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Name: T’shim (formerly Tyshim)
Age: 25
Nameday: 09.27.3551
Sex: Male
Sexual Orientation: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Weyr: Western Weyr
Rider Rank: Wingrider
Previous Rank/Craft: Runner Trainer (Not Hall Trained)
Physical Description: T’shim is tall and lean. While muscular enough, in a Weyr full of big, beefy riders he almost looks snappable with his more endomorphic build. He keeps his dirty blond hair trimmed short and has warm, brown eyes, with a gently featured face that keeps him looking rather young for his age.
Personality: T’shim is a rather contradictory character - he’d claim himself uncompetitive in a heartbeat, but those who allow themselves to hang around the unflinchingly blunt young man would find it quickly obvious that he’s exceedingly competitive. To the point of allowing it to dampen his spirits and then coming in with a blanket of smarm, sass, and blunt judgment aimed outwards to hide that all up. When grouped with people who naturally stand out, he’s simply uneager to have to put himself out there and fall short. Just one success isn’t worth the risk, but still he wants that one success. Then two. Then three. Brick, by brick to build into something.
That he generally doesn’t like spending time around his fellows doesn’t help his case much, having to be goaded into most activities. Of course, a sheer sense of requirement usually is all it takes - and then it is full on smarm to defend himself from any judgment or questions aimed his way.
It really is hard to peg where T’shim got it in his head that he’d fall short of the herd - he’s handsome enough (even before impressing), he’s smart, he’s quick to adapt, and he’s no slouch when it comes to physical tasks either. One would easily say he’s talented enough to keep up with those he so obviously begins to place on pedestals of being ‘special’. If he were to put his efforts to it more openly - or supported into it more openly - the sky would really be the limit for T’shim.
While having no aspirations of greatness - perhaps a Wingsecond, at best - T’shim does have the qualities of a future leader in a very, very rough form. He is steady and dependable, thanks to his natural adaptability, and despite his smarmy attitude is incredibly patient. He does have patience enough to teach if one is willing to mire through his myriad of bad traits, though one should expect some judgment and perhaps a little commentary.
Positive Trait List Smart, Adaptable, Steady, Patient
Negative Trait List Smarmy, Contradictory, Insecure, Competitive, Aloof, Judgy
History: Before being Searched, Tyshim helped his mother in her craft in training Runners. While he had no ideas of going off to the Hall himself, she had been Hall Trained and really, Tyshim was content to learn all he could from the single constant in his life. When it came to that absent father, he was mostly never mentioned. All he knew was that Flights Happened and it was rather clinical beyond that.
When he was 8, his mother married a widowed man with several young children who also happened to work with runners and Tyshim found himself with several younger step-siblings that he wasn’t exactly prepared for. While scuffling was imminent, the hierarchy of sibling-power was soon enough established and it was, really, a happy enough family for their unusual arrangement. Things were good enough.
Until the Old Man showed up on his dragon during Search shortly after First Fall - initially sniffing out his step-siblings and sussing that the youngest boy, barely 16 and getting ready to head off to the Runner Hall to take up the proper training that Tyshim had passed up on, would be a fine candidate. While there was no way to force him to make a choice either way, there was obvious pressure. Pressure from a rider and dragon looming and waiting over an indecisive and eager to please boy. Tyshim set himself and one of the Runners between the group to take the pressure off - and for the first time was given his own evaluation.
When his mother came out to see what the fuss was about, several dots were connected and he nearly turned down everything on the spot out of sheer reactionary pride. However, with some gentle prodding from his mother to reconsider his position, Tyshim would ultimately go. The future he was already on would still be available if he chose to come back to it….and somehow his deciding to go allowed his stepbrother to decide not to.
It would still be several turns before a dragon would come to him, ignoring the drama on the sands and their siblings who were being upset by it. They ventured through the candidates, back, back, to where Tyshim had kept himself relatively out of the way and safe from any claws and teeth - of which there had been plenty already.
Tyshim! Why the long face? Is it because everything is being a downer? Well your Seuafaith isn’t a downer so you can put on a happier face now, right? little rainbow eyes looked up at him entreatingly, hoping this was the solution to all of his problems.
And they sort of were.
Other: T’shim wore glasses until he impressed.
