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Name: Abrila
Birthdate: 26.09.166
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Asexual, panromantic
Role/rank: Weyrling, previously holdbrat/drudge
Origin: Nabol Hold to Fort Weyr

Appearance: Abrila is rather small and thin for her age, standing at only 5'3". Her coppery red hair is long, with two shorter front sections that curl around her face. Her hair tends to be in various states of disarray, depending on where she has been. She doesn't take very good care of it sometimes, so it can be neat and flat one day and a frizzy mess the next. Her nose is cute and button-like, but her mouth is wide on her oval face, and she has an overbite that causes her two front teeth to poke out between her thin lips. Her skin is quite pale and darkly freckled, particularly on her face and arms. She also has light, hazel eyes.

Abrila's clothes look well-worn because they are. She is almost always seen wearing an old, green sweater during free time, as it brings her comfort and a sense of home. It's too big for her, so she has to roll up the sleeves if she wants to keep her hands exposed. It is also long and loose in the body, which makes her small frame look even smaller. The rest of her clothes, unless they've been provided by the Weyr, are in the same state. She prefers plain clothes, so she doesn't mind at all.

Personality: Patient, self-sufficient, inventive - Unmotivated, socially awkward, shortsighted

The first thing people see when they look at Abrila is a girl who doesn't really have many cares or goals in her life. She doesn't put much thought into what other people think of her, to the point that sometimes she carries on like people aren't even there. She has an old habit of just blending into the background and not speaking to people unless she is addressed directly. Her manners are also lacking, having been raised without the need of things such as table manners or polite small talk. If she's forced into such a situation, she'll usually be silent and linger only as long as there are people preventing her from leaving. She lives in the moment, not really thinking about the consequences of her actions or inactions.

Abrila tends to interact with other people's stuff than other people. She's not shy of rifling through people's things, and if she can get away with it, she'll pocket items that catch her eye. However, what she chooses aren't typical valuables. She tends to pick up odd bits and bobs that rarely have any value to anyone else. Trash is also completely fair game to her, so hopping into someone's discarded garbage is not against her sensibilities. She keeps what she finds stashed away in secret places where she goes to visit in order to tinker with things. She's an inventive person and loves to put discarded and useless things together in order to make them useful again. Sometimes she does it out of necessity, but other times she builds things just for fun. Her inventiveness and self-sufficiency has allowed her to develop a strong sense of independence and confidence in her own abilities. It's when other people get involved that things get too complicated for her and she begins to doubt herself.

Despite her skills, Abrila can be downright lazy. She could do this or that, but why bother when she could be having a nap instead? She is the kind of person who does the bare minimum, completing tasks at the last minute and just enough to pass inspection from a superior. She listens to authority without question, but no one should expect her to go above and beyond what she is asked to do. Unfortunately, free time often means time to sleep for her, so she tends to miss out on social activities and a lot of opportunities to grow as a person.

Abrila's habit of taking life slow allows her to be an incredibly patient person. She realizes that if she doesn't make things happen at times, they never will, so she is fine with that. If she can make them happen eventually, she will, but not if she needs to put extra effort into it. She also knows that waiting for things can be beneficial, too. There's no point rushing headfirst into things spontaneously. If something good is coming her way, she will sit back, open her arms, and wait for it to come. She doesn't dwell on the past or the future.

History: Abrila started life as a dirty little child at Nabol hold, often seen toddling about because her mother died giving birth to her and her father cared for his drink and visiting the brothels more than his daughter. If it wasn't for a kind, elderly lady to take her in during her father's most absent times, Abrila would surely have been snatched up by a malicious stranger more than once. As she grew older, her self-sufficiency grew too. She learned what kind of people to avoid, where to find food, and to stay at home or with the neighbour when darkness fell.

During her sixth turn, her father suddenly took a greater interest in her. While he would still come home late from the mines smelling of cheap alcohol, he was around more and tried to engage with his daughter more often. He gave her a dirty green sweater, much to big for her to wear, that she carried around like a comfort blanket until she grew big enough to put it on. Abrila, old enough to understand poverty and her situation by then, decided to help support herself and her father in return. She would spend days picking through trash and bringing home things she believed she could sell. Her father, delighted by the prospect of having more money to gamble away, helped teach her how to fix simple tools and as she learned, Abrila became more and more effective at choosing and fixing items she could get top dollar for on the streets. Some items, however, she kept for herself, like makeshift toys.

One day during her twelfth turn, Abrila's father disappeared. No one knew his fate, and Abrila quickly stopped asking, her focus now on survival. She was once again a dirty hold kid, but this time, she could make marks and feed herself. She was beyond poor, but she was resourceful, and kept away from dangerous situations, no matter how tempting a mark reward might have been. She almost grew to enjoy her life, blending in unseen in high traffic places, nicking objects and sometimes food or marks here and there. She avoided the brothels and other holdbrats, but sometimes took low paying, temporary jobs when she was desperate.

It was during one of those jobs that she met a dragon rider for the first time. A greenrider that had a bit too much to drink happened upon the bar she was supposed to be cleaning and passed out. Thinking of Thread, she felt like she owed the rider something for protecting Pern, so she helped the young rider to safety and watched him sleep off his poor choices. When he woke up, he offered to take her to his dragon, who wanted to thank the girl personally. She wasn't expecting the green to speak to her directly, or for her to suggest that Abrila might be Candidate material. She didn't know why she agreed to go to a Weyr, but just like that, Abrila was swept into a completely different world.

Landing at Fort Weyr came with a new set of challenges. Adapting to weyrlife has been difficult, but Abrila has been managing. She was already used to listening to superiors and doing hard work despite her preference not to, it was all the new rules she had to learn that caused her the most trouble. It has become easier as she has developed a routine, but sometimes she slips up. Ever since she Impressed to Shaseth, she's found that he helps keep her on track.

Other: She Impressed to blue Shaseth from green Starelth's first clutch.