Post by Sparrow on Feb 24, 2008 21:20:31 GMT -5
The Person
About the Person
Historical Facts:
Name: Ala
Age: 20
Gender:Female
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Rank: Lower Caverns Woman
About the Person
Physical appearance: Tall, like her brother, and well-shaped, Ala has a little fat on her from a habit of eating a lot of her own cooking, but isn’t at all overweight. At a glance, one wouldn’t notice and she can get away with wearing tight-ish clothing and still pass as thin. Her hands and feet are large, especially against her comparatively small ankles and wrists.
Ala’s face is overall long. Her nose is chiseled and thin, her eyes large, her eyebrows thin and arched. Her full lips are almost always curved into a smile. Another similarity to her brother is her black hair, although Ala keeps it long. It waterfalls down almost to the small of her back, although most wouldn’t realize it because she almost always keeps her hair up in a tight bun. Having hair in your face is no good when your cooking, and it’s usually best not to chance letting it fall into the food. x.x
Personality: Ala is an outgoing and cheerful person, very little can dampen her optimistic mood. She is also never one to pass over a chance for a joke or getting herself or others to laugh. A full believer in the ‘laughing makes you live longer’ philosophy, her goal is to live to be 100- at least. If she’s lucky, it will be longer. If she falls short of her goal, Ala plans on being very disappointed and hopes that someone will find a way to bring her back from the dead so she can finish it up.
Cooking is definitely what Ala is best at, and she enjoys it to the fullest which is a good thing. She knows some very, very basic things about healing, taught by her father, but rarely has a chance to use them. If she were to end up helping out in the infirmary, it would probably be to try and cheer up patients, not heal them. Ala is quick with hands and mind, but there are some things she simply isn’t all that interested in and medicines is one of them. But if asked to help, she will agree, as she does with most things.
Her falling point is probably dragons, fire-lizards, and whers. Her whole life Ala has been fascinated by them but never had a chance to Impress anything but a flitt. Despite that, she is basically content with her little Storm Cloud. But every chance she gets, she helps out in Weyrs or dragons themselves. Whers have never liked her, so Ala has learned that it is basically best to avoid them. They aren’t, in her opinion, as pretty or interesting as dragons anyways.
Historical Facts:
Family:Family: Sorri-Mother-50; Tor-Father-52; A’vic-Older brother-26-Mineral Rider
Pets: Storm Cloud Flitt Vir
Appearance: Vir is a large Storm Cloud, about 33 centimeters long and with basically heavy build. Her hide is a dark gray, although more like a dark and unhappy rock than actual storm clouds.
Personality: Rather like her color, Vir is dark and unhappy and has an aversion to movement. Flitting between (although probably more tiring than actual walking or flying) is her main way of getting around. It's lucky the fire lizard has basically only one destination ever- Ala's shoulder- for if she were forced to come up with a picture for a different destination it's doubtful she would ever really make it. That sort of thinking is not something she enjoys. Happiness and curiosity or too much work for Vir and though she occasionally mimic's Ala's moods, she usually just sits around unhappily, whining to herself.
Whim also works as a temporary pick-me-up for Vir, as the one thing that she seems to have taken immediate interest in (apparently Vir has some sort of maternal instinct and wants to care for the hatchling) but that never lasts long. His immediate appearance can make Vir momentarily happy but before long that fades more to irration. Whim, taking after his name, is inquisitive and overal whimsical, and overall drives his Storm Cloud friend a little insane.
Sea Flitt Whim
Appearance: Sure to grow to a medium-sized Sea, Whim will probably grow to about 25 centimeters. His is a light blue, one that seems to appear a lot in flowers and so if he wanted to he could probably blend in with them and occasionally the sky takes up his shade so he can disappear there too.
Personality: Although Whim started out as the usual shy Sea, in Ala's company he is sure to emerge from this second shell before long. Overall whimsical and inquisitive, Whim takes after his name and brings Ala constant joy. (Sometimes even in physical things like presents of flowers.) Maybe because of his matching color, Whim loves all blue flowers and has a habit of collecting those too. Spending time among these gives him a sweet scent that has quickly begun to follow him everywhere. If the faint scent of flowers suddenly starts to fill a room, Ala knows that it is her little Whim. x3
History: The first twelve years of her life Ala spent in her parents’ home. In the home, Ala was a helper. She learned to cook from her mother and has always had a certain talent for that, and ended up helping out with a lot of cleaning so she’s learned to be an organized person too. Outside of it, she was an explorer. Adventures were what her life seemed to lack, and so she did her best to create them for herself. A’vic, the dullard, usually preferred not to accompany her.
When the Grass dragon arrived at her house when Ala was twelve, she decided then and there that her life was going to be changed by that dragon and its rider. Most of what she decided on ended up, in some way, coming about. When the rider mentioned that A’vic would make a good Candidate but said nothing about her, she felt heartbroken.
And then he refused. There was her chance again. She suggested being taken in his place, surely she would make a great dragonrider! But the Grass decided no, she would not. A’vic would, but he didn’t want to go. Ala begged to at least be allowed to go to the Weyr, begged A’vic to agree so that he could come back and take her there someday… and finally Ala prevailed. A’vic agreed to go if his little sister could come too. And so she came to the Weyr with her brother and has enjoyed her time there since.
For her fifteenth birthday she received a fire-lizard egg from A’vic, which hatched into the Storm Cloud Vir and she has been her pride and joy ever since.
Ala’s talent with cooking was quickly discovered, so most of her time is spent in the kitchens, preparing meals for all the Weyrfolk. In her free time, she visits A’vic and Sretoth or makes friends with whoever she happens to pass in the halls as she travels from place to place in the Weyr. She still longs for adventure and does her best to find it, or make some for herself, but has a harder time doing it now with less free time on her hands.
But someday, Ala has decided that she will find some great adventure to carry out. Along with living to 100, her life won’t be complete without it.
