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 Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 4:44 pm
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 Name: Leyton
Age: 30 (3545.04.05)
Sex: Male
Sexual Orientation: anyone pretty enough.
Weyr Hold: Nabol
Rider Rank: Ha. Very funny.
Previous Rank/Craft: how cute that you think he's ever worked for a living.
Physical Description:
6' with everything about him in good proportion. He's in good physical shape, athletic but not strappingly muscular. His medium-length hair should be dark brown, but is almost always dyed some wild color. Very handsome, all in all.
Personality:
Leyton is a deliberately unhurried person. He is perfectly capable of going at a normal or even fast pace (and still getting things done just as well), he just chooses not to. He likes to make people wait, because he enjoys the fact that it will inconvenience and/or irritate them. (And, just for variety, he may occasionally be early, or go too quickly, but always with being an annoyance in mind.) Going at his own pace, forcing someone to wait for him to arrive, do whatever it is he's doing, or tell them whatever it is he's there to tell them, is also its own form of control, and he loves being in control almost as much as he loves getting under people's skin. Why is his hair such a ridiculous color? Because someone, somewhere, finds it to be an offense to good taste.
He is that smug a*****e who is so poised and charming that he doesn't necessarily read as "a*****e," and those who do find him to be so will find that most others don't see it. Surely not Leyton! He's a little lazy and sometimes irresponsible with money, a bit of a rake if you really want to fault him with something, but a fine fellow to be around!
Leyton often does things just because he can, and will metaphorically (and sometimes literally) pull at threads and kick at supports just to see what happens. Faranth help you if you're around when he's bored, because you may well find yourself an unwitting source of entertainment. Even something so small as "accidentally" bumping into a servant who's pouring wine and causing them to spill it on someone is terribly amusing. He'll be perfectly apologetic, of course, so sorry, he didn't mean to, but inside he'll be laughing at the mess that ensues. He is very good at "accidents" of a less benign nature, as well, and just as good at not being tied to them. Why, he was on a different continent entirely, at the most delightful party, when that man fell down the stairs.
Much as he enjoys watching people squirm, he takes no pleasure in inflicting physical harm - please, he's not a barbarian - but he will do it without hesitation or regret, if called upon to do so (or finds it necessary for his own reasons). Leyton is never seen to be annoyed or angry; he's the one who gets under other people's skin, not the other way around! Should he ever take against anyone for any reason, they won't know until it's too late, if they ever know at all.
While he likes to be in control in a petty sense, pulling little strings here and there, influencing situations and playing with people, he has no desire to actually be in charge in any meaningful way. He enjoys the freedom of being able to do more or less what he wants, when he wants to do it, or at least how he wants to do it, and the ties and responsibilities of rank or leadership would hinder that freedom far too much for his taste. As long as he is entertained, and is able to sufficiently support himself and his dragon (which is no small task, as they both have expensive taste), he's quite content. Nothing about being a b*****d child bothers him, nor does the fact that he is technically a minion. He's a minion with a fine place to live, the potential and means to acquire most things he should decide he wants, and no shortage of ways to occupy himself. He loves parties, gambling, wine, food, women, men...vice is fabulous.
Positive Trait List deliberate, clever, charming
Negative Trait List self-indulgent, easily bored, plays games
History:
Born to one of Lord Gansley's mistresses, Leyton will never be the heir to anything, but even being a b*****d son comes with its benefits. He is handsome, and charming, and clever enough to be useful, and his range of potential uses grew nicely when he (however unplanned it was) Impressed a dragon. As long as he stays useful - and he does - he finds himself acceptably provided for.
He never went to Hall or officially took up any Craft; for all anyone knows, he is exactly the hopeless-but-charming layabout and partier he seems to be. He did, however, receive a good education and even some Courtesan training, from a no-longer-affiliated but very skilled source no one needs to know anything more about. What he really is is an observer, occasionally a messenger and enforcer (if he brings you a package, you...may not want it), and whatever else he needs to be to ensure that he stays useful, and therefore employed and with the means to keep himself entertained and his dragon happy. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 4:45 pm
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Name: Skolth
Age: 8 (3566.06.20 Nimonth x Ravioth)
Color: Blue
Size: 50"
Physical Description: On the small side, lithe and wiry and very elegant.
Personality:
Skolth is a blue of the most discerning tastes. As the finest dragon to ever grace Pern, it is his inarguable right to have the best of the best. When he chose his rider, the first requirement was that he be attractive, a true physical specimen: not too short, not too tall, not too thin, not too fat, with good structure and proportions...and do put away those bulging muscles, ugh. How inelegant. No blemishes, no scars, and not a child, blech. He is not here to be your minder. He had no shortage of comments for the offerings on hand that day even without touching their minds, which he did as though he were being made to handle something foul. There were a bare few who, with a bit of physical work, would have been suitable for him to be seen with, but when it came to character, oh, the pickings got even slimmer! He needed someone with taste and charm, intelligence and means! Just when he was beginning to think himself too good for this world and was almost ready to deny it his presence, he felt his Leyton looking on, and thus Pern was spared the untimely loss of its best son.
Skolth wants and will have the best of everything. He refuses to stoop to eating herdbeasts, insisting that he would rather starve to death. Caprines are acceptable, if they're not too old and have been freshly cleaned (he does not care to taste dirt on his food), and if there aren't any available, they will just have to go where some are. His very favorite food, and a treat he gets only once a turn in celebration of his hatching day, is runner. And it must be a fine one, of good breeding! Nothing less will do.
He will accept only gear made by the most expert craftsmen, in the highest quality materials and with colors and embellishments that become him. He will accessorize in silver, as he considers it far more elegant and a better complement to his hue than gaudy, ostentatious gold. He loves pretty, shiny things, yes, but they must be in good taste! If it is lovely but not something to be worn, he would still like to have it, so that he might look upon it when the mood strikes him. His surroundings, too, should be beautiful, whether that beauty is natural or crafted, and he does not take kindly to anyone or anything that spoils his view.
He dislikes the presence of any individual, be they human or dragon, who is not pretty enough, and will not hesitate to dismiss anyone who is not up to his standards. Get out of his sight before you make him wretch. He is, consequently, not overly fond of whers, though some of the better-bred beauty type are...tolerable. If he is in a generous mood.
Skolth does not chase Rising dragons, as that is beneath him. What makes you think he should vie for the attention of another creature, when it is meant to be the other way around? He does, however, enjoy the company of any dragons who are good-looking enough, and will permit their closeness and enjoy the sight of them for awhile. If they are especially lovely, and flatter him just so, he may make himself available should they want nothing less than the best when they fly (which they should, of course, but he is not always in so charitable a mood).
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 4:46 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 4:46 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 4:47 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 4:47 pm
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