“If you attack, I will offer no mercy. I hope you are prepared to die.”
BASICS
RETIRE INFO: Adopt
NAME: Leo
GENDER: Male
PRONOUNS: he/him/his
ORIENTATION: Panromantic Bisexual
BIRTHDATE: Mid Summer 2747
AGE: twenty-five as of Summer 2767
LOCATION: High Reaches Weyr
OCCUPATION: reluctant healer, political grumbler, muscle, transport
WING: Healer's (field)
APPEARANCE
EYES: brown
HAIR: blond
HEIGHT AND BUILD: five feet eleven and a half inches
PLAY-BY: Leo (Fire Emblem)
FULL APPEARANCE:
Leo looks younger than his actual age. It comes from the short cut he adheres his blond hair to, and a certain roundness of face. He'll say it's because he just hasn't grown into himself yet, but the honest truth is that despite his furious training, the baby fat has yet to release him. Beneath that softness is a core of hard muscle, earned by proving himself as often as he could.
His training shows in the clothes he wears. Leo does not like flowy things with a lot of drape. He likes clothes that he can move in easily, preferably stuff with enough pockets and hiding places that he's never caught by surprise. Bold colors win every time, in order to lessen the chance of being overlooked. Unfortunately, Leo has the kind of bad luck that cannot be dodged. He nearly always has some item of clothing put on backwards, or inside out. If he's lucky, it's just a sock. If he's unlucky, he'll discover at suppertime that the tunic he donned before breakfast is showing the underside of the embroidery.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
If someone were to ask Leo to describe himself, he might say that he's a younger brother, smarter than his siblings. He might mention that he loves to study books, to learn from the past in order to look forward to his future. He might, if pressed, even disclose that he prefers white dragons above all other dragonkin.
But the parts of his personality that matter, that have the most bearing on his daily interaction? Those have to be observed, and usually observed over a long period of time. Leo is a cold, calculating individual. He holds those around him to a nearly impossible standard, and condemns anyone who falls short. He resents his oldest brother for being apparently perfect, and does not hesitate to tell him to forsk off.
He is also incredibly accident prone, in the way that all his attempts invariably end up a little, um, sideways. He'll kill an entire pond trying to put the fish to sleep so he can catch them. The less said about any mining attempts the better. There is a reason Xander is seen as so much better than he is.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
- Father - Garon of bronze Garosk
Mother
Brother - Xander, elected Weyrleader
Sister - Camilla of blue Kamuith
Sister - Elise of blue Zath, Etude
Adopted Sister - Corrin of garnet Astraeleth, Bells
Long Lost Sister - Engenix
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: none, yet
BIRTHPLACE: small, struggling hold under the aegis of High Reaches
HISTORY:
Leo sometimes thinks he was born hating his older brother.
Xander was always better at everything, more talented and more skilled and more thoughtful than Leo could ever be. From the moment Leo realized that he hated being outshone, he strove to excel. Leo spent most of his childhood training, trying to catch up with the brother only four Turns his senior. He never made many close friends, although he always had plenty of sparring partners.
When he was fourteen, his father's most trusted advisor gave him a gift. The man had tried to get his attention before, but never quite managed. Leo didn't know the danger behind the gift offered, and accepted a fire lizard egg. This hatched into a brown, which Leo gloated as being a better rank than his brother's fire lizards. He still finds it better than his sister's blue, for all that she has a dragon, and he only a fire lizard.
The man never did get what he wanted from Leo, if he in fact wanted anything to begin with. Leo never knew the sacrifices his brother made for him.
Dragons never had occasion to visit their small hold, so until Xander took his siblings to the weyr when he went to petition for aid, Leo never thought about Standing. But when he saw dragons - up close, and one actually let him touch, he very maturely begged to be allowed to Stand as a candidate. Terminath's Acta Est Fabula clutch will be first time he sees anything bigger than a fire lizard hatch. He's more excited than scared.
After all, Camilla managed to Impress. Why shouldn't Leo?
