:: Jasprita, Senior Journeywoman Harper ::
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Name: Jasprita
Age: 23
Birthingday: Month 12 Day 14
Birthplace: Igen Weyr
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Location: EvenStar Weyrhold - Harper Hall

Emotional Description:

Jasprita is indomitable, and hates it when people put her down because of her height. In fact, if you even dare do it (she puts up with “Shorty” from close friends, but not from anyone else), you better be prepared to have some scratch marks on you from a “fire lizard.” She’ll gladly meet anyone’s eyes, and often makes people anxious because of her steady eye contact.

She’s a very practiced liar and is able to bluff her way through anything. Her fabrications are as smooth as silk. Perhaps the only way any normal person could tell that she’s lying is the way her eyes drift of for a moment before she starts her story, but most normal people would see this as her listening to some pet fire lizard they don’t see.

Jasprita’s very much a romantic, and often whiles away any time that she’s not working day dreaming about romantic encounters-most of the time about her deceased Orli, but rarely not. When she gets interrupted in the middle of one of these dreams, she’ll start talking in a breathy voice that _can_ cause a few men to turn their heads.

Jas is very cheerful, and is constantly all smiles. She sees life as half-full, more than that most of the time, and is constantly going around and putting smiles on other peoples’ faces. Lately though, perhaps because of her pregnancy, she’s become slightly sharp. If one bothers her enough, she’s bound to lash out with sharp criticism or with a roll of her eyes. In fact, because of Orli's death, when she's left alone for awhile she'll start tearing up and crying, but as soon as someone asks her what's wrong, she's all smiles again.

She’s very good at a lot of things, singing, instrumentals, and acting being among the top of them, but the things she’s bad at are things she fails spectacularly at. She can not cook and should probably be banned from all the kitchens around Pern. She’s horrendous at riding runners, and would probably have fallen off the one she _did_ once ride, had not someone been at her side holding her on the whole way. She’s not strong at sewing, but she has enough sense about her to mend a rip and sew on buttons, and when given exact directions can even make stuff. She’s terrified of dogs and anything bigger than half her size (other than dragons-those she can live with), which may help account for her inability to ride runners.

Physical Description:

Jasprita, despite being what could only be described as a looker, doesn’t get many second glances because of her height. She can barely just pass as 5’2” when standing on her tip-toes, so most of the time she falls in at the “comfortable” height of four feet eleven-and-a-half. Despite this disadvantage to her height, Jas keeps her head high and back straight, perhaps one of the side-affects of being a harper.

Her oval face shows off her dark green eyes that are surrounded by unmercifully thick eyelashes. She has a little snub nose that makes her face look childish, but her generous mouth take away from that look, balancing out her face. She has long, thick, curly black hair that falls down to her mid-back, which she generally holds back with a comb made out of seashells given to her as a gift a while back.

Jasprita’s figure is good, with a thin waist and large hips for a girl her size (as her mother said, “good for birthing many children.”) Her bust is also something she’d normally brag about-but as it’s grown bigger in the past few months because of her pregnancy, she doesn't pay much attention to it anymore. She retains a slight pudge after having birthed her son, but it's not very noticable, and with the way she constantly moves, it'll be gone before long.

Born the daughter of two harpers, Master of Apprentices Jaspar and Senior Journeywoman Casprita, Jasprita was immediately fostered off to a lady in the Igen Weyr lower caverns, where she grew up. She never become a sister due to the fact that her mother was deemed unable to bear any more children, so her parents were still an integral part of her life, giving her gifts, and later, teaching her her skills as a harper. In fact, since she was the daughter of two highly appraised harpers, her parents invited her over to their place most nights after dinner to start teaching her skills early on in life.

Jasprita showed spirit, and was very good at what she did. She didn’t mind performing in front of a large audience, and all signs showed that she was _good_ at it, in fact. She cruised through her lessons with enthusiasm, and soon became a junior journeywoman as soon as she turned 18. She had been so motivated to become a great harper quickly that she hadn’t really paid attention to the finer things in life, and after she achieved her main goal-of becoming a journeywoman-she didn’t really know what to do with herself.

She doesn’t really know when she met Orli, she just remembers meeting him soon after she became a journeywoman, and exchanging a few words here and there with him. It wasn’t until after she became a senior journeywoman that she really fell for him, and their romantic interest sparked during their first real meeting. Jasprita was practicing her dancing for a play the harper hall was putting on, when Orli volunteered to be her dance partner – and that’s where things started changing for the harper girl.

It was a whirlwind romance. Orli would take Jasprita out swimming, Jasprita would cook Orli some bubbly pies (unsuccessfully, they always turned out burnt and one would have to defy death just to get one down). Jasprita feared going the whole way, and Orli knew it, so he took things slow with her. After about six months of dating, they slept together for the first time. Afterwards, they’d meet occasionally, but not often enough for anyone to notice.

As Jasprita helped out around the hall she started feeling oddly ill whenever she moved too fast. Soon she was feeling ill in the morning, and spent parts of her morning over bowls, getting sick. She kept this secret from Orli though (who thought she had a cold), who proposed to her by giving her the beautiful comb she still often wears in her hair. She accepted, and they were married a month later, where, directly after the marriage, Jasprita fainted and was taken to the healing hall.

That’s where they discovered she was three months pregnant. Overjoyed, Orli and Jasprita were looking for a larger place to move into, when disaster struck-Orli took ill with a disease, and died within a sevenday. Jasprita was overwraught, and decided to leave Igen, where bad memories now were common place.

Before he had died, Orli had bought Jasprita a dog in case anything should ever happen to him. Jasprita had feared the animal at first, but after her husbands death she'd taken to doting on the dog-and her unborn child-as she no longer had Orli left to turn to.