Persona Profile: Onesime (Inactive)

Name: Onesime
Age: 24
Birthday: m10 d28
Rank: Candidate
Location: River Bluff Weyr
Job: Drudge

Physical Description of Persona:
Onesime is about a year into his growth spurt. His shoulders have broadened considerably due to his hard work, and he's taller than his father. He keeps his sandy blond hair cut short so it won't get into his grey eyes, and a few brave whiskers have made an appearance on his top lip - a fact he's quite proud of. He has a deep dimple on either cheek, a cleft in his chin, and he's usually got a spot or two on his cheeks or forehead.

Onesime has never really aspired beyond his station in life, and as such his clothes are simple to the point of being spartan, and often patched. His hands are rough from labour and his feet are huge for his size - he hopes he'll grow into them soon.

Emotional Description of Persona:
When Onesime imagines the future, he imagines a cot of his own that's neatly kept by his wife (he isn't sure who that will be, yet) and chock full of children and laughter. He wants a flock of ovines, a garden, and a few fields to till. He never really considered having adventures, and now that he's in one, he isn't quite sure what to make of it -- or that he likes it.

The trauma of being moved to the Weyr has put his good nature to the test - and Onesime thinks that he's doing marvellously well adjusting. He's patient, kind, and level-headed... if a little stubborn about change.

History of Persona:
Onesime's cousin, P'lat, Impressed brown Tenegulth a turn before Thread returned to Pern's skies. Everyone in Onesime's extended family was terribly proud of him, and Onesime's father was proudest of all. Everyone from the valley the extended family cotholded in held a huge Gather in his honor and boasted about P'lat's achievement... until the third Fall, when P'lat was fatally scored and disappeared /between/.

Onesime was barely out of childhood, but the silvery Thread became something frightening and wild in his mind. His father's stories and exadurated mourning when his nephew died made Onesime resentful of P'lat and the Weyr, and more determined than ever that he would stay in his family's valley and do nothing more exciting than farm. His parents tried to apprentice him to every Journeyman who passed through their cothold, but Onesime would have none of it. His father begged and nagged his son, and cursed him for his lack of ambition, but Onesime was unrelenting.

Then one day that a green dragon announced that Onesime was Candidate material, and Onesime found himself utterly unable to say no...

Family and Friends
Mesior, 61, Farmer (Father)
Onessy, 53, Wife (Mother)

Approved: April 30th 2008
Last updated: June 17th 2013

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Persona Profile: Onesime (Inactive)