Post by Sparrow on May 20, 2010 16:52:44 GMT -5
Name: Chan
Age: 36
Rank: JourneyWoman Baker
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Appearance: Chan is an average person, average height, average looks, average dress and habits. She is perhaps on the taller side of average, standing at about 5’7”, and her weight is maybe average for a baker, but a bit more than that of most hardworking Pernese. Although she cooks far more than she eats, Chan still has a tendency to grab tastes of this or that and it has started to show in chubbiness around her middle and on her arms and legs.
Chan’s hair is light brown, straight, and just past shoulder-length. She generally wears a handkerchief wrapped around and tied under her hair to keep it out of the way. Gathers are the only occasion that lead to her actually putting it up, and when she has a good reason for it, Chan does have some creative ways of doing it. Her face is round and homely, her eyes dark brown.
Considering that the Baker craft’s colors are tan and brown, Chan’s wardrobe is, overall, a drab one. She has nothing against wearing dull colors, and they’re cheaper, so they’re about all she has collected over the Turns. She always finds a small flash of color to add to her dress though, usually found in her handkerchief or a ribbon in her bodice.
Personality: A person’s first impression of Chan is generally that she’s friendly, warm, and very inquisitive. Chan loves to know everything about everyone, and has a knack for finding it out. That she is known for her ability to keep every secret she learns helps. Hers is a very easygoing manner; Chan may not have much charisma when it comes to her looks, but her people skills make up for it.
Chan has a ready wit as well, and is nearly always making use of it. She loves to joke and tease, and for all her skill at getting people to talk to her, when she gets talking Chan isn’t always the best at stopping. Though she nearly always has funny things to say, she can get on people’s nerves that way.
It’s very rare for her to get angry, and one would be hard pressed to find an insult that could leave her feeling insulted. But, although almost always cheerful on the outside, Chan does feel other emotions too. Even though it was some years ago, the death of her husband is something she still has a hard time talking about, she is usually worried about her children, and although respectful of and grateful for them, doesn’t have much fondness for dragonriders. The new colors she’s especially suspicious of, and any drastic change in dragon habits leave her grumbling about them for days.
History: Chan was raised in Ista Hold, the second-youngest out of four children. Her parents were Bakers; her father boasted training in Fort Hold and became a Master of the craft when Chan was four, he thirty-seven. Her mother worked in her husband’s shadow, but they both worked for the Lord Holder of Ista, so pay was fair and the family was a cheerful one, always filled with jokes, various pets, and visitors.
Chan was nine when her older brother, the oldest child in the family, was Searched. Her parents weren’t very pleased with the idea; none appreciated dragons much, and it was a rule among cooks that anyone with talent was to make use of their talent. Chan’s older brother had talent. The riders took him anyways, and the family was cheered marginally when they heard the boy Impressed to a Bronze. Within two Turns, however, he died in a betweening accident, and the family’s opinion of dragonriders fell below what it had been originally.
Chan’s older sister had left in that time to apprentice to the Harper craft, and so it was decided that Chan would have to be the child who would carry on the family trade. Her little sister had some talent as well, but as the younger of the pair, was simply less desirable. Chan willingly filled her parent’s hopes and took up their habits and so, though not the prettiest adolescent, she had plenty of friends, company, and support through her teenage years.
When Chan was twenty-one she married a Journeyman Healer a few Turns older than she, Palton. Theirs was as easy and close a relationship as her parents had been, although it was a few years before they were gifted with a daughter, Pirra. She was a loud baby and wild toddler, but apparently taught them no lesson since three years later Chan had a son, Akin.
It was that same year that Thread started falling again. Although not happy about leaving the place she had lived her entire life up until that point, Ista, they didn’t have much choice but to move out. Chan and her family met up with her parents again before boarding a ship and heading to the Southern continent, where the dragonriders seemed to feel more confident about guarding the residents of Pern.
They managed to make it to the Southern Continent safely, and quickly became part of a new Hold budding near the newly founded Nyocia Weyr, Danac. Two Turns later, Chan was just settling into her new life when tragedy struck again- Palton, almost ironically, died from an injury delivered by a frightened Runnerbeast he was treating.
Suddenly left alone with two children and a fragment of the income Chan had been living on for the past nine Turns (their earnings had dropped drastically in moving to the Southern continent, and this was no help), life was quite a bit harder than she had ever expected. Chan struggled to sustain the family with cooking and social skill. People liked her food and Chan herself, so since then, things have been working out well enough, but Chan doesn’t often have spare time, and definitely no spare money.
Pets: None, although her daughter has a Sand kagen (a little less than 3 Turns old) named Pebble.
Other: She has two kids (I’ll control them but not make them official characters or use them separate from Chan)- Thirteen-year-old daughter, Pirra, and ten-year-old son, Akkin.
As for Chan's baking job, she specializes mainly in breads, but loves to make desserts too and has at least some knowledge in all common foods.
