Rinnian }{ candidate, ♂, 16

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u s e r n a m e → Izzie
c h a r a c t e r → Second

n a m e → Rinnian (R'ian)
a g e → 16
b o r n → Autumn
g e n d e r → Male
s e x u a l i t y → Heterosexual
r a n k → Candidate
w i n g → Groundcrew
s t a t u s → Healthy
p l a y b y → Stan Jouk

a p p e a r a n c e →

A good-looking youth, Rinnian is a fair-skinned boy with a wicked grin. Fully grown a little early, he looks somewhat older than he actually is. Although he's about average height for a man, 5'8" or 5'9", he has a decently broad build that makes him look larger. He's not much more muscular than the average teenage boy, and not even particularly intimidating, but it would be ill-advised to pick a fight with him, especially given that he has spent several years learning how to forge metal.

His unusually blonde hair is slightly wavy, framing a square-jawed face with a straight nose and lips full for a teenage boy. With blue eyes and a self-assured stare, he suits the part of a Lord Holder like his father. The majority of his actual features were inherited from his mother, though his coloring is far paler than hers, but Rinnian's demeanor is more like his father's than he likes to believe. His style of dress, even, has been influenced by the man; he has a penchant for the ostentatious, and is enthralled by rich colors and fine fabrics. Most of the time, he doesn't have the money or the opportunity to buy such things, but if he does, he'll soon be sporting a whole new wardrobe.

The most notable thing about Rinnian, however, is the casual, nonchalant way he carries himself. No matter what's going on, it's almost certain that he'll look unfazed. This is just one of many reasons why he tends to come off as... well...

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p e r s o n a l i t y →

Rinnian is many things, but perhaps the word that would best describe him is "infuriating." He is a cocky, insolent, passive-aggressive boy with a talent for pushing people's buttons, but you love him and he knows it. And if you don't love him, well, he really doesn't care. He has had a lot of experience with people who don't like him, and perhaps he's trying to make up for that now. An incorrigible joker and a fearless adventurer, one might think that nothing could ever dissuade Rinnian from his goals. He naturally takes the lead when others dither about, not knowing what to do, and he takes no crap from anyone. No, Rinnian is a self-confident, socially outgoing youth, endearing despite his penchant for pranks and his skill at being highly annoying.

Well, maybe.

Under his layers of cavalier attitude, Rinnian is extremely insecure. His jokes and recklessness mask his firm belief that he is somehow "unworthy." Of what, he isn't sure, but that feeling of unimportance still permeates his existence. All of the things he does are, when you get down to it, done in an attempt to prove to himself and others that he is, in fact, a worthwhile human being. As of yet, he hasn't succeeded in convincing himself. Thus he'll continue to overcompensate and habitually needle the people around him, waiting for something to show him that he doesn't need to prove anything.

(That won't be easy, though, so girls? You should save any bleeding heart attempts to "change him" for some other guy.)

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h i s t o r y →

Rinnian was born the third (and illegitimate) son of Cliff Hold's Lord Ventrian. His mother, Risa, was a maid in Ventrian's household, who had been having an affair with the man for some time. Unfortunately for little Rinnian, he looked like his father. His honey-blonde hair and blue eyes were unlike his brunette mother's. It was obvious to any casual observer that the Lord Holder was the most likely father in the entire house, and Ventrian's wife, Lady Aquila, was more than a casual observer.

Ventrian and Aquila had two sons named Ventril and Alenten, three and two turns older than Rinnian respectively. Neither of them liked the maid's son who cleaned up around the house, and Rinnian was not exactly fond of them either. The three had a very adversarial relationship that was only matched in intensity by the coldness with which Lady Aquila treated both Risa and Rinnian. So it was shocking to everyone when Rinnian struck up a genuine friendship with Ventrian and Aquila's third child and first daughter, a little girl with chestnut brown hair.

Auria.

She was born four turns after Rinnian, and the spitting image of her mother. But she was sweet and friendly, with a cheerful disposition and a love of adventure. She was too loving not to like Rinnian, and as Aquila was too proud to explain to her the boy's origin, Auria assumed that her family simply disliked him due to class differences. Therefore she saw no reason not to befriend him, and as time went on, she began to see him as more of a brother to her than Ventril and Alenten, who had no patience for her "silly games." Rinnian, for his part, loved the girl like, well, like a sister.

In the winter when Rinnian was nine turns old, his mother passed away from disease, confessing his parentage to him on her deathbed. He was thus left to fend for himself in the Lord Holder's household, which forced him to suppress his grief and concentrate on keeping himself safe. (Ventril and Alenten had never been averse to physical violence.) It was becoming clear as they aged that Ventril was the brawn of the family, and Alenten good with numbers, but Rinnian understood human nature better than either of them, and Lord Ventrian saw it.

So, however, did Lady Aquila, and naturally she was determined to protect her sons' political interests. When Rinnian was ten turns, Aquila had him apprenticed to the hold's smith, in the process separating him from Auria. Rinnian developed an even more intense anger towards both the Lord and Lady and their sons in the wake of this event, having lost his mother and now the only person in the house who really cared for him. Nevertheless, he was still a little boy, and he couldn't survive on his own, so he had no choice but to do their bidding.

Over the next five turns, he learned the blacksmith trade, but not long after Rinnian's fifteenth birthday, search dragons from a Weyr called Solace arrived at the hold. They were looking for candidates to stand for the clutch that had recently been laid, and one of them chose Rinnian. After some thought and a discussion with his masters at the smithy, he agreed to go back to Solace with them. It's been one turn since then, and he's gotten into the swing of candidacy at the weyr. And now that Grenth has laid another clutch, Rinnian, currrently almost seventeen turns, is hoping to move onto weyrlinghood.

f a m i l y →
Ventril, half-brother, 19 turns (NPC)
Alenten, half-brother, 18 turns (NPC)
Auria, half-sister, 12 turns