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Curly, short-cropped hair the colour of warm toffee shades K'del's handsome face, matched in the light fuzz upon his narrowly pointed chin, and the long eyelashes that surround his baby-blue eyes. His features are delicate, almost pretty; he avoids outright prettiness in part thanks to the faded acne scars that line the high-boned cheeks of his fair-skined face. Slenderly muscular, and standing several inches above six foot tall, he carries himself with the confidence and comfort of one older than his turns, a nonchalant swagger marking his step.

WYSK

• High Reaches Weyrleader between Day 11, Month 6, Turn 19 (coincidentally, his seventeenth turnday) and Day 28, Month 2, Turn 30, K'del is presently a wingrider in Taiga Wing.

• K'del first became Weyrleader when his Cadejoth caught Iovniath after her choice, Nikoth, was forced to drop out by his rider. His extreme youth and inexperience, and rocky relationship with Tiriana, plagued his leadership. Nonetheless, Cadejoth also won Iovniath's second flight in Turn 21, and then her third on turnover of Turn 25/26.

• In turn 28, K'del successfully petitioned the weyr council to have Tiriana removed from High Reaches on grounds of emotional instability. After serving as Weyrleader during Lujayn's tenure as Acting Weyrwoman, he was (to the surprise of just about everyone) reconfirmed as Weyrleader in month three of turn 29 when Iolene's Ysavaeth rose in her second flight - less than a turn after her first. Although he and Iolene were lovers, their shared leadership remained difficult due to heavy differences of opinion and outlook. K'del resigned his leadership immediately after Iolene's murder in Turn 30.

• He's apparently originally from a Vinehold in the Tillek area, where he is the second youngest of nine, and the seventh son. He came to the weyr at fifteen, in turn 17, and Impressed Cadejoth a few months later.

• Any number of weyr women can claim to have been in bed with him, though in more recent turns, he has been both more discreet and more discerning. He and former Headwoman Milani carried on a more serious, if non-exclusive, relationship for many turns, which ended quietly in early turn 28. They have a son together (Nikalas, b. Day 25, Month 9, Turn 23). K'del also has another son, Kasey, with Greenrider Avey (b. Month 7, Turn 23). After Cadejoth caught Ysavaeth in her maiden flight, K'del and Iolene became casual lovers. A pregnancy followed, but tragically ended in miscarriage in early month three, turn 29. The relationship ended when Iolene was murdered in turn 30.

History

Kasadel hails from a cothold not far from Tillek, where his parents and siblings raise grapes that eventually become Tillek red. He had a happy, busy childhood: with six brothers and two sisters, 'quiet' was not a term well-used to describe the family home. Even from an early age, however, Kas was eager to prove himself - with so many older siblings, all successful in their own ways, it was hard for the (second) youngest to stand out as anything but the baby.

As adulthood approached, he could see more and more clearly that if he wanted to be more than just another grape grower, his place could not always be within the bosom of his family, no matter how comfortable he found the relationship. With so many brothers, inheritance of the vines was clearly not his lot, but nor did he particularly take to the idea of working forever beneath his eldest brother.

Thus, soon after his fifteenth turnday, Kasadel finally made the decision to leave home, and find some way that he could prove himself as much as any of his brothers with their crafts, holds, and marriages. Somewhere, he was sure, there was a life more suited to his tastes: beer instead of wine, and perhaps employment with more immediate payoff than the long-term, painstaking development of the vine. He made his way first to Tillek, briefly enjoying employment crushing grapes, but jumped at the chance of going further, to the weyr, accompanying the tithe, where he hoped opportunity might present itself.

Mere sevendays after his arrival at the Weyr, Kasadel was Searched for Rielsath and Malsaeth's clutch, and went on to Impress bronze Cadejoth - opportunity enough for anyone. He had only been graduated six months when his ambitions got turned on their head, when, on his seventeenth turnday, Cadejoth caught senior queen Iovniath, and thrust K'del into the position of Weyrleader.

His tenure as Weyrleader was rocky - as was his relationship with Tiriana. That particular relationship combusted entirely at the end of Turn 28, when K'del successfully had her banished from High Reaches for being too unstable to be Weyrwoman.

Only a handful of months later, Ysavaeth rose - for the second time within the space of a turn, surprising everyone - while K'del and Iolene were enjoying a beach retreat, leaving Cadejoth her only suitor. Thus, despite earlier assurances to the weyr council that he would not be maintaining his position, K'del found himself Weyrleader once again - and this time with Iolene, his lover, at his side. It might have been perfect, were it not for Iolene's unorthodox ideas, and (from his perspective) her inability to understand how and why a Weyr works the way it does.

