Name- Tyani
Age- 44
Gender- Female
Rank- Bluerider
Description- A tall woman with a wiry build from years of dragonriding work, Tyani has a sharp, rather hawkish face, warm brown eyes and dusty tan hair. She has a liberal dusting of silver in her hair, and lines at eyes and mouth that bespeak both worry and happiness had over the turns of her life. She always dresses in simple, rough working clothes when not in her riding leathers.
History- Tyani's been a High Reaches resident all her life, born in the Weyr, Impressed in the Weyr, eventually fed up with the Weyr. It wasn't as if it was an easy thing to transfer in and out of the place, especially not for a female bluerider. Other Weyrs didn't want her, and at least she was ignored rather than molested.
But she has a daughter. It's one thing to put up with living in a Weyr where the bronzeriders rule the roost and the weyrwomen, it's quite another to have a daughter you care about in one of them. Kyeli was an accident, Ty's freely admitted to that, but has become a much-loved one. The bluerider early fostered her to a willing lady at a nearby Hold, but found she couldn't simply leave and be done with it; she visited often, and ended up helping raise the girl almost as much as the fostermother she'd chosen.
Then Tisoth Searched her. And that was when Tyani knew she couldn't stay at High Reaches any longer.
By then the story of the two escapee goldriders had gotten around in sneers and slurs on the pair's ability to work and habits in bed, but some of the women of High Reaches had talked of the real reasons the two took off into the wild yonder, and it got Tyani to thinking. Rather than take Kyeli back to the Weyr as was normal for a Search, she left her at the Hold, as well as a boy Tisoth had picked out at the same time-- just long enough to go back, surreptitiously set her things in order, pack her bags onto Tisoth, and leave.
She plucked Kyeni from her fostermother with apologies and promises to keep in contact, all the while wondering what in Faranth's shell she was getting herself into. The lad, Damiran, opted to go with them as well, even knowing that they weren't headed for High Reaches.The future's fuzzy for all three, and Tyani feels herself to blame
for it. But really, she tells herself. What could she have done otherwise?
Skills- Hunting's an often solitary occupation, and one that suited Tyani and Tisoth well during their time at High Reaches, for they could disappear and be out of sight, and out of mind. Not that they always hunted alone-- there was a greenrider, young Raca and her Skyth, whom Tyani had begun to think might one day be a little more than a friend.
Tisoth tacitly placed both under his protection, which amounted to letting them stay in the bluerider's weyr as necessary, and to discreetly disappearing from the Weyr whenever Skyth's hide began to look glowy. In any case-- they often hunted together, and Tisoth's grown very good at stoop-and-snatching wild game, while Tyani has developed some skill with the bow and a little with traps. This all in addition to standard dragonrider duties, of course.
Neither is good at improvisation in Fall, which would have kept them back from advancement even if Tyani weren't female (and Tisoth a blue, though that was probably a lesser complaint). This stems more from Tyani's unwillingness to risk their lives than any particular lack of cleverness.
Personality- Tyani is quick to smile and quick to frown, never good at hiding her emotions by any means but simply leaving situations that bother her. She learned that art while at High Reaches, but was often loathe to keep her opinions to herself, which got her more than a few dressings-down from her superiors. She laughs quite readily, and sits enrapt through Harper tales (and has been surreptitiously trying to learn some herself,
for telling to her daughter-- but for all her good cheer she's not terribly good at being a storyteller).
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Dragon's name- Tisoth
Dragon's age- 29
Impressed at- 15
Description- Tisoth is a rich, striated blue. His hide is warm and Harper-hued, with darker shadows in the hollows of his limbs, but his particularly recognizable markings are slight waverings of paler color that stripe his sides and wingsails, giving him a rippled appearance.
Personality- Stronger and more serious-minded than many blues, Tisoth has developed a rather guardianlike personality over the years of tending to his lifemate. He quickly learned her wariness of bronzeriders during their weyrling training, and took it on himself to become loudly discussionary whenever, later, any rider approached Tyani in a way Tisoth considered inappropriate; there's little that will kill the mood faster than a chatty blue giving the entire Weyr a play-by-play of a bronzerider's latest 'smooth moves.' Soon enough Tyani earned herself a sneered reputation as a woman-loving bluerider, given her by the riders she and Tisoth embarrassed too severely. She's not altogether sure it's not true, and it's provided her good cover. In any case, Tisoth is watchful, sometimes confrontational, and sometimes overreacts to approaches made to his lifemate. With greens and their riders he tends to be quite friendly and approachable, as with blues, but is leery of browns and bronzes. He has little or no experience with golds, since those at High Reaches rarely had cause to deal with him or vice versa. He is almost as defensive of Tyani's daughter as Tyani herself, sensing his lifemate's great care for the girl, and rather fond of her himself.
