Silver Wings Ranch - Staff (Update)
Owner: Twilight Sandhya
Dressage
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In charge: Evan Aymaden
- came at the urging of the Sandhya clan
- took over training of all dressage horses, except the pegasi
- Has an uneasy working relationship with Azure Sandhya, Twilight's brother, since taking over his horses
Main Horses:
- Sorrow's Rain
Appearances: On the Topic of Being Reserved
- Kuketski
Appearances: A Proper Passage
- Amanzi
Riders:
*Twilight Sandhya
-ranch owner and sister to Azure
Main horses:
-Symphony in Shadow
-- Appearances: Dark Orchestra Rising; Songkran Dressage
-Molten Light
-- Appearances: Chasing the Sun; Sunbourne
- Rides dressage for the 3DE horses
Main Horses:
- Fires of a Dark Star
- Aurora Carnevalis
*Micah Shadow
--He has LONG black hair. Very long. Sometimes it's just down, but other times, more recently, it's up in either one long braid, or a set of intricate braids that keep it about just past hip-length.
-The ranch's healer/vet; trains and works specifically with pegasi
-Focus is on both liberty and dressage for the pegasi
Main Horses:
- A Toast to the Dawn - loves dressage, and is a very "bouncy" and joyful horse
Appearances: Just Breathe; Sugar and Champagne
*Azure Sandhya
-brother to Twilight; originally did training in classical movements and the Airs, but knows almost nothing about dressage itself. "It's dancing with the horse, right?"
-giving up competition to go back to being full-time pilot after failed competitions where his lack of knowledge brought down their results
Appearances:
-Kuketski: Silmes Dragon Dressage; A Leap in Illogic
-Sorrow's Rain: Indoor Dressage
Show Jump
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In charge:
Riders:
* Rinmaysa (Rin) Terfel
-- Her pictures have been characterized by her tri-colored ponytail: red-brown, blonde, and dark brown.
- childhood friend of Dai Sandhya; used to stalk him constantly - recently they've started testing the waters
Main Horses:
- Hawk Flame
-- Appearances: On Wings of Flame; A Splashing Takeoff
- Rain of Tears
-- Appearances: Growing Pains; Shooting the Rapids; Shadow of a Blood Moon
Alexander (Alex) Fairven
- Curly blond, short hair. Brown-amber eyes, they seem to glow gold in certain lights.
- He seems all calm and friendly and collected...and then you put him on a course and you suddenly realize he's a bit of a madman. A fun madman, but...you know, more than a little invested.
- A more recent addition to the ranch, he focuses on the two Vulcanos horses and helps train all the show jumpers
Main Horses:
- Assassin’s Dance
- A Tango in Fire
-- Appearances: A Fiery Start;
*Emaire Cherthwin
-- Not a human. Probably a fae of some kind. No one is quite sure, and she's not telling.
-- Her last name means "laughter," and is her own private joke on the world, because as far as she's concerned, her whole existence is a fun trick on everyone around her.
-- She's very dedicated to her horses, however, and (probably) won't cause a fellow rider too much trouble. She can be one for playing what she thinks of as fun jokes on other people when outside the ring, but due to her (twisty--not, precisely twisted) sense of humor, other people don't always realize. And that just makes it funnier (to her).
Main Horse:
- Dark Sun
Appearances: Concentration
Cross Country
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In charge:
Riders:
* Rinmaysa (Rin) Terfel
- childhood friend of Dai Sandhya; used to stalk him constantly - recently they've started testing the waters
- Loves to have fun and occasionally plays some minor jokes
Main Horses:
- BPI Radius
Appearances: Dry Creekbed
- Phantom Fire
*Daiesen (Dai) Sandhya
Main Horse:
- Aurora Carnevalis
Appearances: Wet Weather; How It's Done; He Yumps Like a Deer
* Twilight Sandhya
Main Horse:
- Fires of a Dark Star
Appearances: Burning to Run; NAS Cross Country
Flat Racing
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In charge:
Jockeys:
* Daiesen (Dai) Sandhya
-- Red-head with firm opinions and (previously) a strong yen to stay away from Rin; he was one of the first of the Sandhya clan cousins to join at the ranch, and stuck through some very unfamiliar events to keep working with Aurora Carnevalis
- cousin to Twilight and Azure
Main Horses:
- Aurora Carnevalis
Appearances: Rasha Memorial G1; Calm vs. Wild (with Rin Terfel on Carnival above the Sea)
Show Jump: ZGS Jump; Stadium Jumping
- Blazing Aura
Other Appearances:
- Rain of Tears: Hiding in the Colors
* William Sandhya
- distant cousin to Twilight and Azure; close cousin to Calidi Sandhya
- developing a rep. for riding the "tough" horses
Main Horses:
- Ghost Light -- hard to ride because he generates heat wave "illusions" which blur sight
- Image de Nuit -- Angry horse. About everything and everyone. But not mean...the ranch is still trying to find out how to work with him.
