Arvan Khoer

♆ Arvan Khoer '... I have got to eat.' A highly efficient "delivery Au Ra" - that is to say, she will most certainly hustle trouble straight to your doorstep if you break faith with her loved ones. Birthname Tsolmon Tumet Titles Eater of Names Race Au Ra Clan Xaela Age 21 Nameday 18th Sun, 5th Astral Moon Marital Status No Cares™ Occupation Professional culler; trophy hunter. Part-time tea-tender Height 5'8" Weight 132 ponze

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About

Hailing from the Tumet tribe of the Azim Steppe, Arvan is a relatively recent immigrant to Aldenard. Driven by the desire to conquer personal setbacks, this Xaela woman emigrated from her homeland after forfeiting her tribal designation, opting to identify as arvankhoër. Over the course of dwelling abroad, Eorzean influence would have the syllables in her name evenly split to form a given name and surname: Arvan Khoer.

Physical Traits & Clothing

Edging the average au ri woman by a few inches in height, Arvan is possessed of a taut physique, weighing as heavy as she appears. Body lined densely with scales she takes regular care to trim, her posture appears proud and statuesque when the sheen of these scales are visible from beneath her clothing, though it is rare for her to show very much skin due to work circumstances.

Working primarily out of Coerthas, Arvan weathers the extreme cold by outfitting herself with thick beast pelts. In environments of mild or warmer weather, an ornate outfit paired with sandals provide for ease of movement. A pair of sheathed knives, one for gutting and another for butchering, are bound to her thigh at all times for the sole benefit of field dressing. Wary of being stared at in public, she prefers to keep concealed the plate of scales leading up to her jawbone.

She has recently acquired a proper suit of armor to better defend against the aggression of her quarries. Despite having all but given up on trying not to alarm wary Ishgardian citizens with her 'dravanic features', she occasionally wears a steel mask in hopes of not drawing attention to the queer glower of her eyes.

Voice

Arvan's voice can be referenced from that of Margaret (voiced by Michelle Ann Dunphy.)

Quirks

• Capable of eating like an hibernating beast - though contrary to popular belief, her appetite is in fact satiable.
• Awfully moody during her annual moulting. Usually disappears somewhere for this duration of time - as if her presence in populated locales isn't rare enough.
• Has a distinctly slow speech pattern, making it seem like she condescends to speak to people. As she is illiterate and still communicates by translating words from her mother language in her head, her word use can be somewhat stiff.

A lone wolf by choice, Arvan is both hardy and headstrong, her temperament almost entirely ungovernable except by those of whom she keeps close to heart. As confident of her capabilities as she is, her confidence is limited to self-preservation. Her most restrictive insecurity is the inability to shoulder the burden of responsibility over other lives. Not nearly as stern and proud as she tends to come off as, she has a tolerant, open mind, seeking understanding of all things novel, and is prone to demonstrating thoughtfulness through unconventional approaches. A petty crybaby in the distant past, Arvan is slowly learning to celebrate triumphs of all proportions - though there remains a rare impish and childish quality that she may never grow out of.

Though her hardiness and stubborn quality precede her, rarely obvious is how easily affected she is on the emotional front. A tendency to miss social cues leads to failure to read situations: her general oblivion towards the confidence people vest in her lead to untimely absences when her strengths are required of her. Despite her muted kindness, she has few heroic qualities, being somewhat unreliable as an '11th hour hero'.

She is known to occasionally exhibit 'territorial' moods, being stubbornly watchful of those she is fond of. Normally a sideline presence, her competitive retaliation is a rude awakening to those who slight the pride of her and hers. Prone to stalking and striking when least anticipated, the scale of damage caused by her acts of vengeance can sometimes be exaggerated to a comical extent.

LIKES ♦ Red meat ♦ Eorzean ballads and arias ♦ Like-minded simpletons... ♦ Strength on par with/surpassing her own

DISLIKES ♦ Heavy texts & learning; having to think too hard ♦ Picky eaters ♦ Liars ♦ The size of her own tail (too fat? too thin?)

