Moriko
"To quote the poets, we're forsked."
BASICS
RETIRE INFO: Character - Retire, Wher(s) - Adopt
NAME: Moriko
GENDER: Cis female
PRONOUNS: she/her/hers
ORIENTATION: Lesbian
BIRTHDATE: Early winter 2744
AGE: 24 as of summer 2769
LOCATION: High Reaches Weyr
OCCUPATION: Greenhandler, apprentice weaver
WING: Windsong Squad
APPEARANCE
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Black, almost waist-length
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5' 10", sturdy
PLAY-BY: Maika Halfwolf (Monstress)
FULL APPEARANCE: In another life, Moriko might have been beautiful. In repose, she still is, but there is too much residual anger and bitterness in her expression and body language for the word to apply to her in the traditional sense. Her blue eyes are often narrowed, even if she isn't outright glaring. Tall and deceptively strong, she moves with the assurance of someone who's fended for herself her entire life. She does make some concessions to vanity, though. She keeps her black hair stubbornly long, almost to her waist, and only ties it back when it's absolutely necessary. She also has a penchant for fancily embroidered dresses, though she'll wear whatever she can find most of the time.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY: Freedom and her wher have begun to soften Moriko. Where once there was an angry, bitter girl, focused solely on revenge, one can now find a maturing woman. Moriko's still trying to find her place in the world, not entirely knowing what to do with herself without her desire for vengeance. She pushes herself and Morsk relentlessly, wanting to be ready for another war so that no child will ever again have to go through what she did. The rising tensions between the Weyrs have put her on her guard.
She doesn't really know what to do with her free time, never really having any in the past, but she's taken an interest in creating things. After finding out that she was tone-deaf, she turned her attentions to weaving. She has a good eye for colors and surprisingly enjoys embroidery. Creating beautiful clothes makes her feel as if she is doing some good in the world, filling the void of violence and destruction with something colorful and useful.
She has a well-hidden soft spot for young children, and is motherly in a grumpy, reluctant sort of way. She's slow to give affection or praise, and doesn't do it often, but what she does give is well-earned.
HISTORY
FAMILY: Maika (mother, deceased)
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: haha what
BIRTHPLACE: Igen-beholden cothold
HISTORY: Moriko's mother never talked about her past. Only many Turns later did Moriko piece together that she had been a dragonless from High Reaches, who had lost her blue in the Interval War due to an incompetent wingleader who didn't value blue dragons as anything more than cannon fodder. Maika fled after killing the wingleader and avenging her dragon, eventually making her way to Igen territory and giving birth to her daughter there. All that young Moriko knew, though, was that she was trained to be a fighter from an early age, but she was happy with her mother. Her mother loved her, and life in their little cothold was all she knew.
High Reaches found Maika when Moriko was eight. Her mother was killed before her eyes, and Moriko was taken captive, the Reaches bronzerider unwilling to kill a child. She was put to work as a drudge, and bided her time, plotting escape and revenge. The war ended when she was eleven, but the rider who had killed her mother had not fallen in battle. Moriko decided to take matters into her own hands. As a drudge, she might never get close enough to a bronzerider to kill him, but as a rider, she could. As soon as she was of age, she tried her best to be around the Sands whenever there was a clutch or hatching, hoping that one of the hatchlings would find her.
It never happened, at least not while she wasn't an official candidate. She got her revenge in a way, though. The rider who had killed her mother died in the final attack on Fort Weyr, and Moriko didn't really know what to do with herself. She decided to indulge a small interest in whers she'd always had, buried under her desire for revenge as a rider, and became an official wher candidate. She bonded green Morsk at one of her first Hatchings, and Morsk is helping her figure out what she is other than revenge.