- Sun's Fire
Appearances: All Fun With Family
* Calidi Sandhya
- distant cousin
Main Horses:
- Intrigue
- Moon Bandit
Appearances: All Fun With Family
Adam Teal
- was part of a team of thieves who descended on the island during a hurricane and opportunistically stole several horses
- considering he was not an active member of the thieves, and was much a victim of circumstance, the ranch took him in when they caught him with Carnival, who was protecting him
Main Horses:
- Carnival above the Sea
- Blazing Moon
Harness Racing
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In charge: Eleanora Santorini
-- She has chin-length, sharply cut golden-blond hair and blue-green eyes.
- She was the ranch's first driver, but has shifted responsibilities and now works as second in command for the head groom, as well as an escort rider for the racers
- She used to be the main driver for La Vin de la Nuit: Into the Wind; Veteran's Mile
- Scarlet Twilight is the escort pony
Drivers:
* Alastair Blay
- Joined during a race in Australia
Main Horses:
-Ambiance
Appearances:
-La Vin de la Nuit
Appearances:
* Erik Lelander
- Heard of a job at the ranch through one of the far-flung Sandhya clan and joined
Main Horses:
- Will O' the Wisp
Appearances: Wishing on Wisp
*Isabella Sandhya
-She drives four-in-hand, chariot
- Isabella is one of the many Sandhya cousins who got tangled up with Silver Wings Ranch and its Daemons without quite knowing what she was getting into. She still has trouble wrapping her head around the sheer unnaturalness of it all, much less any idea of magic or other worlds and peoples. She is considered something of a daredevil and challenger by the rest of the staff.
Main Horses:
- Faking Perfection
Appearances: Fake It 'Til You Make It (Halter); Rockslide (Chariot racing - with La Vin de la Nuit, Ambiance, and Will O' the Wisp)
*Raheem Soutasy
- Drives teams, and focuses on chariot racing when possible
Main Horses:
- Bejeweled Ocean - Enkai
Endurance
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In charge:
Riders:
* Mikela Sandhya
Main Horse:
- Maritimus
*Micah Shadow
Main Horse:
- Ghost of a Rose
- Phantom Fire
Appearances: He's Got His Own Ideas
Halter
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The entire staff, as needed
Eleanora Santorini and Adam Teal; Mathias
- Venusian Madeira and Romany Rose
Appearances: Can't Touch This
Micah Shadow
- Romany Rose: A Sun They Know...
Alex (A.D.) Morrisey, Erik Lelander, Mathias
- Valhalla Comes
Appearances: A Nightmare Is Also a Dream
Rinmaysa (Rin) Terfel
- Intrigue
Appearances: Placing the Number
Azure Sandhya
- Blazing Aura
Appearances: A Blazing Performance
Other Disciplines:
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Liberty
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*Micah Shadow
-The ranch's healer/vet; trains and works specifically with pegasi
-Focus is on both liberty and dressage for the pegasi
Main Horses:
- Cry Havoc! - liberty only; still a young stallion
- Endless Illusion - has learned dressage cues, but is far more of an aerial racer
Veterinary
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* Micah Shadow
-mystery man; showed up on the island and started taking care of the medical needs of the horses.
Grooms/unplaced riders
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Mathias -- Head groom and master coordinator
-- He works with pretty much everyone and every horse...
Appearances: When Worlds Collide (guest-starring Rin Terfel)
Alexander Demetri (A.D.) Morrisey
- Dai’s cousin from an offshoot of the Sandhya clan; Dai calls him A.D. because there's already another "Alex" on the ranch
-Red head, talks with a Texas brogue
-Works with Verdigris
Appearances: A Nightmare Is Also a Dream
*Almathea Durandal
- new driver hired for team harness races; she's not a regular staff member
Main Horse(s):
- Bejeweled Ocean (Enkai) and Faking Perfection
Appearances: Smoking Sun Chariot Race
Transportation
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*Pilot - Azure Sandhya
-brother of Twilight
*Ship's Captain - Aloysius Creed
-friend of Azure; worked for the Sandhya shipping company
IS ALIVE!
Been out for years, and finally able to come back. Missing a lot of people, and seeing lots of new art, and trying to properly revive the
I'll be running bi-monthly races at first, then if we have interest, monthly races. Here's a shout-out to Kayosa who entered the very first set of races I restarted and won with her horses:
We also have a new friend, Phytosterol who has entered the second, and current set of races (
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Speaking personally now, I don't know how much, if any, actual art I'll be able to do anytime soon, but I've finally moved my storage from a few states over to the same state as I now live in, so at the very least I'll eventually be able to put up older and owed art. I hope I can once more become a part of the HARPG world.
