Zan's Character Creation

Misharan

candidate

Casil McArthur

Important Details

Original Name: Misharan
Pronounced: Me-SHAR-uhn
Nicknames: Misha

Primary Rank: Candidate
Secondary Ranks: N/A

Place of Birth: Crom Hold
Date of Birth: 19.01.717 AL
Searched By: R'nd of blue Ayyonth

Partner: N/A

Appearance

   

Eyes: He has dark hazel eyes with flecks of green and grey. His eyebrows are slightly darker than the rest of his hair.

Hair: Ashy blonde hair that is almost always straight. He used to keep it a bit longer, but clips it shorter after moving to the Weyr.

Height: 6'1"

General Appearance: Misharan has fine, delicate features and can easily be described as 'pretty.' Freckles cover much of his body, including his face, and they get more pronounced the more he is in the sun. He also burns fairly easily.

While he isn't as muscled as his brothers, due to working in the house or the hold more than in the mines, he still maintains some athleticism. He has managed to avoid the persistent cough that plagues most mining families, again due to spending little time in the mines themselves.

Dressing Style: Misharan doesn't necessarily have much in the way of 'nice' clothing, but he works hard to make sure whatever he has looks good on him. He has a fondness for shirts with flowing sleeves, as inconvenient as they can be. Misharan also likes embroidered work, and likes to find embroidered clothing when possible. He's also a fan of tall boots and very much likes the leather riding jackets the dragonriders get.
   

Personality

   

General Character Traits: Misharan can seem like a bit of an asshole to strangers, as he says whatever he wants with as many swears as he wants to, but it's all in fun. While he will say any negative thing he wants, he'll also say the positives - he's the friend who tells you he loves you on a regular basis. Misharan will see things that remind him of people and get them as gifts, even if there aren't any gift-giving occasions coming up.

He can be a bit of a contrary bastard, and telling him 'no you can't' will only make him say 'fuck you, I can' and proceed to go do it (or fail spectacularly in the attempt).

Secretly, he's a bit of a romantic and would like to find 'the one,' but he's also currently content to be a flight moth for the rest of his life (hopefully eventually with a dragon).

Habits/Mannerisms: When he has to sit still for long periods of time he starts bouncing his leg.

Opinions:
    Threadfall Theory: Doesn't know enough to have a real opinion.
    Stealing/Kidnapping: Before his time. Uncool though, very much not approved of.
    Weryrleader S'kef: Who?
     Firelizards: They're pretty cool.
    Women's loss of honourifics: Wait, women used to have them too?
    Return North: He'd heard stories of dragonriders, but thought they were all gone. Now he might get to be one? Nice.

Likes:
    Whers: Misharan grew up in and around the mine, where whers were used to help detect underground dangers and clear out collapses. He was rather fond of the beasts, and he might have asked to be trained as a wher handler if he hadn't been Searched.
    Sleeping In: In the Weyr he doesn't have as many set chores as he did at home, and takes every opportunity to sleep in. Misharan is a very groggy person in the morning, barely managing coherent sentences without klah (or dunking his head in water).
    Writing: He's no Harper, but among miners he has nice handwriting, and he got a good number of marks growing up in exchange for writing things for people in his nice handwriting. He takes pride in his writing because of that.

Dislikes:
    Disrespect of Mining: Most weyrfolk are fairly dismissive of the minecraft, as it's dirty and involves lots of brute labor. And yeah, Misharan hated it himself, but he lived it, he's allowed to hate it, but he feels compelled to defend it to these weyrfolk. Where do you think your firestone comes from? Who originally carved out your Weyrs?
    Boring People: Misharan has fairly set ideas about what classifies someone as 'boring' or 'worth his time,' and he does his best to avoid the former whenever possible.
    Children: He's a youngest child and has therefore never built up a tolerance to babies or toddlers, and anyone younger than 10 turns makes him panic a little bit.

Strengths:
    Outspoken: After having to hide parts of himself for many years, Misharan's outspokenness comes out in full force at the Weyr. He will say what he thinks and damn the consequences. Usually, it's a positive thing, making him better at communicating because he'll be willing to explain how he feels or what he's thinking.
    Reliable: Once he's committed to do something, he will see it through no matter what. Obstacles only make Misharan more determined to overcome them and complete his task.
    Thankful: Misharan always keeps track of who's done him a good turn, and tries his best to repay the favor when the opportunity arises.

Flaws:
    Scheming: He likes things to go his way, and where possible is perfectly happy to 'arrange' things to better suit him or say things in a certain way to get a particular response.
    Materialistic: Misharan's family put everything they had towards getting as many sons as possible into the Minecraft Hall, so he didn't have many 'nice' belongings growing up, so nowadays he gleefully collects things, even utterly useless baubles just because he can. He puts great importance in his collection and is rather protective towards it and a bit impulsive when it comes to adding new items.
   

