Name: NadryAge: 16
Sex: Female
Sexual Orientation: Assumed Heterosexual (actually leans bi)
Craft: None
Rank: Candidate
Location: High Reaches
Physical Description:
5'4" in height with an unremarkably average build and face, there's no getting around the fact that Nadry is plain. There's nothing at all notable about her, and she knows it, so she keeps herself well-groomed, her black hair long and adorned with pretty accessories, and her clothes clean and properly mended.
Personality:
Polite. If she doesn't have something nice to say, she doesn't say it! (Well, most of the time.) Not that she doesn't necessarily think mean or inappropriate things, she just has a very good hold on her tongue. She treats everyone with habitual courtesy, no matter who they are, although she does become more formal about it when speaking to someone of authority - not that she's ever actually informal. Casual isn't something Nadry knows how to be, so in that respect, she can be a very distant individual; she doesn't know how to relax, which isn't conducive to getting to really know people and making friends. She doesn't realize that she's getting in her own way, however, and is continually dismayed by her lack of close friends, and a little jealous of those who have them. She's very taken with the idea of having a best friend, and would probably be clingy if she ever found one.
Nadry is also a bit of a goody two-shoes, horrified by rudeness and rule-breaking (unless there is a very, very good reason). People are supposed to be polite, to behave a certain way, and to follow the rules. While she won't run and tattle on someone unless it's something serious, if you were to ask her who'd done something and she knew, she'd tell you. If someone is rude or mean, she becomes very flustered, because it's much harder to be polite when someone else isn't! It's in such situations where she can lose her own cool and respond in kind. If another candidate were to display more minor bad manners (say, chewing with their mouth open), she'll try to gently correct them. It's not their fault they don't know better, but they really ought to be enlightened.
She absolutely hates to be dirty, and any chores that involve the possiblity are her least favorite. She much prefers kitchen work, cleaning (but not latrines, ew), and generally the more housework-like chores. She'll do any chore, of course, since she doesn't exactly have a choice, but that doesn't mean she'll enjoy it. If someone were to get her dirty, purposely or accidentally, she'd get quite upset with them, and give them a bit of a telling-off. She's adapted fairly well to Weyr life, however, except for the ever-infamous looseness of Weyr inhabitants. That's still quite bothersome to her, and she tries to avoid or ignore it as much as possible. If someone starts talking about such matters, she'll try to get them to stop, or excuse herself if she has to. In part, this is her clinging to her upbringing and a resulting fear of the unknown, but it's also a bit of an act to cover up that she's secretly deeply intrigued by the forbidden.
Nadry is a teenager whose black and white world has gotten rather gray in the last few Turns, who's only just recently discovered a voice and the ability to make decisions, draw her own conclusions, and go her own way if she chooses, and she's still not entirely certain what to do with that. In the meantime, she holds mostly to what she's used to, but maybe curiosity and just a little touch of rebellion aren't necessarily so bad...
Positive Trait List polite, fastidious, curious
Negative Trait List manners police, overly formal, judgemental
History:
Nadry was raised in a small cothold, the youngest in a line of six children, and the only girl. Her mother, who married at 15 and began having children soon after, never took up a craft, while her Tanner father supported them. Her mother was overjoyed at 31 to finally have a girl, and put a great deal of effort into raising her to be a proper young lady: demure, composed, and well-kept. Her family isn't wealthy by any means, but it was impressed upon her from an early age that while her dresses might not be the most expensive (nor she the greatest beauty, for that matter), she could at the very least take good care of them and look presentable. The result has been a rather fastidious, appearance-conscious young woman, who was expected to attract a suitor by virtue of being a respectable girl from a respectable family.
Three of her five brothers followed their father's example and became Tanners (the second took up Smithing and the youngest Woodcrafting), but the first and oldest was Searched as a Journeyman in Keroon and ended up a dragonrider in High Reaches. The opportunity to take up a craft was never presented to Nadry, nor did it ever really occur to her that she could; it just wasn't done in her family, or really in her cothold, aside from the midwife and an eccentric old herbalist. The latter was a pleasant woman, if odd, from whom she learned a few little things, but as she reached her teenage years her mother discouraged it. It was the first time in her life Nadry experienced any real discontent, but she obeyed and busied herself with more appropriately 'feminine' tasks as her mother began more seriously exploring possible matches for her.
When Nadry was 14, her second oldest brother's wife died giving birth to their fifth child, and suddenly the inevitability of marriage and children became terrifying and unacceptable. Nadry began sneaking off to visit the herbalist, Ellinis, again, though outwardly she continued to behave as expected. One day, when her oldest brother M'yk came to visit, as he did about twice a Turn, he brought a bluerider wingmate with him, whose dragon proceeded to point out that Nadry had potential. So it was that she was Searched and agreed to go, much to the ire of her mother. It was one thing for one of her sons to wind up in a Weyr, but her daughter? She was livid, but what was done was done, and there would at least be M'yk to look out for her...who was considerably less than thrilled about having that responsibility. The idea of his baby sister in a Weyr was horrifying to him.
When Thread appeared a Turn later, he was even less happy, and began trying in earnest to convince her to leave - go home, go to a Crafthall, do anything but Stand - but she's resisted. Now that she knows she has a choice in what she does with her life, she's done letting everyone else make decisions for her. While the idea of fighting Thread is intimidating, the prospect of going back home to an empty future is far worse.
Other: emotion_bigheart
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
