Sioneva - or Neva, as she is commonly called - is the oldest child of a marriage between (former PC) MasterMiner Jon and (former PC) MasterTanner Siona. This mating produced three other children as well, her younger brother Joran, and the two twins, Sion and Jona. However, prior to marrying Jon, Siona was Searched by Southern Weyr, and though she did not Impress, when she left, she was pregnant with Neva's older sister, Liena, now a Journeyman Tanner at Cove. The two do /not/ get along.
Neva herself chose the minecraft, and was an apprentice at 13 - and an apprentice at 16 - and an apprentice even at 18, when she was posted to Southern Weyr to exercise her own undeniable strength, that of shoring up mine shafts, or at the Weyr, old weyrs. That posting last a few scant months before Dyani and her green swooped in and carried the stunned girl off to Honshu Weyr to stand as a Candidate. She hadn't even begun to get over the usual culture shock when she found herself Standing on the sands, and just as shockingly, confronted by a small green Tarilyth of a dragon, demanding to be fed /right now!/
It's been a long, strange trip since. Her promotion first to Wingsecond by B'gron, and to Wingleader by G'arik. Her demotion /back/ to Wingsecond after she intervened herself in the shouting match between G'arik and then-Weyrsecond Br'den that ended with junior weyrwoman Aithne of Southern throwing icewater over all three of them, and Br'den's demotion as well. She was given back the position of Wingleader some months later, just in time for a disastrous Threadfall that led to the terrible scoring of senior queen pair Jelisa and Sylaith, from an accident involving a member of her wing. She's never entirely freed herself of the guilt over that, and when K'tor asked her to step down to become Weyrlingmaster instead, she was quick to hand the wing over to Shava, her Wingsecond.
She was originally a rather shy, quiet girl, who blew off steam via numerous pranks. But in the six Turns since she Impressed, both Tarilyth and Dryth's rider Br'den combined to completely change that. His brown flew her Tarilyth when she first rose, with their son Tresivan being born nine months later. And thus began a strange, off and on relationship between the two that on any given day could find them screaming at each other in the main hall, or off in some out of the way spot without a word where they were going. They have never been weyrmates, but in some ways, they are very close. It's certain that their second child, newborn Danieva, was not the result of a mating flight. Though with Br'den spending more and more time at Ierne, Neva's started looking around casually to see what there may be to be seen...