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”They say look for the light, but I prefer to ride amongst the shadows.”
BASICS
NAME: Fulll name is Thanjafaw, but she goes by Thanja formally.
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: She/Her
ORIENTATION: Biromantic Bisexual
BIRTHDATE: Midwinter 2756
AGE: 18
LOCATION: High Reaches Weyr
OCCUPATION: Blacksmith, Candidate
WING: N/A
APPEARANCE
EYES: Amber
HAIR: Straight but curving, dark-dark-brown
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5'11", lean yet muscular, (mostly in the arms), yet still light enough to be mildly fast on foot.
EXPY SOURCE: N?A
FULL APPEARANCE: Thanja prefers a combination of stylish yet traditional, mixed with a practical build for working all day on anything. Anything black or brown, and sometimes gray, suits best. She wears heavy-duty boots along with thick leggings. A skirt wraps around her waist, yet stops around her center. Long sleeves, with easily pulled back forearm lengths, accompany; they often have a striped, folded over pattern about them. A thin rod helps keep her long hair held in a small bun on the back. Finally, a band ties tight between the pants and shirt, both as extra insurance and a tool for emergencies.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY: Thanja is outgoing and eager to accumulate every bit of smithcraft knowledge, to be ready for the possibility any small scrap will be useful sometimes. She doesn't always do things right, or fully learn, yet nonetheless she takes pride in it. She strives to think outside the box, insistent on realizing fresh, new, or brilliant ways/solutions. If it's a method truly of her own devising, she will take it to heart. Getting along well with others comes naturally, as she is socially adaptable. Thanja likes to seek clarity on matters, too, taking time to be patient.
However, at times her constant and consistent need for more cause great friction or ill decisions. Her pride often results in arrogance that her ways are better, even if they actually aren't. She will disregard the obvious or correct approach in attempting to be clever about something. Her desire to get along well others, to fit in, can cause her self-confidence to waver and flounder, to be meek and agree even if she knows it isn't the best idea. Though she knows it a good thing to ask questions, her anxiety can cause her to be hesitant on occasion in doing so, with varying consequences.
HISTORY
FAMILY:A farmer couple, then a foster home.
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: N/A
BIRTHPLACE: Grenja Hold, a minor hold within fair distance from High Reaches Weyr.
HISTORY: Orphaned by a fire mishap that left her to the care of practical strangers, in her view, at three, Thanja's life was a stumble for purpose from the start. Though they did provide for her, love in their harts, she never felt right, not willing to give back, fearful of forming attachments. As lonely as she felt and desired to be across the year, she did make a few pseudo-friendships, gradually warming up to others, if not fully.
From a young age, she took up chores and favors around the hold to help the family and her neighbors, secretly feeling she owed them for their care. She gradually gained trust to act autonomously. Thanja gradually picked up a great deal of social cues, knowing how to act even if not understanding why. She learned much and strengthed herself through the arduous and heavy work she set herself to. Sometimes not skillfully, but sufficiently enough o do on a whim.
Between her ventures across the city and occasional farms, Thanja gradually garnered a love for environment and what one could create with it. Trades involving crafting with raw resources became an interest. Particularly, the smells of the forge caught her allure--the earth she walked upon wrought to man's will. A form of control she felt, unlike her own life. A way to burn through the fears of fire, to wield herself over it.
The richness of the smoke, the blasting heat of the hammering metal upon the glowing hot gleams.she saw how nature's raw form could be transformed. As soon as she could, Thanja took an apprenticeship with a local, albiet unoffifical, smithcraft. As a bonus, she was learned to read and write through what was provided to her. She gleaned what she could about the world from the scarce supply of texts available. Though she gradually had inklings to travel elsewhere to learn, she did not ask for fear of rejection. Thanja consoled herself to finish her tenure in the forge first.
The tales of the distant High Reaches Weyr, a place where people can make a name for themselves as riders, caught her heart as a place to perhaps be something more. Overtime, it became a dream. By some fortune of fate, a Search, at the eve of her seventeenth year, identified her as possessing worthy potential. Yearning for the prospects, she gathered all she owned and made way for the Weyr. A year in, she may not have much or the same friendships she did at home, but nonetheless she presses on, determined to make something of herself.