Name: LojzeAge: 17
Nameday: 3559.05.23
Sex: Male
Sexual Orientation: gay
Craft: N/A
Rank: Candidate
Location: High Reaches Weyr
Physical Description: Tall at 6'2", lean and rangy. His complexion is fair, large blue-green eyes set in a boyishly handsome face, all button nose and stubborn mouth and long, strong jawline with the faint beginnings of stubble coming in on his chin. He keeps his thick, straight, dark brown hair long, to about the middle of his back, worn artfully messy when it isn't braided back out of his face with only a clump of chin-length fringe left loose.
Left to his own devices, Lojze dresses in the manner of other trendy upper-crust young people in High Reaches Hold: layered and fur-lined, slightly disheveled, often gender-ambiguous. He dresses down a lot for chores and studies, neat shirts and trousers and boots, with a sturdy, stylish fur-lined coat his parents gave him when he was Searched.
Personality: A wannabe flyboy, Lojze's life revolves around DRAGONS. Even before he was Searched, he was obsessed with dragons and dragonriders and everything to do with fighting Thread. He's still obsessed, and is always first to volunteer to help bathe and oil dragons especially after Threadfall, talking about tactics and chatting up the dragonriders for 'Fall stories. Being a dragonrider is the only thing that he has ever wanted to be, and he is not afraid of doing whatever it takes to achieve that goal. The ends ALWAYS justify the means.
He's a hard one for others to figure out, that's for sure. Emotionally detached and inscrutable at times, his dry sardonic wit and charm makes it difficult to tell whether he is kidding or not. He can be standoffish and aloof, yet other times he can be impossibly needy, pouting and demanding people drop whatever they are doing and pay attention to hiiiimmmmm. He has learned to rein in most of his worst behavior around the Candidatemasters and is a model student (not an act; he really wants to learn), but around his fellow Candidates, all bets are off. And while he enjoys the company of other former Holder kids, Lojze prefers to slum it with the Weyrbrats. They're a lot more fun.
Beneath the spoiled Holder brat exterior lies a deeply romantic soul; the songs and stories he's heard about the great dragonriders of Pern's past have impacted him in a profound way. Despite understanding the gravity and danger of being a dragonrider, Lojze has romanticized it in his mind, not to the point of ridiculousness, but to the degree that he sees being a dragonrider as a calling, a duty to protect and save Pern. He's a romantic in other ways too -- while he's never had a partner, he sometimes fantasizes what it would be like to woo and court someone and treat them like a lord. The right boy has never come along yet, though he has had a few crushes, but he knows what he's looking for (or so he thinks), and when he finds them, they will be like the stars of his eyes.
Lojze does have a bit of that Holder privilege thing going on; he used to be able to get away with whatever he wanted because he was Daddy's Favorite. His sense of personal responsibility, though, is far too strong now to allow him to act like the world owes him -- when he makes a mistake or does something wrong, he owns it. Being from High Reaches Hold, he naturally has a strong sense of loyalty to High Reaches Weyr; he believes that it was their strict, regimented, traditional ways that saved them from Thread, and he is sworn to carry those traditions on.
Positive Trait List charming, responsible, driven, loyal, romantic
Negative Trait List needy, inscrutable, spoiled, ruthless, callow
History: Born and bred in High Reaches Hold, the child of a Hold official and his wife, Lojze was the light of his parents' eyes, being their first-born son. They had great expectations for him, but he had goals of his own -- becoming a dragonrider. He was given a dragon plush as a young child and dragged it everywhere (he still has it amongst his personal possessions); he would listen to the Harpers sing about the legendary dragonriders of old, wide-eyed and enraptured. Young Lojze was obsessed.
He was 13 Turns old when Thread returned to wreak havoc on Pern. From the safety of the stone keep he watched the dragons from High Reaches Weyr fight the deadly silvery menace through the heavy glass windows with a mix of fascination and terror. When a Searchrider came a few days later, his excitement over finally seeing a dragon up close and personal was overshadowed by the fact he was just a bit too young yet to be Searched. His disappointment only made him more determined than ever to make his dream come true.
Lojze grew into a typical upper-crust teenager, callow and charming and vain and a spoiled brat, but he never lost sight of his ultimate goal. It was a goal he kept safe from his friends, unless one of them brought the subject of fighting Thread up, at which point Lojze would smugly and with great detail discuss the topic. Eccentric amongst his peers, he didn't care what they thought of him. He knew he would realize his dream someday; he just had to wait.
His dream came one step closer to reality when he was finally Searched at age 16. Lojze fully appreciated his luck and what this meant, and has made a real effort to adapt and learn the ways of the dragonriders so that he may one day join their ranks.
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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
