Post by TheDreamerLady on Nov 5, 2008 1:26:18 GMT -6
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Character Info:
Name:
Filipek, (Nickname: Ely, spelled Ili)
Age:
19, (1049)
Gender:
Male
Rank:
Candidate
Location
Nova Weyr
Family:
Gepez, Father, 49, Igen Steward
Awet, Mother, 47, Wife
Chezwe, Brother, 17, Steward-in-training, working toward becoming Holder. Seeks alliance with young female cousin of Lord Holder.
Quet, Brother, 15, Beastcrafter Apprentice: interested in breeding drought resistance Herdbeasts.
Jehet, Sister, 13, Currently Betrothed- No Set Date For Marriage
Veket, Sister, 11, Currently Betrothed- No Set Date For Marriage
Sheho, Brother, 8, Brat- Unapprenticed
Opet, Sister, 5, Brat- Lacks Betrothal
Appearance:
While there are a great many blondes who come from Igen and Ista, and a good many of them have blue eyes, none have eyes like Filipek. His eyes are a shade of blue so compelling, that many times people forget what he looks like, and just remember the bright, smart blue eyes staring at them out of his tan and almost rugged face.
Not that their is anything wrong with the rest of him- sun bleached blond hair, tan skin, often a little bit of scruff on his face, and a fit body. He's muscular, and tan everywhere. He, after six turns at the Igen Weyr, has little shame left, and thinks beaches are better in the nude.
He's a little scarred, from work in the Holds, work in the Weyr, and work with both beasts and threadscored dragons. He's no healer, but any boy with a hope of using a brawny body to help the healers out was pressed into that sort of labor. The CM truly approved of that practice, and thus most Candidates spent some time working in that field.
He's six feet tall only because he has impeccable posture, and the slightest slouch would send him spiraling down into 5'11 space. He's usually got an easy, and slightly amused smile on his face, and sometimes laughs at jokes that no one else understands. In a decade or so, he's going to make an interesting uncle, or Weyrstyle father.
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Personality:
Ili is strict, and stern, and most of all loving with those he considers in his family. With people who are merely friends, he's open, quick witted, easy going, and accepting. With his family, he has high standards, and a low threshold for failure. Even perceived failure.
He has high standards for himself as well, and is much harder on himself than on others, even his family. Raised with the expectation that he would command a Minor Hold at some point in his life, Ili is used to being considered a leader, and is proud of it. It comes naturally to him now, and he enjoys the attention that it brings him.
He doesn't really enjoy eating that much. He's more likely to eat on the run, and just grab a snack. It's not that he's against eating, but sitting down to eat seems like a waste of perfectly good time. And, honestly, sometimes he just forgets to eat.
Sexually, Ili was a very late bloomer. While most boys had their first loves at fifteen or thereabouts(and being as he was in the Weyr at that time, they had their sweethearts in every way), Ili didn't even have a crush on anyone until he was seventeen. She brought him into an entirely new world, and accepted it when he told her that he needed to explore other options- namely other male options.
Ili has as many female friends as he has male friends, and is proud of it. Unfortunately, it's become harder to make friends with candidates who are younger and younger, as he grows older and has still yet to Impress. At twenty one, he will no longer be allowed to stand, and was not pleased once he figured out what had happened with time. He went from a Weyr of three Queens, to one with two, and feels that this has hurt his chances.
Since he was Searched, he's fantasized about leading a Wing of Dragons over Igen Hold, and defending his old Hold in the air on his life mate. He's still holding out on this dream, because his old dream could no longer come true- his younger brother is now the one who will run a Hold of his own. Thus, Ili is desperate to Impress- and not even Impressing to the Telgar Clutch would upset him at this point, though he doesn't feel that girls should ride any color other than Gold.
History:
It was a good thing that no one counted the days of Awet's marriage and how long she was pregnant, because Ili certainly wasn't premature, and he wasn't born nine months after the marriage. However, this did not effect the social standing of Ili's father and mother- youthful folly was laughed off, and since Gepez seemed destined for high standing, no one in Awet or Gepez wanted to mess with that. Not everyone is so lucky.
