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Ae'flaed of Green Hurricath

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Ae'flaed of Green Hurricath

AE'FLAED
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"live to fly, fly to live, do or die... aces high!" - Iron Maiden, Aces High

BASICS

NAME: Ae'flaed
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: she/her/hers
ORIENTATION: Panromantic pansexual

BIRTHDATE: Early Spring 2700
AGE: 72 as of 2772
LOCATION: Fort Weyr
OCCUPATION: Dragonrider
WING: Daylight Wing

APPEARANCE
EYES: Blue
HAIR: White
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5'1", slender
PLAY-BY: Judi Dench
FULL APPEARANCE:

Ae'flaed never was a tall woman, but she's still hale and hearty as Pernese tend to be. With snow-white hair kept short and bright blue eyes with a habit of twinkling, there's an air of mischief about her undimmed by the years, though on first meeting her she might seem demure and every inch a proper lady.

Usually to be found wearing riding leathers, when she does wear something else it tends to look stylish - but then she's one of those people who could make a tuber sack look like a product of the Mastertailor. When she chooses to dress for an occasion she's absolutely eye-catching, although her left hand and arm, and her right shoulder - and the threadscores they bear - are rarely on display.

PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:

Ae'flaed is and always has been trouble, in a very genteel way. She rarely stooped so low as to play pranks on people in childhood; hers is a more refined sense of humour. Instead, her friends would be presented with beautifully-embroidered cushions 'incidentally' containing swearwords, and the like. She positively enjoys presenting herself as a perfect role-model, proper and demure, and watching the expressions on peoples' faces when they realise the truth of her. She's also a terrible flirt, who sees no reason to limit that flirting or anything more serious, but has never had a long-term relationship. It's been joked more than once that she's married to the skies.

Headstrong and wilful, she found herself in trouble more often than not, especially when she Impressed to Hurricath. Ae'flaed and her beloved green dragon spent more time doing punishment drills than most - not that they really cared. Who cared if they ended up mucking out the latrines, if they'd managed to get a couple more hours in the sky?

Even now - especially now - Ae'flaed does what she wants. It's not exactly 'hang the consequences'; she understands the consequences, it's just that sometimes she thinks they're worth it. She's the sort of maverick spirit who'd be almost impossible to deal with if she wasn't usually right, which just makes her very difficult to deal with. When it comes to fighting Thread, Ae'flaed and Hurricath excel as trouble-flamers, watching peoples' backs and intervening where they need to, rather than being in a static position in the wing. This often causes trouble when they're supposed to be in a particular place at a particular time, although the need to intervene has reduced drastically since the desperate days of the start of Threadfall and they can now go whole seasons without feeling the need to step out of place.

HISTORY
FAMILY: A couple of grandchildren
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: N/A
BIRTHPLACE: Fort Weyr
HISTORY:

Being short has never been a bar to Ae'flaed; in fact, if anything, it's driven her to greater heights. Born to bronzerider Ae'marin and brownrider T'laed of Fort Weyr, great things were expected of young Aethelflaed, but when green Hurricath flopped out of the egg and chose her, Ae'flaed couldn't have been happier. She hadn't wanted some lumbering great barge of a dragon - she wanted to fly with speed and agility, instead, and fly she did, and she does.

Ae'flaed and Hurricath got a name for themselves as daredevils before they ever left the Weyrling wing, and it was a reputation they only built on over the following decades. Even now, when they're technically old enough to know better, they'll occasionally buzz whoever's on the fireheights at speed.

Ae'flaed settled into life as a dragonrider, and as a disinterested greenpair she and Hurricath didn't see much of Weyr politics or anything of the sort. Their career during the Interval War was just the same as many other small dragonpairs; always a pawn in other peoples' plans, never a player in their own rights. Still, they came through, and when Thread started to fall they rose to meet it with far more interest than they'd ever tried to face down other dragons.

