Name: Rieta
Age: 17
Gender:Female
Sexual Orientation: Asexual
Craft: Farmercraft
Rank: Apprentice Farmer/Candidate

History: Perhaps Rieta's love of dirt and the things that grow from it comes from the fact that she was born in High Reaches Weyr, daughter of a young greenrider and her lover at the time, a baker. As riders have their own concerns, Rieta's father, Joesph, is the parent who did most the caring for her. It would be unkind to him to call him a poor parent, but generous to call him a good one. He saw to Rieta's needs well enough, but was far from demonstrative and Rieta never could quite shake the feeling that she was in the way.

Spending as she did, much of her time in the kitchens, Rieta saw a lot of crops coming in, becoming food, and being served at the tables. And, being young, and curious, the question, 'but where do they come from' was one she asked a lot. Certainly there were no fields of grain around the Weyr. This curiosity combined with a desire to be anywhere but locked away in the kitchens, underfoot, lead her to eventually apprentice to the farmercraft at the age of fourteen. She loved it. She loved the feeling of things growing under foot, she loved the smell of the plants, she loved the hard exhausting labor.

And that's where she might have remained, were it not for a clutch of eggs on the sand and a blue dragon riding Search. Sure, Rieta loved farming, but a dragon was a dragon, and like any weyr born kid there was some small quiet part of her that had always wondered, if someday, maybe...

So she's returned home, though not, this time to the kitchen. She'll give it a chance and if it doesn't work out, well, there's always farming.

Appearance: Rieta isn't unattractive. Indeed, she might even be pleasant to look at if she ever bothered to put some effort into presentation. But she doesn't put in effort, indeed she doesn't seem to think of her body as anything other than a tool.

Her blond hair is kept cut very short, just an inch or so of thin fluff from the top of her head. Her fair skin is tanned from exposure to the sun, and often as not, she's burnt red from the exposure. She's shorter than average, and has what might be described as an hourglass figure, if anyone could see it under the loose, serviceable clothes she wears.

Personality: Rieta is friendly and outgoing to the extent of occasionally being obnoxiously loud. She has no patient for the shy and instead of trying to gently coax such people out of their shell she's likely to attempt to drag them out kicking and screaming. This is a girl who believes she knows what's best for everyone and isn't afraid to tell them, at length.

While working, some of her natural gregariousness is subsumed by the fact that she's actually practical and level headed. Indeed, her bossy friendliness grows out of this practicality, as she simply can't sit by and let people do unproductive things with their lives, even if they're perfectly happy with their 'unproductive' activities. In social situations this makes her loud and invasive, in work situations, she's quieter, her attention fully focused on the task at hand. At least until she sees someone who isn't doing their own work the way that she thinks they should.

Underneath Rieta's 'best-buddy' exterior is a lot of insecurity that she keeps to herself. Being ignored is extremely painful for her, so she does her best to make herself both indispensable and utterly impossible to tune out. On those occasions that she does let dismissal get under her skin she gets aggressive and mean. She's not above a fist fight, either.

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