Delvina, Candidate

Name: Delvina of Bluestone Hold.
Age: 17 turns.
Season of Birth: Late Winter.
Birthhold: Bluestone Hold, a small but notable mining hold near Crom Hold. Famous for turning out blue stones laced with lightning.
Gender: Female.
Rank: Holder's Daughter and Apprentice Healer.



Play-By: Unknown.
Eye Color: Dark brown that fall with solemn intensity whenever she's thinking.
Hair Color: Sun gold yellow hair that falls in loose lengths just below her shoulder blades.
Height: 5'6".
Build: Delvina has a medium build - a light mixture of soft flesh and toned muscle blending together to give her both the beauty of luxury and the fit figure of someone who works hard.
Overall Description: Delvina is a lovely girl with a well attended appearance, making her quite exceptionable within the mining holds. Her face is tall and angular, lending to the intensity of her drak brown eyes. Her lips are small but seem somewhat larger as they stand out against her smooth, pale cheeks. Her nose is a particularly fine feature - long, slim and well proportioned to suit the loveliness of her face. Her long hair is a matter of pride - with too many of the other girls never managing enough sunlight to maintain such light golden tones. Her skin shows a light tan - for despite her efforts, Delvina never quite manages enough time outside to gain the full color of those who work the rock faces. Delvina dresses in light loose pieces, preferring light colors - unless she's working inside the mines. Then she will settle for thick, warmer garments in dark colors. She will cover her hair under her top and a scarf - as she's afraid her sun gold will mar with the constant touch of dust and dirt - for it constantly marks whatever clothes she wears within the tunnels.

Of course, it needed be said that much of her jewelery is carved from large pieces of polished bluestone - though she also has a very discreet set of diamond earrings and a clear quartz 



Likes: Delvina enjoys Slow Romances, Nerat Bath Oils, Gossip, Hold Politics, Girl's Nights In and Matchmaking.
Dislikes: Interruptions, Chaos, Carelessness and Infuriating Indecisive people.
Strengths: Planning, Good Organisation, and Neatness are her way. She also shows intelligence, Fericious Bravery, Youthful Determination, Charisma and Strong Natural Emotions.
Weaknesses: Delvina get rather wrapped up within her own careful planning - becoming Self Absorbed, Vain, Judgmental and Inconsiderate to the changing needs of others. She usually manages all of these whilst trying to provide for the best interests of others mind you. She also is incredibly volatile - her emotions can override her sense and leave her fighting pointless battles with no consequence! She also has an innate llonelinessfrom her time in the hold - a depressing isolated feeling that once lead to weak thoughts of suicide as her only escape.


Overall Description: Delvina is kind, helpful girl who simply wishes the best for everyone. Unfortunately, she shows great skill at planning, interfering and enacting out such best wishes into other people's lives - whether or not they wished to be helped. She likes to gossip and will fight people's battles without a second thought - if only they will fight along side her. The meek and defeated sadden and disgust her. As do arrogant tyrants - despite her own tendancies towards such behaviours. Delvina isn't cruel and won't leave someone feeling trapped and alone - but her help and methods can be inconsiderate & troublesome. Maybe in time she will acheive some balance - but for now youthful flaws war with youthful desires to create a wonderful, if volatile young Lady.

Delvina's Song: Suddenly I See, KT Tunstall 



Mother: Levinta, A stern, chaotic woman whom tried to avoid the Small Hold's organisation and care as much as possible. She gladly defers these duties to several other woman as well her daughter, preferring to remain the Hold Healer, busying herself with the gathering, preparation and preserving of various plants and medicines. She enjoys time outside- often taking Delvina on her journeying about the mountainous region. Her room is always chaotic- unless Delvina has managed to find the time to sort and organize the mess.

Father: Dentan, A lord of a Smallhold and skillful jeweler/miner, he is a hard man who understands the need to carefully plan out every aspect of hold life. Particularly when it comes to the expansion of the mines. One careless mistake could cost him a mine - and everyone inside it!

Siblings: Tanten, a older brother of 22 turns. He has his father's eye for minerals and expanding the mine. He is not as intelligent as his sister - but he has a natural ease to his nature. It can be quite charming when he's relaxed. Unfortunately, he is also rather hasty when it comes to relationships. Delvina's has often set her brother up with bright, elegant women to help his tastes. But Tanten's tastes tend toward energetic, hard working types. Which isn't a bad choice - but she always felt he could choose a little better for himself.

