Name: Carwyn
Age: 16
Sex: Male
Sexual Orientation: Pan
Craft: Harper
Rank: Apprentice
Location: Currently High Reaches Weyr
Physical Description: Carwyn is an oddity among his brothers as he doesn’t share the height they all got from their father. Indeed, he’s about an inch or two shorter than average height and with his wiry build he doesn’t stand out all that much in a crowd, but he hasn’t let that bother him. His hair, a shade of golden-brown similar to wheat, tends to shift colors depending on the atmosphere. In summertime, when he spends as much time as possible outdoors, it lightens to a light, sandy blond while in winter, when he’s more inside than out, it darkens to a darker, vaguely brownish shade. He keeps it cropped short and brushed back out of his face. Even his eyes deviate from the apparent trend, being an interesting hazel shade rather than brown. These alter based more on his mood than the color of his clothing, the inner golden-brown ring widening when he gets angry while the outer greenish-grey becomes dominant when he’s in a good mood. The one thing his looks do share with his father is the intensity of those eyes; Carwyn’s stare can look right through a person if he wants it to, holding a cooly calculating expression more often than not.
The rest of his face is nothing special and he definitely does not fit the description of what most people call handsome; rather, his looks are interesting, his nose a little too big to blend into the background. Were it not for his eyes, it would probably be the dominant feature. His jawline, possibly the only obvious sign of his father’s blood, is firm and gives his face the length it needs to draw attention away from the center and out to the rest of the picture. With his mouth often drawn up into a faint smirk of a smile, the intense or calculating light in his eyes gives him the impression of lazy insolence or arrogance, and it looks good on him. When he gives a true smile or grin, however, it adds a sparkle to his eyes and a boyish quality to his face that makes the expression almost infectious.
Not one normally given to frippery or decoration, Carwyn doesn’t much care what he wears so long as it’s clean and relatively free of holes. He doesn’t favor any color above any other, though greens and greys can bring out the cooler colors in his hazel eyes and darker shades compliment his lightly tanned skintone. The one touch of ornamentation he will allow himself is a single hoop of metal in one ear, made by his brother Nikodin for his last Turnday. Now that he’s old enough to start shaving, he’s taken to keeping a bit of scruff on his face, both out of laziness and because he likes the look.
Personality: Carwyn is nothing if not a punk. He’s intelligent and knows it, which often leaves him making sarcastic remarks at the expense of others; hopefully he’ll grow out of it a little eventually. Being shorter than most of his peers most of his life, he learned quickly that the best weapon he had against them and the older boys were words, and he’s learned to use them to great effect. He’s also turned his lack of height into a weapon, preferring to attack from the low ground, as it were, to unbalance his opponent. The position of dominance, after all, is above, not below, and Carwyn’s learned that reversing that can have a great effect on his chances.
Don’t let that fool you into thinking he’s not a fighter, though. Carwyn is a scrappy little devil when occasion calls for it. Being among the youngest of his siblings, Carwyn grew up wrestling and roughhousing with three older brothers, not to mention the other boys in the crèche growing up. He’s got an eye for situations and can use words and tactics to great effect, but if he has to he won’t hesitate to get physical; it’s a trait that has gotten him into more than one spot of trouble in the past.
Still and all, he’s a good lad. Those friends he’s kept he’s highly protective of, to the point of occasionally poking about in their business if he thinks there’s trouble afoot; he means well, but his meddling might not be appreciated. The same goes for family, especially his few younger siblings. Once they start dating he’ll insist on meeting whoever their current object of affection is, even before their father C’din does, and that goes double for his little sister. He pays attention during lessons and work, though occasionally only because he gets better snarking opportunities; Carwyn’s always been quick on the uptake and has little patience for those who can’t keep up. If he knows there’s a good reason why they can’t, however, he’s more forgiving; brain illness or a head injury wasn’t necessarily their fault, after all, so they can’t help it if they can’t keep up.
History: Carwyn was the result of a lost flight; when bored bronze Audroth lost yet another greenflight, his rider C’din happened across Rhonwyn on his way back to his weyr and well, the rest is rather obvious. Nine months later, Rhonwyn gave birth to a healthy baby boy she decided to call Carwyn. Being Weyrbred herself and having ended up in the beds of a couple other losing riders, Rhonwyn was fairly certain there would be no particular attachment to her from C’din and didn’t expect to hear from the man again. Had Carwyn been a girl, it’s likely that Rhonwyn never would have mentioned C’din to the child at all, but boys need a father figure. Rhonwyn waffled back and forth about whether or not to tell C’din for a good three Turns before finally biting the firestone and introducing the pair.
Carwyn took an immediate liking to his bronzerider father and to his older brothers, insisting on running around with Randen and Nikodin even though he was both younger and smaller than they. When his family grew, with the additions of twins Tadran and Todrin, he had no problem at all including them in his games. Indeed, he spent so much time with the pair that Carwyn is among the two or three people in the Weyr who can easily tell the two apart. He remained close to his mother Rhonwyn as well, though, and is very protective of her. Any man trying to court her has had to go through her son since he was seven.
That protectiveness got him in his first major bout of trouble when he was eight. Rhonwyn’s then-beau hadn’t taken too well to having a mere child tell him off for speaking to his mother in a less-than-polite fashion. Carwyn, refusing to back down, had ended up backhanded, which sent him tumbling down the flight of stairs he’d confronted the man on. The fall damaged both legs, and the injuries never quite healed right which left Carwyn with an unusually stiff-legged gait. It hasn’t slowed him down much, though he occasionally blames the injury for why he hasn’t grown as much as other boys his age; truthfully in that regard he takes more after Rhonwyn than C’din, he just doesn’t quite want to admit it.
As he got closer to Apprenticeable age, Carwyn began paying more attention to the Crafts around him. He had every intention of Standing once he became old enough, but everyone needed a fall-back plan, after all. Always one to gather as much information as possible, Carwyn poked around the Craft caverns for a full Turn before settling on Harpercraft at the age of thirteen. He took to it like a fish to water, and tries to keep his studies up in between Clutches; if he ages out of Candidacy he has his sights set on becoming a Master Harper one day. It never hurts to have a fallback plan.
Other: I may introduce some others of his family later, but I figure Carwyn is a good starting point ^^; He's got...quite a large family. Eight siblings total and a bronzerider father I hope to bring in once I get art and an approved character sheet for him
Candidate Specific Questions
Do you want them to have an official Search RP? No. He's a Weyrbrat; the only time he'd have left the Weyr is if he'd have to to apprentice as a Harper.
Do you understand they will age every passing year regardless if you're there to RP the or not? Yes
Do you want them to have a possible Stands Impression? No. For that to happen he'd have to have aged out of Candidacy or be too injured/sick to Stand, so it's even more unlikely than it already is.
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