"With my back on the floor,
Cold linoleum icing my growing pains,
Watch the ceiling fan turn its shape again.
My threads are coming loose."
-Boreas, The Oh Hellos
BASICS
NAME: Liniral, goes by Linny
GENDER: Male
PRONOUNS: He/Him/His
ORIENTATION: Pansexual
BIRTHDATE: Spring 2754
AGE: 21 as of 2775
LOCATION: High Reaches
OCCUPATION: Wherhandler
WING: Sunburst
APPEARANCE
EYES: Green
HAIR: Dark brown, fluffy, bit messy
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 6'7", relatively fit but not like... jacked
PLAY-BY: baydew's picrew maker
FULL APPEARANCE:
Linny is a pretty boy through and through. He's tall, has a handsome face with a good jawline, and is physically fit. His hair is dark brown and fluffy. He doesn't really do anything too intense with it, just wakes up and brushes down the parts that are sticking out too much. He has a soft smile that brightens up his face, and kind green eyes that only help that smile shine.
Linny's a fan of leather jackets, and has a few different ones for different occasions. A winter one, a fancy one, this one and that one. It's a bit of a collection, really. Other than that, he wears casual clothing- nothing that isn't practical for what he has to do that day, though.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Linny has adopted a persona that anyone who isn't family or an extremely close friend would know Linny to be like. The equivalent to a modern-day, popular, hockey-playing teenage boy, 'Linny' is a smooth-talking, fast-talking, rough-around-the-edges sort of teen around the majority of people he knows. Add in a little bit of flirtatiousness and a lot of dry humor and you're basically there. He's dependable and good to work, and will always do his best.
To close friends and family, Linny is a kind, patient, and loving man who wants to help make the world a better place. He is well mannered and has a strong sense of duty to his Weyr. He genuinely loves engaging in conversation with others and easily melts to mush around the people he likes. He knows way too much about politics for the average seventeen year old, but he is just so interested that if you get him talking about it, he won't stop. Linny likes laying on the floor. Linny likes laying on the ground. Honestly, any flat surface that is available to lay on, he will be there. It comforts him.
Linny needs everyone to like him all the time so, so much. If someone doesn't like him and he is aware of it, it gives him endless anxiety and he will try to mold himself towards the way they want him to be- this being where his persona stemmed from. He's also not the best with confrontation and easily breaks into pieces, being one to talk the talk, but not walk the walk. He is incredibly sensitive to rejection, and the thought of being 'not enough' to anyone terrifies him. He is a walking ball of internalized exhaustion and stress.
Also, he's a TOTAL momma's boy. That is all.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
-Nhelin of Gold Nhelisk, Mother
-Jiniral, Father (estranged)
-Anhe, Grandmother
-Malinir, Grandfather
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: N/A
BIRTHPLACE: High Reaches Weyr
HISTORY:
Linny was born an only child to Nhelin, a woman just getting out of dragon candidacy and soon after moving into wher candidacy. He never knew his father, and as he grew older, never made any move or search to find out who that man was. He had his mom, and that was enough. She soon became his idol, and he tried to be the perfect kid in order to impress her. That turned into trying to impress the creche workers, turned into trying to impress everybody and their dogs. If he could impress everybody, then he must be the perfect kid... yeah? Definitely. Sure, that goal put an immense amount of pressure on his shoulders that turned into a deathly fear of rejection... but if people liked him for it, then what did it matter to him?
He started getting interested in High Reaches' politics from a young age, and worked to learn as much as possible as fast as possible. He himself wanted to get involved in the politics of the Weyr, and the best way to do that in his mind was to Impress to something draconic. He knew the benefit of being at High Reaches was that he had a fair chance to get into the political fray no matter if he had a dragon or a wher, so his plan was to sign up for dragon candidacy at age 15, and then switch to dual at 17. Perfect! So that was what he did. Despite his mother's dislike of dragons, he became a dragon candidate, and after being passed over for two years, joined up with the dual candidates to get a shot at the whers.
Fate would have it that at the same wher hatching that his mother would Impress gold, he would Impress a blue. Linirask, a beautiful, social blue who Linny adored the second they popped out of their egg. They liked him for who he was, and Faranth, that was all Linny needed to be happy. Linny now plans to make it through his wherlinghood with his head still on his shoulders- hopefully. His class seems to be quite rocky. But that doesn't matter too much as he knows that if the going gets too tough, he'll have his mother there with him to rely on.
