Z'tan of Gin Elizabeth [Weyrhealer]

Name: Zyrutani
Honorific: Z'tan
Age: 53
Season of Birth: Early Autumn
Birth Hold/Weyr: Main Healer Hall, Fort
Time at Hold/Weyr(s):
Healer Hall, Fort - 0 to 18 (18 turns)
Sabishi Weyr - 18 to ongoing (35 turns)
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Demi-sexual | Bi-romantic
Rank: Master Healer | Weyrhealer | Gin Rider
Dragon: Gin Elizabeth
Pets:
Murasaki Firelizard Ink - Melanistic
Murasaki Firelizard Iris


Play-By: Peter Capaldi's Eyebrows
Eye Color: Grey-Green
Hair Color: Grey (Black-brown)
Height: 6'00"
Build: Slender
Overall Description:
General - To see him from behind, Z'tan might seem a fairly ordinary type of man. His once black hair has gone grey and his figure is slim rather than broad. However there is strength in that lean frame, built from a lifetime of dragonriding and handling patients who did not want to be handled.

Face - It is when he turns around, when you see his face, that Z'tan becomes a man who is unforgettable. His face is long and narrow, with thin lips, an aquiline nose and eyebrows which could just about cut you. His eyes are deep set, and a pale grey-green in colouration. His face is highly mobile, especially the eyebrows and with those alone he can communicate all kinds of things.

Skintone - Z'tan's skin tone has always been rather pale, and while his time as a rider has given him a healthy tan, he's still noticeably paler than the average pernese man. Age has lined his face in interesting ways but done nothing to detract from his looks. In fact, if anything, it has enhanced them.

Scars - Z'tan has his share of scars. His hands and forearms are speckled with small ones from his work. There is a set of claw marks stretching left to right across his left shoulder.

Hair - Once upon a time Z'tan's hair was a deep black-brown colour. Time has lightened his colours to a steely grey, but his hair is as thick and healthy as ever.

Body-Dominance - Right, Functionally ambidextrous.

Clothing - Z'tan is a man who don't care about fashion or what is considered to look good. He cares about comfort and the feel of the cloth against skin. To him there is no point wearing something if it's just going to leave him itchy or uncomfortable. So his clothing tends towards casual and comfortable, with the typical tough leathers for his riding gear and simple things in hard wearing cloth for his work gear.

Likes:
- Elizabeth
- People who do as their told

Dislikes:
- People who don't listen to healer's orders

Strengths:
- Extremely skilled
- Willing to listen to others opinions

Weaknesses:
- Proud
- Doesn't always realize when he's gone too far

Overall Description:
Acerbic - Z'tan is a man who speaks his mind. He claims that after a half-century of life and over half of that as a loyal rider, he has earned to the right to show the sharper side of his tongue to the idiots who don't listen to him.

Non-sexual - Though Z'tan does not identify as asexual, he is, overall, not a very sexual person. He may be demi-sexual, but having never found someone to bond to romantically, it is difficult to tell. Whatever label his orientation might be, the end result is the same, outside of Elizabeth's flights, Z'tan has little to no interest in taking part in any kind of sexual activity.

Absent Minded - Z'tan is not a man who should be relied on to remember things like dates and ages unless it has to do with his work. He is someone who tends to get very caught up in whatever he is doing and let everything else fall away. He is lucky in that he has Elizabeth, who is always willing to remind him when something else needs doing, or ask someone to pull him away from his work and force him to eat and sleep.


Mother: Tanira - Healer
Father: Zyrun - Healer
Siblings:
Tanirun - Sister, 2 turns younger, Healer
Zynira - Sister, 5 turns younger, Harper
Tarun - Brother, 6 turns younger, Healer

Children:
Coratani - Daughter, 33, Rider of Kin Electrioth
? - Son, 31, Rider of Kuroi ?
? - Son, 28, Rider of Ichigo ?
? - Daughter, 26, Rider of Sakura ?
? - Son, 24, Journeyman Smith
? - Son, 20, Rider of Chairo ?

Background:
Age 0
Zyrutani was expected to be a girl. His mother's family were known for throwing girl children, especially in their first pregnancys and so certain were his parents that he would be a she, they had only picked out one name. Needless to say, Zyrutani grew up with a fair bit of teasing from the other kids for his somewhat feminine sounding name.

