"What makes people rich? Experience? Money? Land? Clothes? Breeding?"
BASICS
RETIRE INFO: Retire
NAME:Naera [near-ah]
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: she/her/hers
ORIENTATION: Bi, leans towards males
BIRTHDATE:Late Spring 2753
AGE: 16 as of 2769
LOCATION: High Reaches Weyr
OCCUPATION: Apprentice Tailorcraft, dragon candidate.
WING:
APPEARANCE
EYES:Blue
HAIR: strawberry blonde
HEIGHT AND BUILD:5'3 Petite, due for a growth spurt soon, her final height will be 5'8" and willowy.
PLAY-BY:
FULL APPEARANCE:Naera keeps herself neat and clean and always puts on a little bit of airs. Her clothes ..would look like something that Lord Holders daughters wear, except, with.. FLARE. nice colors, soft fabrics and pleasing textures is what she's all about. Her golden mess of curls is kept braided behind her with ribbons and painted, beaded seeds intricately intertwined in the braid, at a length that reaches to the small of her back, messy bangs, and two long ringlets that hang down just in front of her ears reaching all the way to her breast. Her braid is not neat by any means, stray hairs flying out every which way and the braid loose enough that the top of her hair almost looks short, until she turns around.It's used as yet another way of self expression, twining in ribbons, dyed strips of fabric, and any sort of trinket like beads and seeds she can. Sometimes a pretty feather or flowers when the season is right. Her appearance is full of Embroidery, dyes, gathered flares and frills, additional ribbons or overlayers, and in the winter, furs she can manage, she takes great care in her appearance, and handmakes everything herself. So, everything she wears, is..unique and head turning. she definitely stands out where ever she goes, looking well dressed and trying to express herself through fashion.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Naera is an optimistic and adaptive sort, not much brings her down. If something goes wrong, or doesn't go her way, the way she expected, she works that much harder to find an alternative, and another way around. Kind of like a bulldozer.
Though she is passionate about her craft, such passion becomes an obsession. She gets easily locked into 'everything for this one idea' where there is nothing else but the project, to the neglect of her other duties. Though she sees herself as generous, she instead foists her crafted project onto someone else whether they want it or not, and she will not take no for an answer. Her vanity is always on display, though despite being willing to get messy in gathering supplies or dyeing materials, she is incredibly particular about the clothes she wears during it, and refuses to cut her hair out of a matter of pride. She's very self centered and self serving, every action revolves around her, her plans, her life, and what she wants to do or feels like. Her kindness to others is because she wants to show off her work and be appreciated, her work in her craft is to be acknowledged and approved of, to become a well known name one day. That isn't to say she doesn't care about others, she would do much to help her friends and those she cares about, but her way of going about it are often excessive. She's an introvert's nightmare. She isn't the type to drop everything for someone though, nor is she the type to run into the line of fire should someone be in danger.
HISTORY
FAMILY: Caring mother, younger sister, younger brother
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: (optional)
BIRTHPLACE:Keroon
HISTORY:
Naera was the Oldest Daughter, and she had skills with fabrics and a passion for handiwork around the house and mending at a young age, so was sent at 8 to tailorcraft hall, where she GREATLY enjoyed her life, and picked up on the craft quickly, enjoying textures, aesthetic, color, flow, vibrancy... she's pretty much a prodigy at working with cloth and gowns, and she has a good eye for what will flatter someone the most.
She makes friends quickly and easily, and has skill with making even a drudge look like a holder's daughter at a gather with the right fabrics. Once she received a fire lizard egg from a grateful mother of a friend she'd made at a gather, where she'd prettied up the woman's daughter and it caught the elibigle son of a holder's attention, and then a marriage.
her egg hatched into a green fire lizard whom she named Tizzy, and gave her a great bounty in the form of a female tiny dragon who laid eggs occassionally, as long as Naera stalked her to find where they were laid.
Fire lizard eggs were great bartering tools, and now suddenly she had bartering tools to use to gain MORE fabrics, furs, pretty seeds for bracelets and beading. Finer threads for sewing and embroidery.
Her work took off even more, and life was going GREAT!! Her teachers let her have free reign to create, as long as she kept up with lessons and work.
A dragonrider came on Search right after a Gather and Naera went with. She loved her craft, but the opportunity to become a dragonrider? Who would say no to that?
She was all for trying her luck at Impressing, for she didn't mind if she made it or not, going to see Hatchings would give her more inspiration, and getting the honor of dressing dragonriders made her excited. If she didn't end up Impressing, she could always return back to the Hall and continue her studies. No matter where she goes, everyone wears clothes. Her skills and talents would be appreciated no matter where, right?