Arolos Weyr - Kl'ryn

Kl'ryn

User: MyaL

Name Pronounced: Klrin
Character type: Dragonrider
Rank: Wingthird
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Sexual Preference: Bisexual

Current Location: Arolos Weyr

Appearance: Kl'ryn stands 5 feet-8, something he once doubted was possible, and it therefore put some confidence into his withdrawn stance. These days it bears a scrawny stature that's less prominent, except it hasn't lost the vague frailness that some would've considered as petite. On the positive side, nothing has lessened the flexibility as athletic muscles etch themselves across the lithe, but trim body. Several features protrude in distinct, bony angles softened somewhat by the remnants of babyfat and among those a straight nose points outward with it's plain tip rounded-off having no inclination either up or down. His high-set cheekbones add further shape, whereas the other features appear cherubically cute starting from the small chin that becomes a narrow, meagerly square jaw. There are faint dimples underneath the slight puffiness of his cheeks too.

The full, semi-lush, kissable soft lips are tempting despite the small scar across the lower one where he got bitten so many Turns ago. It hasn't stopped the impish mischievousness shining from his lapis lazuli eyes, reflecting his fiery spirit and other emotions even stronger, as well as making them appear more colorful. Whereas raven black would've been the absence of color, however, it's highlighted in red, creating a pleasant halo around his deeply tan skin. Those feathery layers are trimmed around shoulder-length and occasionally pulled into a short runnertail, the wispy front-fringe hangs above one eye with some brushed onto either side. A breeze can turn the shiny, black strands into a roguish mess, which he'll fix within short order because there's a comb he keeps close for brushing it free of tangles.

Personality: A hesitant confidence conceals nervousness over whether someone might consider him weak and lacks the self-assurance that'd restrain his defensive nature. He'd prefer meeting every expectation rather than disappoint whomever he must be around, however, bossy non-rankers push those limits until the fiery temper inside him snaps, causing him sudden fright. It doesn't make him become too irrational anymore, still he'll have trouble forgiving and trusting. Behind his impulsive decisions a competitive determination prevents him from being easy-going.

To avoid loss he'll keep an emotional distance, that clashes against the fact he can't avoid caring about what others might think. His desire for approval doesn't mean he believes whatever praise he's given, quite the opposite of criticism. Kl'ryn deems what's proper through common sense and observation but his forward mannerisms can give him trouble on following through. They're clumsy in phrasing replies, includes occasional sarcasm if the situation should fit and can rush through somethings, however, it doesn't deter him from starting conversation. The distinction between right and wrong is so important to him that he sometimes forgets his own limits.

History: Klaryn was the result of a mating flight, two blues didn't have any success but their riders certainly did. Nine and a half monthes later Klaryn was born at Fort Weyr. Which was Turn's End.

Klaryn was the youngest child of Y'glar and Kynlina. His parents were already two of a long line of blue and greenriders. About half of those in his family were homosexual riders at Fort. That did nothing to help how his family was viewed by the people at Fort. Despite how patterns can change he had three half-brothers and one sister dealing with the discrimination. Even Klaryn would get a fair amount of the same treatment too.

At first Klaryn didn't understand why he was treated like he was. But that wouldn't last, at Fort there would be a time to witness the atrocities. But for Klaryn it would hit close to home when his only cousin was babysitting him. His cousin, M'glin's green rose to be caught by a bronze. Klaryn wasn't far off when the result after the flight occurred and he got to witness everything that left M'glin with a black eye...among other injuries.

That shattered his view of the world. Klaryn was in shock over what he'd seen for a good few monthes. During that period Klaryn saw other signs of the abuse going on that he'd been oblivious too before.

After the fourth month the shock had worn off to a fear. Fear of ending following in the footsteps of so many others that were part of his family. He didn't want to risk ending up a blue or greenrider at all. Klaryn's ravings about that were not taken seriously though, he was only seven turns old after all. That would change when he calmed.

But Klaryn's reaction increased the teasing that he had to endure. In this period his eldest two half-brother, Ganmin and Jorkar, were becoming Candidates. For the hatching though Klaryn's sister, Kiraly, impersonated one of the male Candidates. She had fun being on the Sand up until the point she Impressed blue Silphafith.

In the wake of this stunning turn of events trouble was leveled against Klaryn's parents for not having controlled the twelve turn old girl. The stress of all this beginning to take it's a toll on Y'glar's health. Money and food grew scarce for the family then too.

The entire thing was taking it's toll on Klaryn emotionally. It was really scary for him. But still in between those occurrence Klaryn had some good normal experiences. A drawing here and there that his parents were proud of, things like that.

The next hatching was fairly normal for the family. Ganmin Impressed blue Kanuth and Jorkar Impressed green Halmiath.

