Character Name: Gabriel

Age: 14

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual

Craft/Rank: Weyrbrat/Candidate

History: Gabriel is a Weyr-bred gall through and through. She doesn’t actually know who her birth parents are, but if anyone should ask her she will swear up and down that they were both dragonriders. Growing up she’s had a pretty easy and carefree life at Trine Weyr, having fun playing around with others her age when not doing chores and the like. She finds her foster mother far too bossy for her liking, but such is life; things can’t always be as one would have them to be.

Once Gabriel reached 12 turns, she joined the rank of the Candidates, confident that she would become a dragonrider herself. Despite the fact that she has yet to be Impressed, the young teen will not allow herself to get discouraged. That just means that Hers has yet to be born is all. She will wait, even if the whole ‘patience’ thing is rather annoying.

Description: Standing at a grand total of 5’2”, Gabriel is not exactly the tallest girl around the Weyr. Her frame is thin and none-too shapely, and even after hitting puberty her chest has remained stubbornly flat. Her eyes are round and hazel in color, and her dark brown/nearly black hair is cut short-- just past the top of her ears-- and is often spiky. She likes the short cut because it’s relatively easy to take care of, but unfortunately she always wakes up with a horrid case of bed-head in the morning. All of her time in the sun has resulted in a few slightly lighter brown highlights in her hair as well as rather tan skin, but should she stay out of the sun long enough one would find that her skin is really a light olive complexion.

Personality: Gabriel definitely has what one might call a “Type-A” personality. Lively and energetic, the young teen is almost always looking for something to do. She doesn’t really like chores much at all, but even that is better than just sitting around bored. She’s also extremely competitive and quite a bit of a tomboy. Except when it comes to dirty or gross things. She doesn’t like getting dirty.

The teen isn’t especially “vain” in the sense of the word, but she does secretly pride herself in her appearance. Once you get past the flat-chest and the boyish shape (damn puberty for not doing much…), she actually has a fairly pretty face. Not gorgeous or anything, but nice enough. Her lashes are long, her eyes large, and she’s in pretty good shape to boot. Not too bad if she does say so herself…

She’s not exactly a “super-social-popular” person, but she doesn’t crawl in a hole and hide from people either. When meeting new people Gabriel will often try her best to strike up pleasant conversation, and she usually is able to make friends fairly easily. She often finds herself most comfortable when hanging out with guys.

Gabriel has a lot of trouble with patience. She doesn’t like to wait for anything. Life is too short as it is; why should they have to wait for things that should be happening right now? She’ll keep her mouth shut most times, but her annoyance on the matter is still rather clear regardless.

Those who get to know her will soon find that Gabriel can be very stubborn. She will almost never admit to being wrong, and will often either skirt around the issue or just plain ignore it. She takes the same approach when it comes to apologizing, in that she doesn’t. The only times she’ll ever apologize usually are if she’s forced into it or if she feels genuinely guilty for having caused offense to the other party.

Despite her somewhat tough exterior, deep inside she often times feels more than she’ll let show. Like if she’s teased about being so flat-chested or for having no curves… Or when she watches other Candidates who were Hold-bred walk off the Sands while she the Weyr-bred one has to wait for yet another clutch to be laid before Hers might be born… Even if she will never admit it to anyone else or herself, Gabriel can be a lot more sensitive then she lets on.

Other: In spite of her rather boyish appearance (which she admittedly doesn’t help much by cutting her hair so short) and tomboyish nature, Gabriel will become very much offended if anyone should accidentally mistake her for a boy. She can’t help being so flat-chested! At least her face is still pretty…

Often when she has down time, Gabriel likes to go to the kitchens and try to learn how to cook. She finds cooking to be rather fun-- it's like an experiment almost. Mixing this and that and that and seeing what comes out with the best result… It’s about the only really ‘girlish’ thing she does.