RIANYA
BASICS
NAME: Rianya
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: she/her/hers
ORIENTATION: Pan
BIRTHDATE: Early Summer 2748
AGE: 23 as of Early Spring 2771
LOCATION: Semaca Weyr
OCCUPATION: Dragonrider
WING: Requiem Squad
APPEARANCE
EYES: Dark Brown
HAIR: Mid Brown, short with longer dangling bits over her ears.
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5'6", toned and well trained
PLAY-BY: [Self-Drawn Art]
FULL APPEARANCE:
Rianya comes in at middling-height, with quickly growing hair only a few shades darker than her skin that usually frames her face in a sort of delicate mane. She sports toned muscles formed from a love of running and climbing. She has a small scar on the back of her right shoulder from a fall, but it's long since faded to almost invisibility. She often wars between her own personal desire to not wear so much fabric that she's sweltering and the practicality of actually protecting herself from the jungles. As a result, she's often found in easily-removable and addable layered clothing - an overshirt here, a midriff wrap there, so she can adjust for occasion and comfort.
Her favorite color is red, and she often carries a long, thin-bladed knife strapped to her leg in lieu of a more general dagger.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Rianya is very confident in both herself and her capabilities, she knows precisely where her limitations lie. She doesn't exactly feed off of the adrenaline of risk so much as pushing that limit line a little further, stretching it to see how far it can go, but will never do so to the point of injury to herself or Pyth. In situations like fighting or Threadfall, that line is a hard boundary that is not touched. She is well aware that pushing herself then is a recipe for disaster for everyone.
Rianya is not very good with words. Her speech is often interrupted by pauses and "Umn..." as though she's translating from some long-forgotten language. This greatly undermines her confident appearance as it comes off as uncertainty, but it's simply brain lag, trying to figure out which words come out in which order. She likes it when Pyth speaks for her, or she can condense responses to only three or four words.
Overall, Ria is a kind and generous individual, with a love for playful teasing and enjoying shared interests with other people. She has a bit of wanderlust in her, inspired partly by the stories of the Harper that taught her as a child, partly by how crowded things could be at home, and partly by a desire to find someone all her own.
In the event she's thrown completely out of her element - rare though it might be - Rianya often locks down. She will withdraw back into her well-worn comfort zone, cease communications, and operate under the basic necessities needed to get through that moment. This can be socially catastrophic and, in situations like Threadfall, dangerous.
HISTORY
FAMILY: Extensive
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: ---
BIRTHPLACE: Minor Hold south of the Southern Boll
HISTORY:
Rianya was born to a working family in a minor hold south of the Southern Boll. She had more brothers and sisters than she could count, many of whom were only half brothers and sisters; and even more cousins and half-cousins. It didn't really matter what label you put on them; they were all family. There was never a shortage of people to be running around with, and everyone took turns watching over the younger generation and making sure they didn't get into too much trouble.
Lessons were all taught by one unfortunate Harper who ended up in way over his head, but Rianya was an avid student, even if she often had trouble reciting the lessons back to him. She loved learning, and she tried so very hard to teach, but she had such trouble with words she simply couldn't manage it to any degree of effectiveness. Unless, of course, it was something that could be taught by showing... that she was a bit of a wizard at.
She had many relationships that rose and fell like the tide, with people of both genders, and one of them was what saw her off to Ista Weyr. On a flight of fancy, she hopped on a ship with a young man, going about the long sea journey to visit Ista for the promise of new horizons and a Gather that they should arrive just in time for. The extended date was a massive flop, they broke up long before they even got off the ship, but Rianya decided to make the best out of the Gather anyway, and then spend a little time exploring the whole of the island itself before heading back - hoping to perhaps buy some trinkets and goodies for the people back home. Among her purchases, she ended up with a small firelizard egg, out of which a little white and black baby hatched.
While visiting Ista Sea Hold, she was Searched by Ista Weyr itself, and graciously accepted. She stood twice before Impressing to Green Pyth her third time around. The two spent their weyrlinghood there, with Pyth filling in so many of the gaps and holes that Rianya didn't even know she had; but something was missing. When they graduated, Rianya made a trip back home to visit the family she'd unexpectedly left behind; her siblings and the gaggle of even younger cousins (and a niece or two) loved Pyth and spent the better part of a day climbing all over her. No one was upset with her for her wandering ways, and the idea of exploring even newer horizons was planted in her brain. There would be so much to learn and see at that new Weyr they were making in the South... and it would be WARM.
Not long after their trip home, Rianya and Pyth departed for Semaca, arriving at the end of Winter 2770. After hearing the problems with Spotties, they decided the Requiem Squad could perhaps benefit from the extra bodies and fresh perspective.