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Name: Hellon
Age: 20-25 turns
Sex: Up to you!
Sexual Orientation: Probably whatever is traditional for their gender, but also up to you!
Craft: Up to you!
Rank: Candidate
Location: High Reaches Weyr
Physical Description: Tightly bound sandy hair, tanned skin, and hard, cold blue eyes. Hellon carries his/herself with perfect, almost-rigid posture. Never overexpressing themselves, never gallivanting, s/he is proper in his/her bearing at all times. Life at the Weyr is a serious business, and it's clear s/he treats it as such in every detail of his/her style. Well-made clothing cut to respectable (if not flattering) styles, strong boots, and never a single flyaway hair. If s/he was dropped into a military base on Earth, s/he might just need a haircut to fit right in.
Personality: There's always someone watching you, and your every move matters, and relays something about who you are to the world at large. Hellon cares immensely what the world thinks of him/her, and was brought up to always be in control of him/herself so as to present the best, or the correct image. A firm sense of self-control has been his/her strongest aid through life so far, and s/he cannot help but look in askance at anyone who lacks that sort of discipline. How could you act that way, what is wrong with you? The feelings of others come second to how they are perceived—if people didn't want to be judged, they wouldn't do things that merited judgement.
S/he has his/her principles, whatever they may be, and s/he clings to them with both hands. The core of a person's being should always be iron-wrought, a bastion against all outside forces. Of course...no one else really needs to know just what those principles are. S/he'll stick to his/her guns regardless, and by not backing down, that just proves that his/her convictions are stronger, and thereby right.
Positive Trait List Disciplined, principled, dedicated.
Negative Trait List Secretive, harsh, cold.
History: Hellon was one of several children born to a couple in a tiny, barely-there Hold on the far edge of the southern continent. The Hold was a bastion of traditional living, firmly-established gender roles, a stone-hard hierarchy of ranks, and no room for deviation. Such lessons were drilled in from an early age, and the example being made of his/her older sibling, a child neither male or female, was a potent one. The whole of his/her family resented anything different, anything unnatural. Even dragonriders were suspect, their "wanton" sexuality and lack of strict gender/rank structure in many Weyrs being...unnerving. It was also demanding of respect, as the idea of riders being the heroes of Pern (as long as they were over there and not in the Hold!) was also part of his/her traditional upbringing.
His/her parents almost considered it a relief when their problem child was searched. Send the deviant to live with the deviants, and at least some good might come of it. And life for Hellon and his/her Hold continued on, the balance restored and free of worries. Until, that is, news that their child, who had gone on to impress a brown (almost enough to garner them some respect, almost), had left the Weyr, fleeing into the wilds of Pern and casting off all ties and duties. This, of course, was perceived by the family as a major failing, and the strict yoke of responsibility and upstanding behavior came down all the harder for it on Hellon and his/her other siblings.
Turns later, another searchrider came to his/her tiny Hold—this time from the much more respectable High Reaches Weyr. Thread had begun to fall again, and the old ways had returned, tithing, fighting, and standing to impress for any eligible youngster. And this time, the rider came for Hellon. His/her father made it very clear that this was not an opportunity to be missed, and s/he knew her/his duty to repair the damage done by Saed's reckless, deviant nature, and to take his/her place as a proper rider in a proper Weyr.
And for Hellon, weather it was duty and tradition that urged him/her to accept, or the tiny, flickering light of some deeply hidden secret inside his/her heart, only s/he would know.
Other: Hellon is set up to either be a very traditional candidate, or one that sees even High Reaches as a level of freedom to express him/herself that they never had at their tiny, backwards Hold, depending on how their player wants to spin it.
Adoptable Ad Hellon: 20-25 turns old. A younger sibling of brownrider Saed, s/he was raised to resist anything non-traditional. Stepped up to 'redeem' their family on the sands of High Reaches after Saed impressed and then fled from Western. Possible that they too are looking for a way out of the backwards mentality they've come from.
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