Adoptable Friend: Aurianna, a girl younger than Delvina. A sweet, soft child with a natural kindness. She is the Holder's daughter to a small hold & deemed important by her father - enough so that she is made to travel with the family on the few business affairs that called for such matters. She is also Delvina's only true friend - and they share a close love that blurs the lines between friend and lover.

Aurianna's brother and several other Holder's children were brought to Bluestone Hold in order to promote a possible marriage between the holds. Aurianna was brought along as a possible match for Delvina's brother as well. But Delvina, to spite her father, placed all her affections upon Aurianna whilst ignoring the boys. Unfortunately the pair were well matched, leading to an awkward mingling of close friendship and young love. Before Aurianna left, they kissed one kiss, leaving Delvina unsure if what she felt was just truly friendship. Whilst Aurianna was left with wondering of what might have been had she stayed longer...

Aurianna lives under a hold of old tradition - and these values would be harsh against her youthful desire. But then, so is giving up your whole life to live at a Weyr. Within a turn, Delvina will find a way - perhaps accompanying a search rider to find Aurianna and offer her a life at the Weyr. Perhaps atop her own dragon. She will have to confront her emotions then - as well as Aurianna's.

Bluestone Hold: Bluestone Smallhold is a mining hold that is known for it's strange blue stones - it's most precious of which are laced with white and yellow ores. These pale streaks come out like lightning flashes. Occasionally the stone's color is clouded by these minerals, making a pale white and yellow stone that isn't greatly desired. The hold is full of practical, hardworking types who always seem to dream of making their hold into something bigger. The bulk of their production are stone types, with some mineral wealth as well.

Bluestone Hold also keeps a good relationship with High Reaches Weyr. Dentan believes this is because of the business they offer - their dragon's serve as a good means to transport fine stones and samples all over Pern. Bluestone Hold is not a large hold - but they often can be found at gathers and even hatchings - walking amongst the more notable faces of Pern. In return the Hold is happy to tithe a healthy amount of their crops from the lower reaches - as well as a selection of their fine stone and jewelry. They even lend miners to the Weyr, expanding rooms and shoring up tunnels when they crack. Though Delvina's grandfather explained that the arrangement was to prevent the desperate Weyrs from snatching children away. The strain of missing hold children left the miners worrisome - so much so that they couldn't safely perform their work in the dangerous mines.



Delvina was groomed to be a beautiful young woman. A well tended appearance - with careful expense paid to what she wears & the oils she bathes with. Polite manners and delicately spoken words. The Hold would regularly write to the Harper Hall for new teaching songs - and she was taught to read and write a fine, fluid script. Delvina was apprenticed to her mother - a healer & cook. Her dreams of Harper and desire to wander shackled away. Delvina lived the finest life of all the girls in her Hold. An envious, luxurious life under her father's quiet tyranny.

Tuning fingers itched, aching, unstrung,

Her isolation imagined high cliff and long falls,

Her mind unraveling, baked in sadness, her threads undone

Hopeful glances met lusty boys fleeting eyes,

Lest father's fists bring about demise.

Delvina had wished to explore all of Pern. Her father & grandfather had visited gather's atop dragon back, using their Weyr ties to travel far and wide. Her finger's itched to play pipe and flute, her voice longing to learn song and key. Perhaps she'd grow up a harper, selling her song and living free? But it was her father's tyranny that sealed her away atop her mountain. Whipping her into shape, delicate fingers met hard pots, lyrical mind set upon recipe and brew. Like her mother, Delvina was apprenticed as healer & cook. Her isolation looked longing into the hearts of boys - hoping for their warm escape. But her touch left them atremble - her father's wrath well known. Delvina lived atop her mountain tower, alone with the long fall below growing before her until it was the the path to fleeting freedom.

Inspired by Suddenly I See, KT Tunstall


Then came a large gather. Important men and women flowed about - even Weyrfolk and dragon riders were allowed without challenge here. Her father had been discussing the Hold's future when she'd walked in. He sought to remove the Weyr's ties, freeing the Hold to become self sufficient. A taller woman framed with long brown hair that shone red in falling light. Her face was soft and delicately featured - an easy beauty you just wanted to kiss. But her dark brown eyes overflowed with passion - set upon her father's lips. Her father had always liked soft, obedient women. But this women bore no shackle to a Holder. Her beauty hid fire- not chains. She brooked no quarter - her fresh sense flaring Dentan's temper as his isolated traditions were overturned. Conversation consumed the pair, her voice berating an unthinking child. batting aside his arguments like a child's tantrum. His fingers curled into white fists, her muscles responding to show a firm body beneath that delicate face. But Levinta, Delvina's mother, interfered before the argument turned sour. To Delvina's surprise it was for her father she feared for! The woman was Weyrfolk - a hot tempered dragonrider named Haruka. And no man, not even her giant father could brawl with dragons.


