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Elibrie: Open (Heterosexual)  

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Name: Elibrie
Age: 16
Nameday: 12.07.3559
Sex: Female
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Craft: None
Rank: Candidate
Location: High Reaches Weyr
Physical Description:
A fair mix of both parents, with brown eyes and rich brown hair, and a softness she has yet to grow out of (and may never). She's a pretty, wide-eyed thing, whose demeanor makes her seem rather smaller than her height of 5'5".

Personality:
Raised to fill a very specific place in the world, to think and do as she's told without question, Elibrie is a follower through and through. If there is still a spark of individuality in there somewhere, it is very dim and deep down where even she can't see it. Her worth is determined entirely by her value as a marriage prospect, putting her physical appearance and future usefulness to any man who might one day want to marry her at the forefront of her priorities. As such, she is impeccable about her appearance, but takes special care not to fall into the trap of vanity: the colors of her clothing are always muted and the cuts always modest, and while her hair is long, a simple braid to keep it out of the way will suffice, no elaborate styling necessary.

Even more important than appearance, however, is usefulness, and so she has been diligent about learning the traditionally feminine tasks expected of her, learning them well, and keeping herself busy with them. She cooks and bakes - simple things, of course, not indulgent ones - and cleans and sews. With dedicated practice, she has made good progress in all these skills, and with younger siblings and cousins to help tend to, she's a good hand with children as well. If asked, however, she would profess to being no more than passable at anything, valuing humility as much as she does obedience.

Authority figures will always be heeded and obeyed; anyone older, and especially anyone male, will suffice as authority figures whether they truly outrank her or not: in Elibrie's world, men almost always come first, with some wiggle room for older women or women in roles that assign them some importance (maternal figures, a Headwoman, etc.). With such an extreme conservative upbringing, she's not used to making her own decisions, and if at all possible will follow along with someone else, or at the very least find someone to ask, rather than come to an independent decision. If it comes to it and she has to decide on her own, she will make what seems like the 'safe' decision, whatever dovetails best with her traditional values. She always has what her family - particularly her grandmother - would think, in mind. She honestly wouldn't be able to say what makes her happy, not when her foremost concern is the opinions of others, particularly those she sees as having authority over her.

Elibrie will always be one of the last to step over a line, having seen the consequences of being an aberration. One of her uncles was disowned and is no longer even spoken of, while her aunt died. Died! Or so she thought. The revelation that her aunt was, in fact, not killed by a dragon hatchling, has placed Elibrie in a bit of a quandary about that line of thought. It's still terribly scandalous, though! Women should really only ride golds, and here her aunt is with a brown, and two boyfriends who are also each other's boyfriends? Elibrie can't even wrap her mind around it, and isn't sure she wants to!

She has never been in charge of her own fate, but rather than chafe under the yoke of it, she has embraced it. She believes that, as long as she does as she should, good things will surely happen, and perhaps she'll be rewarded with a good husband who will provide for her. Surely he will, at the very least, be kind to her. She wouldn't presume to hope for handsome or rich, or at least would never admit to it, but maybe if she is especially good? People do get what they deserve, don't they? If she truly believes in anything, right to her core, it's that.

Being Searched does have her quite confused, admittedly. Finding out she'd been lied to has sown a tiny seed of doubt about the foundations on which she's built her life, but she also has deep doubts about accepting Candidacy. If her older sister hadn't accepted first, she would have refused and stayed home, and still wonders daily whether she made the right choice. Ultimately, she always circles around to what the Weyrs are owed for protecting Pern, and views accepting Candidacy as a duty. Still, she fears Impressing anything a girl should not, no matter how happy her aunt seems to be; she's gone all terribly backwards in the process, and as core to her identity as Elibrie's family's values are, that's a terrifying prospect.

At the same time, she knows how very rare golds are, and therefore that her chances of Impressing one are low. Which means, in all likelihood, she won't Impress at all...and then what will she do? She knows she won't be able to go home, so what then? That distant future scares her, but she reassures herself that it will all work out somehow. If she works hard enough and does what's right, maybe one of those shining Queens will want her...if not, she'll still have earned herself some worthwhile future, won't she have?

Positive Trait List industrious, humble, idealistic
Negative Trait List subservient, hidebound, conformist

History:
Born in a small cothold, her parents a Smith and his wife, Elibrie is the second child of five, and part of a larger extended family that includes grandparents, several aunts and uncles, and the assortment of cousins that comes with that. Her cothold and family are extremely conservative, teaching trades only to men and expecting the women to marry and be content to raise families, and spend their lives tending to their husbands and children.

When Elibrie was about 12, her mother Orselie died during childbirth, and within a Turn after that, her Aunt Nadry was Searched. Elibrie's grandmother very much disapproved of this turn of events, after which the occasional visits from her Uncle M'yk and his dragon, sometimes with friends in tow, came to an abrupt end. What seemed like not long after, her grandmother informed the family that Nadry had died, killed by a dragonet at her first Hatching. Though hurt by the loss, Elibrie came to accept it as being a natural consequence of having aspirations beyond one's place in life. If anything, it was all the more reason to keep her head down, work hard, and listen to her father and grandparents.

Elibrie has been very close with her older sister Oranie, while her younger twin brothers, Elistan and Oristan, are just...little brothers. She's fond of them, but other than helping to mind them when they were little (even though she was just a couple of turns less little), she's felt very separate from them. They have Crafts to learn, while she and Oranie have been busy learning women's skills and taking care of the youngest, Briseli. Elibrie was recently deprived of her older sister's near-constant company, however, when Oranie was married soon after turning 17, to a man the next cothold over. The young woman was equal parts happy for her, wistfully envious of what she assumes must be her wonderful new life, and anxious for when it would be her turn.

That all changed quite abruptly, however, when she attended a winter Gather. No sooner had she been reunited with her sister after a few months spent apart, barely even just starting to catch up with her, when they found themselves the subject of interest of a visiting brown dragon. He declared that they would be just perfect Candidates, and hurried his rider along to give them all the details. As if the situation weren't surpising enough in and of itself, that rider turned out to be a very familiar face: none other than their Aunt Nadry, who was very much not dead. And was also very pregnant. Oranie eagerly accepted, while Elibrie, still in quite a bit of shock, quietly followed her sister in agreeing. Hoping to avoid making any more of a scene than her presence already had, Nadry quickly bustled them up onto Menankith and away they went, before any ugly drama could unfold.

This left no time for second thoughts, and before she knew it, Elibrie was at High Reaches Weyr, and rather overwhelmed by it all. Still, she continues to keep her head down, and is dutiful about lessons and chores. Hard work, at least, is something she's familiar with, even if everything else is strange.  

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