"You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you."
—The Chamber of the Ordeal to Kel
BASICS
NAME: Kel'adry
GENDER: Cis Female
PRONOUNS: She/Her/Hers
ORIENTATION: Demiromantic Demisexual
BIRTHDATE: Early Summer 2749
AGE: 23 Years
LOCATION: Fort Weyr
OCCUPATION: Green Rider
WING: Aurora
APPEARANCE
EYES: Hazel Green
HAIR: Light Brown
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 6'9" | Solidly built but less than "feminine" figure
PLAY-BY: Keladry of Mindelan ( Image made at Artbreeder)
FULL APPEARANCE:
Kel has always been large for a female, standing at a towering 6'9 by the age of 18. The women on her mother's side have always been long of leg for generations so she assumes that is where she gets it from. From her father, she gets a more stocky and broad shouldered figure that is hardly feminine but it suits her active lifestyle.
She has short mousy brown hair that she keeps cut short, formerly at her earlobes but she has recently let it get almost shoulder length. Her nose is on the smaller side, almost delicately feminine and stands over a pair of full lips. Her eyes are a soulful hazel green and framed by long lashes.
Her frame is dotted with muscle, as much as any average man in her line of work that keeps exercising and she is littered with scars from years of raising her dragon and fighting thread. Despite being in her early twenties, her youthful appearance often makes others think she is still a teenager rather than an adult.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
While Kel is not ashamed of her emotions and lets herself feel them, often, more prominent in her younger years, she wore a mask of neutrality, leading some to perceive her as being stuck up or emotionally stunted. She often did this as a reflex, as her mother often told her that emotional control was very important and she could not be seen to be weak if she wanted to be a strong woman later in life.
It was not the most constructive of behaviors but it was something she took to heart. She also respects her elders and chain of command and obey her superior's commands. However, if they cause her to deviate from her strong sense of justice, she will buck at it. She also has a strong desire and drive to see those around her succeed and often will intervene more often than needed or wanted.
As a young lass, she suffered a crippling fear of heights .While time and training herself to sit on high places have tempered it, at times the anxiety sometimes rears its head but her dragon often pulls her down from that rabbithole.
Due to her body shape and height, she often feels she has to wear dresses at least once a week and remind people she is indeed a female, feeling insecure over her body image and if she is even feminine. She also struggles with her sexuality, not sure if she prefers men or women and often avoids romance because of this. The idea of being physically intimate also sets her into unease, due to the body image issues and her own anxiety surrounding if she is feminine enough.
One of her more prominent quirks is that she often can come off abrasive and tends to tell people what she thinks too often. As she was raised among so many siblings, she often felt if she was not heard, then she was not seen and has little patience for not getting to the point of the matter and feels she needs to be perhaps a bit too assertive to make sure she is not lost in a crowd when in a discussion, especially one she is passionate about.
She also has a knack for being able to organize and lead others on the fly, her mind working like a well oiled machine when its most important and its something that started in early childhood and has continued even into adulthood.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
Piers (Father) - Journeyman Harper
Ilane of Blue Mindelath (Mother) - Blue Rider
Anders (Oldest Brother) - Brown Rider
Patricine (Oldest Sister) - Dragonhealer
Inness (Older Brother) - Blue Rider
Conal (Older Brother) - Blue Rider
Demadina (Older Sister) - Journeyman Weaver
Adalia (Older Sister) - Journeyman Tailor
Oranie (Older Sister) - Blue Rider
Avinar (Older Brother) - Journeyman Scribe
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: None yet..
BIRTHPLACE: Telgar Weyr
HISTORY:
Kel'adry was born as the nineth and final child of Piers and Ilane, their fourth daughter. Like her siblings, she spent a lot of time raised communally like other rider children. Her father often was not around as much in her early years as he was pursing diplomatic pursuits as was his passion. Kel did not seem to mind it all that much, as she bonded with her older brothers, Anders most of all.
As a young girl, her crippling fear of heights manifested itself and became a very powerful fear that made her question if she could ever even be a rider like Anders if she could not even breathe and think when at high heights.
However, seeing her oldest brother thrive as a rider and the beautiful dragon he rode really lit the spark inside of her heart and her future to her was decided, fear or no fear. It was in that moment, at age 11, she decided to start forcing herself to confront her fear head on, for a rider could not be as such if they feared the very air on which they soared. When her brother came to visit with someone from Fort that was searching for candidates, she seized the moment and chose to go to Fort for her candidacy. Her mother allowed it, knowing that Anders would be around if needed but had full faith her daughter knew what she was getting into.
So off to Fort she went and once she became a candidate, she threw herself fully into her training. She often rallied her fellow candidates together and organized little study groups and worked with others within her peers to help them all to succeed as much as possible. She didn't see herself as a leader type but more that she wanted everyone around her to succeed and be the best them that they could be.
Continuing to confront her fear in her off time, she managed get her fear of heights under more control, at least to the point it did not plague her as much and she could function. By the time she accomplished this, it was time for her standing on the sands. It was that day when her dragon hatched, and almost at a full run, she tackled Kel and her eyes locked with the hazel green orbs of her rider as she then spoke.
"Keladry!! I have been so eager to meet you! We are going to do great things together. Don't worry, Gelaneth will always have your back."
Despite having the wind knocked out of her, when she was able to react, she laughed and hugged the tiny dragonette and sat her down and beckoned to her to take her to feed. As they grew and trained together, a fierce protectiveness formed in Kel's heart for her bonded dragon. While Gelaneth was a strong lady and always was making her laugh, she sensed there were some moments the dragon almost seemed to need a boost and she was there and willing to do so.
Graduating at the appropriate time, she began to question if she wanted to join the wing her brother was in... or spread her own wings elsewhere. After a long think, she decided it was time to separate herself from her brother's eye and she chose to join the Aurora wing.
She is content in her life as a Green rider though she often has dreams of teaching, given her time as a candidate and organizing and helping others study, but never really gives voice to them.
