"Fate is forged in Fire"
BASICS
NAME: Clive
GENDER: Cis Male
PRONOUNS: He/Him
ORIENTATION: He's not sure yet
BIRTHDATE: Midwinter 2760
AGE: 15 as of Early Summer 2775
LOCATION: High Reaches Weyr
OCCUPATION: Candidate
WING: N/A
APPEARANCE
EYES: Amber-brown
HAIR: Black
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5'4", lean but growing
PLAY-BY: Clive Rosfield (FFXVI)
EXPY SOURCE: Clive Rosfield (FFXVI)
FULL APPEARANCE:
A lean but athletic young man, Clive is firmly in his gangly teenager phase. He's all limbs and growing each day. His hair is black and a little messy, but he tries to keep it somewhat in control, with his bangs swept to one side to try keeping out of his face. He tends to be pretty casual in how he talks unless he's around his mother, then he is strictly very formal. He wears plain, but clearly high quality clothes, usually a white shirt with black pants and boots, and usually gloves if he's out doing his training. He wears an expensive ear clip on his left ear.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
From a distance, Clive seems like a very serious and proper young man. He's hardworking, practical, and blunt to a fault. He is fiercely protective of his younger brother, and selflessly devotes himself to his work to become a man that his father would be proud of. That said, he is also kind, with a fondness for animals. He enjoys the challenge of self-improvement, to push himself just a little more to be better. He is awkward in social situations that don't involve being prim and proper. Hanging out in the lower caverns over a meal makes him uncomfortable because he really doesn't know what to do. He tries sincerely to fit in, but a lot of the time he just comes off as someone who bumbles through conversations and doesn't really know how to handle being "casual."
Clive also cannot lie to save his life. He has been and always will be a terrible liar, which makes his tendency to bottle up his bad emotions really hard to do, as it is always clear on his face when something is bothering him. He will deny and deny, but it's always clear he's upset with something, and he forces this on himself because he thinks that he needs to be a proper young man at all times. That all said, he is an optimistic young man, one who does see that the future is bright and can get better. Even if the family never returns to their hold, surely there's something good at the Weyr for them all.
HISTORY
FAMILY: Elwin of Bronze Elsk (Father), Anabella (Mother), Joshua (younger brother [10 years old])
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: N/A
BIRTHPLACE: HR Hold that collapsed
HISTORY:
[TW: maternal neglect/toxicity]
Born the first child of a prominent wherhandler guard and an influential woman, Clive believed he was nothing if not good. He tried to follow his father, to help with whatever he could from the moment he could walk. This did not always go well, and Elsk was often his babysitter, the big old bronze able to just chomp onto the back of his clothes and keep him from going anywhere. An adventurous child, when he was 5 his younger brother Joshua was born, and he was very excited to have a little brother.
Their mother, however, clearly had favorites. Joshua was clearly destined to bond to Elsk, to take her from Elwin. Anabella believed that Clive, because he was not as attached to her and preferred to try to follow Elwin and Elsk around, meant that he was hardly worthy of such an important wher, and thus Elsk would reject Clive. Though Elwin insisted that was not how it worked, Anabella was convinced that her precious Joshua would, if not be a greater handler than Elwin, be fit for the best bronze dragon of High Reaches, solely because of her jealousy that Clive preferred Elwin to her. She ignored Clive, treating him as some lowborn guard instead of her own child, despite how Elwin would often intervene and compensate for her cold, callous nature.
When Joshua was 5 and Clive was 10, Joshua was given a firelizard egg. However, the brown inside ignored the young man and bonded to Clive instead, spotting the meatroll in his hand first when exiting the egg and chomping onto that instead of the offered meat. While Joshua wasn't bothered, Anabella was. She tried again the next turn, and the gold again bonded to Clive, mistaking his hand for food and chomping onto it before Clive could replace his finger with actual meat to distract her. With Ifrit and now Phoenix, it seemed the boy just attracted firelizards.
Clive tried to apprentice as a guard over and over, and finally when he was 12 he managed to have Elwin find a guard to train him. He wanted to protect his sickly brother, to make sure that he would be able to keep him safe from everything in the world. At 14, he found another firelizard egg, and it hatched to reveal a green, now Shiva. After he won marks and a firelizard egg in a Gather game, Blue Ramuh was yet another troublemaker to add to his menagerie, the same turn that he impressed Shiva. One final firelizard did find him at 15, and Garuda now was his.
It was not long after that when a mudslide came. Clive managed to get Joshua out, and with his fleet of firelizards was easily able to find their parents. They moved to High Reaches Weyr not long after that. Clive jumped into candidacy immediately. He reasoned that if he could impress a dragon, then surely his mother would see he was not worthless, and he would be able to protect Joshua even better.
