Name:  Ga'vin Firedancer<br/>Height: 5'11<br/>Eye Colour: Stormy Grey Eyes<br/>Hair Colour: Red Hair<br/>Age:20<br/><br/><a class="postlink" href="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/20/cc/c3/20ccc306888d378982040be8f15b4850.jpg">[ img ]</a><br/><br/>Ever since he had come to the tower, Ga’vin never spoke a word, everyone presumed him to be a mute. Most times Ga'vin often wears his hood up to hide his long flaming unruly red hair to keep him from stand out in a crowd. Unlike most of the young men who strutted around the practice yard with backs tall swelled chest, and heads up. Ga’vin’s head was down, and he slouched, hiding his yoked broad shoulders and muscle bound arms .... in fact could be said he had the worst posture out of all the young recruits... he was rough and uncut and no matter how the warders tried to teaching him the basic formalities of bowing and conducting himself in formal fashion around the Aes Sedai he always mixed everything up and tripped over his own feet. It was clear he would never be the sort of Warder an Aes Sedai would want to be seen with at any formal event! If he hadn't compensated and for the cat like grace and potential showed in the practice yard, his gift for handling horses, resourcefulness out in the field and skills in tracking, he most likely would have been thrown out of the school. He was not going to be a warder an Aes Sedai would parade out in public at her side in the presence of royalty but out in the field after, she was too weak to channel and barely able to stand on her own, he would be the one who would get her out alive!<br/><br/>The face beneath the hood was one of a youthful strong jawline still smooth and had not known any razor. Despite being so young, the youngman's stormy, grey eyes were aged beyond his years. They were the haunted eyes of an old soldier... fiercely intelligent, calculating ... yet haunted... eyes that had seen too much death, pain, and loss.<br/><br/>Although most the other youngmen his age who chose to go off and chase after women or try impressing the Aes Sedai and Accepted. Ga’vin could almost always be found sitting quietly in a corner listening the older soldiers tell their stories. However even though he might seem like a shy quiet well mannered youngman, anything but could further from the truth. He didn't get drunk or gamble like some, no instead, he was bit of a prankster, ranging from occasionally stealing a pie or two from the kitchens .... one night he stole every left boot from the entire barracks and set them out in a pile out in the practice yard!<br/><br/>Only several times had he showed emotion in public. Once on the whipping post after and several more times when he was getting the tar beaten out of him the instructors with the wooden practice swords most likely over some sort of prank, or sneaking off somewhere with out leave... Each time he had been grinning! To his credit no matter how often he got punished, or intense the training ever became he never held a grudge or complained... which was one reason why the instructors took favor with him. Another reason the instructors took favor with him, was that Ga'vin knew how to improvise, any sword master could soundly beat the youngman in a fair fight in the practice yard, but out in the forest Ga'vin was not to be trifled with... he showed a lot of promise in that regard.<br/><br/>----<br/>Brief History Of How Ga'vin Came to white tower<br/><br/>Gavin never knew his real parents, and barely remembered his adopted parents. The only thing he could remember was that they were tinkers, people of the leaf ... he had been seven when they were attacked and slaughtered by trollocs. He would most likely would have died as well, if it had not been for the band of white cloaks to come riding in when they did. The white cloaks took him in, tasking him with taking care of the horses and a running errands. The soldiers took a liking to him, and in a way became his new family. The next five years, they took him in, trained him and began grooming him to be become a child of the light, at age thirteen, he was had become another brainwashed fool that hated all Aes Sedai and anyone who could channel.<br/><br/>That was until he actually met them and saw the them healing other people. This greatly disturbed Ga'vin, and so he followed after them hoping to catch them in some sort of evil plot. He followed them for weeks but they didn’t do anything of the sort! After about a month Ga'vin's presumptions about these witches were completely crushed. The thought of riding back to report them to his commander was now extremely unsettling and so he turned back planning to report his failure and that they had teleported or something. However when he returned to the white cloak outpost he found it up in flames, the trolloc's swarming over the earthworks. Horrible suppressed memories hit him like a cold winter gale and he froze in terror and panic... it was happening all over again! they were being slaughtered! Furious Ga'vin reached for his Tomahawk, and had been ready to charge into the fray and die with the men that had raised him, but he was suddenly struck with an arrow pinning his arm to his chest and causing him to drop both the reins of his horse and his weapon.<br/><br/><br/>His grey mare, unlike Ga’vin, did not have a death wish. The horse was trained for scouting and carrying messages, not charging into battle. It was born and bred to run like the wind, and so she bolted carrying her rider the opposite direction he had come. The trollocs pursued like a pack of excited baying blood hounds chasing a frightened fox.<br/><br/>Losing blood, Gav’vin began fading in and out of consciousness, he didn’t remember exactly what happened next.... he just remembered seeing glimpses of fire and bolts of lightning, followed by the smells of burning trollop flesh, the sounds of inhuman howls and shrieks and finally the glimpse of two calm chiseled faces of two warders pulling him out of the saddle of his horse.<br/><br/>When he woke up, he found himself staring up at two grinning green Aes Sedai and four large curious warder’s all circled around him. Ga’vin had never remembered feeling so scared in his entire life. They tried asking what his name was, but he was too scared to speak and did not answer them. However when the Aes Sedai and their warders went to go their own way. Without even asking their or permission to go with them them, Ga’vin silently followed after them like a lost puppy, all the way to the tower.