Teritha of green Damaranth

[Grayson]

TERITHA

"Of course it's all about me. Why else would she have done that?"

BASICS
NAME: Teritha
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: she/her/hers
ORIENTATION: Bisexual

BIRTHDATE: Spring 2723
AGE: 50 as of 2773
LOCATION: Semaca Weyr
OCCUPATION: Dragonrider
WING: Mazurka Squad

APPEARANCE
EYES: Brown
HAIR: Brown
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5'8", thin
PLAY-BY: ???
FULL APPEARANCE:

Teritha never was a large woman; she's tall enough to be average, sure, but without much spare flesh - and with barely any flesh at all where the threadscores trace across her skin. With her plain brown hair usually carefully combed and pinned to cover the right side of her face and head, many of the threadscores aren't immediately visible, but they're there, tracing angry red scars beneath their cover.

Usually to be found in clothing that doesn't take much dexterity to don, such as shirt and skirt, Teritha is also often to be found wearing riding leathers. Bodices and other pieces of complicated clothing don't feature in her wardrobe for anything other than the most fancy occasions, but she doesn't need a bodice for support. The clothing she does wear is typically of good quality, though, well-tailored and of good fabric.

She moves carefully, awkwardly and frequently with the help of a stick, especially if the weather is less than clement.

PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:

Teritha was a vain creature, once, before Thread robbed her of her beauty and illness robbed her of her grace. The echoes of that beauty still linger, but she's been forced to face some uncomfortable truths between the injury and the illness that followed, and has mostly failed to do so. She's still vain enough to try and cover her scars, and while she tells herself it's so that others don't have to see them, it's really so she doesn't have to see herself reflected in their horror.

Teritha had a great deal and lost most of it, and she just can't admit that she's the reason it was lost. It was always someone else's fault, just like everything else that's gone wrong in her life. It's not that she's self-centered, it's just that she's the only person in her world who really matters. Everyone else only has worth depending on what they can do for Teritha, including Damaranth, and she doesn't even realise why that might not go down too well with others.

To those who have worth, Teritha is a good friend, warm and welcoming and forever ready with laughter and presents and jests. Those jests are usually at the expense of someone who doesn't have worth in Teritha's eyes, though - or someone who's a 'safe' target for another reason.

Her relationship with Damaranth is... complicated. She depends on her dragon as the one person who will always be there for her, especially since her Threadscoring and illness; she needs and craves Damaranth's attention, and demands nothing less than complete adoration from her dragon. The only time this changes is when Damaranth rises, at which point Teritha throws her usual attitude to the wind and gets caught up in Damaranth's emotions.

HISTORY
FAMILY: Several, all at Igen
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: None
BIRTHPLACE: Telgar Weyr
HISTORY:

Born at Telgar Weyr, Teritha had a perfectly normal childhood. Packed off to the creche at the first available opportunity, she was a popular sort of child, but one of those children who're going to be trouble later in life - and so it proved. She had the knack of spotting those with prospects and getting close to them, and spotting those who could safely be made targets and pointing hostility at them. That carried on through Candidacy, where she played her fellow Candidates off against each other for her own amusement and enrichment. Impression came for Teritha at eighteen, and she bonded to a gorgeous pale green, Damaranth. She'd been hoping for a brown, but Damaranth became her best and closest and only true love in a matter of moments.

Weyrlinghood was something of a trial. With enough of an ego for two and the ability to persuade other people to be sweet and do things for her, she often had help with such things as bathing her dragon, but living so closely with the rest of her weyrling class meant that by the end of weyrlinghood, there were very few of them who hadn't realised just how self-centred she was. She graduated into one of the high-altitude fighting wings and - within weeks - into the Wingsecond's bed. She managed to keep him interested until she got the Wingleader's attention, then threw him over for her without a second thought.

The first Threadfall, a few years later, was harrowing for them all. When the Wingsecond went Between with his Thread-seared dragon, the Wingleader turned to Teritha, the reliable woman she had come to depend on, and Teritha got her promotion. But all good things come to an end, and after several years of fighting Thread, a storm during Threadfall whipped the strands into Teritha's face. Without her leather's she'd have been dead, but Damaranth took them Between in time to preserve her life. The recovery was long, especially when Teritha picked up an infection, and the greenrider emerged from the infirmary a shadow of her former self. Weak, aching, in need of a stick to walk any real distance - her Threadfighting days were over.

And so she's come to Semaca, to where the weather should help the aches rather than cause them, to where the Thread doesn't need fighting. She's not good for much, physically, but Damaranth's wings are as sound as ever - and mapping doesn't need strength, just a talent for memorisation and transferring lines to paper, both of which she can do. And here, there won't be many who remember what she used to look like, or who she used to be.

[Grayson]

DAMARANTH



BASICS
NAME: Damaranth
BIRTHDATE Summer 2741
AGE: 32 as of 2773

CLUTCHING
RUNS/FLIGHTS: 4

APPEARANCE
LENGTH: 27 feet
HEIGHT: 7 feet
WINGSPAN: 46 feet
COLOR: Green
HEX CODE: #56c688
FULL APPEARANCE:

Damaranth is a truly pale green in colour, middling size for a green but with disproportionately-large wings, giving her the ability to glide for hours on end with clever use of thermals and updrafts, but at the expense of maneuverability. She never has been an agile dragon, but she's a solid flier who enjoys the challenge of staying aloft for hours without flapping. Her colouration makes it very difficult for her to hide anywhere but the snowy peaks of her native Telgar. Wherever she is she's a pale blur, even on the darkest nights.

Threadscore scars ripple down one side of Damaranth's back, perilously close to but not actually over her wing membrane, and the telltale pockmarks left by charred thread mark Damaranth's face, chest and the leading edges of her wings.

PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:

Damaranth is a solid flier, but there's very little else solid about her. She's a nervy green, prone to self-doubt and anxiety, and she chose Teritha because the woman had enough self-confidence and ego for two. What she ended up with was not exactly what she'd hoped for; rather than strengthening each other and making themselves more than the sum of their parts, the pair became codependent. Damaranth hangs on Teritha's every word, and nothing is as important as pleasing Teritha's every whim, while Teritha's terrified that Damaranth might have interests and friends outside of herself.

For Damaranth, the best moments in all the world are when she's in the air with no-one but Teritha and she has her rider all to herself to cherish and adore without Teritha being destracted by other people. The other really good moments are when she's in flight with other dragons chasing, and Teritha's dancing to her tune for a change. Teritha's not the only one capable of possessiveness and jealousy, and that only increased during Teritha's illness when Damaranth nearly lost her.