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Candidate Austura

Kite
 
    Sun Aug 15, 2021 7:04 am
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Candidate Austura

AUSTURA
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"But I can see us lost in the memory
August slipped away into a moment in time
'Cause it was never mine"
August - Taylor Swift


BASICS

NAME: Austura
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: she/her/hers
ORIENTATION: Hopeless Romantic, she imagines she's in love with any guy who's nice to her.

BIRTHDATE: Summer 2754
AGE: 18, 18 as of Summer 2772
LOCATION: High Reaches Weyr
OCCUPATION: Candidate
WING: N/A

APPEARANCE
EYES: Brown
HAIR: Brown
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5'5", slight build.
PLAY-BY: Holly Taylor
FULL APPEARANCE: Short, petite and more likely to fade into a corner than stand out in any crowd, Austura is commonly considered fairly unremarkable. Her hair is brown, her eyes brown and her overall presence isn't one that demands attention. She prefers to wear her hair down, or in a simple plait down her back, fiddling with it frequently whichever style it's worn in.

Her clothing doesn't encourage her to stand out either, favouring simple cuts in neutral or subtle colours, which she keeps well maintained and tidy. She had a few 'gather dresses' back home at the hold, but only brought one with her and will only wear it if she feels she really needs to / it would be impolite not to.

PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY: Naive and sweet, Austura wants to believe the best in people, willing to forgive almost anything if she can somehow reason it away. Everyone makes mistakes, who is she to judge anyone? As a result, she can easily be taken advantage of and easily manipulated. She wants her friends to be happy, and if she has to suffer for the to be the case, she'll allow it - repeatedly. Along the same vein, it takes a lot for Austura to truly turn her back on someone she considers a friend, but that doesn't mean she won't withdraw from them if faced with confrontation.

She's shy for the most part, favouring listening and watching people over actively seeking to interact with them, having doubts in her own worthiness of contributing much to a conversation. When someone approaches her, she's polite, but it can be difficult for someone to draw information from her. Which only compounds her lack in confidence - she accidentally shuts people out, which in turn makes her doubt people want to spend time with her all the more.

A hopeless romantic, Austura dreams of finding a partner in life to grow old with. The most insignificant of interactions with a man can send her into a world of daydreams, imagining their future together - the wedding that they'll have and the children that will follow. It's always a blow when nothing comes of things, followed by a period of her promising herself she won't let herself fall again so quickly, but inveribly, it will happen again and she'll fall into her daydreams just as hard.

HISTORY
FAMILY: Mother, Father, a few older and younger siblings.
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: None, formerly Jace.
BIRTHPLACE: A minor hold beholden to High Reaches
HISTORY: Austura's early life was simple, unremarkable. Born in a minor hold beholden to High Reaches, to a married couple, Austura was the middle child in what would go on to be a reasonable sized family. They were close enough, but there were no tragic losses or dramatic bonding events, just a simple ordinary family - going about their lives as so many other families did.

With her parents remaining wildly in love, Austura grew up seeing that as a very real possibility and always hoped for the same. Her childhood was full of daydreams of her future marriage and children and time spent with her family and her husband's. She had a passing awareness of dragons and their riders perhaps, but something for other people - not something for her.

So she passed the time, helping in the hold kitchens once she was old enough, but in her mind just waiting until her future found her. Because, surely it would, sooner or later? More then a couple of times she started to think it had, but each time it came to nothing. Including with Jace. She clearly read more into things than he did, blissfully unaware of the life he already had back at his home Hold, caught up in the moment and allowing herself to get swept up in her own hopes for the future.

So when the truth came out and he left, just like that, she was heartbroken. Betrayed and hurt, but also angry with herself for allowing herself to fall so hard, Austura withdrew into herself - reconsidering her choices and blaming herself for her own misery.

So when she was offered the chance of search not long later, she considered it more than she would have otherwise, before accepting - seeing it as a chance to escape, to start over. It wasn't until she got to the Weyr that she really thought about what she was 'giving up'. Weyrfolk didn't do marriage after all, but she still might find someone to spend the rest of her life with, right?

After a few turns of having to focus on herself and her dragon anyway.
Last edited by Kite on Sat Sep 04, 2021 12:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Kite
 
    Fri Sep 03, 2021 5:23 pm
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IC Information
What type of candidate is your character: Dragon

What color/s does your character want?: She doesn't know yet, right now she's still just pretty overwhelmed.
Does your character have any personality preferences or concerns?: As above
Does your character have any other preferences or concerns?: As above, though she does fear not being found good enough.

OOC Information
If your character is a dual candidate IC, do you have a strong preference on whether they Impress dragon or wher?: n/a

What color(s) are you willing for your character to impress to?: n/a
Do you want your character to be eligible for gold?: No
Do you have any personality preferences or concerns?: n/a
Do you have any other preferences or concerns?: n/a
Why do you think these choice/s would be a good fit?: n/a

Do you have any preferences about the conditions of your character’s impression?: Please leave standing indefinitely.
Are you alright with your character getting hurt? What injury level is acceptable/what should be avoided?: Nothing life changing, but scrapes, bruises, broken arms etc are fine.

Is there anything you will ABSOLUTELY NOT accept?: n/a
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