Character Name: Raleh
Age: 13
Gender: Male
Race: Weyrbrat I guess
Rank: Weyrling
Description: Raleh, for his age, is quite tall, standing at about 5'11", maybe 6' even. Hair and eyes wise, he and C'leh are identical. Raleh's hair is the same color, but longer and just a tad darker, but that is hardly noticeable. Their eyes are completely identical, except that Raleh has a problem seeing through his right eye from an accident when he was young. Raleh dresses more casually than his brother, but in similar colours. His tunic is lighter in both color and weight, but still a mild earthy tone. It covers a white sleeveless shirt, allowing him to get a heavy tan over his arms. His pants are a dark, earthy brown and are tucked into a pair of knee-height black boots. Raleh doesn't own a beltknife, but he does wear a belt similar to that of C'leh.
Personality: Raleh, for his age, is quite energetic and has a hard time settling down to study Dragonrider history (since C�leh all but demands that Raleh know all about Dragonrider history). More than anything Raleh can be quite the troublemaker and has no problem getting his big brother angry, nor anybody for that matter. He is one of those people who can just keep going and going, never seeming to run out of energy nor snappy comebacks to say to his brother or others when he�s being punished/yelled at. Usually Raleh can find some way to make ANYTHING into a game, and that includes, but is not limited to, doing kitchen duty. Raleh is quite jealous of his older brother, but certainly does respect C�leh, to a point anyway.
History: I�ll skip his, not very interesting
Dragon: Bronze, Ronth
Wher: None
Terry: Adder, Neuro
Flit: None
Sharr: Gray-winged female, Stormy.
Location: Benden Weyr
Sample Post
The lights were out in C�leh�s weyr, as were they out in Pern�s skies. It was early morning and Rukbat had not yet lifted its tired head from its pillow. The Adder-rider slept peacefully with his sharrs curled up on either side of his head, their soft purring keeping him deep in slumber, while his usually fighting terries were curled about one another on his chest, which was quite a tight fit for three of the creatures. He was more or less splayed eagle on his bed, hands and feet sticking out from beneath a twisted sleeping fur. He was so sleepy; he didn�t notice the slight creak of the door as it opened, admitting somebody to his weyr. Whisketh, too, was unphased by this, continuing to sleep, twisting onto her back with a snort. In silence the visitor snuck across the clear floor of the weyr, followed by a prowling gray-winged sharr and two swooping terries. Finally the visitor sprang onto C�leh�s stomach, laughing loudly as the terries and sharr swooped down on the man, making the greatest racket ever.
�Wake up! Wake up C�leh!� C�leh jumped and, rather than him staying on the bed and shoving his little brother off, he fell out of the bed, startling his terries and sharrs into wakefulness with loud squawks and hisses. He struggled in his sleeping fur, which seemed to have caught him up tight.
�Raleh! I�ve told you time and time again not to wake up me up in such a way!�
�It�s the only way I can wake you up though C�leh, besides, it�s very funny.�
�Only to you Raleh.� With some help from Eruption and Coalt, as well as Onyx, Shield, and Fanges, C�leh came free of his furs and stood up, rubbing his back for a moment where he had landed.
[Up Whisk, up!]
{I�m not ready to hatch yet ma�} Whisketh rolled over, placing her head beneath her wing, not wanting to wake up quite yet.
[You�ve already hatched you silly thing, now get up!]
{I tol� ya I ain�t ready ma!} She then moved her head to cover it with both foreclaws. C�leh sighed and shook his head, turning his clear blue eyes to his other companions.
[Onyx, Shield, Fanges, you three know what to do.]
/Yup!\ The flits trilled in unison and swooped into the air and onto Whisketh�s foreclaws. They all began to nip at the large claws, finally causing Whisketh to reveal her head and snort at them.
{I�m up you silly bugs! Now let me be! Faranth help me! You�re no better than most firelizards sometimes!}
|Are not, we�s better!| Piped up Onyx quite bravely, though the Jet terry had always been quite bold. The three terries returned to Theirs, landing on his bed with a trill each.
