"Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world."
- Virgil A. Kraft
BASICS
NAME: Nairia
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: She/Her/Hers
ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
BIRTHDATE: Early Spring 2753
AGE: 24 as of Winter 2777
LOCATION: Semaca Weyr
OCCUPATION: Wingrider
WING: Mazurka Squad
APPEARANCE
EYES: Dark Brown
HAIR: Black, Short, Curly
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5’3”, Slim
PLAY-BY: Anissa Borrego
EXPY SOURCE: Zimsterla (Slavic Mythology)
FULL APPEARANCE:
- Nairia has a soft, delicate face, somewhere between round and square, firm-jawed and full-lipped. Her eyes are big and brown, her brows defined, and her hair falling in large curls to her chin. Her skin is a warm golden-tan, vaguely honey-warm. Her body is almost at odds with the softness of her face, slender and almost angular, with minimal feminine curves. She is used to wearing primarily riding leathers, and will have some adjusting to do in Semaca, to lighter fabrics for casual wear. She is drawn to bright colors. Nairia enjoys necklaces, usually wearing several when she is off-duty, and flowers, wearing them in her hair in-season and frequently embroidered on her clothes year-round.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
- Nairia is a soft, sweet, caring woman. If Pern had fairy tale princesses, she could easily be accused of acting like one. She’s bright and open, very much the sort of person where what you see is what you get. She is prone to singing, is kind to children and animals, and adores flowers. She even cultivates some in pots in sunny areas of her weyr. One would be hard pressed, at least on surface level, to find anything at all “wrong” with Nairia, at least from a position of the way she gets along with others.
On the flip side, Nairia is definitely vain. She likes to look at herself and likes to look pretty. She shares this trait with Dogodath, and the two of them think of themselves as one of the best-looking dragon pairs on Pern. In addition, she is extremely certain of her own goodness. Her mother, in particular, repeatedly told her growing up that she was too sweet, too kind, too soft, and it got into her head. How could any instinct of hers be wrong if she’s such a fundamentally good person? Surely if she doesn’t trust someone, it’s because they’re bad, and if she gets a bad feeling about something, it’s because it’s wrong. This certainty of her own goodness means that Nairia learns that she is wrong slowly, and that she is hard to convince of her own faults.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
- Nai’cin of Blue Gormath, Father, 47 [+23]
Zoiellia of Green Yoellith, Mother, 48 [+24]
BIRTHPLACE: Telgar Weyr
HISTORY:
- The only child born of a young dragonrider couple who had a brief, bright-burning romance, Nairia grew up half-wild in the creche. She was a bright, lovely child, always warm and kind, with a softness to her that had many saying she would wind up as weyrfolk and not a rider.
At seven, Nairia got lost in the lower caverns of Telgar. She curled up in a dark corner and cried, unable to find her way back to the creche. It was her father who found her, rescuing her from the dark and confusing depths of the Weyr and bringing her back to the light.
When she turned fifteen, Nairia signed up for candidacy despite the fact that her mother insisted that she was too sweet and too gentle, that she was utterly unsuited for life as a dragonrider. There was a suggestion made that she might be better suited as a creche worker, but Nairia would not be dismayed.
She was barely nineteen when Dogodath hatched and she Impressed to him. They were a perfect match, both on the sweet and floaty side of things. Neither of them really sought power or influence, content just to be and to do their part to defend the Weyr and their territory. She cheerfully threw herself into weyrlinghood, and into the life of a rider.
When she was twenty-four and her weyrling class started to talk about transferring to Semaca, Nairia and Dogodath were more than happy to go along. They both preferred warmer weather, anyway.
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