All of that ended at the end of the second month of turn 30, when Iolene was murdered. K'del resigned his knot almost immediately, and departed the Weyr in his grief. By the time of Hraedhyth and Iesaryth's 'leadership' flights, however, he was determined to take back his old position - and was gutted when Szadath pipped Cadejoth at the post. His antipathy for Taikrin is not the only reason for his fervent opposition to the Divided Leadership situation, though it certainly influences it: he feels very strongly that the Weyr can only have one Weyrwoman, and that in this situation, any Acting Weyrleader should be chosen for qualifications, not gold-catching ability.

Relationships

• Ali: I'm touched that you'd want Cadejoth at Isyath's next flight, despite... everything. Don't know if I can properly express how much your friendship matters to me.
• Avey: Mother of my son. A friend. Still cycling through men. I'd never expect anything else.
• Azaylia: Grow up. Feels like you're being wilfully blind to everything. Thought we were friends... evidently not. Probably good I know, now. Where your loyalties lie. Who you listen to.
• Brieli: Not sure I can express how much I loathe you, now. Secret keeper. Need to ferret out the rest of them; there must be more. You are not to be trusted, not now, not ever.
• Devaki: Trouble. Maybe we could bond over Iolene, now... but maybe not. Don't intend to find out.
• Eire: Look after my sister.
• H'kon: Of everyone involved in this, you're clearly the most sensible. Hah. Never thought I'd say that. Hope we can work together, work things out.
• I'kris: You reminded me of me. And then... Your death still served nothing.
• Iolene: Who were you? Did you even love me? Were you just using me? I'd do anything to get a proper explanation from you. Not sure anymore if I love you, or hate you. Or... both?
• Leova: We've known each other a long time. Not friends. But I trust you. You're a good rider.
• Lujayn: Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. That sucks.
• Milani: It's been long enough now that I can't really imagine you and me anymore. Think we were always better as friends, but I can never regret anything we had. Especially Nik. Never Nik.
• Nakasha: I miss you.
• R'hin: Got more in common with him than I do with N'thei, anyway. I... respect him. What he's done. What he does. Imagine there's a lot I could learn from him.
• Taikrin: Trouble. Makes me sick, thinking about what you're going to do - what you're doing - to the Weyr I love.
• Tiriana: Briefly, I thought I'd won. But... no, maybe not. Maybe never. Don't regret what I did, though, even despite everything. Thought you could be better than that.
• Val: Friend. We all need someone we can just let go of things with, and right now, you're it for me. Appreciate it.
• Vienne: The listening ear. Guess you know a lot about me, now. Good and bad.
• Z'ian: Friends. Reckon you've got my back in all things; appreciate that.

RP Logs

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Mentions

TV Tropes

• Improbable Age
• Friends With Benefits
• The Casanova
• I Want To Be A Real Man
• Reasonable Authority Figure
• Tangled Family Tree
• Hero With Bad Publicity
• Comes Great Responsibility
• Punch A Wall
• Et Tu Brute

Soundtrack

In no particular order. Also, some totally relate to young K'del rather than present-day K'del. More available here.

• The Foo Fighters - Times Like These

I am a little divided

Do I stay or run away

And leave it all behind?

It's times like these you learn to live again

It's times like these you give and give again

It's times like these you learn to love again

It's times like these time and time again

• Bad Religion - Don't Sell Me Short

Don't sell me short!

You've been wrong too long

Don't brush me off

Just because I don't belong

Like it or not I'm all you've got,

Dispose when I'm shot

Just don't sell me short,

I might not be who you thought.

• The Whitlams - Laugh In Their Faces

You're as free as a ten year old

With a room of your very own

Doesn't matter at all what all those people say at home

With your good humor you're a hero, yeah, you're a hero

• The Whitlams - Made Me Hard

Nobody wants to be the weak one

We all want to go from strength to strength

You made me hard, you made me strong

I was simple but not for long

• Spring Awakening - Totally Fucked

There's a moment you know...you're fucked -

Not an inch more room to self-destruct

No more moves

- oh yeah, the dead-end zone

Man, you just can't call your soul your own

• Avenue Q - Purpose

I don't know how I know,

But I'm gonna find my purpose.

I don't know where I'm gonna look,

But I'm gonna find my purpose.

• Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A Changin'

Come gather 'round people

Wherever you roam

And admit that the waters

Around you have grown

And accept it that soon

You'll be drenched to the bone

If your time to you is worth savin'

Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin'

• Spring Awakening - Those You've Known

Those you've known and lost still walk behind you

All alone, they linger till they find you

Without them, the world grows dark around you

And nothing is the same until you know that they have found you

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