Name: Finnisa
Age: 22 (3552.12.23)
Sex: Female
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Craft: Beastcraft (Herder/Shepherd)
Rank: Apprentice (Not Hall trained)
Location: High Reaches Weyr
Physical Description: Middlingly tall, Finnisa's prime features are a kindly, round face and going-to-need-to-be-cut-should-she-ever-impress long golden hair. As a child she rather liked when her dark eyes were compared in gentle placidity to those of the herdbeasts she loved and minded, though now she would probably be offended...even if it wasn't quite a lie. Plump cheeks and a resting soft smile makes her come off more simple than she is, leaving only the light of a quick wit in her glance to say otherwise.
Her clothing is somewhat simple in style and color, but of the highest quality of wool and leathers—the benefits of having a leatherworking parent, and minding the flocks that supply the materials. Never one to dress girlishly, trousers and sturdy boots are the name of the style game, and she tends towards more eccentric pieces or small unusual accessories than being fashionable.
Personality: Finnisa isn't really bothered by much. She's slow to form opinions (mostly by virtue of being relative slow to become informed, and a self-awareness of her lack of informed nature) and slower to change them once they sink in. If an issue doesn't effect her, or won't change anything she cares about, she's a bit prone to letting those who do care fight it out. She keeps herself out of conflict even when there's a side she agrees with, and it can make her come off as aloof or worse, when the issue is a critical one. Conversely, when finally roused to action, she has a white-hot passion that can serve as an excellent motivator...for as long as she can keep it up. Being angry is exhausting, and she tends to flare hot and fast, and burn out just as quickly.
An ambivert, she can take or leave social moments and company. She tends to pendulum somewhat, seeking out contact repeatedly for a few months, and then retreating for the same time. She does as she likes, when she likes, in that regard, and does just fine either way—she doesn't need social interaction, but she also doesn't mind it, and that eternal comfort in any level of social interaction makes her come off fairly confident and unflappable.
The downside of her typically less-than-motivated nature is that she gets a bit jealous of the success of those around her. Someone smarter, better off, more recognized than her can make her dislike them, though she's thankfully fairly good at keeping those ugly thoughts inside. It leaves her eager to avoid them, or quietly hoping to see them stumble and fall, as horrible as feeling that way makes her feel the minute after it happens.
She's very observant, a quick wit, picks things up with lightning speed, and excels at almost anything she tries...she just is resistant to trying things, and rarely devotes any effort to what she tries when she does, leaving her skill imperfect and half-learned.
Positive Trait List Independent, even-keeled, patient.
Negative Trait List Slow to start, complacent, envious.
History: The younger daughter of a beastcraft/leatherworking couple out of Moreta's Hold near Keroon, she was raised alongside her sister Iziquin and later, a foster brother come to learn her parents' crafts. She took to an animal-centric life like a duck to water, immediately enamored of her family's flocks and herds. While her sister's caring led to a number of youthful foibles (including an attempt at running away over the sale of a certain beloved animal) Finnisa's never been one to get too attached, and she grew up knowing that most of her animal companions would be sold, or eaten, or become clothing.
She became more reclusive (and devoted to her craft) once Iziquin left, as the realization that her sister was really making something of her life lit a bit of a fire under her to work out just what she herself might do with the same level of skill and devotion. She made an excellent herder...but it wasn't a passion. And so when a dragonrider came, his brown fixating on her and the offer to stand High Reaches' sands came up, she leapt at it. This, she reasoned, was something that she could do! Something she was being called to do, and not her sister! She could make dragonriding her passion, her craft, she decided, and quickly wrote to her sister to happily inform her of the change of life path.
Sadly the firelizard she borrowed never made its destination. Thread returned as it flew, and the little thing's rider (from whom she'd borrowed it) was felled, leaving the man's dragon and firelizard both to leap between. Taking her sister's silence as rejection, or jealousy, Finnisa dove into her lessons at the Weyr with something like spite at the heart of her devotion. So what if her sister was jealous, or didn't think she could do it, or disagreed with her choices? She was going to stand and be the best dragonrider High Reaches had ever seen!...Probably. She just wished it was a little less work...
Other: Younger sister to Nilah's standidate Iziquin.
Candidate Specific Questions
Do you want them to have an official Search RP? Nah
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? Not at present.
