Character Name: Kyros
Age: 20
Sexual Orientation: Bi-sexual
Craft/Rank: Sr. apprentice Fishercraft / Candidate
History: Practically born on a boat, Kyros’ family lived in a fair sized fishing hold almost due north of Trine Weyr. He knew how to handle a little row boat not long after he knew how to walk, and became a cabin boy on his uncle’s fishing ship aged eight. When he turned twelve he became an official fishercraft apprentice, and had to start leaning more than how to scramble up and down rigging and stare up at the wheeling gulls with envy. He took to it well enough, an average student all around until he hit puberty when he began to grow both very tall and very powerful. While this, of course, didn’t help him at all with theory, it did make the practicalities of hard work on a ship easier. It made living on one a lot harder, but Kyros accepted the discomfort as he accepted most things; with quiet equanimity. He continued to progress in his studies at a normal rate, and at twenty turns he is just about ready to walk the tables.

Description: A great brute of a man, Kyros stands six foot two inches high and is strong-jawed and powerfully muscled. His dark auburn hair is kept short, and from the waist up he is darkly tanned from spending his life largely shirtless aboard ships. Marks from that rough life are scattered here and there on his hands and arms; even a fairly small cut scars up well when exposed to salt water. All in all he cuts a rather intimidating figure, until that is you notice the calmness of his expression, and the steadiness in his dark blue eyes. For all of his size and obvious physical hardness, careful inspection will reveal that this man is no brute after all.

Personality: Kyros is like a deep body of calm water; collected, and with a great stillness about him. He smiles quite frequently but seldom grins, and almost never actually laughs aloud. Equally, while he’ll scowl a little at something he finds foolish or annoying, he won’t raise his voice or show signs of real aggression. Over all, if you drop an emotional rock into this deep lake you might well see a few ripples in his expression but things will soon calm down again and he won’t rise to it. The stone, however, will remain at the bottom for a long time; Kyros has a long memory both for cruelty and for kindness, and while he will never flare up at somebody he feels has wronged him he will quite happily do them down when the chance arises. It doesn’t have to have been a particularly major offense to get onto his quietly disliked list, but it does take a lot to get off it again. Equally, however, it doesn’t take very much to make Kyros decide he likes somebody, and he can be taken advantage of for quite some time before he finally decides that person isn’t worth his time after all.

It takes quite a long time for him to change his mind about anything in fact; he is rather a stubborn man, but again never aggressively so. He’ll tell you what he thinks, why he thinks it, and if you don’t like it you had better have a few candlemarks spare and some really good arguments if you want to change his opinion. You’d better come equipped with a good dose of patience as well; Kyros has absolutely no respect for people who get themselves worked up about things, and will utterly ignore anything someone might have to say if they start shouting at him or otherwise getting in a tiz. He does have reasonable respect for legitimate authority, however, so while he might think a superior of his is an idiot for roaring orders and stamping about he’ll still do as he’s told. His stubbornness and quietness translates to stoic toughness too; no matter what he’ll push himself on to finish a job alone; he won’t ask anyone for help until it’s pretty well too late, or mention an injury that might keep him from doing a job he’s been assigned. So far as he sees it, the job he’s given is his job and if he’s sick or hurt that’s his issue not anyone else’s. While he isn’t stupid by and large, he never seems to think far enough on this score to realize that struggling along and probably ending up making himself worse and or doing a bad job doesn’t benefit or impress anyone in the end.

In a group situation Kyros is comfortable with leading if he knows what he’s doing, but he won’t try to take control if he’s clueless about the situation. If somebody he thinks knows less than he/somebody else in the group does tries to take charge however, Kyros will calmly but firmly tell the perceived usurper to back down. If they don’t listen, he might well gently but firmly restrain them physically; while he’s no brute and has never been known to start an actual fight, he isn’t afraid to use his size and power to his advantage if he thinks somebody is being an idiot. If he is in a situation when he isn’t the best for leading, he is a good mediator and calming influence. He never leaps right into action or panics about anything, and while this means that he couldn’t be the one to drive a group onward towards a desperate goal, he could come up beside somebody struggling with the pace or stress and reassure them with his large calm presence.

While Kyros is calm and steady, he certainly isn’t passionless; he adores the sea and the sky, and if asked he will speak with soft intensity about the beautiful sights he has seen out on long voyages, his dreams of flying free like a gull, or anything else that really grabs his interest for that matter. He has plenty of well-handled passion in other areas as well; while he isn’t desperately handsome he has pretty enough eyes and a nice body, and that along with his strong yet soft nature has drawn more than a few ladies into bed with him over the turns. Out at sea it’s drawn a few gentlemen in too... well, sailors, but still, the point is that Kyros has slept with a large number of different people, but avoided a serious relationship. By and large his flings haven’t resulted in any bad feelings, as he’s sure to make it clear that he isn’t looking for a relationship right at the start, and has avoided sleeping with anyone too important. While he’s back at the Hold it would be very hard to get even a hint that he’s as interested in men as he is in women and he doesn’t mention of it of his own accord, but if he is asked he won’t lie. Lying is something Kyros never does, not even to keep himself or a friend out of serious trouble; the truth the the truth, and it is just as important to him as it is to a member of the runnercraft. People who do lie, or twist the truth, can expect to earn his stony disapproval, and will find themselves very hard pressed to redeem themselves in his eyes.


Other: Kyros has no been Searched yet; I’d be happy either to have him Searched IC, or to add a bit to his history saying he was Searched to Trine once the clutches were laid.