Post by Jilli on Feb 25, 2012 3:00:28 GMT -4
Name Alessandra Manetheran
Pronunciation Alice-andra
Age 20
Season Born Spring
Gender Female
Sexuality Heterosexual
Appearance
Andra is a small girl, standing at about 5'4'' and weighing in at around 135 lbs. She's slender and pale with high cheekbones and full lips. Her eyes are green and expressive. She has long dark hair that hangs past her shoulders.
She's usually found wearing either a dress or the normal candidate leathers. Her movement style is soft and direct at the same time, not particularly graceful, but not spaztic either. She's usually really expressive, and her eyes show it.
Personality Andra is soft spoken, kind, and sweet. Her world revolves around her big brother and her mother. She has a submissive personality preferring to follow rather than lead. Because of this, she tends to blend in with the general populace, not standing out very much. She's a very trusting individual, and that gets her into trouble sometimes. She tends to be used by the more dominant personalities around her, most of the time never realizing it's happening.
She's outgoing and makes friends easily, but that can sometimes lead to being too trusting. She gets hurt easily because she believes the best in anyone. Her innocence has always annoyed her older brother and she's always depended on him to look out for her and keep her grounded.
Bad points about her is her inability to tell when she's being manipulated. After she's been hurt by someone, she refuses to trust them again. She holds a grudge for what seems like forever. Her pride wont allow her to get close to someone after they've lied or hurt her. She has daddy issues, major ones. Her father is a NO APPROACH point, and she clams up and completely shuts down if anything remotely resembling a question about her father comes up in a conversation.
Family
Keegan - 22 older brother - runnerbeast herder (rider of green Orath)
Keylen - 45 mother - baker deceased
Garathan - 51 father - runnerbeast herder deceased
Location Trelis Weyr
Rank dragon Candidate
History
Alessandra was born into the runner beast herder family of Sollace hold. Her father watched over the herd and her mother baked to support their income. She was brought up dreading the sight of dragons and whers by her father. Because their living depended on the runner beasts, lets just say hungry dragons/whers weren't exactly the best things to see around.
She was never inducted into the herder line of the family, that being saved for her older brother. She was raised with the women and her mother taught her the art of baking. She had a happy childhood, baking with her mother and delivering her confections all over the Hold. Her own cooking advanced to the point where her mother gave her most of the baking responsibilities and she had her own shop in the Hold, which was very successful.
As she grew and branched out from her father, her own ideas about the riders dragons and whers of pern. Just like herdbeasts, not everyone or .... rather every species, saw runnerbeasts as companions worthy of the highest respects. After trying to make this distinction apparent to her father at dinner one night, he accused her of traitorous feelings to her family and announced she was no daughter of his. Since then, she's lived with her older brother above her small shop. He wouldnt let her stay by herself and she was secretly glad of it. She depended on him more than she could say, and with the exception of her father, she still has regular contact with all of her family, and she leads a happy normal life, selling her confections to the people of the hold.
The storm came with no warning. She had been making the last of the mornings deliveries when it hit. Her parents were killed and her older brother severely injured when their home fell, quite literally on top of him. Topaz Kayath and her rider J'dol helped her to save her brother and searched her at the same time, and while most of the survivors were taken to Trelis, she was one of the only ones with the distinction of being taken as a candidate in the aftermath of the storm.
She tried and failed, unlike her dragonophobic - non candidate brother, to impress at loraketh's second hatching, and has since then debated on the wisdom of J'dol and Kayath's choice. The age is fast approaching when she will no longer be able to stand for a clutch. She was approached about the wher's but she hadnt been able to decide at the time, but as the tensions grow about the dragon mutations, she came closer and closer. The rebellion frightened her, yes, but not nearly as much as the divide that was forming in trelis.
She came to the decision to try for a wher egg with the next clutch, in hopes of finding a partner to share her confidences and to help make her stronger than she could ever be on her own.
Craft Baker
Ranking Journeyman
Strengths sweets and pastries
Weaknesses savory breads and pies
Dragon/Wher preference
She's gonna get the gold Wher egg from the gather ^.^
Wher names: allesk or allesask
