"Who you gonna call?"
BASICS
RETIRE INFO:
Profile: Retire
Concept: Adopt
NAME: Karyyan, also called Kary
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: she/her/hers
ORIENTATION: Homosexual
BIRTHDATE: Early Spring 2745
AGE: 22 as of Late Summer
LOCATION: Semaca Wery
OCCUPATION: JM Smith, Supernatural Investigator, Candidate
WING: N/A
APPEARANCE
EYES: Greeny-blue, light and bright
HAIR: Voluminous blonde pompadour
HEIGHT AND BUILD: Slender 5’9
PLAY-BY: Kate McKinnon
FULL APPEARANCE:
An aura of excitable energy permeates Kary’s entire being: she is a woman prone to exaggerated movement, strange and spontaneous dancing and wild-eyed, vivid expressions. Everything about her seems to scream over-the-top, but there is nothing forced or attention-seeking about it: she's highly eccentric, a fact that is very evident in her appearance.
She dresses oddly for a Pernese smith-turned-candidate, with a preference for overalls, short tops and long coats. She also dons goggles- mostly during her work, but also sometimes because the moment calls for it. Because of her odd taste in fashion, she is often seen wearing ‘Frankenstein clothes’: garments that she has tried to make herself, and look mismatched and frail at the seam. One such piece is a grey jumpsuit of which she is especially proud: a tunic stitched to a pair of trousers, the whole split down the middle then fixed with buttons. Genius design, really, to avoid messy spills or burns on her ‘nice clothes’.
Her skin is light, her complexion rosy. She has an enchanting, radiant smile and a mischievous grin. With a highly expressive face, Kary expresses a great deal of wonder and emotion through the quirk of her eyebrows and the tilt of her lips. Her eyes are a similar colour to a calm sea, but gleam with eager and earnest joy. She sometimes dabbles in makeup, and has a penchant for accentuating her lips with rouge. Her hair, often styled and pinned into vertical curls, is a sunny blonde.
She may look and dress like she's from a completely different planet, but Kary definitely loves Pern and its people, and would like to fit in (as long as she doesn't have to change herself, thank you).
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Karyyan is odd, to say the least. She doesn't fit in with many Pernese traditions or stereotypes. Many people told her no- such and such simply isn't feasible… but her mind toyed with the problem, and calculated solutions from a multitude of angles. She's highly creative in her thinking, and doesn't quite fit inside any box in which people might wish to put her. Adaptable, and utterly brilliant in her work and craft, Kary is prone to mental gymnastics that may leave many reeling.
She talks. A lot. Her favourite topics include schematics, blueprints and flamethrowers. She loves fire, and making it, and making weapons, and hunting supernatural phenomena (guys, there is a forsking ghost wher we need to see and hopefully befriend). Once she starts talking, the conversational participants are sort of locked into this verbose roller coaster, and there's very little opportunity to get off the ride. She'll take an unwilling companion off an adventure to test some new contraption, and then be genuinely surprised when that person never wishes to speak to her again. So, she has learnt to tone down her excessive energy around strangers- at least at first. It's always best to lure them in with a sweet smile before gang-pressing them into becoming a human guinea pig.
Unpredictable and eccentric, Karyyan cruises through life with little thought for her past or future. She is very happy-go-lucky, preferring to let her feet (and mind) take her on her journey. She doesn't really worry or stress about things, and has very little opinion of the world beyond her own interests. Carefree, but also perhaps a bit careless. People’s problems- and dealing with them- are not her forte.
She can be quite emotionally disconnected from people, mostly due to not properly understanding how they work. People don't just come together like a perfect blueprint. They're full of quirks and dysfunctions and shortcomings and sometimes they say things but mean something else and really, just overly complicated for no good reason. But she'd like to be close to people. She's not antisocial- in fact, Kary is friendly and bubbly and chipper. She just doesn't quite get the smalltalk bit or the sharing secrets or being there for others. Gossip, she likes, because it's funny- same as teasing people. Because of this she can come off as shallow or a bit rude. But deep down she's just a little puzzled by human behaviour- they're not as easy to understand as her calculations, or machines.
Kary is a huge flirt. She absolutely adores making people feel awkward, too- no doubt because their discomfort puts her at ease. She'll flirt with any woman who seems mildly interesting- often crossing boundaries and bubbles in the process. Personal space? What's that all about? She'll drape her arms around people she thinks of as friends, bump hips or even pull into odd or spontaneous dances. She understands the word ‘no’, however- and certainly tries to keel her exuberance under wraps around strangers, or in situations where it would be inappropriate.
