"Then let's look on the bright side:
We're having an adventure, and most people live
and die without being as lucky as we are."
BASICS
NAME: Rin
GENDER: female
PRONOUNS: she/her/hers
ORIENTATION: Asexual, possibly demiromantic, but too busy exploring to bother finding out
BIRTHDATE: Spring 2749
AGE: twenty-three as of Winter 2772
LOCATION: Semaca Weyr
OCCUPATION: rider, troublemaker, resident explorer
SQUAD: Mazurka
APPEARANCE
EYES: hazel
HAIR: auburn, thick and wavy
HEIGHT AND BUILD: five feet and eleven inches, stocky and solid
PLAY-BY: Emma Appleton
FULL APPEARANCE:
After her late growth spurt, Rin is no longer a fairly short person. She is still a little shorter than Pernese average. She is an active individual, which leads to a healthy appetite at every meal. She is often described as 'hearty and hale', with strength aplenty and power just waiting to be developed. Nothing about her is 'dainty', which she finds just fine. 'Dainty', as far as she is concerned, is a twisted ankle and embroidery for days. Sturdy is a scraped up knee and a meatroll in her bag for dinner. Said bag is one of her apprentice accomplishments - a demonstration of her understanding leather seams. That's her story, and she's sticking to it.
Some call her a wild child, but the truth is that Rin is very active. She doesn't like to be cooped up, and she does not like repetitive, meaningless tasks. Her skirts are meant to be worn to the ankles, with up to three layers of petticoat beneath. Rin wears them without a single underlayer, and kilts them up in her definitely-not-part-of-the-outfit belt. This exposes her tall boots, which were finally agreed upon in order to protect her legs better than even proper trousers would. Her sleeves were originally all full and wrist-length, but after tattering them enough times, she was allowed to trim them to her elbows.
Her thick auburn hair is, by all rights, supposed to be in a neat and tidy braid every morning. But that takes time, and effort, so Rin used to tie it back with a ribbon that only barely pretended to hold things together. She cut her hair when she turned twenty-one, and has never looked back.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY: Go ahead and make all the jokes. Rin has heard them all before - Rinzable sounds too forsking close to 'Miserable' and 'Warble' and 'Rinse able', which is why Rin goes by the first syllable of her name only. She is determined to be seen on her own merit, not the misguided attempts at parental naming, and so she goes to great lengths to hide her full name from the world. This has made her sneaky in various ways. She often requires her peers to complete certain tasks, such as beating her in a foot race, or finishing chores faster than her - before she tells them even her nickname.
Despite her roguish mannerism - Rin is nothing if not a tomboy, and she will succeed in anything she puts her mind to - Rin is surprisingly kind. She doesn't feel the need to be a jerk to prove a point. No, her actions will speak for themselves. In that, she is very truthful. Nothing will stop her from speaking her mind, particularly not if she's right, or should be. She's crafty, but she's not stupid. And she is endlessly curious, the kind that leads to the death of ignorance. Rin does not stop pursuing a course of action until her questions dry up and her inquisitive nature is sated.
And of course, no personality assessment of Rin would be complete without mentioning her persuasion. Rin is charismatic, and she has a tendency to create full plans at a moment's notice. Since people are more likely to follow someone with a plan, Rin rarely lacks for minions. She has a slight tendency to become bossy because of this, and it once fell to her twin brother, Zable, to correct this. Since he left Semaca, Rin has thrown herself in her work with Mazurka. Between the exacting - some might say 'unreasonable' - demands of her squadleader and the influence of a very opinionated bronze, Rin is growing up.
HISTORY
FAMILY: Father -Zabian, Master Smith
Mother Rinnaele, Master Starcrafter
Twin brother - Zable
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: Nope
BIRTHPLACE: Telgar Hold
HISTORY:
The twins were born to a starcrafter and a smith. Rin emerged first, and has been running ahead ever since. She was always the more active twin, her mother's headache, and her father's pride. No outing was ever complete without an extensive and frantic search for the twins. Rin dragged her brother everywhere. Most of the fights she got into were directly linked to Zable, and the way the youth of Telgar Hold found him an easy target for cruelty. Rin was very much of the opinion that she was the only one who could torment her brother, and took a dim view of anyone who tried to usurp her rank.
The time came, as it must for all, for the twins to be apprenticed into a craft. Rin found her niche as a tanner - something complicated enough to sate her fill in here.
Despite being apprenticed to two different crafts, the twins were not truly separated until Telgar Searched the smithcrafthall. Zab was taken away by the Search dragon, much to Rin's disappointment. For once, her twin was doing something...completely without her. Telgar was not inclined to Search the hold, but Igen did. Since Telgar Hold fell into both weyr's territories, it wasn't unusual to have separate Searches.
Rin was Searched two seasons later, by an Igen blue. She has two garnet clutches under her belt, and volunteered when candidates were requested for Semaca's clutch.
