Kyona
BASICS
RETIRE INFO: Adopt Companion / Retire Character
NAME: Kyona “Kyo"
GENDER:Female
PRONOUNS: She/Her/Hers
ORIENTATION: Case by Case Basis please?
BIRTHDATE: Early Winter 1748
AGE: Age 19 as of Winter 2767
LOCATION: Semaca Weyr
OCCUPATION: Weyrling
WING: N/A
APPEARANCE
EYES: Dark, sea-weed green
HAIR:A dark red that borders on brown, cropped short on the sides and in the back, combed to one side.
HEIGHT AND BUILD:5’ 6”, thin and wiry from plenty of work.
FULL APPEARANCE:From bottom to top, no nonsense. Kyo wears leather boots, with many worn creases from long days of work, and discolored areas from where water had soaked into them. They were not uncared for, however, and despite their age seemed no closer to falling apart than they day they were made. Tight black leggings tucked into her boots went up a little ways past her hips, and were held solidly in place with a wide leather belt, with various fish designs tooled into it. She held a pouch on her right side, a flap folding into another strip held it closed.
Torso was covered with a green shirt, cut low but not plunging. The sleeves were long enough to come up to her wrists, and clung tightly there. Over that shirt was a vest, made of a soft leather. Like her boots, it had clearly seen many years of good use. It had various pockets, the lower of which bulge with a few small things, most likely trinkets. She wears no jewelry, and it can be easily assumed that this is because no jewelry is safe when you’re over a mass of water. Her skin is tanned from days under the sun, over a bright glittering lake, and her hands are rough and calloused, fingernails kept down short. Despite this, she seems a clean person, and seems to take great care that she does not stink of fish when she leaves to go mingle with others away from the lake. Despite looking a little rough, she seems to care about how she presents to others.
Her eyes can flash from soft to intense in a moment, but at most times simply seem to be attempting to figure something out. Not confused, but determined.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY: You are most likely to find Kyo working on her father’s boat. She is always up early in the morning, often before the sun, in order to get out on the water and catch the fish before they dive to cooler waters. Kyo can come across as rather surly before she’s gotten out on the waters, but that could simply be because she hasn’t woken up all the way yet. Once out there, or even just awake long enough, she is pleasant company. Nothing excites her more than throwing her harpoon and pulling in a large fish, or at least, she hasn’t yet found anything quite as exciting as a huge catch. When not in the middle of something, she is quiet, as many fishers are, and very observant. She will frequently be noticed simply people watching.
Kyo can be said to have a stubborn streak as well. If she feels that she is the expert on something, she will not hesitate to make her opinions known, and has been seen to raise her voice to others. She can become frustrated if she is not understood easily, but has yet to come to blows with anyone, preferring to storm off and stew in quiet, possibly on her boat. Kyo has a few friends that she has kept since childhood. Those patient enough to know that her shouting and stubbornness was not a reflection of their friendship. She doesn’t seem to reach out to many in order to make more friends, though her demeanor when meeting new people varies wildly and depends largely upon first impressions. She is quick to judge people according to those first impressions as well, and it is hard to change her opinions of you after she’s made up her mind.
HISTORY
FAMILY:Father - Phillip
BIRTHPLACE: Ista Weyr
HISTORY:Kyo has lead an exciting life, or at least among the friends that hadn’t been impressed upon by a Dragon or a Wher. She learned to swim when she was very young, her father insisted. He taught her to fish and to run a decent sized sailing boat. At times, she convinced him to take her friends on the boat around the coast. Her father was a successful fisher and taught her how to throw a harpoon, and how to adjust aim for the way the water refracted the view of what was beneath it. The trick was to aim just a little bit lower than what you were trying to spear. At age 8, he gave her her own fishing harpoon, and taught her how to sharpen it and keep it. She has, since then, obviously gotten newer ones as she’s grown, to make use of her adult body.
When she was about 11 years old, she had an incident on a stormy waters at night. She was with her father, and hadn’t been quick enough to lash herself to the mast of the ship, as she’d been trained to do. Her father had managed to do so, but when a wild wave bucked the ship, Kyo was tossed over the edge of the boat. Phillip jumped over the edge to keep her safe. Pulled back aboard the boat, Phillip was struck with a bit of storm tossed jetsam, and injured his leg. This injury has stuck with him since then, and prevented him from fishing as effectively as he used to.
At Ista Weyr, she was given Candidacy. Before beginning her studies, she and her father decided to move and begin somewhere else. Packing up all their things, they were flown across to the southern continent, to Semaca Weyr. There, they began to fish the lake up until Kyo began studying. Her studies began to suffer though, as she shirked her duties as a Candidate and found herself on the lake a bit more than she was supposed to.
Kyo continues to see her friends, meeting up for drinks for the most part, and occasionally rough housing, or swimming in the lake with them. No stranger to romance, Kyo has had a number of potential partners, sometimes even two at a time, an arrangement that Kyo was always clear on ahead of time. As of the time of this writing, no partners have hooked her glimmering greens.