Post by howl on Feb 26, 2012 11:57:37 GMT -4
Name Keegan Manetharen
Pronunciation Key-gan
Age 21
Season Born in Winter
Gender Male
Sexuality Bisexual
Appearance
Keegan is around 6 feet tall with a slim but muscled frame. His raven black hair is cut shorter on one side with the thickness and length on the other giving him a slightly windswept look most of the time. His skin is a golden tan, accentuating the darkness of his hair and his jewel green eyes.
Keegan is seen in a variety of different garbs. If he's working, he's just in cotton pants and hyde boots with a tan shirt. Daily around the hold wear he tends to favor a cleaner, crisper look. soft leather pants with the ever present boots, and a clean laceup shirt. His moves are slow and deliberate most of the time, a sideeffect from the long years working with runnerbeasts where calm and easy is needed in order to not startle them.
Personality
Keegan is a sweetheart to the tee. He's fiercely overprotective of his sensative little sister, and he fits the sweet big brother type rather easily. He's a different way around different people, preferring to adapt to the easiest way to deal with people. This tends to make some people unsure of what he's really like.
His relationships with men tend to lean toward him being the more effeminate one of the relationship. Soft, sweet, and shy. With women, he's the strong, gentle caring type. Outside of his relationships, He tends to just adapt to the type of personality that will work best with whoever he's dealing with. (like say he is in the caverns with a straight man who is homophobic, he keeps the guy's guy personality upfront while he may be thinking completely fruitfilled thoughts about the said bathing partner.) He doesnt back down easily, preferring logic over getting overemotional and heated. With his father, he's the perfect son. A man's man till the bitter end, focused on his work and taking joy and pride in working with the runners. This has kept their relationship in good standing, though Keegan cannot stand how the man treats his little sister.
He tends to not let people see his genuine emotions, making some people have issues with him. He doesnt really get angry unless someone picks on his sister or his weaker friends, but when he does, it's like a switch flips in him and it takes a WHILE for him to calm down. Internally he hates his father for what he did to his sister, but until something develops giving him a different path to follow, he really has no choice but to continue being the herder his father raised him to be.
Family
Alessandra- 17 sister- baker
Keylen - 45 mother - baker
Garathan - 51 father - runnerbeast herder
Location Trelis Weyr
Rank Green Weyrling & Runnerbeast trainer/herder
History
Keegan was born as the son of a third generation Runner beast herder. His childhood was a happy one for the most part. He played with his kid sister, was spoiled by his mother, and doted on by his serious and work obsessed father. As Keegan got older, he appointed himself his little sister's protector. She was his whole world.
His father began taking him to the fields with him to teach him about runner beasts, and he learned quickly. He gained an immense love for runners. Eagerly learning all he could. He learned that runners, while mostly calm and collected, had issues with quick and sudden movements. His youth was spent learning and training himself to be easy, calm, and move slowly to exist in harmony with the runners.
The most traumatic experience of his young life was when he had his first day without his father watching over the herd. He had had an uneventful day for the most part, but as it grew dark and the runners had gotten quiet for the night, he heard something at the far side of the field. It was a roar. Before he could get the gate open to get to and try to save the young runner, the dragon was on it, ripping it to pieces. He'd stood, shocked and terrified, watching as the dragon killed his friend, then the monster turned it's eyes on him. He'd never been particularly afraid of dragons or whers, but that moment, with the runner's blood dripping from the dragon's muzzle and its eyes locked on him... He'd never been so frightened in his entire life.
For the next three days, he relived that moment over and over again, until his father had relented about not making him stay in the fields past sunset. Ever since then, he's had a mistrust of wher's and dragons alike. Both big reptiles representing feral hunger and a nightmare cacophony of screams and blood.
His sister didn't share his opinions and as they grew up, she started becoming fascinated with them. Keegan tried warning his sister not to voice these pro dragon opinions, especially in front of their father. She didn't listen. To his horror, his sister plainly told their father that dragons and wher's were good creatures for the most part and that everything the two of them knew of them was biased because he worked with runners.
The fallout of that discussion would forever cause keegan to dislike his father, even though he didnt agree with his sister. To keep the family in some form of order, Keegan moved out, taking his sister with him. They now lived above her bakery, and he worked in the fields with his father every day.
He kept his father happy and his mother was okay knowing that he was there to care for Alessandra. Their life was mostly quiet and happy. Until the storm.
The great storm that wrecked their home and robbed them of their parents. Sollace was destroyed and Keegan's legs were terribly injured. He now bares scars down both thighs and a jagged one down his left calf. His sister was searched during the cleanup of the disaster by J'dol of topaz Kayath much to his displeasure.
During her first standing, to his immense displeasure one of the dragons of Loraketh's second clutch climbed the stands to impress to him, leaving him a reluctant weyrling of the large Green, Orath. Their path has not been an easy one, and while typically he is alright around dragons now, he still gets jumpy at sudden movements made by them.
When the thread fell, he did his best to help everyone, and for the most part, he was successful. His friends hadnt been so lucky, but himself, his dragon and his sister emerged unscathed. While he did feel badly for Dalrian, the loss of kelath and Jillalene and blue Eulurth, it affected his sister more than it had effected him, so he internalized to help her deal with it.
The rebellion had very little influence on him. Being a 'Normal' rider he was able to avoid their weyrling'master's badside. With tensions in the weyr at an all time high, he fell back to his ways of adapting to fit the situation, neither for or against the rebellion, just as he was with the new groups of s'vrin and ar'rex.
Craft runnerbeast trainer / weyrling
Ranking Journeyman
Strengths calm, cool, collected, doesnt get flustered easily except by dragons
Green Orath
Impressed To: Keegan
Pronunciation:Or-rath
Rank: Green
Size: 26 Feet
Color Codes:
Base Colors: befd00, 83bb2f, and 0b3d0d
Legs and Tail: 002410
Underside: bcfa00
Eye Marking: 053116
Appearance:
This girl is rather large for a green with well developed muscles. Her wings are positively huge, almost too much so for her body. Her muscles are well developed. She is not your typical petite lady. Her hide is a gradient of bright lime greens to medium almost grass greens and very dark blue-based greens. Her legs are nearly a black green and the marking which looks like a stream that a tear drop may have passed over beneath her eye is even closer to black in color. Her tail is also a dark green.
Personality:
Gentle, sweet, skittish, paranoid, gives in easily to her rider, dependent, easily embarrassed, will always make things bigger than they are, a worrier, wants to explore but too afraid to do it on her own, loving and affectionate to her rider, always tries to appear to be one step ahead of everything (causing her to worry more)
Mind-Voice:
They are probably going to try to hurt us mine! Please... Let's go over there, please, please, please, please....?
When she is nervous, Orath's voice will have a stutter to it. She has a tendency to repeat herself when she is upset. Her voice is typically rather jittery, though its over all tone is melodic and rather soft.
Why:
Keegan you are afraid and so am I. You know how to trust and not trust. You can teach me and I want to try to teach you too. We will be a great team, facing down those who are so untrustworthy at all times. After all, we can't trust the world.
