Melo's Soldiers Against the Silver Scourge (SASS)

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D'io - Bronze Amaryssoth
Ronalthie
Gamlee
Esti - Brown Xath
Cynchie
T'layo and Bronze Ekeneth
Omolora and White Natalkath  

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D'io

 

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Amaryssoth 01

 

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Ronalthie 01

 

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Ronalthie 02  

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Gamlee 01

 

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Name: Esti
Age: 25
Sex: Female
Sexual Orientation: Pansexual
Weyr: Western Weyr
Rider Rank: Wingrider
Previous Rank/Craft: Weaver

Physical Description:
Esti's dirty-brown hair has a limp wave to it that she has never bothered to correct through extra grooming. Sometimes though, it gives the impression of being greasy or "dirty," sometimes even half a day after scrubbing it. Medium blue-grey eyes are large and seem rather haunted. They are framed in brown eyelashes. The rest of her face, except for rather bony cheekbones and prominent smooth chin, is small, round, and heart-shaped. When she juts out her jaw in protest or to the side in defiance, it almost looks dislocated. She doesn't smile. She smirks. She has faint laugh lines at the corners of her mouth and eyes but it always seems like her last laugh was a long time ago and time is smoothing them away.

She is scrawny and bony but with straight, broad shoulders. Her muscles are small and wiry but well-defined. Her arms and legs are noticeably long, but not graceful, less feminine in fact. That is because she is like a spring ready to do its thing. She seems to move in bursts of speed, like a pouncing cat. She can break or dislocate a man's jaw with the power behind her punch, but she has a short window of time before she has exhausted her energy. She's rarely cold. Even in the dead of winter when everyone feels a chill, her ready energy means she's often warm to the touch.

She likes to trade her wares with the metalsmiths to get better quality tools, utensils, and jewelry. Otherwise she sells it during Weyr-hosted and nearby gathers at a stall with her brother. As a result of her trading, she is often wearing expensive jewelry: earrings, bracelets, and necklaces, sometimes rings if she is not scheduled to fly. She is a walking advertisement for the strength of weave but lush texture and color-fast bright colors that she produces. She is known to wear androgynous or ambiguous attire.

Personality:
Confident, Biased. She is most likely to reason based on her own best interests and point of view. She may even lean toward an outcome that benefits her brother most. But her decisions can be terribly short-sighted. She has had her face dragged through the mud so to speak, many times in her life, but she has become well in-tune with her strengths and limitations far better than many people ever will. It's just other people that are beyond her understanding and desire to try to understand.

Resilient, Lazy. She is quickly able to adjust to new circumstances. If a situation needs quick action, she is the person to come to. If she needs to change her schedule suddenly, her mood will not sour and she will be ready to go asap. However, she will also judge (whether right or wrong) a situation to calculate how she can put forth the least amount of effort required to get the job done. This way she can make room for more "self-important" goals, whatever they may be: weaving, eating, resting, dragon maintenance, something for her brother, etc.

Protective, Self-centered. Fiercely protective of her brother and dragon, she will do about anything for them. One could call her loyal, but she seems to think they belong to her instead.

Zany, Manipulative. Has a lot of little quirks, some of which have been mentioned, others not, that leave people intrigued or confused. She likes to get her way gently if possible, using her more feminine wiles rather than brute force. But she will use it, and without warning. She tends to be a little more generous with her brother because of her strong sisterly feelings for him (love, protectiveness).

Truthful, Harsh. She will speak the truth as she sees it without fail. She does not have time to waste keeping track of a complicated list of lies. However, she can be as blunt and gentle as a hammer, and youth isn't going to make it seem cute forever. Not to mention, she can be wrong. She only knows her own point of view, and if she is called on her overall wrongness or even her harshness, it will not phase her or encourage her to apologize.

Positive Trait List: Confident, Resilient, Protective, Zany, Truthful
Negative Trait List Biased, Lazy, Self-centered, Manipulative, Harsh


History:

Born into a family of wealthy weavers, her name was originally Esterlia. She was expected to grow up acting like a lady. She would not. They expected her to marry someone she hardly knew. She refused. They expected her to carry on the family business. Well, she did, to an extent. But by age 12 she already knew what she wanted to be. She had decided long ago that she was going to shorten her name and her hair, march right up to the Weyr and "get" a dragon. She was short and wiry and tomboyish and completely adamant about it. But even her favorite brother Davirsarlo did not agree with her choice. So it wasn't until a dragon Searched her that same year that her family was forced to take a step back and let the girl go.

Davirsarlo expected her return the next day on a dragon's back. When that day came and went, he half-expected her to want to come home with him after the next Gather. When the Gather came he was utterly surprised (maybe not so much) that she was still insistent, with one catch: she wanted her loom. She wanted all of her weaving tools, yarns, and thread shipped to the Weyr for her. She was going stir crazy in her free time! So she did continue on the weaving craft, just not with her brother.

They both "got" a dragon for their troubles, though. D'arlo Impressed at the age of 25 when he was there to watch her Impress! But she didn't. She was 23, had been a Weyrbound weaver trying not to age out and he had through dumb luck walked off the Sands with his own dragon.

Then Thread came and suddenly there was nothing left of their family. They had all been killed, leaving Esterlia and D'arlo alone at the Weyr. Encouraged to take the place of her brother as head of the family business, Esterlia nearly gave in and gave up her dream. But short-haired Esti finally Impressed, aged 24.

See, dreams do come true, Esti! You and I will fight Thread in the sky, and weave on the ground! The childish hope in this dragon's mind and heart gave her some hope as well.

Nevertheless, the siblings have struggled with what is known as survivor's guilt. Their grief was strong enough that Esti's feelings twisted back upon her. Why had the family not come to see her Impress? Why did she have to be such a failure at Impressing? She spent half her life waiting on those Sands, getting to know the parent dragons and helping the newly-bonded pairs before crying herself to sleep that night. Why did they have to die? She did not blame anyone but herself. Even when Xath asked her if she really believed she should have bonded an older dragon.

I could not come any sooner than I did. Did I do something wrong? Did I cause--

"Xath! No! No... I just can't explain my feelings correctly with words."

I know those feelings all too well. You are connected with me to the point where I feel your pain. If you do not blame me then you should not blame yourself. Just grieve.

Esti shared her feelings with her brother more and more. It helped her to move forward. But she did not heal completely. As she began to rely more on her brother, she lost her faith that others might not die. Even each sibling is terrified that the other will die. They even developed a little ritual of meeting after threadfall for a meal. Just to check on each other. Even though dragons would tell them if anything had happened. They also meet every sevenday for klah to chat. Gossip, complaints, everything.

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Age: 1-2 (age is flexible)
Color: Brown
Size: 37 feet

Physical Description: He is of average size for dragons of his color, including an average wingspan. Above average dexterity: he can practically turn on a dime (relative to his size), can jump, and climb. Color is pale, a strange kind of color that sucks the eye in. Don't fall in, now.

Personality: Almost as rambunctious as Esti, Xath may never grow up, even in his later years when the arthritis catches up with him. He loves to play, crack jokes, and roll onto his back or side just when she has finished rubbing or oiling there.

He loves to share his empathy with her, to show her the points of view of others, and how her actions can affect them deeply. Sometimes he may seem melodramatic, but his emotional displays are mostly to show her that new point of view. Over time, he hopes to help her become a more sensitive and conscientious woman.  

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Cynchie

 

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Cynchie 02  

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T'layo

 

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Ekeneth

Flew in Rhianth's Flight but did not catch  

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Omolora

 

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White Natalkath