Birth name: Vashenajas (vaash ee nah jaas)
Nickname: Vash -- friends and acquaintances
Gender: Male, secretly bisexual
Age: 26
Rank: Dragon Weyrlingmaster and Dark Moon Drawingsecond
Family -
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Brother: Bronzerider at another Weyr
Adopted family: A small group of semi-nomadic Harpers (see history)
Height/weight: About 6' with a medium build. His hands are not very large, his fingers long and nimble, able to manipulate small/intricate objects; he plays all manner of lutes with relative ease. His shoulders are square and strong.
Hair: Straight, very shiny, blue-black hair falls in one length to midway down his back. He prefers to wear his hair back in one queue (braid) clasped with a gold clip, which he wraps around his head under his helmet during Threadfall. Periodically he chops it all off at the shoulder to even out the thickness of his hair, and in such cases his hair is merely pulled back in a pony-tail at the base of his neck.
Eyes: Narrowly shaped; golden in color which varies in intensity depending on the light quality, his mood, and his overall health, from anywhere between pale wine-yellow to a deep gold, nearly orange hue.
Other Features: The shape of his face is narrow but with a strong jaw-line, his cheekbones high, features rounded. His skin is, was, and always will be rather dark. Prolonged exposure to the sun only enhances this feature. But typically during cloudy months his skin lightens to a creamy-coffee color, and in the sunny months darkens to more of a mocha-brown. He has one narrow threadscore which falls across his left cheek and the upper bridge of his nose. This and any other scars on his skin are a brownish-pink in color.
Ve'jas wears dark colors, usually black, midnight blue, and deep purple, but especially dark green, which was once considered an 'unlucky' color. Despite their dark hue, he prefers light, comfortable fabrics, and when he wears leather (belts, riding gloves, pants) they are always black. The belt buckle and a single pair of thick hooped earrings match his hair fastener in design and metal. A wicked, slightly curved, long-bladed knife in his belt, one small pocket knife in each of his boots, and several throwing-knives hidden here and there. When he is not off saving Pern from the menace of Thread, he has a lute case strapped to his back. In his weyr he has about four different varieties at any given time, from ukulele size to six- and twelve-string guitars. When he is done restoring or building an instrument, if he has not grown too attached to it, he sells it at a Gather for some extra Marks.
History: Very much is unknown about Ve'jas. He was adopted by a band of traveling harpers at a very young age, but had already learned to keep his mouth shut about his origins. Over the years, though his "family" pampered him all they could despite their difficult lives, the boy never felt as if he fit in completely. As a result of this feeling, even with all the kindness and generosity of the group, he stayed aloof and developed his bad attitude. But he learned a great many skills, the training and learning fed his hungry mind. He became proficient in playing all members of the lute family, and could adjust his velvety, seductive singing-voice to accommodate for the different sound qualities of each instrument.
Once when he was older, he was Searched by the very same dragonrider as his long-lost brother, though it was unbeknownst to the two boys at the time. Their coincidental meeting came as a surprise to say the least. They ended up sharing bunks in the Candidate Barracks, though they had chosen their spots at separate times. They Impressed at the very same Hatching too.
Forever independent and restless, soon after graduation to the adult wings, he transferred to several Weyrs before finally (perhaps uncharacteristically) settling at Quasar. He has remained for around a decade, and doesn't plan to leave anytime soon.
Personality: Vash views the world with a dark, wry sense of humor.Often his lips are twisted into a little smirk, brows creased slightly. Ve'jas is also prone to dark moods (anger, mild depression), his stony face enough to deter just about anybody besides his few closest friends.He tends to see different aspects of a situation than other people, which can be like a double-edged sword. Rather than make a situation worse, Ve'jas is not one to shoot his mouth off, lest he make several enemies all at once. After all, almost _no one_ sees it his way, which is perfectly fine, for he would rather watch from the shadows as key elements in a decision make total fools of themselves. For those who can see the value of his perspective, he is more than willing to share, though even those people sometimes find that he is not only _wrong_, but seeming even more odd for his off-kilter ideas than they had thought...
Fire-lizard (1) -
Name: Scram
Age: 15
Color: Orange; solid coloring, bright mandarin-orange hue.
Personality: A very outgoing and social firelizard, beloved of all the males of a species in any given Weyr, hold, etc., including humans.
History: Scram was an effort of his foster family to spoil Vash or perhaps to 'buy' his love. His opinion of the little creatures was not high to begin with, and he has found Scram's chipper outlook and indeed her very _presence_ annoying ever since she Impressed him.
Dragon -
Name: Hyshkath (hih shkahth)
Age: 12
Color: Black; Sooty black color above fades to ash-gray below, with a large region similar in color to a Russian Blue cat.
Other Physical Attributes: Small and seemingly weak of limb. However, his movements are deceiving that way, moving like a marsh bird or a browsing cat, which can give that impression to people who don't know him. In reality, his body is wiry with slightly loose skin reminiscent of a flying squirrel. He is quick in flight, wings long and narrow, excellent for tight turns and diving, as well as sudden bursts of speed.
Personality: Hyshkath is rather timid. He bows to his rider's every whim and is rarely one to complain, though he doesn't hesitate to make his needs known. Where Vash swats his firelizard away in annoyance, he cares for his dragon with meticulousness and conscientiousness. Hyshkath's psychic-voice is quiet and soft, like suede leather.