Ae'flaed and Hurricath adapted to Thread much faster than many others. The hours, days and seasons they'd spent just flying stood them in good stead, and they used their speed and agility to help keep others alive, picking up a few threadscores of their own in the process, though as the wing got to grips with the new threat and how best to fight it they intervened less and less (and were to be found where they were supposed to be more and more, in the process).

Ae'flaed and Hurricath are still flying, still flaming and still flirting. They can still do all three, and see no reason whatsoever to stop now.
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HURRICATH
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BASICS

NAME: Hurricath
BIRTHDATE Late summer 2714
AGE: 58 as of 2772

APPEARANCE
LENGTH: 30ft
HEIGHT: 6.25ft
WINGSPAN: 45ft
COLOR: Green
HEX CODE: #086623
FULL APPEARANCE:

Far from the largest green in the Weyr, Hurricath stands short for a green, though her overall length and wingspan are on the longer ends of the scale. Hurricath's upper body and the undersides of her wings are streaked in just two different shades of green, with irregular blotchy stripes clearly delineated. Her lower hide and the upper surfaces of her wings are a very pale green, leaving her easily seen against forest and field from above and against the sky from below unless she's flying upside-down and taking steps.

Hurricath is proportioned like one of the fastest huntbirds, with long, narrow wings and a slender body. With a long neck and tail she's very quick to turn even at high speed in the air, but several scars across her nose and front legs and belly are tokens of when she hasn't quite got her course right in the past, and the several threadscores that she's picked up over the year overlay many of them. All that speed doesn't come with stamina, though, and she can't last a full Threadfall in the air without needing to eat and then sleep for the next two days.

PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:

Hurricath is a flier's flier, a dragon who considers aerobatics to be the highest calling of dragonkind other than fighting Thread. Just as happy upside-down as right-side-up, Hurricatch has mapped just about every air current and favourable wind for miles around Fort Weyr, and can pull off some truly amazing stunts thanks to that knowledge. With the skies as her main interest outside of protecting what lies beneath, she's a dragon whose mind usually only has space for a single pursuit, and that obsession consumes her.

Hurricath prefers to hunt wild wherries in the air rather than herdbeasts on the ground and does so like an oversized huntbird, knocking them out with a dive from altitude and then feasting on them where they land. She's one of the fastest dragons at Fort, and she absolutely revels in her speed and power - and she's notoriously picky when it comes to a Flight, too. Any male who can't meet her exacting standards for competence in the air isn't going to get a look in. Some of her past flights have been spectacular as her suitors try to dazzle her with aerobatics and cloud-dancing, and it's not unusual to see spectators on the fireheights when she's due to rise.

Hurricath is very much a 'favourite auntie' sort of personality. The warm and kindly type with the glint in her eye, the one you can talk to about anything and who doesn't judge - and the one who'll teach you how to do things that your parents wouldn't approve of, and join you in doing them because they're fun. Just as quietly subversive as her rider, she's a fighting dragon who sees no reason whatsoever to slow down any time soon. One thing she won't do, though, is try to persuade weyrlings to fly before the Weyrlingmaster says they're ready. Risking them flying at all would be wrong.
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-"Headstrong and wilful, she found herself in trouble more often than not, especially when she Impressed to Hurricath. Ae'flaed and her beloved green dragon spent more time doing punishment drills than most - and it was only at graduation that she revealed they'd actually engineered things so that their punishment drills had them doing things they'd wanted to be doing anyway but would never have been authorised to do normally."

Ae'flaed would be unlikely to be such a good manipulator she always got the punishments she wanted and never got, like, latrine duty or something. She also would not have been assigned anything as punishment she wasn't normally permitted to do. But she is free to have caused trouble and not really terribly minded the consequences.

-"Their wingleader wasn't happy about their refusal to be where they should be in the sky, but couldn't argue with the results."

The wingleaders of Daylight have been PCs so please don't assume how they would have responded.
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