Name: Osris
Age: 24
Nameday: 3549.11.16
Sex: Male
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Craft: Harper (Vocalist)
Rank: Journeyman
Location: High Reaches Weyr
Physical Description: Fair-skinned Osris has a round face with an equally round nose, wide jaw, and slightly chubby cheeks, as if he’d never quite shed his baby fat. His thick, flyaway hair is light brown, with equally thick brows and bright, attentive green eyes. His shoulders aren’t especially broad, but they’re solid, as is the rest of his form, save his relatively small hands and feet. He tends to bring to mind the look of a large herd-protection canine, clearly a strong beast but with a characteristic sweetness and intelligence beyond the first impression of its bulky and sometimes awkward-looking physicality.
Personality:
Osris is one of those people that is usually easy to get along with, an outgoing, kind sort of man with a good sense of humor and lots of love to give. He makes friends easily, for his part, and shows plenty of affection in hugs, shakes, pats, and nicknames.
He has a “sixth sense” about people, using it in a manner that has caused a few of his friends to protest and jokingly accuse him of being a dragon in disguise. But really, he’s no mind reader. He’s just naturally able to pick up involuntary cues in body language or tone and can often piece a part of the story together with clues from conversation or circumstances. It can be very helpful when someone’s not willing to talk and really needs to, but also opens the door to Os taking a bit more onto his shoulders than he should have. He often feels responsible for those he “cracks,” and takes it upon himself to check up on them regularly, offering whatever help he can. With some people this can lead to his being taken advantage of, sometimes while solving nothing, and sometimes even making the initial problems worse. His relationship with his brother Delris is the primary case in point—he “gets” his brother’s headspace, honestly points out his mistakes and offers all the understanding, support and advice, but because of who his brother is (and short of putting Del in a permanent headlock), he seems to have zero ability to offer anything that will actually bring about any changes. It’s just a perpetual, longsuffering slog with people like that.
Creating a bit of a snowball effect, being “responsible” for those situations that are frankly out of his control have led to his developing a bit of a guilty conscience. It can pop up in any situation where he feels like he may have done something wrong, and occasionally for no apparent reason whatsoever, such as on a stressful morning after a bad night's sleep. His main response when it strikes? Whiiiiine like a pathetic canine left out in the rain, about anything but what he’s really worried about. Food’s too cold? Whine. Too hot? Whine. Perfect temperature? Well, shoot. He’s got to whine about something. He’ll just make something up, in that case.
In addition to those occasional annoying moments of whining, he is also an actual coward, and ashamed of it. He startles very easily (a prime target for “BOO!” pranks), avoids confrontation or anger when it’s directed at him, and panics when he finds himself in a situation where physical harm is imminent, though he is good at “holding it in” when necessary. He is all too aware that if he Impresses someday, a self-deprecating smile and “I’ll pass” wave isn’t going to convince Thread (or the Weyrlingmaster, for that matter) to let him bow out. He did have some in-the-moment second thoughts when Thread returned, then during and after the violence of High Reaches' double clutch of 3574, but after recalling his brother's slow but steady growth on the courage front, and refusing to abandon said brother, he's stubbornly settled on his duty to Pern, and trusts in his present trainers and in his maybe someday dragon to help him close that gap.
Positive Trait List Empathic, caring, affectionate
Negative Trait List Enabler, guilty conscience, cowardly
History: Born to a pair of bookshop owners in Nabol, he arrived only a few weeks before his brother: Osris was the result of his mother’s infidelity, but Delris was the product of her husband’s swift revenge. Nevertheless, the two boys were raised surprisingly lovingly by both parents. The adults never blamed the children, just each other, and aside from their constant squabbling and supposed cheating on each other (sometimes Os wondered if they were making it all up just to have more fuel to fight over), the household lived a fairly normal life.
Delris was always more strongly effected by the parents’ strife than Osris, taking it to heart and letting it sour him, but Osris wasn’t fooled by their noise. He recognized their quiet, sometimes near-invisible expressions of affection. When the father was in charge of cooking, sometimes he’d make the mother’s favorite meal, unprompted, and serve her first. On days when the father worked later than she did in the bookshop, the mother was always the first to greet him when he came home, and even if it devolved into exchanging rapid-fire insults and accusations afterward, Osris noticed that she would often let him have the last word, and not remain angry for long before she was singing contentedly over her chores again. He also noted that they never stopped sharing a bed, except for the rare nights when the father was banished to sleep on the floor in the boys’ room for some (probably imagined) offense. There were many other small things he saw besides.
In their teenage years, the boys went to Fort Hold’s Harper Hall. For Osris it wasn’t to escape, but to watch over his brother and to follow a potent joy in music that he’d inherited from his mother. He never had the talent to master an instrument, but boy, could he sing. He had several job offers by the time he walked the tables, but he held out for something just right. He wanted to Master his craft through work with a performing group. One that traveled and allowed him to bring family—one reason for this being his brother was a novelist and would find great inspiration in the different places they’d visit. Another being… he’d become something of a nuisance in their time at Harper Hall, and a life of moving about often should stop that from happening again. Until that job came along, he was content to tutor and assist in any way he was needed at the Hall.
When a visiting dragon approached Osris and Delris to invite them to High Reaches Weyr as Candidates, Delris didn’t think twice. Osris, however, thought long and hard, though he knew what he’d inevitably do in the end. He’d heard the stories of dragon hatchlings going between because the One they needed wasn’t there for them. So if there was any chance that he could be needed, he would be there. Also… he couldn’t find it in himself to abandon Delris. Or, rather, abandon the Weyr to Delris, in his mind. Mastery could wait until his prime, if he wasn’t to Impress.
So off they went, both of them to Stand and be passed over for a few clutches. Osris got to witness his brother’s Impression in 3572 and, only a few months later, the return of Thread to Pern’s skies. It was a shock to them both, especially for Delris, who as a rider now had no choice but to remain at the Weyr and fight. As cowardly as he was himself, Osris stayed for his brother, even managing to stand firm in his decision after the infamously bloody double clutch of 3574. (Well. As firm as on can stand with boneless, quivering jelly legs, anyway.)
Other: Not exactly useful for a maybe future dragonrider, just a bit of trivia: He has very strong vocal chords, so much so that he can carry clear notes at a volume as loud as he can straight up shouting.
Candidate Specific Questions
Do you want them to have an official Search RP? No
Do you understand they will age every passing year regardless if you're there to RP the or not? Yes
Do you want them to have a possible Stands Impression? No
