Lys
Description
Blonde of hair and blue-green of eye, Lycinea's is a pretty face as these things go. Her features are symmetrical with a long nose, gently arched brows and full sweetheart lips. Smooth, pale peach skin holds a natural blush of pink in her cheeks and is occasionally touched here and there by the ancient enemy of all teens: pimples. Often her eyes are outlined with dark kohl that sets off her light eyes. Her hair drapes down to the bottom of her rib cage when it's left free, though most often it's pulled back in some variety of messy braid. Her shoulders and frame are slender but not without recently acquired curves of womanhood.
Her wardrobe needs help. Nothing ever seems to fit well and too much is patched, like she was the last to get to the storerooms on the day everyone got their lots. Nothing ever matches, though surely not intentionally so. Her old boots are sturdy, but they've seen better turns like everything else she wears.
WYSK
- Lycinea: lie-SIN-eeah (Feel free to mispronounce ICly, just make sure I know! :D) Nicknamed Lya: LIE-ah
- Arrived at the Weyr at the age of 6 (in turn 19), has been raised by the lower caverns folk (collectively).
- Has been working as a kitchen aid since turn 31/32 ish.
- Has horrid fashion sense.
- Attitude is somewhat ... less than desirable.
History
Lycinea remembers little of her first six turns spent in Balen Hold, and the only thing she really knows is that she wasn't with her real parents there either. She wasn't a bad child, so she couldn't rightly say why the fostering arrangement didn't work out. The couple had been nice, she recalled, otherwise childless and a little old, but nice. When she was six, she was uprooted from the home she'd known and brought to the Weyr to be fostered. Later looking back, she thought it strange since so often children were sent from the Weyr to be fostered elsewhere, but it might have had to do with what she overheard someone say to her first fostermother, "Better that she be there, with her own kind." She assumed thanks to other clues, though couldn't be sure, that this meant bastard children, since those happen in Weyrs with less to-do than when it happens in a Hold.
Once at the Weyr, she became a part of the collective in the lower caverns. She was one of several children that were simply raise by the figurative village rather than any particular individuals. Never feeling quite like she belonged, she lacked many of the friends that most weyrbrats naturally come to have and made herself more the outsider than they tried to make her. She wasn't especially good at anything that she could tell. She could sing, but only alright. She could read and write, but she was no poet. She hated animals. She was too squeamish to thread a grub onto a fishing hook. She was alright with figures but hadn't the brain for anything so complex as star charts. The smell of tanning leather made her gag. She was downright lousy with a needle. And she hated alcohol. That pretty well made crafts not an option when she came of age and needed to start contributing to the Weyr in more ways than just chores.
The one thing she could do was boil water without burning it. She didn't have the passion of a baker, but she was a fair enough student where those things were concerned, and how much talent does it really take to peel a tuber? So at thirteen when her only real friend (Zalmai) was going off to become a woodcrafter, she started as a helper in the kitchens of High Reaches Weyr. In the three turns she's worked there since, she's proven herself competent, at least, for the most part. Enough that they'll keep her at work there. Her attitude leaves something to be desired according to the cooks, but then what can they really expect from a bastard with not enough brain to do anything better with her life?
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