"Here’s the thing! And if your parents worked to earn it then it’s yours!
Here’s the thing! And if you’re barely getting by than it’s your fault!
Here’s the thing! And everything in life is fair and that’s the rules!
It’s all just lies, lies, lies, lies!"
-Here’s The Thing, Sports Team
BASICS
NAME: Ony'ra, born Onychophora (oh-nee-ko-four-ah), often goes by Ony (oh-nee)
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: She/Her/Hers
ORIENTATION: Bisexual
BIRTHDATE: Winter 2758
AGE: 18 as of 2776
LOCATION: Fort Weyr
OCCUPATION: Dragonrider
WING: Midnight Wing
APPEARANCE
EYES: Brown
HAIR: Choppy shoulder-length brown hair, part of her hair is white due to poliosis (major trait)
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5'9, average build
PLAY-BY: picrew by baby_carrot_Art
FULL APPEARANCE:
Ony looks like your average tired acne-prone teen save for one stark difference. She was born with poliosis, a decrease of pigment within a hairy region of the body. In this case, a section of her scalp close to the left side of her forehead. This results in a section of her hair growing naturally white while the rest is brown. Outside of this, she's your regular girl. She's of average height and build. Her eyes are brown and kept half-lidded, often featuring dark circles underneath them from poor sleeping habits. Acne litters her face no matter how hard she tries to get rid of it.
She loves wearing comfy and/or warm clothes. Comfort is above everything to her. She doesn't dress to impress, she dresses to be happy. The only exception to this 'comfy' rule is that she hates pants, doesn't like the texture against her legs. It's shorts and/or skirts or bust. She'd rather wear a gazillion layers of skirts in the winter than put on a single pair of pants.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
If there is one word to describe Ony, it's passionate. Once the girl has a goal in mind, she is going to do anything in her power to achieve it. She is very idealistic, so much so that her ideals border on the unrealistic side. She hates, hates, HATES inconsistencies and abrupt change, especially if she perceives that change to be for the worse. She is stubborn that way, and will actively try to sabotage others' attempts to progress with the 'new' if she doesn't really like it. Ever since the Z'osh revolt, she's become staunchly anti-traditionalist. Even more specifically, anti-bronze by Z'osh's association.
She is a highly empathetic person who always wants to advocate for the underdog. Doing good by others is her greatest goal. She's charismatic and likes engaging with others, but burns out her social battery and withdraws from conversations quickly. Once burnt out, her more laid-back demeanor turns cold and aloof as she stops talking. As a whole, she has a hard time expressing her emotions in the exact way she wants them to appear. She will often project herself onto others and misunderstand why people are acting the way they are.
Ony has a passion for learning and seeking out knowledge. She is a hard worker, priding herself on reliable, practical, and efficient work that focuses heavily on perfecting all those little details. While she likes working with others, she knows that she's better off working alone. Why? Well, she becomes very condescending and judge-y. If others' work isn't up to her expectations, she becomes intense and cruel and speaks down to her teammates. She'll try to take over others' work so that it "will be done correctly" by her standards, stressing her out and making the quality of her now larger workload even worse.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
-Haronych of Brown Ruxcalith (father, alive) [+28]
-Zophora of Green Enrocaeth (mother, alive) [+25]
-Many half-siblings
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: N/A
BIRTHPLACE: Fort Weyr
HISTORY:
Onychophora was the result of a flight and would be nothing more than that to her parents. She never had any sort of contact with them, being raised entirely by the creche workers at Fort. Every so often, new half-siblings would pop up from her mother or her father and she'd do her best to get to know them and the ones born before even her.
For the most part, Ony's life was the average weyrbrat experience. She made friends and lost friends, idolized the riders and handlers that protected her home, and dreamt about becoming a candidate. The one thing that was different than the norm was the white patch of her hair. She was a brunette, but there was one little patch that always grew white due to something called 'poliosis' or whatever the healers had called it. The odd creche kid or two had tried to bully her for it, but it rarely affected her. The people who cared about her didn't point it out or make fun of her, so why should the shardheads who did matter to her?
Then there was the 2771 revolt. While not directly impacted by it as a young weyrbrat, Z'osh's arrest of any rider or dragon odd or different through the lens of traditionalism really pissed her off. She knew what it was like to be born with something a little different, that didn't mean she chose to be born with it. Didn't mean she couldn't do her chores or her work because of it. Was it any different for the riders and handlers he had grounded based off of their differences? The whole event turned her off of traditionalism and, since Z'osh the bronzerider had started it all, bronzes too. She was pleased when everything went back to normal and he was exiled.
She became a candidate at 15 in order to be like her dragonriding idols. He is hoping that the next clutch on the sands will hold something for her! If not? Well, maybe when she turns 17 she'll sign up for whers, but that's still a turn away yet.