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I'm feeling a bit like an assassin right now, all into disappearing and lurking about unseen. I've got the disappearing bit down, although I haven't actually been lurking. Life and various happenings in it have conspired with me to have faded into the aether where DeviantArt is concerned. Not because I disliked it, or didn't miss people on here though
I love finding beautiful art and amazing stories. I'm hoping that with my new job and circumstances, I might show up here more often, but it is likely that my art will remain on indefinite stand-by. I love drawing horses, and I did think, about two years ago now--wow, it's been so much longer than I thought--that I was finally starting to get better at actually drawing, but I've been increasingly unable to draw. This is mainly due to what I think is an old shoulder injury acting up, but may or may not be. There are days I am fine, unless it gets cold, but mostly I live with pain that may or may not get suddenly worse. I may drop things without realizing, my arms/elbows/shoulder or parts of my back may go numb and stay that way, or the pain itself can just stab without warning. I've found that the micro-movements I use when drawing, playing video games, or just using a pen/pencil to write can all make this much worse, so I'm avoiding most of any of that while I try to find ways of making my shoulder and its reactions less angry with my existence.
So...in between surfing through here and trying to get reacquainted with people and stories and all the lovely art, maybe I'll find a place again where I can enjoy the art without making it (I do write, I may go that way). Anyway,
and shout out to 
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I've bought the first two, and I'm looking forward to the next ones!
, so here are those eight facts about Micah.Rules:
1. Post 8 facts about your character.
2. Tag 8 other characters. (This does presume I can...)
3. Post their names along with their creators' avatars.
About Micah:
- Micah Shadow is the vet of Silver Wings Ranch, my HARPG stable, as well as a main character in one of my currently-being-written novels
- Micah's name is actually just the closest possible name to "Mica," as in the glittery black bits seen in granite. Mica is a black, translucent stone that comes in hundreds of paper-thin sheets pressed together. If peeled apart and held up to the light, you can see through them. Just what you'd think of if I said, say, "Through a glass darkly." ^^ His personality kind of follows from his name, or his name from his personality--not sure which. He has a dark (hidden?) light, and lots of shadows that he keeps to.
- Micah, in both incarnations of the character, is of Elvin origins--which actually comes from a completely separate book from his own.
- He is a healer--goes along with the veterinary work he does at Silver Wings Ranch; but not in his novel (there he manipulates light).
- He has, as can be seen in pictures, insanely long black hair. In all of his incarnations. At SWR he tends to wear a pony tail, but in his other life, he wears a lot of intricate braids and wears a silver quarter moon earring. Just one, on a slim, silver chain, so it kind of spins and moves a lot.
- He comes from a place where the most common color is blue (including the trees and such), and he misses the beauty. The jungle-like island is close in some ways, but he loves the wildest places best. If there are few people, he likes it better. He is very attuned to plants, so likely a desert would not make him happy. Or a mountain top. He likes forests, especially, big, deeeep forests. Which is why he's forever getting stuck going to well-populated areas.
- His best human friend at SWR is Twilight Sandhya, but even she doesn't get to know very much about him. (He's an illusive fellow. Elusive too.) His best non-human friends are all the Daemons at the ranch, especially the pegasi, like A Toast to the Dawn and Endless Illusion. He's currently training Illusion in air racing.
- At Silver Wings Ranch, he's tall--as in, 6 or so feet. Which makes perfect sense, as the Daemons were bred to be so tall and long-limbed so as to carry very tall riders...like Micah and other elves in the world they come from. Which also explains why he's about the only rider on the ranch who doesn't look shrunken when on a Daemon's back or standing beside one.
- Bonus fact!! -- He's a very good dancer in the SWR rp. In his novel, he's a very, very good fighter.
About Twilight Sandhya:
- Twilight is the older sister of a two-child house-hold in a "clan" that usually has very large family groups of five or more children; the younger sibling is her brother, Azure Sandhya.
- Twilight was named for her eyes and the time of day she was born; she had unusual grey eyes as a newborn, and they are now a mix of grey, green, and amber. Call it an odd type of hazel. People often find it hard to meet her gaze, and her gaze tends to seem sharp and predatory when she's angry.
- She's part of the main family of the Sandhyas, and while the entire clan has a rather odd naming convention (hence Azure and Twilight), the main family is especially known for not choosing "names" over "adjectives" that describe their children.
- Before she and her brother discovered the island, she hadn't fit in as well with the rest of the family with her career-choices like her brother, and had been "drifting" a bit, just helping out for various cousins and other family members with anything from basic secretarial work and physical tasks to over-seeing and organizing small jobs. When they found the island, she was acting as a cargo manager and back-up pilot for the cargo plane her brother was piloting.