Gepez was endowed with a great deal of ambition, and Awet, who would have supported her husband had he decided to become a traveling merchant, was a true supporter of him. The two of them planned their dynasty as soon as they had been married. Gepez would become a Steward, and his son(they planned on having several so that no matter what happened, they would have a son for this), would one day be rewarded for the family's hard work by appointment as Holder at a minor Hold. Perhaps their grandchildren would marry into a Lord Holder's family. Perhaps their great-grandchildren would be Lord or Lady Holder's themselves.
It was a good plan, and Filipek's birth, with ten perfect fingers, and ten perfect toes, and blue eyes that never changed color, seemed like a good luck omen. Gepez' graduation into a full steward and the birth of their second son several turns later was just as sweet a victory.
While in many ways Gepez was in the sidelines for much of Filipek's childhood, the marks he left on the young boy are easy to see. Gepez was a stern man, interested in making a son who would one day be a Holder, and wanted him to be virtuous, and perfect as possible. Gepez was also loving, enjoying his marital life that was relatively untroubled, and that his son's were both bright and smart, and generally exactly what he wanted for his dynasty.
Filipek, who was two turns older than his brother Chezwe, tried to be the model big brother that his father expected him to be. He didn't always succeed, but he tried even when his brother acted like the baby that he was. And then came Quet, who was four turns younger than Filipek, and he tried to be a good brother for him as well.
And when Filipek was six, the first sister arrived. And then another one when he was eight. It was around the time that his mother became more interested in her daughters, and Gepez became more interested in his sons. Gepez was the kind of father that the other boys who Filipek was starting to meet wanted. He was young, upbeat, funny, friendly, and while he would spank his children, they agreed that they deserved it when it happened. And his dreams of one day being the father of a Holder were compelling, and the only thing that Filipek, Chezwe and Quet wanted to do was to help his dream come true. Even the games they played had to do with Gepez's minor Hold. Filipek was the Holder, Chezwe was Steward, and Quet was the Beastcrafter that helped develop the Beast's their Hold was famous for. Even Thread, when it began, was less important than Gepez's Hold. None of the boys really dreamed of becoming Dragonriders- after all, dragonriders couldn't hold land, and that made Dragons seem a little less interesting.
Each of them started being messenger boys at seven, and learned the Major Hold of Igen that their father Stewarded for by heart. They were quick, and bright, and endeared themselves to everyone they ran into, including a cook who liked to slip Chezwe cookies whenever he made them.
And then, at the tender age of twelve, things changed rapidly for Filipek. During the time that his father was looking for a Steward his son could apprentice too, a team of Searchrider's came to Igen, and Ili, just old enough to stand for Search, was Searched.
Filipek did not know what to do, and neither did his family. They had raised Filipek to do his Duty, to both Hold and Weyr. And they had been raised as well. Added to that, Chezwe was just as gifted as Filipek, and with the added prestige of having a Dragonrider in the family, being lifted to the position of Holder was more likely.
And thus, with heavy hearts, the oldest son of Gepez was bundled up in warm clothing, and sent off to the Weyr. And their, his world grew, and expanded, and in very little time, all dreams of Gepez' Hold were washed away, and all that remained was an urge to Impress, and guard the land that his brother would some day own.
And each time that Saharth, or Elfreth, or Helanith Clutched, Filipek was there, thinking that this would be the time, and each time, he was bitterly denied, growing older and older each Clutch.
Not to say that the candidate did not learn more from Igen as the turns passed. He learned, and grew to believe the Igen beliefs, mostly that women who rode Fighting Dragons were freaks(this issue occurred more often, as more Queen Eggs were laid, and girls accidentally Impressed), and that Igen was, by far, the best Weyr(and not just because it lacked female riding freaks), and that isolation would probably save the Weyr(even if the Weyrwoman didn't always agree). And he enjoyed being a boy who led the candidates, and who learned more and more about dragons.
And then, after four turns, and puberty, Ili discovered something new- girls!
And what a fine girl she was, too. Moinya was dark haired, and sarcastic, and wanted more than anything to be a Goldrider. She was in control, and command all of the time, and Filipek liked being around her, despite her relative youth(fifteen to his seventeen). And when he realized why he liked being around her so much, he let her know, with both a flower and a kiss. And after several months of dating, she brought him deeper into her world. As a woman who had to real power in the Weyr, Moinya had discovered men who allowed her to dominate them, and discovered that there was a small population of Igen that enjoyed it very much. Moinya didn't bank on Filipek feeling the same way about being the one to dominate, and slowly her desires, and his inability to truly ceed power and responsibility to her choked the relationship.
