YEW
"No, not you, like 'Hey, you!' Yew, like the tree."
BASICS
NAME: Yew
GENDER: Male
PRONOUNS: He/Him/His
ORIENTATION: Bi? Maybe??
BIRTHDATE: Early Summer 2750
AGE: 26 as of Early Summer 2776
LOCATION: High Reaches Weyr
OCCUPATION: Wherhandler
WING: Ground Crew
APPEARANCE
EYES: Amber
HAIR: Brown
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 6'2", lean well built
FULL APPEARANCE:
Well built and broad shouldered, Yew stands at the slightly above average height of 6'2". Though he's well built, most of his bulk lies in his frame, not his musculature. He has wide shoulders, a long, sturdy torso, and long legs covered in lean muscle. He has medium length, thick brown hair that is more often than not messy and hangs in his amber eyes. Yew mostly wears plain, practical clothing, though he's in no way opposed to fancier things. He simply doesn't own many 'nice' things. He has a few faded scars here and there from his childhood and calloused, work roughened hands.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Yew, bless him, has known for quite a few turns that he's destined to be the butt end of many jokes. He loves his mother, truly, but sometimes he wants to ask her what she was thinking naming him 'Yew'. He's had to explain so many times that his name is not, in fact, 'you' that it has led Yew to become a bit resentful of her. Yew can also be a bit of a defeatist. He's resigned to the fact that some things won't change no matter how hard he tries, and it often leads him to give up on his endeavors too quickly, or when things get difficult. If he isn't good at something he tries, he will more often than not stop trying without putting any real effort into it. At this point, it's become more of a bad habit than anything else. He knows it's not healthy for him to do, and that continuing to do so will get him nowhere, but he doesn't know where to start to break the habit.
Yew is astoundingly patient, though his patience isn't endless. He's good at keeping a level head, until he's pushed to his absolute limit. Even then, Yew isn't the kind of person to have explosive anger. His replies may become clipped and short, but he seldom ever screams.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
Juniper(Older half brother)
Various siblings and cousins
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: N/A
BIRTHPLACE:Igen
HISTORY:
Yew never knew his parents well. Being the product of flightlust, and with both his parents being riders, he was raised by the Creche. From a young age he was aware of quite a few half siblings on both sides of his family, but it got a bit tedious to keep track of them all. He knew a few of them well enough, and that was okay with him. One in particular he found himself close to was Juniper, his older half brother.
Being a weyrbrat, he aged into candidacy at Igen at 15. He had a great chance of impressing, in his mind. Gold dragons laid so many eggs after all! How could he be left standing? Turns of bad luck soured his opinion on candidacy considerably. He found himself irrationally bitter with his situation. He warmed up to the idea of a wher over those years too, seeing as Junpier had one of his own. He decided to switch to being a dual candidate when he was 19.
Another turn of no impression had made Yew a bit restless. Maybe the problem was just Igen, and not him. With that thought in his head, Yew put in to transfer to High Reaches at 20, arriving at the weyr in the early fall of 2770. He was just in time for the donated Ista clutch to hatch, including a gold! It shook High Reaches, but he found himself more annoyed that such a big clutch still yielded no impression for him. He just hoped the change of scenery would bring him some luck before he aged out. At least here, at High Reaches, he had several more turns than he would have at Igen.