L O T O R
Don't expect me to lose any sleep over it.
BASICS
RETIRE INFO: retire Lotor, adopt dragon
NAME: Lotor
GENDER: male
PRONOUNS: he/him/his
ORIENTATION: Is 'pomposity' an orientation?
BIRTHDATE: Late Fall 2747
AGE: twenty-one as of Early Winter 2768
LOCATION: Semaca Weyr
OCCUPATION: candidate, political refugee
WING: wait for it
APPEARANCE
EYES: green
HAIR: light blonde, left long and unbound
HEIGHT AND BUILD: six feet and six inches, built lithe and powerful
PLAY-BY: Prince Lotor from Voltron: Legendary Defender
FULL APPEARANCE:
Lotor looks good, and he knows it. He is long and lithe, more elegant than lanky, and he moves with the kind of cultivated grace one can only achieve by knowing one's own body. He is as vain as a Lady's Heir when it comes to his hair, which he leaves long and unbound. It's a point of pride, for him, that he always look very refined and proper. He favors dark colors and swishy coats that emphasis his powerful figure.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY: The first thing you may notice about Lotor is that he is both patient and focused. He seems unflappable when it comes to things that traditionalists would find sticking points - women on bronze? Very good. New colors? All is well. Cross Impression? Dragons are never wrong about their riders. He comes off as very progressive, at first.
His biases are buried a little deeper than that, and come from what he considers to be character flaws. These so-called 'character flaws' might be as mortal a sin as cruelty, or as mild an infraction as ignorance. He is vindictive when it comes to people he deems unworthy, preferring to punish them through spite.
For all his flaws, though, Lotor is a strategist. A little too cocky to be properly called brilliant, he bluffs his way through what he can't back up. He rarely confirms his beliefs, and so fits in with a number of groups with varying world views. At first. There will come a time when he cannot abide foolishness, and he will turn on those once considered allies.
He has a soft side, or what passes for a soft side, anyways, for smithcrafters. Anyone with the ability to take raw material and turn it into something both beautiful and useful is worthy of regard and respect. While this describes many forms of crafting, it is the smiths that capture his attention.
HISTORY
FAMILY: Estranged, particularly since the balance of power shifted at Benden.
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: none
BIRTHPLACE: Benden Weyr
HISTORY:
Lotor was born to a bronze rider and his crafter weyrmate at Benden Weyr. His father thrived in the war between the weyrs, finding the cause of the conflict to be good and just. Benden was right, and so they had to prove that to the incorrect usurpers. It didn't matter to him that he was killing people whose only crime was to have a different opinion, so long as his opinion was the correct one to have.
Despite being primarily known as his father's son, due to his notoriety, Lotor prefers to acknowledge only his mother's side of the family. They were, to his knowledge, smiths of various specialties, and he has always held some sort of fascination for the craft itself. His plans to become a smith himself - glass smith, as befitted his fluid and adaptable learning style - were derailed when it became clear that being his father's son would be a detriment. His father was one of the upper echelon of Benden, having retained his high status after the armistice was declared. Unknown to Lotor, he threatened the smithcrafters with sanctions if they should accept his son.
Since he had no desire to pursue another avenue of crafting - which he might have been very good at any number of things - Lotor remained at the weyr, and became a candidate at the appropriate age. He distanced himself from his parents, and stood at every clutch, no matter how odd the circumstances surrounding them.
He was offered a fire lizard egg following his failure at the Starfall clutch, a gift from someone who turned out to be a member of his extended family on his mother's side. The largish egg hatched a spotted blue, and Sincline joined Lotor. Despite being proven attractive to dragonkind, Lotor was left standing until a Fortian bronze rider revealed Benden's hidden queen. The aftermath left Benden unstable, with sanctions placed on Lotor's home by the Conclave of Weyrs. The worst of it came when the leadership was toppled.
Lotor's father turned out to be one of the bronze riders holding Alayna and Wyzeth hostage. He was stripped of every rank and privilege except the continued existence of his dragon, because even Majima would not condone forcing someone dragonless as a punishment.
Without a guarantee that this change would allow him to continue Standing, Lotor hopped a ride to Semaca. Things are not more stable at Semaca, as he hoped they would be. Clutches are infrequent, chores are more involved, and half the weyr was recently destroyed by flooding.