Persona Profile: Chandrany

Name: Chandrany
Pronunciation: SHAN-dran-ee
Age: 19
Birthday: m10 d4
Rank: Candidate
Location: Dolphin Cove Weyr

Awards
Crayon Awards: Most Intriguing Female Persona (August 2025)
Crayon Awards: Favorite New Female Persona (May 2025)

Physical Description of Persona:
Chandrany has always stood out as a tall girl, with a solid build to match. Her dark blonde hair is long and curly, and she loves both wearing it down and free, and tying it back out of the way, depending on what she’s doing and what her mood of the moment happens to be. Freckles are scattered across her face -- denser over her nose and upper cheeks, where the sun has kissed her skin the most, lighter across her forehead and chin, and spilling over her shoulders and down her arms. They give her an effortlessly sun-warmed look, even when she’s been indoors. Her deep brown eyes are expressive but steady. They don’t dart around nervously or shift away from others; instead, they hold people’s gazes with an unflinching directness that can be both reassuring and intimidating. Her eyebrows are thick and slightly arched, often lifting in wry amusement or furrowing when she’s deep in thought. Her lips are full and have a natural downturned shape at rest, sometimes making her look more serious than she intends.

Overall, there’s a sturdiness to her entire expression, a sense that she is not easily moved, yet when she smiles, it’s wide and bright, like sunlight after a storm.

Emotional Description of Persona:
Chandrany is a force of nature -- driven, relentless, and absolutely unwilling to quit once she sets her mind to something. Her persistence is her defining trait; she will push forward no matter the obstacle, no matter the cost, unless she is physically forced to stop. Determination fuels her every step, and when she believes in something -- or someone -- she throws herself into it wholeheartedly.

But along with that drive comes a brash, impulsive streak. Chandrany is quick to act, sometimes before thinking things through, and while her courage is undeniable, it often edges into recklessness. She feels deeply -- whether it’s love, anger, or conviction -- and those emotions drive her just as much as her willpower. She is incredibly empathetic, moved to action by the suffering or struggles of others, and when she cares about someone, she cares with her whole heart. Her love is obvious, unguarded, and fierce. But so is her temper. She isn’t one to hold grudges, but when she’s angry, everyone knows it.

Many find her overwhelming, too much to handle, too loud, too stubborn, too quick to charge ahead. She doesn’t do things halfway, and she isn’t the type to hide her feelings or second-guess her words -- except when it comes to her own fears. When it comes to her own insecurities, her own sense of not belonging, she shuts down. She’ll deflect, dodge, laugh it off, or throw herself headfirst into proving she’s more than enough.

And that’s the thing -- deep down, she’s terrified that she isn’t.

History of Persona:
Chandrany is weyrbred, the child of a pair of kitchen-workers, born from a family that has served the Weyr faithfully for generations -- usually as support staff, rarely as dragonriders. As a child, she loved music -- above and beyond the norm -- and seemed to have a knack for it that grew into a passionate interest. It was no surprise when she apprenticed as a harper, with dreams of journeying and bringing music and knowledge to people in new, exciting places.

Unfortunately, early aptitude doesn’t always translate to eventual ability. As an apprentice, Chandrany couldn’t quite keep her head above water. She picked up the basics of her instruments, but didn’t progress nearly as fast as her peers despite daily practice. Musical theory and the intricacies of law, alike, swirled around in her brain and came back out a jumbled mush in her classwork. The passionate nature that was sometimes her greatest asset became her greatest obstacle as she struggled to maintain the impartiality and even temper required of a mediator. Her handwriting was never neat, and even when she started slow and even and full of care, she inevitably got impatient and gradually descended into poultry-scratch in her archive-work. Her adult voice was merely passable -- decent enough for a layperson, but not the standard required for a harper with no other outstanding talent or usefulness.

At first her instructors gently tried to suggest she consider other avenues and pursue them voluntarily, but when it became clear that she intended to keep right on hacking her way through her apprenticeship like a lumberjack attempting to perform surgery with an axe, and doing it for as long as it took to get better (forever), they had no choice but to firmly dismiss her from the craft.

Frustrated, humiliated, she returned to her normal non-harper life. It didn’t matter that there was nothing _wrong_ with that life, and that most people live and work and find fulfillment outside of a craft, or that it didn’t really change much -- all that mattered was that she’d proven inadequate, and all the passion and hard work in the world still wasn’t enough. Candidacy had always been a back-burner thing for her -- Impression was something she was interested in, and she stood dutifully each time a clutch was laid, but she had never truly believed it would happen, and so built her life around a different dream. But with that dream gone, she began to focus more and more on Impressing a dragon -- a direction for her life, but also tangible proof of her worth.

Pets

Gallant, Brown Firelizard: aged 0, hatched m6 d12
Gallant is small for a brown, but well-formed, with a beautiful deep mahogany-colored hide. He's a sensitive little fellow, eager to please, and bonded with Chandrany quickly. He's picked up a propensity for physical expression of affection from her, and is quick to nuzzle or to nudge gently when he wants pets.

Flower, Green Firelizard: aged 0, hatched m6 d12
Next Mating Flight: m3 d4 of turn 13
Flower is a bright, new-grass green, small and roundish and exceedingly cute. There's not a lot going on upstairs, honestly, but she's more shy than flighty -- she'll sit still while Chandrany puts little flower crowns around her neck and on her head, and will duck her head away if a stranger approaches too fast.

Approved: April 14th 2025
Last updated: May 31st 2025

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Persona Profile: Chandrany

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