- Name: Korbet
Age: 25 (3548.13.02)
Sex: Male
Sexual Orientation: Panromantic awkward
Craft: Harper
Rank: Not formally trained
Location: Various
Physical Description:
- 6'4"
Thin to the point of seeming frail
Dark brown skin
Black hair
Grey eyes
Unimpressive facial hair
Fingers generally stained with ink
Sometimes his face is too if he's been touching it while in thought
Stands very still while thinking; the troupe's costume designer often uses him as a mannequin
As a result of his mannequin status and lack of personal clothing preference, he generally wears a lot of abandoned partial costumes and castoffs of varying sizes as normal outfits
Personality: Let's be honest. There's probably something a little kooky going on with Korbet's brain. Some switch in the corner of his mind that regulates boredom flicked the wrong way in the womb, leaving him forever seeking adventure he is too cowardly to pursue. Instead, he has turned to storytelling, putting his characters through the kinds of trials he wishes he had the guts to face himself.
When he's not alternately brainstorming or scribbling away, Korbet engages in an excessive amount of people-watching. He's quite adept at understanding where folks are coming from and anticipating how they will react to difficult situations, and even when he can't make an accurate guess as to how they might behave, the scenarios he does come up with are at the very least entertaining.
Though he is wary of courting the sort of danger that might get him punched or stabbed, he has no issue sampling all of the recreational substances Pern has to offer that are within his budget. (Read: not many.) He claims that they help with his creativity, but he mostly just likes the anticipatory excitement that follows experimentation. And, of course, the high. He's not proud.
Positive Trait List: tenacious, imaginative, empathetic
Negative Trait List: nervous, preoccupied, addictive
History: The only son of an uninterested pair of riders at High Reaches Weyr, Korbet tried to believe what many weyrbrats do growing up: that he would someday Impress. Deep down, he couldn't picture it. Flying through the clouds on a dragon's back. Being revered. Doing good things. As much as he might have wished he fit the mold of what he thought a Wingrider should be, realistically he knew it was quite the stretch. Between chores and lessons he spent every waking moment pursuing something he was much better at—writing—and by the time he was on the approach to his mid-20s, he had amassed hundreds of short stories and plays, as well as a decent amount of interest from a handful of traveling theater troupes.
At the feast following his fifty-first failed hatching, Korbet impulsively decided it was time to leave. It might have been the liquor talking initially, but the next morning the idea still seemed sound. He didn't exactly know where he might end up, since weyr life was all he knew, but he was certain that wherever it was, it would be more exciting than waiting around High Reaches for a lifemate that would never be born.
A month or two after his departure, he fell in with a pack of well-intentioned actors and, convinced they were performing pieces that were poorly matched to their age and experience, wrote them a short series of monologues under the collective and pretentious title of Thread Begins, I End. Audiences loved the new material, and Korbet has been traveling with the actors ever since. They're edging closer to becoming a real troupe every day, having pulled a costumer into their service as well as a shifty girl named Luz who styles herself as a cook but is mostly a bouncer.
Other: Korbet has four green flits (Meddle, Scarf, Stripe-Stripe, Aah). At this point, people have begun to find it funny that he has somehow collected so many, and are actively on the lookout for more eggs they might saddle him with. OOCly he will only end up with one more flit, and it will not be green.
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? Yes
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Life updates since his approval:
- After returning to High Reaches for the first time in more than a year and watching Theo impress, like, ten feet away from his seat in the stands at the double hatching, Korbet fell into a well of depression he has been climbing out of ever since. He was left wondering if he had only run away from candidacy so that he could avoid being kicked out, if he might have already killed his lifemate by not being there for them, if he had ruined everything by choosing the easier path.
That evening, he and his firelizards made the acquaintance of a gruff, unaffiliated bluerider, formerly of Western, who roughly dragged him through clinging doubt and self-loathing, past his more dangerous addictions, and out the other side mostly unscathed. She vowed to help him finish the hatching play he had been commissioned to write by bringing him to as many as she was allowed, all the while hoping that one of the dragons he witnessed coming into the world would choose him.
Korbet also obtained a fifth firelizard along the way: a bronze he named Vest.
