Name: S'ken (Sekeno)
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Rank: Wingsecond
Age: 23, 17 at Impression

Build: Thin
Hair: Dark blond, full, to nape of neck
Skin: Darkly tanned
Eyes: Light blue

Personality: Years on his own has made Sekeno cold and withdrawn. His default expression is a blank stare, and people rarely see anything else unless they've spent a significant amount of time around him--not likely, considering his holdless status. He never learned to read, and never really wanted to anyway. He tends to scorn the scholarly types and dislikes anyone who acts as if they're better than him (and that includes being smarter than him). He wouldn't ever let them know it, however, as he strives to be respectful to everyone; it never hurts to seem respectable to people--you never know when they might hold your fate in their hands. He does have a soft spot for fellow holdless, however, and actually shares willingly the little he has with those who need it--it's hard to ignore hungry stares when you know what it feels like to go hungry.

Past: Sekeno was born to an unmarried couple who nevertheless had four children together. They traveled with a band of other holdless, constantly on the move and spent most of their time in the wilderness, only taking shelter in Holds on rare occasions to gather information or "acquire" supplies. It was many years before Sekeno realized that their method of acquiring supplies was to steal it from the holders. It didn't bother him overmuch, though, since it was the way he had grown up, and he and his siblings often helped the others transfer the goods out of the Hold.
Such a risky lifestyle could not last forever, of course, and eventually the small band of holdless were caught and tried for their crimes. The adults were banished to a deserted island, along with Sekeno's two older siblings. Sekeno was only eleven at the time, however, and it was decided that he and his younger sister could not be held accountable and they were fostered. They still had to deal with the stigma of their parents' crimes, however, and Sekeno harbored resentment towards the holders who took his parents away. He had spent scarcely a turn at the Hold before he ran away, falling back to the familiar life of thievery, often joining up with other bands of holdless or packs of unruly children, though never for long.
He spent three turns on his own, but then Thread came; he nearly died the first time he got caught in Threadfall, and there were plenty of close calls after that. Many Holders became more sympathetic to him and his kind, fortunately, and he could often ask for shelter for as long as Thread was falling. It was during such a Threadfall that he was first searched. The local watchdragon had strained a wing earlier and he and his rider were stationed at the Hold instead of fighting. Unbeknownst to Sekeno, he had been noticed by the watchdragon, a particularly sensitive blue, and his rider had intended to find him after the Threadfall and officially Search him--except that Sekeno had already left by then, practically kicked out of the Hold for trying to steal food.
Dragonriders searched for him for three weeks before one of them managed to track him down, and even then, he nearly escaped, thinking he was going to be caught for thievery. Instead, the searchrider reassured him that he was not in trouble, and suggested that Sekeno could do something more productive for Pern, by riding a dragon. He scarcely believed it at first, but he decided to trust the rider and was taken to Sedona Weyr. As the clutch hatched, he stayed in the back of the crowd, rarely approaching any hatchlings--especially the larger and more intimidating bronze and browns. Burrodoth didn't care about that, though--despite Sekeno's reluctance to Impress at first, the brown pushed past all the other candidates to find him, and well, once he met the dragon's eyes, all his doubts melted away.

Bond: Brown Burrodoth
From: Sedona Weyr