Password: Needlethorn
Age: 36
Rank: JourneyWoman Baker
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Appearance: Chan is an average person, average height, average looks, average dress and habits. She is perhaps on the taller side of average, standing at about 5’7”, and her weight is maybe average for a baker, but a bit more than that of most hardworking Pernese. Although she cooks far more than she eats, Chan still has a tendency to grab tastes of this or that and it has started to show in chubbiness around her middle and on her arms and legs.
Chan’s hair is light brown, straight, and just past shoulder-length. She generally wears a handkerchief wrapped around and tied under her hair to keep it out of the way. Gathers are the only occasion that lead to her actually putting it up, and when she has a good reason for it, Chan does have some creative ways of doing it. Her face is round and homely, her eyes dark brown.
Considering that the Baker craft’s colors are tan and brown, Chan’s wardrobe is, overall, a drab one. She has nothing against wearing dull colors, and they’re cheaper, so they’re about all she has collected over the Turns. She always finds a small flash of color to add to her dress though, usually found in her handkerchief or a ribbon in her bodice.
Personality: A person’s first impression of Chan is generally that she’s friendly, warm, and very inquisitive. Chan loves to know everything about everyone, and has a knack for finding it out. That she is known for her ability to keep every secret she learns helps. Hers is a very easygoing manner; Chan may not have much charisma when it comes to her looks, but her people skills make up for it.
Chan has a ready wit as well, and is nearly always making use of it. She loves to joke and tease, and for all her skill at getting people to talk to her, when she gets talking Chan isn’t always the best at stopping. Though she nearly always has funny things to say, she can get on people’s nerves that way.
It’s very rare for her to get angry, and one would be hard pressed to find an insult that could leave her feeling insulted. But, although almost always cheerful on the outside, Chan does feel other emotions too. Even though it was some years ago, the death of her husband is something she still has a hard time talking about, she is usually worried about her children, and although respectful of and grateful for them, doesn’t have much fondness for dragonriders. The new colors she’s especially suspicious of, and any drastic change in dragon habits leave her grumbling about them for days.
History: Chan was raised in Ista Hold, the second-youngest out of four children. Her parents were Bakers; her father boasted training in Fort Hold and became a Master of the craft when Chan was four, he thirty-seven. Her mother worked in her husband’s shadow, but they both worked for the Lord Holder of Ista, so pay was fair and the family was a cheerful one, always filled with jokes, various pets, and visitors.
Chan was nine when her older brother, the oldest child in the family, was Searched. Her parents weren’t very pleased with the idea; none appreciated dragons much, and it was a rule among cooks that anyone with talent was to make use of their talent. Chan’s older brother had talent. The riders took him anyways, and the family was cheered marginally when they heard the boy Impressed to a Bronze. Within two Turns, however, he died in a betweening accident, and the family’s opinion of dragonriders fell below what it had been originally.
Chan’s older sister had left in that time to apprentice to the Harper craft, and so it was decided that Chan would have to be the child who would carry on the family trade. Her little sister had some talent as well, but as the younger of the pair, was simply less desirable. Chan willingly filled her parent’s hopes and took up their habits and so, though not the prettiest adolescent, she had plenty of friends, company, and support through her teenage years.
When Chan was twenty-one she married a Journeyman Healer a few Turns older than she, Palton. Theirs was as easy and close a relationship as her parents had been, although it was a few years before they were gifted with a daughter, Pirra. She was a loud baby and wild toddler, but apparently taught them no lesson since three years later Chan had a son, Akin.
It was that same year that Thread started falling again. Although not happy about leaving the place she had lived her entire life up until that point, Ista, they didn’t have much choice but to move out. Chan and her family met up with her parents again before boarding a ship and heading to the Southern continent, where the dragonriders seemed to feel more confident about guarding the residents of Pern.
They managed to make it to the Southern Continent safely, and quickly became part of a new Hold budding near the newly founded Nyocia Weyr, Danac. Two Turns later, Chan was just settling into her new life when tragedy struck again- Palton, almost ironically, died from an injury delivered by a frightened Runnerbeast he was treating.
Suddenly left alone with two children and a fragment of the income Chan had been living on for the past nine Turns (their earnings had dropped drastically in moving to the Southern continent, and this was no help), life was quite a bit harder than she had ever expected. Chan struggled to sustain the family with cooking and social skill. People liked her food and Chan herself, so since then, things have been working out well enough, but Chan doesn’t often have spare time, and definitely no spare money.
Pets: None, although her daughter has a Sand kagen (a little less than 3 Turns old) named Pebble.
Other: She has two kids (I’ll control them but not make them official characters or use them separate from Chan)- Thirteen-year-old daughter, Pirra, and ten-year-old son, Akkin.
As for Chan's baking job, she specializes mainly in breads, but loves to make desserts too and has at least some knowledge in all common foods.
Password: Needlethorn