<br/><br/>Once at the Tower he was taken and then groomed to become a warder. For the longest time, all the warders and the Aes Sedai presumed that he had been a mute.<br/><br/>As Gavin progressed in his training, he started having second thoughts about becoming a Warder. What if the Aes Sedai was a brown and stuck him to dusting off books, fluffing pillows and squashing spiders in the tower for the rest of his life? what if he never got to go anywhere? What if she was one of those crazy green Ajahs that bedded all her warders? the thought frightened him and made him want to sick up all at once! ... just maybe they wouldn’t think he would be a good warder.... Maybe they would just ignore him... after all everyone thought he was a mute... who would want a warder that couldn’t talk?<br/><br/>Although seemingly fearless, Gavin was extremely shy when it came to women, especially the Aes Sedai, and would take great lengths to hide his injuries to avoid being healed no matter how bad it was... often he would be the only one wearing his tunic with his hood up even in the sweltering heat out on the practice yard to hide the giant bruises and welts all along his body.... of course backfired and only made him stand out all the more... fortunately they never suspected him to be anything special... there was no shortage of impressive skilled young men to watch in the practice yard after all... that all changed after his little stunt.<br/>-<br/>After being caught by the Aes Sedai climbing to the top of the Tower. He had planned on climbing up at night to spend the day looking out at the world and then climb back down at night without anybody knowing.... well that didn't happen... He climbed up to the top, people down below started pointing, waving, then women started screaming and before he knew it! he was bundled up with weaves of air and quickly taken down!<br/><br/>Some sisters proposed that he might have traveled to the top of the tower using the power... but when they found from a few witnesses that he had in fact climbed the whole way up! he was soundly chastised and switched by nearly every Sister and Warder that could lay their hands on him... there were talks of expelling him, fortunately the training instructors were fond of him.... needless to say he was now famous! or rather infamous!<br/><br/><br/>After climbing the white tower...there were more than a few curious Aes Sedai starting to stake their claims on him! Fearing that he might get bonded before he could complete his training, while they were watching he intentionally started losing! Stumbling over his own feet, and dropping his sword... doing his best to look his worst!<br/><br/>It might have worked, but after getting knocked out and suffering a terrible concussion during one of the practice sessions it was all over! The Aes Sedai where swarming around him like vultures! Once one his hood was pulled down and his strong youthful almost angelic face was discovered beneath the welts and bruises and tangled mess of wild red hair, stories and gossip began quickly circulating around the different Ajahs! The yellow sisters even more so as they the ones to find several cracked ribs, and the black and blue muscle toned body beneath his cloak.... now not only was he known for his strength, but also for his handsome face and his body as well! Now yellow sisters constantly came by inspecting him, claiming the instructors were mistreating him and that he didn't complain about his injuries because he couldn't talk! The greens of course sometimes came along as well...obviously they wanted to watch the healing weaves! They even bragged about how what a wonderful listener he was! and how they wished all men would listen as well as he did! and how that they felt like they could talk to him about anything and not be afraid he would say anything or betray their confidence!... he was supposedly a mute after all.<br/><br/>- -<br/><br/>Present:<br/><br/>--<br/>The next several days, Ga'vin ate with his head down, trying to hide the black eye he had received that morning. If he didn't know any better, he might have thought his instructors where turning this into some kind of game! What was worse some of his trainees were getting in on it as well! They claimed to be helping get over his shyness! Light he wasn't ready to be bonded!<br/><br/>Not much could stir him, but they always seemed to laugh watching him squirm and blush, and mess up all the formalities! If he could just sneak past them to the practice yard this once without limping this once it would be a good day!<br/><br/>Ga'vin winced, gritting his teeth, trying to ignore his inflamed foot... the stinking birdbrains had smashed his foot with a bloody pole arm three times! It had been intentional! he knew it was! He clenched his jaw and bowed slightly to the Aes Sedai... but before he could get by, one of the warders passed him and stepped on his foot. Obviously getting to him back for some sort prank he had done weeks ago! The man had a good memory! ... perhaps it was time time he stole everybody's left boot and set them out in the practice yard... it would have been funny, if hadn't rained that night.<br/><br/>Ga'vin's nostrils flared he and he let out a cleansing breath, holding his composure... Then bowing again he turned, his broken foot gave out and he promptly went crashing down a flight stairs!.... blood and ashes! not again! Ga'vin hurriedly tried to get up... blood was gushing out of a gash on his fore head and his forearm was bent slightly of in the wrong direction from where he had tried to catch himself.... he wanted to scream, but that would only make the fall that much more embarrassing.<br/><br/>The warder's and the warders in training where a different breed, if you didn't die or lose a limb, it was just fun and games. Blood and Ashes, he was not going to let the Accepted experiment on him again! Light, Not again! Last time they had set his pants on fire, while treating a broken hand!.... supposedly it was an accident! He didn't know how to channel, but he certain healing hands and setting pants on fire were not weaves that should get mixed up!<br/><br/>When Gavin looked upward his jaw dropped when saw the most beautiful set of eyes gazing down at him... his mind was suddenly still and he swallowed hard, not sure what to do. He quickly tried to get up again but he couldn't, the laugher from the top the stairs seemed to melt away.... he just couldn't seem to look away from the woman's eyes.... she was beautiful!