"Can you see the laugh lines? She holds her face in the mirror.
She says it like nothing's wrong, but I can hear her disappointment from here.
You think you look older, I think you look alive.
You were right before when you told me, "Living takes more than to just survive.""
-Older, Searows
BASICS
NAME: Lacramioara (lah-crah-me-or-ah), goes by Lacra
GENDER: Cis Female
PRONOUNS: She/Her/Hers
ORIENTATION: Bisexual
BIRTHDATE: Fall 2719
AGE: 57 as of 2776
LOCATION: Semaca Weyr
OCCUPATION: Wherhandler, wherleader
WING: Chopin
APPEARANCE
EYES: Green
HAIR: Greying light blonde, shoulder length
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5’11”, broad-shouldered and fit
PLAY-BY: Hannah Waddingham
EXPY SOURCE: N/A
FULL APPEARANCE:
Lacra is aging, but is doing so gracefully. In all honesty, she is in the physical prime of her life. Tall, broad-shouldered, and fit as a fiddle, Lacra can certainly be an intimidating presence. While she has plenty of them, her wrinkles are deepest in two spots: the scowl lines between her eyebrows, and her laughter lines. Of course, she’d rather show off her bright and beautiful smile than her scowl, but she can’t hide her displeasure at her wrinkles existing at all. Her light blonde hair is streaked with many greys, and she usually keeps it in a low ponytail or bun.
To dress up nice is one of her life’s greatest pleasures, and whenever she’s off the clock or doing less demanding work, you can expect Lacra to be dressed to the nines. She’s got plenty of fancy dresses she’s purchased at gathers over the years to show off! On the clock though, she’s going to wear her practical work clothes, pants, shirts, work boots, the whole nine yards.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Lacra, at her core, is a warm and confident woman. She believes that whatever she puts her mind to, with some elbow grease and some time, she can be good at– be that leading, parenting, wherhandling, or anything else. She is curious and open-minded, having a deep desire to learn new things and understand how things work. She’s a quick and thorough thinker, and smart on her feet. Good-natured, positive, productive, and reliable, you can always count on Lacra to help when shards hit the wings. To be secure is her ultimate goal, and she will do what she can to reach that feeling both for herself and for others.
It might be because she loves to chat, but Lacra is an excellent communicator. On top of her limitless ability to talk, she’s a pretty good listener. It all boils down to her being rather perceptive of others' feelings. Teamwork makes the dream work in Lacra’s mind, so being cooperative, fair, and receptive to other’s ideas is her main priority. She does her absolute best to remain optimistic in all situations, it helps her push through the bad times to imagine the pot of marks at the end of the rainbow.
Unfortunately, Lacra can be easily affected by others’ opinions, leading to an ever-filling well of self-doubt that she just ‘loves’ to dip into when stressed. And of course, she can become stressed rather easily as she is anxiety-prone, causing her to have problems remaining organized or focused in stressful times. Since most of her youth was spent standing in candidacy or at war with High Reaches, she has a deep-rooted fear of life passing her by and missing out that she struggles with.
Lacra loves a good gather or party and loves letting loose even more so. She can become easily bored with her current situation and will make moves to spice things up.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
- Marcal (father, alive) [+25]
- Ioara (mother, alive) [+24]
-- Aramar (older brother, alive) [+2]
-- Miruna (sister-in-law, alive) [+2]
--- Aruna (niece, alive) [-22]
--- Miara (niece, alive) [-27]
-- Criora (younger sister, alive) [-1]
-- Neculai (brother-in-law, alive) [+/- 0]
--- Ecuri (nephew, alive) [-28]
--- Lairior (nephew, alive) [-30]
-- Marra (younger sister, alive) [-3]
-- Liviu (brother-in-law, alive) [-2]
--- Liva (niece, alive) [-30]
--- Raliv (nephew, alive) [-34]
- Atara (daughter, alive) [-37]
- Nasara (daughter, alive) [-38]
- Tanasi (son, alive) [-39]
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: Atanase of Green Atanask (weyrmate, alive) [+/- 0]
BIRTHPLACE: Ista Weyr
HISTORY:
Lacramioara was the second born of four kids at Ista Weyr. She had an average childhood, growing up in the creche with her siblings, making friends with the other creche children, seeing her parents whenever they could spare a free moment from their duties as weyrfolk. It was pleasant, well, until the blights and the wherry culling came. Due to the eastward travelling of the blight, it was a few turns before it hit Ista, but it hit all the same. Less plants followed by less meat made for quite a few early nutritional deficits, leading to Lacra being an overwhelmingly scrawny preteen.
To top it all off, a war had started, and Ista had picked the side of Fort Weyr. Lacra, upon hitting 15, decided that she wanted to do her part and aid in defending her Weyr. She begun standing as a dragon candidate as soon as she could, and to double her chances, she became a dual candidate when she turned 17. She met another dual candidate who was hold-born, Atanase, during this time, and the two hit it off and soon began dating. Unfortunately for the pair, dragonriding was not in their favor, and they both aged out.
Wherhandling seemed to be though, as promptly after aging out, Lacra impressed to a blue named Mioarask. Wherlinghood seemed to pass by in a flash, especially after Atanase joined her wherling lessons when he impressed a green. But with the passage of wherlinghood came her chance to fight in the war, and fight she did. Times were hard, but sometimes a little light shone through. Atanase bought her a firelizard egg which hatched a little gold, which Lacra promptly named Luminita.
The war was cut short by the looming return of thread. For three turns, Lacra and Atanase enjoyed their peace... which was promptly interrupted by Threadfall. Seemingly, there was always another battle. Of course, thread only passed by every so often, it wasn’t a constant threat. So, between her three years of peace and the on-and-off nature of Thread, she could finally settle down a little. Maybe she could even experience some of the things that she missed out on in her youth, like having children. The weyrmates had three children, two daughters and one son, who were promptly put in the creche to be raised. She tried to maintain some level of contact with them when she could as per Atanase’s hold-born request, but she wasn’t too beat up about not seeing them when times became busy. She was weyrborn, this was just how things worked.
Life was once again blissful, but Lacra knew bliss never lasted too long. Golre started up another war that promptly ended after her death, and then bliss came around once again. It was… weird. She needed something to do, thread only came around so often, of course. And it wasn’t like she wanted to wish another war upon Pern. She’d had enough of those. She needed something new to occupy her time. Luckily, Semaca, the newly established weyr, was having plenty of troubles with an influx of flooding. She and Atanase moved to Semaca as quickly as possible, joining up with Chopin squad.
While she wasn’t much of a crafter or a planner, she was a hard worker, and she would do her damnedest to aid in repairing the weyr. As the turns passed, she bulked up, finally shirking the lithe frame she’d had since youth. She sent plenty of letters to her children back in Ista, mainly at the request of her weyrmate– again, a weyrborn/holdborn couple’s dispute that was easily solved by sending over a couple of letters now and again asking the kids how they were holding up.
Lacra has been welcoming of the pirates. Faranth, as long as they aren’t causing problems, then she doesn’t quite care what they do. In fact, she’s sure that they could be quite helpful with their trading prowess… as long as it's legal, that is. It’s the spotties that she’s not a fan of, harming innocent people and their bonded. She wants something done with them and done with them STAT.
After Fartoo stepped down as Wherleader, Lacra figured that she would throw her hat into the ring. She didn’t have much leadership experience, but she knew that she would be able to figure it out with some time. Her work ethic would carry her through it, she was certain! Lo and behold, she was selected for the position. She’s very grateful for the chance to do her part for the weyr and help out her fellow wherhandlers!
