Unbelievable!
Um. This is probably useless. But if anyone knows Pern (or just wants to comment on a character) I'm desperately hoping someone can comment on my character and give me an opinion before I submit him to the shiny Pern RP I found and am currently desperately shying away from because OH GOD MORE PEOPLE. TO HATE ME. OR SOMETHING.
lol at me.
Anyway! Any comments are welcome, especially since I'm hoping to post him for their User Reviews this week. Heh.
Name:
Relys
Gender:
Male
Age:
15 turns
Sexuality:
Homosexual
Location:
Dalibor
Rank:
Dragon Candidate
Personality:
Relys is an observer. He likes to sit on the side and watch before doing anything or taking any action. He is much more likely to be a scorekeeper than a player and even more likely to just be in the crowds, observing everything. He catalogues everything he sees and he learns visually. By the time he decides to try something ‘new’, he already has a very good of what needs to be done. He will avoid doing even the simplest things in front of other people until he can do it perfectly. His parents didn’t even know he could tie his shoes until he had learned six different knots and could undo them all as easily as tie them.
If he can’t be perfect, he tends to avoid doing whatever was asked. He’ll make up excuses, even find a hiding place, rather than show he can’t do something. This need stems from his partial deafness. He needs to be perfect to make up for the lack of hearing in his right ear, to prove that it doesn’t affect his ability to do things. But he’s starting to realize that avoiding everything he doesn’t do perfectly is holding him back.
Being chosen as a candidate seemed like a chance to try something new. But all Relys wants to do is slide back into his old way of doing things. It’s just so much easier to observe than to act.
He doesn’t hold other people to the same standards he holds himself, which is a good thing or he probably wouldn’t talk to anyone. But his need to be perfect makes it hard to approach people; being deaf in his right ear can make conversation difficult and he prefers not to disclose his disability to avoid any type of judgment. He tries to begin conversations in places where there are fewer people. The less people that seem him fail, the better.
He can make a good friend. He isn’t a good source for idea bouncing, though. And he won’t go off on a spur of the moment adventure. But he’ll always be somewhere easy to find and he’s a very, very good listener. Just don’t try to contradict something you said before without a good reason; he’ll remember and he’ll argue it to death. This also applies to most flippant comments.
Appearance:
A minimum of a solid paragraph describing your character's physical appearance (typically over 100 words.)
Family:
Mother - Millasa - 39 turns (Harper)
Father - Yavos - 42 turns (Harper)
Sister - Kissa - 8 turns
Pets:
N/A
History:
Relys was born a perfectly healthy baby boy, a first for his parents. They had been trying for several years before Millasa conceived. But she was a proud mother, glad to have a son as her first child and ever more glad that the birth of their son brought her husband back from his travels; he had promised to stay in the Hold only after the birth of their first child. And it brought him back to stay. He wasn’t particularly happy, but seeing his son was enough to push the disappointment back. Relys was the child they’d always imagined. He banged out music on all kinds of surfaces (at least, he banged out sounds that first-time parents would call music) and learned to whistle by the time he was four.
But not everything stays the way it should be. When Relys turned five, he started to explore the hold with other boys around his age. They would run up and down the halls, slide on mud, and all kinds of silly tricks that kids could only come up with on their own. His favorite activity was sliding in the mud. At least it was his favorite until he slid, head first, into a rock.
He was taken to the healers and every precaution, every step was taken to help him. And he was still Relys when he woke. But he’d lost the hearing in his right ear and gain a slight limp, one that he would improve with walking until it was nearly invisible. Without the hearing in his right ear, though, he lost his taste and any talent he might have had for music; he just couldn’t feel it like he had before and he often grew quickly frustrated when it didn’t sound right.
Millasa was heartbroken that her son wouldn’t grow up to be a Harper; she just couldn’t imagine any other way of life. And she didn’t want to believe that her only child wouldn’t be able to enjoy music the way she and her husband did. That was when they started to try for another child.
During this, Relys was learning. He learned that there was a right way to live and a wrong way, that perfection had to be possible because it was the Right Way to life. So he began to strive for perfection in all his actions. He would sit and watch, he would wait and learn and observe until he could imitate skills from memory alone and then he would practice by himself. No one could see him try until he was perfect.
When he was 7, Millasa and Yavos had a daughter: Kissa. She was everything they’d hoped for from Relys and they protected her in a way he never had been and never would be. But he was never jealous; he had his own life by then, or at least a different path, and he was willing to relinquish a lot of his parent’s hope for the sake of their acceptance.
Life was simpler without him worrying about failing his parent’s dreams. Relys became the second child and, in a way, he reveled in it. He was able to observe and take his time and simply be whatever he felt he was able to. No one put undue expectations on him except himself, giving him the time he needed to live up to his own ideals.
He continued like that for years, never showing any special aptitude for a specific skill. His inability to just try meant very few people knew exactly how much he knew, let alone how much he could have done with only minor mistakes. He was reasonable with animals, mediocre with people, bad at music and not particularly good at any craft. Living as a middle of the road child meant his life was rather boring.
At least, it was boring until the dragon riders came by. He hadn’t expected to be drawn towards the huge creatures. But his need to know pulled him to the center of the hold. He hadn’t intended to meet a dragonrider. More than anything, he hadn’t meant to be chosen as a candidate. The order was given, though, and he knew he didn’t really have a choice (or, for that matter, want a choice) and so he went.
