Persona Profile: Supaka

Writer: Vanessa T Sommerfeld

Name: Supaka
Age: 46
Birthday: m11 d10
Rank: Senior Journeyman Dolphineer
Location: Dolphin Hall, Dolphin Cove Weyr
Craft: Dolphineer
Craft Rank: Senior Journeyman
Speciality: Salvage and Rescue

Physical Description of Persona:
Life is good for Supaka, and you can read it on her face. Her smoky hazel eyes dance with humor and her smile is flashy. After turns practically living in the water, her skin is tanned and even her dark brown hair has been bleached with streaks of a lighter shade. Though not completely lacking in feminine curves, she would say that she is built to cut through the water with the speed and agility her craft demands.

Emotional Description of Persona:
Though she had her wild days, the characterist most people would attribute to Supaka now is stablity. Her marriage to Kessel certainly has calmed, though not completely tamed her wilder side. She has been able to find a peace with herself and she no longer feels any need to prove herself to anyone.

History of Persona:
Supaka was born in the North in a large fishing Hold where equality of the sexes was the accepted norm. After her harper classes had finished, she, along with many of the boys and girls she graduated with, set about deciding on her future. She decided to give dolphineering a try and from the first moment she saw the Dolphin Hall looming off in the distance, Supaka felt like she was coming home. The lanky tomboy soon became popular with her peers and she felt right at home in the water with the dolphins. Though she got into more than her share of trouble with her fellow apprentices, she studied hard and took her future seriously.

As much as she enjoyed it, however, she longed for some adventure. When Lord Jaryd's call for Northern Dolphineers to come south to populate his Dolphin Hall came out, she thought she had finally found what she was looking for. What she found, however, was bitter disappointment. Though she felt safe and at home at the Dolphin Hall and Topaz Sea Hold, outside its confines she quickly learned that female crafters were not greatly appreciated. Having been raised in the equality of the North, she found the post-plague South a battle to always prove herself. She quickly grew bitter and argumentative. Any criticism became a personal attack.

When she was twenty-seven, she accepted a life-changing assignment aboard ship. Though the work was long, tedious and forgettable, it was then that she met Kessel, the quiet and even tempered first-mate of the ship. At first some could not understand the attraction between the fiery dolphineer and the cool-headed sailor fourteen turns her senior. Yet he seemed to have a calming effect on her that disarmed and softened her to the world again. By the end of the voyage they were promised, and were soon married.

Supaka was given an assignment on Kessel's ship, much to the couple's delight. They happily spent their days together, and four turns into their marriage they welcomed the birth of their daughter, Selka. Kessel rose from first-mate to captain and the small family moved onto the True Runner full of hope and optimism. Their daughter, Selka, felt right at home on the sea, but they began to wonder if she would be able to adjust to children her own age and life on land.

When Selka was a turn away from starting harper classes, Kessel and Supaka came to the painfully difficult decision of returning the mother and daughter to dry land. Supaka accepted a teaching position in the Dolphin Hall, and had to readjust to a stationary life without her husband's constant calming presence.

Family and Friends
Kessel, 59, Captain of the True Runner (Husband)
Selka, 13, Hallbrat (Daughter)

Approved: September 20th 2007
Last updated: November 13th 2007

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Persona Profile: Supaka