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.
After the Storm in month 1, turn 36, on Lycinea's seventeenth turnday, she suffered a weakening (reformation?) of spirit that ended abruptly after a week's stay at Healer and she came back with a fresh batch of Lya-tude for the kitchen (and virtually everyone else she happened upon) so the kitchens volunteered her to anywhere else that would have her in the caverns, mixing up her shifts between the kitchen and everywhere else in the Weyr (as of month 8, turn 36).

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?

RP Logs

The full list is available here, or in list format here. See also: logs Lycinea is mentioned in. See Lycinea's Log Count here.

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2016.08.06: A Respite
Who: D'vro, Lys, D'vro|Colsoth, Lys|Evyth
When: Day 25, Month 6, Turn 41 (Interval 10)
What: D'vro lets Lys waste a little time with him when she's not ready to go home yet.
Where: Solarium and Practically Pragmatic Weyr, Fort Weyr

2016.07.27: For the Best
Who: Lys, V'ret
When: Day 25, Month 5, Turn 41 (Interval 10)
What: Lys and V'ret break up.
Where: The Women Watching Weyr, High Reaches Weyr

2016.07.27: Two Ovines Packed Together. About to Be Eaten.
Who: Lys, T'gar, T'gar|Asaroth, Lys|Evyth
When: Day 23, Month 5, Turn 41 (Interval 10)
What: Asaroth catches Evyth in her third flight.
Where: Guest Weyr, High Reaches Weyr

2016.07.27: Sunshine and Rain
Who: Jocelyn, Lys
When: Day 23, Month 5, Turn 41 (Interval 10)
What: Proddy Lys is sitting on Aidavanth's ledge. There's sunshine, rain and candor.
Where: Aidavanth's Ledge, High Reaches Weyr

2016.07.23: Quiet
Who: Lys, Lys|Evyth
When: Day 11, Month 5, Turn 41 (Interval 10)
What: Lys broods about matters of the heart and self.
Where: Glitter and Glass Weyr, High Reaches Weyr

2016.07.14: BFF/Wingman
Who: Lys, J'nason
When: Day 12, Month 4, Turn 41 (Interval 10)
What: J'nason is lost, but Lys sets him straight in this new place.
Where: Central Storerooms, High Reaches Weyr

2016.07.12: Unacceptable
Who: Jocelyn|Aidavanth, Lys|Evyth
When: Day 5, Month 4, Turn 41 (Interval 10)
What: Aidavanth and Evyth discuss their riders' breakup, political undertones included.
Where: Dragon Brains

2016.07.11: Melancholy Mistake
Who: Lys, V'ret
When: Day 5, Month 4, Turn 41 (Interval 10)
What: The day after Lys and Jocelyn break up, Lys visits V'ret.
Where: The Women Watching Weyr, High Reaches Weyr

2016.07.11: The Bandage Approach
Who: Jocelyn, Lys, Jocelyn|Aidavanth, Lys|Evyth
When: Day 4, Month 4, Turn 41 (Interval 10)
What: Lys breaks up with Jocelyn.
Where: Jocelyn's Weyr, High Reaches Weyr

2016.07.11: Resignation Whiskey
Who: Lys, T'gar
When: Day 3, Month 4, Turn 41 (Interval 10)
What: After Lys' talk with Edyis, she broods on her favorite brooding bench. T'gar happens along and gets an earful.
Where: Far End of Lake, High Reaches Weyr

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