After that day Delvina choose to stand resolute against her father. Her opinions became constant battles. Her eyes offered his objections quiet shame. Her will growing intolerable. His hand's beat hard - and yet she only screamed her defiance louder! When he broached marriage, she flared so hot that none dared speak between them. He forced her hand, bringing Holder's children to visit their Hold. She turned her attentions away from the boys, her affections settling upon an idle sister, a young girl named Aurianna. The only child safe from her father's white fists. Refusing the boys in at every dance, she indulged Aurianna in every step. Outrage filled the halls - her father caught within his daughter's trap. But so was Delvina caught - within the delicate touch of young affection. For the younger girl had returned her interest - with genuine feeling. Loneliness had become excitement. Trickery formed close bonds. And now young passion warred with reluctant guilt.Delvina realized her crimes - knowing she could not end up like her father. So she carefully nutured her precious love - unable to decide if this feeling was true friendship or young love. Trapped into sharing both, unwilling to give up either, she waited until her father returned the children to their hold's. Then she promised herself she'd find a way to leave this place - before she became as cruel and tyrannical as her father.

Father's words, fall harshly, unkind.

Faranth's ways lost,
A weyrless hold standing untied.

No children would be searched, rider's would soon find.
Old tradition finally tossed,

Desperate dragon men plotted,

Dragon eggs needed children allotted.

A plan hatched, taken quickly to wing

Delvina snatched, confidence growing

Her shackles breaking, her soul finally trusting.

Search riders came shortly after - her father's mood finally hard enough to refuse them and their Weyr. Offering them a pathetic tithe, he allowed them no search. They still feasted- with warm beds offered for the night. But this was only to show that guard's that had been placed - to protect the children from dragon snatches. Delvina's wit told a tale - of a hidden spring beneath the Hold. There errant son's and merchant's daughters could be found by the morning dawn. Guard's turned a blind eye - for no dragon could fit on the ledge there. But there was another tale - of a time long ago when a dragon rider landed within a hidden valley - lost between rocky illusions of the tricky mountain. There a narrow cave led to the spring, when rider and men could meet. She also told of the day when a merchant would come with such errant daughter's - knowing full that that the merchants would arrive in the falling light, whilst Delvina would be ready to be taken in the morning dawn.

Delvina carefully packed several hide cases with her favorite belonging's, feigning sickness and hiding them during the evening meal down upon the ledge. She made sure to be up at odd hours of the night - being sickly. So that when she rose again before the dawn, none would be suspcious at her absence. But as she waited by the spring - her eye's skyward for dragon wings, the dragon that appeared wasn't one she knew. The dragon flew low - searching but unable to see the tricky opening. Her voice guided the creature - telling it to come close enough to touch the wall - for only then would the mountain's illusion be unveiled.

It took two passes to sight the opening - the green wings coming close enough to scrape against the mountainside. The enormous dragon landed heavy, digging it's claws into the stone to stop itself from crashing into the walls. Delvina's voice shrieked "Hurry now! The guards heard my calls and we must be away!" The rider's surprise could only be confounded by the appearance of four hide cases, as Delvina pushed them towards the dragon. But her impatience broke when she recognized the rider "Lady Haruka?! Is it really you?"

Delvina gushed with the rush of flight, fear of capture and the numbness of between! But all the while, her voice awed at the majesty of her idol. Words tumbled about, unable to finish a thought before another crashed over her tongue. Her excitement kept her from learning the truth - that she had been taken to Sabishi Weyr and not High Reaches Weyr. But she couldn't imagine being any place better than one where Lady Haruka was Weyrwoman! Still, she did wonder what her father would do. The guards had seen the dragon - and her missing presence would be quickly noted. He'd probably think she had fled in anger - but her mother would understand it was prevent the Weyr from cutting it's ties. For without dragon riders, her father would never see his daughter again. And so, his tithes must continue. Or could he actually choose his folly over his own daughter?

Her last thought as she landed was that she wanted to seek out and tell Aurianna the truth - and hoped her forgiveness might still yet come. Aurianna was Delvina's one regret. She missed the girl still - and still couldn't decide what kind of love her feelings truly meant- other than the loneliness that came after. So Delvina vowed to find a way to meet the girl - and offer her a new life. A free life, away from all she knew. It would be hard... But if she would accept her, they could do it as friends together.