T E N Y A
The younger brother to a most excellent older brother.
BASICS
NAME: Tenya
GENDER: male
PRONOUNS: he/him/his
ORIENTATION: demisexual - if you can get his attention!
BIRTHDATE: Late Summer 2751
AGE: twenty-two as of Late Winter 2773
LOCATION: High Reaches Weyr
OCCUPATION: rider, local lecturer, friend
WING: Starfall
APPEARANCE
EYES: Gray, usually hidden behind thick spectacles
HAIR: Black
HEIGHT AND BUILD: six feet and two inches, with the kind of muscle you'd expect from a runner
PLAY-BY: Iida Tenya from My Hero Academia
FULL APPEARANCE: Tenya is square shaped, from his prominent jawline to his spectacles. He's built like a runner, because that's what he trained as. Every piece and article of clothing is perfectly pressed, neatly laundered, and worn with great pride. That gets hard to do sometimes, because he's growing like a weed. Already tall for his age, Tenya works hard to uphold the expectations of his new rank, and it shows. He has to be prepared! To that end, he frequently carries a bag over one shoulder, usually filled with books that he's in the process of reading.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Tenya is the very definition of 'lawful lawful'. There's not a rule he doesn't know forwards and backwards. He tends to become teacher's pet, because he has a deep-seated need to ensure his peers follow the rules. This often makes him unpopular with his peers, because he's a teenage boy with a tendency to nag. He's well intentioned, but fairly tactless.
Conviction is, in fact, the name of the game. Tenya doesn't know how to reevaluate his beliefs without severe outside aid. He's earnest in his desire to help people, but he thinks the best way to do that is to follow the letter of the rules. If he ever learns flexibility, it will be a miracle.
This lack of flexibility is wonderfully illustrated in his tendency to chop the air with his hands. It's one of his most recognizable traits, and the one most often imitated when people want to refer to him. He doesn't mind, though. Rarely even recognizes that he's being mocked.
HISTORY
FAMILY: Mother and father have a runner station, both in their mid fifties
Brother Tensei was a brownrider, deceased
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: In this day and age?
BIRTHPLACE: a runner station (Station Idaten) beholden to High Reaches
HISTORY:
Tenya came from a family of runners. It was a good life, and Tenya's older brother was one of the fastest and most reliable runners in the area. Tenya's highest aspirations were to be the best, because his brother was. Everything was perfect, until two things happened. One, Tensei was Searched for High Reaches Weyr. And two, Tenya's blurry vision saw him fitted for spectacles. Neither event spelled the end of the world, but it was an abrupt and upsetting change. As a creature of habit, Tenya was Not Pleased.
Still, Tenya was a dutiful son, and he did his best to make his parents proud. And proud they were when Tensei Impressed a fine brown, and again when Tenya was later Searched for an entirely new High Reaches. Tenya dedicated himself to his new station and learned the rules of the weyr as quickly as possible.
This is a tense time for Tenya, because Tensei was one of the casualties of the dreadful Threadfalls High Reaches has been facing. He wants to live up to his brother's legacy, but he's also in mourning. And with his adopted weyr in trouble, he wants to help in any way he can.