Post by Zen on Feb 16, 2011 1:19:24 GMT -6
Name: Nyxani
Age: 28 Turns
Gender: female
Sexual Orientation: Homosexual
Rank: Wingrider, Weyrlingmaster
Family: Xanyr – father, Nyra – mother, Xaryn – older brother, Nyran – younger brother
Dragon or Wher: Burgundy Roth
Pets: Tunnelcat Kiko – Kiko is quite the friendly tunnelcat and enjoys being handled and played with. She is very curious (true to tunnelcat stereotype) and if there is a hole or a crevice she has not yet explored she surely must explore it at once. Her favorite thing to do is drape herself across Nyxani’s shoulders and simply relax there for hours at a time. She is quite the avid tunnelsnake hunter and keeps Nyxani’s weyr well and free of the pests.
Appearance: Nyx has black hair that falls to her upper back. Her eyes are a dark, almost black, brown in color. She has dusky, tanned skin and an athletic figure. She has pierced ears and enjoys wearing a variety of different types of earrings and other types of jewelry and dressing in feminine attire when not fighting Thread. (Although she likes all the pretty feminine clothing and accessories, other than that she doesn’t really act all that feminine.)
Basic Personality: Nyx is a friendly sort and quite social. She enjoys interacting with as many people as possible, the more the merrier is definitely a Nyx philosophy. She can be quite the flirt but is usually able to control herself well enough. Get her drunk, however, and females beware, she’ll be all over you. Around the Weyrlings she teaches she acts quite nice and sweet but if you break the rules she comes down hard. She is firm, stern, but never raises her voice, and a quiet and focused reprimand from her is often much more effective on her charges than shouting ever would be.
Strengths
- Friendly – Nyx is an incredibly social person and enjoys being surrounded by people, even if they are only her Weyrling classes. She is definitely not shy and willingly approaches new people without hesitation in attempt to extend her friendship to them.
- Approachable – Nyx exudes a friendly magnetism that draws people in and puts them at ease around her. Her Weyrling classes find her easy to approach with questions and concerns and trust her not to judge them. There are no stupid questions regarding your dragonet and weyrlinghood, or life in general, and she’s always happy to give advice.
- Patient – Nyx has an excess of patience when dealing with others and is not easily flustered. She will not give up on someone simply because they take longer to get something.
- Open – Nyx is very nonjudgmental, being judged in the past for her homosexuality and treated badly for it made her vow never to do the same thing to anyone else and she always tries to see things from other’s points of view before she makes an opinion.
- Relaxed – Nyx is very laidback and not easily roused to anger or depressed. She’s learned not to take insults too personally, they are just words, after all.
Faults
- Drunk Flirt – Nyx is a horrible flirt when she’s drunk, though she still sticks to women only, and Nyx enjoys drinking so it is not simply a rare thing, but happens quite often. When she’s drunk she’s all over every woman she sees.
- Promiscuous – Nyx is not at all a committed relationship type of person. She enjoys having multiple different partners, and often. If someone tries to have something more than a ‘friends with benefits’ relationship with her she can become very cold and standoffish toward them and will often avoid them.
- Deceptive – When Nyx sees something she wants she can be very deceptive to get it, making promises she doesn’t intend to keep and not really being herself.
- Cold Fury – When she does get angry it is a cold anger, rather than a fiery rage, all of her fury can be seen easily in her eyes and it can even be hard to meet her gaze or hold it for very long when she is angry. She never raises her voice and instead deathly calm and precise when she expresses her displeasure. It can actually be very frightening to encounter her when she’s angry, one is never sure what exactly she might be planning as punishment.
- Vengeful – If you do manage to anger her, you can be sure there will be consequences and she will get back at you. The punishments she comes up with for Weyrlings are often quite a deal harsher than perhaps is deserved, but is serves to further discourage unruly behavior.