�Now why did you wake me Raleh?� C�leh turned his eyes to his little brother, who was kneeling on the bed, petting Stormy. The boy looked up at his big brother, the same blue eyes looking right back at C�leh.
�I don�t know, I just felt like you had to get up.�
�Are you in some sort of trouble kid?� C�leh sat down on the edge of the bed, looking down at his little brother.
�No, I ain�t in trouble with anybody.�
�Are you serving a punishment for something that happened a sevenday or more ago?�
�Yes! I want you to get me out of it C�leh! I don�t wanna wash pots for the headwoman! Her flits are always watching me and it makes me very annoyed! And when I�m washing pots, Stormy, Neuro and Sooty have to stay in my room!� C�leh chuckled and his brother�s anger and annoyance, knowing that Raleh adored his pets more than he adored dragons.
�Well�what was it that got you into this mess kid?�
�Will you quit calling me kid! Call me Ral or Raleh, but quit calling me kid!�
�Sorry Ral. What got you into this mess?�
�I was just mindin� my own business and suddenly this �rider came up to me and started yelling, saying I slathered numbweed in his pants.� C�leh groaned, happening to know the rider that Raleh had done that too. The man was not one to give forgiveness.
{You have to try love.}
[I know Whisk, but Sk�eve is one of the most difficult men to deal with in the Weyr.]
{Raleh is your brother.}
[But he also played a prank, and quite a nasty one at that.]
{I know Mine, but he really does deserve to look after his sharr and terries.}
[I just don�t know Whisk.]
{I�ll back you up should you decide to face Sk�eve.}
[Thanks Whisk.] C�leh sighed and looked at his brother, shaking his head.
�Well Ral, I�ll see what I can do. You go the kitchens though and tell the headwoman that C�leh says you can have your pets with you, then you should be allowed to have them with you.�
�Does the headwoman like you?�
�No, but she knows me and usually does what I ask.�
�Thanks bro.� Raleh gave C�leh a quick hug, grinning broadly. �I�ll see you later!� Raleh bounded out of C�leh�s weyr, followed quickly by his three pets, all of the them flying after the boy, and headed down to the lower caverns as quickly as he could, leaving C�leh with his own critters, all of which seemed to want attention. They all seemed to be fighting over who deserved attention first, so C�leh broke it up.
[Will you all stop! Shield, you first, I have to oil your hide pal.]
`Ha ha!` Shield laughed at the others and flicked his tongue out before fluttering over to the table C�leh used to oil his terries and groom his sharrs. C�leh grabbed the oil from beneath the table and started to oil the copper hide, knowing that blemishes could prove fatal to Shield. And so began his morning process of oiling every terry and grooming ever sharr until they were all happy.
Raleh hurried down to the lower caverns so that he wouldn�t be late for �duty�, his pets still following him as quickly as they could, only the terries out-distancing the boy while Stormy flew right by his head. He laughed and dodged around the few riders who were awake and grumbling along the corridors, getting shouted at his he ran right onward, only saying a quick apology. Ral finally skidded to a stop within the lower caverns and was met by the headwoman.
�I�m glad you�ve decided to join us once again Raleh, you know what you�re supposed to do, now go and do it. And get rid of your beasts!�
�C�leh said I can keep my pets with me!�
�I don�t care what C�leh said, get rid of your beasts.�
�No! They�re staying and I promise they�re not going to help me or make any trouble!� He gave the headwoman his most pleading look and, with a sigh, the headwoman gave in.
�Oh fine! They can stay! But at the first sign of trouble from ANY of them! They have to go!�
�Thank you!� Raleh scurried off to get to work, already there were dirty pots from the preparation of breakfast and there would be more to come as well as things for Raleh to peel or clothes for him to wash. With his trusted terries sitting on the brim of the pot his was watching and Stormy purring softly from behind his back, Raleh worked hard, but also kept a close eye on his pets.
