Name: NashwaAge: 23
Sex: Female
Sexual Orientation: ???
Craft: Cooking/Courtesan (Hostess)
Rank: Journeyman
Location: Western Weyr
Physical Description:
Dark blonde hair, green-gold eyes, tanned skin. At 5'4", she is slender and fine-boned with sharp facial features.
Personality:
Nashwa was born to be useful. Some might take issue with being relegated to the life of a servant, spending their days doing the bidding of someone wealthier or more powerful, but Nashwa doesn't see it that way at all. She doesn't like or need to be told what to do, per se, but she likes to be helpful, and she takes pride in her abilities. She truly enjoys taking care of people and seeing to it that their needs are met, and is able to do so without crossing over into hovering or being maternal. She's excellent at being there when she's needed, and staying fairly close at hand just in case she is, but every bit as importantly, she knows when she's not needed. Nashwa is the ideal servant: both attentive and unobtrusive.
Also critical traits in a servant, she is honest and loyal. While it's inevitable that, as a servant, she'll see or hear things she wasn't necessarily meant to - and, to be perfectly truthful, she enjoys it! - she'd never sell secrets or blackmail her employer, unless they were truly dreadful people...but she wouldn't be caught dead working for anyone like that. She'll see to it that she's placed in an upstanding household, thank you! Though she wouldn't seek to profit from information learned or events witnessed, that's not to say she would keep them completely to herself and never act on them, depending on the nature of them. Everyone knows servants gossip amongst themselves! Truly sensitive information wouldn't be shared, but the usual minor-but-juicy tidbits? Those are harmless, surely. She may also elect to be quietly, discreetly helpful, regardless of whether or not it's been asked of her. If she sees a need, she wants to meet it, and is as happy to remain anonymous as she is to be recognized. It doesn't matter if that need is a bedtime snack or an arranged 'accidental' meeting with a heart's desire, she'll do her best to make it happen.
For her, life is a series of tasks, sometimes one to the next or sometimes several at once, but there is always something to be done. These somethings, however, are never rushed through, each one given all the attention it's due. Nashwa may be busy, but she very rarely needs to be in a hurry, as her tasks are diligently planned ahead and organized. And if something goes wrong, well, that happens, she'll fix it. Panic only makes things worse. She keeps a cool head, and even if she is starting to sweat, she'll never show it.
So much of Nashwa's life revolves around other people and what they need and want that she's a bit lost when she doesn't have someone or something to focus on. 'Rest day' is a foreign concept, and she's more likely to spend time off preparing for the next day than she is to rest or do conventionally 'fun' things. At best, she'll use free time to cook and bake, to play with or invent recipes. Her vices are few and far between; you'll never catch her gambling, drinking to excess, or being anything other than responsible. She does suffer from vanity, but not in the physical sense: she knows she's good at what she does, and thrives in that knowing. She may not receive acknowledgement for the less obvious things she does, but for the tangible things like cooking and baking, she craves compliments, which may be part of the reason she cooks and bakes even in her off time. While she'd never presume to ask for them, the compliments and gratitude of others drive her.
With so much of her identity wrapped up in being 'useful,' Nashwa is someone who doesn't necessarily know how to live for herself: she needs something to do for someone else, whatever the scale of the task. This doesn't mean that she needs to always be told what to do, however; left to her own devices, she will still find something, somewhere, that needs doing, and do it. Even mundane taks are welcome. She can delegate and advise, if necessary, but will still be involved, and may micromanage. She does her best not to say unkind things or give too-harsh critiques, but that tendency to nitpick may well ruffle feathers.
Positive Trait List attentive, helpful, organized
Negative Trait List eavesdropper, nitpicker, prideful
History:
As the daughter of the Steward and Headwoman (Anashailo and Veswalye) of a Minor Hold along the Igen River, Nashwa comes by her tendencies and talents honestly. Raised to be well-mannered and dutiful, she took to every lesson well, and took just as well to being the oldest once her siblings began to arrive. With seven turns between her and the next, by the time her sister was old enough to be minded by someone other than her parents, Nashwa was just old enough to do the minding. While there were certainly some elements she didn't enjoy, she knew better than to complain, and did a fair job of everything that needed doing. More siblings arrived, a turn apart here, two turns apart there, and by the time she hit her teenage years, she was responsible for a troupe of five, and took those responsibilities very seriously. She did her best to always have them in good and proper order, minding lessons and helping with whatever tasks they were capable of, and ideally out of anyone's way (the last with admittedly mixed success).
Though she loved her siblings (most days, most of the time), now that she was finally old enough to formally apprentice at a real Hall, Nashwa hoped to do just that...but unfortunately for her, she was just a bit too good at managing her siblings, and she had to wait three more turns for her sister Ashailye to be deemed old enough and capable enough of inheriting more management of the brood that just kept growing. With perhaps just a touch of guilt, she went off to Courtesan Hall. Several turns later, just after achieving her Journeyman status, she was Searched to Western Weyr.
Other: emotion_bigheart
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 the or not? Yes
Do you want them to have a possible Stands Impression? No
