"If you're helping someone and expecting something in return, you're doing business not kindness."
BASICS
NAME: Shira
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: She/her/hers
ORIENTATION: Bi-Curious
BIRTHDATE: Born middle fall of 2747
AGE: 26 as of early winter of 2773
LOCATION: Semaca Weyr
OCCUPATION: Brown Rider, Healer Apprenitce
WING: Healer
APPEARANCE
EYES: Green
HAIR: Red Long
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5/9 thin and slender build
PLAY-BY: Shiryuki from Snow White with the Red Hair
FULL APPEARANCE: Shira is an average height slender built lovely female. She has long red hair she usually keeps tied back in a loose ponytail-like fashion. Her skin is paler in comparison to most others. Her cheeks usually always have a rosy tint to them from all the bustling around and healing duties. You'll almost always find her in her usual healer clothes.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY: Shira is very kind. She is also empathetic. She loves to help people which is why she became a healer. She often quite busy, whether it is with her duties as a healer. Or tending to her garden. She often a no-nonsense kind of person especially when it comes to healing duties. She can also be laid back like her bonded. Although the latter rarely happens. It usually takes a lot of coaxing from her Biscoth.
Shira is also quite adaptable as she has proven, since moving from Igen. Igen having at one time been the only thing she had ever known. She is contstantly alert. Being a healer you usually have to be. Whether "on duty" or not. She is also quite optimistic besides the fact of her being a healer. More than once a person she was caring for with a major injury she always had an optimistic view about it to help the patient.
Shira is also secluded, and tucked-away. Going through her depressed time of the many failed impressions she became almost like a hermit. She hasn't really cared if she ever got a friend or made one. That is not until Biscoth came along and became her forever friend and helped to turn her around.
HISTORY
FAMILY: Mother: Alive [Cook in Igen]; Father: Alive [Healer in Igen].
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: Open
BIRTHPLACE: Igen
HISTORY: Shira grew up happily within the walls of her family. Her mother was a cook. She made exquisite dishes. Her father was a healer. Even when she was young she loved helping others. She wanted to be like her father. A healer. She loved her home in Igen.
When Shira turned 15 and was able to be a candidate to possibly impress she didn't think much of it. Therefore, when she appeared on the sands, it was to aid her mentor with the healing in case something went wrong. When Shira turned 16 she felt as though something was missing within her life. That is when she became a candidate and began to attend the touching of the eggs and the sands when it was hatching time.
Although a few more years passed with no luck and she grew more and more discouraged. She spiraled downwards and turned to wine to hide her depression. She would often show up to her candidacy lessons hungover. She barely took time to look after herself first. If she wasn't doing her candidacy lessons, or her craft lesson in the few candlemarks she had free. She found herself with drink in hand wallowing in her own thoughts.
She became quite distant and secluded from her fellow candidates, even her mentor. Each day became like a cd on repeat. She would get up, fullfill her candidacy duties, work on her craft, go home, sleep repeat.
Finally the fall she was gonna turn 20 the unthinkable happened. Biscoth impressed with her. To be quite frank Shira had her hands full. More than she thought possible. The moment it happened she couldn't believe it. The first words she had heard her beloved brown say was. "Sorry I'm late. But you can't rush perfection." At first she hadn't understood, as from the start it was hard to take Biscoth seriously.
Biscoth hated that she drank so much, especially because it made his bonded feel even worse. Biscoth didn't know much about it but knew his bonded would never truly be happy as long as she kept drinking the stuff as heavily as she was. The tugging and ripping of Shiras garments did little to sway her habits at first. She would often get mad because her clothes were torn and she would have to patch them.
She would never actually hurt Biscoth in any way. She would just get overly irritated and frustrated half the time mumbling nonsense about her garments. As the months dragged on and a year went by Biscoth resorted to new methods. He would use his tail to knock the drinks off the table which in turn would spill everywhere. He would make it into some sort of game even though he was being totally serious.
Shira would ask him constantly why he did it, all he would simply reply was "It's fun." This time it was Biscoths turn to get angry. His bonded hadn't taken any of the hints or feelings through the link. The wine was discombobulating it all. Making his bonded numb. Finally one day he whipped her cup off the table turning his gaze to her his eyes swirling red with anger. "Enough! I do not like this! I do not like how it makes you feel! It is starting to affect your work! Even our classes! I have tried to get you to understand without it coming to this. No More!"
At first Shira was stunned at the outrage from her carefree bonded. Then she was pissed that yet again her drink was thrown onto the ground. Sitting there wallowing she came to the realization. What was there to wallow about anymore. Why was she still wallowing? There was no need to. She had her beloved bonded who she had severely upset, she had her craft, she had her candidate lessons. Realizing Biscoth was right she heaved a sigh.
She told Biscoth everything she had realized and gave him a huge hug the next day. With Biscoths help Shira turned to her wine less and less. It was also in a way thanks to Biscoth she found she loved to garden. Once they graduated Shira looked towards the wine less and less. Wanting to have a fresh start she told her parents and her healer mentor that they were going to Semaca. With heartfelt goodbyes Biscoth and Shira headed towards their new home for new beginnings.
It has been 6 and a half years since transferring. Upon reaching Semaca she found the place beautiful. It took a little while for her to find another mentor, but she did it. With Biscoths help she has quit her excessive wine habits. Once they were within their weyr she took to gardening so to speak. She would tend to potted plants, having various ones. She found it therapeutic and whether Biscoth admitted it or not he enjoyed the scents that it brought into the weyr. Among the potted plants she would have some herbs as well.
If it wasn't for her beloved Biscoth. Shira most definitely would not be where she is at now. Still apprenticing as a healer, having a beautiful garden, and her beloved Biscoth still by her side.