(Don�t any of you make trouble! I want you all to stay here with me, so no trouble!)
+Yes Raleh!+ All the critters answered in unison, making Raleh laugh since they all had very different voices. The headwoman shot a quick glare at him and he silenced and bent back to his work, Stormy leaping up onto the counter beside Raleh, watching him intently with pretty yellow-green eyes. Sooty was having a hard time keeping himself from making trouble, but with a little help from Neuro, he was kept perched on the rim of the pot until Raleh had to dump the accumulated water from it and declare the pot clean. As Ral went to dump the pot, the two terries leapt into the air and circled above the boy, waiting until they had a stable perch again on the rim of another pot before settling back down. Ral gave Stormy a quick pat before going back to work�
C�leh worked in silence, having finished oiling Shield and Fanges already, he was now scrubbing oil into Onyx�s glistening black hide, Eruption and Coalt waiting impatiently for their morning grooming. Both of the males slunk around the bed, Eruption finally pouncing on Shield, having learnt that pouncing on Fanges revealed deadly fangs and great pain (he had gotten nicked by one of those fangs a while ago). Shield squawked in surprise and fell off the bed with a thump, getting back into the air quickly and diving at Eruption with a screech. C�leh sighed and turned to the fighters, glaring at each of them in turn. Shield almost stopped midair at C�leh�s glare, but then landed on the bed while Eruption was cowed and crept onto one of the pillows to curl up and wait for his turn. C�leh had finished Onyx and the Jet flit fluttered over to the bed.
�Ok Coalt, your turn.� The sharr leapt off the bed and flew to the table, landing with the grace of, well, a Terran cat. C�leh grabbed the brush from the ledge beneath the table and started to groom the grey tabby fur, making sure that the sharr was clean and his black stripes stood out from the grey. Coalt purred softly and made sure his wings were kept away from even the soft bristles of the brush. Once his fur was silken as it always was, C�leh applied a small amount of oil to each wing before sending Coalt back to the bed and calling Eruption over. The sharr snorted.
^Finally!^ The red-winged sharr landed not quite as gracefully as Coalt had, but he landed none the less and C�leh shook his head and started to groom out the sharr�s fur.
{C�leh dear, are you going to confront Sk�eve?}
[I don�t know Whisk, that�s what I�m thinking of right now.]
{You have to have your mind made up by the time you�re done Eruption.}
[Why?]
{Because, then you�ll leave the weyr.}
[Not in just my sleep wear Whisk! Jeez! I don�t need to be getting eyes from the female riders.]
{True, I�d hate to share you with anybody.} C�leh chuckled and, having finished brushing eruption, dabbed oil on the deep red wings before sending the sharr back onto the bed.
�Ok peeps, you�re all done now. I have to change and then we�ll get out of this weyr.� He clapped his hands together, answered by all kinds of sounds from all his critters. He chuckled and then all the terries and both the sharrs took to the air and started giving clothes for C�leh. The Adder-rider watched in silence, shaking his head as pants, a shirt, a tunic, and his boots were all placed on the bed.
�You forgot the be-oh.� He chuckled as Shield placed his belt and beltknife on the bed. �And my fa-� Fanges appeared with C�leh�s dragon-fang on a string, putting it straight into the man�s hand. C�leh patted the Fanges�s head and tied the string around his neck before getting dressed, removing his sleeping pants and pulling on his normal �day pants� as he called them.
It took him only a few moments to get dressed totally and then he was ready to get out of his weyr.
[Where do you think Sk�eve is Whisketh?]
