Red-haired girl.
Ginger
Location Southern Weyr
Position Weyrlingmaster
Craft Former Smithcraft Apprentice
Dragon brown Shokravanth
Wing Catmint
Birthplace Igen Weyr
Living Family Mother Lanevra, numerous siblings and half-siblings. Several cousins including Ainslee.
Played By Molly Ringwald
Player yranth

Description

The origin of Ginger's name is clear: her head is covered with short unruly curls whose colour can't be dignified with 'red' or 'auburn'. Her face, along with most other visible parts of her fair skin, is covered in freckles so dense that they almost run together. The face is thin, the nose slender and pointed and the chin almost sharp. Her chestnut eyes are perhaps her best feature; they're keen under well-shaped eyebrows. She's a skinny woman in her mid-twenties, moderately tall, with modest curves above and none to speak of below, prominent elbows and knees, and wiry limbs with hard muscles.

Unless she's in leathers, Ginger is dressed in grey trousers, hard-wearing and hard-worn, along with a skimpy sleeveless tunic for the heat, with a loose shirt slung over the top when she's in the caverns. Today's is checked in green and black, over a seafoam green cami. If it's cold, there'll also be a cable-knit sweater or a flying jacket.


Common Knowledge

  • Eldest child of a deceased brownrider and a seamstress; has a tribe of younger siblings and half-sibs.
  • As a child, was known as 'a bit of a handful' and claims to have been the despair of her harper teachers. Tended to escape trouble by climbing something.
  • Did odd jobs around the Weyr for a long while, then apprenticed to the Smithcraft.
  • Stood for several clutches, without success, then Impressed brown Shokravanth from Zymuraith and Ravaith's clutch.
  • Was Weyrling Wingleader for her class.
  • She was the AWLM that M'kel demoted for being female. Did not appreciate this.
  • Two firelizards, brown Walnut and a remarkably noisy gold, Tansy.
  • Hobbies: rock-climbing, maths problems and knowing what's going on.
  • Doesn't drink alcohol, ever. (Maybe once. By accident.)
  • Has little interest in clothes or other 'girly stuff'.

Relationships

Gilane: Youngest full sister, currently a Journeyman Harper at Southern. Gin's proud of how well she's doing, though still mildly sad that she's chosen not to Stand so won't ever know the love of a dragon.

Ainslee: One of the tribe of Ginger's Igen cousins, and a few turns older than Ginger. Her father is Lanevra's brother, greenrider G'vain, and she was a seamstress until she Impressed blue Keryth.


History

Brownrider R'gin was born at Igen; he transferred to Southern when it opened, taking his weyrmate and baby Ginger with him. Lanevra, a seamstress, was also weybred, and Ginger can tell you all the dragonriders in five generations of ancestors. Ginger herself was the result of a casual encounter, but her parents stayed more-or-less together after her conception and had four more children. R'gin wasn't exactly faithful to his weyrmate; he also provided Ginger with a selection of half-sibs before he and Rusath were lost Between coming back from Igen after a night at the Pit, when Ginger was ten. Ginger was heartbroken, because she adored her lively, funny, father. Lanevra grieved too, but was also quietly and guiltily relieved: though good-natured and devoted to his children, R'gin was rather feckless and drank too much. She eventually paired up with one of the Weyr's herdsmen and had several more children.

Education and Ginger didn't entirely get on. She'd happily learn what she wanted to learn, but studiously avoided learning anything she didn't, though she'll go out of her way to pick up information that interests her. As a child she announced her intention of Impressing a fighting dragon and refused to contemplate another job. She appeared to be a magnet for mischief and was quite capable of leading her friends into it. She's gained enough sense to avoid serious trouble now, but it took her a long while to settle down to a regular job. She tried her hand at several roles, and would have settled to working with the handymen had the one she was assigned to not ditched her in favour employing a boy. Still she gained some useful skills. After that, she became frustrated and rather erratic, and supervisors tended to want to pass her on. And there was that incident in the kitchen…

After she stood unsuccessfully for a couple of clutches, and particularly after her best friend Pawla Impressed a green, Ginger started to understand why her mother wanted her to think about an alternative career. That career, after a lot of thought, turned out to be with the Smithcraft. Though a late starter, she settled in well as an apprentice, while still intending to Stand again at every opportunity. She found she had a particular talent for maths, which surprised her as much as anyone else. She also had a dilemma: she would soon have to choose a specialty in preparation for promotion to Senior Apprentice. She was interested in the design and engineering aspects of the craft, with emphasis on the maths, but was told that to choose this as a speciality, she'd need to continue her apprenticeship at the Smithcraft Hall. And that meant leaving the Weyr. Ginger dreaded the day, especially as she wanted to continue to Stand - which she did, twice more, without success. It was only on her fifth attempt, on day 28, month 5 of turn 14 of the Pass, that she Impressed Striking a Balance Brown Shokravanth. To her surprise, she was chosen as Weyrling Wingleader. She graduated into Lynx. F'kan asked her to become an AWLM, and she accepted (Day 28, month 4, turn 16). Lynx gave her a rousing send-off. However, when M'kel became Weyrleader, he demoted her, on the grounds that only female weyrlings could have a female AWLM, and there weren't going to be any of those. Once there were female weyrlings, F'kan talked M'kel into reinstating her, as soon as he decently could. She's finding life good, teaching weyrlings and flying with Lynx between classes, though her mother and sister are still trying to instil some dress sense (and in her mother's case, some interest in babies). When F'kan became Weyrleader, he tapped Ginger as his successor (Day 19, month 7, turn 20).


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