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| Name: | Samuel Goldstein |
| Bond: | Gomorrah |
| Bonded at: | Infusco Vere |
| Age: | 23 |
| Sex: | Male |
| Height: | 6'5" |
| Hair: | Dark and curly, worn short |
| Skin: | Olive-complexioned |
| Eyes: | Bright black, almond shaped |
| Relatives: | Cath Goldstein, twin brother |
| Place of Birth: | unknown location, Infusco Vere, The Matrix |
| Description: | Very tall and very thin is Samuel Goldstein: part-time sailor and full-time tinkerer with metal, wood, and small components. He has long fingers, a narrow hooked nose, and sparkling black eyes that turn up slightly at the corners with a perpetual smile of good-nature and curiosity. His hair is short and tightly curly, wiry and dark brown, fuzzing about his head. If he had a mind to, he could tease it so that it stood on end in a puffy afro, but he really couldn't be bothered to waste the time on such things: there are far more interesting things to do than play with one's hair. He wears simple, loose tunics with comfortable trousers and sashes, and has conceded to the typical sea-goer's tradition by piercing both ears with golden hoops that dangle freely from each lobe. |
| Personality: | Samuel, or more often just Sam, is friendly and honest, interested in everything, though he is rather absent-minded and tends to forget the more important things of living, like eating and sleeping and saving up money for the future, in lieu of the fascinating world of invention, innovation, and imagination. His biggest hitch and biggest frustration, however, is that he does not speak. No one knows why the genius giant is mute, though of course those who know him have speculated. The most popular theory is some sort of childhood trauma, but as Sam cannot go into details, and his brother and translator, Cath, prefers not to, there has been no evidence to support it. |
| History: | The story is that Samuel and Cath are the
orphan children of sea-faring gypsies, left ashore at the specus Infusco at the young age of seven for education and possible bonding when
they came of age. Like all over inhabitants of the small dragon-world, the
unlikely twins possessed psionic abilities, most notably in the form of a
link between them that allowed the more vocal, if odd, brother to
translate for the mute brother.
Whether they would have attached a pair of dragons is discussion for the theorists of what never was, however, for at age fourteen, both boys ran away from Infusco to join the crew of a gypsy ship that was at least half pirate. This was Cath's dream, to be free on the waves, but Sam followed mostly because he didn't want to be alone, not because he had any particular love for the sea or the gypsy way. He spent most of his time, instead, working on his own "projects" in the ships bowels or on shore in the attic room they rented whenever they came to land, while Cath enjoyed himself sailing, sword-fighting, and wenching his way up and down the coast. Neither brother quite understood the other, but habit and familial loyalty kept them together, alternating between land and sea. Recently, however, the gypsy-pirate ship that they had come to claim as their own, with Cath as captain and Sam as mate, has run into bad luck: the worst luck any ship can run into, in fact. A storm smashed the small galley against the rocks just offshore of the Infusco dragonhome which the twins had abandoned nearly ten years before-- just in time for the current Infusco hatching, in fact. The specus took them in graciously, in the spirit of celebration for the rare and wonderful clutching of their matron dragoness, though so far none have recognized the gypsy duo as the foundlings who had fostered there so long ago. Though Cath has misgivings about the whole idea of being attached to anything, much less a dragon specus, Sam was quickly enchanted with the idea and insisted they they stay just for this one hatching, just in case. The mute twin's enthusiasm-- and, perhaps more importantly, need for him to stick around for translation-- convinced Cath to stay. Just for this hatching, of course, then it's off to find a new ship and go back to the waves again. Then Gomorrah came along, and Sam was quite happy to change plans for the dragonet. |
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