Name: Farinalgo
Age: 25
Sex: Male
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Craft: Harper (Teacher, plus some flute and vocal to pass general requirements)
Rank: Journeyman
Location: High Reaches
Physical Description: You’d be looking at a slim, neatly-dressed man just a sniff over six feet tall. His dark hazel eyes, appearing nearly black, stand out in a light-skinned face framed by white-blond hair. His emotions are usually clearly expressed on his oval-shaped face unless he is consciously controlling it, and his smiles and frowns are formed by full, pouty lips.
Personality: Farinalgo’s biggest weakness and biggest strength is that he lives for the approval of others and loves to be the center of attention. He’s a genuine mood-maker, always trying to be funny and uplifting. He’ll be the one who always dances as if he is drunk, even though he can hold enough to drink most of his friends under the table. His specialties are jokes and physical humor. He does it expecting to see a positive reaction and gets very stressed if he doesn’t get it, sometimes resulting in bitter, sarcastic remarks and bouts of sulking afterwards. His tendency to enjoy being in the spotlight gives him a particular aptitude for teaching. He has no stage fright, speaks well, and just adores being an authority on any subject and being able to enlighten a rapt audience.
Another charm of Farinalgo’s is that his emotions are powerful and worn on his sleeve. His happiness is everyone’s happiness. The unfortunate part of it is that he cries easily, happy or sad – though he’ll fight it for the sake of pride and keeping others comfortable, and that he is a decent loser, but a poor winner and can get abrasively cocky about it.
Something Farinalgo tries to keep on the down low is the fact that he can’t swim. He hates water and, by virtue of involving wetness, bathing. He does bathe regularly, but it is always a trial with rampant moping afterward. He loves sweet tubers and toasted bread, and his favorite drink is half milk, half klah. As far as romantic preferences, he’s most drawn to heavier girls with pretty curves and fair skin.
Positive Trait List Energetic, entertaining, outgoing, eloquent
Negative Trait List Sarcastic, prideful, delicate, needy
History: Farinalgo grew up in Fort Hold, born to parents Iamagyol and Farnilene. He was not raised by both of them, however. Farnilene passed away within hours of his arrival, due to a difficult birth. His father remarried a woman named Terrila. His older brother Ayolfaril was never close, always seeming to have better things to do than spend time with him. He got along well with his three younger half-siblings, however. The first of them, Arrimyl, was only about a turn later in coming.
Early on, Farin showed a propensity for attention-seeking, possibly in part because of Ayolfaril’s rejection and because of the desire to have the approval of his step-mother Terrila. It’s not that she ever rejected him. It was just that he knew he wasn’t her son, not really, and he wanted to be certain of her love at all times. As soon as was proper, his proclivities were channeled in the form of a harper apprenticeship. He went into teaching, where all eyes would be on him, and he’d be able to show-and-tell to his heart’s content. The musical aspects of the specialization were just sort of tacked on, as the Teaching Songs were considered necessary for children to learn numbers and other basics.
In his sixteenth turn, his elder brother Ayolfaril was searched and went to High Reaches Weyr. Four turns later in 3564AL, younger Arrimyl followed. Both of them Impressed, but Farinalgo had no contact with them except through Arrimyl (now A’myl)’s letters, which often expressed a hope that Farin would be Searched and come to the Weyr, too. Then, unexpectedly, A’myl came home in ‘66 – riding his white dragon. Coming face to face with a dragon small enough to live in the house triggered something in Farin’s psyche. Ohhhhh, how he would have loved to have a dragon of his own! It would be the ultimate in show and tell – a thousand lessons could be taught on history, medicine, biology, flying, flight formations, between... nearly any subject, with an incredible live example to drive the point home.
And he’d have to get one of his own to live out that dream. A’myl had become quite defensive during those two turns he’d been at the Weyr, and was utterly unwilling to allow Viyanakerth to be, in his words, “exploited.” The two half-brothers had always gotten along well, but those two turns apart were apparently enough for puberty and negative life experiences to force them to start over when they came face to face again. And, frankly, A’myl now found Farinalgo and his enthusiasm annoying.
Farin really hadn’t known or understood just how badly his brother had been treated at the Weyr, and A’myl certainly wasn’t talking about it, so this perceived rejection cut deep. Farinalgo tried to mend their relationship, but instead of getting closer to the whiterider, his attempts were usually spurned or misinterpreted, leading to a lot of frustration. And Farinalgo, when frustrated, would say some things he didn’t really mean.
When A’myl completed his Harper apprenticeship and walked the tables five turns later, he and Viyanakerth went back to High Reaches. The brothers’ relationship was tenuous at best by then. They still communicated, but their letters then were pretty spiritless, and not so regular.
However, Farinalgo’s passion never flagged, and he was over the moon when he was Searched in ‘73 and came to High Reaches as a Candidate. He has done quite well learning to submit to structure and not being the teacher thus far, but it is still fairly common for the Candidatemaster to slap him with punishment after punishment for being disruptive in class (usually by trying to take it over) or a little too enthusiastic during a dragon-related chore.
Other: He had a drowning experience as a child, which is why he hates water.
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
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