Name: Lyonene
Age: 16 turns
Location of Persona: SeaBreeze Weyr
Pet type: Feline
Pet's Name: Sarali
It's age: 3 turns
Craft: Smith
Rank: Sr. Apprentice/Candidate
Discription of Persona: Lyonene has been darkly tanned
from spending so much time outside. Her long blonde hair has been cut very
short and baely reaches her ears. Along with her skin, it's been sun-kissed
and the highlights are so pale they could almost be white. Her eyes are
somewhat elongated in shape and shine tawny brown beneath their
heavy-lashed, hooded lids. Lyonene's nose has a slim bridge that widens as
it descends to broad, flaring nostrils, her lips are thick and red. She's as
tall as most boys her age and is pleasantly plump with many female curves
that she has a hard time hiding.
Lyonene's got a temper to worry about. It takes a while for her to loose it,
but when she does, wise people would get out of her way. Not to mention that
she can hold a grudge for an unreasonable amount of time. She's interested
in everything most girls know and talk about among themselves, because she's
never had female friend to confide in about anything. She knows only the
boys' side on everything. Lyon understands about kissing and has had 'the
talk', but she never got a chance to experiment or go on dates. Her favorite
colors are silver and bronze because those were her two favorite metals to
work with when she was a Smith Crafter.
History: Her parents were a brown rider and a harper master at Sea Breeze
Weyr. She was raised mostly by her mother, but her father also played a
major part of her life until he died in an accident in threadfall and his
dragon /betweened/. Lyonene's mother didn't want her to Impress and involve
herself with the danger of /betweening/ and fighting thread, so she tried to
send her daughter to the Harper Hall. Lyonene did _not_ want to be a harper
when she grew up, and neither did she wish to Impress a dragon because she's
deathly afraid of heights. Her only wish was to become a Smith and create
stuff with metal. But her mother put her foot down and said absolutely not,
no daughter of hers was going to become an apprentice in such a masculine
craft. The only way Lyonene managed to get her wish was to cut her hair,
bind certain developing parts of her body, don baggy boys' clothes and
escape in secret to the Smith Hall under the new alias of Lyon. She knew her
mother would be able to find her if she didn't take on a new identity
because there were harpers everywhere that she sent looking for 'Lyonene' or
a 'girl' who looked like Lyonene.
After four years at the Smith Hall, she missed the weyr. By now, she'd
gotten over her fear of heights and realized her love of dragons and
weyrlife overpowered even her love of Smithing. She also missed the
freedom of being her own gender; while pretending to be a boy, she
couldn't swim in public, date, or ask anyone about all the girl stuff
that most girls knew and took for granted. When she was searched, Lyon
went without any kind of protest. But Lyon realized something the moment she
got to Sea Breeze. If she revealed who she really was, her mother would make
sure she never managed to stand on the sands and would forcefully ship her
off to the Harper Hall. She knew that if she Impressed, it would be
impossible to keep the secret any longer, especially if she Impressed a
gold, but by then, it wouldn't matter anymore. No one could make her leave
the Weyr when she didn't want to, if she were hooked onto a dragon. So Lyon
resigned herself to pretending to be a boy for a little while longer, at
least, until she Impressed. She didn't have many thoughts for her future if
she didn't manage to Impress a dragon, but only knew that it didn't include
pretending to be a male for the rest of her life.
Desc of Pet: Sarali is a tiny white puffball with big green eyes peering
out. She was the runt of her litter, but what she lacks in mass, she makes
up in fuzz. She's friendly and acts almost canine-like. Sarali will always
crawl into a warm lap and go to sleep even with strangers.