When Filipek discovered his attraction to boys, it gave them both a good excuse to end the relationship, and Moinya became part of Filipek's non-sexual family, despite the lack of a blood bond. Filipek still held his family dear, despite his only contact being biannual letters carried by runners to and from the Weyr. And while he kept his experimentation with boys from them, he told them everything else he could think of.
Then, one day, Filipek was told to pack his most valued objects, and report to a little know spot. He was told that he was going to be a candidate at another Weyr, and then he 'died'. His family was told that due to a tragic accident while their son was serving as groundcrew against the Thread, he'd been killed, and the Weyr offered it's condolences.
Filipek found out that he had been transfered to another Weyr- one based firmly in the past. And he has his reasons to believe that they don't expect him to Impress, and just wanted a strong body to help out building the Weyr, and expects to be send off to finally create his Hold, two hundred years in the past, on the wrong continent.
But at least the weather's nice, and he still has a chance at Impressing.
Dragon Info
Name:
Sheanath
Color:
Green
Appearance:
Sheanath is a lovely seafoam green. She's got lighter green under her wings and under her chin. Her eye ridges are slightly darker and she has light green striations on her legs. Her claws are light grey mixed with white. She has good proportions and tends to arch her slightly longer neck.
www.queenslandbeadcompany.com.au/....oam%20Green.jpg
Personality:
Pushy, demanding and all too logical for a green. She can be easy going but is more likely to appoint herself in charge of those she views to be lesser than herself. She has an opinion and she will voice it. To top it all off, Sheanath is a flirt but very picky about whom she flirts with.
Background:
Another green hatched, a larger one and rather pushy too. She found her young man immediately he was hers and she was going to make it known that he was. After all, she wasn’t going to wait around and let someone else snatch him up! Only a complete dimglow would do that and she, despite her color was far from that. F’lipek, you did not think I would leave you standing there like a dimglow did you? Hurry, now, Sheanath is hungry enough to eat a Candidate
Character Info:
Name:
Filipek, (Nickname: Ely, spelled Ili)
Age:
19, (1049)
Gender:
Male
Rank:
Candidate
Location
Nova Weyr
Family:
Gepez, Father, 49, Igen Steward
Awet, Mother, 47, Wife
Chezwe, Brother, 17, Steward-in-training, working toward becoming Holder. Seeks alliance with young female cousin of Lord Holder.
Quet, Brother, 15, Beastcrafter Apprentice: interested in breeding drought resistance Herdbeasts.
Jehet, Sister, 13, Currently Betrothed- No Set Date For Marriage
Veket, Sister, 11, Currently Betrothed- No Set Date For Marriage
Sheho, Brother, 8, Brat- Unapprenticed
Opet, Sister, 5, Brat- Lacks Betrothal
Appearance:
While there are a great many blondes who come from Igen and Ista, and a good many of them have blue eyes, none have eyes like Filipek. His eyes are a shade of blue so compelling, that many times people forget what he looks like, and just remember the bright, smart blue eyes staring at them out of his tan and almost rugged face.
Not that their is anything wrong with the rest of him- sun bleached blond hair, tan skin, often a little bit of scruff on his face, and a fit body. He's muscular, and tan everywhere. He, after six turns at the Igen Weyr, has little shame left, and thinks beaches are better in the nude.
He's a little scarred, from work in the Holds, work in the Weyr, and work with both beasts and threadscored dragons. He's no healer, but any boy with a hope of using a brawny body to help the healers out was pressed into that sort of labor. The CM truly approved of that practice, and thus most Candidates spent some time working in that field.
He's six feet tall only because he has impeccable posture, and the slightest slouch would send him spiraling down into 5'11 space. He's usually got an easy, and slightly amused smile on his face, and sometimes laughs at jokes that no one else understands. In a decade or so, he's going to make an interesting uncle, or Weyrstyle father.
img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/DL_Amanda/PaulWalker_Mazur_5163884.jpg
Personality:
Ili is strict, and stern, and most of all loving with those he considers in his family. With people who are merely friends, he's open, quick witted, easy going, and accepting. With his family, he has high standards, and a low threshold for failure. Even perceived failure.
