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Date Posted: 21:37:06 11/30/05 Wed
Author: One-time Stalker
Subject: Some things are meant to happen

Others happen by accident


Name
Clariss
Age
78
Gender
Female

Some are helped along

Appearance
Her thick hair gone entirely grey, Clariss's skin is heavily lined. Her laughing green eyes have deep talons around them, and the scar that bisects her jaw bone is hardly visible through them. Well browned from her years in the sun, as an observer and mother of several dragonriders, her frame, though older(with an additional several pounds) remains rather fit. She wears mostly a faded blue dress(without shoes), a necklace that holds a tiny carved ring of fellis wood. This was her espousal ring, until her fingers swelled with chilblains. Clariss is missing several teath, as so is reduced to liquids. She rarely smiles in a way that shows her teeth.
Personality
When you're tired and lonely, and there is so much crappe to be done before you can go to bed, Clariss is the woman to go to. She is an insomniac, so at just about any hour of the night, you can find her in her little alcove, or hobbling about the weyr with help from a walking stick. She loves children, but cherishes the company of adults, for she often feels left out. She dislakes going to Hatching Feasts, thought she is always on the first tier of seats in the Hatching Grounds, cheering the candidates on. She's slightly obsessive about note taking, and has lists compiled of every one in the weyr, their age(which she updates every Turn), and any fire lizards. People are often suprised at how well informed she is, since it seems nothing can escape her notice.

And others struggle, only to fail

History
At seventy-eight Turns you'd think she's senile. Faranth help if you ever mention it to her. She has a walking stick, and isn't shy about using it. She's been at the Weyr for sixty of said seventy-eight, mostly dealing with the dragonriders. Her children have most all been dragonriders, with two going off to crafts. One became a drudge(her own, actually), and another never made it past twenty.
Since Clariss is an insomniac, she occupies herself with odd tasks, like compiling lists of candidates, what they Impressed if anything, and whether anyone was mauled(or outright killed) at the Hatching. With each list, she usually encloses a brief note from herself to the Weyrling Master. She's kept a strict schedule of keeping track of what green flies when, so she usually knows when a certain green should be about to rise.
It's common knowledge that if you have the time to explain what you want, you can prompt her to write just about any letter in beautful script. She also does odd jobs, like the boiling fellis, numbweed, and baking bubbly pies for children. Her prices for extremely odd jobs(like once she was asked to stand in for Headwoman) are usually quite simple. A mark or two, a feline pelt and/or a skin of Tillek wine. Though she rarely drinks anything other than spiced klah or water, Clariss developed a fondness for getting drunk off of foxy Tillek white at a very young age, and does so whenever she can get her hands on a good skin of the stuff.

((The rest to come tomorrow- I gotta get off.))

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Please close your tags. But otherwise, old people YAY! *cheers* (NT) -- , 08:53:51 12/01/05 Thu
  • (NT) -- , 10:17:36 12/01/05 Thu
  • (NT) -- , 21:06:27 12/01/05 Thu
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