H'kon
Description
The early onset of grey has been most successful in the man's short beard; his more youthful browns still manage to claim the bulk of short-cut hair, except just above a forehead wont to show furrows. Green eyes are softened by the beginnings of crows' feet at their corners, but still stand out against pale skin and a simple, straight nose. His are the callused and scarred hands of a worker, though the marks of punctures, scrapes and cuts are only well visible on the rare occasions when they're held still. He stands shorter than most men, with toned, if not overly broad, shoulders held back in a strict, though not strictly proud, posture.
WYSK
H'kon is from Tillek originally. He doesn't talk about it much unless wheedled, but he doesn't make an effort to keep it secret either.
He was searched at the last minute for Iovniath and Cadejoth's clutch, and impressed to brown Arekoth a few days after his own turnday on Day 18, Month 11, Turn 19.
Arekoth has a bum leg from an accident in weyrlinghood, caused by Arekoth's impatience and H'kon's lack of control. It's not something H'kon is proud of, but he'll speak plainly to it if it comes up.
H'kon has been around the Weyr for a while, but always in the back ground. He's helped with things like repairs to the bowl after meteors, searching for Tillek's heir, and the like, but never in any sort of leadership role. He's a hard worker, but not much of a talker.
History
Halikon was the second-born of fisherman Haeron and his wife Kallia. He has an older brother, Kairek, three years his senior, and a younger sister (decidedly 'simple' from birth), Naelli, five years his junior. Kairek, every bit the rakish, outgoing, charming son that first-born sons aren't necessarily conceived of being, went to join the Harpers when he was sixteen. Halikon never had such ambition - or perhaps, more rightly, never thought such ambition appropriate. His quasi-hero-worship devotion to his father and his intense love and sense of duty toward his younger sister set his life plan, from a young age, to staying at the hold to help his father and the other fishermen, and care for his sister.
Despite some tension at home with his mother (whom he suspected of an affair, which he saw as black and white, never mind Haeron's emotional distance - a good deal of which Halikon himself inherited), and continued lack of sympathy for and from his brother (whom he thought to have abandoned the family), it was a content enough life for him. Toward the end of his eighteenth turn, he started to consider starting his own family in the hold (not that there was any girl who'd caught his eye, but that it seemed the right thing to do), staying near his parents and sister.
These considerations never properly developed into stated intention; Halikon was searched by a late-coming rider (and went along on an old sense of duty that had been instilled by his conservative father from an early age), along with some of the other young men and women of the hold. He was at the Weyr not even a full night and day before he impressed to brown Arekoth.
Relationships
- Azaylia is a sweet, naive girl. H'kon doesn't know if she is or ever will be the sort of goldrider he would want to see as senior, but she is well-intentioned and he trusts her. For the best, really; Arekoth likes to pester Hraedhyth on and off, and it would be a losing battle to try get him to stop.
- Brieli is the goldrider to go to when things need to be done. H'kon counts her as reliable and capable.
- H'kon saw a good deal of himself in I'kris at first, even let himself think fondly of the boy. He hopes that if I'kris did what (H'kon is almost certain and fears) he did, it was for a greater, if possibly terrible, purpose. And if that is so, he's gravely disappointed that the younger brownrider doesn't have the conviction to carry his reasoning through and accept the consequences for what he has done with at least some sort of honour.
- K'del has been his weyrleader for so long, H'kon follows him almost instinctively, even if not always agreeing with the man's assessment of things. He's greatly troubled by his flight following Iolene's death.
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