Post by Dragonmage on Aug 10, 2010 3:37:39 GMT -5
Name: Nocia
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Appearance: Nocia is about five feet, five inches tall and average weight for her height. She has rounded hazel eyes and light brown hair cut to about chin length. This can make her look younger than she actually is and irritates her immensely. Her somewhat fair skin tans, but then burns. Nocia is fit but not overly athletic. She is left-handed and has a small scar on her right palm where the shears glanced off her hand when she was distracted while helping harvest the wool. There is also a rather large scar on her left knee from the fight.
As for clothing, she usually wears a blue or green set of tunic and pants, fitted loosely, but not baggy. Nocia often brings some kind of small weaving or other project with yarn in a bag carried over her shoulder to work on in public. Most of her fashion sense is based on what doesn't itch because her skin is very sensitive. She can't wear wool next to her skin because she goes crazy with itching.
Personality: Nocia is shy and quiet. She takes insults very hard and they can lead her onto a downward spiral of self-examination. She loves to read and can often be found in a records room sitting and reading something. If someone wants to make friends with her, they have to make the first move. Weaving and other kinds of working with thread are other favorite pastimes. She has sold many of her weavings, but nothing for a huge amount of Marks, and makes her own clothes now. Her favorite colors are shades of green and blue, but she will use other colors.
She has a complex about boys with red hair because of a fight that happened at a Gather with a boy and his sister when she was ten turns old. Nocia was unsure why she was Searched. She really wanted to Impress a dragon but does not feel that she would be right for a strong-willed queen. Nocia deals with responsibility decently, but feared that the pressure involved with a gold would be too much for her. The green that Searched her really appealed to the young woman. Nocia is very close to Sasath now and hates that her dragon's first clutch was destroyed.
Picture: None currently
History:Nocia is holdbred from a small hold near a much larger hold beholden to Southern Weyr. As a little girl, she would help her mother by cleaning the wool from the few ovines their family kept. Her relationship with her father is friendly, but distant since he was usually out taking care of the ovines with a working canine. One of her brothers is older and has married and is in his own hold while the younger two help with the ovines. She got the scar on her hand at eight turns. Nocia was helping shear the sheep and her cutting hand slipped, digging the tip of the shears into her hand. The cut was deep but not disabling.
She was about ten turns when she was at a Gather at the large hold and another girl of nine turns damaged one of her weavings and refused to pay what it was worth. The other girl got her older and stronger brother into a fight with Nocia, and Nocia lost. She didn't tell her parents about this because she'd been told not to get the other girl angry becase the other girl's parents had influence in the hold. Nocia told her parents that she fell down, because the injury on her knee was more of a deep scrape than anything else. It only scarred because she used to have a tendency to mess with scabs, slowing the healing process. This incident made her even more withdrawn than she had been.
In the six turns since that Gather, she has become good at weaving for an amateur and has avoided boys in general but boys with red hair the most. That was what the one that beat her up looked like. When she's weaving, Nocia feels as if she stands out far less and may use that to help make natural conversation with others. At the age of twelve, Nocia became an apprentice in the Weavercrafthall. Some of the boys there bullied her, but she just did her part and tried to ignore them.
A lot of boys from the hall said she had no chance of Impressing and Nocia was elated when she was Searched at fourteen and thus given a chance to prove them wrong. She was Searched by a green for Southern Weyr, but it took a long time for her to convince herself to try and the rider had almost left before she stepped forward. The green had both noted her and her shyness and was about to tell her rider about Nocia when Nocia stepped forward. Some of the boys from her area were Searched as well as herself and she had been nervously avoiding them ever since she reached Southern Weyr.
Two Turns later, at sixteen, Nocia was standing for yet another dragon clutch. Somewhere in the middle of the Hatching, a blue dragonet hatched. It was mostly unremarkable although on the smaller side for a blue hatchling. The only things that made the cornflower blue dragonet different from its siblings were a few markings on its face. Without a qualm or more than a quick glance at the boys, the blue wandered right into the midst of the female candidates. Nocia watched the hatchling. Was it just her imagination, or was there something slightly different about this blue than all the others who had come before? After several painful minutes of wandering, the dragonet plopped down on the sand not quite like a belly flop and lay there, crouched in a pose that would have been reminiscent of that of the Sphinx on Earth, if any Pernese had heard of the statue.
