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Bleached-out hair and tanned skin: Gr'kaif's an outdoorsy sort of guy. That hair might have once been brownish, but it's a bright goldeny-blonde now, kept shaggy and ear-length, often swept back from his forehead in a carefully careless gesture. He's a vain young man with a pretty face, clean-shaven, nice regular features and gray eyes: all in all, handsome without being particularly remarkable past that.

Clothes-wise, Gr'kaif's well-dressed without being fancy, which mostly means button-down shirts in solid colors and plain khaki pants. His heavy boots are awful worn, though, nearly to that falling-apart stage; but his riding jacket's got that brand-new shine to it still. He's got a greenrider's knot to match it.

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Gr'kaif and Adiecyth are a well-fitted pair. They're both lazy, kind of slutty, and vague on actual morals. It's not that they're /evil/; they're just both rather inherently selfish. They like pretty things and having fun, and are generally opposed to any kind of real work--which makes them hell in a wing, since they're always coming up with some scheme or excuse to get out of their duties. Gr'kaif's not quite your stereotypical flamboyantly gay male greenrider, but he sure tends to get around with whoever he can--male or female. He especially likes the rich and powerful.

Adiecyth's something between his one true love and a really obnoxious sister, always putting him down, thwarting him, but still absolutely there when he needs her--though more likely, it's the other way around. Adiecyth, for all her bubbly, charming, deliberately affected girlishness, is quite sensitive on the inside, with a fragile ego, especially where males are concerned. She likes to act breezy and independent, a real damsel for the menfolk, though she's a little more passive-aggressive, less friendly, with most females.

History

When Nyree showed back up at Tillek a couple of turns after she ran off with some roustabout, nobody was surprised to see her hauling a couple of toddlers along wtih her: Gremkaif and the eldest of numerous siblings to come. Once back home, Nyree took up as a barmaid, which mostly meant she was a whore who served drinks every once in a while. Within a short time, she became quite popular with the seafaring crowd that washed up on the docks, if not the good housewives of Tillek. A succession of other children followed, which Gremkaif ignored in favor of running wild on the docks.

Everybody agreed, then, that it was sort of fitting that Nyree end up dying in childbirth. Gremkaif was twelve and immediately punted over to his mother's long-estranged parents. They could use the extra help on their fishing boat, and Gremkaif was the only one of their grandchildren either male or old enough to be useful. The rest of the kids ended up in various foster homes around the Hold, which was probably better overall for them.

For his part, Gremkaif worked on the fishing boat for about a turn before he got fed up with it and decided to put to sea--the real sea, not the little close-to-shore day jaunts his grandparents did. So, when he was fourteen, Gremkaif wrangled a job as a cabin boy on one of the big ships out of Tillek, and thus began his career as a seaman. He was lazy, he was a screw-up, and he was a kiss-ass--which was probably the only thing that kept him from getting put ashore at the first available port. Gremkaif had a way of attaching himself to the coattails of whatever important mate he could, though even the most charitable of these people still only ever thought of him as a pet at best: a weasely cur that would follow whatever hand would feed him; the bottom of the food chain, always scrabbling to stay just ahead of the big dogs.

Still, Gremkaif managed to keep himself in a job, more or less steadily, and if he was the low man on the totem pole, well. He made do with that hand anyway, until High Reaches came a-callin' when he was twenty-one. Gremkaif was searched right outside his old home of Tillek, and on something of a lark (or more likely, just a chance to hook up with the bluerider that searched him), he agreed to tag along to stand for Teonath's final clutch. Now, he's over a decade into a lifelong bond with green Adiecyth, the flighty, flirty, belle-of-the-ball green who found him on the sands that day.

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