Lori of Blue Raerth

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Lori

"It’s time to be a big girl now,
And big girls don’t cry."
-Big Girls Don't Cry, Fergie

BASICS
RETIRE INFO: Adopt - Dragon / Retire - Character
NAME: Lori
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: She/Her/Hers
ORIENTATION: Still figuring it out (bisexual)

BIRTHDATE: Spring 2751
AGE: 24 as of 2775
LOCATION: Semaca
OCCUPATION: Dragonrider
WING: Minuet

APPEARANCE
EYES: Brown
HAIR: Blonde, shoulder length, semi-wavy
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5”5, short, slim fit
PLAY-BY: Natalie Alyn Lind
FULL APPEARANCE:
Lori looks sweet, which is good, because she is. Her shoulder length blonde hair bounces when she walks and she usually, if always, has a smile on her face. Her features are soft and she walks around with a cheery disposition, no wonder her hair bounces around when she does the exact same thing.

Pastel colors are a favorite, more in the pink, red and purple variety. Lighter colors suit her best, and so do dresses. Shorter or longer, whatever kind, but dresses are much better than pants. She fears the day she’ll have to trade dresses for pants, if it ever happens, because she doesn’t own many pairs.

PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Lori is an angel. She’s that sweet girl from your local school who was nothing but nice to you and to everyone, and she didn’t even have a secret dirty streak. She’s not overly excitable, generally calm and level headed, but if you can start to get her going on something, it’s usually hard to get her to stop. She’s trusting to a fault and it’s her fatal flaw. She puts too much faith into people who just need someone to fill space for them.

She believes herself to be quite ladylike, and for the most part, she is. She talks in an appropriate manner, she doesn’t seek to hurt or discourage anyone, she’s somewhat elegant. However, if a fight was to break out and she got drawn into it, by god she’d finish that fight. That whole ‘ladies don’t start fights, they finish them’ is very much in her head.

She has a very minor fear of abandonment, mostly brought on from her father leaving her and her mother behind. While she understands that not everyone sticks around, especially on Pern, it left somewhat of an impact on her. This doesn’t present itself in any way outwardly, but she has an inward fear of being left behind that she deals with.

HISTORY
FAMILY: Londres of Blue Reinith (father, alive), Rianna (mother, alive)
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: N/A
BIRTHPLACE: Fort Weyr
HISTORY:
Lori grew up like every other Weyrbrat did, in the creche. Her mother was much more involved in her upbringing than her father was, thanks to her being a creche worker. Her dad, however, was a blue rider, and often he was doing drills or, when it came around, fighting thread or doing whatever was needed to protect the Weyr, just like all riders do. Sure, he came and saw her occasionally, but never as much as her mother did. So, when her father transferred away to Ista without saying goodbye to her at the age of 12, there was a small hole left in Lori's heart where his less-than-frequent presence was.

She got over it, or, she thought she did. But, for a good part of her life, she moved on. Sure, she was always internally petrified that her mother would leave her behind too, but she could move past that. She did move past that. And then she ended up moving in a literal sense. Both her mother and herself found themselves being ferried over by one of their father's old rider friends to the new Weyr, Semaca, to live there.

Days passed by and Lori was joining her mother in doing weyrfolk jobs since there wasn't many kids around Semaca, thanks to its newness. Boring, boring, boring. Lori would never say so to her mother, but she found the whole ordeal incredibly boring. The most not-boring thing was finding a blue firelizard egg and getting a little cheery, skip-y baby flit of her own. But, it was because of that genera boringness that she decided to join up as a candidate. It would spice things up, she would be welcome to having a dragon around, if she could handle Skip-It, she could handle anything, right?

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Raerth

Why are there so many people? Why is it so crowded? There's too many. We can't trust them all. We can't trust any of them. Your Raerth hungers, but...

BASICS
NAME: Raerth
BIRTHDATE Early Spring 2769
AGE: 6 as of 2775

APPEARANCE
LENGTH: 32ft
HEIGHT: 7.5ft
WINGSPAN: 48ft
COLOR: Blue
HEX CODE: #13344E
FULL APPEARANCE:
A small, scrawny weakling of a blue, Raerth is not a particularly impressive physical specimen. From his narrow wings to his almost dainty paws, it's clear that he's made for occasional quick bursts of speed rather than any sort of strength or endurance. However, despite his stature he appears to be a regal, princely dragon.

He's a deep, steely blue all over, but with pale, bright markings around the base of his neck that look like necklaces worn there. He has similar on the elbows and wrists of his forelegs, and seems to have a dark veil edged with bright jewels draped across his head. Though the backs of his wings are dark, the fronts are covered in a filigree pattern.

PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Raerth is not the most outgoing of dragons. He's quiet, holding himself at some distance from the world because he doesn't trust any of it. The world, he believes, is a place full of people who are absolutely plotting against himself and his rider. Anyone and everyone is very likely out to get him. He is extremely secretive; the less people know about him, the less of it they can use against him. Only toward his rider does he really open up. He's sweet and loving, wanting to do good but uncertain if he's really capable of changing anything. He's enthusiastic about the things that interest him, almost over-eager to share them with his rider.

He's fascinated by Harpers and their stories, but fears to express this interest too openly, and will often insist that his rider retell stories and sing songs they've heard once they're alone. Numbers are similarly of interest to him, and building things, and he'll spend time observing Smiths whenever he can. He also finds the idea of war and fighting intriguing in an academic sort of way, but will lock up when faced with actual violence. He's definitely not a protector in any sense, but he likes the idea of being one.

VOICE: Raerth has a slightly high-pitched, quiet voice which is almost oddly soothing to listen to.

Why me?: Raerth needs someone kind and patient, who can stand up for themselves when he won't.

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Skip-It


BASICS
NAME:Skip-It
BIRTHDATE Early Fall 2766
AGE: 9 as of 2775

APPEARANCE
COLOR: Blue
FULL APPEARANCE:
Skip-It is a runty little blue, but what he lacks in size he makes up for in character. With a skip and a hop, this flit doesn't really stay on the ground too much, even when trotting around, they seem to skip! He is a bright pale blue all over his hide, but his best feature is the fact that it looks like he's wearing a darker blue vest and little boots! He also has little circles on his wings, and a stripe down his tail, of the same darker blue color.

PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Skip-It is cheery with a backbone. Kindness with a bite. He is always happy-go-lucky until something threatens him or his person, and at that time, he goes into attack flit mode. Bitting and scratching and screeching, and boy howdy does he screech LOUD. When not threatened, the blue flit is generally calm and loves to cuddle. He's a sweetie pie and he just wants to make sure that no one will ever harm his person, ever. Ever ever.