Nocia, Sasath can't find you! I'm very tired and I refuse to move another step until you come here. Yes, I am female, don't look so shocked. You wanted a female dragon. Won't you come feed me?
Nocia stared at the dragonet, her mind whirling frantically in shock and at the same time stuck on one insurmountable problem with what the dragonet had said. Blues were male, everyone knew that. Nocia decided to put off trying to figure out why and how Sasath had ended up blue and just took her over to the food. Since Sasath was blue, the Weyrlingmaster and everyone else in the Weyr just assumed that the dragonet was male but a little confused and referred to Sasath as male.
Throughout Weyrling training, Nocia was constantly keeping Sasath from correcting people because she was only very subtly different in profile and shape than the male blues in her clutch. Everyone was convinced that Sasath would figure out that "he" was male and start Chasing greens by the end of Weyrling training if not sooner. Of course, this never happened and until Sasath was about two Turns, the Weyr was stumped.
Sasath rose to mate, shocking everyone from the Weyrwoman down to the drudges. Nocia forced the blue to blood her kill, afraid that Sasath might harm herself somehow if she gorged. The Weyrlingmaster had been very clear in the lesson on flights. Sasath was caught by the only dragon that had chased, another blue, who had lost many greenflights before he caught Sasath. After the flight, the Weyr settled down. Sasath had chewed firestone and flamed, so certainly nothing more could come from her flight. They were wrong again. Nocia noticed that something was off with Sasath in Wingdrills and that her dragon was looking heavier in the belly area. As the days passed, Sasath's belly swelled until there was no denying it. The blue was both female and going to clutch.
She laid a clutch of six eggs on the Sands. Luckily, no queen was egg heavy at the time or Sasath might have been harmed as she tried to defend her eggs. About a third of the way through their incubation, Nocia took the blue to the Feeding Grounds, certain that the eggs would be safe until they returned. What the pair didn't know was that a very traditionalist wingleader, H'dal of bronze Tregurth, had gathered a group of like-minded riders to "deal with" the eggs. Nocia and Sasath returned to the Sands to find nothing remaining to show that there had ever been a clutch. The Sands were smooth, not mounded around the eggs as the blue and her rider had left them. Nocia had her suspicions about who was responsible, H'dal had been one of the most vocal in calling Sasath "unnatural" after she rose, but nothing could be proven. It was a huge relief to both dragon and rider to be transferred to Rocky Weyr, even with its reputation as a Weyr of "defective" outcasts.
Firelizard Name: None
Firelizard Color: N/A
Dragon Name: Sasath
Dragon Color: Blue (6495ED) [born June 2009]
Dragon Defect/Injury: Sasath is a female blue and as if that wasn't enough, she is fertile even after chewing firestone.
Dragon Appearance: Sasath is large for a blue at thirty feet, nine inches long, but her build isn't overly heavy. She's just one of the biggest blues that have hatched, outsizing the smallest of browns. Her hide is a cornflower blue, almost the color of a summer sky somewhat obscured by mist. The markings on her face are like a broken star, strip, and snip on a runner, but instead of being white, they are a rich ultramarine. If a person knows what to look for, an unusual slight sleekness in her body shape gives away the fact that this is not a male blue. Her wings are somewhere in the middle in build, not made for immense speed or great stamina. Sasath has the endurance in flight to match her size, but still retains a good amount of the agility of her color. Markings 120A8F
Dragon Personality: As an oddity among dragons, Sasath feels that she has to be a good actor and a little dramatic to get treated fairly. Sasath was somewhat clingy as a hatchling, but this changed into a protectiveness towards her rider as she matured. She guards her eggs almost more carefully than a queen because of what happened to her first clutch. Sasath was protective of her eggs before, but now she is suffocatingly attentive. It will not be unusual for her to refuse to leave the Sands at all when she is brooding.
