Name:. Robhin (pronounced Roh-vin)
Age: 23 (Nameday 3551.04.20)
Sex: Female
Sexual Orientation: as gay as a picnic basket
Weyr: Western Weyr
Rider Rank: wingrider
Previous Rank/Craft: Journeyman Harper
Physical Description: At 5'3", Robhin is a pocket-sized dynamo. She's built wiry, slender and whippy, all lean ripcord muscle and coiled energy. Her heart-shaped face is sharp and impish, with enormous uptilted green eyes and a ring piercing in the left side of her lower lip, a straight nose and pouty mouth. Her dark honey-blond hair is straight and scruffy and hangs to the middle of her back, sometimes pulled back into a messy ponytail. She's got a pale complexion that's just suntouched enough to look slightly tawny. Tattoos in blue cover both arms; she'll roll up long sleeves or wear sleeveless shirts to show them off.
She dresses in fairly form-fitting trousers and shirts of varying fabrics and materials; a bit of a peacock, she enjoys wearing leather and linen in strong, vibrant colors, often elaborately decorated. Robhin does have workaday clothing as well for doing chores and flying Thread. Her flight leathers are a rich dark blue. Dresses? HAH. You'll never catch her in a dress. Her favorite color is Harper Blue.
Personality: Hard-living, hard-working, and hard-drinking, Robhin is a lover AND a fighter, high-energy and manic. "On" all the time, she'll dance on the tables and flirt with whatever lady catches her eye and get into deep angry philosophical discussions on the state of Pern all in the same evening, and all for fun. Outspoken and blunt, she will LET YOU KNOW AT FULL VOLUME PRECISELY HOW SHE FEELS, SHARD IT. And it's okay if you hold a different opinion, it really is! Just don't be a wher about it and you'll get along just fine with her.
Robhin has a natural distrust of people trying to take advantage of her. She wears her defiance and fierce independence on her sleeve. She's a quarrelsome, belligerent tunnelsnake of a girl -- she's incredibly impatient with people and situations, with poor impulse control on top of it. She feels that she is AWESOME and she makes no bones about ensuring everybody knows it. Aggressive and ambitious, the world as she sees it revolves around her. She can act like a complete spoiled brat when she's at her worst, demanding that she be given what she feels she has earned NOW. There's no real arrogance here, despite all appearances; it's more an innate self-assurance combined with occasionally forgetting there are other people in the world besides herself. She's working on reining herself in with Aloyith's help.
Her passions run deep, whether it's, well, passion or one of her causes. Robhin cares deeply about the Western Continent and the state of things there: things like having to rely on other Weyrs for firestone, rampant banditry and crime in Rivercrest Hold, etc. She will fight for her friends and their causes as fervently as she fights for her own. She also loves her wine, women, and song and is the biggest booze snob on the planet. She's the kind of friend who will happily play babysitter when out partying; she'll wipe your face when you get sick trying to keep up with her (she has the drinking tolerance of a bronzerider twice her size) and make sure you get back to your weyr safely even if she has to carry you there herself.
Music was her life prior to Impressing Aloyith, and it still plays an important role to her. She's a talented songwriter and performer who keeps her hand in at Western, readily performing during meals and gathers and any occasion she can. Robhin likes writing songs about her Weyrmates and their adventures and deeds of derring-do, and really enjoys embarrassing them by playing those songs in public. And when she falls in love/lust, she'll write endless songs to the object of her passions.
Positive Trait List Hard-working, passionate, self-assured, independent, outgoing
Negative Trait List Belligerent, self-centered, blunt with her words, defiant, impulsive
History:
Robhin grew up in a small seacot beholden to Tillek, the youngest of 7 kids. A hellion even as a child, she was loud and demanding and quarrelsome with her siblings and the other hold kids. Her parents decided what the best course of action would be with the girl, and she was sent to Harper Hall at 10 to get her out from underfoot, figuring the training in a proper Craft would sort her out. Robhin thrived at Harper Hall, proving to be a natural musician, even though her aggressive personality left something to be desired amongst her Masters. Still, she managed to prove herself sufficiently that she walked the tables to become a Journeyman at age 19.
She was promptly posted to a hold on the Western Continent beholden to Rivercrest Hold, and it was thought that would be that for the wild girl. HAH. Robhin ended up involved in a torrid affair with the Lady Holder and had to flee for her life when the Lord Holder found out and attempted to murder her. She decided that the hold harper life just wasn't for her, and she made her way to Rivercrest Hold to seek her fortune.
She busked for a living in Rivercrest, playing at inns and pubs and street corners and gathers; she was fairly successful at this, developing a repertoire of songs to entertain young and old, rich and poor alike (she still performs some of these songs in her sets at Western Weyr). Then Thread returned and all bets were off. Robhin was more angry than frightened or alarmed -- this wasn't supposed to happen! Many of her contacts and sources for gigs died in that first 'Fall in a thousand years, leaving her to scavenge and scrounge as best she could. At least she and her instruments were safe.
It wasn't long afterward that a dragon from Western Weyr came through, Searching for those who had the potential to be dragonriders and learn how to fight Thread. Robhin immediately threw herself in front of the dragon and offered herself up; the dragon promptly Searched her and whisked her off to the Weyr. Determined to succeed, she studied hard, and though she didn't Impress at first go, or even the second, the third time was the charm.
During Weyrling training she met a girl who was a fellow whiterider, T'kyr, and fell madly in love with her. Two Turns after graduation they became a couple. As in everything she does, the relationship was both passionate and tumultuous, and ended during an epic fight a Turn later, with Robhin being the one to walk out on T'kyr. Ever since then, they have been rivals, each trying to outdo the other during Threadfall and in everything. Thing is, Robhin still has feelings for T'kyr...
Other: A multi-instrumentalist, Robhin can play gitar, pipes, pennywhistle, drum, and practically anything you shove into her hands. She also sings, for certain values of singing, with a rough, raspy yet evocative alto voice. And she writes music as well as playing the traditional tunes in her own style; her songs are usually about the heroic people of old, as well as the modern legends of Western.
DRAGON
Name: Aloyith
Age: 3, shelled 3572.01.19 from Lyraeth x Veoth's clutch at Western Weyr
Color: White
Size: 14'
Physical Description: Aloyith is small for her color, snaky and slender with oversized broad wings. Her white hide almost shimmers with the colors of the rainbow in bright sunlight.
Personality: Aloyith is a proud creature; she's not intimidated by her lack of physical stature amongst others of her color in the least. She knows she can more than keep up with them -- even outfly them! More than a bit vain, she's gorgeous and she knows it, and insists on daily baths and oiling of her hide to keep her that way. She is a steady, stable presence in Robhin's life, an anchor with wings; she doesn't hold truck with some of her rider's worst behaviors and is about the only living thing that can keep Robhin in line and on the right track. Her will is at least as strong as Hers'.
Aloyith is also proud to be the dragon of a Harper. She feels this gives her a special place amongst dragon-kind. She loves to listen to Robhin's music, bobbing her head and even crooning or humming along on occasion when it's a song she really enjoys. She's knowledgeable on the things that Harpers are responsible for, especially news; this dragon is a nosy little thing who's an incorrigible gossip.
Dragon Art or Proof of Obtainment: from the Western Weyr bolstering event!
