#kylara

[uchiha-itachi-amaterasu]

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imagine isekai'ing as kylara

[kartaylirsden]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Kylara/Lessa (Dragonriders of Pern) Characters: Kylara (Dragonriders of Pern), Lessa (Dragonriders of Pern) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Summary:

Ramoth does not choose Lessa. It is a bronze dragon who does so instead.

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Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kylara/T'bor (Dragonriders of Pern), Kylara/Lessa (Dragonriders of Pern), F'lar | Fallarnon/Lessa Characters: Kylara (Dragonriders of Pern), Lessa (Dragonriders of Pern), Ensemble Additional Tags: Ensemble Cast, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Ambition Summary:

Two women born of the Blood, both cast into the Weyr by need for a rider for the golden egg. Only one can Impress, but does that mean the other has to let go of her ambitions?

[auntieoneandauntietwo]

Thinking about the consequences of doubling up and the southern weyr venture

If Lessa is completely physically drained whenever she times it (admittedly she’s tripled and I think eveb quadrupled in some times), and F’nor reports that southern became increasingly exhausting and unsustainable over the years they spent in the past, what are the long term effects?

Like, does it cause brain damage? Do some of the seventy two riders who were part of the project develop depression later in life? Is it similar to physical damage like cte, and they end up with memory and judgement loss and mood disorders? Is it more cognitive? Does N’ton have nightmares about his younger self? Does F’nor start jumping at his own shadow?

Does it maybe explain some of Kylara and T’bor’s canonical emotional instability? Neither are exactly level headed when they’re introduced in dragonflight, but could Kylara’s “egomania” have been amplified by doubling up? Is T’bor perhaps overly obsessed with her, is he overly prone to dangerous emotional outbursts? (Does he actually have a drinking problem or did I make up that memory?) Would the two of them have the angry, abusive, dysfunctional relationship if they hadn’t spent six years under serious emotional and physical strain?

Assuming most of those seventy two riders stay together in the modern timeline Southern Weyr, by the time they get to High Reaches and everything is exacerbated by Prideth and Wirenth dying, what kind of full blown mental health crisis are they dealing with?

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A Surfeit of Queens

Kylara/Lessa, Pern

[ahammz]

A note on the character of Kylara from Dragonflight:

When she was introduced, she was the funniest character on earth. The kidnapped sister of a lord, stolen away from her betrothed... then a few pages later, you find that, actually, she CHOSE to stay and slut it up with hot dragon riders. That’s queen shit. Then she’s so cool that they decide to give her a dragon??? Hell yeah. Then, she just gets villainous from there... no way. They should have kept her as an ally and hero. This is my drawing of her as a good guy.

[ohsoverylittlehoneybee]

So... I’m slowly rereading Dragonriders of Pern series. I just finished the first book and while I was remined why I loved the series as a kid, I also am reminded of some the writing choices that presently make my head hurt.

One of these things is Kylara. In the first novel we don’t really see her, only hear from other characters how vain and annoying she is. Everyone seems to hate her. I didn’t reread the second book yet, but if I remember correctly she is has no redeeming qualities there either, she is presented as once again vain, petty, selfish and lazy, shifting her reponsibilities on everone else.

My question is: if Kyala is such a menace without any qualities that could contribute to the Weyr’s wellbeing why was she not only allowed to attempt to Impress Ramoth’s egg but was actively encouraged to do so by Lessas and F’lar. She spend three last years in the Weyr, where there really no red flags showing how supposedly awful person she is? By this point F’lar strongarmed Lord Holders into working with him, if there were no other candidates he could have tried Searching again. And after Kylara’s years as the Weyrwoman in the South in the first book, she appeared to have showed no leadership skills and was a complete menace once again, so why install her as a Senior Weyrwoman of her own Weyr? Why not demote her to a junior Queenrider in some other Weyr and make sure she is not in a position of power where she can do damage?

Honestly, the answer to bothe these questions reads as “the heroes wanted to wash their hands of her, becuase they found her irritating or in case of Lessa - a thread to her position and her man”.