy armoire acquired with her own hard-earned token.

Personality:
A cold fish on the outside, she is very hard to get to know. Though she relies on emotion as little as possible, she is just as easily caught up in them as anyone else. She just tries her utmost to set them aside for "more important" motives.

In her down time, she does not connect with people very easily. She rarely seeks or nurtures relationships. For those she cares deeply for, she may even show a barely restrained passionate side. However, because it is difficult to control and because she has been harmed in the past, she prefers passion that lasts for a night. Her work has always had her quickly moving from place to place, a status that further supported her availability status. She hates feeling awkward and unsure of herself, so now that she is stationed at Western Weyr, she does not know any other way to proceed with real relationships. Perhaps she will not need to bother with it still, or so she hopes.

At work she prefers to do things by the book-- because those rules work! As a result though, she can be rather rigid in practice. However, she tries to be practical and therefore does not waste resources on a doofy plan. And even if logic dictated a course of action or strategy, if new information arises, she will explore those other options. She does not care about who is right or wrong, just the result of the revised plan. She does not take offense or get defensive when she is wrong. Her lack of reaction may actually surprise people who wanted to get a rise out of her.

As she takes the side of logic and objectivity. She will bluntly offer her reasons for a decision, and can at times be rather callous. It is not that she regards people and dragons as objects or commodoties, but when at work on a plan involving statistics and charts, they sort of are. That said, for those she is responsible for, she shows an intense loyalty and protectiveness. Most of the time she expresses this rather distantly, in her actions out of sight and out of mind.

As an interesting and seemingly contradictory quirk, she has a problem with authority-- not because she challenges it, but because she knows freedom and lawlessness. She trusts the law through practice over the merit of individuals. She may find that Western Weyr has people of a different kind, who do rule by merit, or at least the choice of the people. As such she may come to respect it and its government, and support it freely. Only time will tell.

Positive Trait List: Honest, Responsible, Patient, Protective, Logical, Reserved
Negative Trait List: Callous, Aloof, Too objective, Loose cannon (to an extent)
Myers-Briggs: ESTJ, Protectors: Overseers

History:
Lhuzana's childhood was spent with one of the caravans of Western, who were friendly with and traded with Zanoma Camp. She was accustomed to dragons and enjoyed their strong and watchful presence. Traveling meant long hours under the sun. She learned a variety of skills, such as tending to the oxen and humans alike with basic first aid, repair work on the wagons, pitching camp, and selling wares.

She was sent to HarperHall because she showed an aptitude for drawing scenery, and her impeccable sense of direction lead to very accurate map making (for a child). She came highly recommended (with letter of recommendation) by the Harper traveling with her train at the time.

She returned home once she walked the tables, and while she fully intended to return to her old life, she came back subtly changed and never quite fit in ever again. However, she continued her new map making trade in her spare time, riding a runnerbeast (bought with her new Harper's salary) so that she could wander or stop as needed to continue her sketching. She would probably continue to do this for the rest of her life, with little interest in obtaining her Mastery, if not for several factors. Her training came at a cost and with a firm order: that she must send information back to the Hall very discreetly [perhaps via firelizard?]. She hates this part of her job.

Later, at the age of 23 she Impressed Green Fintrath and joined Zanoma Camp. She fed information to HarperHall about them, too. She still hated spying, even though these people seemed more like distant relations than the close family of her caravan.

[ Please let me know if the details of this clutch is not okay? ]
Fintrath, bless her heart, came from a clutch of eggs that were probably not the most legal on Pern to obtain. It was a loudly-whispered rumor that went around that captured Lhuzana's curiosity. She did not believe she would ever Impress, but she could not stay away. Then she watched people she knew both closely and distantly force themselves upon an unwilling hatchling. She learned just how strong a dragon's will can be as it made a bloody path through them. It was awe-inspiring.

One such hatchling made her way to Lhuzana. Fintrath's name whispered through her mind, echoing as if uncertain who might accidentally hear. It sounded different than an actual sound, but was just as muffled as a mumbling child, to Lhuzana. When their eyes met the fog evaporated immediately and Fintrath trumpeted her name for all to hear. I am Fintrath! Lhuzana is mine and nobody else's!

Live in the moment, plan for the future. She has at least two living children. As a dragonrider, she was able to abort at any time without repercussion. But she chose to have them because she believes that children are important for the future, perhaps more so than dragons and their riders! But she did not raise them or try to keep in contact with them. Instead, once each was old enough to be weaned, she left them in the care of the caravan while she flew off to explore the islands or escort the caravans. To her firstborn, her runner was given, however.



She has a third child confirmed to have died in the first waves of Threadfall. Perhaps that is part of the reason for her decision to try to live at the Weyr: to protect the children of Pern.

Other:
Parent figures :
- Drabban, 68, trader
- Cseelia, 62, trader
Children:
- Zane, 16, Runner trainer (apprentice), has been riding since he was a toddler and is almost obsessed with them
- Luhanna, 14, Runner husbandry and leather trading (apprentice), likes runners too but wants to sell marketable items
- Zulie, 12, deceased (threadfall)


DRAGON
Name: Fintrath
Age: 19
Color: Green
Size: 24 feet (7.3 meters)
Physical Description: On the larger side of average. Dark green with paler green tiger stripes on neck, legs, and tail.
Personality: Rather militant, sometimes she is the one who motivates Lhuzana. Rising early, training, etc.
Dragon Art or Proof of Obtainment:
Other: I intend to extend Fintrath's personality and background to include how happy she is to be at a Weyr, even though it is very non-traditional! Kind of like how she was born...