Kowen :: Wher Candidate :: Female

[Wingrider]

Name: Kowen
Age: 22 Turns
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Hetero
Rank: Dragonless/Wher Candidate
Family:
Mother- Korrel
Father- Bowen

Lover: Hexar, 25, Junior Journeyman Healer (brown flit, Boxer) - Adoptable

Pets: Green Mauha


Appearance: Dark brown eyes, nearly black and black hair, 5’8”/143, fluxuates between 140 and 145 and lean and fit. Kowen has a small birthmark on her lower back in a rough shape of a heart with the pointed end of the heart pointing to the ground. In some way, Kowen could be called a beauty. She has black hair that reaches to her shoulder blades, and she likes to keep it that way. She is small boned, and physically fit and lean, lending her a willowy figure. She carries herself with dignity and grace. She preferred to wear mostly skirts and blouses before she Impressed, she’s settled herself into wearing trousers and tunics. Though since the death of her beloved green, Avionth, she has begun to wear simple clothing and nothing too fancy. Though she didn’t get rid of her dresses and skirts and blouses; she still has them and wears them for special occasions. She doesn’t like to give anything of hers away but recently she’d given a few of her dresses, blouses, and skirts away to a few younger girls, those that didn’t really fit her anymore. She has some shoes and slippers that match some of her clothing, though she’d also had to give away a few pairs of those too.

Personality: Kowen is a very passionate young woman. And it is most evident in her cooking. She loves to cook and it shows. She doesn’t have any children, though she would like to have one or possibly two. She knows the life of a Dragonrider isn’t easy. She works hard in her duties and as a Senior Apprentice Baker. She is working hard in her craft to become a Journeyman but isn’t in a rush. She didn’t really think that she would Impress, but she did. And she wouldn‘t change it if she was given the chance. She has an abundance of energy she uses when she’s concocting recipes and it is expressed in her voice. She has a habit of speaking a little faster than normal when she’s really excited about something. Kowen does have a temper, but she’s so good-natured that it takes a long while before she does get angry. Sometimes when she does get angry, she‘s only mad for a short time. Kowen has another side to her that comes out only rarely. And by rarely, means once in a blue moon type thing. She is a complete romantic. She doesn’t let it show because she perceives that to be a weakness and she has a fear of that weakness. She keeps it under a tight control, though it did manage to show itself when her lifemate had her flights . She still misses her lifemate, and will struggle with the reality of her beloved Avionth’s death, often wishing that the green had taken her between as well.

Strengths

• Loyal - If you are lucky enough to be a friend of hers, you won't be able to shake her if you are a true friend to her. In her eyes, you could be as close to her as a long lost sibling. If any of her close, close friends are in trouble or threatened, she'll fight for them like a hellion feline bent on blood. Or rather like a mother protecting her young.
  
• Helpful - Overly helpful to a fault. She is eager like a child of only five turns to do anything their loving parent or older sibling might ask of them to do. She has an insatiable need to do whatever she can to be available during any crisis.
  
• Friendly - She is the most friendliest person you could ever meet, and that could be her downfall in the end. She feels that she has to fill the void that her green Avionth has left with as many friends as she can make. Even if that so called friend might wish her harm.
  
• Reliable - If there is a moment in your life when you need someone you could count on in a crisis, Kowen one of those people that you can call on. If you need her, she'll be there. She has the knack for being there when you need her, to be there to lend you a shoulder to cry on. Then again, she may actually cry with you too!
  
• Passionate - She has a deep passion in anything she does. Whether it's baking or something else, she puts her whole self into her task. And sometimes, that's the only thing she can do to keep from falling apart when her mind turns to her dead lifemate.
  

Faults

• Guilt-ridden - On the saddest day of her life, she lost her other half. She blames herself for failing to see the bronze and black, in time to warn Avionth and to avoid a terrible disaster that took her lovely green. She has had to live every day with the sound of her lifemate's cry of anquish and pain ringing in her ears and her head. Her heart half open from the emptiness she's had to live with since Avionth's death. Seeming to feel like an eternity since that fateful day, and a time spent carrying the guilt that she'd killed her own lifemate. Something that she knows that rarely anyone can understand unless they've been through it too. And since the death of her lifemate, it has only made her other faults--ill-mannerisms, being drunk, depressed, and insecure--compounded by that life-changing event.
  
