Post by Kat on May 24, 2010 20:53:11 GMT -8
Age: Twenty-Five (+2 from original age), Spring
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Bisexual
Rank: Winglet; Rider of Black Dionyph, Apprentice Surgeon
Location: Eyrie, formerly Sayaie.
Personality:
Ever since he was born, Ri’ley has been surrounded with unstoppable death. He has always wanted to fix things, to be the person who can heal every ill and blemish in the world, since he was a child; and when he does not have power, Ri’ley becomes devastated. He never has power; not over death, and so over time, all traces of a playful, rosy child has been abandoned. He is stern, sad, and dark, and he cannot bring himself to understand the world from a positive perspective. Although his childhood and profession has shaped Ri’ley’s pessimism, aspects of his life have also formed his negativity.
Ri’ley was born as a detail oriented perfectionist, but his father intensified the boy’s natural disposition through training, tuning, and conditioning. He is, and has been since he was small, able to recognize even the smallest details in a room. While other people seem to gloss over features of a place, a person, or a situation, Ri’ley is attune to those specific aspects. His father drilled into Ri’ley’s head that a surgeon has to be aware, to everything around him, and that Ri’ley needed to focus more—focus on everything.
The boy’s natural gifts provided him with a photographic memory. Anything Ri’ley views, he remembers, in detail, as if it was an image branded on his brain. Because he remembers everything so vividly, he sometimes struggles to apply information. He can recite equations, words from books, or sheets of music, even recreate them almost perfectly, but those details which he remembers he cannot apply in other ways. Plugging new numbers into those equations is difficult, for example, for Ri’ley, because they exist as they are on the original page. He can school a larger understanding into himself, by either ensuring that he learns information through auditory methods, or by drilling as many images of the information into his mind as possible, so that he disassociates the information from one image and spreads it into his bank of general knowledge.
Ri’ley is a perfectionist; he notices details, and he notices aspects of a situation which are out of place. They bother him, small little imperfections, which other people would barely notice. He feels that he himself must be perfect, both because imperfection bothers him, but also because his family has held him to an obsessive standard. He has been told that he must be perfect and right in all situations, and Ri’ley has taken that lesson to heart. He performs at his best, but if his best is not perfect, he becomes upset, and despondent. He has to be perfect. He has to be brilliant. Ri'ley is also a worrier. His life revolves around constantly trying to save people’s lives and to worry about their health, and the result is that he tends to worry about almost everything, as the trait has been engrained into his personality. His perfectionism only adds to his constant anxiety, as he always needs to perform at his best capacity, a stressful bar to pass.
Because Ri’ley is so focused on details and perfection, and his own performance in the world, as well as being confronted with horrible situation on a regular basis, he is not the most pleasant person with which to interact. He is nitpicky, and extremely stressed out all the time, wound up with his own need to perform at an inhuman level. He is a severe person; a person who interacts with a strict brevity and a restrained personality. He has contained any other personality within his need to be perfect, and left a nervous, difficult, and pessimistic shell.
Underneath Ri’ley’s stoicism, is a passionate individual. While he has channeled his passion into an aspect of himself which is appropriate and approved of, medicine, it exists as a fiery intensity to his otherwise cold and restrained personality. He loves the human body, and his ability to save people, and Ri’ley has dedicated his life to that pursuit. He possesses the ability to love people at that same intensity, as he loves his little sister more than he can express and would do anything in his power to help, aid, and love her. His passion has an unfortunate dark side, however; he sometimes flares into angry spats, frustrated bouts of a raised voice and an aggressive temperament. His anger most often flares when he is stressed or unable to reach the pinnacle to which he holds himself, or when someone bothers his sister in any way.
The other place Ri'ley's passion appears is in his dedication to his work and his philosophy towards medicine. He believes that people deserved to be helped, and he is always trying to extend his services to other people. Although the man tries to hide it, he is truly a good person, with a good heart. He is dedicated to his morality and he is dedicated to ensuring that other people are helped. He is also extremely loyal to the people he befriends. Once someone has made a positive impression on people, that person is taken care of as best as Ri'ley can possibly manage. This trait combined with his capacity for anger make Ri'ley over protective and a bit possessive. He has the ability to love unconditionally, and he lavishes affection on the people he loves, but he also can be too protective. Although befriending Ri'ley can be difficult, once Ri'ley becomes attached to a person, he gains the capacity to become protective.
Appearance:
Rounded and boyish in the face, if he was not as large as he is, Ri’ley might appear younger than his twenty-three years. He has large cheeks, especially, which swell slightly when he is tired, sick, or stressed, that convey a sense of childish plumpness which most adults tend to lose. His face is not fat, or even unattractive, but it is young and round in appearance and shape. His cheeks are marked with a set of prominent dimples, his left side deeper than his right, so that the dimple shows even when his mouth is relaxed. His lips are also plump, although they thin when he smiles. To add to his appearance of boyishness, his ears stick out a bit, unconnected to the side of his head, although they are not extremely large, just pronounced. Sometimes to make himself appear older, he will allow his facial hair to grow out the tiniest bit, so that his chin and above his lip is tickled with a dark, black stubble, but if he feels the facial hair hinders his ability to look clean and professional, he will shave it.
