"C'mon, give us a smile, won't you?"
BASICS
NAME: Elross
GENDER: Cis man
PRONOUNS: He/him/his
ORIENTATION: Aro/ace
BIRTHDATE: Winter of 2741
AGE: 34 as of 2775
LOCATION: High Reaches Weyr
OCCUPATION: Dragonrider
WING: Stormlight Wing
APPEARANCE
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Blond, short
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5'11 and solid
PLAY-BY: Elmer Albatross
EXPY SOURCE: Baccano!
FULL APPEARANCE: Elross seems fairly average at first glance. There isn't much that's distinctive about him feature-wise, although he's always smiling fairly widely, so much so that his eyes almost always look mostly closed. He tends to move slowly, with a careless, easy-going way about him, and he speaks in a similar manner. His voice is a little high, but not unusually so for a man. While his physical features are fairly non-descript, he has an unusually large number of scars, even for a dragonrider, including a large burn scar over his upper back. He tends to wear clothes that conceal them, though.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY: Elross seems fairly easy-going, and for the most part he is. He has an unusual obsession with making everyone smile, though, that influences nearly everything he does. Most people assume that means he's a nice person, but that's not necessarily the case; after all, some people find joy in the pain or despair of others, and Elross has been known to engage in mean-spirited pranks to get people like that to smile. He can be relentless about it, too, and people who simply do not want to smile or have nothing in their life to smile about can find him a bit overbearing.
Elmer appears to like everyone, but the people he most chooses to spend time with can be a bit on the manipulative side. For people who don't know some of the things he's done to make others smile, this can appear like he's being taken advantage of, especially since his easygoing attitude can make him seem a bit naïve. The truth is, he can be fairly shrewd, but doesn't see the need to use that for anything other than making others smile.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
Small cotholders in High Reaches Weyr territory (deceased)
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: None
BIRTHPLACE: Small cothold in HR Weyr territory
HISTORY:
Injury, death
Elross has had a difficult life, which seems contrary to his personality. His childhood was relatively normal one in a small, isolated cothold. A fire broke out one night when he was ten, and a burning beam fell on him, trapping him, and leaving him with the large burn on his back. His parents managed to rescue him, but their home was destroyed and they had to flee to the nearest cothold. Threadfall was imminent long before they could arrive, but luckily the family happened upon a caravan that was willing to take them in, happy to have the extra hands.
The family lost everything in the fire, and Elross's parents always talked about rebuilding, but it was never going to be a realistic goal. The traders were a small group, often being attacked by bandits. As Elross hit his teenaged years, he hit a growth spurt early and helped fight them off, earning himself yet more scars, though none that would ever rival the burn across his back.
When he was 18, the group passed through High Reaches Hold when a search dragon was there, and Elross was Searched and brought to the Weyr. His candidacy was fairly nondescript, though he gained a reputation among his fellow candidates for being willing to help anybody with anything they asked, and took the fall for a few minor pranks as a result. That didn't seem to bother him, though, as he took punishment and reward with the same unconcerned smile. He impressed to Hisahith in 2762, and his weyrlinghood was equally unassuming, as were most of the turns following his graduation. He and Hisahith have a reputation for pulling dangerous stunts to pull others out of harm's way during threadfall. So far that's worked out alright, but it has gotten them reprimanded a few times by their wingleader.