- She focuses on being practical, even-handed, and steady in any situation. Even while she might be fretting inside, she presents the face of someone who is polite, calm, and controlled as much as possible. As a result, she doesn't have many close friends because she often comes off as cold and overly serious.
- Silver Wings Ranch was her first "rebellion" against her self-image and the first time she truly felt passionate about something she was doing. The controlled-crash landing on the island and her subsequent isolation from outside influences other than her brother allowed her to open up and connect her inner-self and emotions. After the discovery of the Daemons and the coincidentally fortuitous cargo of building materials facilitated creating a home and ranch on the island, she has since become very stubborn about keeping the Ranch going.
- After their father's death and the hurricane that destroyed many of the facilities on the island, Twilight has focused even more strongly on the Daemons and the Ranch. The rest of the Sandhya family, cousins and all, have rallied behind her determination and have pitched in to help as much as possible.
- Her closest friend was her brother, and while he continues to take part in the ranch by flying staff and equines about and bring supplies in, he is no longer as active as he was originally. She has since come to rely on Micah Shadow as vet, Daemon trainer, sometime confidant, and dance partner.
- Bonus fact!! -- She created the ranch out of family advice and intensive research, and she still feels more confident as a business manager than as a rider.
About Azure Sandhya:
- Azure Sandhya is Twilight's younger brother and something of a perfectionist with a tendency to get too intense. As part of a small family, he stood alone against the other young boys of the extended family at get-togethers and reunions, although Twilight backed him up as much as she could. When challenged, he will either strike back full force with all his talent and knowledge or deflect and try to ignore an area he can't or won't compete in.
- Like Twilight, Azure was named for his eyes and the time of day (noon) he was born. He is extremely expressive when confident, but closes down more in uncertain situations; he is one of the only people who can read Twilight's expressions and moods. Enjoys a good argument but is especially careful for and protective toward his sister.
- He enjoys riding but has drawn back from the competition side of the ranch after set-backs during their first year and focused in on piloting for shows and helping exercise the dressage mounts. He didn't enjoy handing over "his" mare, Kuketski, to the new dressage trainer, Evan Aymaden, but he recognized greater skill and retreated to an area he couldn't be challenged in (piloting). As a result, he unconsciously (and sometimes on purpose) avoids Evan, and this has created a small but noticeable strain on both of them.
- He recognizes Twilight's drive and encourages her quietly from the side now that she has a focus outside of helping their extended family, doing his best to be near her with unobtrusive support. He is wary of Micah Shadow since they still know very little about their vet, but can't get between his sister and Micah, so he tends to watch from a (smallish) distance.
- He loves to pilot their planes and has especially been drawn to taking live cargo such as horses. He feels that his level of skill is something that will keep his sister and what she loves to do as safe as possible, and he studies and practices constantly to improve. Ever since he "crashed" without injuring either of them or the plane itself, he has gained more confidence in his flying skills and leans more and more toward flying as much as possible. Twilight recognizes this and tries to give him as many opportunities to fly as possible; even neglecting their ship transport for flight.
- As a pilot, he is drawn toward their two wing'd equines, but is hesitant about approaching Micah. He is still trying to connect with anyone other than his sister or other immediate family on a meaningful basis beyond immediate challenges or other social posturing learned from his cousins. Flying is the only place, other than beside his sister, that he is currently feeling confident and fulfilled in, especially after the death of their father. He has begun to tentatively practice more dressage and reach out and make friends with A Toast to the Dawn and Endless Illusion.
- He regards the back-and-forth between long-time family friend Rinmaysa Terfel and his cousin, Daiesen Sandhya, with interest and amusement and often subtly encourages Rin to go after Dai. He helped Rin stay near Dai after the hurricane with careful shuffling of work schedules and taking some extra flights.
- Ever since Phantom Fire has shown interest and enjoyment toward vehicles and flying, Azure has become more friendly with the stallion and has taken to carrying about beef jerky treats for whenever they encounter one another. It has been noted (by Twilight and Rin) that Phantom Fire has begun figuring his way out of stalls and the barn to specifically go visit Azure's plane and will track Azure anywhere on the island.
- Bonus fact!! -- He hates watermelon. Taste, texture, and general messiness alike, he dislikes even smelling it. The current theory on the reason for this is its constant presence at any family gathering, but otherwise is just considered an odd quirk, since no one else knows that he first ate it with salt and pepper and has never gotten over the impression.
Tags!
Soulfang by
Ms. R. Mavourneen by
Phenex or Asmodeus
Jessica by
Hrim by
^^ So, there he is, for now. He was refusing to divulge much more information on himself and stuck to the facts, and strictly the facts. I suppose I went easy on him this time.
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