"I bury hatchets but I keep maps of where I put them
Reputation precedes me, they told you I’m crazy
I swear I don’t love the drama, it loves me"
Taylor Swift - End Game (reputation)
BASICS
RETIRE INFO: Character: Adopt//Dragon: Adopt
NAME: Viela
Possible Nickname/s if required: Vie/Vi, V, Vivi, Vinnie, etc
GENDER: female
PRONOUNS: she/her/hers
ORIENTATION: Nope, no, I’m not telling. Do you really need to know?
BIRTHDATE: Late Summer, Turn 2748
AGE: 22 as of Late Spring, Turn 2771
LOCATION: Fort Weyr
OCCUPATION: Journeywoman Harper; Greenrider
WING: Starfall Wing
APPEARANCE
EYES: Blue, a piercing blue shade
HAIR: ash-coloured dishwater blonde
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5’11, of a fit slender build
PLAY BY: Taylor Swift!
FULL APPEARANCE:
A tall and fair-skinned woman often clad in leathers (or the occasional tunic and leggings), with her oval-shaped face bearing large dramatic blue eyes popping against the pale backdrop of her skin, a strongly-shaped noble’s nose, lips hardly ever seen without her red lipstick, and a headful of wild ash-blonde tresses roughly cut just above her shoulders.
Her face, the biggest showstopper centrepiece of her entire appearance, gave life to everything and every expression she wore. For instance, paired with her favourite trademark red lipstick, her startlingly intense stormy blue gaze could (and oftentimes did) give the impression of piercing right into someone’s soul. Depending on the recipient, the experience was sometimes made all the more worse when a certain dangerous gleam begins dancing in her intelligent eyes. Obviously, not everyone is affected in this way.
Without her lipstick, Viela’s lips were actually a much more gentler shade of natural nude pink, and a very slight smattering of freckles could be glimpsed if one looked closely, lightly scattered across her nose and cheeks. Viela’s body, though she appeared slender with few muscles, was deceptively tougher, fitter and stronger than most would first assume.
Slung around Viela’s hips was a simple belt fitted with loops for everything she needed on her person - including various items such as her drawstring purse for marks, spare pocket-size notebooks and a small weapon in the shape of her preferred knife hanging in its scabbard, among other things - and on her feet were delicately well-made wher-hide boots designed to last. Small spots and splatters of minor ink and charcoal stains could be often found in some places on her lithe hands and dexterous calloused fingers; and sometimes a random pencil would be spotted shoved into its place behind one ear amidst ash-coloured strands of blonde hair.
Viela might also occasionally be found playing her gitar, humming or outright singing along, and scribbling away lyrics inside her notebook.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Assertive and independent, intense Viela is the epitome of someone who forgives, but never forgets. She can be a huge grudge-holder, but she is willing to bury her hatchets (grudges/feuds, figuratively speaking) under certain conditions and the right circumstances, but she is also capable of ‘digging’ them back up again if she is offended by the same thing or person more than twice.
While she is often honest to the point of being blunt, Viela can’t quite figure out why she keeps attracting drama like a magnet, since she had no real desire to like it or love it to the point of constantly chasing it like certain ‘drama queens’ of the past and present. However, being in the dramatic spotlight herself as a musician was a whole different story, though, as she did enjoy such things.
As an journeywoman Harper, the glibly silver-tongued Viela was always trying to inspire and motivate others through her music and words. Labelled by others as brilliant, somewhat like many geniuses of the past; Viela was frequently found constantly writing music and lyrics for her original songs, and she was also becoming ever more skilled at acting, often being able to cast an imitation or impression of someone else with near-perfect accuracy.
For all her subtle flaws, Viela was a good and kind-hearted soul, even while her real self was often buried under the perceived drama, the rumours, and her reputation among those she knew; Viela was often hidden behind the exterior of her public facade.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
- Mother
- Father
- 2 siblings ( Viela is eldest)
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: None yet; may develop. Well, who could handle this intense living-storm-made-flesh kid?
