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Name: Vaail
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation:Bisexual
Craft/Rank: Tebori Tattoo artisan / NA? Candidate

History: Vaail and his twin sibling Naanash are the eldest of their father's known children. Shrike might have more, shards if he knows, but besides Vail and Nash, the family includes Shrike's live in boyfriend Loche, and Shrike's daughter, Hollin, and youngest son, Sunny. There is seven years between the twins and Hollin (12) and eight between her and Sunny (4). The gap in ages between children work well, enabling both the twins to look after Hollin and later Hollin to look after Sunny while the twins worked and studied in their various crafts.

(Touching on their father for a moment here)

Shrike early in his years worked as a body guard for a less then reputable Lord holder. Starting young at barely 18 turns he ended burnt out and crippled in his early thirties. Tired and irritable, he left the hold and took to wandering about the southern continent taking odd jobs and teaching young guards how not to end up killed. He joined up with a group of traders a turn in and settled into teaching. Teaching was alright. It didn't make the type of marks that body guarding had but it certainly was more honest work. He was rather thankful for it when he ended up with a sort of boyfriend and a set of twins and shards, he was fifty not a spring wherrie and now he had children. Sleeping next to a campfire wasn't going to cut it with a pair of infants. It wasn't really cutting it now he was aging.

He bought a wagon and a pair of even temper mules and managed to get Loche onboard to stay. Shrike may have a shredded leg and partially blind in one eye and Loche may be missing a hand but that didn't stop them from teaching stupid, young, reckless men that no, they are not the baddest thing in all creation. Actually the baddest thing in all creation had to be the twins, and later his daughter, and how his youngest son. He doesn't know if Loche has any kids... if he does well, they haven't found him.

(And back to Vaail)

Vaail been raised basically holdless. Okay they are traders, cept more or less his father and his significant other travel with the group from hold to colthold doing odd jobs and giving teaching lessons to men or women willing to pay for it. They never stayed in one spot for very long, a month and a half at most before ending back on the road. He loves the travel, and it was safest, bandits - meet Loche's hook and run the other way- were not too much of a problem. Then Thread came and ooh frag, run! Not so fun times.

Vaail started learning the craft at a very young age, becoming enamored with tattoo artisans and finally deciding on the art of Tebori, or poking ink into skin with a metal brush. At every hold and colthold he would seek out the local artisan to learn the craft and finally during a switch in trading bands, their original one breaking up due to the leaders illness he found an actual traveling artisan to work with. He practiced on broken leather, on himself, and later on his twin sibling and sort of 'Uncle'/ secondary father figure.

He hasn't been selling his skills for long. He started to market his skill at 17 turns in small things and over the last two turns is confident in his work to take more complex and difficult commissions.




Description:
Physical Description: Lanky, Vail is built like a tunnel snake opposed to a wher. He is slender, with noticeable hips ridges and sharp joints. Long fingers, stained with a mix of redwort and ink pigmentations from under his nails to his wrists. Short hair that falls down to his jaw line, straight and inky black. He has an olive complexion with warm hazel eyes with a tad bit of bright green.

Tattoo/Piercings and non permanent body art that is usually visible: Vail's lower lobes are pierced and he has dragons tattooed in the inner parts of his ears, head tucked in the inside/mid section and the body flaring out over the cartilage and ends with the tail curling about the silver studs. He has a broad expanse of Henna decorations that change every two to three weeks as flash art. It is easier to see the design on flesh then on flat paper.

Vail practiced his art on his feet and legs. The designs start on his toes and crawl all the way up his sharp hips. Unlike his ears, three colors are on his legs blue, black, and a warm red brown. These were practice works, the blue tattoos on his feet and toes being practice in making straight lines of various widths. The blue lines are overlaid with outlines of black circles in various sizes.

His ankles are banded in a red diamond pattern and from ankle to knee he is inked in birch trees. The left leg is bare of any foliage and with Perns two moons. The right is heavy in foliage and sunrays rising behind the tree.

His knees are black and reverse spotted, the design showing from where he didn't add ink.

The tattoos after his knees are a motif of swimming fish, water, flower, and turning from water into air currents and loose petals to coil around his hips.

Personality:
Strengths
Artistically intelligent- When it comes to art, Vail has visions, he has art, he has talent. Art in a way is mathematical in its angles, cover, and blending pigmentations. It is cutting a canvas, body or wagon canvas infractions to be covered in paint or ink. It is knowing how much dry pigmentation is needed to be cut with witch-hazel to create the inks.

Focused- Precision is needed in his craft, close focus and he becomes lost in the steady pokes of the needles and the slow creation of art on skin. He retains most of this focus outside the realm of art but he doesn't give them the same intensity that he gives his craft.

Prideful- Vail isn't arrogant but he glows when he finishes a difficult piece or complimented on a well done job. He has a firm sense of self-worth as an artisan and as a helpful part of the camp whole.

Weakness:
Reckless- Sometimes Vail does insane hair brain things. He doesn't really think things through and the jungle surrounding the camp is full of interesting things. It is not unusual for Vail to be high in trees or casually walking on a hand's width wall, eight or more feet of the ground. He flirts as easy as he breathes and doesn't differentiate between gender or status. Bets are a bad idea... he will do it. Sneak in the Hold Lords home. Sure, let's go right now! Moon that guard? Why the shards, not! Hey Mister! Over here! No, no, nooo Naanash this doesn't count, oww.

Insubordinate-Vail does not submit well to authority. He isn't submissive in the slightest and will argue away when he finds orders to be stupid, or uninformative. Vail pulls his own weight in the camp and is cheerful enough with requests of help. Orders just make him cranky, especially if they are stupid or make-work.

Drifter- Vail doesn't have long term goals. He doesn't really have a structured out anything actually. He wants to get better at art but he doesn't set any idea of time to the goals. Let alone the idea of place in relation to ownership. Non-committal, outside his family and craft Vail doesn't commit to a relationship. He loves the people he is with for the short time he is there but he is never going to stay. He doesn't have a sense of loyalty to a hold/ colthold or Dragon Weyr.



Other: Ambidextrous / PC search if there is time.

Bring on Round two.