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Name: Selachii (S'chi if Impressed)
Age: 16
Sex: Male
Sexual Orientation: Straight-ish? Is willing to experiment.
Craft: Weaver
Rank: Apprentice
Physical Description: The best word to describe Selachii is boyish -- slightly gawky and a little bit too tall for his age with long limbs and oversized hands and feet, he stands at a little under 5'10", with a heavy, somewhat-too-long messy crop of dark-brown hair and perennially sun-kissed olive skin, complete with a spattering of freckles across his cheeks and the tops of his broad shoulders. Earnest, wide chocolate-brown eyes tend to betray exactly what he's thinking, but most often he's found grinning brashly or laughing at one thing or another. In his own way, Selachii is a bit like an oversized puppy that's still growing into his own. Due to a learned skill with needle and thread, his clothing often is embellished in one way or another to suit him.
Personality: Prideful and cheery, Selachii is a brash, outspoken, friendly brat of a boy. He's as amiable as they come, and rather easy to befriend as long as you don't offend his pride. Considering the fact that's pretty hard to do as long as you don't lord it over him, this means he's fairly easygoing. He respects authority just fine, but those who are his own age had better not try to overpower him. At best, a peer who's acting like that is going to get a severe dressing-down; at worst, probably a scuffle that'll end with both of them in trouble.

Selachii is positively fearless, as well -- a thrill-seeker, he responds best to challenges by meeting them head-on. It gets him into trouble sometimes, since fear's sometimes a positive emotion. He's been into more scrapes than he can count, but with some teaching and a little bit more age on him, he'll learn to temper his impulsiveness with a little bit of discretion.

Selachii is intelligent, but it's definitely mixed with a rather heaping helping of testosterone. He vastly lacks patience, and would much rather be out doing something -- ANYTHING -- physical than sitting down and reading or doing fiddly things.

Still, there's more to him than meets the eye. When the moment suits it, he's very good at taking control of a situation. He tends to encourage his peers to rely on him, because despite his tendency to activity and to want to be alpha male, he's quite trustworthy and very willing to put himself on the line to protect his people. He'd much rather work on a team than on his own, even.

At his worst, though, Selachii can be a little bit ruthless -- while most often he's protective of those he feels lag behind, when there's a goal he's utterly-focused on, in the worst case scenario he can lose track of the pieces of the team in preference to the well-being of the whole.
History: Conceived of a Weaver journeyman and an older apprentice who had no idea she was pregnant, Selachii was a surprise child, and was foster-parented by a cook at the hold for eleven Turns before he could be slotted safely into the weaver trade. It was assumed that due to his parentage he'd take to the cloth like a fish to the sea, but even the boy's foster mother could have told his parents that, due to his temperament, he'd chafe at it.

And chafe he did, for five Turns, restless and sulking and getting into more than his fair share of scrapes with the other apprentices. Selachii could not have been less suited to the patient crafts of weaving, though he did learn a surprising proficiency for sewing and draping fabric. Once the day's work was done -- and sometimes before -- the boy would flee and hide out somewhere warm, most often the shore, where he learned to adore swimming and sunning with the other apprentices.

Just when Selachii decided, however, that he simply couldn't take the life of an apprentice for all its cerebral nature, salvation came in the form of a man atop a brown dragon, who offered a different life than the one that the boy'd been buried in -- and one of his own choosing, this time. There were eggs on the sands, Selachii was told, and there had to be people to stand for them.

After obtaining permission from a tearful foster-mother and his less-attached parent, Selachii was more than delighted to leave the Weavers for what he assumed and hoped would be a much more suitable and enjoyable lifestyle, if rigorous.
Pets: None, though he's not above playing with various bugs and insects when it suits him.
Other/Talents: In a pinch, Selachii is more than willing to help others with the wear and tear of their clothing, or even to sew up wounds if enough numbweed can be found. He's got a surprisingly strong stomach for such things and even finds them a little bit fascinating.

Will this character be a candidate? Yes

Picture? Coming soon~