"All Sunshine with a little Hurricane."
BASICS
NAME: Ledaliah, Leeta
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: she/her/hers
ORIENTATION: Heterosexual, but not set in stone if her mood changes.
BIRTHDATE: Late Summer 2759
AGE: 15 as of 2774
LOCATION: Fort Weyr
OCCUPATION: Weyrling (Formerly Herder/Holder)
WING: N/A
APPEARANCE
EYES: An astonishingly bright blue in color. Very expressive.
HAIR: Board straight, long, fiery red
HEIGHT AND BUILD: Ledaliah is very petite in stature. Honestly she was almost looked over by the Searchriders due to her size. It was clear that she couldn't possibly be the proper age they were looking for! Slender and very short, she is very pixie like and hardly comes up to the shoulder of many of her peers. A lofty 5'2".
PLAY-BY: Molly Quinn
EXPY SOURCE: None
FULL APPEARANCE: Miss Leeta is a lovely little thing, tiny and compact. She likes to dress in as bright of colors as are available. If you really want to get into her good graces and see that smile that lights up the universe, present her with some bright ribbons to do up that long fire red hair. Her gait is fairly jarring. It's almost as if she's trying to walk normally but it's punctuated by bouts of skipping or galloping or perhaps tripping over her own feet. This girl has so much more energy than is likely healthy and yet even so she still manages to be incredibly clumsy. Perhaps she'll grow into herself... Perhaps she won't.
When one said that the eyes were the window to the soul they certainly had this little lady in mind. She has absolutely no poker face. One only need look into her eyes to see exactly what she feels about a person or situation. Whether it's a laughing bubbling brook or a raging cyclone, you know what Leeta is feeling at the time. Leeta has gone to great lengths to keep her skin as pristine as she can and thanks to solid genes she's managed to do just that despite how clumsy she can be.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY: Ledaliah is quite the odd duck. One might very well wonder how so many emotions resided within one tiny package without absolutely exploding. Thankfully most of these emotions are on the happy spectrum ranging somewhere between blissfully joyful to irrationally ecstatic. In a word, Leeta is EXHAUSTING! She is overly friendly, willing and happy to talk to absolutely anyone be they two legged or four or even more, she'll try and befriend anyone.
Absolutely everything is new and exciting to Leeta and if you're not careful she will talk your ear off about anything and everything. As clumsy as she can be physically, it seems she's equally that in her speech. Sometimes she gets so excited that her words start coming faster than her brain can keep them in order often reminding one of a puppy just learning to run as their back end outruns their front ending up in a cute confused pile.
Ledaliah can be a bit vain in her temperament. She has gone to great lengths to keep her little form pretty and spends quite a bit more time than is necessary when it comes to her hair and clothes. But as much as she cares about her appearance she does understand that other people's time is important too so this is a bit of a constant battle for her. Leeta can have a slightly obsessive nature that so far has come out most in how she presents herself but as she grows it has come out a bit more as tenacity and even slightly headstrong in many situations. If she comes up on a problem that matters to her, she won't stop until it stops moving or she does.
HISTORY
FAMILY: Vesertio and Wahina (Father and mother, Holders, herders) T'suno of Blue Ralinath, Tristie, Lahi, Asana, (Ledaliah), Balna, Ricen (Siblings from oldest to youngest)
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: None yet!
BIRTHPLACE: Rania Hold
HISTORY: A simple girl born and raised on a farm... To put it simply. Ledaliah was born to Vesertio and Wahina in a hold just barely big enough to earn it Minor status but not quite small enough to be one of those tiny Cotholds. It was mainly a farming and herding community with large expansive plots of land devoted to the raising of crops and livestock. Leeta was born fifth in a line of seven children and so never knew isolation. She also never knew what it was to have her own space. Her family was never really considered overly well off, but they did well enough to survive and typically had what they needed to survive. Being one of the youngest, but not the youngest, Leeta found a certain appreciation for new things as new things didn't often come her way.
Ledaliah was raised among the animals. Despite her love of looking nice and keeping up her appearance, she also loved nothing more than being out with the animals that her family kept. She wasn't the most adept of a herder, but even so she seemed to have her own knack with them. It wasn't uncommon for her to be seen out in the field just sitting and talking animatedly to a random herdbeast who would in turn sit and listen as if it understood every word, though in reality it was probably just very interested in the grass it was after. She always did love the animals she worked with. Any she came into contact with really.
Leeta had not yet been born when her eldest brother was searched to join the ranks of the Dragon Riders, but she had heard the stories and loved nothing more than to listen to his letters every time he wrote home. So it was not the biggest surprise to her family when the Searchriders came calling again and chose another from their expansive brood.
Leeta's life was fairly quiet up to this point, her family just simply living on the land and reaping it's bounties as they raised their family and lived in a time of relative peace. One day around Leeta's sixth turnday her father came home with a new animal companion. It was one of the best herding canines that money could buy according to the shopkeeper he had purchased him off of. But try as he might, Vesertio couldn't teach the young pup the ways of herding the beasts of the field... Instead the pup grew much more interested in herding Ledaliah! Rarely willing to leave her side, it was quickly, and abundantly clear that the canine had chosen her... At first Vesertio was furious... But the more he watched the canine and how devoted he was to his daughter, the more he realized that even he had his place among the family creatures and finally allowed him his chosen job. So it became that Leeta and Telukah were inseperable.
As the years went by, Leeta began to shed the childish demeanors and slowly come into herself as she reached the teenage years. Still she had little knack for truly commanding the beasts she watched over, but instead seemed to find a kinship of her own with them. Her father always did say that she, of all his children, forged a path that was purely her own. She wasn't exactly a black sheep as far as her family was concerned, but definitely a little bit of an oddity with her strong headed determination and odd outlooks. Never did she shed that childish exuberance and curiosity. It seemed that part of her would never likely change.
Now we find Leeta freshly entering her fifteenth turn and she can't help but feel that the life she had been born to isn't the life she wants to live all her life. But what was? The life in the fields was all she knew... She knew nothing of the skies... At least not first hand. She had seen the Searchriders when they came looking for candidates. Many a time she dreamed what it would be like to join them. But up until now she had not been old enough. Would this be her year? Was that all about to change? Time would soon tell.
