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BASICS
NAME: A'lin; frequently called 'Molly'
GENDER: cisfemale
PRONOUNS: she/her/hers
ORIENTATION: Demiromantic pansexual
BIRTHDATE: Spring 2736
AGE: thirty-eight as of Late Summer 2774
LOCATION: Fort Weyr
OCCUPATION: bronze rider
WING: Midnight
APPEARANCE
EYES: dark brown
HAIR: black, naturally curly but frequently kept in small braids
HEIGHT AND BUILD: five feet eight inches, willow and buff
PLAY-BY: Brandy Norwood
FULL APPEARANCE: Molly is very proud of her figure. She likes to show it off with tightly-fitted clothes. If she can show off her buff arms and strong legs, she will. The bolder the color, the better it seems to suit her, yet she ends up in monotone undyed materials. Her flying leathers are as dark as leather comes naturally, but her every-day clothing tend towards light and neutral shades. That's why her bright blue Gather finery pops so vividly - it's such a startling change from her normal appearance.
In recent months, Molly has lost enough weight that her clothes fit differently. Although her regular sessions with the mind healer have improved her demeanor, she is slow to regain the weight she lost.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY: Molly, as a born-native of Fort Weyr, carries herself with the casual, careless familiarity of someone in her own territory. She may not have gone through weyrling training there, but she knows the oldest weyr. She knows most of the riders by name, and those she does not know, she will meet.
She is a very social person, not content to let herself simply glide through life greased by the simple merit of being a dragonrider. Her contacts are many and varied, ranging from riders in every weyr to wherhandlers. She's met hundreds of people at least socially, and her memory is incredible. She remembers details about everyone she meets, sometimes superficial, but she'll remember it for Turns.
On top of being social, she is highly protective. She is loyal to her home, and she is an immovable shield between those she loves and disaster. It was one of the qualities that made her an ideal spy for Monty and Tuckal, and one of the reasons she was able to rescue Alayna and Wyzeth from their captivity. The harsh realization that the world holds people like Taliri and Sido has wrought dramatic changes in Molly. She is quieter, and more determined than ever to stand between what she loves and those that wish to do harm.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
- Birth mother - L'nne of brown Janarath deceased
- Foster father - S'tane of bronze Uldouth, seventies, Igen Weyr
- Foster mother - Kida of white Elmyth, deceased
BIRTHPLACE: Fort Weyr
HISTORY:
Brownrider L'nne waited until she was in her sixties to have children. As riders experience extended lifespans, this was not unusual, though in this case, it was unwise. The first viable pregnancy she managed to carry to term was stillborn. Her second viable pregnancy carried to term was a breech-birth, which resulted in a live offspring due to the Healer's intervention, but left her weak and susceptible to disease. A simple cold finished her off.
In her place, she left little Amolin, as cute a tyke as a mother could wish. Molly had no father to raise her in her mother's absence, and so was raised by S'tane, rider of bronze Uldouth, and his weyrmate Kida, rider of white Elmyth, both having been friends of L'nne's.
Like most weyrbrats, Molly began to Stand for the clutches when she was fifteen. She Stood for every clutch, and was left standing every time. She never even managed to attach a fire lizard, and her mother and father each had one (gold and blue, respectively). Still, she stuck with it. Things took and interesting turn nearly ten Turns later, when she was almost aged out.
Kida was grievously injured in what came to be called the 'Battle of the Weyrbowl', and suffered complications that led to her death. S'tane transferred back to his first weyr, Igen, to deal with the grief. Amolin went with her father to help him make the move. She had hoped to lessen the impact of aging out of candidacy by not being at home when it happened. Instead, well...
Molly hadn't realized that there was a clutch at Igen when she and S'tane arrived. Her duties involved the headwoman and the drudges, not the weyrwoman. But the call went out to assemble on the Sands, and nearly ten Turns of conditioning took over. She made it to the Sands, much to the surprise of the Candidate Master, Weyrling Master, and her father.
Bronze Tasikheth was most pleased to find Molly among the candidates. He came from an egg much coveted by the older candidates, and was even their much hoped for bronze, but he never so much as glanced at the candidates who had touched his egg.
Thank Faranth you made it. I thought I was going to have to go find you!
Molly formally elided her name to A'lin, but did not correct most people when they continued to call her Molly. She was not a popular weyrling, having been an interloper at Impression and walking away with the highest ranked hatchling. But she was a competent one, and she threw herself into her new life with an enthusiasm that delighted both Tasikheth and Uldouth.
Weyrling training was made unnecessarily difficult for her. She was tested far more than her male peers, and the weyrling master tried to make an argument for why she was never supposed to Impress, much less bronze, and she would be much happier if she handed Tasikheth over to another rider. With a less confident dragon, or different Impression circumstances, that might have worked to an extent. But Tasikheth had known her from the moment he shattered his egg, and as a bronze in a traditional weyr, his words eventually came to have more weight than the old blue of the weyrling master.
Graduation brought her a formal transfer back to her home weyr, which was falling into disarray again. Molly was delighted to return to a place that didn't feel the need to test her everything. She was another of a growing group of female bronze riders, not the once-in-a-lifetime freak Igen was convinced she would be. Her transfer coincided with the new Senior Weyrwoman's transfer in from Benden. She and Tasikheth became part of Midnight Wing.
