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Name: Jaric
Age: 12 Turns
Gender: male
Sexual Orientation: heterosexual
Craft/Rank: Candidate
History:
Jaric is the son of greenrider J'ri and a man named Gerric who became a wherhandler. He and his older brother, named Jakkin, where often left with the crèche because his parents were working hard, but they came to visit him so often that it never seemed that were far away. He enjoyed an uneventful life in the crèche. He made friends his age, got to know the crèche caretakers enough that he was considered merely shy, not withdrawn and unresponsive, and occasionally wandered off, with or without friends, to poke around the weyr and maybe get in a little trouble for being where he shouldn't be.
He got to visit his mom's dragon often, and other dragons sometimes. He didn't feel nearly as shy with them and would grow familiar with them quickly, soon chatting with them as easily as his mom or dad. He had much less to do with whers. In fact, the only one he was formally introduced to was one his dad bonded, a blue. Even then he only met it briefly, but he was surprised when the blue couldn't talk like a dragon. Gerric assured Jaric that the blue understood him and could communicate, just not in the same was as people or dragons.
Soon after, when he was 10, the Revolution took place. Just before the Revolution, J'ri had gathered her sons and other children into a small side room and kept them protected and entertained, so he knew little about what was happening at the time. Only that once he was let out, suddenly a bunch of people and dragons he knew were gone, and so many new people and whers where there instead. His mother tried to soften the truth of what had happened, but he was old enough to figure it out. Not to mention that plenty of other people in the newly dubbed wherhold had no qualms about chatting, or even boasting, about what had happened to all the weyrfolk. He doesn't like that so many people had to be hurt, but he was always a quiet boy and decided to keep his thoughts to himself. It seemed safer, and he had trouble putting his thoughts into word anyway, even for his mom.
When a gold joined the Revolutionists and kids were asked if they'd like Candidate training, Jaric asked to join. He was almost Candidate age by then, and dragons always made him feel safe.
Description:
Jaric is an average height and build for his age. He has his father's dark brown hair, though it tends to lighten in streaks when he spends long in the sun. His skin is fair like his mother's, but it tans some instead of burning straightaway. He still ought to take care when spending long in the sun, not that he ever does. He has a somewhat oval face, a little rounded at the cheeks as if with baby fat, in which are set wide, hazel eyes and a pink button of a nose.
Personality:
Jaric is shy with people he doesn't know, and tends to stay quiet and out of the way when any are around. He doesn't want to meet strangers at all unless someone he knows makes him, but he warms up to people after a time if made to interact with them. However, he's very affectionate with people he knows very well, and often will come up to them for hugs and requests to play. He's mainly this affectionate with his parents and a couple caregivers from the creche, and likes his mom more than anyone, though liked dad a lot, too. When he was younger he would happily cuddle in mommy's lap or curl up next to her when she told him a story, but he's gotten too big for that now.
His dislike of new people makes social situations hard on him. Especially after the Revolution, when many people he knew left and many people he didn't know arrived. With many of his friends, caregivers, and even his father gone, he grew very withdrawn for a while and only really opened up to his mom. In the years since the Revolution he grew to know the people in the creche better, but now that he's joined Candidate lessons he's gotten quieter again. That's not as bad though, since a some of the Candidates were friends of his in the creche. He doesn't get to see his mom as often now that he's a Candidate though, and he often misses her.
He will do most anything his mom tells him to, though the more fun he thinks it is, the more eagerly he'll do it. He is also relatively obedient to other people he likes. However, he's reluctant to listen to people he doesn't know or like, much less do what they say to. Mom had told him to mind the people in charge of him, and he doesn't want to get in trouble, so he tries. But if people he doesn't know confront him about things like whether he's doing his work right, he's often unable to answer them. That can lead to them thinking he's disobedient, stubborn, or otherwise intentionally being difficult. He doesn't want to be thought of as being bad, but he can't help it.
He has a bad sense of time, and as a result is often late for things, or takes too long to complete tasks because he's not sure how long he's been working on it. Or he may worry he's taking too long and rush the job, which often results in poor results. Then when confronted about that, he again has trouble explaining himself. He gets frustrated with himself for being unable to talk well, which he sometimes expresses with loud outbursts as he tries to get across what he wants to say, and sometimes with grimaces and pouts as he retreats to try and get away from whoever wants to talk to him.
Dragons make him feel safe. His mother told him since he was an infant that dragons would never hurt him, and her dragon Corbeth was one of the first people he got to know. (And he does think of dragons as people. They can think and talk and remember and have feelings, so why aren't they people?) Given the chance he'll always take chores involving being near them, like helping to wash them. That's why he chose to be a Candidate when he grew old enough to chose a craft, despite dragons being looked down on in the Wherholds. Joining any craft would mean having to work with people he doesn't know, but being near dragons made it bearable.
Jaric likes trying new things as long as it doesn't involve interacting with new people. He will always try new foods, or new games, or go new places, though since he's never gone far from the weyr, the number of new places available to him are few. He'll even try new chores at least once, especially if they're presented in a way that seems fun. Sometimes when he has free time he'll wander off to explore forgotten tunnels or other unfamiliar parts of the Weyr. He loves meat and fish, and would happily be a carnivore. Dairy products and baked goods are pretty good, but he only picks at vegetables if he can get away with it.
He's not sure how he feels about whers. His dad had one for a little bit, but he didn't get a chance to know it before the Revolution, and then dad and his wher were gone. He feels vaguely uncomfortable about whers because of that. He couldn't put it into words, but since the wher showed up shortly before his dad disappeared and all these changes happened to Benden, he unconsciously associates them with things he doesn't like. As a result, he would never want to be a wherhandler unless something happened to change his view of them.
Pros: willing to try new things, adventurous, obedient to people he knows
Cons: shy, has trouble following direction of people he doesn't know, not good at handling confrontation, bad sense of time
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