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BASICS
NAME: Ranya
GENDER: female
PRONOUNS: she/her/hers
ORIENTATION: *shrug* too busy with the trader/rider life I suppose to really take much notice, oops xD
BIRTHDATE: Late Fall, Turn 2750
AGE: 22 as of Early Fall Turn 2772
LOCATION: Semaca Weyr
OCCUPATION: Trader, whiterider!
WING: Pavane Squad
APPEARANCE
EYES: deep blue
HAIR: black, a little bit curly (and unruly in places)..
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5’4” tall, lean & slender (but healthy) build..
PLAY-BY: n/a (my own art!) top, bottom is a Picrew.
FULL APPEARANCE:
Ranya has very dark brown skin, warm in tone and colour. Her shoulder-length hair is black, with a long fringe framing her oval face. And there are at least four small plaits to be found in her dark unruly mane! She has wide almond-shaped eyes of deep blue, a straight nose, and an engaging smile/grin. Her nimble hands and fingers are very flexible.
Ranya prefers to wear practical clothing suited to a life spent in the outdoors; often in colours such as greens and browns that just happen to ‘blend in’ with the scenery. She will often be observed wearing her usual basic combo of a (very lovingly well-worn) tunic, a pair of pants—or shorts/skirts depending on the weather and occasion—and a pair of softened leather boots. Her favourite dark green cloak is often clasped on over her shoulders, and sometimes she will have light leather bracers on both of her forearms for protection.
Ranya also has the usual everyday items tied on to her belt, as well as the basic necessities she needs to survive (and thrive, even) in the wilderness. Items such as a well-honed dagger, a slingshot sling and the occasional pack of throwing darts. A waterskin. A pouch of marks, a few notebooks and journals nestled inside another pouch or one of her pockets, alongside an seemingly endless supply of charcoal pencils. Things like that. Ranya has all the usual tricks and tools of the trade!
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Ranya is a nature lover. She loves animals!
She is a restless soul, always needing to explore at least a little bit each day. She’s absolutely a wanderer by birth and by nature, quite the adventurous type! She would definitely go a little bit stir crazy if she has to stay in the exact same spot for long periods of time.
Ranya can read and write; and she is pretty skilled with ‘reading’ people, especially of expressions and body language. Not super-human amazing, but still! Particularly because she is Deaf, and therefore she needs to use her eyes (and her other senses) a lot more to help her observe and interact with the world. Said interactions in the form of communication are always through writing and/or PSL, since she doesn't speak verbally. Writing is so slowwww, though.
She is also extremely wary of strangers—literally anybody she meets on her travels could be an bandit, a person who’d cheat an honest trader out of their hard-earned coin, or literally any other form of Bad Guy—so she frequently has her guard up around new people. Watches everyone she doesn’t know with suspicion... However, Ranya will make a loyal friend, IF you earn her trust. And what happens if you betray her trust? Well, pray to Faranth that you never find out! After all, the wilderness has teeth… and so does she.
Curious to a fault, Ranya might be bubbling with questions, but has just enough sense to wait for the right time. She may often ask a LOT of questions about anything she doesn’t know. Sometimes to the point of getting a bit annoying. She also tends to prefer fruit juices or water over any sort of alcoholic beverages. See, Ranya tried alcohol once, and didn’t like it. At all! So she just goes for having a clear head and a tasty cupful of fruit juice instead.
Ranya is pretty comfortable around most dragonkin, and is perfectly well aware of the quite exciting possibility that the talented ‘spark’ of the women in her family probably runs in her veins too. She has decided that if she is ever Searched, she would definitely enter into Dual Candidacy, just so she could gain equal chances at becoming a wherhandler like her mum, or a dragonrider like her grandmother! Both paths are equally attractive… if she finds herself Searched, that is! Otherwise she is quite content and happily secure in the rootless, forever-wandering (but well-loved) life she has had growing up in the caravan as a trader’s daughter. Sees Semaca as an exciting new opportunity!
HISTORY
FAMILY:
- Wherhandler mother (working in a different Trader caravan)
- Trader father
- Dragonrider grandmother (she is a brownrider)
- Any number of siblings…
- Half-sibling Eli (played by Arc), though she is currently unknown to Ranya.. >.>
- Other family members.. and the Trader caravan members too, probably.
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: none yet, open
BIRTHPLACE: someplace in the wilderness, probably with the trader caravan somewhere in Fortian lands
HISTORY:
TW: uh, mentions of plague. Also, you might get a sudden craving for bubbly pies. (I just did haha!)
