Gender: Female
Age: 20
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Rank: Gold rider
Appearance: Ralia changed quite a bit after the plague. Since her brush with the plague cause her to develop breathing difficulties she'd filled out a little. This isn't all bad as it makes her appear healthier without looking overweight.
She also decided to cut her hair, realising that long hair is more hassle than it's worth. Her hair is now just short of shoulder length. It tends to look messy and scruffy no matter what she does to it. This has the hidden upside that she can leave her weyr if in a hurry without looking at herself and nobody will notice.
These changes have cause Ralia to take just a little more notice of her appearance. This was caused by her gain in weight. At first she thought that it made her look fat and ugly but after recieving comments on how she appeared to be looking well she rethought that analysis.
Personality: Ralia has always known what she's wanted and how to get it. As she grew older, she got smarter and her ability to get what she wanted became sharper. Her demands were rarely frivolous and often there was reason behind what she wanted. Now that she is a junior weyrwoman she's had to learn to be more diplomatic, she doesn't use people, if she can avoid it.
Ralia was a ruff and tumble kinda girl and spent more time with the male weyrbrats than the girls. All the fights made her short-tempered and irritable. She tries, really hard, to get along with those she likes. Others she's not so much trying is involved. Ralia seems to lack the ability to size up an opponent. It makes no difference to Ralia whether you are bigger than her, more skilled than her, it doesn't matter; if she thinks you are in the wrong she will tell you.
Amenth has been a big influence on Ralia's personality. The gold has taught Ralia not to be so sharp and will often point out to Ralia that others have their own choices to make. With the help of her dragon, who she dotes upon none stop, Ralia works to keep her sharp tounge in check. She has become less outspoken as she tries to stick to the saying 'If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything' So to avoid saying anything 'unnice' she choses not to say anything.
Ralia doesn't let anyone know that she really does want friends. She'd like to have friends like she did when she was younger but she worries that others don't like her. Ralia will act like this doesn't matter, even to Amenth, but she gets lonely sometimes.
History: Ralia didn't know her father throughout her childhood and never really cared. Her mother would never speak of him and she assumed that her conception had been an accident that her mother regretted. Ralia's mother tried to have as much of an input in her daughters life as possible and often took Ralia flying on her green, trying to mould the girl into a future rider. Ralia, unlike most other girls she knew, did not want a dragon. She had seen riders loose their dragons and never wanted to have the feeling of having a dragon only to lose it.
This was still the feeling she held when at seventeen turns her mother literally dropped her onto the sands infront of the clutch. Ralia was fuming and didn't try and advance on the hatchlings as they walked around. She thought they were beautiful but still stubbornly held to her opinion. Toward the end of the hatching Ralia was far at the back of the group waiting to impress. The hatching itself had been quite a tame one, few casualties and no fatalities. Ralia had stayed until the last green had impressed before turning to leave.
It was then that the first scream had been heard. Ralia had whirled around to see the gold hatchling walking past a girl that was now holding her side and bawling on the sands. Ralia didn't know why but she somehow knew the girl had been in the way. Silly girl. She thought bitterly before moving to leave again. Very silly. A musical voice had said to her, she remembered that moment a clear as the moment it happened and always would. Ralia had looked around for the voice and seen the gold hatchling watching her a while away. Ralia had moved to take a step and the queen dragonet shot forward and slammed into Ralia's chest, knocking the girl to the floor. And that was when, in Ralia's opinion anyway, her life had truely started.
Over the next two years Ralia drifted away from her old friends. The ones that hadn't impressed rarely spoke to her and the ones that had become riders became more formal around her. Even with the problems that rose with Amenth Ralia would never change anything, not one detail of their lives together.
The plague was a strange experience for Ralia. As well as getting the plague herself, her mother and some of her old friends caught it. Two of her old friends had died and Ralia felt a strange sensation. She had not spoken to the pair in almost a year and they were not close yet she still felt like just curling up and crying somewhere.
It was during the plague that her mother revealed something that delievered yet more sadness to the rider. Her mother lay with her dragon in their weyr. She'd refused to leave the ill green's side, despite her own illness, so had moved her furs over to the green. Everyone thought her mother would die, she been hardly consious throughout the illness and the only thing that kept her green sane was that her rider was beside her. Ralia had been sitting with mother when the green rider told her of her father for the first time. He had not been some fling as Ralia had pinned him. Her mother and father had been in love, something she had never expected. She was not however surprised to learn he was a dragon rider, a brown. Ralia father had died of phosphine burns during a training session. Her mother had been heartbroken and refused to go between to terminate Ralia as she was advised to.
Ralia's mother did recover and Ralia has never been closer to her. She will often visit her mother, who rarely leaves her weyr due to her weakness. Ralia has decided after the plague that she would like to make friends with her fellow riders.
She was fortunate that the plague did not affect her too severly. She needs to rest every now and again but Amenth keeps a close eye on whether Ralia gets tired. Her bronze firelizard completely lost the ability to fly and he now either walks or rests on Ralia's shoulder.
Pet(s): A bronze and flightless firelizard called Remmeck and the swimmaster blue Malico
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Dragon: Amenth
Age: 3
Color: Gold
Appearance: Amenth's colour is in no way uniform. Her regular colour is frequently interrupted by splashes of other shades. She has a dark golden streaktrailing from her forehead, just between her eyes, to about a third down her tail, where it fades off. The same shade tips her wings and toes on her front legs. A slightly orange tinted gold coats her chest, trailing up her neck along her chin. The orange gold and dark gold are stopped from meeting by two bright gold streaks slicing down Amenth's neck to pool at her shoulders. The bright gold also covers her stomach and looks as though sunshine itself slid down her neck on either side to coat her stomach before tipping her tail.
Over the past few months Amenth has filled out properly and looks like a fully mature queen. She is large for a queen but not unsightly huge. If 1 were the size of a bronze and 10 were Ramoth sized Amenth would be a comfortable 7. She regularly flies with Ralia to ensure she does not gain too much weight.
Personality: Amenth is the opposite to her rider in every way. Where Ralia is short and snappy, Amenth is calm and understanding. She will often play umpire to Ralia's actions. She holds her own sharp tongue and when it is shown it is swift and precise.
Although it does not show Amenth is very unsure of herself. It doesn't matter whether it's about her appearance, attitude or personality little comments can get her thinking. A fleeting mention of her hide looking dirty and she will demand that Ralia scrub her down and oil her until she is clean. No amount of Ralia telling her she's perfect will fix her and Ralia just learnt to live with it.
As she's gotten older Amenth has been more open to speaking to the other dragons. Before she didn't speak to browns and bronzes especially but now she'll speak to anyone, even other riders if they are around and Ralia is not.
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