He has high standards for himself as well, and is much harder on himself than on others, even his family. Raised with the expectation that he would command a Minor Hold at some point in his life, Ili is used to being considered a leader, and is proud of it. It comes naturally to him now, and he enjoys the attention that it brings him.
He doesn't really enjoy eating that much. He's more likely to eat on the run, and just grab a snack. It's not that he's against eating, but sitting down to eat seems like a waste of perfectly good time. And, honestly, sometimes he just forgets to eat.
Sexually, Ili was a very late bloomer. While most boys had their first loves at fifteen or thereabouts(and being as he was in the Weyr at that time, they had their sweethearts in every way), Ili didn't even have a crush on anyone until he was seventeen. She brought him into an entirely new world, and accepted it when he told her that he needed to explore other options- namely other male options.
Ili has as many female friends as he has male friends, and is proud of it. Unfortunately, it's become harder to make friends with candidates who are younger and younger, as he grows older and has still yet to Impress. At twenty one, he will no longer be allowed to stand, and was not pleased once he figured out what had happened with time. He went from a Weyr of three Queens, to one with two, and feels that this has hurt his chances.
Since he was Searched, he's fantasized about leading a Wing of Dragons over Igen Hold, and defending his old Hold in the air on his life mate. He's still holding out on this dream, because his old dream could no longer come true- his younger brother is now the one who will run a Hold of his own. Thus, Ili is desperate to Impress- and not even Impressing to the Telgar Clutch would upset him at this point, though he doesn't feel that girls should ride any color other than Gold.
History:
It was a good thing that no one counted the days of Awet's marriage and how long she was pregnant, because Ili certainly wasn't premature, and he wasn't born nine months after the marriage. However, this did not effect the social standing of Ili's father and mother- youthful folly was laughed off, and since Gepez seemed destined for high standing, no one in Awet or Gepez wanted to mess with that. Not everyone is so lucky.
Gepez was endowed with a great deal of ambition, and Awet, who would have supported her husband had he decided to become a traveling merchant, was a true supporter of him. The two of them planned their dynasty as soon as they had been married. Gepez would become a Steward, and his son(they planned on having several so that no matter what happened, they would have a son for this), would one day be rewarded for the family's hard work by appointment as Holder at a minor Hold. Perhaps their grandchildren would marry into a Lord Holder's family. Perhaps their great-grandchildren would be Lord or Lady Holder's themselves.
It was a good plan, and Filipek's birth, with ten perfect fingers, and ten perfect toes, and blue eyes that never changed color, seemed like a good luck omen. Gepez' graduation into a full steward and the birth of their second son several turns later was just as sweet a victory.
While in many ways Gepez was in the sidelines for much of Filipek's childhood, the marks he left on the young boy are easy to see. Gepez was a stern man, interested in making a son who would one day be a Holder, and wanted him to be virtuous, and perfect as possible. Gepez was also loving, enjoying his marital life that was relatively untroubled, and that his son's were both bright and smart, and generally exactly what he wanted for his dynasty.
Filipek, who was two turns older than his brother Chezwe, tried to be the model big brother that his father expected him to be. He didn't always succeed, but he tried even when his brother acted like the baby that he was. And then came Quet, who was four turns younger than Filipek, and he tried to be a good brother for him as well.
And when Filipek was six, the first sister arrived. And then another one when he was eight. It was around the time that his mother became more interested in her daughters, and Gepez became more interested in his sons. Gepez was the kind of father that the other boys who Filipek was starting to meet wanted. He was young, upbeat, funny, friendly, and while he would spank his children, they agreed that they deserved it when it happened. And his dreams of one day being the father of a Holder were compelling, and the only thing that Filipek, Chezwe and Quet wanted to do was to help his dream come true. Even the games they played had to do with Gepez's minor Hold. Filipek was the Holder, Chezwe was Steward, and Quet was the Beastcrafter that helped develop the Beast's their Hold was famous for. Even Thread, when it began, was less important than Gepez's Hold. None of the boys really dreamed of becoming Dragonriders- after all, dragonriders couldn't hold land, and that made Dragons seem a little less interesting.
