Rider
Name: Dizzian
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Hetero-flexible
Rank: *Watch
History: She grew up in the Weyr with her parents. Her father Donian is a Journeyman Beastcrafter and helps care for the Weyr's wherry herd. Her mother Izira is also a Weaver. She is currently teaching her daughter her craft as both make cloth for basic supplies like blankets, clothing and bandages for the Weyr. Dizz often gets pegged for baby sitter duty and will find herself in charge of a handful of children at a time as their parents go about their work for the day or just relax without the noise of younglings about.
She's stood to Impress at a few clutches now since being Searched. The apparent lack of interest from dragon-kind has been hard on her so far. It's an emotional roller coaster every time a clutch is laid. Even with telling herself not to she gets her hopes up and starts 'planning' out her future since THIS time will be it. When it passes and even the Atypicals have been and gone she stands yet again, alone on the Sands. This sends her into a long down period. She then resigns herself back to weaving until the next time a Gold or Crimson rises.

Description: Dizz is 5'4" and 145lbs with fair skin. Her hair is dark brown and not quite straight, it tends to curl and flip up at the ends, some in towards her face, some out to her shoulders. She has blue eyes and a faint flush across her cheeks and nose that grows more prominent when she's feeling a strong emotion. Dizzian usually wears the same outfit every day, knee-length pants and tunic tied with a crocheted belt. The colors will change depending upon her mood but the style pretty much stays the same. She's not particularly partial to shoes but will wear sandals when necessary.

Personality:

Dizzian is usually in one of two modes, each at opposite extreme's of the emotional spectrum. You're lucky if you find her in the middle and feeling sedate. She can be incredibly hyper and happy and gogogogogo. In this mode she'll not want to do anything serious and getting her to focus on work is difficult at best. She is EASILY distracted at these times. She'd rather joke and laugh and play silly. She'll say No! to the simplest of requests even if she fully intends upon doing it, just for the sake of arguing. It can get annoying. About the only thing that can hold her in one place at this point is her knitting or a book.

On the other hand, when she's feeling down she gets snippy and reclusive and a overly dramatic. She doesn't like to talk about her feelings, she doesn't want to work it out or solve the problem. She wants to be left alone until she calms down. She doesn't yell or fight when she's angry. If she's upset she usually just clams up and doesn't say anything and her face goes blank. If you push her far enough she'll burst into tears though.

She's prideful, she doesn't like to admit when she's done or said something wrong. If you call her out on it It's almost an instant switch into down mode.
She DOES have calm moments. When she's feeling 'normal' she wants to be helpful and can be a hard worker. In a small way this is to make up for her behavior in her manic modes.

In general Dizzian's a nice friend as long as you can tolerate her mood swings. She loves her friends no matter how new and is incredibly loyal right from the get go. It takes some effort to break her trust, she wants to believe in the best of people and will turn a blind eye or forgive too quickly. Once her trust in you is broken it's gone. There has yet to be a person to truly earn it back though some have returned to a 'friend' state. She is especially blind when it comes to love interests. She's happy letting others make big decisions but wants to feel like she has control over what she's doing. If someone starts to fight her on it she'll concede and let them have their way.
Dizzians reactions under stress vary depending upon her mode. When up she can respond quickly and even take the lead in a situation. If she's down though she can panic and go into a mental shut down, needing someone to direct her every actions.

She tends to get along with boys better than girls though she's not opposed to having female friends. She's a natural flirt and will flirt with either gender though it's mostly meaningless and just for fun. She's only interested in male relationships. Dizz MAY sleep with a girl if the opportunity arises just to try it once.

She's aware of her mood wings and personally hates them. She can recognize when one hits her and is conscious of the change but she feels out of control when it comes to stopping it.

Other:

Dragon
Name: Courath
Age: 15
Colour: Green
Description: Average/Average Courath
Personality: If there was a dictionary on Pern - then Courath's picture would be featured next to the words patient and understanding. A practical beast for the most part she is well aware that others sometimes have problems and behond those problems lay very valid reasons (even if those reasons are only valid in their own minds). As such she does not see the point in beating them up about it but instead offers support and compassion during the tough times and strength and courage to improve during the good times.

Courath swells in a place of deep inner strength and 'can't' is simply not a word in her vocabulary, Courath can and will do anything she sets her mind to and she's brave enough to fly to the sun...and patient enough to wait until she has a good plan so that she can pull it off too. Although soft of voice when Courath's words are made of steel, she means what she says and she says what she means..she just does so when it will do the most good and in an empathetic manner. Really it does no good to fuss at someone when they are in the midst of an emotional outburst..so she'll wait patiently for that to pass, offering comfort to calm someone down... and then kindly offer her opinion on things when said person is in a more rational mindset.

When it comes to love Courath is likely to be a quiet creature - she might not rise often but she'll make it count when she does and is likely to be more prone to picking the underdog to win when she can - if only to give the boy a bit of confidence. It's unlikely that she will approve of the larger more bullying personalities when it comes to males...or other humans for that matter and she certainly won't approve of those types as friends for her's. Bullies as far as she is concerned are just cowards in hiding and she doesn't much like cowards.

Why Me?: While some dragons might not be able to handle Dizzian's mood swings and yo-yo like temper - Courath is one of the ones who can and the green certainly recognized this when she made her choice. The balancing nature of this greens fairly quiet and constant temper can only be a good thing for Dizzian and Courath truly desires to help those who deserve it. Beneath Dizzian's mood swings and seemingly dual personality Courath see's someone who is brave enough to handle them and in those moments when her temper isn't getting the best of her Courath is aware of her desire to help others and work hard to do so. Her loyalty to her friends is a deep draw to the green who sees such qualities as something worth being a part of and yet her's is wise enough to let that loyalty go to an extreme and get taken advantage of those who might try to do so.

In Dizzian Courath see's someone who is both opposite and similar to herself, perhaps the girl can help Courath to let go and get wild once in a while...or at least allow her typically quiet nature to take a bit of a break. Sometimes...maybe..it's something Dizzian will likely have to work at - just as Courath will help Dizzian learn patience and hopefully act as a balancing point for her riders otherwise sporadic mood.

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