BIRTHPLACE: a medium-sized Hold in tough country; somewhere in Fortian lands
HISTORY:
Firstborn in the late summer season of Turn 2748 to a Holder father and Crafter mother, Viela spent a somewhat brief but good rough-and-tumble childhood at her family’s Hold somewhere in Fort. Viela’s mother, skilled in the HealerCraft, soon recognised the early signs of a child who loved to sing in her first daughter as little Viela neared her 8th birthday, and she began to do what little she could to hopefully nurture whatever gifts Viela possessed, with the aid of her Holder husband.
Soon it became abundantly clear that Viela’s talents, and subsequently her interests, lay firmly in the HarperCraft profession.
Eventually, Viela found herself happily joining the HarperCraft as an apprentice at the age of eight Turns. For many Turns, as Viela grew, she learned and learned, studying well and doing her best to put into practice what she could; quickly proving herself to excel in her chosen Craft. The lessons were many, and the subjects as various as there were Weyrs on Pern - she would learn about everything from reading, writing and performing music to Pernese history and even building her own instruments - at the same time discovering several things about herself and other people along the way.
Viela soon gained a minor reputation for several reasons.
First, whenever she was provoked, she would sometimes either throw an angry punch, or, go off to write a song about them.
And Viela almost seemed to possess a intelligent feline’s instincts and nine lives, because she always managed to somehow escape many situations and ‘accidents’ with her life intact, even if she was sometimes left injured or permanently scarred by them.
Secondly, Viela also became well-known among those that knew her at the Hall for her epic grudges; and the drama that seemed to like following her around a lot. For instance, Viela often seemed to have the unfortunate luck to walk into a heated argument, into something not meant for her eyes, or a fight that often ended with Viela receiving a blow meant for someone else, or tripping and mortifyingly falling in front of an important person like the MasterHarper, having a bully or two trying to follow her, or even just simply ending up as the cause of the drama herself because of something she did or said.
And of course, Viela had also gained a reputation among her non-Craft friends as a brilliant Harper, even if she sometimes seemed odd; perhaps because the impressions she could ‘put on’ made her seem that way, or it was from her experiences, or perhaps it was the fault of her own intense gaze occasionally being lit with a certain glint in her eyes.
But whatever the reason, life went on, and soon Viela was due to officially walk the tables so she could graduate to the journeyman rank in her Craft.
Several nights after she turned 18, to her utter joy, Viela found herself walking the tables, and graduated as a brand-new journeywoman Harper. She celebrated this milestone, of course, by writing a little song and then visiting her family and friends for a few days.
Viela continued her journeywoman training for another two Turns, improving her performing skills and becoming a better musician, until one fateful day.
Viela had been attending a Gathering at Fort Hold a few sevendays after she turned 20, when she had then accidentally bumped into none other than a dragonrider, only to find herself visibly startled when his dragon proceeded to ‘tell’ her directly that the young Harper herself would make a good dragonrider.
Clearly surprised but struggling to recover, Viela questioned them, and it turned out they were part of a group of Fort dragonriders sent out on a Search for Candidates, and for some reason there was something about poor Viela that the one chance encounter tipped off the Searchdragon that she could very well be a potential Candidate.
By this point, Viela was beginning to crave something new anyway, and to try something different from what she already did every day, so she decided to go ahead and accept the offer of Candidacy, and soon travelled to Fort Weyr a few days later as a Candidate. Viela also knew that if she ever aged out, she could stay on for a while as one of Fort Weyr’s resident Harpers, before moving on to wherever her position assigned her.
UPDATES
- Impressed Green Oveceth at High Reaches Weyr! (Season, Turn 2769/2770?)
- Add plot & drama stuff here
- relucantly decided to stay at HR bc they need all the dragons they can get. Graduates and enters Starfall Wing as a full-fledged dragonrider. (Season, Turn 2770/2771)
- Oveceth lays her first clutch of 4 eggs, one of whom later hatches a mutation! (Oveceth x Tokugath, Embrace Your Wicked Heart Hatching. Early Fall, Turn 2773)