There are always plenty of kids running around any given Weyr, and Dragonhope is no different. From drudges to wanderers, crafthall kids and rider's children, almost any time of day you'll be likely to have several brats nearby. They're quite handy for delivering messages, getting dragons and weyrs cleaned, serving food and cleaning.

Unlike in a hold or hall, Dragonhope's weyrbrats are generally well-educated unless they show a particular skill and concentrate only on it. If any of them are searched, of course, they're immediately put into the weyrling candidate classes for further instruction. Like many weyrs, most riders' children are fostered to others. In Dragonhope, however, a lot of families remain together, and even foster others from the sea hold below, or the wandering groups on the plains past the western mountains.

Some of the brats will be searched and sent off to other Weyrs, while others may remain on the sands at Dragonhope.

Shiba, Blue * Sak/Curi

Status: Rider Born (parents: a green pair, mother Balshi and father I'si)
Age: 16
Gender: female
Siblings: one half-sibling from their mother's side
Born: first
Legitimacy: born in a happily UNmarried family
Childhood Health: frail child
Adult Height: kind of little
Adult Build: average in build
Skin Tone: fair
Hair Color: brown
Hair Style: curly
Hair Length: mid-back
Eye Color: dark blue
Literacy Level: read at a good level of competency
Politeness Level: they are very polite and proper at all times
Focus: as they look around them, their focus fades
They are attractive
They're well known for being very selfish

Values and Goals
Enjoys deeply: their father
Has fun with: town life
Practically nonexistant goal: be free of their past
Extremely strong fear: light places
Moderate dislike: Bustling cities

Feels Lowly in favor of being a dragonrider like parent(s)
Skill most often practiced: animal driving (cart/carriage), flitter training, bronze flit Robbie
Searched! When: more than a year ago

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There had been so many little hatchlings spilling out from their shells, that Shiba had no idea where to look first. Her distractable nature hardly helped at all! It was because she was apt to be staring at all the pretty colors that she all but missed the best of all. A blue that had hatched along side his three green siblings crept near.

The blue finally found someone he thought best fit his heart and mind, coming to stand next to Shiba who was rather surprised to find a blue dragonet looking at her with trusting, whirling eyes. I hope you do not mind, but I am not as shiny as those others.

"**...of course I don't mind!" she grinned, hugging the blue neck to her chest with unbridled compassion for the dragon who had chosen her. "You're the best color of all!"

Darnell (D'nell), Candidate at HDOS 26 - Lra/Trel

Status: Rider Born (parents: a pair of Green riders - mother and father both, deceased from another weyr)
Age: 14
Gender: male
Siblings: several half siblings on either side of their family, typical of Weyr riders
Born: second
Legitimacy: born in a happily UNmarried family
Fostered due to: both parents died
Childhood Health: perfectly healthy
Adult Height: a moderately tall person
Adult Build: well muscled, but not burly
Skin Tone: fair
Hair Color: brown
Hair Style: stringy
Hair Length: long
Eye Color: bright green
Literacy Level: can read with some difficulty
Politeness Level: their politeness extends to everyone around them
Focus: attention is paid to their work, they are focused
This character is certainly one of the best looking folks around
They're known for being a bit stingy

Values and Goals
Values: their pitch or singing voice
Likes: a Dragonry or Hatchery
Moderate goal: ride race-runners
Very strong fear: cave-ins and landslides (parents died in one when he was only 6)
Very weak like: the Mountains

Feels faintly in favor of being a dragonrider like parents
Skill most often practiced: transport staff, often uses flitters to communicate on caravans - dark green Zephyr, light green Caurus
Other skills: survival in the wild

Searched! When: this morning

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