"Things just got super weird--it's my time to shine."
-Troubled Birds
BASICS
NAME: M'sa [Musa]
GENDER: Cis female
PRONOUNS: she/her/hers
ORIENTATION: Pansexual
BIRTHDATE: Late winter 2745
AGE: 25 as of late winter 2770
LOCATION: High Reaches Weyr
OCCUPATION: Wingrider
WING: Raindance
APPEARANCE
EYES: Hazel
HAIR: Messy blond bob
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5’3” and scrawny, almost skeletal
PLAY-BY: art by MERRY!
FULL APPEARANCE: M'sa's skin has a light brown, tanned tone, with a splattering of freckles over her face. Her eyes are a mid-tone brown. She smiles easily and often, with wide, toothy grins that proudly display the gap between her two front teeth. Her hair is cut short, in a blonde bob, which is for the best...because it's a mess. SHE is a mess.
M'sa cleans herself often enough, but she enjoys roughhousing and getting dirty, and as a result, there are times when she sports a layer of dirt or dust on her clothing. She isn't always a mess, but like a canine, can and will get dirty within five minutes of a bath. This woman wears baggy clothing, hiding her narrow, scrawny form. She has no sense of fashion, but that's entirely on purpose. She doesn't like to throw anything away, so her clothing is often patched badly, and she doesn't seem to mind. It isn't that the Weyr hasn't provided, and it's a bit weird that she insists on holding onto clothing that has seen better days, but her chaotic appearance isn't enough to entirely put everyone off. She looks a bit odd, that's for sure.
On days when she has to dress as a rider, she is willing to do so, though she may still look a bit disheveled.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY: M'sa is a woman of dualities. When she's not around someone she feels the need to annoy, she is professional, in a way. Hardworking, despite her disheveled, scatterbrained, silly personality, she performs her duties well. She doesn't often go above and beyond, but she does what is required, and she does it very, very well. She is very aware, and good at compartmentalizing her personality. She acts like a regular person, friendly and a bit strange but not incredibly so, in a professional or casual context. She's wise enough, she just rarely uses it, by choice. She's very excited and energetic, with a cheerful, optimistic personality. She tends to be surprisingly sentimental, and hoards anything she can attach an emotional or positive experience to. Passionate about her interests, M'sa nonetheless remains driven to work hard and do her best. She's a secret romantic, but due to a poor ability/desire to express it, she tends to annoy people she crushes on. M'sa generally thrives on being unpredictable and chaotic, albeit in a more muted way than in her youth.
Personal life M'sa is much different. She lets herself relax, even if her silliness is exaggerated, an act, and she wants to be weird. She mostly just tries to bother her friends--specifically Miraelle--but she likes being annoying. Generally, she is sociable, just silly and a bit chaotic, but she only delights in making uptight people hate her. That said, she can be a bit devious, enjoying harmless pranks. She doesn't have many opportunities to destroy expectations now, but she loves annoying her family and friends. Generally, she hates rules and conventions, preferring to go against social mores, acting a bit weird, but not extremely so. She chooses to have no tact and little respect, except where respect is required to function (e.g. in a professional context). By choice, she has no filter, unless the social context requires it, in which case this talkative lady is capable of shutting her mouth. She is tactile and sensory, with a physically affectionate nature, both in terms of hugs and in terms of touching things without first asking.
She gets hurt and upset at times, but is good at playing it off as if she's not hurt. She is rarely genuine about her emotions, preferring to keep a distance from others.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
-Mother: Lady Maralyne
-Father: Lord Kurusam
-Brother: Marusyl [-12]
Relevant people
-A'riga of Bronze Kairaelth
-Miraelle of Green Pharasmath
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: None, but has a weird frenemy/semi-crush feeling towards Miraelle
BIRTHPLACE: Minor Hold under Igen
HISTORY: Musa was the firstborn to a small hold's lord and lady. Poised to inherit, the young child grew up with high expectations. Fancy and ladylike--these were traits she was expected to grow into, traits she was encouraged to possess, even at a young age. She was taught about decorum and manners, and the children at the hold admired her. This was the heir of the hold, and her parents were so cool! Musa started off as a friendly and sociable youth, with a commanding, noble father who the other hold children admired. Musa absolutely hated it.
By the age of 10, she refused to adhere to these expectations. She wasn't going to be a lady holder, and she was never going to get married. And she was going to be annoying. And play in mud. And you can't stop her. She started making a point of being dirty, having fun, and trying to annoy others. Don't you dare think of her as the distinguished lady type! Around this time, the war ended and thread began to fall, neither of which impacting her particularly strongly. She adjusted to life under thread, and the war was a dragonrider problem, anyways.
Her parents were worried, given their only child's refusal and rebellion. When Musa was 12, her baby brother was finally born, as her parents grew more frantic about an heir. Her parents still hoped she would shape up, but Marusyl became the unofficial heir--the backup. At 14, she was sent away, to live with extended family at the Weyr. Out of sight, out of mind, and Marusyl, only 2 at the time, was named heir...for the moment, at least. Musa had been too much of an embarrassment, and at 15, when she became a candidate, she stopped communicating with her immediate family entirely. Around this time, she Impressed a gold firelizard--Globbie--and met her candidate friends. Aurigaeri and Miraelle were good friends. First, A'riga Impressed, leaving Miraelle and Musa to their own devices. Then, Miraelle, to a green. Finally, at a garnet clutch, Musa Impressed to Mahallath! Mahallath enjoyed Pharasmath's company greatly, and the two were very close, much to Miraelle's annoyance. At this point, any hope that Musa might shape up and return as heir was discarded.
Becoming a rider tempered M'sa's immaturity and chaos, and she was able to function in professional contexts, and be an actual reasonable person...assuming she wasn't around someone too uptight.
Aafter graduating weyrlinghood M'sa Impressed a garnet firelizard, who Mahallath named. Despite the weyr's rocky history, the trio moved to High Reaches Weyr, likely because Miraelle hoped to gain power. At the weyr, M'sa was vehemently anti-gold. The idea of someone being hatched into leadership irked her. Even after threadfall casualties encouraged a rise in need for a gold, she remained as such. Despite her lack of interest in politics, she figured that a program to encourage transfers, both of garnets and green weyrlings, would succeed. It would change the way that wings worked--more small, female dragons--but such a large population of clutching dragons would add up to a gold's clutch, over the course of a turn. She kept this opinion largely to herself, however, preferring to stay out of politics. She didn't care much about the stolen eggs.
A'riga is considered a true confidante, someone she can be herself around, while Miraelle is someone she may be crushing on...just like A'riga. They've both accepted that neither are Miraelle-material, and Miraelle is unaware of either crush.
When Aldoeith hatched, M'sa was displeased, but delighted in Miraelle's reaction. Miraelle got what she deserved--knocked down a few rungs, something to worry about. At Miraelle's injury, however, M'sa was unsure how to deal with it, and has been avoiding Miraelle in the infirmary until she figures out how to do so.
UPDATES
- Spring 2771: Miraelle is injured in threadfall badly enough to have an arm amputated. She is now grounded.
