"I’ll fly with you all one day!"
BASICS
RETIRE INFO: Retire both
NAME: Ganymede
GENDER: Cis male, but that’s subject to change
PRONOUNS: he/him/his
ORIENTATION: Prone to crushes and squishes, but nothing serious yet
BIRTHDATE: Spring 2753
AGE: 21 as of Early Fall 2773
LOCATION:High Reaches Weyr
OCCUPATION: Weyrling
WING: Starfall Wing
APPEARANCE
EYES: Green
HAIR: Blond
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5'9, has had his growth spurt and is now pretty lean in terms of muscle.
PLAY-BY: Clive from Fire Emblem
FULL APPEARANCE:
Gany is still in the process of growing, and is still very much a little guy, despite being 15. His hair is almost always messy, and when it’s not, it’s slicked back as best as he can manage. His green eyes are always looking at something, constantly on the lookout for things to pick up and point out. He’s not as strong as he looks, but he is faster, unable to pick up heavy things but able to sprint to the head of the line of the Dining Hall. He's still also got a baby face, soft and pudgy despite his attempts at looking tough. He works hard to try and build significant muscle, but finds it hard because he still burns though food like a furnace.
As of his 21st birthday, he's grown out quite a bit since his humble beginnings. He's had his growth spurt and now has lost most of the baby fat. Gany has worked on becoming physically more strong, and still runs hot because of that.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Gany is loud. Regardless of what’s happening, he’s usually humming or whistling or singing or talking… He hates silences more than anything, and will always try to fill them when appropriate. It might get him in trouble, but in cases like this, he’s willing to weather the blows if it makes himself feel better. He’s also a bit of a hoarder, loving to find shiny rocks or cool looking bits of detritus from crafters’ work areas. Thankfully, most of what he can find and hoards can be put in a pouch, so mess is rarely an issue. It helps that he’s fastidious and neat about his own space and own person, but not to an excessive degree.
While he’s still immature, he still does care about the safety and health of others. He will often comment on the appearance of others, not maliciously but merely because he doesn’t let himself filter his train of thought just yet. As such, he can be seen as an annoying little little brother, despite the fact that he will correct them and call himself an ‘annoying big brother’. He loves his little sisters and is excited to let them know how he’s going to have a wonderful dragon for them to meet one day.
Intra-weyr politics and politics in general are a nonissue to Ganymede. He doesn’t concern himself with them simply because the scope of such things are still very much beyond him. Not that he doesn’t TRY and care. But he sees himself as just a simple lad who just wants to fly as high as physically possible. He has no strong opinion on any of the big choices that the people in charge make, so long as no one is actively a tyrant.
HISTORY
FAMILY: Jupei ( Father, Harper ), Juno ( Mother, Harper ), Ioa ( Sister, 14) Europa (Sister, 10 ) Callisto ( Sister, 6 )
BIRTHPLACE: High Reaches
HISTORY:
Jupei and Juno were two fairly successful Harpers, accomplished singers and teachers who fell in love despite the chaos around them. They kept their heads down, and managed to have one of their first children without issue.
Ganymede’s childhood was slightly sheltered. While things happened around him, he was simply too young to understand. Even if he asked his parents why there was so much fighting, so much happening, he never expected nothing save for a ‘sometimes people have to fight to get the anger out of their system’ or ‘people have problems they have a hard time getting out, so they have to cause a ruckus’. He was still quite young and didn’t always understand. But he figured that as long as he didn’t make anyone angry, he wouldn’t get sucked into any adult arguments and fights.
A sweet little ball of sunshine, he often daydreamed during little lessons, imagining himself on the back of a dragon. Not because he wanted a dragon, but because he wanted to be high in the air. Feel the wind against his face and just… free. Granted, he often was punished for skipping on learning on reading and writing. But his parents were nervous that their son seemed so deadset on this. They had HOPED he would be a Harper, like them, as his singing voice was excellent and he was quite smart. But he still seemed deadset on being a dragon rider.
Still…
His parents often had long conversations about if their son should be allowed to pursue this course of action. He was their oldest and first child, and they were terrified that something awful would happen to him. After all, after living through tyranny, he might be asked to fight for his Weyr and die in the process. But as he grew, they started to realize that forbidding him would only make him resentful, as he was headstrong as any lad his age.
The idea of their son running away to a different Weyr and being lost to them forever frightened them even more than him being a Rider where there could see him. So by his 13th Turn, they agreed to give him their blessing to become a Candidate when he aged into it.
He was delighted, naturally, and worked hard to learn as much as he could so that he could breeze through any boring language or math lessons that hed have to sit through as a Candidate. His dreams only grew bigger and bigger as he aged in, even daring to dream he'd sit on a Gold's back one day. Really though, by the time he was 15 turns, he just was eager to actually sit through his first Touching and his first Hatching.