DRAGON
Name: Seuafaith
Inspiration: Asian Golden Cat
Origin of Name: In some regions of Thailand, the Asian golden cat is called Seua fai (Thai: เสือไฟ; "fire tiger" )
Color: Bronze
- - - - > Would you be willing to change the dragons color/sex to fit a different NPC slot? Yes (tho open to all colors from the get go lmao)
Personality
Those who let every little thing get to them never get far in life, and Seuafaith is up to any challenge thrown their way! While the little things do nudge underneath his skin and Seuafaith is prone to exaggerate how mean words and scuffles went down to play up the victim card a little bit, Seuafaith takes negativity as a motivator to push forward and in fact seems to do his best when he is doing it out of spite. Ask him to do something impossible even in the most sarcastic or condescending way and Seuafaith may just be the dragon to make it happen out of sheer will.
A social butterfly, Seuafaith isn’t deterred by nasty personalities and is easily the sort who will be breaking the ice when meeting strangers. He’ll bound right into other dragon’s games - or if the kids of the creche will have them, he’ll bound right into those too! It will never be hard for Seuafaith to make friends - even to those resistant to the idea. Seuafaith is stubbornly determined in many ways - to prove his worth, to do the cool things another dragon may be able to pull off (even if his color shouldn’t allow for it), to do things better, harder, faster than last time. To say he's competitive wouldn’t be an exaggeration either.
While not the smartest - and in fact will always be at best a little on the daft side of things - Seuafaith is an eager dragon which can, unfortunately, lead to some serious hyperfocus when it comes to tasks such as drills and even flaming clumps of Thread. Seuafaith will be prone to crashing into other dragons if not kept in line - or even flaming them during Threadfall! Simply, Seuafaith is a potential disaster in the making if someone isn’t ready to come and keep him from diving right into the fire.
Size: 37'
Physical Attributes:
Seuafaith is on the smaller side of middling for a bronze, but for their color they will always stand out as being nimble, athletic, and lean rather than strong.
Additional Notes:
Seuafaith tends to flame in surprisingly quick bursts and will go through firestone quickly unless paced - and will also be prone to biting their own tongue. A lot.
They’ll always be up for a good flight, though if particularly interested they may hyperfocus - and crash into other dragons in the air because they simply forgot they weren’t the only one in the sky.
Seuafaith plays fetch - though it is much harder as a full grown dragon to find something to appropriately ‘fetch’.
Why Me:
Tyshim! No more hiding! Come out! Come be with everybody else! Seuafaith could have easily picked someone as high energy and as much of a social animal as they are, but who would have spent time with the aloof and distant young man if they had? Seuafaith is too sunny and determined to be put off by even the worst of Tyshim’s moods and with a little bit of elbow grease surely they can get him to stop hiding all of that talent away! Seuafaith wants to be talented too, after all!
Tyshim’s adaptability and quick mind will allow him to keep up with Seuafaith even when they’re being unpredictable and his cooler head will help temper Seuafaith’s hyperfocus. He also has what it takes to keep them from disastrously crashing and burning in critical moments.
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How did your character behave during Weyrling Training? Woah, nelly! Seuafaith wanted to be the first to try everything in every new lesson and had a tendency to sulk when told ‘no’. There were definitely a few near accidents on Seuafaith’s part, but T’shim quickly got the reigns over his lifemate and did swimmingly in keeping them from turning into major fires.
What did your character think of so many twin dragons? What did your character think of having not one, but two, gold sister? Jealousy! There could have been TWO of Seuafaith! Seuafaith wants to have a double! But they do get to be cool and say they have TWO gold sisters! How many other dragons get to say that??
How did your characters do during flying lessons and Between training? Were they naturals or did they struggle? Flying came easily, landing did not. Learning to pace their stamina was something T’shim had to wrangle quickly as well and still fights Seuafaith on all the time. Between was a less risky piece of business, ironically, as T’shim found leaning Seuafaith's hyperfocus into coordinates and giving them praise for success made for a relatively smooth ordeal.
How has your character been handling being graduated and a real dragon rider? T’shim is trying to not befriend his entire wing, despite Seuafaith's insistence that they are all the most best of friends and T’SHIM THEY’RE GOING OUT TO BLACK SANDS ARE YOU GONNA COME TOO LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOO. Overall, T’shim likes having more self-directed time.
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