Post by friar on Jun 17, 2008 22:00:34 GMT -5
Name: Ketara
Age: 17
Rank: Asst. Weyrling Master
Gender: Femme
Sexuality: Bisexual
Appearance:
While most female riders need to chop their hair short, Ketara has become expert at braiding her hair to fit comfortably under her riding helmet. As such, has started to let her glossy chestnut hair grow out once more. Now, it frames her round cheeks, and falls in languid waves to halfway to her elbow.
She stands at five feet and eleven inches in height.
Someone once said that brown eyes are soft as liquid, green eyes are kind, and blue eyes pierce. Well, that’s still true, but they missed something. The intent behind those eyes can totally change the meaning. Such is true for Ketara. She has a drive fueling her that makes her seem almost fever-ridden, and which shows the most in her gorgeous green eyes. Plump lips give her pouts more weight, and make her smiles more beautiful.
She tends to wear skirts with a leather top that has a buckle on the shoulderthat hooks into a strap on her quiver. She is rarely found without bow and quiver, for she hunts often. Whenever she can be spared, she’ll got out, and hunt the big, feral felines that lurk around the edges of Danac Hold.
Personality:
Ketara has the personality of a hunter- which she is. She’ll wander around an issue without specifically addressing it, and then pounce when her poor companion is least expecting it. Such is the way she told the father of her child that she was expecting, and the poor greenrider nearly keeled over in shock.
Such is NOT the way, however, she deals with her dragon. Axeth is perhaps on the smaller side of blues, and yet is quite possibly more demanding than a gold or violet. She has full-fledged debates with him, which she nearly always loses. But lately, she seems to be winning just a few more than she did this time last Turn….
History:
Ketara was born in a cotholding of Bitra, in the North. Her family couldn’t pay the rent, and so were turned out of their home, branded ‘Renegade’. But they weren’t renegade, just poor. She was two at the time, and the youngest of the large family. She had six brothers, and two sisters ahead of her, the youngest of which was five, and already knew how to ride.
As soon as she was deemed old enough (six), her older brothers taught her how to shoot. Clumsy and none too good at sighting, she nearly stuck the wagon full of arrows before she was shown a more appropriate place to practice.
Still, it wasn’t long before she could hunt, and hunt she did. They had reliable meat for the pot all the way down to the Southern Continent, a trek that took three Turns, as they couldn’t afford passage on a ship, and therefore had to barter passage. Ketara’s mother, Kessra, the elder of her brothers, and three of her sisters went first.
It was only about a sevenday after the first group landed that they ran into trouble. Anara, the second youngest sister, took ill with firehead. Tora, her eldest brother, and Kiarev, the second oldest sister, her attacked while hunting. Felines took them, and instilled in Ketara the desire to avenge her family.
It was a sad and bedraggled group that made it to Danac Hold. Atara, Anara’s twin, and the elder by nearly two hours, fell victim to pneumonia. She survived, but with a weak constitution for the rest of her days. Also, her mother never fully recovered from the loss of three of her children.
What would put the woman into her grave was the devastating news that the craft the rest of the family had boarded had capsized, and sank. There were no survivors.
Ketara took the news clear-eyed, and only grieved in private. She was eleven at the time.
She was bringing in the harvest, now twelve, when a blue shape winged its way over the fields. It landed near her, and she was informed that she had just been ‘Searched’. The rider threw her onto his dragon, and brought her to the Weyr.
She was left Standing, that first time. Ten healthy dragonets and weyrlings walked off the Sands, but she was not among them. She did, however, attach a little brown firelizard. Kyre, she named him, and he was her little brown shadow.
Between clutches, as the riders told her that she might stay in the Weyr, if she could find something useful to do, she hunted. The Headwoman’s assistant welcomed the fresh meat, and found a market for the pelts she was collecting.
A Turn after she attached Kyre, the brown chased a green, and won. She managed to finagle an egg from that, paying for it with one of her most recent kills. That egg hatched into brown Arkine, who was more independent than his father.
At Unuth’s first- and only- clutch, Ketara Stood again, this time at Fourteen. This time, her patience was rewarded when a voice proclaimed, I am Axeth! Feed me, woman!
The pair went through weyrling training in a constant state of bickering. She always wound up acquiescing his demands, but not without arguing for hours beforehand.
While still in the middle of Weyrling Training, Axeth rose to Chase, the first of his clutch to do so. He caught her, and Ketara became pregnant at the age of fifteen. She stayed just a little too long in the black cold of between, and lost the fetus. Since then, she has enjoyed both female and male partners when Aexeth Chases.
She flew under WeyrlingMaster K’met for all of weyrlinghood, and just last Turn, put in a formal request to be made Assistant Weyrling Master, or the Weyrling Master’s Wing second. Her job is to back up the Weyrling Master, reach out to the female riders, and help the Weyrling Master organize lessons.
Right now, she is negotiating with a Master Metalworker to make a type of flexible metal shirt that could stop Thread from reaching a rider’s body. Her success varies.
((Just because I don’t think Pern has chainmail…))
Other:
Color Code: 2E8B57
Ketara
Pets:
Name: Kyre
Age: 7
Size: 37 cm
Color: brown
Personality: Conservative, not likely to go cavorting after anything that Rises, Kyre is a loyal brown. He often admonishes his son for being too flighty, and prefers to stay with Ketara. Oiling is his favorite part of the day.
Color Code: Sienna (A0522D)
Name: Arkine
Age: 6
Size: 34 cm
Color: Brown
Personality: Arkine is very flighty, prone to Chasing anything and everything that Rises. He’s sired well over a dozen clutches since he started Flying, and has even caught a wild gold on more than one occasion (same gold, you know). He’s not real attached to Ketara, and isn’t with her often. He returns to be oiled, and to eat, and to boast. That’s about it.
Color Code: Chocolate (D2691E)
-If a Rider:
Dragon Name: Axeth
Dragon Age: 3
Dragon Size: 26 meters
Dragon Color: Blue
Dragon Personality: A demanding blue, Axeth started his relationship with Ketara with I am Axeth! Feed me, woman! He’s mellowed out only a little bit over the past three Turns, and still demands that Ketara kill his meal, and preferably skin it as well, before he’ll eat it. Thank Faranth he only eats once a week, but when he does, he eats as many as four carcasses. Who has to skin ‘em, you guessed it. Ketara.
Color Code: AFEEEE7)
