Persona Profile: Meijah (Inactive)

Writer: Eimi

Name: Meijah
Age: 55
Birthday: m2 d13
Rank: Outlaw
Location: ,

Awards
Crayon Awards: Favorite Villain (October 2005)

Physical Description of Persona:
Meijah is an imposing figure, with black hair and black eyes. His tall frame is well muscled from turns of training during his days as a guard as well as from the hard labor he was subject to as a youth. The features of his face are prominent, but appealing, however his smile is very sneer-like.

Emotional Description of Persona:
His character is defined by one important point - he is the only person in Pern that actually matters. Everyone else is either a method or a hinderance to his will. He accepts authority since by doing he is able to earn marks and for no other reason. He accepts societies rules only because it allows him to live in comfort in a Hold. He accepts societies laws just as long as he does not get caught breaking them in persuit of his own pleasure. Woman are good for only one thing in Meijah mind - pleasure. Any woman not engaged in pleasing him, whether by her choice or not, is not worth his notice. Men are even more useless as they are rivals and hinderances, and are therefore expendable when not serving some kind of purpose.

History of Persona:
Meijah was born into a poor family in a remote cothold. His father disappeared and was presumed dead when he was young, leaving him with his mother and two older sisters. Their mother remarried to another cotholder. His step-father was a cruel and demanding man who paid the young boy little mind unless he was acting up or shirked his duties in any way. The boy endured his stepfather's beatings stoically for that made the man even more angry and fierce. He took pleasure in pushing the man to his limit, and pushing his own body as well.

Meijah's hate grew day by day. Besides how to take a beating, the only thing he could claim to have learned from the man was his attitude towards women. The boy hated his sisters for spending each day in what he saw as relative ease around the house while he was out working the fields and clearing land. He thought they deserved the rough treatment and unwanted advances of their stepfather.

At the age of twelve an angry cotholder confronted their stepfather, claiming Meijah had defiled his young daughter who was a few turns younger than the boy. Meijah endured the greatest beating of his life at his stepfather's hands that night. It took days for him to recover. Once he was well enough he waked away from his home in the middle of the night and never again looked back.

He found work at a minor holding far from his childhood home, first as a drudge, but as he grew, tall and muscular, it was decided that he would make a formidable guard if trained properly. He quickly agreed. Quickly he rose through the ranks and gained the respect of the other guards for his strength if not for his character.

One night when all were asleep, a drunken Meijah broke into the room of one of the workers at the local inn for a little recreation. To keep the woman quiet he had covered her head with a pillow. He soon realized the woman had stopped struggling. In his drunken euphoria, he had suffocated the young woman to death. He knew he had to cover up the evidence of his crime, and so he started a fire in the building, close to the room with her lifeless body. The fire raged, burning the building to the ground, covering up not only the murder of the young girl but killing two innocent travelers who had stopped to stay the night. Though arson was suspected, none could find any evidence. Meijah decided it was too close of a call, and after a decent period he requested a transfer to Garnet Valley Hold.

In his forty-fifth turn, his life changed again when he decided to help Verora, the Headwoman of Garnet Valley, to despose of the Steward and Headwoman Assistant. Things did not go as planned, and Meijah was forced to flee for his life along with Verora, who he suspected had betrayed him to his fellow guards. Now he leads a holdless existence, trying to keep one step ahead of the guards. It remains to be seen how long Verora will prove useful to him, and therefore be kept alive...

Approved: July 29th 2006
Last updated: October 2nd 2007

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