Persona Profile: R'syl

Writer: Rochelle

Name: R'syl
Age: 56
Birthday: m11 d26
Rank: Weyrlingstaff Assistant
Location: River Bluff Weyr
Craft: Beastcrafter
Craft Rank: Junior Journeyman

Physical Description of Persona:
Of average height, lean, and with just enough muscle to keep from looking underweight, R'syl is not immediately striking -the first impression most people get of R'syl it that he looks tired. His shoulders droop slightly and he tends to hunch over on himself. This can be deceptive, and many a weyrling who has tried to pull something has discovered that his brown-black eyes miss little and that he has more than enough energy to do anything necessary. His hair started to change colors when Masair died, and is now streaked more with silver than dark brown. His nose is slightly out of alignment, broken courtesy of a caprine he worked with as a young man. The rest of his body is decorated with old Thread scars from the beginning of the Pass, and a few embarrassing but fortunately minor burns from a slight accident teaching weyrlings to flame.

Emotional Description of Persona:
After spending his early years repressed, R'syl does not take kindly to being dominated unless it is by an authority in a working relationship. Experience has taught him to be diplomatic when necessary, but he prefers outright honesty. He enjoys time off with friends, but without someone to go home to he tends to be something of a workaholic. Firm, but often gentle or even fatherly toward the younger riders, he enjoys working with weyrlings, particularly watching the shy ones like he used to be become confident dragonriders. He tends to fall into a brooding depression when his thoughts turn towards his family, and he often wonders if he did something or somehow drove his son to his murder spree. Since his son's exile, he detests physical violence and is often the first one on the scene to break up a fight.

History of Persona:
Born in the remote north to Master Beastcrafters, Thorosyl was a quiet young man completely dominated by his parent's powerful personalities. He was never given a chance to assert himself or make his own decisions, and shortly after he reached journeyman under his parents was pressured into marriage to another master's daughter in order to gain access to her family's prime breeding stock. Journeywoman Masair resented the marriage but was equally unable to stand up to her oppressive father, so when Thorosyl started to show signs of being something other than the spineless wallflower she married, she released her frustrations by terrorizing her new husband back into submission.

The loveless marriage was dominated by the two sets of overbearing parents, and one of the few things the young couple could agree on was the need to escape them and have their own life. While on a trip to the Beastcraft Hall, Masair heard about a position working with a new breed of bovines at Vista Point. Knowing that the only way to escape the masters was to leave the area -or even the continent- entirely, Masair volunteered them for the position even though her knots would not be recognized outside of the weyr. Thorosyl volunteered to Stand on arrival and to their surprise promptly Impressed bronze Usaeth at his first hatching. The marriage was gratefully dissolved, and Usaeth encouraged his rider to become more open and assertive. The transformation from dominated wimp to confident bronzerider astonished everyone, but no one more than the newly named R'syl and his ex-wife Masair.

The freedom of the weyr agreed with Masair, and after several awkward meetings following R'syl's weyrlinghood, the pair were shocked to realize they were falling in love. After a turbulent but passionate romance, they finally became weyrmates shortly before the birth of their first son, Rosair. More children followed, although the pair wandered freely between fights. Masair was pregnant with their sixth child when she was kicked in the stomach by the bovine she was working with. The healers couldn't stop the bleeding and she bled to death by afternoon. The tragedy caused R'syl's little family to grow closer, and when the new weyrs opened they volunteered to move.

The turn before the Pass started, a journeyman tanner turned up strangled to death. A short while later, a pretty young girl was also found dead. The investigation soon pointed to Rosair. R'syl couldn't believe that his son could be responsible, but when Rosair fatally wounded two of the men sent to speak with him, he was forced to confront the brutal fact that his son was a murderer. Rosair showed no remorse for the deaths he'd caused, and was sentenced to life in exile on a tiny island. Rosair's sentencing shattered his family, and R'syl was unable to keep his children from drifting away from one another, each one secretly wondering if the other was harboring murderous tendencies.

They moved to Telgar Weyr in an attempt to start over, an attempt which was thwarted by Thread's return. R'syl was scored lightly in the first fall, lost his daughter Oroma and her green in the second, and was nearly fatally scored in the third while his wing tried a new maneuver to fight the menace. By the time R'syl recovered and Thread had become routine his family had grown apart, and despite his best efforts his children soon stopped speaking to each other. During his recovery he was sent to the weyrlingstaff, and he soon discovered that he liked working with the weyrlings. The dragonets were an endless source of amusing antics and the new riders made him feel like he had a second chance to do things right where he'd failed his son. After a brief return to the wings, R'syl formally transferred to the weyrlingstaff.

While he continued to make himself available for his children, they eventually stopped confiding in him, and later barely acknowledged him. Their distance hurt him, but he could understand it after the events of the past turn. Not daring to pressure them for more contact for fear of pushing them away completely, he immersed himself in his work. His potential was recognized and he was eventually promoted to Weyrlingmaster Second. The Weyrlingmaster soon began encouraging him to consider a full Weyrlingmaster position, but it wasn't until Sairyl went through weyrlinghood only speaking to him twice outside of class that he was forced to the realization his children had grown beyond him. He reluctantly agreed to consider a promotion elsewhere, and was transferred to River Bluff when the position opened unexpectedly.

Family and Friends
Masair, 55, Deceased. (ex-wife, weyrmate)
Rosair, 35, Convicted murderer, Journeyman Tanner. (Son)
Oroma, 33, Deceased Greenrider. (Daughter)
Sairros, 30, Telgar Weyr resident, Junior Journeyman Printer. (Son)
Thorom, 27, Telgar Weyr resident, Junior Journeyman Beastcrafter, Candidate. (Son)
Sairyl, 25, Telgar Weyr, Greenrider of Happuyuth. (Daughter)

Dragon's Name: Usaeth
Dragon's Age: 36
Dragon's Hatching Date: m8 d19
Dragon's Colour: Bronze
Description of Dragon:
The slightly darker color of cold cast bronze, Usaeth has a slightly longer than usual neck and tail, making him rather whippy looking and one of the largest bronzes in length although not girth. He bears light scarring across his neck, head, and tail; and much heavier scarring across his shoulders from where a clump landed on top of him and R'syl in the third Fall. He is tolerant of R'syl's mood swings, and knows when to pull him out and when to let him brood while he flirts. Usaeth likes children of all kinds, and is just as patient with human children as with young dragonets. He was very happy with R'syl's decision to work with the weyrlings, although he sometimes gets irritable when Thread passes over the weyr and he has to watch the other dragons fight from the ground.

Approved: March 11th 2007
Last updated: March 24th 2013

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