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Name: Turanves
Age: 15 Turns
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: homosexual
Role/rank: Candidate
Origin: Fort Weyr

Appearance:
Skin: Fair
Hair: Mid-length, straight, auburn
Eyes: Hazel, small
Height: Tall
Weight: Fairly muscular
Build: Narrow

Personality: One thing that life has taught Turanves, it’s to be cautious. He doesn’t trust others to hold up to their words. His parents promised their dragons would get better and they would all live happily ever after. But they didn’t. Their dragons got sicker and sicker, until their parents went away with them and never came back. Despite his intelligence and being able to logically figure out his parent’s death weren’t his parent’s fault, he still blames them for lying and leaving.

Outwardly Turanves comes off very humble toward everyone. He has a modest and unassuming behavior. What they don’t know about him won’t hurt. Within the privacy of his mind, he is very conceited. He is better than everyone no matter what; even the Weyrleader. His brother comes in second, and everyone else are just losers. Turanves will never tell anyone what he really thinks of them.

He does have a liberal mind. Turan is open to new ideas. Even if he doesn’t agree with a person’s view, he will be willing to give their ideas a try. So when he heard about the project with the greens, he was willing to give it a try. For it gave him and his brother another chance to Impress a dragon. Sometimes he will accept an idea before he really thinks it though. This can backfire and get him into trouble. When he gets into trouble, his dry humor comes into play as he tries to get himself out of it.

Pos: Liberal, Intelligent, Humble
Neut: Dry
Neg: Uncritical, Cautious, Conceited

History: Born to Fort Weyr, between the pairing of a brown and green rider. Two turns after he was born, his baby brother came into the world. All was well for the young boys. Turanves looked after his younger brother and relished in the adoration and hero worship the younger boy gave him whenever he did something.

When he was 10 Turns old, his parents got him a firelizard egg. It hatched into a handsome brown firelizard who he named Huxali. He shared Huxali with his younger brother as much as he could, for the young boy was entranced with the young firelizard. Turanves would trade favors in return for a chance to let his little brother bathe and oil the brown.

A Turn later and the plague struck. Their parent’s dragon got sick, but their parents promised their dragons would get better. He believed them. Right up until their mother’s dragon passed away and took their mom with her between. Shortly afterwards, the same happened with their father. Devastated by the loss of both parents, he turned to his little brother as the only family he had left.

When his brother turned 10, Turanves made sure to get him a firelizard egg for his birthing day; just as their parents had done for him. He didn’t do it from the kindness of his heart, but mainly for the hero worship his brother would give him.

He stood for clutches when they hatched, but he wasn’t absolutely sure he wanted to Impress. What if his dragon got sick too? He didn’t want to lie to his brother as their parents had lied to them. Turanves was saddened when the last gold queen passed away after her clutch, but also a tiny bit relieved. He wouldn’t have to stand anymore and risk impressing a dragon that was doomed to die.

But what of Thread falling soon? He knew dragonmen must fly. The north didn’t have any queens left, and southern wasn’t sharing. He was surprised when the Weyr announced their plans. Let the greens clutch. He wasn’t as skeptical as some older members. He admitted it might work, if they were cautious. Now the first green has laid her clutch. Tiny, but seemingly healthy. He’s hoping the plague is gone and it’s safe to stand once more.

Other: Sibling to Thali’s candidate, Tordare
Has a brown firelizard named Huxali.