Name: Lapis
Color: Blue (0a16c2)
Personality: Accepting
Hatching: rockyweyr.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=hatchings&action=display&thread=1016
Name: Aljan
Color: Bronze (494c04)
Personality: Glutton
Hatching: rockyweyr.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=hatchings&action=display&thread=1017&page=1
Name: Hotshot
Color: Blue (885fff)
Personality: Excitable
Hatching: rockyweyr.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=hatchings&action=display&thread=1017&page=1
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Appearance: Nocia is about five feet, five inches tall and average weight for her height. She has rounded hazel eyes and light brown hair cut to about chin length. This can make her look younger than she actually is and irritates her immensely. Her somewhat fair skin tans, but then burns. Nocia is fit but not overly athletic. She is left-handed and has a small scar on her right palm where the shears glanced off her hand when she was distracted while helping harvest the wool. There is also a rather large scar on her left knee from the fight.
As for clothing, she usually wears a blue or green set of tunic and pants, fitted loosely, but not baggy. Nocia often brings some kind of small weaving or other project with yarn in a bag carried over her shoulder to work on in public. Most of her fashion sense is based on what doesn't itch because her skin is very sensitive. She can't wear wool next to her skin because she goes crazy with itching.
Personality: Nocia is shy and quiet. She takes insults very hard and they can lead her onto a downward spiral of self-examination. She loves to read and can often be found in a records room sitting and reading something. If someone wants to make friends with her, they have to make the first move. Weaving and other kinds of working with thread are other favorite pastimes. She has sold many of her weavings, but nothing for a huge amount of Marks, and makes her own clothes now. Her favorite colors are shades of green and blue, but she will use other colors.
She has a complex about boys with red hair because of a fight that happened at a Gather with a boy and his sister when she was ten turns old. Nocia was unsure why she was Searched. She really wanted to Impress a dragon but does not feel that she would be right for a strong-willed queen. Nocia deals with responsibility decently, but feared that the pressure involved with a gold would be too much for her. The green that Searched her really appealed to the young woman. Nocia is very close to Sasath now and hates that her dragon's first clutch was destroyed.
Picture: None currently
History:Nocia is holdbred from a small hold near a much larger hold beholden to Southern Weyr. As a little girl, she would help her mother by cleaning the wool from the few ovines their family kept. Her relationship with her father is friendly, but distant since he was usually out taking care of the ovines with a working canine. One of her brothers is older and has married and is in his own hold while the younger two help with the ovines. She got the scar on her hand at eight turns. Nocia was helping shear the sheep and her cutting hand slipped, digging the tip of the shears into her hand. The cut was deep but not disabling.
She was about ten turns when she was at a Gather at the large hold and another girl of nine turns damaged one of her weavings and refused to pay what it was worth. The other girl got her older and stronger brother into a fight with Nocia, and Nocia lost. She didn't tell her parents about this because she'd been told not to get the other girl angry becase the other girl's parents had influence in the hold. Nocia told her parents that she fell down, because the injury on her knee was more of a deep scrape than anything else. It only scarred because she used to have a tendency to mess with scabs, slowing the healing process. This incident made her even more withdrawn than she had been.
In the six turns since that Gather, she has become good at weaving for an amateur and has avoided boys in general but boys with red hair the most. That was what the one that beat her up looked like. When she's weaving, Nocia feels as if she stands out far less and may use that to help make natural conversation with others. At the age of twelve, Nocia became an apprentice in the Weavercrafthall. Some of the boys there bullied her, but she just did her part and tried to ignore them.
A lot of boys from the hall said she had no chance of Impressing and Nocia was elated when she was Searched at fourteen and thus given a chance to prove them wrong. She was Searched by a green for Southern Weyr, but it took a long time for her to convince herself to try and the rider had almost left before she stepped forward. The green had both noted her and her shyness and was about to tell her rider about Nocia when Nocia stepped forward. Some of the boys from her area were Searched as well as herself and she had been nervously avoiding them ever since she reached Southern Weyr.
Two Turns later, at sixteen, Nocia was standing for yet another dragon clutch. Somewhere in the middle of the Hatching, a blue dragonet hatched. It was mostly unremarkable although on the smaller side for a blue hatchling. The only things that made the cornflower blue dragonet different from its siblings were a few markings on its face. Without a qualm or more than a quick glance at the boys, the blue wandered right into the midst of the female candidates. Nocia watched the hatchling. Was it just her imagination, or was there something slightly different about this blue than all the others who had come before? After several painful minutes of wandering, the dragonet plopped down on the sand not quite like a belly flop and lay there, crouched in a pose that would have been reminiscent of that of the Sphinx on Earth, if any Pernese had heard of the statue.
