Name: Mennick
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Panromantic Homosexual
Craft: Healer
Rank: Apprentice
Origin: Tillek, then Healer Hall (Fort Weyr)
Appearance:
~ Physique: Medium height, wiry build, prone to moving when studying/thinking (pacing, fidgiting), very energetic.
~ Hair: Short hair, just long enough to show curl (pixie!) to his orangey-red hair. In the summer blonde highlights set it afire.
~ Face: His face has a nondescript blunted square shape with rounded features, and a tapering nose. Most of the time he seems almost about to smile, his eyes merry if a confusingly pale grey-green color.
~ Distinguishing features: Super pale and ruddy-cheeked, he does not tan or freckle.
~ Fashion: He likes clothing based more on how they feel than how they look. He likes the clean lines of militaristic cuts, but is unlikely to wear it if it's uncomfortable or difficult to move around in. He likes interesting textures as well, and uses uneven weaves in decorating when infeasible in clothing. His favorite cloak has a wide collar of sandy-colored llama-skin fur that matches his hair. While he isn't too particular, he does enjoy the colors purple and green (or teal), both of which have been at one time or other associated with his craft.
Personality: Summary.
Assigned a Myers-Briggs profile, he would be ENFP (extrovert intuitive feeling perceiving), Visionaries: Advocate.
Mennick is a sympathetic sort; even if he cannot always relate he seeks common ground and understanding. He has a warm personality and comes across to others as genuinely caring and open-minded. Others may feel as if they can come to him with their problems or ailments and that he will listen and genuinely care about what they have to say. Sometimes his suggestions are surprisingly insightful, even to those he knows more intimately. He gets along with a wide range of people and can feel part of many groups and communities.
Spontaneous and playful in his time off, he is known to get caught up in his own feelings hoping that the heat of the moment would last a little longer. He has had several stormy relationships. He seeks affirmation from others, especially loved ones; after all, he does not hesitate to give appreciation and support.
As a Mindhealer, he would be able to make connections between events, symptoms, and other reactions. With more practice, he will see the patterns more quickly before proceeding with treatment. Though he defaults to rules, he is flexible and can improvise in abnormal circumstances. He sees life as a precious gift and strives to make the most of it, even when the sheer number of patients is overwhelming. He proceeds enthusiastically and energetically, seeking to convey his outlook to the patients in his care.
As a leader, he would be charismatic, attracting people to a cause with his passion and careful optimism. He can inspire and motivate people with his expressive, down-to-earth speaking style. He is an ethical advocate who can provide insightful counsel to his superiors because he speaks with the people in mind. He takes their needs, interests and aptitudes in mind, contrasting against their actual contributions to the cause, and their potential to improve and contribute in the future.
Personality: Positive.
~ Energetic, enthusiastic, resourceful
~ Empathetic, ethical, charismatic
Personality: Negative.
~ May react unpredictably upon seeing injustices go unpunished, likewise may be insubordinate when expected to follow unjust orders
~ Seeks acceptance or companionship to the point of trying to change himself rather than to seek common ground
~ Easily taken advantage of by loved-ones, respected superiors, and peers
~ Self-neglect: prone to melt-downs or heavy drinking as stressors pile up, and malnutrition
~ Prone to short-term or unstable relationships
~ Separation anxiety
History: Family.
Zandesik (52) and Cynmen (43), Parents (minor Holders, Tillek region, FarmerCraft, High Reaches Weyr)
Spasek (24), eldest brother (Harper, voice training, lute)
Zendysk (22), elder brother (heir)
Cynsizk (20), elder sister (Tailor; Knitting)
Maddeck (16), younger brother (Healer, field trauma)
Cynchie (12), younger sister (Baker)
Silvina (Silvie) (approx. 3), adopted daughter (played by Thaliawen)
Mennick and Maddeck grew up in a small hold in the Tillek region that specializes in terraced farming and baking. It was small, but it was his parents' hold, and it had been carved out of the mountain itself by their ancestors. Beholden to High Reaches Weyr, a matter of great pride to the family, the hold nevertheless was capable of only a modest tithe. In the care of the sturdy, hardworking parents named Zandesik and Cynmen, Mennick and Maddeck enjoyed a difficult but well-rounded childhood.
Mennick witnessed his eldest brother Spasek sent away for "talking too much," which deeply upset Mennick, especially when Maddeck (who was not there when it happened) rationalized that Spasek must be lazy. It wasn't until Turns later that he learned that Spasek had indeed talked so much that he developed laryngitis and began to play his lute in earnest to fill in the "silence." He was already skilled enough to gain entry into the HarperHall, where he was treated and studied under a voice coach. He decided to stay and Master in the subject of Voice!
This left the next brother in line to inherit the Hold. An easygoing but hard-working son, Zendysk was happy take up that mantle. Cynsizk, the eldest sister, was already talented in Knitting and went off to WeaverCraftHall to expand her study to include Tailoring. She made sure that little Mennick understood that it was her choice, that she loved her family, and that she would come back home someday soon. Thus she averted, for Mennick, any damage that Maddeck's cynicism might have on her departure. Finally, the youngest sister, Cynchie, had decided as a little girl that she would stay and become a Baker under their Journeywoman mother's tutelage.
History: Chronologic.
As stair-steppers, Mennick and his brother Maddeck were always together. Growing up with this very logical brother, Mennick's focus was always on on feelings. He observed people relating psychologically to their wounds and the wounds of others. Pain, fear, coping and compensating, annoyance or impatience, complacency and re-injury. Though he lacked the vocabulary at the time, he came to understand these feelings intimately. As a very young child, while his brother wrapped its injuries, Mennick told little sister Cynchie that her doll was afraid and needed her help to get well.
Though older, Mennick was so much smaller that strangers assumed that Maddeck was the elder of the two. As a result, Mennick developed a bit of a complex and allowed his brother to take the lead in many adventures and decision-making. One of these decisions came at an early age (Mennick 11 and Maddeck 10 turns), which was moving to the HealerCraft Hall, where they would continue to study for several Turns.
Long before the brothers would walk the tables, they decided to follow a dream they had shared as boys: to serve as Weyr Healers. Their tiny Hold of origin was along a well-traveled road, and their favorite Harper-tales were about dragons fighting Thread. The Harpers kept the old tales alive and the boys formed new ones about serving their guardians in the sky. Since their path was with the HealingCraft and their goals were plain, it made sense to their instructors to transfer there early on, and sent them on to Fort (instead of High Reaches) at the ages of 12 (Maddeck) and 13 (Mennick).
Mennick loves little girls. They are so fragile and cute. At least he used to think so before Silvina came along. Mennick may never know what all she suffered and she may never remember. But Silvie followed him home, as he will say forevermore, and if she wants to call him Daddy, he is overjoyed to find that niche in her life.
Dragons represent so many ideals that many people look to with whimsy, and Mennick is no exception. He has thought of Impressing more often than his practical brother has. To Impress a dragon would mean that he would have to set aside his daughter and craft for the dragon, Weyr, and Thread. Further, he understands that it would by necessity delay his Mastery in Mindhealing. Whatever the future may hold, he attends every Hatching he possibly can and enjoys each immensely. It is not all for fun though, and he drags his notes along with him to study the process of candidates bonding with their dragons, or going back to the barracks without. And should a dragon follow him home one day, he is certain that his brother Maddeck will step in and help raise Silvie. After all, "Uncle Maddy" does already, after a fashion, and he was the one who named her!
Other:
~ M'nick, if he Impresses
~ Menny, nickname by Silvina
