Name:
Rhys
Age:
15
Sex:
Male
Sexual Orientation:
Homosexual
Craft:
Harpercraft Archivist
Rank:
Apprentice
Location:
High Reaches
Physical Description:
Like his sister, Rhys is lithe muscle, though for very different reason. To her tan from working outdoors, he is pale and lovely. Gray eyes are always calm, smiling and bright to whoever approaches, white-blonde hair falling in to his face. While it's kept short on the sides, the top is long enough to touch his ears. He has slightly larger ears, but chisled and defined features, high cheekbones, and an enthusiastic, infectious smile. Full lips, and long lashes lend to a lovely young man, standing at 5'11" tall, who wears mostly pale brown or white.
Personality:
Rhys has always had a mind made for learning. He goes a mile a minute, wondering about what and where things would come from. He loves puzzles and questions, and, believe me, he asks a lot of them. Rhys isn't the sort to like secrets due to this, and will often try to seek out what is behind it. He's also one of the sweetest boys you will ever meet. He smiles warmly, and offers open insight to anyone who so much as tries to come his way. He likes people, and loves being around them, once you get past the initial anxiety.
He likes to help as well, intent on making sure that others are doing well, even if it means a bit of a detriment for him. He likes to think that it's normal, that others might do the same for him, even if that's not necessarily true. He also loves to read. Any kind of record, or note made about the history of Pern itself, or the weyrs, he will devour them with an intensity that some might find odd. He loves to study, knowing that the more he devotes himself to knowledge, the more chance he has to find himself a place in case something happens. Like what, he has no idea, but he's content to sit on the floor of his adopted mother's weyr and pour over records for hours on end.
Not all is soft and sweet with the boy. Like his sister, he has a bit of a temper that can be brought about rather easily if someone is daring enough to push him beyond his normal bounds. He does not get physically violent, but Rhys is well worded enough that he can come up with enough barbed insults and snaps at someone's character if he needs to. It's a rather short fuse, and one that he has to constantly battle against. He may be kind, and gentle with people, but getting him to open up is difficult, mostly because it is hard to get him to speak up.
Rhys is shy, often worried that his thoughts and ideas will not be well received by others. He can not quite bring himself to speak up or interject with others, due to the fact that they seem to already have bonds formed, and he...well. He often feels like the odd one out. The shyness can often lead to anxiety, the boy a bit flighty and fidgety if he has to attempt to be social with other people. He has had a panic attack or two when he gets bombarded, but so far, it seems to reserve itself to anxious tapping at his leg.
Positive Trait List Curious, Good-natured, Studious
Negative Trait List Short-tempered, Shy, Anxious
History:
Rhys and his twin sister were born in a minor Hold just a short way outside of High Reaches itself. The hold was a small hub of activity, with crafters of different skill and ability coming together, sharing ideas and trading their wares. He and Rune grew up running wild in the streets, enjoying everything their small life had to offer. He branched out from his twin sister when he was 6, taking to sitting around while a Harper man told stories to the little ones. Something about watching fingers drift over string, as he was regaled with the stories of Pern and her past excited the boy beyond measure.
It didn't take long for the boy to begin following around one of the Crafters, listening to how he plied his trade, learning small tips and tricks with a bright and curious mind. Rhys loved the thought that he might be able to help keep things in tact, keep records going, and keeping the archives...though he far more loved the lore and history of the large weyrs...but you took what you got. He and Rune spent their childhood learning and playing, capable young adults...and then hell began. It started with his sister getting in to more trouble.
He had to break up a lot of fights, getting himself scarred up and marked. It was a terrifying existence. It was for his twin, what else was a boy to do? It wasn't until the first threadfall that things really became mad. No one had expected it. No one had thought anything like this could happen, and so when it did, they were wholly unprepared. In a tiny hold like theirs, homes were decimated, people killed...their mother and father, gone. Rhys still isn't sure if they ran, of if they're dead. All he can remember about that time is the sound of a voice, a Rider, and he and his sister being swept up on to dragon back.
From there, he recalls High Reaches, the first few months a blur as he recovered from the scoring that came from hiding in the rubble. They were afraid, quiet and stuck being Weyrbrats...until they met Olliah of Gold Fianth. Something about her struck a chord with him, a Goldrider whose dragon was just as welcoming as she was. Rhys was wholly taken, and within weeks, was calling her 'aunt Olliah'. In the turn that he and Rune have spent at the Weyr, he's taken to helping in the records room, and helping with the archives with glee, taken with his foster mother and Hers, as well as the customs and policies at High Reaches.
Other:
Rhys is the twin brother to Rune, and the more stable of the two.
Candidate Specific Questions
Do you want them to have an official Search RP? Yes
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? Yes
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