OTHER ♦ Alignment: True neutral ♦ Faults: Inconstant and elusive ♦ Favorite Flavors: No particular preference ♦ Favorite Color: The white of Raen scales

Prior to the Rite (Childhood)

The second child to aged parents, Arvan was she was as regular as any child of the Steppe, set apart only by her unnatural appetite. A disciplined spear-fisher from a young age, she was adored by her older brother, who at the time was counted among the tribe's most promising warriors. In time it came to the attention of the shamans that she seemed, without prior counsel, somewhat capable of relaying her own aetheric energy to augment her physical strength - though her ability to control output proved downright abysmal. When asked how she achieved this much, she tesitifed to being so hungry she had clenched her gut; stamped her foot out of petulance; and the next thing she she knew was coming to exhausted - lying inside a small crater on the floor.

Arvan would eventually succeed with the tribal rite of passage. Sustaining rope burns in the process of forcing her bindings, the stump of her tree looked like a site where scalekin had gone through a rough molt due to the number of scale sheddings found. After reuniting with her tribe after three weeks of wandering, she earned herself the designation Tsolmon Tumet. And though she became a lauded champion of the hunt in the ensuing years, it was during her very first (and last) active participation in the traditional Naadam that the true worth of her brute strength was shown, prompting her life to take a turn for the worse.

Overzealous in her fighting, Arvan's inattentiveness cost her brother his right eye to an enemy arrow in the process of covering for her. Though he initially refused to hold her accountable, her sense of responsibility towards this blunder led her to become truly inseparable from him, spurring her vow to act as his missing eye. Still, with her carelessness and precarious ability to look after others, another accident in the following year occurred during a beast hunt, rendering her brother crippled after sustaining irreversible damage to his spine. In a short span of time, the tragedy of plummeting from a well-feared Tumet horseman to a useless paraplegic drove him into deep despair.

Arvan would plead with her brother not to take his own life for the ignominy suffered by her family. Haunted by the thought that she had robbed the tribe of one of its finest, she would renounce her tribal name until she the day she might properly redeem it. With no one in her sect resourceful enough to aid her in better managing her clumsy strength, she sought extended leave from the Steppe, determined to seek out someone capable of refining her so that she might demonstrate herself a proper asset, not detriment, to her and hers. It is also during this leave that she will travel in search of some means - any means - to restore her brother's command over his own body.

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COMMON RUMORS (easy to overhear) ♦ !!! ♦ !!! ♦ !!!	MODERATE RUMORS (moderately difficult to overhear) ♦ !!! ♦ !!! ♦ !!!
RARE RUMORS (very difficult or rarely overheard) ♦ !!! ♦ !!! ♦ !!!	PC RUMORS (rumors from the characters of other players) ♦ !!! ♦ !!! ♦ !!!

♥ Romantic Interest ♡ Platonic Love ▲ Good Standing ▼ Poor Standing

♥ - Eritani Haragin:

♡ - Zarga: Arvan Khoer's beloved older brother. In the distant past, he was gifted as a warrior in every sense of the word, once even acquiring his tribe’s permission to bring his baby sister into the Naadam strapped on his back to show her the glory of the battlefield. Needless to say, he capably preserved his and his sister’s lives throughout the event, giving her the spectacle of a lifetime, and the strong aspiration to one day become like him.

♡ - Shaar Jhungid: A former member of the Jhungids who treated Zarga as his nemesis, Shaar discarded his enmity upon hearing that his mortal enemy had lost an eye, and even went as far as donning an eyepatch to honor the latter. When Arvan left the Tumets, it was at Zarga's earnest request that Shaar accompany her journey, despite Shaar never having liked Arvan to begin with. Over time, watching her slow and gradual growth has softened his opinion of her, and he now regards her with an almost paternal care. Though she loves him as her own brother as well, Arvan recognizes that his cunning nature makes him unfit to be a moral compass to be relied on, even if he only means the best.

♡▲ Shalarissa Evermore: A jeweler with a mouth on her, Shalarissa is counted among the unlikely few of Arvan's trusted Eorzean companions due to the Seeker of Sun's intelligence and the sheer force of her personality. Arvan is prone, always with a blank expression, to affectionately calling her a 'royal meddler' to her face when the Miqo'te insists on citing the strength of their shared bond - though it helps to know that Arvan has courage enough to only show her flippant sense of humor to those of whom she deeply treasures.

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