Wingrider Krisania
Xari
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Common
Knowledge: It is well known that K'tan and
Krisania are 'cheerful tricksters', but it's also well known that they
know when it's not appropriate. The twins are known to very rarely be
apart and where you find one, you find the other.
Character Name:
Kristan
Birthdate (age):
03.03.3299 (21)
Gender: Male
Birthplace:
Southern Weyr
Current Location:
Last Hope Weyr
Family:
Father: K’ris, deceased, bluerider.
Mother: Tania, deceased, Cook.
Sister (twin): Kristania
(and an unknown number of siblings by his father)
Physical Description:
Kristan is a little short for a male, being the same height as his sister
(though not especially short, as she’s tall for a female). Therefore, he
is about halfway between the average male height and the average female
height. K’tan is also fairly thin, for a male, he is slim and almost
effeminate with a delicate facial structure that mirrors his sister’s, yet
he’s still fairly masculine. As he has been a dragonrider for five turns
and was a woodworker before that, K’tan is well muscled and fit, yet these
muscles, rather than being obvious and bulging are as slim as the rest of
him. Those who know what they are looking for will notice that he does not
have an ounce of fat on him, he’s ‘whipcord over bone’ as it were. As a
result, K’tan does not look even slightly intimidating (or as if he could
do much at all, let alone run two laps around the weyr without needing to
catch his breath). Back to basics, K’tan has darkish blond hair, a dark
tan and light blue eyes, he wears his hair pulled back for the most part
in a short ponytail but his hair is not all long enough to fit so he tends
to have a lock or two tucked behind his ears. The average day will see him
wearing dark tan or brown slightly tight trousers, knee-high dark boots
and a loose light coloured top (white (or very light tan/brown)). K’tan
and his sister are either wearing matching clothing or at least
contrasting outfits (Think almost pirate-like).
Personality:
K’tan and Krisania are very close, so close that no one knows what they’d
be like alone, they themselves aren’t even certain. No one is sure which
of the two is the steadier, or which is the wilder because they don’t
often speak to each other. Not in words anyway… K’tan and Krisania are
mischievous pranksters yet they’re careful not to go too far, they seem to
have some innate sense of when their ‘tricks’ won’t be appropriate.
Coupled with this is their seemingly irrepressible cheerfulness and
generosity. No one has ever seen them cry or even raise their voices with
anyone, especially a child or animal. This cheerfulness isn’t infallible,
the twins just don’t discuss their frustrations or negative emotions with
anyone but each other. The twins dislike being separated from each other
and being apprenticed to different trades was very difficult for them, but
as a result they can function apart, though they still dislike to do so.
Interestingly enough, now that they have Kayarith and Kayaranth, if
someone asks one twin where the other is they can pinpoint the other
without seeming to think about it.
History:
Krisania and the then Kristan were born the first and tragically the only
children to a Lower Cavern Cook at Southern Weyr. Tania was too small to
comfortably bear the twins and unfortunately even with a healer in
attendance Tania died to bring her children into the world. Krisania and
Kristan were named a week before their birth, as was the tradition in
Tania’s family. Tania organised what the children’s names would be if they
were both boys, both girls or one boy and one girl. Also following
tradition she named her children for both their mother and their
blue-riding father, K’ris, who had caught the plague. Tania and K’ris had
decided on the names together. The twins were only a sevenday old when
their father followed their mother to the grave. The twins were pleasant
babies, which was a relief to the crèche. The only time they cried, unless
they were hungry, was when they were separated. So the crèche workers kept
the twins in the same crib.
As children the twins were already very cheerful, but their ‘breakthrough’
came when one of the riders, an older bluerider by the name of Y’ran,
played a prank on one of the crèche workers. He switched the book she was
to be reading to the children (this ‘book’ was more of a collection of
pictures than what we would consider a ‘book’) with a recipe book. This
harmless prank caused no end of hilarity in the crèche as the woman
actually read the recipes as if she was telling a fantasy story. The twins
decided that these pranks were wonderful things and started to pull a few
themselves… But, as most of the children had been told, they never
bothered the Headwoman or Weyrleaders.
Unfortunately the twins discovered why it wasn’t a good idea to pull
pranks on some people when they were almost eight turns. The twins
switched a hide that one of the cranky old brownriders had been reading
with a joke paper going around the younger folk detailing how to avoid
loosing your hair… The brownrider in question was completely bald and took
offence. He went to the Headwoman and demanded that the perpetrators of
this offence be punished. The Headwoman, knowing that it would have been
the twins who were responsible, summoned them to her study. She told them
that the plague was killing a large number of skilled craftsmen so they
needed to train more and to do that they were starting apprenticeships
earlier than they might have otherwise. She added that as punishment for
their ill-advised prank the twins were going to be apprenticed to
different masters. Kristan would become a woodworker and Krisania would
join the weavers. The twins were mortified. They’d never been separated
for more than a few minutes now they were going to be separated for most
of the day!
The twins eventually got used to their different crafts and, unbeknownst
to their masters, they often switched places, learning about the other’s
craft. Eventually they stopped switching places and settled into their
respective crafts.
As weyrbred children Krisania and Kristan were naturally expected to stand
for all clutches when they were of age. So they stood a couple of times
before they were sixteen. At fourteen the twins decided that if they
didn’t impress at this hatching then they wouldn’t continue to stand. As
it happened they didn’t get to make that decision, in about the middle of
the hatching two little eggs a little separated from the rest split open
near the twins. Out of them hatched two identical little emerald-green
hatchlings. The greens immediately chose Krisania and Kristan… Unbeknownst
to most however the greens announced their choice into both minds… Their
particular choices were announced again to the single mind they had chosen
leaving the twins wondering, ‘did I really hear my twin’s dragon in my
head?’. But Kayaranth had definitely chosen Krisania and Kayarith had
chosen the now K’tan.
Not long after the twins impression a massive earthquake hit Southern weyr,
demolishing it. The twins, now senior weyrlings moved to Last Hope Weyr
with the rest of the dragonriders… Once there the twins graduated and
settled into their own weyrs, right at the top of the crater in two weyrs
with an adjoining ledge. Not long after the twins moved into their own
weyrs they discovered that, with effort, they could speak to their twins
dragon. The twins decided that there wasn’t any point in telling many
people so they quietly informed Perone as the Weyrleader and left it at
that. Mostly they don’t bother to use this ability, preferring to go
through their own dragons instead. The twins theorised that the only
reason they could do it was because their dragons ~sounded~ similar… They
sounded a little like a mixture of their own dragon’s voice and their
twin’s voice...
DRAGONRIDER INFORMATION
Dragonrider Rank:
Wingrider
Honorific:
K'tan
Dragon Name:
Kayarith
Hatch Location:
Southern Weyr
Age: 7 turns
Color: Green
Physical Description:
Kayarith is a deep emerald green of average size for her colour.
Absolutely identical to Kayaranth.
Personality:
Kayarith is a fairly steady green for the most part. Though she helps her
rider in his mischief whenever she can and she refuses to be caught by the
same male twice in a row unless there's no one else good enough. Kayarith
and Kayaranth often speak to each other and each other's almost as if they
considered themselves to have impressed both twins...
CRAFTER INFORMATION
Crafter Rank: Junior
Journeyman Craft: Woodworking
Specialty: Furniture making
Turns in Craft: 6 (before impression)