• Ill-mannered - And here again, her bad manners tie in with being drunken most nights. Her lover has to drag her to back to the Candidate barracks, and doses her next drink--a fruit drink thankfully--with fellis. And she's out. When she's in her cups and someone makes her angry, she's a hissing and spitting woman that is just begging for a fight. She's been like this since she was a child. And now she's gotten worse, like she is two seperate personalities in one body. The ill-mannered version coming out when she's in her cups.
  
• Drunkard - It was first because of her depression and insecurity that Kowen had taken to excessive consumption of wine. Wine tends to bend and warp the senses if taken in way too much that would be considered foolhardy or stupid. But Kowen didn't care. Wine made her feel bold and confident! And by Faranth, she could do anything she wanted. She'd kiss the Weyrleader if someone dared her to, if she was in her cups. Heck, she'd kiss the Weyrwoman! The Weyrwoman is a woman, right?
  
• Depressed - Underlying the insecurity of feeling that she's not capable of anything, pleasing her family mostly, is the fist of depression. From feeling that she's failed at being the perfect daughter to her parents and siblings, she's fallen into the worst mind set possible. If she gets into that mind set, she'll keep to herself most of the time, but the worst thing she's ever done was use her beltknife on both wrists. Her lover found her one day, and actually saved her life. She'd cut too close to one of the main arterial veins and would have bled out if he hadn't happened upon her that day.
  
• Insecure - She doesn't, and may never believe, that she is a capable person capable of doing anything. From a young child she felt that she could never please her family, no matter how hard she tried. It grew into an acute disorder of anxiety attacks. If she thought she wasn't capable of doing something, or if the pressure of getting a task done was too great, she'd have a panic attack, in which she had trouble breathing. It doesn't happen often but it does happen.
  

History: Kowen was born as the youngest daughter at Keltar Cothold, a minor Hold in Southern Weyr‘s territory, a holding fairly close to the beach. She was always on the move almost right after birth. She could not keep still for a full ten minutes. She was running with the group of children pulling pranks or finding some kind of mischief. Though she wasn’t the prank kind of child. She had never pulled a prank on anyone. She was just with them for the laughs. Or the punishment when caught, since she was with them. She loved to go for rides on runners at the age of six turns. She learned to ride a runner from the Stable Master. He was a friend of the family and helped her parents in selecting Runners for breeding.

By the time she was nine Turns, she could ride a runner bareback with only the bridle. She would often go off on her own on a runner on rest days, during the warmer part of a Turn. She would head to the nearest beach she knew of and just lay on the beach and watch the waves lap on the shore. For a few months after she’d turned 12, Kowen gave some thought to what craft she wanted to apprentice to. She didn’t want to stay at home all her life and not do anything useful. Though helping to clean and cook was useful. She settled on the Baker craft and apprenticed to the Senior Journeyman, one of the three Journeymen that the Master trusted to help with cultivating the minds of the children of the Hold. She studied hard and worked just as hard. While learning her craft, she was taught by the Journeyman, while the Master watched, in the kitchens during the mornings and then in the evenings by the Master with helping to work on executing new recipes. She was also having trouble with getting measurements right, sometimes.

She had just barely turned 17 turns when she stood for her first hatching at Allride Weyr, having been Searched by an Allride Green Dragon. She was bubbling over with the giggles and happiness when she stood. She didn’t Impress at the time. So, during the time between hatchings, she helped with meal preparations along with her Candidate chores and lessons. She stood for one of the Queen’s clutches and walked off the sands with a darling green dragonet. She had a bit of fun in Weyrling training. She made a few new friends of the other Weyrlings, including a brown weyrling. She was excited when they learned how to chew firestone and breathe fire. Though she wasn’t as excited after their ‘accident’. On the second day of their training with firestone, Avionth had a little ‘hiccup’ of fire from some firestone vapors in her stomach and nearly singed Kowen’s hair! She had kept her cool about it. The accident made Kowen and Avionth work even harder in their training. Everything was going well for them; she was placed in a wing upon graduation, her Avionth being very agile.