Age 5
Zyrutani's schooling goes about as well as can be expected from a active little boy. He does his best, but a tendency to get into fights with the other boys and a preference for being outdoors hampers him somewhat when it comes to scholastic endeavours.

Age 12
At the age of 12, Zyrutani apprentices to the healers. With both his parents being in the craft, it had always been assumed that he would join the craft and Zyrutani liked the work enough that he was not going to argue simply for the sake of arguing.

Age 16
Over the next few turns, two of his siblings follow him into the craft, though the younger of his sisters surprises everyone when she decides to apprentice to the harpers instead of the healers. Fortunately, with the harper hall being practically next door to the healer hall, they aren't really separated by much except for scheduling.

Age 18
At the age of eighteen, Zyrutani walks the tables to become a journeyman. While waiting for his first assignment, he is picked up on search by a pretty Gin. He accepts and is taken to Sabishi Weyr.

Age 20
Zyrutani stands for several turns before impressing shortly before his twentieth birthday. The dragon who chooses him is a delicate little Gin, a beautiful lady whose gentle mothering is a good match to Z'tan's own desire to help. Her name is Elizabeth and to Z'tan, she is perfect.

Age 25
Z'tan lives a fairly ordinary rider's life. Elizabeth's first flight was an eye opener for him, mostly because he's never been particularly interested in physical intimacy before. After much though he decides that, while it's not unpleasant, it is also not something he is particularly interested in. He produces a few children over these turns, the results of Elizabeth being flown by dragons with female riders.

Age 26
Z'tan is knocked over by an anxious hatchling as he attends to the injured candidate who would become their rider. Though Elizabeth sorts out the little one's anxiety bout their rider in short order, she's a little to late to save her own rider. He ends up on the injured list himself, when the hatchling's claws cut into his left shoulder, leaving wounds deep enough to form some impressive scars.

Age 30
Over the past few turns the Weyrhealer has begun showing signs of his age and Z'tan, as one of the more senior journeymen who still actively practices his craft, finds himself taking on more and more of the day to day administering of the infirmary, since it is much easier for him to do the running around than the increasing frail woman.

In his thirtieth turn, the previous weyrhealer nominates Z'tan for his mastery. As soon as he has achieved the position, the woman steps down and sets Z'tan into her place.

Age 35
Z'tan settled into being the weyrhealer with only a few hiccups. For the most part the other healers accept his leadership and while there is some resistance to the changes he implements within their systems, eventually things settle into a kind of peace, or at least as much of a peace as there can be in a place like the Infirmary, which thrives on a type of controlled chaos.

Age 53
Life has been quiet for Z'tan. Several of his children have impressed and Elizabeth makes sure that Z'tan is there to watch each one. Age has slowly crept up on him, silvering his hair and lining his face. He has watched over the weyr with the same sharp mind (and sharp tongue) as ever. With the previous Weyrwoman stepping down, and the young Haruka of Midori Nagith forced to step into her place as the only other rider of a full-queen, Z'tan has become even sharper of temper than ever as the uneasy transition period occurs.

When a Kin rider finds a clutch of firelizard eggs, Elizabeth's pleading (and his own curiosity) result in Z'tan checking out the clutch, and impressing to a young Murasaki, her melanistic hide as black as ink. Z'tan, rather unimaginatively, names her Ink.

Not long after obtaining Ink, Nagith's clutch hatched. Though there are several major injuries, no-body dies on the sands, and no dragons go between, which makes it a successful hatching in Z'tan's mind. The addition of the new Midori is welcome, as is her choice of rider, for it was not one of the silly wherry women whom Z'tan had seen coveting such eggs in the past. He doesn't know her, but she looks sensible, which is what they need.

Shortly after that, Z'tan obtains another firelizard egg, knowing now what to look for to ensure that it is the genuine article. It hatches into a second Murasaki, though this one more obviously purple than Ink, with some pale pink-purple tones. Z'tan flounders for a name, and Elizabeth ends up being the one to give the flit it's name, calling her Iris, for she is pretty like a flower.