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Name: Lafemy
Age: 18
Sex: Up to you!
Sexual Orientation: Up to you!
Craft: Healing (specialization up to you!)
Rank: Candidate OR Standidate
Location: High Reaches Weyr
Physical Description: Bottle-green eyes peer from below ink-black curls, the only gift of their erstwhile father. A stout, 'sturdy' build serves them well in the colder months at High Reaches, though it lends them something of a more common look. No great beauty, nor handsome Adonis, they're not ugly, but they don't quite shine the way some young adults seem to. If male, Lafemy has astoundingly mature sideburns for his age, and could grow a beard with more ease than some men in their 30s. If female, Lafemy is inclined to having long hair, and its thickness and sheen are the envy of many.
Personality:Lafemy wants to know how everything works. What does this do, and how, and why? They have a million questions, and do best with factual answers (no matter how detailed), not opinions or theories. They're willing to put in the time to learn every little thing about whatever has their interest, even to the point of exhausting their teachers or mentors with an overabundance of asking. They struggle to accept 'because it is' or 'I don't know' as answers—why don't you know, who would know, that can't just happen for no reason! Once something is accepted as fact, that's what it is to Lafemy. Newer ideas or updated rules or facts take time to process, because they were so certain of the previous iteration.
With such a vast store of knowledge, they often feel compelled to share it...though this most often makes them come off as a bit of a know-it-all. No one wanted to know all that, but they didn't get the clue? That's usual. Similarly, they don't seem to understand the difference between socially acceptable questions and intrusive, personal questions. If they're interested in some part of someone's life, no matter how sensitive it might be to that person, they'll probably just bluntly ask about it.
A lot their intrusive, invasive behavior is unfortunately the fault of their sire (not their foster father!)—like him, they struggle to grow attached to anyone without prolonged, intense contact. Their emotions are subtle, not strong, and the satisfaction of solving a mystery, or learning something, is just so much stronger than any sense of shame or upset over having been scolded for asking in the first place. They are rarely angry, or sad, or even notably happy. Overall that leaves them safely contented most of the time, but at the cost of having a more difficult time forging social relationships.
Positive Trait List Patient, inquisitive, practical.
Negative Trait List A know-it-all, intrusive, emotionally apathetic.
History: Lafemy was born to the creche of Benden Weyr. They grew up communally, counting the whole Weyr as family until they turned about five or six turns old. At that point a budding interest in healing (they were found more than once trying to care for or tend to injured animals, including insects, and once, a wher-ravaged tunnelsnake!) happened to align with a request to foster from a middle-aged dragonhealer. He was about to leave the Weyr for High Reaches following the loss of his mate, and as she'd never given him a child, he was hoping to find a child to fill his life with, and to teach. Their interests aligned, and the man became their father in all but blood, teaching them all he knew in their new, frosty home.
The dragons of course fascinated the youngster, and it was only when they entered their teens and realized that they would be allowed to stand to impress one that they recalled their origins not as the healer's child, but as some unknown rider's child. It did not change their feelings for their foster father, but knowing their origins made the offer of candidacy more appealing. As a member of the Weyr, they knew they would be allowed to join in at any time, even as they kept up their practice of learning healing from their father. Which path was right? Riding? Or healing? The quandary consumed them enough that worries about who their actual father was, and why he'd left them, were buried under more immediate things.
Other: Anything else you want to add?
Adoptable Ad Lafemy: 18 turns old. The child of greenrider L'an and a previous lover. Was fostered to a dragonhealer at High Reaches since childhood. Never knew either parent, but has recently learned that his/her father is a rider.
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