History

   

Father: Shandar, b.681
 Rank: Miner
Mother: Marliya, b.685, d.717
 Rank: Wife
Siblings:
Sharlan [M] b.704
Marlan [M] b. 707, d.721
Mandar [M] b.708
Unnamed [M] b.710, d.710
Shindil [M] b.712
Shaliya [F] b.713
Unnamed [F] b.714, d.714

Past Lovers/Partners:  Plenty
Current Lovers/Partners: N/A
Children: None
Background Story:
 717 AL & Birth: Misharan is born the 6th living child and 4th son of Shandar and Marliya. To the family's sorrow, the pregnancy took its toll on Marliya and she passed away due to complications. Shandar's mother, who lived with the couple, took over caring for the younger children. A young woman was hired to help cook meals on occasion.
 718 AL & 1 Turn: The second oldest son, Marlan, spends more time helping around the house with the younger children (to the extent an 11 turn old child can help). Mandar also helped out, though Sharlan did not, as he was busy with his Minecraft apprenticeship.
 719 AL & 2 Turns: The family has enough money to send another son to the crafthall, so Marlan is apprenticed and Mandar starts spending even more time helping out at home.
 721 AL & 4 Turns: Marlan dies in a mining accident. Misharan is still too young to fully grasp what has happened to his older brother and is rather distraught that he keeps not coming home. Mandar is given his minecraft apprenticeship position.
 723 AL & 6 Turns: Eldest brother Sharlan married the daughter of a master minecrafter. Misharan overheard him telling Mandar it was more about gaining access to the master minecrafter than being in love with his new wife.
724 AL & 7 Turns: A family argument breaks out, as Shindil is now old enough to become a mincrafter apprentice. Unfortunately, the family does not have the funds to send another child to the crafthall. Shindil, determined, starts doing odd jobs to make some extra money.
 725 AL & 8 Turns: His older brother Shindil decides Misharan needs to be taught how to fight. All of the siblings are fairly delicate, including the boys, and Sharlan, Mandar, and Shindil (and Marlan) all had to deal with some trouble from other boys for lack of manliness. Sharlan, the eldest, learned that fighting back, and well, tended to work, and had passed on what he learned to Marlan and Mandar, who taught Shindil. Misharan thought it was good fun, and took to fighting with enthusiasm.
 727 AL & 10 Turns: Between family funds and Shindil's side jobs, they can afford for him to enter the Minecraft Hall. Misharan is a bit disappointed, as Shindil was his favorite sibling.
 729 AL & 12 Turns: By this point, Misharan is fairly sure he's much more interested in boys than girls. Based on how his grandmother talks about such things, he keeps it hidden, as he rather likes being fed and housed by his family.

Sharlan's first child is born late in the turn. Misharan doesn't care much about being an uncle.
 730 AL & 13 Turns: Mandar gets married to the daughter of a baker. Misharan is allowed to start keeping the family books, as well as running messages around the mine (he has nicer handwriting than most miners, so he makes a few marks writing letters and such for other people)
 731 AL & 14 Turns: Their father is looking to marry off Shaliya, and she is eventually found a husband in the form of Jr. Journeyman minecrafter, a friend of Mandar's. Shaliya is pleased with Mandar's choice, relieved it wasn't left to their father. Misharan is highly relieved he isn't a girl.
 733 AL & 16 Turns: Shindil gets married, leaving Misharan as the last unmarried sibling, as well as the only one remaining in the house with his father and grandmother. He hates it. All the more time for his grandmother to focus on his flaws.
 735 AL & 18 Turns: His grandmother dies of a minor illness. Misharan is conflicted about it, as he felt like she was always criticizing him and he had to hide a lot of himself from her, but she did help raise him.
 736 AL & 19 Turns: Misharan is Searched by blue Ayyonth and R'nd a scant few days after Turn End. As he is the youngest child and not a member of the Minecraft himself, he is allowed to go with little issue. Misharan himself is ecstatic at the prospect of weyrlife and Impressing a dragon, but maintains a quiet dignity so as not to reveal too much to his family, who all come by to see him off, as well as uphold appearances - can't seem too enthusiastic. By the end of the year, he has settled in at Telgar, Standing at every clutch that turn without Impressing. He is disappointed, but still finds weyrlife to be much better than living in a mining hold, so it doesn't bother him overly much.
 737-738 AL & 20-21 Turns: He spends the next two turns Standing (unsuccessfully) and getting to know the Weyr and weyrlife better (Read: sleeping around).
 739 AL & 22 Turns: Becomes best friends with Mylorah and Kordiavis. He also coins the term 'sex klah' after Casa's infamous camping trip.
   

 

Education

   

Education Details: General education, though due to living in a miner family he knows a fair bit about the minecraft (though not practically, just theory, facts) Kept accounts for the family once he was a teen, so practiced at math (though he is by no means particularly talented at it, just did a lot of it).

RP Sample

Misharan frowned as he calculated the date in his head. If he was right, and he usually was with dates, his favorite brother's eldest daughter had a birthday coming up soon. As he was the best distance uncle (all the presents, minimal actual interaction), he had to find a suitable gift. What did two turn old girls like? Or would it be better to get a gift for Shindil that he could use for his daughter? If he had a dragon, he'd definitely have gotten her a little dress or something dyed to match his dragon (He was a bit vain, he graciously admitted this to anyone who accused him of it). But, alas, he'd yet to Impress.

He sighed, considering. None of his Candidate friends had children, so they'd likely have no ideas. Maybe they had younger siblings? Could be worth asking. And all the dragon riders he knew had no acknowledged children, so they'd likely be no help there either. Though maybe he could convince one to take him to the Hold to shop.

Ugh, He thought tiredly, How can I be the best uncle and shower her with gifts if I can't figure out what sort of shit she or her parents might need? Where's a woman with children when you need one? He blinked. That actually might not be a bad idea. There were plenty of women with children in this Weyr, why couldn't he find one and ask her? There had to be at least one that would willingly talk to him. Probably.

Course of action decided, Misharan nodded to himself and headed off to find a woman who might have children.

The Player

Character Created By: Zandelion
Played By: Zandelion
Preferred Contact: DM or Discord
Inactivity Preference: Adopt or the most dramatic death possible