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Description

With all the definition of a stick, except for a couple of knobby knees, the wealth of Mave's appearance lies in her face: oval, but plump in her cheeks when she smiles, and her round chin sticks out from the angle of her jaw. Almond is her eyes' color and form, with a matching set of eyebrows, and tangled waves of reddish-brown hair, parting at the top of her head and riding down to her chest. Good days and bad days plague her hair; it's an easy assumption that, if its pulled up and out of the way, it's a particularly frizzy day, allowing her big ears to stick out. Her nose starts well enough but widens not very girlishly at the tip. She's got a wide, easily animated, mouth with some perfectly normal teeth. Light brown freckles spatter her cheeks, shoulders, and a few sneak onto her legs -- near her hips, then a couple on her feet.

Clothes tend to be simple, most days composed of slacks -- always slacks -- a basically functional looser tunic, of varying sleeve-lengths, and a rougher olive jacket, wrinkled and well-worn. She wears footwear appropriate to the weather, and occasionally is seen with a bandana or hat to tame her hair.

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+ Mave and her, currently ailing, mother have been at the Weyr for 8 Turns now, having originated in the Keroon area. She's blended well and comfortably into the weyrbrat culture since then, and knows her way around.

+ Her mother is infamously tight-lipped amongst the chattier cavern women.

+ She once gave a bully (named Wakizian) a bloody nose. And hurt her own knuckles just as bad. They haven't talked much since.

+ Doesn't appear to have any specialty, but is a hard-working hand at usual lower caverns chores. As such, she answers primarily to the Headwoman and Azaylia now, after the shake-up in the lower caverns with Aishani.

History

A hearty prairie-born woman, Ratha proved capable of raising her rough-and-tumble daughter while a father figure remained frequently absent at sea. When Ratha's young brother, and Mave's uncle, was lured into the lifestyle as well, the two women handled themselves in the sailor-dominate fishing hold south and a little west of the main Keroon Hold. Ships often passed through on the way to Igen or Ista, and there was plenty to do, and imagine doing while running around in the neighboring marsh-lands or prairies. But when Mave was 5 Turns, a terrible sea storm struck, and Ratha sat her daughter down and stoically explained that both father and uncle had been lost at sea during the strong winds. It seemed impossible at first -- Mave had never known them to be anything but incredibly capable sailors, from what her young mind could remember -- but she gradually adapted.

It was only two Turns later, when Mave was 7, that Ratha would disrupt their familiar life, claiming it was time for a change, now that they were truly alone. She packed up their humble things and, after some travel by wagon up north, eventually hitched a ride to the mountainous High Reaches Weyr -- as change as change could be. There, Mave reinvented herself as a weyrbrat, quickly integrating into the life as simply as she had the fishing one.

When she was around 11, a boy named Wakizian started to bully her, picking her out of groups and just unfathomably harassing her (and her pigtails, the horror!). Fed up, Mave clocked him one in the nose, bruising both it, and her knuckles, and that was generally the last they heard of one another, though both continued to live at the Weyr. Other than that, she's been fairly peaceable in her role, showing no preference or talent for any particular job, but willing to work at any of them. The shake-up by Iolene was dizzying, but she kept her head down, and reported to Brieli while the kinda-kinda not Senior Weyrwoman took a controlling hand in the caverns' affairs.

Since Aishani's announcement, things in the lower caverns have shifted again, but Mave's been busy trying to figure out her own business, including burgeoning confusing relationships with both K'zin and his best friend N'ky. Since they Impressed, she began to wonder what her own role would be, as she comes up on an adult age. Some of this wondering brought about an attempt to illuminate the talents of her friends by recruiting them to put on a play. After months, the production became an actual success. Mave celebrated a wonderful evening, before returning to her and Ratha's dorm to find her mother had died during the performance.

Nutshell

• Pint-sized Powerhouse
• Cute Bruiser
• Plucky Girl
• Tell Me About My Father
• Girl Next Door
• Youthful Freckles

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