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Name: Melira
Age: 14
Sex: Female
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Craft: Weyrbrat
Rank: Weyrbrat
Location: High Reaches
Physical Description:
Personality: Appearing lazy and somewhat of a ditz, Melira does the bare minimum when it comes to candidate chores. Honestly, she'd like to do nothing more than spend time outside, with her companions or by herself. Not the brightest glow in the basket, she often has trouble when it comes to comprehending someone's meaning, but this doesn't keep her from spreading what she believes said person meant. This will probably improve with age; being fourteen, one can hardly expect her to understand everything. She loves to talk. About herself; or about someone else, it doesn't particularly matter.

She loves being around people, but doesn't mind spending time on her own. During these times she daydreams, or puts her vivid imagination to work. She is quite talented at weaving stories together, but rarely does so for others. In recent months, she's thought about how the Weyr was before the return of Thread. People werent living in fear; they were happier then. People weren't dying.

Sometimes, she isn't very attentive, and tends to be easily distracted. Any noise during lessons and her focus is immediately on whatever it was that made the noise.

She dawdles, she procrastinates. She's a bit of an attention seeker.

Melira, despite her flaws, tends to be loyal to those she considers friends. If any one of them is ever in need, she will jump up to assist. Helping friends is one of the few things Melira does not consider work. She sets her lazy behavior aside to pitch in, and will actively defend a friend (at least verbally) if ever needed. She feels if she helps out, she will get the same in return, if ever needed. She is an extrovert, seeking out social situations at all times; and playful to a fault.

Being a story teller causes Melira to be a bit of a romantic. Rather, a hopeless romantic. She loves it, she thrives on it. She enjoys hearing about it; she pays attention to which dragon flew which, and their riders, if their names are present in conversation. When she puts her mind to it, she can be empathic; and recently, she's learned, she can sympathize with people. She is more interested in watching stories play out; being a firm believer that all people have a part to play.


Positive Trait List Loyal, believes all people are important / "Tell their own stories", creative, helpful, empathic
Negative Trait List Attention seeking, bit of a ditz, dimglowed, talks too much, distractable, procrastinates; typical teenage girl
History: Melira was born to a blue and green rider pair in High Reaches and did not have a a very exciting childhood. She was placed in the crèche as soon as she could be; her mother had lost interest in raising a child after a few days of the babe's colicky cries. She wasn't really a part of Melira's life: and while L'mul, the Weyrsinger, took an interest in teaching her tunes she wasn't exactly the most focused in his classes. She was slower to pick up instruments than most, L'mul had lamented, but has had no trouble after that. She prefers pipes.

She was fostered by a kitchen worker when she was a turn and a half. The woman had been a candidate in her youth, but had failed to Impress. She'd never left the Weyr. She encouraged Melira, but having no children of her own, wasn't entirely sure how to handle the child.

It was Thread that shook this girl to the core. Thread returned when she was thirteen turns old, just eight months ago, and took her father along with it when it left. She hadn't been particularly close to him, having grown up in the crèche. But he, unlike her mother, had sought to spend his free time with his daughter. He'd given her gifts, he'd told jokes; he'd been there, even if he hadn't raised her. She couldn't help but expect him to come talk to her, for him to come spend time with her--no, he was gone.

She lost interest in her studies. She became lazy. It hurt. She'd never imagined something like this. It became easier to tell stories than to dwell on reality.

Other: Anything else you want to add?

Candidate Specific Questions
Do you want them to have an official Search RP? No
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
- - - > Please keep in mind that Stands Impressions are very rare. This means that not everybody will get an opportunity to have a surprise Impression, and you lower your chances of being picked by a dragonet. Given the character is not ICly an official Candidate, they will need a reason to be at the Weyr of their choice long-term, or at least for every Hatching.

Her history is just a touch short. You say she was put in the creche but was she ever officially fostered? Most kids wind up having someone assigned to look after them. Menolly was a teenager and there was talk of possibly fostering her out. So I sort of would expect the same with the younger children given up. You mention her dad would periodically pop up, what about her mother? Or was there absolute 0 contact there?

If you can just add a little bit about who was raising her, even if it was just an NPC weyr-person, that would be great.

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