The pair had been in the Wings for a few turns. She and Avionth had decided to go out for a picnic alone, excited to get away from the Weyr for a change. They had found a nice meadow tucked up at the base of a mountain, and Allride Weyr was nothing more than a barely visible uper region of its volcano. The day was progressing through the day quite nicely, no clouds in the sky and only the birds were singing their songs. But only until the wild Wherries flew from their roosts about midday. Avionth became alert as a green flew towards them The Green flew right at them her Rider moving forward, something glinted in the sunlight and a knifew was embedded in Kowen's left shoulder blade. In order to protect hers, Avionth flew right at the green and managed to grab her and tear into her sides and rake her neck. The other green tore into Avionth as well, managing to mortally wound Avionth in the belly with her hind talons. And then, Avionth was able to get loose, but not before striking both bronze and brown dragons. She winked between before falling to the ground with a thunderous crash. Kowen managed to get off her lifemate as Healers rushed to assist, and then Avionth got to her feet and jumped into the sky. She winked between. Kowen screamed.

And in that heart-stopping moment, Kowen was destroyed. At first, Kowen just wanted to waste away and leave. She had nothing else to live for. Her other half of her soul was gone, disappeared into between. She felt that it would take to long for death to take her if she wasted away, and so she sought an easier way. One of the male Healers caught her on her first attempt and helped her through her grief and to accept the loss of her lifemate. He took it upon himself to help her as best as he could. After two Turns, Kowen has come along way since the death of her lifemate. And that was when she fell in love with the Healer that had helped her through the most harrowing tragedy anyone could suffer through. She does have some moments when she’ll break down and cry, usually when she’s alone. Her lover suggested she try to stand for another clutch, she thought about it but refused. In the end, she gave it some thought and finally made the decision to stand, but she still has her doubts. She doesn’t think that she could stand another loss of a lifemate, but she is going to try. A few months ago, she has decided to stand at wher clutches, to see if she might get an egg, but no such luck yet.


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[shadowreine]

Franny, are we going to allow a dragonless person to go for a wher?

[Franny]

I think going for a wher when dragonless is fine, whers can change who they are bonded to. Dragon's kin makes me believe that bonding to a wher might be tolerable for some dragonless humans.

I do have some issues with the history. Allride is going on its seventh year. No one lived on the Western continent before that. She probably lived on either the Southern or Northern Continent and came to the Western, or was searched by an Allride dragon.

The time frame that she stood for would fall within Allrides' years, but can you make the dragon one of the adoptables from a clutch in that time frame? I can easily change the name of who the dragon impressed to to Kowen.

The next part of the history with dargon fighting dragon hasn't happened. I can see her dragons having gotten killed in the same round of killing as killed Kelyna. I left room for people who wanted to do that. Just figure out a good place for her dragon to have been killed. Maybe the dragon tried to stop the assassins green dragon or something and got killed... Maybe the assassin threw a knife that randomly hit the dragon. Its up to you to come up with something. If you don't want the dragon to die on that day, then you will need to wait and play out a different death.

Otherwise, I like it. And don't worry, I bash most people's histories. As a writer and a reader I hate inaccuracies, and getting a history innacurate is almost like a pet peeve for me. Just fix it up, and if shadowreine thinks it is good, I will approve it.

[shadowreine]

Okay. I have no issue with it myself, just wanted to check.

[Franny]

Still have attacking bronze and brown dragons. Also, your dragon wouldn't have done that much of a number on Laingth, she escaped almost without harm (I can understand a slight injurry, but she would have gotten out of there pretty fast). That is why everyone is so mad, if they had managed to get even, they might have felt better. I need to do a special history thing on what happened in the plot for people not there. There are some good posts on what happened in the around the weyr and weyrbowl areas. I can understand it being after he leaves the weyr, and I really like that you did that.

Other thing that still bothers me, which clutch is your dragon from? All the clutches named all the dragons, even the NPC dragons.