History:
Nyxani was born in a small Farming Cothold within Southern Weyr’s territory. She was the middle child and only daughter of Xanyr and Nyra, both from long lines of Farmers themselves. Nyx was a helpful little girl, hardworking, and had a good relationship with both her brothers. The three played together well and often, even if things got a bit rougher than their mother would have liked sometimes. Her life was normal and she was happy during her younger years, then she started growing up. When all the other girls were giggling and gossiping about the young men of the cothold, she was looking at them instead. She felt profoundly different, strange, out of place, and mostly just tried to avoid other children all together. The boys were awkward to be around because they tried to flirt with her when she had little interest in them and the girls were even more awkward to be around because she couldn’t help where her thoughts led.
She really only talked to or did anything with her brothers from the time she was 12 to about 15. When she was 15 she tried to make herself be ‘normal’ and had her first and only sexual experience with a male, a young man who rather hoped to marry her. She was disgusted with herself after and almost immediately returned home and closed herself up to cry, feeling more than a little lost and confused. It was only about a month after that incident that she did something foolish. While talking with another girl she was very attracted to she ended up kissing her and the girl wasted no time letting everyone know about it and the disgusting girl. Her brothers didn’t speak to her after that and they didn’t protect her from the abuse of other boys and girls too even when they saw it happening. Her father set to making arrangements for her marriage to that very boy she’d previously been with but other than that he really didn’t speak to her either. Only her mother regularly spoke to her and she could tell how awkward the older woman felt when they did speak.
Before marriage arrangements were set, the boy’s family decided against it and refused the union. Her father didn’t talk to her at all after that. No one would have her now that they knew of her ‘illness’. When a Searchrider came to the cothold it was her mother who told her to present herself. She did so with trepidation. What would a dragon ever see in her? She was disgusting and unwanted by everyone. Certainly no dragon would ever choose her to stand for a glorious clutch, much less Impress to her. To her shock and delight she was chosen, the only one from her little cothold to be Searched. She packed what little material possessions she had, told her mother a brief farewell, and left to Southern Weyr without looking back.
She didn’t Impress at her first standing and she became quite depressed after her failure, but she certainly was never going back ‘home’ and so she stayed on in the Weyr with some hope of standing again. It was on her second standing, after her 16th turn, that she Impressed from a tiny clutch fathered by a Blue dragon. There were only 6 eggs and she wasn’t at all confident she would Impress, she thought the exact opposite. A Search wasn’t even held because there were already quite enough candidates left from the last clutch and new weyrbrats who wanted to stand. The eggs all seemed to hatch nearly at once, save the largest. There were three Greens and two Blues in those first five, all of which soon Impressed, none to her. Then the final egg broke open to reveal a small, dark Burgundy who gazed around at the few girls that remained, ignoring the boys completely. He chose her, announcing that his name was Roth.
As Roth grew it became apparent he was undersized for a Burgundy, but Nyx only loved him more for it, for being different. Her Weyrlinghood was rather uneventful and she actually felt complete acceptance at the Weyr. She was approached often by other riders, women, many other Burgundyriders, who found her attractive, and finally allowed herself to fully act on her feelings for those of the same sex. She became rather infamous as a heartbreaker among women. At first she simply didn’t want to allow herself to get close to anyone for fear of betrayal, but it became a part of her character after a time and she’s developed an inability to commit to any one person.
Only two turns after her Impression, Roth now fully mature, the Weyrleaders announced that a new Weyr would be founded on the Far Western Continent and that volunteers to help found it were being looked for. Thinking it would be fun and frankly just awesome to be part of the first riders founding a new Weyr she volunteered and was sent over with a group of other volunteers following the young Goldrider Talaria. It was only when Orlaith’s second clutch was laid at Western that Talaria asked her to take on the position of Weyrlingmaster. The previous Weyrlingmaster had since left and with a new clutch set to hatch the position needed filling soon. Without really understanding what she was getting herself into and honored to be considered for the important task of teaching the next generation of riders, she promptly accepted.
She has taught every Weyrling class since and has developed a certain few methods for dealing with troublemakers and is quite efficient at her job, most of the time, when she hasn’t consumed an excess of alcohol. She acquired her Tunnelcat, Kiko, from one of the Weyrlings in her charge who had a Tunnelcat that gave birth. She wasn’t sure about accepting the ‘gift’ at first, but Kiko quickly grew into an affectionate and useful pet that she wouldn’t part with for pretty much anything (anything save Roth, really).
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