She's amused by silly things, her sense of humour located somewhere in the ‘pulling faces and making strange impressions’ department. She laughs a lot, readily and easily, and finds funny people especially fascinating. She likes to attach herself to prankster types and join in on practical jokes.
Kary doesn't really get angry- mostly because she is very detached. She is, however, incredibly protective of her work. She does not like people misusing or abusing her smithing tools, and will fight to protect them no matter the cost. Leave her babies alone, thank you.
Most of her life revolves around her craft and research. More often than not she is drawing up schematics for something new, or working at her forge. She is tireless and dedicated and incredibly intelligent, undeterred by scientific setbacks or experimental adversity.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
- Father: Aligan {JM Miner - 2719
- Mother: Shryena {JM Tailor - 2718}
BIRTHPLACE: Crom Hold
HISTORY:
Born to a quiet couple who pursued their respective crafts with assiduity and focus, Karyyan’s childhood thrust upon her a mantle of independence that defines her actions to this day. She found that she never really relied on her folks- emotionally distant, perhaps, but she enjoyed her own company and freedom too much to really want anything else. Not that she was born free-spirited and independent; but as soon as she could walk safely she was off investigating Crom Hold.
A precocious child with an interest in everything around, Kary’s imagination took her on many adventures- mostly into the paddocks of the herds of runners or into the pens of domesticated fowl. She still has a childlike love for animals, and no doubt would have apprenticed to the beastcraft, if her ingenuinty for the smithcraft hadn’t come to shine.
When she was about seven or eight, she found herself drawn to the bustling activity of the forge, where the blacksmiths worked. There she spent many a day studying their hastily scribbled designs, asking annoying and incessant questions. Harper lessons had been progressing well, and the young girl, with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, threw herself into the mathematics behind the schematics. It was all so fascinating- even when she made mistakes, the errors had entertaining results. She was undeniably gifted in mathematics and has understanding of how things worked.
At twelve, she asked to become an apprentice smith. Many were glad to see the bonny blonde haired lass join their ranks, insane questions aside, and she was well-received (even if it was at arm’s length). Her parents approved, too- glad to see her enthusiasm shine. There was more to the smithcraft than just numbers and drawings- and Karyyan found herself devoting long candlemarks, sweat and the occasional tear to her study. At the furnace and upon the anvil, she developed a rigid work ethic and a solid set of muscles.
She was just shy of twenty when she walked the tables and promoted to Journeyman. For the first time in her life, she felt a little bit flighty and aimless. Staying at Crom was a possibility, but she wanted to see the rest of Pern, as well… as long as she could do so from the safety of her workshop. And of course, her workshop wasn’t movable. So this was a dilemma.
News of a rather eccentric man doing research in the wilder areas of Pern stirred something within her- this was a kind of life she could get behind! She tracked the man down- Newt, as most people seemed to call him- and followed him around, assisting in his research as needed. Kary developed a penchant for the supernatural from listening to his many, rambling stories- especially his tales of the Golden Ghost, who lived around the Fort area.
Eventually, growing tired of Newt’s fascination with studying the various differing excrements of wherries and how to better help them, Karyyan departed for Fort Hold. She was able to put her smithing talents to use for the good of the Holders, whilst pursuing personal projects on the side. Some of these projects involved designing new tools- from portable netting-devices to enhanced glove schematics that might assist the guards with their duties. Her main project of interest was the sighting and possible capture of the Golden Ghost: there was enough second-hand evidence to guarantee the giant wher was a real thing, but Kary had yet to behold her in all of her majesty. This had to change.
And then, one day, she received a letter. It was from Newt again, writing to tell her that he suspected the Golden Ghost may have travelled to Semaca. Rumours were that she had laid an egg- and from it had hatched the most peculiar and wonderful wher. That he had bonded too.
Well, that sealed the deal. She applied to transfer to Semaca, and made her way to the southern lands of sun and danger. This was exactly what her life needed- a little bit of a shakeup and a Weyr in need. She was going to help out as best as she could whilst still searching for these paranormal whers and other events!
Despite only being at Semaca for a few weeks, she was approached by a dragon about the possibility of Standing for Nebulaeth’s maiden clutch. That seemed like an exciting prospect, too- despite her fears about dragonriding wars, she was always quite admirative of dragonkind as a whole. So Karyyan continues her smithing duties whilst attending candidate lessons.