Brown eyes, so dark they are almost black, usually appear closed or shallow, and express his sense of closed off repression. His brows are bushy, although they do not meet in the middle, and as dark as his hair and stubble, almost black. He can lift his right brow in skepticism or in jest, but his left brow is fairly stationary. If he were to utilize his expressions in a friendly or kind manner, he would appear attractive and warm, but since he usually expresses such stoicism, he looks odd and out of place to some extent.
Broad shouldered, built, and quite tall, Ri’ley is a large and impressive man. He stands a full six feet and seven inches, which means that he towers over most people. He is naturally muscular, and he keeps in shape to some extent, just to keep himself healthy. Because he is so much larger than other people, Ri’ley stands and sits with poor posture. He seems to slouch to make himself shrink, which works with only some effectiveness.
Family:
Matteo, Father, 50, Bonesetter
Dorian, Mother, 45, Wife
A'ryllis of Green Molotoph, Sister, 16 [played by Quill]
Pets: No pets; animals are unsanitary.
[fledgling] [hatchling] [egg]
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Simourv Name: Dionyph
Simourv Color: Black;#000000
Simourv Age: 1 years [summer of the 57th year]
Personality:
dutiful, honest, somber, a bit melodramatic
[full length description coming]
Appearance:
[written description pending]
Parentage:
Gray Eceph x Black Alianph
History:
Ripley’s father Matteo, sets bones for a living. His profession is based upon the art of healing damaged and broken limbs, and he performs his job with an intense expertise. While the man may not be a proper doctor, he is a professional, and he knows that his skills are important and unusual. He also tends to think of himself as a bit more important than he actually is, which means that he has instilled a sense of self importance into his family and children. Matteo married Dorian when they both were young, and their first child, Ripley, was born when the father was twenty-seven, and the mother twenty-two, and from the moment Ripley was born, Matteo knew Ripley would become important and successful. Matteo was determined to instruct his son in the art of medicine, so that Ripley could become a proper doctor, and transcend his father’s bonesetting profession.
Matteo did not allow his son to have a childhood. Ripley’s schooling was consuming and intense. The boy studied constantly, with his father drilling him at every opportunity. With the encroaching threat of the Xymokoxi on the community, Ripley had a lot of hands-on experience as well. He saw the injuries, and as he aged, helped to treat the injuries of the harmed individuals. When Ripley was seven, his little sister, Amaryllis was born. Although at first Ripley believed his sister encroached on his territory, he eventually realized that his sister provided him a support system who believed in him no matter if he failed or if he succeeded. His sister became his only connection to other people, the real world of interactions, because even as his parents pushed him to uphold inhuman expectations, Amaryllis loved him unconditionally.
As they grew, it became clear that Matteo expected nothing but obedience from his daughter, while he expected everything, success, power, and knowledge from his son. The double standard frustrated both children, who plotted running away and living together at every opportunity. They never acted upon those whims, though, and Ripley eventually began to follow the path that his father wanted for him. He became apprenticed to a surgeon, when he was fifteen, in his hometown of Sayaie. Ripley moved out of his house to live with the surgeon, moving to an area across the city. Amaryllis, at eight, was not pleased that her brother left her to face her parents alone. She sometimes visited him, even if he was working, watching her brother learn grow.
And then one day Amaryllis stopped watching her brother. She stopped visiting him. At first, he was too busy to notice, as he was constantly employed with the injuries from the koxi attacks, helping his surgeon master at all times, but after a few days, Ripley began to miss his sister’s quiet presence. He went to visit his parents for the first time since his apprenticeship began, and he learned that Amaryllis had run away, just as they had discussed as children. Ripley was devastated and torn. He had to work in order to keep his apprenticeship, but he wanted to search for his sister. The obligation overrode his love; he decided he would continue to work, continue to do his apprenticeship, and only search for his sister in his brief periods of time off.
Soon, both his apprenticeship and his search consumed his life. He did not have time for himself, but he did not feel that he deserved time to himself. He never found his sister, and due to his position, he knew that the likelihood she had died at the hands of a koxi or a desperate person was extremely high. After two years, he gave up searching.
When the man was twenty-three, he met the simourv pair of K'huna and Canph, and the red simourv picked Ripley as a candidate for Eceph's first hatching. At first, Ripley was hesitant to accept the position, as it would involve abandoning his apprenticeship, but Donovan, his master, convinced Ripley that he should go to the Eyrie. After a few weeks of candidacy, Ripley stood at the hatching. While tending to another candidate who had been mauled by the red hatchling, Teimoph, the first black hatchling, and the biggest of the clutch besides gray Laraph, collided into Ri'ley's chest.
Is this chance, Ri'ley? Or is it fate? Are we, now, something greater? Your Dionyph thinks we can do what needs to be done.
The hatchling questioned, in a gloomy but courteous, hopeful, and thoughtful voice.
I thought I might waste away without you by my side, but I was too blind to see that what I needed was you.
The hatchling said as he butted his head into Ripley--now Ri'ley's body. The surgeon's world changed in that instant. He became completed by the black hatchling, Dionyph, and immediately Ri'ley's universe changed. He became Ri'ley, winglet of Black Dionyph, and the man dedicated himself to the care and love of his hatchling.