Each of them started being messenger boys at seven, and learned the Major Hold of Igen that their father Stewarded for by heart. They were quick, and bright, and endeared themselves to everyone they ran into, including a cook who liked to slip Chezwe cookies whenever he made them.
And then, at the tender age of twelve, things changed rapidly for Filipek. During the time that his father was looking for a Steward his son could apprentice too, a team of Searchrider's came to Igen, and Ili, just old enough to stand for Search, was Searched.
Filipek did not know what to do, and neither did his family. They had raised Filipek to do his Duty, to both Hold and Weyr. And they had been raised as well. Added to that, Chezwe was just as gifted as Filipek, and with the added prestige of having a Dragonrider in the family, being lifted to the position of Holder was more likely.
And thus, with heavy hearts, the oldest son of Gepez was bundled up in warm clothing, and sent off to the Weyr. And their, his world grew, and expanded, and in very little time, all dreams of Gepez' Hold were washed away, and all that remained was an urge to Impress, and guard the land that his brother would some day own.
And each time that Saharth, or Elfreth, or Helanith Clutched, Filipek was there, thinking that this would be the time, and each time, he was bitterly denied, growing older and older each Clutch.
Not to say that the candidate did not learn more from Igen as the turns passed. He learned, and grew to believe the Igen beliefs, mostly that women who rode Fighting Dragons were freaks(this issue occurred more often, as more Queen Eggs were laid, and girls accidentally Impressed), and that Igen was, by far, the best Weyr(and not just because it lacked female riding freaks), and that isolation would probably save the Weyr(even if the Weyrwoman didn't always agree). And he enjoyed being a boy who led the candidates, and who learned more and more about dragons.
And then, after four turns, and puberty, Ili discovered something new- girls!
And what a fine girl she was, too. Moinya was dark haired, and sarcastic, and wanted more than anything to be a Goldrider. She was in control, and command all of the time, and Filipek liked being around her, despite her relative youth(fifteen to his seventeen). And when he realized why he liked being around her so much, he let her know, with both a flower and a kiss. And after several months of dating, she brought him deeper into her world. As a woman who had to real power in the Weyr, Moinya had discovered men who allowed her to dominate them, and discovered that there was a small population of Igen that enjoyed it very much. Moinya didn't bank on Filipek feeling the same way about being the one to dominate, and slowly her desires, and his inability to truly ceed power and responsibility to her choked the relationship.
When Filipek discovered his attraction to boys, it gave them both a good excuse to end the relationship, and Moinya became part of Filipek's non-sexual family, despite the lack of a blood bond. Filipek still held his family dear, despite his only contact being biannual letters carried by runners to and from the Weyr. And while he kept his experimentation with boys from them, he told them everything else he could think of.
Then, one day, Filipek was told to pack his most valued objects, and report to a little know spot. He was told that he was going to be a candidate at another Weyr, and then he 'died'. His family was told that due to a tragic accident while their son was serving as groundcrew against the Thread, he'd been killed, and the Weyr offered it's condolences.
Filipek found out that he had been transfered to another Weyr- one based firmly in the past. And he has his reasons to believe that they don't expect him to Impress, and just wanted a strong body to help out building the Weyr, and expects to be send off to finally create his Hold, two hundred years in the past, on the wrong continent.
But at least the weather's nice, and he still has a chance at Impressing.
Dragon Info
Name:
Sheanath
Color:
Green
Appearance:
Sheanath is a lovely seafoam green. She's got lighter green under her wings and under her chin. Her eye ridges are slightly darker and she has light green striations on her legs. Her claws are light grey mixed with white. She has good proportions and tends to arch her slightly longer neck.
www.queenslandbeadcompany.com.au/....oam%20Green.jpg
Personality:
Pushy, demanding and all too logical for a green. She can be easy going but is more likely to appoint herself in charge of those she views to be lesser than herself. She has an opinion and she will voice it. To top it all off, Sheanath is a flirt but very picky about whom she flirts with.
Background:
Another green hatched, a larger one and rather pushy too. She found her young man immediately he was hers and she was going to make it known that he was. After all, she wasn’t going to wait around and let someone else snatch him up! Only a complete dimglow would do that and she, despite her color was far from that. F’lipek, you did not think I would leave you standing there like a dimglow did you? Hurry, now, Sheanath is hungry enough to eat a Candidate
Nice.