Gender: Heterosexual Female
Age: 14
Rank: Weyrling Silverranger
Former Rank: Apprentice Weaver
~Family~
Father: Kento, Journeyman Dolphineer at the Dolphineering Crafthall
Mother: Gina, Holdwoman/Weaver
Elder Brothers: Ch'ron, Red Ranger; Geghan (twin), Candidate/Apprentice Dolphineer
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 105 lbs., thin but her muscles are well-toned, as if her body would prefer to be running out on the rocks instead of sitting on a chair sewing all day.
Hair color: Wavy, shoulder-blade-length hair of a golden-brown hue. Sunshine sets her hair aflame with golden highlights.
Eye color: Green, with a yellow ring surrounding her pupils.
Other features: Deeply tanned skin, sometimes her hands are sore and puffy from her clumsiness with a needle, and her shins and knees often have bruises on them.
History: By the time they had made their decision, Kento, the twins' father, was getting sick of "losing" his children to those blasted Dragonriders and FlamewherRangers of Pern. He wasn't really one to begrudge them of talent, but he was not above grumbling about it. Geghan and Sahra took this as lightly as they could, with pshaws and chuckles, though secretly the girl had to wonder.
Ever since she was little, the men closest to Sahra seemed a little overprotective. She had always been thin and clumsy, but hardly frail! So now, as with back then, she wondered if her father was just worrying. Everyone had heard stories of failed Candidates who came home feeling broken and utterly useless. Those people were difficult to assure that they were the vital citizens they had always been. Was Kento worried that the same would happen to them?
But it was so difficult to think of such things. Her elder brother Cheyno was now a successful FlamewherRanger, and often volunteered to Watch at their little seaside hold. He always had interesting stories to tell them about the Weyr, which only fed their already near-worship of Redranger Ch'ron and Quasar Weyr. Sahra and Geghan dreamed of life as a rider or a ranger! But to appease her parents, if she does not Impress, she has promised, she will come back home and go into the Dolphineering craft with Geghan (this said with the assumption that if she is unsuccessful on the Sands, so shall her twin brother) at the Crafthall down the road.
She arrived with her twin between Jujuliyth's ridges almost a sevenday before the clutching of the newest set of flamewher eggs. The excitement of human, dragon, flamewher, and firelizard alike was palpable as news of the event spread through the Weyr, though both she and Geghan doubted themselves. On the Sands, Sahra watched as a little black flamewher rejected her brother, then like him was rejected by a green. Both were in despair but retaining a little hope, until Sahra came face-to-face with the young queen of all flamewherets (!!!) and Geghan was left Standing.
Sahra, at only fourteen turns of age, is just now beginning to realize the new complexities of her life: not only has she a flamewheret to love and raise, but a _silver queen_ and all the added responsibilities that go with being a silverranger; she also must support her elder twin brother Geghan and help him through his time of despair until, hopefully, he can Stand again and finally Impress.
~Fire-lizards (2)~
Name: Sann Di (sandy)
Age: 2
Color: Peach -- kind of a peachy, dusty look to her hide, regardless of how well she's been oiled. She has one large rosy blotch covering the left eye, and her wings' "fingers" are likewise rosy while the sails are yellowish underneath.
Personality: A complete snuggle-bug, not above chewing someone out if she believes Sahra has not had enough sleep and/or "loves." Or is that, "if she believes *she* hasn't gotten enough attention?" Oh well, same difference...
Name: Cho Lo (choh loh)
Age: 2
Color: Red; More of a burgundy color, with lighter wingsails and nearly-black points ("smudges" on his digits, tail, and head).
Personality: A total hotshot, and nearly obsessed with trying to live up to Ch'ron's Red Flamewher, his larger "brother." He is often the first into a scuffle, and the last one out -- brandishing many scars. Thanks to little Cho Lo, Sahra was required to learn first aid quickly!
~Flamewher~
Name: Tanlatath
Age: Weyrling
Color: Silver; a pale white-silver in color, like that of platinum.
Flamewher Personality: Generally withdrawn preferring her solitude, especially dark places such as the jungle or a cave; like all Flamewhers, the sun's rays do not harm her in any way, but nevertheless she prefers dimmer light. The exception is when she with her Ranger. Giving one another that extra moral support, they rise to the occasion and often feel that as long as they are together, they can do anything.