Nocia, Sasath can't find you! I'm very tired and I refuse to move another step until you come here. Yes, I am female, don't look so shocked. You wanted a female dragon. Won't you come feed me?
Nocia stared at the dragonet, her mind whirling frantically in shock and at the same time stuck on one insurmountable problem with what the dragonet had said. Blues were male, everyone knew that. Nocia decided to put off trying to figure out why and how Sasath had ended up blue and just took her over to the food. Since Sasath was blue, the Weyrlingmaster and everyone else in the Weyr just assumed that the dragonet was male but a little confused and referred to Sasath as male.
Throughout Weyrling training, Nocia was constantly keeping Sasath from correcting people because she was only very subtly different in profile and shape than the male blues in her clutch. Everyone was convinced that Sasath would figure out that "he" was male and start Chasing greens by the end of Weyrling training if not sooner. Of course, this never happened and until Sasath was about two Turns, the Weyr was stumped.
Sasath rose to mate, shocking everyone from the Weyrwoman down to the drudges. Nocia forced the blue to blood her kill, afraid that Sasath might harm herself somehow if she gorged. The Weyrlingmaster had been very clear in the lesson on flights. Sasath was caught by the only dragon that had chased, another blue, who had lost many greenflights before he caught Sasath. After the flight, the Weyr settled down. Sasath had chewed firestone and flamed, so certainly nothing more could come from her flight. They were wrong again. Nocia noticed that something was off with Sasath in Wingdrills and that her dragon was looking heavier in the belly area. As the days passed, Sasath's belly swelled until there was no denying it. The blue was both female and going to clutch.
She laid a clutch of six eggs on the Sands. Luckily, no queen was egg heavy at the time or Sasath might have been harmed as she tried to defend her eggs. About a third of the way through their incubation, Nocia took the blue to the Feeding Grounds, certain that the eggs would be safe until they returned. What the pair didn't know was that a very traditionalist wingleader, H'dal of bronze Tregurth, had gathered a group of like-minded riders to "deal with" the eggs. Nocia and Sasath returned to the Sands to find nothing remaining to show that there had ever been a clutch. The Sands were smooth, not mounded around the eggs as the blue and her rider had left them. Nocia had her suspicions about who was responsible, H'dal had been one of the most vocal in calling Sasath "unnatural" after she rose, but nothing could be proven. It was a huge relief to both dragon and rider to be transferred to Rocky Weyr, even with its reputation as a Weyr of "defective" outcasts.
Firelizard Name: None
Firelizard Color: N/A
Dragon Name: Sasath
Dragon Color: Blue (6495ED) [born June 2009]
Dragon Defect/Injury: Sasath is a female blue and as if that wasn't enough, she is fertile even after chewing firestone.
Dragon Appearance: Sasath is large for a blue at thirty feet, nine inches long, but her build isn't overly heavy. She's just one of the biggest blues that have hatched, outsizing the smallest of browns. Her hide is a cornflower blue, almost the color of a summer sky somewhat obscured by mist. The markings on her face are like a broken star, strip, and snip on a runner, but instead of being white, they are a rich ultramarine. If a person knows what to look for, an unusual slight sleekness in her body shape gives away the fact that this is not a male blue. Her wings are somewhere in the middle in build, not made for immense speed or great stamina. Sasath has the endurance in flight to match her size, but still retains a good amount of the agility of her color. Markings 120A8F
Dragon Personality: As an oddity among dragons, Sasath feels that she has to be a good actor and a little dramatic to get treated fairly. Sasath was somewhat clingy as a hatchling, but this changed into a protectiveness towards her rider as she matured. She guards her eggs almost more carefully than a queen because of what happened to her first clutch. Sasath was protective of her eggs before, but now she is suffocatingly attentive. It will not be unusual for her to refuse to leave the Sands at all when she is brooding.
Name: Lapis
Color: Blue (0a16c2)
Personality: Accepting
Hatching: rockyweyr.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=hatchings&action=display&thread=1016
Name: Aljan
Color: Bronze (494c04)
Personality: Glutton
Hatching: rockyweyr.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=hatchings&action=display&thread=1017&page=1
Name: Hotshot
Color: Blue (885fff)
Personality: Excitable
Hatching: rockyweyr.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=hatchings&action=display&thread=1017&page=1