Name: Hanya
Age: 18
Sex: Female
Orientation: Heterosexual
Craft: Weavercraft
Rank: Apprentice
Physical Description: Slightly shorter than average height, she’s eye-catching only because of her clothes, and possibly her build. Hanya is really not much of a looker upon closer inspection. Her hair is a pale, slightly ashen brown, worn extremely long but braided back and wound around her head; she is still vain about its length and will resist cutting it tooth and nail. Her eyes are darkish grey, somewhat analogous to slate, and her facial features are fairly nondescript, though a flatterer might call her pretty. She's tan, but the sort of tan that comes of just happening to be outside when it's sunny rather than trying to tan.
Turns of hard work at the Weyrs have helped Hanya get in shape. She's not skinny by any means, but her weight has settled in places it should: hips, bust, butt. She's developed a curvy, feminine shape, and she wears it well, dressing in vividly coloured (but fairly cheap) fabrics, and girly clothes that are often embroidered or stitched by Hanya herself. She's recently taken a fancy to blues and golds, but she likes all bright colours.
Personality: Hanya often comes off a bit bossy. She has a tendency to nag, though growing up helping to raise four little brothers, this isn’t much of a surprise. In general, she’s an outgoing girl, and will march straight up to people and introduce herself, whether they want to get to know her or not, which either comes off as endearingly forthright or alarmingly forward. With other girls, she can be a bit more reserved. She tends to size up what she views as her ‘competition’—and she takes that competition seriously. She hates when people get what she considers to be special treatment and is not above sulking if someone else gets what she wants.
Hanya is a whiner, though she knows enough to keep quiet in most situations, and will grumble under her breath until the end of time. She only likes doing work that she enjoys, and the only work she enjoys, more or less, is weaver-work. Anything else is useless labour, and she shouldn't have to do it. Tedious, detail-oriented tasks delight her because they enable her to prove her dedication and focus. If need be, she has an endless supply of patience, likely because she grew up with four brothers.
She's surprisingly good with people in many ways (though she's still learning where the line between advice and bossiness lies), and is a hard worker in a group situation. With boys, she is ingratiating and overly-friendly, somewhat simpering. She loves to flirt and will more or less bat her eyelashes at anything male that can't get away fast enough. In spite of the stories she'd tell about nagging parents and annoying brothers, she loves her family immensely and misses them.
She has grown up with the transfer to Igen, gaining an individual strength she didn't know she had, and some rebellious tendencies that should probably stay buried. She's developed a rather nasty mouth (though she very rarely speaks what she's thinking in the presence of anyone important), and also a knack for passive-aggressive snark. She was quick to pick up what Igen Weyr was all about, and just as quick to start blatantly ignoring it. She hates being told what to do by people who lack what she views as 'legitimate' authority.
And she's excited as all get-out to continue her weaver studies.
History: Hanya was born in Ista Hold, the first daughter of a weaver and a tannercraft journeyman. She was an only child for four turns. Then came, in rapid succession, four boys: a single child, twins, and then another single child. With three expansions in the family in as many turns, seven-turn-old Hanya suddenly found herself roped into helping her mother with everything. She started learning the basics of cooking and weaving, and when she was nine turns, her mother finagled her into an apprenticeship with one of the better weavers in the Hold. She wasn’t good early on, and her teacher’s goading led her to become viciously competitive with other apprentices and weaver-children. She took up embroidery when it was suggested she might have a talent, and she quickly, through sheer force of will, got good at it.
Two turns later, Hanya’s mother briefly terminated her apprenticeship because she needed help with the boys again. Hanya resented it but continued as many lessons as she could, and found that she was once again competing for attention—this time with her own kin. She suddenly had to prove herself just as valuable as her brothers and became rather a mother hen, taking constant control of the rest of the brood and bossing them whenever the opportunity arose. When she proved herself capable and valuable, instead of returning her to her lessons, her parents decided it was better that they leave Hanya in charge of the brood more often. Infuriated, Hanya desperately searched for a way out. She found none. When, at thirteen turns, the eldest of her brothers was old enough to take charge, Hanya’s parents allowed her to resume her apprenticeship. Hanya did so gleefully. This time around, she was actually sent to Weavercraft Hall to further her studies, and she was absolutely thrilled to be studying like a real weaver.
Until she was Searched, just after the start of her fifteenth turn. When this new opportunity to prove herself arose and she found herself in the middle of an even bigger, better competition, she jumped at it in spite of her parents’ disapproval. She didn't want to be stuck with her brothers forever. It was her time to shine.
She spent several turns at Ista and came to realize that she had agreed to move to the Weyr to stick it to her parents more than for any desire to Impress that she might have had. She joined the ILA to go out with a last hurrah and was preparing to return to Southern Boll to finish her weavercraft studies when the opportunity arose to transfer Weyrs. She decided she would at least transfer and see if the new Weyr offered her anything Ista didn't.
It was Igen. Hanya immediately hated it there, and spent only a handful of sevendays before working to transfer out. Just recently, she got the chance to return to Southern Boll and, naturally, took it without thinking. She's back at Weavercraft Hall, now, working hard in preparation for becoming a journeyman Weaver.
Pets: Not long before she left Ista Weyr, Hanya had the fortune of purchasing a firelizard egg from someone quite anxious to get rid of it. It hatched into Spice.
Spice is fairly charming to people she knows (and people who feed her, sometimes), but hates newcoming humans and dragons with a passion. She's quick to be placated, though, accepting food offerings readily from anyone regardless of species, and absolutely adores other firelizards. She doesn't really know when no means no when she's playing with other flits, though, and can sometimes be an annoyance to adults.
Other/Talents: She has a great talent for embroidery and enjoys it immensely. She also has a good handle on most sewing, basic weaving, and can bake bread.
Will this character be a candidate? Not anymore!
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