"I can't tell if this is nerves or the five breakfasts I ate before coming here!"
BASICS
RETIRE INFO: Retire Stahl, adopt Kinlath
NAME: Stahl
GENDER: Cis male
PRONOUNS: He/him
ORIENTATION: If you will feed him, he will love you
BIRTHDATE: Early Spring 2745
AGE: 25 as of Early Winter 2770
LOCATION: High Reaches Weyr
OCCUPATION: Bluerider, Wingsecond
WING: Raindance
APPEARANCE
EYES: Olive
HAIR: Brown
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 6', average
PLAY-BY: Stahl (Fire emblem)
FULL APPEARANCE:
Absolutely average, that would be the way to describe Stahl. He is average Pernese height, about what the average build would be for a dragonrider, and he just... never seems like he is anything but average. He has a friendly smile on his face and his hair always looks like he just rolled out of bed. Nothing he seems to be able to do actually fixes that, though both he and Kinlath have tried and tried a lot. He likes wearing greens and grays, though even then he doesn't really stand out. He almost always seems to have snacks and nearly-endless pockets... of snacks.
Due to a threadfall injury, Stahl has a permanent limp.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Stahl remains average. But he's a kind man who will drop what he's doing to help someone in a moment's notice. He is the absolute baseline which a lot of dragonriders are judged by, and he's pretty fine with that. He's okay being the bar, and he doesn't particularly stand out in any sort of combat skills or otherwise. He has his place in the world and it is good to him. Stahl tries to keep something useful on his person at all times, usually it is food. He will eat anything and everything, and is basically a bottomless pit. He loves to cook too, so he's very eager to replenish whatever stores he decimates due to nervous snacking.
That said, Stahl has a stubborn streak a mile wide. If you tell him he can't do something, unless it is exceedingly dangerous, he will try to do it. And usually he succeeds, but there is a streak to him that says he needs to prove the naysayers wrong. Stahl is a little ditzy and prone to occasional forgetfulness. He has run out to Threadfall without his jacket more than once. And fortunately he has Kinlath to keep his head on his shoulders. Stahl has a passable knowledge of herbs and plants, picked up from his father in his youth. While he has no real healing training, he's useful in identifying what might be useful in a dire situation.
HISTORY
FAMILY: Bashal - Father, healer; Stalast - Mother
Halast - Younger brother
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: (optional)
BIRTHPLACE: Tiny cothold somewhere outside of HR
HISTORY:
Born in a small cothold outside of High Reaches to a mother who was never around and a father who had a very specialized interest in healing, Stahl was eternally average. He was never the fastest but never the slowest, and despite their mother never being around, he was almost eternally at his father's side. He picked up a lot of what he thought was useless information, but he took care of himself, and his little brother when Halast came along.
Golre's last gleaming demanded him, and he was all-but conscripted from his home among others when he was 15. He stood, and stood, and adjusted to what a terrible sort of place the Reaches was.
And even when she fell, he just... adjusted.
At 19, his luck finally came to him. One average young man gained an above-average dragon. Blue Kinlath, somewhat mute, but to Stahl the blue was everything. He wrote countless letters home, and as soon as they were doing errand-running, he was visiting his father and brother. Kinlath made him happy.
Graduation came and he was shuffled into his wing. Stahl remained average, and did everything he could. It was hardly much in his eyes, he always worked to do more, but he always was just average. Even when Threadfall came and decimated the wing, even he got off with only "average" injuries. He knew it could be worse, he always knew.
Now he just works. There's too much in the weyr that needs help, and he needs to help them. There's enough, and he needs to keep working. He knows the Weyr needs a gold, and he knows they need moderation... but Stahl isn't a leader.
He just is.