Born in Turn 2749, to a wherhandler mother and a Trader father. Given to her dad to raise once she was fully weaned from her mother’s milk. Her mum’s trading caravan already had far too many mouths to feed… plus, although she still loved Ranya, the mother also didn’t really want to have to deal with the extra hassle of raising a Deaf child on top of everything else. Fortunately, Ranya has a great dad who managed to do a pretty good job of raising her! Has spent her whole life travelling from place to place, Hold to Hold, and through all the wildernesses in between, with her father’s trading caravan.
And she was quite a happy child, always laughing at all the things she found delight in.
At age six or so, Thread returns. And all the trader caravans had to change their routes slightly to account for that! Not that she really remembers this change now, but still. Has over time become quite a skilled hunter-gather and tracker! She excelled at hands-on learning, easily picking up most of the survival skills needed for her caravan to live in the wilds outside of Hold or Crafthall. And her father did his best to teach her her letters, and at one point managed to get a willing Harper to teach her the all-important Teaching Ballads though PSL (Pernese Signing Language), in exchange for specific trade items the Harper needed.
Every so occasionally, her father’s caravan and another trading caravan would cross paths, and it always made for an exciting occasion. Sometimes the other caravan was one with which her wherhandler mother worked, and she was always glad to see such a rapidly growing and happy little daughter! These occasions were like a little holiday of sorts, where their usual routines changed temporarily so the caravans could interact and trade and hang out with each other. Then after a sevenday or so, they would part ways again, and life in the caravans resumed as normal. Sometimes they’d even appear at a Gather! And all the kids always made a beeline straight for the nearest bubbly pie stall. Such a delicious treat! And all the more delectable for most trader children, as it wasn’t often the traders had regular access to them.
When plague struck Pern, Ranya was nine. That summer was notable mainly because their usual trading routes suddenly became limited or outright closed down for a while. Their caravan settled down in one spot far from the worst-hit Holds for most of the summer, to wait it all out. And to stop themselves from going a bit too stir-crazy, some of the traders would go help out with the urgent delivery of medical supplies, among other things, around Pern. Sometimes Ranya would tag along, just to ease the nine-year-old’s boredom at staying in the same surroundings for a long time—she was already wanting to explore and see new things at this age! Once the plague had finally receded from Pern’s shores, the trading caravans were able to all return to their normal nomadic way of life. Which Ranya was very happy about!
Eventually news of the summerlands (and eventually, Semaca) arrives upon swift feet, raising morale and lifting spirits for some time. It was quite a fascinating discovery indeed! Ranya eventually takes on more responsibilities in the caravan as she grew older, improving her skills. Life was good!
When Ranya reaches her twenties, she was gifted a beautiful palomino runnerbeast as a joint Turnday present from her parents. Ranya loved her so much, it was clear to her parents that the runnerbeast was going to be in very good hands. Ranya named her Quilda.
One day, Semaca Weyr sends out a call for more volunteers and/or useful people to voluntarily come down to join them.. to come help the understaffed Weyr out, and all that. Ranya is intrigued, and is quick to voluntarily nominate herself. Sure, she can’t hear, but she’s useful in other ways! Right? Her dad felt a little reluctant to let her go, but he did recognise that his wonderful little daughter was now an big and strong young adult, after all, who definitely knew how to look after herself. He had made sure of that! Plus, Ranya had managed to convince him that Semaca was absolutely an excellent opportunity for trade. And had repeatedly reassured him that he could definitely come visit every now and then!
And so Ranya finds herself aboard a ship bound for Semaca, alongside her runnerbeast and all the other new folks going there. This was so exciting!
Upon arrival, Ranya finds Semaca Weyr breathtaking. Wow! This is such a coool place. So different, so warm, and—why is it SO GREEN? Isn’t the Weyr supposed to keep greenery away from human habitations for safety?? What about Thread???? And the JUNGLE! Semaca absolutely looked nothing like the north; it was like a completely different world!
It would take some time for her to adjust to Semaca, and all these new strange people, but Ranya feels very excited about her new home, despite that!
UPDATES
- Ranya is gifted an flit from an basket of three eggs Eli brought, Ranya names him Haldanar (insert thread here), Season/Turn 2773
- Ranya attends her first Touching (insert thread here), Late Autumn/Early Winter (I think) Turn 2773
- Ranya attends her first Hatching! (Insert thread here). AND SHE IMPRESSSES White Dayvith (3rd to hatch)!! Early Winter Turn 2773
- Graduates weyrlinghood! Joins Pavane Squad. Early Winter Turn 2774 (I think)
