"Every day is a new adventure."
Mei, Overwatch
BASICS
NAME: Mei
GENDER: Feminine
PRONOUNS: Feminine (she/her/hers)
ORIENTATION: Questioning
BIRTHDATE: Early Autumn 2736
AGE: 40 as of 2776
LOCATION: Fort Weyr
OCCUPATION: Apprentice Smith, Squadrider
WING: Dusk
APPEARANCE
EYES: Brown
HAIR: Brown
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5' 3"
PLAY-BY: Mei-Ling Zhou (Overwatch)
EXPY SOURCE: Mei-Ling Zhou (Overwatch)
FULL APPEARANCE:
Mei is a short woman at 5' 3" tall, her build curvy and soft, but strong from Turns of hard work. Brown hair kept short, sometimes in a decorative bun, and warm brown eyes, both relatively plain features, but hers nonetheless. A small button nose supports a set of bulky glasses, helping her see her world crystal clear. Regarding her wardrobe, Mei appreciates things that are soft and warm, so it's not unusual to see her wearing sweaters and long pants even where others find it swelteringly hot. Otherwise, she's wearing her riding leathers and her boots.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Mei is, above all, very kind and considerate for others. Extremely compassionate and caring for others, she takes it upon herself to try to solve everything for everyone. Using her knowledge and discoveries, she would make life as we know it better...she hopes. In spite of her hardworking nature and dedication to both her Craft and her duty to Pern's denizens, she's much too easily distracted by every single new thing she learns to make much progress in a significant way. Always eager to learn, she's someone who both looks forward to learning something new, as well as someone who enjoys teaching what she knows to a willing mind. Helpful and dedicated, she's an incredible asset to an organized team and would be an excellent mentor to new wherlings.
Though she's often very positive and upbeat, always moving forward, Mei can be very harsh on herself and put herself to blame for things going wrong, apologizing again and again for every mistake she makes. A bully cannot go unchallenged in her eyes, which means she's always willing to do everything in her power to deter someone from being a menace, though she finds it hard to stand up for herself. In fact, she can be so shy it can be hard to tell that she's trying to speak, her efforts to be heard above others very short-lived, unless she has something she feels is very important to share. Mei is very close to her Meisk, considering him her best friend above everyone else, often too reserved after her squadmates' deaths to find more permanent company in other humans.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
Father - Master Smith - living
Mother - Journeyman Smith - living
Siblings/Half-Siblings - multiple - open tie(s)!
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: N/A
BIRTHPLACE: Telgar Hold
HISTORY: TW: death/loss
Mei had a simple upbringing, her parents both Smiths and her siblings keeping her on her toes, close to her family and responsible for her younger siblings. While her mother chose her family to her Craft and didn't progress further in her studies after reaching Journeyman rank, her father was a dedicated and talented Master Smith. After healers determined she needed assistance to see clearly, it was her father who made her glasses and all her replacements after she inevitably lost or broke them, as clumsy as she could be.
Mei was a curious and intelligent child, so it wasn't a surprise that she decided to follow her parents into an Apprenticeship in Smithing, though she took a different path from both her parents' specialties. While her mother had always had a touch for designing and creating even common items, her father always had his eyes skyward and could likely name every star he'd seen in his studies, Mei was most concerned about weather patterns and how even something small could influence Pern for better or worse.
But some Turns into her Apprenticeship, at a time where her graduation to Journeyman rank seemed closer than ever, Mei was approached by a dragonrider on Search. After some discussion, it was made clear that his dragon thought she had potential for Candidacy, much to her surprise. Almost twenty and two Turns, she'd see perhaps four Turns as a Candidate. But a chance at a dragonrider's life was nothing to refuse, so Mei found herself accepting, putting off her Craft to begin Candidacy in Telgar Weyr.
As she thought, Mei didn't Impress to a dragon in her four Turns as a Telgar Candidate, aging from eligibility in disappointment. But that wasn't all she could do, before going home return to Apprenticeship in defeat. A wher was a perfectly good option for a lifelong partner, perhaps she even wanted one more than she did a dragon. Regardless, her efforts saw success not long after, chosen for an egg at a small wher clutch that gave her a blue, who introduced himself as Meisk.
After graduating from wherlinghood at twenty and six Turns, Mei found her footing in her squad, even finding herself growing close to her squadmates. Turns passed happily, spent in her friends' company and fighting for Telgar Weyr. But everything changed. It was supposed to be a routine search for Thread as dragons scorched it from above, but it went terribly wrong. Before she knew it, her squad was decimated, her worst fears made reality as her friends were listed among those whose lives were lost in defense of Pern and Weyr.
Mei was devastated, so much so that not even Meisk was much help. Every single one of her closest friends, more than squadmates to her, gone. It was too much, too fast. Even as she gradually accepted she wouldn't see her best friends again, she knew she might not ever be able to move on from her loss. But to even try, she couldn't be here, where she'd been for so long, where her friends would be such an aching void in her everyday life. Applying for transfer to Fort was oddly easy, uprooting everything she knew to try to start fresh in a new Weyr.
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