Name/Nicknames: Theresa Larsen
Gender: female
Rank/Position: scientist/geneticist on dragon project
Age: 57
Birthplace: Orlando, Florida- Old Earth

Physical Description: Theresa has straight, light brown hair, increasingly gray-streaked with every year. When left loose, it falls to her mid-back, but she normally keeps it braided back, or in a bun. Her eyes are her best feature, a rare shade of blue-green. She's inherited her maternal line's tendency toward height. Her body is decently muscled and has its fair share of curves, and though she'll never be truly lean or skinny, she has the right attitude to make it look good.

She likes comfortable shirts and trousers to work in, though she keeps a good supply of dresses around for special occasions. Her favorite colors are dark blues and most greens.

She does have a dragon tattoo in a very interesting place, which she chalks up to her foolish youth and swears she'll never tell anyone about.

Personality: What aspect of Theresa's personality you see depends on when you catch her. At work, she's a high-energy, tense, irritable perfectionist, and will readily play the scourge of the student population. When she's off-duty, she couldn't care less what anyone thinks of her. She knows when to let her hair down, and will take any excuse for a party. Though she'll always remember Mark, she'll admire and flirt with almost anything male. Theresa is a completely honest person, but won't hesitate to warp the truth if she needs to. Everything she says may be technically true, but unless it's a direct question, she is an expert at dancing around the real truth.

Theresa has dealt with her losses remarkably well, but Cindy's defection still hurts her deeply. She's gotten terribly protective of Ben and Sam as a result, and will give in on arguments rather that fight and risk alienating them as well.

Background: Theresa was born outside of Orlando, Florida and went into the field of biochemistry after college. She had a particular fondness for genetic research and even met her husband, Mark, while collaborating on a project with him. The couple had four children during the course of their marriage. Tragically, her middle daughter died in a car accident when Theresa was forty, and she took the loss very hard. It was Mark who found out about the expedition to Pern and seized on it as a good way to get a new start for the family. It worked beautifully, and the family worked hard to establish their lives on Pern. Mark and Theresa found a place as one of Kitti Ping's assistants

Unfortunately, the first Threadfall was absolutely devastating. Mark, out chasing down one last sheep, got caught out in the deadly rain. Stunned, Theresa resolved to do something about the menace and joined her colleagues in their research, seizing on the dragon program as the best possibility out there. Her eldest daughter didn't feel the same way, and moved off with the northern group after a bitter fight. Theresa plunged on with her work to compensate for this newest loss. She was pleased when her remaining children were both accepted as candidates for the maturing eggs, counting it as a good omen for the future.

Family/Friends:
Cindy/30/teacher/North
Benjamin/21/candidate, sled pilot/Landing
Samantha/18/candidate, hunter-explorer/Landing

Hobbies & Skills: Theresa is immensely proud of her scientific skills. She has learned the trick of silencing a room of rowdy apprentices or stubborn adults with a single, disapproving glare and a few well-chosen words. She also has a trick memory and the hobby of collecting odd bits of obscure trivia to amuse her colleagues with.

If your persona were a song, the title: I'm a Survivor- Reba McEntire

Pets: She and animals never really got along. It might have something to do with the fact that Theresa can't manage to keep any pet alive for more than a few months.

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