Sherman Keytle

Keytle is a gruff, hard-to-phase sort; even his own surprise bonding didn't result in anything more than an arched eyebrow, rolled eyes, and a grumbled huff at the sheer gall of some creatures. Through years of work, he's gained a steady hand and even steadier heart, capable of facing surprises with a surgeon's grumbling acceptance of things that have gotten out of his hands. He is observant and seems to make uncanny observations about those around him, whether or not they are willing to wear their hearts (figuratively) on their sleeves.

Anyone who spends any amount of time with him will find that he has an oft-times sinister or dark sense of humor, despite not being a dark-hearted man. It's just that, as a surgeon, he's seen so many people die that he has to take his amusement from somewhere, and that's the extreme that he ended up turning towards.

An older man, Keytle has black hair that's slowly turning white at his temples, ocean blue eyes, and tends to constantly have a short, slightly scruffy beard because he just can't be arsked to shave when he's constantly having to patch together the foolish (and soon not-so-foolish, if he keeps seeing them and they're not on a morgue slab) people who inhabit Clan Akelara.

He tends to wear simple, practical clothes - usually dark in order to hide the blood that inevitably splashes on him during emergencies. The only time he's seen without a lit cigarette dangling from his lips or held in his fingers is when he's busy patching people back together. He has his own share of scars, especially now that he's bonded to an active warrior and has been practicing battlefield medicine of late, but at least one of them is due to the lung transplant he had to have due to lung cancer -- sometimes, even magic isn't capable of solving everything.

Keytle -- "Call me Sherman without my permission and I'll show you why you never anger your medic" -- never meant to be a dragon-rider. He'd gone to school, become a competent surgeon and all-around doctor, then got a job with the medical unit on StarCity and settled into the comfortable life that he'd made for himself with his own effort. He was just there to monitor the yautjadragon hatching and make sure that any wounds received were survivable. A competent surgeon and emergency medic, Keytle was just taking his standard rotation on hatching bay duty, nothing more, and fully expected the duty to be done and over with after the day.

And then Moren happened.

At least he's still a medic, and his bond has taken to his skills with an admirable drive.

Trained Surgeon

Emergency medicine

Battlefield medicine