NEXUS CHRONICLES

Tall for a woman, and broad in shoulder and face, Dusana makes for an imposing figure and she wears that like armor. Her wild brown hair is an untameable mess that tumbles to the nape of her neck, at that horrid length where it's too short to be properly tied, but long enough to constantly obscure her face. She has thick, dark eyebrows and hooded blue eyes. Hard labor and a love of working with her hands has put Dusana into tip-top shape. She's corded, wiry muscle and sun bronzes skin beneath her simple clothes.

Notably, Dusana's nose is large and crooked, the result of too many childish rows.

Dusana dresses plainly and comfortably, preferring trousers and tunics to skirts wherever possible. She wants function in her clothes and forgoes any sort of dangle or decoration that would impede her movement. Despite no real pride in her attire, Dusana takes excellent care of her clothes and belongings. 

If there's terrible task that needs doing, Dusana's your girl. She's duteous and disciplined, never shirking from an obligation regardless of how unpleasant in might be. She's hard-working and gets no better pleasure than a tough job well done. She enjoys working with her hands, already rough with callouses and scars at her young age. Labor isn't the only thing she considers a duty for her weyr, she's also protective of her self-made family and will face any danger to protect them. Her courage knows no bounds when it comes to keeping her weyrmates safe. She'll face dragon, weyrleader, and thread itself if she needs to. Dusana has no restraints against putting herself in harms way, if it means her loved ones are kept safe.

Never one to back down from a fight and always ready to throw herself into a fray, Dusana has developed a reputation for being confrontational. She doesn't go looking for fights, but she'll step in without hesitation if she sees one brewing. She has a strong sense of justice and will stand up for anyone who needs a voice, even if that means going toe to toe with her superiors. When she gets an idea in her mind, she doesn't let it go. She sets herself to task and keeps at it until her goal is accomplished. Her stubbornness isn't only tied to her work, though. It's a struggle to get her to change her mind once she's made up an opinion, to the point where facts and figures rarely convince her. She often needs to experience the consequences of her choices before she'll admit she was wrong.

Dusana deeply cares for people, even if she comes across as stoic and unfriendly. She's not demonstrative with affection, but she still feels intensely. She falls into infatuation quickly and will form bonds of friendships prematurely. She has a deep desire to be with people, to belong to them, so she latches onto those who show her kindness with unshakable fealty. Dusana is quick to share her resources, splitting her rations or giving away tools to those who need it, often to her own detriment. She puts others before herself and gets a sense of warmth and pride from doing so. She enjoys taking care of others.

For all her bravado, Dusana lacks confidence in herself. She doesn't believe she has worth beyond being a weyr drudge and prefers to help raise others up than focus on herself. She often surprised when people return her admiration and affection, and gets flustered when faced with reciprocated friendship... or worse yet, feelings. She doesn't believe she'll amount to much and has no aspirations for grandeur. Her only desires are being better able to protect her weyr and its people, and it's for this reason that she's attempted to stand as Shigan's clutches. She has no desire to being a wingleader or a queen rider, but she'd like to take up arms against thread and keep her people safe.

Born to a bluerider father and a kitchen drudge mother. Dusana has spent her entire life helping out in the lower halls of her weyr, from cleaning, to cooking, to hard labor when it's required. 

She cares deeply about her half-sister, Elise, who shares Dusana's father and was raised by the same foster mother. 

Because of her desire to protect her weyr, Dusana stands at every clutch Shigan produces, and every time she's denied a bond she's further dismayed. But the embarrassment of going unchosen doesn't stop her from trying.  As she gets closer to aging out, she's becoming more and more resigned that she's just not worthy of a dragon. 

THREADSCORE & SEARCH

Hermina and Dusana help their weyr through threadfall.
Story contains description of wounds.

DAWNWATCH

Hermina and Dusana return from Istabitha with a single dragon: Hermina's brown Kalapatith. The trio drift apart because of Hermina's weyrling lessons and a search rider from a different reality of pern visits Shigan weyr.