This left Klaryn and Kilyan to be teased by the other Weyrbrats. But Kilyan was getting to the age when he could apprentice or Stand to Impress. As luck would have it Kilyan would end up an apprentice for a brief period before a Candidate. Kilyan would end up Impressing blue Vileth when Klaryn was twelve.

After that hatching Klaryn was on the verge of apprenticing as he still was clinging to being afraid to tread in his families footsteps. One more mean 15 turn old soon-to-be-Candidate that was familiar with Klaryn's family took it upon himself to prove Klaryn wrong. The boy, Lizyle kissed Klaryn, trying to tempt Klaryn before biting Klaryn's lip.

Hurt and afraid Klaryn struck out blindly before running off to hide in his bed. But the occurrence did convince Klaryn to try to be a Candidate at some point if he got the chance. He hoped to prove that he wouldn't end up like the rest of his family or at least to escape the nasty haughty Weyrbrats. Klaryn wouldn't even quite admit to himself yet that he wouldn't mind if he Impressed a blue....he's in total denial about greens.

But Klaryn didn't right away have the nerve to approach any riders. Instead he Apprenticed to a Master Vintner by the name of Dorana. In the next turn J'kar's riding straps broke sending him plummeting to his death. Halmiath went *between*. The equipment was found faulty but there was no real investigation.

J'kar's young puppy was left in Klaryn's care.

Then as Klaryn was starting to get brave the structure of Fort Weyr was coming into question. With so many people transferring to Arolos. Y'glar had planned to leave but he was seriously ill by then. He was in bad shape and Kynlina was starting to get serious in drinking down the wine. Y'glar took the opportunity to convince Kiraly and Klaryn to leave for Arolos. G'min and K'lyan were determined to stay.

At Arolos Weyr, Klaryn became a Candidate. He stayed somewhat to himself, following his old Fort believes and he might still have been doing so if he hadn't met Pera. She convinces him of certain differences at Arolos and Klaryn came to idolize the greenrider. He even accepted that maybe Impressing a green wasn't such a bad things.

However at the hatching Klaryn lost his nerve and really didn't want to Impress. He just wanted out, especially when approached by the green a certain brown had trampled over. But that brown knocked the green aside and let it be known loudly that Klaryn was His.

Since than Kl'ryn has been trying to manage amongst the other EvenTide Flames, which wasn't so easy given Sengroth's anti-social nature and the brown's love of dirty. But it has been an interesting experience. Kl'ryn has sacrificed what freetime he had before to even do more work, though this work was sprouting some food during the famine.

Once having graduated into a wing things fell apart for Kl'ryn. Everything took up time and he couldn't find any opportunity for a social life, which was't Sengroth's fault at all. Upon falling behind the brownrider bought himself a bronze Callamere flit egg. The bronze which hatched took up a fair amount of time but slowly Rivalry has ruined what kept Kl'ryn's freetime busy and that's been driving Kl'ryn back into a social lifestyle.

He followed his dream of teaching Weyrlings and has gotten himself two more firelizards. Both blue. The first he bought from Callamere, the second was from a clutch Rivalry himself had sired. Now he's became the WLM and found love in greenrider Vofali. He exchanged some blows with bronzerider Su'zor during Foreth's flight that knocked several of his front teeth loose. Not too long after that a herdbeast plague struck Arolos. He's lost 2 blue firelizards, rather than buy another firelizard egg from Callamere he instead bought a brown Wher egg.

Vofali and him have began growing apart lately. Between AWLM duties, gardening, and pets, Kl'ryn hasn't had as much time to be around her. They decided to take a break in their relationship to see whether they'd want to get back together after.

-[relations]-
(lover) Vofali
(daughters) Xyetlan, Volyn, Rynli

Information about Kl'ryn's pets

Pet Name: Rivalry

Pet Type: Bronze Firelizard

Appearance: Rivalry hatched a pale buttermilk-bronze, beginning life without what is normally a healthy coloration, but whether something was wrong isn't an issue because his hide has darkened since then. It is still a buttermilk-bronze coloration just nowhere near the dangerous pallor he'd had before. His size, however, hasn't improved greatly. While not being the smallest bronze firelizard, he's not a full medium-size either in that sleek form with it's smooth muscled mounds. He needed that strength to control a wingspan that's rather big for a bronze like himself.

Personality: Rivalry isn't much different from his name. The constant need for attention, whether from his human or those that he's adjusted to being around, gives way to scorn toward anything that keeps him from receiving said attention. Once his vengeance is satisfied he'll return to being a simple, demanding bronze firelizard that won't even send mental images as explanation because such's below him. As far as he's concerned his actions in most cases can speak for themselves, though some situations might drive him into passing on a message...if it's something urgent enough.
He's a Callamere.

