"Nothing's too cool
To take me from you
New York is not just a tan that you'll never lose
Love is the new denim or black"
BASICS
RETIRE INFO: Retire
NAME: Blaze (Eblauze, hence, Blaze)
GENDER: genderqueer, presents as loosely masculine
PRONOUNS: he/him/his
ORIENTATION: Biromantic homosexual
BIRTHDATE: Summer 2733
AGE: twenty-four as of Early Summer 2767
LOCATION: Fort Weyr
OCCUPATION: Junior goldrider, rider, political student
WING: Midnight
APPEARANCEEYES: grey
HAIR: sun-kissed brown
HEIGHT AND BUILD: Six feet one inch, looks like he would give excellent hugs
PLAY-BY: Adam Lambert
FULL APPEARANCE:
Blaze takes care with his appearance. His short brown hair and new beard are both neatly trimmed and styled. He doesn't wear much jewelry, but his hands are marked anyways. He has heavy callouses on his fingers from his instruments, and a habit of twitching his fingers in mimicry of playing an instrument.
He browns rather than burns, in the sun, and he tends towards darker and more neutral tones. He does look good in Harper blue, but he relies on a Weaver friend to help him pick out his style. He has little confidence in his own fashion, even though he could be a style setter - if he applied himself.
PERSONALITYPERSONALITY: The consummate showman, Blaze fits his name nicely. He seems to have no fears, and he has a sort of natural magnetism that would make him a leader - if he wanted to be. But he finds his strength lies in bringing joy to people, through music. The spotlight loves him, and he loves it. He works hard at his craft, and usually excels.
Blaze's shortcoming is that he puts himself in a box - Harper, friend, singer - and excels at anything within that box. What goes in that box is, again, things he thinks he will excel at. But he does not look beyond what he knows, for himself. He seeks knowledge, for that is one of the functions of the Harper, but he has little to no ambition. Mostly, he thrives on gossip.
HISTORY
FAMILY: both massive and estranged
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: none
BIRTHPLACE: Fort Hold
HISTORY:
Some people, when they have a plethora of children, inadvertently give one a name like 'Far-too-many', which would be shortened into 'Fartoo'. Others, when faced with a similar dilemma, hand the issue over to another person. Such was the decision Blaze's parents made when they had their seventh child. They asked a great-great-aunt to help them name the child, as they were tapped out of ideas. This well-meaning old woman came up with 'Eblauze', a bastardization of at least three generations worth of names. Horrified parents quickly renamed their son 'Blaze', but the damage was done.
Blaze quickly showed talent for Harpering, and was bundled off to the Harper Hall at the appropriate age for training. There, he was tapped by the Voice Master for special treatment. Under this tutelage Blaze developed his trademark voice. He walked the tables at nineteen, and was posted to Fort Weyr just in time to witness the fights between golds. When invited to Stand for the next clutch, he politely declined. Attractive to dragonkind, maybe, but Blaze had no interest beyond his next verse, next chorus.
That changed when Benden attacked.
This will be Blaze's first time Standing, and he's a little bewildered at how it got to this point. Dragons had never been a part of his vision for his own future, so he leans heavily on his candidate master's instruction, and makes friends with the other candidates. If he ages out, he plans to go for his Mastery. If not, well, Weyrsinger is not such a bad position.
