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Name: Kainna
Age: 27
Nameday: 3548.01.18
Sex: Female
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Craft: Healer/mindhealing
Rank: Apprentice
Former Craft: Apprentice Harper/Dance & Defense
Location: Western Weyr
Physical Description: Kainna is average in height, about 5’6”, with hazel eyes and a mane of muted coppery-red hair. The curves of her body are also pretty average, save her hips, which are a bit wider than she’d like. On the upside, it accentuates the size of her waist in the opposite direction, giving her a nice hourglass shape.
Personality: Kainna is, at her core, a social creature who enjoys being around other people. She learned from her parents and childhood friends that having someone you can be truly close to is one of the best things in life. She cherishes her friends and is quick to protect them at nearly any cost. Her mindhealer training has also given her a bit of a weakness for offering advice, wanted or not.
To make it worse, she is absolutely the “do as I say, not as I do” type, and often without realizing it. She is terribly embarrassed if it’s ever realized and pointed out to her, yet she’ll still try to push her opinion on the subject. If she gets herself hurt or in trouble, so be it, but she’d rather be charred than say nothing and let something happen to a friend. Even if that friend decides she’s being an idiot and has to boycott her for a while.
She’s impulsive as in that example and in many others, whether it’s coming up with ill-advised schemes or just making decisions on a whim without really thinking them through. It’s gotten her into trouble and into a few painfully awkward situations that never needed to happen, and she prefers to pretend they didn’t.
Kainna always loved dancing and it was a major part of her early life, but she dropped out of Harper Hall when her parents passed away. She rarely dances nowadays, and will refuse if invited in most situations, even at Feasts and Gathers. Instead, she prefers to run during the quiet morning or evening hours as her regular physical outlet.
Positive Trait List Caring, well-meaning, social
Negative Trait List Hypocritical, pushy, hasty
History: Kainna was the daughter of a couple who were Masters teaching at Fort Hold’s Harper Hall. They were lovers of dance above all other aspects of Harper training, and Kainna learned much from her parents long before she was old enough to wear an apprentice’s knot. She grew up among the children of many Harper and Healer families, but was closest to the sons of her father’s best friend. Vitryx and Vasadryx were their given names, but they were just Tryxie and Vasa to her. The three of them trained together as Harpers and shared many meals at each others’ homes.
When her parents passed away from sudden illness in her young teenage turns, Kainna was shattered. She held on to her apprenticeship for a few more weeks, but the constant reminders of her parents were too painful. She left Harper Hall for good, preferring instead to make herself useful by helping her friends’ mother with housework. Their father Vilsadryx had promised his dying friend that he’d take care of Kainna, and he welcomed her into their home and provided for her as if she were his own. During the worst of her mourning, Kainna found much comfort in her two best friends, particularly Vitryx, who had been harboring an infatuation for her for some time, but up to that point she had avoided it. It never progressed beyond a soft puppy love, but it kept her head above water and ultimately cemented their friendship.
As time went by, the girl became heavily involved with Healer Hall through counseling, and as she healed, she began to desire to help others in like manner. She officially apprenticed in mindhealing at age seventeen. She progressed well, both personally and educationally, right up until her twenty-first turn when a dragonrider from Western Weyr came to visit family at Fort and approached her. The dragon had noticed her when they arrived and now that it was time to return to the Weyr, the beast was refusing to take another step until the girl considered Search. Knowing how much joy a friendly firelizard could bring to people, she (would admit grudgingly, being terribly embarrassed of that ignorant silliness at present) had an instant pie-in-the-sky dream of becoming a dragon-assisted mindhealer, using the dragon as both an emotional barometer and as a way to make her future patients more comfortable and ready to come out of their shells by interacting with it. Thoughts of being a fighting soldier were far from her, and when she made the decision to become a Candidate, she expected to put in a turn or two at most before being able to return to Healer Hall. In her mind, a dragon’s approval was as good as a guarantee of Impression, and Thread little more than an old wives’ tale.
That silly idea for a dragon partner was deflated like an old bladder when she witnessed the profound Impression events of her first Hatching, replaced by a growing ache to see her friends—for they were her family—again. She missed Vitryx terribly, but managed to make it through with the help of his encouraging letters. She still might have ended up going home after a time, but then Thread began to fall in 3572. She was incensed enough by the losses caused by this thought-to-be-mythical menace to stay, completely devoting herself to her Weyr.
She’d always kept up contact with her dear Vitryx and Vasa by firelizard, but there were things they’d left unsaid when they reported their safety after that first Threadfall—thus she was shocked when they arrived at Western as Candidates themselves not too long afterward. It was a bittersweet reunion, full of both joy and heartfelt outrage that they’d go and put themselves in more danger of death by dragonet and later Thread if and when they Impressed. Of course, she was being terribly hypocritical, and they told her so. Western would be stuck with the three of them for the foreseeable future.
As she was not too far from walking the tables when she came to Western, she has made every effort to keep up with her craft, studying on her own and assisting the Weyr’s Healer staff when permitted. Most recently, she has come under the tutelage of Journeyman Mindhealer Raen. After witnessing firsthand the struggles riders, candidates and other weyrfolk deal with, she plans to walk the tables and stay on at Western as a mindhealer if she ages out someday.
Other: Has she kissed both ‘Ryx brothers on the lips, knowingly and in earnest? You’d better believe it—though with one it was spontaneous and instantly regretted, and the other has been forever BFF-zoned.
Candidate Specific Questions
Do you want them to have an official Search RP? No
Do you understand they will age every passing year regardless if you're there to RP them or not? Yes
Do you want them to have a possible Stands Impression? No
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