{Hmm�} Whisketh paused for a moment, searching for Sk�eve�s dragon�s mind. {Bowl, Skeveth is being bathed.}
[Ok, out on the ledge Whisk. Shield and Fanges, on my shoulders.] The two terries promptly did as they were told. [Onyx, meet us down there, take Eruption and Coalt with you. Coalt, Eruption, do as Onyx says until I get there.] The creatures did as they were told, sharrs and Jet terry disappearing between while C�leh mounted his dragon. Once mounted, bareback as usual, Whisketh swept into the air and soared off towards the Bowl, quickly spotting Skeveth with her long eye.
{They�re there Mine.}
[Righty-o Whisk.] The Adder dragon shook her head and circled down to land not far from the brown dragon. C�leh dismounted and made his way over to Sk�eve, the man watching him approach. Sk�eve was an older rider, just as his dragon was an older dragon, and Sk�eve was quite a believer in punishing and not being kind to young�uns.
�What do you want Adder-rider?�
�I came on behalf of my little brother, Raleh. He�s being run ragged from having to get up early, work in the caverns all day, and then get back to his quarters late. Can you please let him off, he�s been doing kitchen duty for a sevenday already.� Onyx came to perch beside Fanges on C�leh�s shoulder, watching Sk�eve carefully. Coalt and Eruption were both perched on Whisketh�s shoulder, watching the happenings along with the Adder dragon.
�I don�t see why I should, the little brat deserves what he got. And obviously he does such things because he receives no discipline from his guardian.� C�leh had to admit, Sk�eve was arrogant. But at his second statement, C�leh�s eyes widened and he snarled.
�I discipline Raleh only when somebody hasn�t already done so! Now, I ask you again sir, will you let up on my little brother and allow him to end his kitchen duty!?� It was one thing to put his brother on kitchen duty for sevendays on end, but to say he, C�leh, did not take responsibility for Raleh was just aggravating!
�Let me think about this�NO!�
�Let my brother�s kitchen duty end tonight and I swear on my dragon�s egg that I shall keep him away from you and make sure he never plays another prank on you.�
�No means no bucko, now get out of my sight!�
�Actually, sir, I believe I outrank you and therefore do not need to follow your orders. But I shall leave anyway. Ta.� C�leh returned to his dragon, grinning.
{Why are you grinning, you have achieved nothing but to get Sk�eve angry.}
[Ah my faithful heart, but I out-rank him.]
{And�}
[You�ll see dear, you�ll see.] He patted the sleek neck and asked Whisketh to take them up, which she promptly did, Eruption and Coalt blinking between back to their weyr while the terries remained perched on C�leh�s shoulder, holding on tightly to the wherhide tunic. Whisk landed on her ledge and C�leh promptly dismounted, heading to the exit of his weyr.
{Where are you going?}
[To the lower caverns heart. Why don�t you go hunt, I should be back soon.]
{Ok Mine.} The Adder swept off once more, heading to the feeding grounds, while Hers strode down to the lower caverns, followed only by Onyx, Eruption, and Coalt, Shield and Fanges having swept off with Whisketh to feed.
C�leh reached the lower caverns and quickly found Raleh, spotting the boy sitting in a corner and peeling roots. C�leh strode over to his little brother, who had both of his terries and his sharr sitting around him, watching quietly. As soon as Raleh saw his big brother, he jumped up and hugged C�leh.
�Did you talk to Sk�eve?! Did he say I�m off the hook?!�
�I talked to Sk�eve, and no, he didn�t say you were off the hook.�
�Then why did you come down?�
�Because I say you�re off the hook.�
�The headwoman won�t let me go because of what you say though.�
�I out-rank Sk�eve, I can over-rule his orders. Come on bro, let�s go watch Whisketh hunt.� Raleh laughed and Neuro and Sooty landed on his shoulders while Stormy flew behind them with Eruption and Coalt. Ignoring the glare that followed them, the brothers headed out to the bowl where they would watch dragon, terries, and sharrs feed.
[Just don�t get yourselves all dirty, Eruption and Coalt.]
*Yes C�leh.*
^Fine.^ C�leh sat himself down on a rock with Raleh sitting on the ground, throwing rocks at the bathing lake absently