Dragon Preference:
I’d love for Relys to Impress any dragon you chose. And he can be mauled. Surprise me all you want! I’m very open.
lol at me.
Anyway! Any comments are welcome, especially since I'm hoping to post him for their User Reviews this week. Heh.
Name:
Relys
Gender:
Male
Age:
15 turns
Sexuality:
Homosexual
Location:
Dalibor
Rank:
Dragon Candidate
Personality:
Relys is an observer. He likes to sit on the side and watch before doing anything or taking any action. He is much more likely to be a scorekeeper than a player and even more likely to just be in the crowds, observing everything. He catalogues everything he sees and he learns visually. By the time he decides to try something ‘new’, he already has a very good of what needs to be done. He will avoid doing even the simplest things in front of other people until he can do it perfectly. His parents didn’t even know he could tie his shoes until he had learned six different knots and could undo them all as easily as tie them.
If he can’t be perfect, he tends to avoid doing whatever was asked. He’ll make up excuses, even find a hiding place, rather than show he can’t do something. This need stems from his partial deafness. He needs to be perfect to make up for the lack of hearing in his right ear, to prove that it doesn’t affect his ability to do things. But he’s starting to realize that avoiding everything he doesn’t do perfectly is holding him back.
Being chosen as a candidate seemed like a chance to try something new. But all Relys wants to do is slide back into his old way of doing things. It’s just so much easier to observe than to act.
He doesn’t hold other people to the same standards he holds himself, which is a good thing or he probably wouldn’t talk to anyone. But his need to be perfect makes it hard to approach people; being deaf in his right ear can make conversation difficult and he prefers not to disclose his disability to avoid any type of judgment. He tries to begin conversations in places where there are fewer people. The less people that seem him fail, the better.
He can make a good friend. He isn’t a good source for idea bouncing, though. And he won’t go off on a spur of the moment adventure. But he’ll always be somewhere easy to find and he’s a very, very good listener. Just don’t try to contradict something you said before without a good reason; he’ll remember and he’ll argue it to death. This also applies to most flippant comments.
Appearance:
A minimum of a solid paragraph describing your character's physical appearance (typically over 100 words.)
Family:
Mother - Millasa - 39 turns (Harper)
Father - Yavos - 42 turns (Harper)
Sister - Kissa - 8 turns
Pets:
N/A
History:
Relys was born a perfectly healthy baby boy, a first for his parents. They had been trying for several years before Millasa conceived. But she was a proud mother, glad to have a son as her first child and ever more glad that the birth of their son brought her husband back from his travels; he had promised to stay in the Hold only after the birth of their first child. And it brought him back to stay. He wasn’t particularly happy, but seeing his son was enough to push the disappointment back. Relys was the child they’d always imagined. He banged out music on all kinds of surfaces (at least, he banged out sounds that first-time parents would call music) and learned to whistle by the time he was four.
But not everything stays the way it should be. When Relys turned five, he started to explore the hold with other boys around his age. They would run up and down the halls, slide on mud, and all kinds of silly tricks that kids could only come up with on their own. His favorite activity was sliding in the mud. At least it was his favorite until he slid, head first, into a rock.
He was taken to the healers and every precaution, every step was taken to help him. And he was still Relys when he woke. But he’d lost the hearing in his right ear and gain a slight limp, one that he would improve with walking until it was nearly invisible. Without the hearing in his right ear, though, he lost his taste and any talent he might have had for music; he just couldn’t feel it like he had before and he often grew quickly frustrated when it didn’t sound right.
Millasa was heartbroken that her son wouldn’t grow up to be a Harper; she just couldn’t imagine any other way of life. And she didn’t want to believe that her only child wouldn’t be able to enjoy music the way she and her husband did. That was when they started to try for another child.
During this, Relys was learning. He learned that there was a right way to live and a wrong way, that perfection had to be possible because it was the Right Way to life. So he began to strive for perfection in all his actions. He would sit and watch, he would wait and learn and observe until he could imitate skills from memory alone and then he would practice by himself. No one could see him try until he was perfect.
When he was 7, Millasa and Yavos had a daughter: Kissa. She was everything they’d hoped for from Relys and they protected her in a way he never had been and never would be. But he was never jealous; he had his own life by then, or at least a different path, and he was willing to relinquish a lot of his parent’s hope for the sake of their acceptance.
Life was simpler without him worrying about failing his parent’s dreams. Relys became the second child and, in a way, he reveled in it. He was able to observe and take his time and simply be whatever he felt he was able to. No one put undue expectations on him except himself, giving him the time he needed to live up to his own ideals.
He continued like that for years, never showing any special aptitude for a specific skill. His inability to just try meant very few people knew exactly how much he knew, let alone how much he could have done with only minor mistakes. He was reasonable with animals, mediocre with people, bad at music and not particularly good at any craft. Living as a middle of the road child meant his life was rather boring.
At least, it was boring until the dragon riders came by. He hadn’t expected to be drawn towards the huge creatures. But his need to know pulled him to the center of the hold. He hadn’t intended to meet a dragonrider. More than anything, he hadn’t meant to be chosen as a candidate. The order was given, though, and he knew he didn’t really have a choice (or, for that matter, want a choice) and so he went.
Dragon Preference:
I’d love for Relys to Impress any dragon you chose. And he can be mauled. Surprise me all you want! I’m very open.