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Dora
Southern Weyr Area
SW Junior Weyrling Rank
A tiny seahold Origin
Dragon green Ianayuth
Played By Melissa Rauch
Player Rakouzo

Description

At first glance, an apt word for Isadora would be 'cute' - her round face, magnificent dimples and button nose seem to gather together to form the picture of sweetness and light. Pale blonde hair has been cut short to frame her face and is naturally curly, the tight corkscrews' tidiness only determined by the current weather outside. Slender brows arch above steel blue eyes the color of a stormy sea. Her hands are delicate with long fingers, the tough callouses the only giveaway to her true nature. While she only stands barely at 5 feet tall, her body is full of wiry muscle and lean power for someone of her size.


Polly (Feline)

Much of this sleek feline's body is taken over by a rich shade of reddish-orange. Splotches of white interrupt the deep ginger color here and there - her belly, a portion of her chest and all four paws are a stark shade of white. Even her muzzle has a blaze of creamy coloring, though a crooked slash of orange color remains under her nose in what looks like a neatly-trimmed mustache. Her fur is semi-longhair - silky and smooth, though with the length only really noticeable in the tufted plume of her tail and feathery fringing around her legs and cheeks. Her eyes are bright yellow with the barest hint of green.


Kelp (Green Fire Lizard)

It almost looks as though this tiny green was dredged up from the depths of the sea - her hide is covered in a blotchy mishmash of seaweed green mixed with miniscule speckles of muddy brown. Much of her body is stocky and thick; her muzzle is overly blunt and her headknobs appear stubby, giving her an overall ugly appearance only amplified by her murky coloring. Whatever beauty she possesses is concentrated in her wings - the thin membranes are awash in a rich sea green dappled with deep shadows, the pattern reminiscent of sun diffusing through water.


Common Knowledge

  • She may look cute, though she's certainly not overly sweet. Looks can be deceiving. She's stubborn, sarcastic and has a distinct lack of tact in a lot of circumstances (or perhaps she just doesn't have a filter?) But she has an uncanny ability to turn on the charm, and the dimples, if she thinks it will sway things to her side.
  • She's a fan of having felines on ships to control vermin and improve morale.
  • She smuggled her own feline onto her last ship to try to prove her point.
  • Everyone at the Weyr knows her as the shipwrecked girl from the fishing boat that sank during the huge storm at Southern. (She's too cute to be a pirate, surely?)
  • She's not often seen around the Weyr without her cat, Polly
  • She's been doing a lot of random chores about the Weyr, openly unsure of what path to take. She can be seen doing laundry one week and kitchen prep work the next - it all seems to depend where extra help is needed.

Relationships

  • Isakara - Mother
  • Doran - Father, fisherman
  • Karan - Brother, 2T older
  • Isaak - Brother, 4T older

History

Isadora is the youngest daughter of a fisherman and his wife - both residents of a far flung, rather minor seahold. Considering she was the only girl, her mother tried her best to instill as much feminine qualities as she could on the girl. Unfortunately for Isakara, her daughter Isadora seemed to be more interested in following her brothers around. Isadora, or Dora as she had been nicknamed, was happy to help out with the seahold tasks - mending nets, baiting lines and generally helping out where she could or was allowed. As she grew, she began to resent the 'women's work' and longed to be able to go on the ships with her brothers, uncles and father.

Doran, however, expressly forbid women on his ship and the Lord of the seahold was no different. Isadora began to be pushed further towards learning more feminine tasks as she grew, though she continued to rebel against them. She took to spending more time with the local felines - feeding them, caring for them and taming them. Isadora found them calming - listening to her petty childhood problems without judgement. She did what she could for them - mending any small hurts and wrangling the felines to the local Herder for inspection if it was anything beyond cuts or scrapes. Eventually she noted the felines proficiency in keeping vermin away from the hold and realized this would be a boon on long sea voyages.

Doran, however, flatly refused to hear Isadora's ideas regarding 'ship felines' - as far as he was concerned, felines didn't belong on a ship any more than women did. There was a lengthy shouting match between the two of them, though neither stubborn will budged. Doran, now at a loss as to how he could have produced such a willful girl, started to talk with Isakara about marriage prospects - perhaps if Isadora was placed away from her temptations, she'd be a better woman.

It was unfortunate for Doran that Isadora happened to overhear these 'arranged marriage' plans. Not wanting to be shackled for the rest of her life and without the ability to go to the sea, she took things into her own hands. Taking her favorite feline with her, Isadora left the seahold at the age of 16 in search of something better for herself. She knew of the pirate crews that ranged along the coast and figured they'd be anxious for some helping hands. Isadora was right - she was easily able to join a pirate crew, though she ended up having to smuggle her feline aboard. This ship was the Wandering Disgrace, which turned out to be a bit more than she had bargained for in the end.

Isadora certainly liked her time as a pirate - the freedom, the ability to do what she wanted and not being held to such strict ideals. Though she was unfortunate to have been caught up in the unsuccessful Rylov kidnapping scheme - not her idea, certainly, though she did go along with it and even was key in luring the boy away with her feline, Polly. Not that very many people around know this tidbit (or anyone much at all, for that matter) - Dora was one of the first on the crew to contract firehead and subsequently spent most of the remaining missions on-board the ship rather than in places where she could have been subsequently identified or caught. Lucky for her, though not so much for her health overall. Though even Isadora would tell you firehead is better than being in a cell.

When the Wandering Disgrace wrecked in the giant Southern storm, Isadora managed to struggle to shore with the rest of the crew, though was quickly left behind due to her still being weak from firehead. She eventually passed out and was found by Southern Weyr sweeps. Even after the bout of firehead, Isadora was able to use her quick thinking and fishing knowledge to explain her predicament to the riders who found her - she was the only survivor of a wrecked fishing boat and had barely managed to struggle to shore. The story worked - who could believe someone as innocent looking as Isadora would be lying?

And it's this story that's currently kept her at Southern Weyr - she's certainly non-threatening, handy and happy to help out in different areas, so no suspicion fell on the petite blonde at all. Isadora's currently doing odd jobs around the Weyr and trying to figure out what to do next with her life. Legitimize herself and stay in the Weyr, forgetting her brief foray into pirating? Keep an ear out for new pirate crews hiring once summer rolls around? It's difficult to say, though Isadora is certainly being her usual non-suspicious self while she figures it out - a bit stubborn, impetuous but hard-working. She certainly doesn't want to go back to her family in defeat, so Southern Weyr is where she remains for now, in limbo. At least she has time to consider her future choices a bit more carefully this time - Isadora may have liked the freedom of the open seas, though the kidnapping incident has left her with some internal guilt and uncertainty about returning to another pirate crew (kidnapping and potentially killing small innocent children was not what she had signed up for.)


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