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Here's my idea! I would be hoping to have her start as an egg or freshly hatched, thus the 'bio' is more 'general plan of events', and may change through rp. Critique and comments welcomed!



Name: Kierani, goes by Kiera

Gender: Female

Rank: Daewl

Power: Kiera has the ability to make baked goods more filling and taste better, to make them cook faster, rise faster, expand to just the right size as they bake - everything a good baker could do, only more so. As she grows older, she will discover she is able to enhance baked goods made by others, to make them more palatable if she cannot eat her own cooking.

Coloration: Warm colors - reds, golds, cream, a touch of black - almost fire colors, swirl over Kiera's body and tail. Her eyes flash green as she turns her head, and tend to telegraph her emotion far more than is normal for a Daewl. Her claws are cream colored, while her head-horn is dead black.

Bio: When Kiera's parents saw her egg, and even more so when she hatched, they thought her coloring was indication of a talent with fire. Both parents had good, strong powers and were respected within their rank, and they expected their child to be the same. However, at first she appeared to have no power at all. They tried getting her to summon fire, make the wind blow, cause water to dance, anything they could think of - and she could do none of those things. They decided she must not be trying hard enough, or her mind was not disciplined enough - and began her on a strict regimen of learning. The strict control gradually spread to everything, until Kiera was living in a cage of rules.
For Kiera's part, she was miserable. At first, it was simply because she knew she was disappointing her parents - never feeling love, or pride, or joy in their daughter from them, only cold disappointment. Then, as she grew older, she began to feel the bars of her 'cage', and resent them. She wasn't sure what she wanted to do with her eternal life, but it wasn't this, it wasn't to spend her life doing as she was told. Then one day she had a few spare moments, an unplanned hour with nothing to do - she wandered into the Village(her parent's home was way out in the outskirts), and happened on a place where there was food offered for sale. She tried some, and loved it - nothing like the plain fare she got at home, this delighted her tongue. She talked to the shop owner and got her first lesson in baking - cut short though it was by her parents. She continued to sneak out when she could, and gradually discovered that she had a talent for baking - and more than a talent, this was the power she had believed she did not have. A longing grew in her to break free from her parents and set up shop, open a bakery of her own....But she had been Drada only for a few months, and knew it would be a long time yet before she would be considered mature enough to live on her own.

Occupation/Social Status in Rank:: Baker. Not thought of highly in her rank, they don't see her power as particularly powerful or useful - after all, anyone can bake, right? XD Doesn't stop them from buying her goods though.
Views on Rank responsibilites:: Scorns the other Daewls and their lack of common sense, yet craves their acceptance. Really confused there due to her parents. To explain further: She wants to be accepted by them as she is, and scorns them because they will not accept her power as worthwhile despite its practicality. She serves them as well as anyone else, in fact usually with better goods to prove her point, but they only receive her civility, not her usual buoyant hospitality. It's sort of along the lines of someone who thinks rich people are idiots, but still wants to be rich themself, but on their own terms, if you know what I mean.
Education/ Intelligence:: Very well educated, due to upbringing, but doesn't act like it. Similarly, is far more intelligent than is immediately apparent.
Marital Status:: Single - so far! She'd probably make a good housewife though XD
Political Thoughts/ Views of Ranks and Vhaid:: Jivvins are jivvins. If they can appreciate a good pastry or loaf of bread, that's good enough for her! She gets really frustrated when those higher up make obviously bad decisions, though. What with her valuing common sense and all.
Beliefs/ Values/ Strength of Beliefs:: Very strong, if odd, ethical code. She strongly believes in honor and doing what's right - it's just her definition of 'honor' and 'right' that are strange XD Although it's unlikely to come up. She has no problem with stealing something that's needed, but betrayal...let's just say you don't want to see her mad. Also, she is unlikely to react much to wrongs done to her, but if someone hurts someone else, especially a friend, you do not want to get in her way. She's a redhead through and through that way. She has various subconscious motives she will not admit to herself, and is in fact unaware of, and someday these are going to bite her and force her to acknowledge them. I expect she will have serious internal conflicts to deal with when this time comes.
What is his/her usual disposition?:: Very cheerful! Unless her parents are mentioned, anyway.
Optimist/ Pessimist? :: Optimist outwardly, although there are a few things she's pessimistic about. Like her parents.
Confident/Self-conscious? :: Self-conscious to begin with, but as she gains her independence she will quickly become confident. Very good at acting confident when she's not.
How does he/she feel about his/her appearance? :: Honestly doesn't care. She would've stayed skinny if she did. She cares more about her baking.
Most important possession:: Her wooden mixing spoon. It was given to her by the stall-owner who first introduced her to the wonders of good food.
Talents :: Baking, obviously! She's a good cook in other respects too. She hasn't really explored in other directions, as she was so focused on getting away from her parents and setting up shop as a baker. Now that she's finally getting started, she might have the time to try other things.
What is a normal day like for this Jivvin?:: Get up in the wee hours of the morning, begin the baking of breakfast goods. Open up the bakery the moment the first things are out of the oven. Around noon she begins giving away the leftover breakfast stuff and sets out the loaves of bread and other lunch/dinner stuff. Around three closes shop for an hour while she goes and gets supplies. closes the shop for the night around eight. Note: This is a future likely schedule, after she gets her shop. As of now she doesn't really have one.
What is a normal rainy day like for this Jivvin?:: Much the same, except she might skip the shopping trip. Days off are taken on an irregular basis and not often. Again, this is a future schedule.
Greatest Fear:: Being trapped in a cage of rules again, like she was as a child.
What does he/she want most?:: To become so recognized and well-known as a baker that the other Daewls will recognize her and her power as worthwhile.

