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Autumnvicky2

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 2:30 pm


User ImageName: Sithra

Age: 17

Sex: Female

Sexual Orientation: Bisexual

Craft: Bakercraft

Rank: Apprentice

Physical Description: She's of average height and weight. Her build is soft and lithe. Sithra has a light tan from spending days under the hot sun. Her eyes are squinty and dark brown. Her eyebrows are thin and expressive. Her head is shaped like an upside down tear. She has a pointed chin, small nose, and short neck. She has straight, waist-length black hair she puts up into two huge ponytails. Her bangs are pinned back to the sides of her face. She often wears a single flower in her hair, held there by it's stem with her hair pins. She wears an eye shadow she makes herself. It's made by taking flour and mixing berry juice in to color the flour. The juice makes the eye shadow stick to her eye lids when applied and because it was berry juice that colored it, it also smells good.

The clothes she wears look expensive at first glance but upon closer inspection flaws are noticeable in the fabric. She has a thin dark purple linen top that has light purple spots in it. The spots were made from a white dye dripping onto it, an accident when it was being dyed purple. The elongated sleeves are made of a thin white sisal sewn sloppily onto the short sleeves of the top. The long sleeves don't look like a part of her top at all. The sleeves are longer than her arms like she hasn't really grown into the outfit yet. A piece of sisal is also sewn into the bottom of the shirt for seemingly no reason other than decoration. The shirt is tied together with a white string. Her shorts are white and made of cotton. She wears a different outfit when baking. She wears simple brown sandals at all times. Most of the clothes Sithra owns are brightly colored, made badly, worn, and usually made of cheap linen.

Personality: Five traits to describe her would be...

Maternal - She sees something cute and she wants to try and take care of it. It's what she did for her half-brothers, acting as the self-proclaimed mother of the family.

Dutiful - She knows what she has to do, and she does it. She's motivated to do a good job of it too without any whining.

Social - She's a friendly people-person. She likes to chat and share the latest gossip.

Adventurous - Tunnelsnake hunting can lead you to some spooky, dark, cramped places. She loves every minute of exploring the unknown.

Fair-minded - Treat all others with equality, not prejudice. She shows empathy by being sensitive to the feelings, values, interests, and well-being of others.

History: She was an illegitimate child born to dragon rider parents. She doesn't know and doesn't care what their names were. They were relatively uninvolved with her life. She grew up at Ista Weyr. She has four younger half-brothers. Their names are Arolon, Kagin, Eurillo, and Lassast. She took care of her brothers when nannies weren't around. Turns later, Sithra brought her ferret Keek from a trader. She trained Keek to hunt Ista Weyr's tunnelsnakes to make her home a safer environment. As she got older she decided she wanted to be better than her parents. She didn't want to be a dragon rider if it meant she wouldn't have time to raise her own children if she had any. There came a day when she had to reach for her future. She joined bakercraft, became an apprentice. When she heard that Arolon became old enough to become a candidate she decided to keep an eye on him as much as possible.

Pets: She has a ferret named Keek

Other/Talents: Below...

Tunnelsnake Hunting - Keek is trained to track and kill tunnelsnakes when the command 'search' is given. Sithra helps whenever she can reach the place the tunnelsnake is found. She's gotten good at it over turns of practice. Keek and Sithra make quite a team.

Faults - Too talkative sometimes, reckless, overworks herself, lack of faith in self, indulgent with her love of food, wasteful with her money (marks).

Will this character be a candidate? No

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:20 pm


In general she looks good, but a bit more detail would be nice in her personality; at the minute her appearance and clothes are more detailed.

Two more points; you describe a fault as being indulgent with food, and yet she's of average weight? I think you need to change that fault, make her heavier, or note that she does a heck of a lot of exercise to keep her figure.

Secondly, I don't think any pets are allowed in the Weyr other than flitts, but I could be wrong ^^

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:33 pm


I figured if wasn't a candidate a pet wouldn't matter but I found ferrets don't exist here so I gotta change it anyway. 3nodding Thanks for pointing out the contradiction! I'll go fix it...
PostPosted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:37 pm


^^ No problem!

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:38 pm


Just a quick thought on the eye shadow.

When you mix flour with anything wet, you get a paste that, when it dries, doesn't make a good cover. THEORETICALLY, you could spread wet flour on your eyelids and it could work as an eyeshadow briefly, but when it dried, it would immediately flake off and get crusty and grungy and quite possibly both itchy and painful to wear. So while the idea is an excellent one, the practicality of it is less than ideal.
PostPosted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 6:35 am


Do you mean 'white dye' or do you mean some sort of bleaching agent? My knitting teacher does dying and I've never heard of a white -dye- coming up, but again, I'm not an expert.

Also Ista is tropical: my first thought in using berry juice instead of something mineral (which is what most eye shadows are made out of) was 'BUGS'. That could get very unpleasant very fast. But the comments on flour are right, it would make an unpleasant gluey texture, and probably be thick and clumpy.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:10 pm


PS: Instead of list format, try putting the personality in paragraph format and giving it a little bit more fleshing out. No reason to go crazy with it or anything, but a good general convention is to keep it the same length as or longer than the physical appearance. <3
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