Welcome to Olivonie’s page! Olivonie is yet another spinoff from my brownrider A’drov. She is the youngest daughter of A’drov’s youngest sister, Vonie. When she was Searched along with her cousins, she was only eleven, so she had to wait a while before she was old enough to stand for Impression. She is cheerful most of the time, energetic, and reasonably outgoing. She idolizes her older sister Jolie, although she tries not to display that fact openly. She is determined to be just as confident as her sister when she gets older, and she already displays a certain amount of maturity. With two older siblings (Jolie and V’jol) who were quite deft at making certain that they got enough attention, she was sometimes overlooked, but never for too long. Those brief moments of inattention gave her the opportunity to learn more about who she is and what she should and should not do.
Despite the fact that she idolizes her older sister, she doesn’t have the same exact likes and dislikes. Where Jolie became a tailor and obsessed about boys, Olivonie has little care for what she wears, and boys, while interesting, are not fascinating to her. So when the time came for her to apprentice, she decided that she would apprentice to a basket weaver. This is a somewhat shorter apprentice period than most, although it still takes a few Turns, and it’s not part of a crafthall.
Since she knew that she’d been Searched and is likely to become a dragonrider, she wanted something that was perhaps a little easier to learn and that she could continue in her spare time after Impression. The basics of basket weaving are easy enough to pick up, although it takes a few Turns to really master the craft.
Like the rest of her family, Olivonie has brown hair and brown eyes. She stands at about 5’6” tall right now, although she’s going to end up at 5’9” when she’s done growing. She doesn’t have any particular favorite color, so there is no predominant one in her wardrobe. She also doesn’t care too much about the fit of her pants, so they can range from loose and baggy to the more form-fitting type that is most common. Jolie tries to get her into more stylish apparel, but Olivonie is stubborn enough to insist that she picks out her own clothes, even if they aren’t what her sister would prefer.
Olivonie stood twice unsuccessfully and Impressed her green Diathenath on December 19th, 2010 on her third try. She wasn't really too worried, knowing that eventually she would Impress and sometimes it just takes a few times before your lifemate is there. After all, she witnessed a good range of Impressions in her family, from her Uncle A’drov who Impressed from the stands without ever having been Searched, her cousins Lieyona and Ranela, who Impressed their first time standing, her sister, who Impressed her second time up, and her brother V’jol and M’ran, who both Impressed their third time standing. Since she was allowed to, I had Olivonie standing for both Storm Fires and Rising Dawn Weyrhold clutches, and she was present at Rising Dawn when Neferenth had her first mating flight, which was also the first mating flight for the newly reopened Weyrhold.
Perhaps this newly found freedom from most of her family is what prompted her, at two weeks before her sixteenth birthday, to take part in the mating flight and have her first sexual encounter instead of idly swimming along in the lake or ocean. She meant to go swimming, she really did, but she met this hunky brownrider named D'ae on the way and events really just swept away with her. She might never have told anyone that she'd done this, except that she ended up pregnant because of it. Knowing that she couldn't Stand as a candidate if she was pregnant, Olivonie decided to abort the child by taking a couple of fast trips *between* on her Uncle A'drov's brown Kionoth. So she had to tell A'drov what had happened, although she refused to reveal the identity of the father or even let him know that she was pregnant. On one hand, aborting the child was an easy decision for her, as she didn't want to be a mother at such a young age and she definitely wanted to become a dragonrider, but it was still something that haunted her a bit at night after she'd done it, because she had to wonder if she'd made the right choice.
Finding Diathenath on the Hatching Grounds a few weeks later resolved all of her doubts on that score though. She's young, and if she wants to have children later on, she can. But finding Diathenath was like finding the other half of her soul, and she wouldn't give that up even if they told her that she could never have children if she Impressed.
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