Second Pet Name: Khepret

Pet Type: Brown Wher

Appearance: There are muscles everywhere that’re apparent even within all those wrinkles. Lean, well-built muscles that would’ve otherwise remained unseen were his stature not rather big-boned. That made him rather stout considering his medium, 525 pound, size must’ve let everyone recognize him as Callamere. Khepret will, therefore, possess more stamina than many brown whers. His pattern isn’t something familiar to anyone on *Pern* but the sienna across him seem somewhat reddish-brown with paler, russet underside and tail-tip. Whereas those brown paws are so dark that everyone would’ve seen them as black.

Personality: Some will say that “you can’t shame the shameless” was meant for describing this brown wher, except he’s not shameless. What Khepret considers shameful is different from what humans might consider shameful. He sees no shame in mating, so won’t possess any qualm about sticking his nose against someone and declaring that they’ve been //mating recently. This will make his human turn some interesting colors that he’ll not hesitate over pointing out either. Eventually all that he’ll view as shameful would be harming someone that doesn’t deserve to be harmed.

That won’t happen until after numerous mating run failures, if he does fail. All because he’ll care what females think about him, all because he’ll desire mating and siring offspring like his human. His human does have some adorable children… Once he can start chasing he’ll become somewhat jealous about Kl’ryn having children but that’ll disappear once he’s caught his own female.

Otherwise he’s a rather protective wher, rather protective of his human and those his human deeply cares about. He would, if necessary, sacrifice himself for Kl’ryn, Vofali and their children. He also can’t ever understand why Kl’ryn insists he should get between Volyn and potential, future male suitors. That’s not something one needs protection against unless there is some specific male they’d rather not mate with. Under those circumstance he’d act as their protector, whereas any other instance he’d offer advice about how mating should be done.

Information about Kl'ryn's dragon

Dragon Name: Sengroth (Sen)

Colour: Brown

Age: 18 turns

Wing (Weyrling Group): Direflame

Appearance: Sengroth is a wall of muddy water, one that moves with a single-minded drive that engulfs obstacles in the path of the giant brown form as he reaches for what is most important to him at the moment. He simply is the mightiest brown of Jenith's clutch, perhaps the mightiest if one considers that he already had untoned mass at hatching, though by now the great mass of muscles has taken on it's true definition beneath his dark, moist-seeming hide. The unhealthy looking hide would look more like the sludge at the bottom of a fetid swamp than a rich brown-black dragonskin. Which would be an unpleasant effect enhanced by the even darker dappling on his large wingsails becoming like leeches, and the light, root-like veins of colour on his 'fingers' and 'toes' may well appear to be a nasty sort of mold. Not that Kl'ryn has never let such an effect happen.

Personality: That's not to say that keeping him clean will be easy, even young he is quite a lot of dragon. Which isn't helped by the fact that Sengroth doesn't like bathing. He in fact hates it and only lets himself be bathed because it's easier on Kl'ryn. He's prone to make all the walking and contorting necessary for cleaning him seem like way too much effort, especially when he can just lay in the sun and be comfortable. After all, the smell doesn't bother him. Either way Sengroth still has to be herded into the water, but beware because it sure makes him grumpy, and grumpy Sengroth is a forboding sight, with slitted eyes, a thumping tail, and a subsonic grumbling growl shaking the ground around him. But as scary as he seems, he's just a big softy deep down...though it's a very, very deep down...and he won't do more than look intimidating. He certainly won't be social, now or ever, but with persistance some others might befriend him. Even feeding the brown is a chore of itself that sometimes has Kl'ryn sympathizing with his bronzeriding classmates.

As annoying as Sengroth's demeanor might be, he does have his virtues. They are mixed, but they make up for most of it. He has a certain loyality where he will help others if he must. But mostly, above all else, he is fiercely_ territorial. Kl'ryn is HIS rider! He won't let anyone else harm, upset, interrupt, or look at him for extended periods of time without his permission. But in his determined way, if Kl'ryn needs something and can get him on his feet, Sengroth will become a force that only a queen can hope to dominate. This protective nature is coupled with a voice that is soft and comforting to Kl'ryn, and Kl'ryn alone, but it's with a warmth meant to shield Kl'ryn from the world whenever needed. Of course, there are many who would appreciate it less when Sengroth feels the urge to defend HIS couch, HIS green, and HIS ledge. If ever he meets someone he cannot intimidate away, people get to see the adorable side of him...one of befuddled blinking and perhaps even scratching his head in a gesture he picked up from observing humans while doing his lump impression.

But one thing for sure is that Sengroth will clash with nearly everyone, with the expection of maybe Davarth. But he will especially not be fond of Womarath.

Weyr of Origin: Arolos

Abilites and weaknesses: Sengroth's one strong brown, a true powerhouse of strength when it comes right down to things. He might not be a bronze but he does a very good impersonation of one with the strength he can display. It's not surprising how long he can actually last in the air, but he powers roughly through speed and turns. Graceful is certainly one thing he is not. But as long as the job gets done, not being smooth doesn't matter to him.

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