Post by Jilli on Mar 16, 2012 0:30:12 GMT -4
Name Hanako
Pronunciation Hah-Nah-K-Oh
Age18
Season Born inSummer
Gender Female
Sexuality Heterosexual
Appearance
Hanako isn't the tallest woman, measuring in at 5'3''. Her skin is a pale beige that burns easily in the sun. The only marks marring her body is a dusting of freckles across her face and arms and a dark long scar running down her leg from about mid thigh to upper calf.
She has a quirky smile that never shows her nearly perfect teeth. It lifts at one corner, but the real success of the smile is in her eyes. They are a rich brown with golden flecks. Her eyes change with the tilt of her head, darkening and lightening with, of course, the light. They are her most expressive feature.
She's not exactly the thinnest person around, but she's by no means in the fat category. She has a healthy build, semi-well endowed in the bust area. She's usually to be found wearing well fitting pants that flare just slightly toward the lower part of the legs and sandals. A white or tan cotton shirt completes the ensemble, and her long auburn red hair is usually caught up in a ponytail to keep it off her face with the exception of her bangs that frame her face.
Personality
Hanako is happy even when she isn't. What I mean to say is, even when she's unhappy, she always puts on a brave pleasant mask. Its extremely rare for others to see her when she's not upbeat, sometimes annoyingly so. She can't stand the thought that her actions or emotions would have a negative effect on others.
She takes rejection hard. Hanako works hard to be a valuable part of whatever she does. Sometimes it doesn't go all that well. At that point she becomes selfconscious and withdrawn, berating herself for screwing things up. It gets a bit much when she gets rejection and admonition from outside sources. It's not like she doesn't see herself as above reproach from others, but it's like their input makes her feel twice as bad because in her own mind she's already worthless.
Where she's outgoing and almost always happy around others, she is the exact opposite when she's alone. It feels like she has no one who cares for her or needs her. She wants desperately to be needed, to have SOME sort of purpose. With no one there she reflects on things inwardly and they tend to all come out with a negative light.
She loves Children. Actually, she loves anything she can take care of. It's an immense achievement for her to see something grow under her nurturing guidance. It also helps her not be so depressed. Her job as the headwoman's assistant forces her to be in control and responsible, something she desperately needs.
Family
Mother- Sadina 45 rider of Green Sovoth
Father- Kaldon 48 fisherman
Older sister- Kiritora 23 of brown Ekoth
Location originally from Telgar Weyr, now she makes Trelis her home.
History
She had a very happy childhood for the most part. She was loved by her parents and older sister. She spent most of her childhood playing with her mom's green or tagging along after her big sister. It was a rather uneventful childhood. She spent her days playing and her nights tucked in a warm bed to play the next day.
That all changed when her sister became a candidate. Hanako was lost. She didn't know what to do without her older sister there, so she started spending more time with the other weyrbrats.
As she got older, she found herself having a crush on the runnerbeast caretaker, Garrick. She began spending more time near the corrals each day. They became friends. He taught her about the animals. She soon spent her every free moment with him even though he was about 10 turns her senior. Slowly, against her family's wishes, the friendship grew to love. Their age difference made no difference to her. She was happy.
He grew attached to her as he taught her. There was something intimate in bringing a life into the world alongside someone. He admitted to himself he loved her after staying under a blanket cradling her against his side to keep her warm as they waited for a colt to be born. He gave her that colt for her 16 th birthday. It was her first pet. His name was asfolath and she adored him.
When her sister impressed to a brown it was like the girl became a different person. She insisted that Garrick was bad for hanako. She began trying to convince her sister to leave him. She finally had one of her friends drug garrick's klah one night, dragging him back to his house and slipping into bed with him as if they'd been together.
That was the sight that greeted hanako when she arrived that morning. Her young heart was broken. She spent weeks asking herself what she had done wrong. Meanwhile he was asking himself why she'd stopped coming to see him.
Her sister and mother were, of course, quick to introduce her to a young man they approved of. Hanako couldn't stand him. The young man Mallem, was fairly well to do. He was aware of that fact and seemed to never wish to grow up. She missed Garrick's maturity. She missed how, when she was with him, she trusted everything was going to be okay.
To keep her family happy, she put up with the boy. He followed after her fawning over her. It wasn't what she wanted. She took it until she couldn't anymore. She had grown tired of everything. Her sister's elitist attitude, her mother's hinting that she should marry the boy.
Garrick found her one day at the paddock she kept Asfolath in, and they had a long talk. She found out about her sister's lies and plots. She was happy again. They were going to leave and go somewhere far away from her family to be together. Then the thread hit. Garrick was taken from her that day, and that helped her make up her mind.
She packed her bag and rode her Asfolath to freedom. Asfolath's swift hooves brought her to Trelis, where over the last year she's worked her way up from being a common drudge to becoming the headwoman's assistant. She has a lot of the responsibilities on her own shoulders, helping more and more now that the headwoman's health is failing more often.
Candidate Questionnaire
Color Preference- uhmmm I really have no preference for her. I suppose one of the female gender mutations would be kind of awesome
Character Preference- she would prefer something not ranked. Heck she still thinks this is all a big misunderstanding
Non-preferred n/a
Cross-Impressing- I'd rather have her impress a female
Mutations- the gender mutations are cool
Mauling- have fun with the bloodbath( mauling would be a fun little twist to throw into a working plot... ) just not the face please?
Preferred/Non-Preferred Personality traits- this I leave up to you my lovelies. I've been in love with every dragon you've ever made me and I'm sure this one will be no different
