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Name: Kindra

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Sexual Orientation: Straight

Craft/Rank: Candidate

History: Kindra is the middle daughter to one of Benden Weyr's Mid sized tithing Holds, her family (mostly her father) likes to boast that their bloodline has produced many good and great Dragonriders from their Hold, who in return allowed their children to be fostered back into the Hold. However none of this is recorded officially anywhere and is most likely just an ego boosting case of family 'lore' with probably only a trace or truth since, in Kindra's knowledge, none of their actual bloodline ride a Dragon at the moment in current history.

Kindra, is the middle child of her parent's three offspring but is their only daughter, her elder brother who is 23 turns old, is being trained to replace their father in time and her younger brother is less than a turn old. She resents her baby brother a little because until her mother got pregnant, Kindra was spoiled rotten, anything she wanted, she got. Her mother however had a very difficult pregnancy and was very ill, forced to her bed for the majority of her pregnancy. This meant that Kindra had to do her mother's share of running the Hold and managing the women and other tasks that she never knew her mother did. Her mother only barely survived the birth and is still physically weakened, Kindra's father decided that the time had come for her to marry into another bloodline, another strong one, loyal to their Beholden Weyr.

Time passed and Kindra rejected all suitors, all but one who, despite being a good match on the surface, didn't just 'give in' to Kindra's demands. Seemingly Kindra admired this in the young man and agreed to several meetings. Unfortunately for Kindra, and unknown to her family (because she would never admit it) The young man wasn't as nice as he appeared, one evening he had slipped into Kindra's bedroom and demanded that he spent the night in her bed. Kindra flatly refused and even went so far as to attempt to drag him out of her bedroom, The young man turned and hit her, not a flat open handed slap to calm a woman, but as if she was a man and they were fighting, clutching her already swelling eye she fled to her private bathroom and locked the door. In shock, since she had never been so much as spanked before in her life, Kindra spent the rest of the night in there, caught between wanting to break down in tears and rage at the fact this man had dared to do this in her own home. Morning came and she went ahead and told her mother. After that the young man was not seen again at the Hold, and her father stopped bringing in suitors for her.

A sevenday after the incident, after news of the Clutch on the Sands came with a Brownrider, a Searchrider. Kindra had greeted the man in place of her mother, who was taken to her bed once more, the Brown dragon had turned his head towards her, holding her gaze with his beautiful gently whirling eyes. The Brown's rider murmured to her father out of her hearing and at that her father beamed as if he had been given a large bag of Marks. Later that day her father had told her that the Brown dragon had told his rider, who in turn told her father, that she, Kindra had the potential and without hesitation, Kindra nodded and fled to her rooms to pack, by evening she was ready and away, glad to be away from the Hold and the awkwardness between her and her mother after the incident with the young man, the result of which still showed on her face. Arriving at the weyr and given a little time to settle in, Kindra is wondering whether she has made a mistake in being too hasty, her natural charm and her assumption that she would be respected, wasn't working as well as she was used to, the other candidates treating her no better than she would have done with a servant at the Hold.

Description: Kindra is fairly dark skinned, her mother being very dark skinned herself. Her eyes are a deep, rich Hazel with a slight fleck of blue in her right eye and, along with long dark eyelashes, are her prettiest feature. Her hair is long and black like her mother's and she likes to keep it in a neat, long braid that reaches her hip. At about 5ft 6" Kindra is far from petite and delicate, her mother was a larger woman before the birth of Kindra's brother and her father is by no means a small man, Kindra is built a little on the larger side, though she isn't fat, she is never going to be a waif, no matter how hard she tried, if she wanted to try anyway. She has brought many fine dresses from her home and she likes to look good, taking great care with her appearance no matter what her chore happens to be among the candidates.

Personality: Kindra is the kind of girl that knows what she wants and has several different ways of attempting to get it. One of her first tactics is to use her charm and manners, followed by unashamed flirting (with the men) or copious flattery of women, often giving the impression of a weak girl in need of looking after, though she is far from being unable to do so for herself. She also isnt afraid of flat out asking for what she wants either. Kindra likes men, she likes to be fawned on and pampered but on HER terms. If she thinks she is getting too fond of one particular beau, she'll dump him and move on to another. However she quite aware that, although she knows she is pretty, she does know Beauty alone won't get you very far, Kindra has a quick mind and is able to adapt quickly, she has a good sense of self preservation and will NEVER (openly) go after another girl's beau.

Kindra, along with a fairly pretty face, is rather smart, she does well at lessons and could take notes for others, if they thought she was more than just vain and arrogant. Because of the way she acts around others not many want to be a real friend since she likes to surround herself with admirers, if someone goes against her she can be quite nasty and spiteful, this leads to her having mostly fairweather friends, who like being associated with the new, pretty girl but wouldn't go out of their way to help if she were in trouble.

To your face Kindra is a pleasant and well mannered young woman but if she has reason to dislike you then behind your back there may be rumors and snide comments, for example "Did you see her take that extra portion? she's getting pretty plump, do you think she's been sleeping around?" or something like, "i heard he has been seeing other girls behind your back, someone told me they saw him kissing your best friend near the hatching grounds" and other such examples, subtle things to make you doubt yourself and others intentions.

Despite this seemingly happy arrangement Kindra is desperately lonely, she's never had a decent friend, only servants and drudges to wait on her hand and foot, she longs for a companion, be it a female friend or a long term relationship but she just cant help pushing the good people in her life, away when they get too close to her and despite having a string of young men on her arm, she has never taken that final step with them and for the time being is completely content with that.

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