E T A I N
...NAME...Etain
...TITLE...Candidate
...AGE...19
...PLAYED BY...Karen Gillan
...FAMILY...Ethann; father, beastherder, 65
Dalaine; mother, beastherder, 61
...STRENGTHS...• Brave; she will launch herself into any danger without fear for her life.
• Determined; nothing and no one can stand in her way when her mind is set to a task.
• Physically capable; growing up as a beast herdsman’s daughter, she had to be tough.
• Clever; her quick wit is effervescent, although it often gets her into arguments.
• Independent; she is accustomed to fending for herself and does not rely on others.
…WEAKNESSES…• Impetuous; her impulsivity often leads to reckless shows in which she could injure herself.
• Volatile; her short fuse of a temper is explosive at times.
• Capricious; she often takes off when she has a commitment or prior engagement.
• Lonesome; her ability to make and keep friends is somewhat lacking.
• Uncertain; self-esteem is not one of her strong suits, and is oftentimes worried she is not good enough.
• Dancing; she cannot dance gracefully to save her life. She ends up looking quite foolish.
...LOVES...• Adventuring; any type of exploring or exciting activity has her name on it.
• Beasts; as a herder, she grew up around animals and has a fondness for them.
• Intelligence; people who are inherently interesting are the only ones she has patience for.
• Dragons; she has been eternally fascinated with these magnificent creatures.
...HATES...• People; especially idiots.
• Confines; being locked up indoors during Threadfall is her worst nightmare. She’d rather be up in the sky fighting it.
• Isolation; she is only semi-aware that she hates being alone, since most of her time is spent as such. However, she becomes truly depressed when she is entirely by herself.
• Commitment; relationship wise, she has never been able to stay committed to one person for very long. Of course, in the hold, everyone is always kissing everyone.
...PERSONALITY...Etain is not the sort of woman you would expect to be a viable candidate. While she certainly has the courage and steadfast mindset to face Thread, she is perhaps a bit too flighty and concerned with her own free will. Being a rider requires commitment and a resolve to serve Pern as a guardian; she fears that she might not have what it takes to do so. The thought of living in one place her whole life, doing the same routine for Turns and Turns makes her a bit sick to her stomach. However, as a rider, she would have more options than she would if she remained a simple beast herder. Now that was a routine that she found drearier than any other.
Her gall is more than withstanding, almost to a fault. She ends up in scrapes out of which she cannot find a way. Because she is such an impetuous, daring girl, Etain often finds herself in the middle of fights with larger, more physically capable boys. Her ill temper and sharp tongue usually brought her at least halfway there, if not to the point of instigating a fist fight. Her short fuse is notorious and most avoid talking to her for this reason.
Loneliness has plagued her for most of her life. For some reason, she has trouble socializing with others her age. She prefers those who have already grown out of their dimglow stage, as she likes to call it, and can actually carry a meaningful conversation, or maybe someone who can hold their own in an argument. More than anything, she wants a friend. Someone who won’t abandon her when she is in a mood. Someone who won’t betray her and spread falsehoods behind her back. Someone who will be there for her always, even in the darkest of times. That is her true motivation, not that she would ever admit it to anyone. Not even to herself.
Her mother and father were herders. Her mother and father’s mothers and fathers were herders. Her grandparent’s parents were herders and so on and so on. It was to be expected that Etain would become a herder as well. From a young age, she was shaped and groomed to be the legacy of beast herders. It was not a glamorous lifestyle. Chasing and grooming and feeding beasts was dirty, muscle forming work. As a child, she enjoyed it well enough. Spending her day with animals was almost ideal. However, as she grew, she began to long for a little more flexibility. She pushed her boundaries, shirked her responsibilities, tested her limits as far as rules went. Ample punishment was doled out for her indiscretions, but she hardly cared.
As an only child, completely immersed in her chores and evading those chores, she hardly made any friends. On the occasion that she did get to mingle with others her age, they cast her out because she had dirt on her clothes and a wild mane of ginger hair. She was ridiculed and mocked, as children are wont to do. Rather than try to make friends, she became angry and got in fights with the others. Usually, she was not the victor in those fights. One lone girl against a group of bullies was not much of a challenge. Though, she did give them a run for their money. Sometimes she even sent them crying to their mommies and daddies.
Her adolescence was much the same, except she had more interactions with others her age. They were still vapid and irritating, but with raging hormones, that could be ignored for at least a little while. She grew into a pretty young thing, having outgrown a terribly awkward stage of all freckles and tangled ginger hair. When she actually started to grow into a feminine form, boys started taking notice of her. She toyed with them for brief amounts of time before moving on; she had no interest in whatever they had to offer. They were just ignorant little man-children in her mind, nothing more. The
real men, and women, were the dragonriders. The ones who fought Thread and went between. Fearless, brave, heroic.
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