Major Goals::
1. Become established as a baker.
2. Become the best jivvin baker in history.
3. Introduce EVERYONE to truly good baking.

She will undoubtedly develop other goals as her worldview expands, but up until now she has been so focused on baking that she hasn't really thought about much else. While she is physically grown, she still has a lot to learn emotionally and mentally.

heart Here goes ^_^

~ She doesn't have to even have a last name in the village if she doesn't want one. I believe that last names are only used when it's a carryover from a jivvin that was human bonded in the old days heart for the most part the villagers don't even bother with last names.

~ She looks 20... how old is she really?

~ ^_^ Short and plump. She sounds huggable.

~ She scorns the other daewls... but she really want's their acceptance. That does have some sense to it, and I'm not saying that it's not reasonable in certain circumstances, but as an example:: How would she treat a Daewl in her shop? Would she be rude to them? Refuse to sell to them? Sell to them but frown the entire time? Serve them with a smile and seethe inwardly? Because it seems to be that if she really wanted their acceptance she'd act like a wallflower in amoungst a whole bunch to cheerleaders... she'd throw herself at their mercy and every whim at whatever cost as long as it made her a cheerleader too... XD ... right? I don't know... something about the extreme there doesn't seem right to me.

~ Again... Honor and doing what's right are great things to have as personality traits... but how does the public scorn of her rank fit into that unless she REALLY believes that the her rank deserves no respect? And if she believes that, then why does she want acceptance from them?

~ XD I see from her 'major goals' that she want's to be a baker... a good baker... the best baker XD ... doesn't she have at least one goal in life that's not baking? And this is me nit picking here heart

~ I need more about her parents personally... I see that they're dead, and Daewl... I don't see how she felt about each one individually? Was there a specific moment in her past that she remembers above all others causeing her to feel something slightly different for one of her parents? And they're only dead a week... how long has she been out of their grasp? More than that to set up shop I suspect... I also want to know how they died? It's not uncommon for truly bonded jivvins to die when their spouse does, but which one went first and how?

~ A stall-owner taught her how to cook.... when? where? why? Did he have a real name, and why is the fact that he's a stall owner important? He's a BIG figure in her life apparently... it would be good to know a LOT more about him. ^_^

~If her parents died a week ago, and this is the first time she's getting a chance to set up for herself, then there's no way she could have a shop already... that would take months I suspect. She'd need a space, a follwing, good relationships with the marketplace sellers so she could buy from them, all that kind of stuff... maybe she should have gotten out before her parents died? or her parents could have died months ago... Unless you're ok with playing her as JUST starting a shop... like maybe converting her parents' old house or something... But even in that case she'd need to make friends with a carpenter and a builder! XD You see what I mean? heart

~ I realize that it's not in your form, but rather in the previous into paragraph, but you say that she wandered into the village... I'm not sure what you meant by that, but I wanted to let you know that she would already have been in the village XD that doesn't mean that she couldn't live in a more sparsely populated area, and wandered into the market area... I was just unsure about your wording there.

It's a good concept, Kali. There's not too much wrong with it that I can see *I could be missing things wink * But it does need quite a bit more information heart go for it XD

Everything is now updated - does this work better?

Cook is a mystery, and is meant to be ^_^() I'm kinda hoping someone will pick him up as a character and explain things. Perhaps he is a wanderer in time?

Outskirts is kinda what I meant. There are farms around the village right? That's how they get food? So her parents would be in the same area as the farms, not really in the Village proper, but still within the boundaries...If my image of the Village is off let me know ^_^()

EDIT: I apologize if I'm being overly stubborn...

Oh good XD I'm a very stubborn person, and sometimes I can't tell whether I'm taking things too far.

Alright, all I meant by 'rush to grow' was that from what I've seen, Wilds usually take longer than 20 years. She would have reached adulthood just before they died. I have taken that out of the age section.

Also took out the wanderer bit, added in that she never found out what happened to him.

That good?