Name: Pipadee, Pipa or Pip for short
Age: 14
Nameday: 3562.10.13
Sex: F
Sexual Orientation: Not sure
Craft: N/A
Rank: Candidate
Location: High Reaches
Physical Description: Pipadee for now is short. She hasn't gone through a growth spurt just yet - but if one would look into the lenses of the future she'll be a short, but strong individual much like her mother. Her skin is dark, marked with vitiligo like her fathers. Its particularly noticeable on her forehead, and splotched along her arms. Her dark, long curly hair has a few splotches of white from where it reaches her scalp. She takes care of her hair with utmost care, and often wraps it in scarves. She’s determined to grow it as long as possible (or until it annoys her too much).
She is slope shouldered and rod thin. The hand me downs she wears practically fall off of her. Thankfully she loves to wear overly large clothes, especially with sleeves that she can flap around her hands when she’s excited. Pipa is partial to bright, vibrant colors - sadly, second hand clothes aren't usually pretty so much as practical, she wants every scrap of cute clothes she can afford. She loves to indulge herself with buying pretty scarves or painted beads for her hair whenever she can.
Personality: Pipadee is a bit.. shy. She has friends, and enjoys her time with them, don't get her wrong, but she's not the sort to go out of her way to make new ones. Its completely at odds for her want of attention. She wants people to notice her new bright scarf, or a new hair cut - but she just chokes up! It's always easiest if someone new is a friend of one of her friends, she feels much more secure that way. If a more social friend makes suggestions, she's happy as a clam to do what they want to do! Granted it isn't something that gets them up to mischief. She does her best to stay out of trouble, but for someone so young sometimes trouble just follows.
She wants the attention, the approval, of just about anyone. This doesn’t make Pip the best judge of character. She worries far more about other people’s opinions than what’s necessarily good for her. If she’s to become the butt of a joke - and it makes her ‘friends’ laugh, she isn’t going to stand up much for herself. She’s prone to sometimes telling exaggerated (mostly outlandish) tales, to try and vie people into being her friends.
Pipa will never tell a soul your secrets! Her gentle nature and quiet way of things make her someone that seems rather trustworthy - so she has quite a few secrets saved. The only ones who may have heard such things are her firelizards. They’re a trustworthy flair - she’s sure they won’t tell anyone either. Her words are sometimes few, but mostly very cheerful. She wants to please the few friends she has.She doesn’t really talk about her problems with these people, out of fear she might scare them off with being too negative.
If she's in a new setting, she usually picks a friendly face and sticks by them nervously. That or sit alone and shove her nose down in a book and hope no one is starting at her! It gives her ample time to daydream - her most favorite of pastimes.Whether its about leaving home, grand adventures, or what's for dinner she's gotten lost in thought about it. She reads anything she can get her hands on, and loves any story that ends happily.
She inherited her work ethic from her mother. She doesn't need asked if a chore she's completing, she'll pick up a broom and sweep if something looks messy. Any project or assignment she tackles, she tries her best even if her grades don't always show it. She dawdles, running on what her mother calls 'Pip-time', unless she writes herself lots of reminders - she'll never be on time! She accidentally loversleeps - or gets so caught up in something that time just slips by her. This sometimes extends to chores, taking extra time to be sure they get done perfectly (but pencil in room to daydream).
Positive Trait List Hardworking, Quiet, Rule Abiding
Negative Trait List Shy, Attention Seeking, Dawdling
History:Pip was born a bit accidently after a Flight Night Stand her mother had with a bronze rider. Her mother is a butcher, her mother's
husband, who is definitely not a bronze rider, tends their herd of livestock. Her father, Ylzure, visits on her nameday making everything as awkward as you can imagine. The joke is her mother threatened to carve him up for dinner if he would just act like their child was never born. A joke… Pip thinks it's one anyway, despite the murderous glint in her mother's eyes when it comes up.
Pipa grew up helping her parents as best she could. Things understandably awkward with her mother's husband, as he's always been a bit harsh with Pipadee. Telling her she'll be a good-for-nothing like her father if her chores aren't done perfectly (they’re usually done just fine) or if she acts out. He’s been known to leave bruises when he can’t think of words cruel enough to hurt her. She can endure it, it’s fine. Just.. it hurts her chest so much when her mother seems never care about it. Her younger sister isn't told, or forced to endure such awful things, just because she’s not a child of someone like that bronze rider. She despises the unfairness of it, she hasn’t asked for any of this! But.. Pip adores her sister and could never hold it against the little one, but it can’t help but to sting.
It's a rare, lovely treat when her father Ylzure comes to see her or writes her a letter. She’s too young to realize there is so much more Yulzure could do for her as her father. She’s too far too rose-tinted glasses with him, because his absenteeism doesn’t have rude words or fists. Her particularly favorite memories are her marveling at how big her father's dragon is, and being dwarfed by riding straps after begging to sit there like a 'real dragon rider'. Every time she sees him they’re always doing something fun together. She does her best not to cry whenever he leaves, Ylzure always seems awkward about it, and she doesn’t want to scare him away from visting. Can’t be too negative.
When the unfairness of things became a little too difficult to ignore, she let herself daydream bitterly about being taken to wherever her father lived. Would a creche teach her? Would he be kind to her? Would there be new kids to play with? It never coming to pass was a hard pill to swallow. One that she hasn’t fully processed, and might take many years to suss out the tangled web of hurt.
Pipadee has many letters from him saved, small cards and dried little flowers. She tries not think too hard about how he could have done more than a few visits a turn, otherwise the abandonment of two father figures might swallow her alive. Instead she focuses on better things. Brightly colored clothes, fun with her friends, the firelizard eggs her father has given her over the turns. She
must remain cheerful, afterall.
Pip agreed at first chance after being searched. She'd of course miss her mother, but there's something about starting her own life that she adores.Maybe… to ride a dragon like Ylzure does. Not to mention her mom's husband she can completely avoid. She stays at High Reaches, diligent with her candidate lessons. She’s far, far happier making her own way in the world. Her future feels brighter, even with thread on the horizon.
Other: SoManyFireLizards
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