Naoh'ra Ohndai

Naoh'ra Ohndai
Naoh'ra Ohndai
Gender	Male
Race	Miqo'te
Clan	Keeper of the Moon
Citizenship	Unaffiliated
Age	28
Name Day	17th Sun of the 5th Umbral Moon
Guardian	Menphina
Occupation	Thaumaturgy student/Mortician
Free Company	The Gullwings <YRP>
Sexuality	Demisexual

Basic's

Name: Naoh'ra Ohndai (Now-rah Ooh-n-dye)

Age: 28

Home: The Black Shroud

Current Residence: In the Free Company Home.

Occupation: Previously a minstrel, but now studies Thaumaturgy and is a Mortician.

Income: About mid-ranged, middle class income.

Talents/Skills: He is a great hunter and is very creative when it comes to music and song.

Romantic Relationships: None as of yet.

Physical Characteristics

Height: 5'8"

Weight: 135 pounds

Race: Miqo'te -- Keeper of the Moon

Eye Color: Green

Hair Color: Black

Glasses: Occasionally needs reading glasses, but mostly wears shaded spectacles because light hurts his eyes so much.

Skin color: A very dark slate gray

Distinguishing features: He has four dark tattoo's on his cheeks, and always wears face paint near his eyes. The tattoo's signify his past mates, and he believes that the face paint will grant him powers straight from Menphina Herself.

How he dresses: He enjoys wearing long skirts and either robes or nice shirts.

Mannerisms: Squinting, fidgety when nervous. He makes lots of hand motions when speaking, wiggling his fingers especially as it oddly helps him concentrate.

Habits: He picks at his skin and scratches a lot.

Hobbies: Writing poetry/music, as well as playing songs and singing.

Speech patterns: Usually he speaks very calmly and in a quiet, soft tone of voice. Sometimes he can come off monotonous and sarcastic to those that he doesn't particularly enjoy the company of. Most often when with someone that he does, he can speak lyrical and with a lot of allegories in his speech, stemming from how often he writes and sings. Often though he can speak with a bit of a lisp.

Disabilities: He's missing his left leg from the midthigh down.

Greatest flaw: His stubbornness. While sometimes it can get him where he needs or wants to be, it can also get him into trouble as he does not like sucking up his pride and moving in anyone's direction but his own.

Best quality: He is very loyal to those he likes the company of, and it's hard to break that loyalty.

Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes

Educational Background: He has no formal schooling education, and is currently trying to learn how to read and write.

Intelligence Level: Average

How does he see himself?: He sees himself as unworthy of a lot of things, and often times feels guilt for just existing.

How does Character believe he is perceived by others?: He knows people don't particularly like him, but he does worry what some people think of him. He feels like a burden, and thinks that's what others view him as.

How self-confident is the character?: Despite kind of hating himself, he still thinks he's better than others in some aspects.

What would most embarrass this character?: Eating in front of others.

Personality Traits:

Positive traits:

• Clever
• Conscientious
• Decisive
• Hardworking
• Objective
• Passionate
• Reliable
• Honest

Neutral:

• Private
• Proud
• self-conscious
• Serious

Negative:

• Stern
• Rude
• Sarcastic
• Argumentative
• Irritable
• Blunt
• Self-critical
• Contradictory

Outside of his usual rudeness, he is actually just a big awkward baby. He is very respectful toward women and is a great deal cautious with them. He doesn't like stepping over boundaries. When he warms up to someone he is much more open, musical, affectionate and so on. He is very fearful of stepping on toes, and tries hard not to.

Emotional Characteristics

Strengths/Weaknesses: Clever / Internalizes everything

Introvert or Extrovert?: Introvert

How does the character deal with strong emotion?: He isolates himself more and plays music

What does the character want out of life?: To raise good, strong and clever children

What frightens this character?: Losing everything he's worked for

What makes this character happy?: Quiet nights with the moon and stars, and romance.

Is the character judgmental of others?: He can be with good reason

Is the character generally polite or rude?: He is rude, but he does try to be polite and balanced.

The Character

Living in complete solitude in the Shroud, Naoh'ra spent most of his time deep in study and practising Thautamurgy. He used to be a minstrel of sorts, so he says, and carries song and poetry with him always. He can sometimes be caught singing, though it isn't often.

He had no family that he lives with, and rarely brings them up, and when he does he simply says that sickness had gotten a hold of them and they just died.

Naoh'ra had lived in Thanalan with a Seeker tribe, the Lynx, for a short while. It was strange as all hell but still he welcomed the help they offered when he had gotten hurt and learned quite a deal about Seekers in general. He has adopted some of the tribes mannerisms, such as forehead knocking as a sign of respect and trust.

He is a bit of an odd Keeper of the Moon, as if he hasn't been one for long.

More recently he has taken up residence in the Gullwings Home, though sometimes he'll stay at the Thaumaturgy guild simply because he fell asleep at a book.

Menphina the Lover

Naoh'ra takes solace under Menphina's light. He used to be an avid worshiper of Azeyma, but feels that she mocks him by hurting his eyes and blinding him in the daylight he used to enjoy. So, he turned to Menphina for company and guidance in his new life. He's still learning of her and figuring out how exactly he feels about her, but he loves her like a Seeker loves the sun.

Thaumaturgy

Naoh'ra has recently taken up the art of Thaumaturgy to prepare the dead. He is apprenticing under a Hyur in the Church near Drybone for his mortician work, and studies under Cocobuki and his brothers to learn the art of Thaumaturgy. He works very hard at it, and aspires to be good at what he does as there aren't many around who take on this type of work.

He wanted to learn this art, but didn't want to use it as a deadly force to kill others and instead went along the older path of using the skill to prepare the dead. What he does is he massages oils into the body to cover the smell of death, and then using spell weaving he cools the body to a temperature near frozen, where decomposition stops. If the body is too stiff, he'll zap it with a quick jolt of lightning to loosen the joints, and in the case of cremation-- well, incineration and fire.

While he is not far from learning the basics and finding his own way with it, he still resides as an apprentice and is fine tuning his craft.

Combat

While Naoh'ra typically uses magic, at home he hunts with only a bow and arrow.

He has a superb sense of hearing and scent, as well as balance. He only has good vision in the pitch darkness of night, however, and any bright lights at all, even when exposed for long periods of time hurts his eyes and he can't see a thing.

Relationships

Positive:

• X'tai Tia: They've spoken a few times in the Quicksand while Naoh'ra was trying to get into the Thaumaturge guild, and from time to time he'll bump into him in ul'dah. They joke around a lot and he really enjoys the seekers company, even though he doesn't really like his brother.
• Mhastoum Greinsyn: After sucking up both his pride and embarrassment, he had shared a brief story about how he lost his leg and allowed the Roegadyn to help soothe the hurt in his leg and wrap it up after a bath. He greatly enjoyed the time, and left feeling comforted both emotionally and physically. He holds a great deal of respect for him, and hopes they can continue to take baths together to relax and just enjoy someone's company for once.
• X'vett Nunh: Naoh'ra really enjoyed their company together for the short time they had spent together. Around the time he lost his leg, he found he couldn't hunt and having known the Lynx tribe in the Shroud before it had split, he sought their help and lived with them for a couple of moons. He formed a close friendship with Vett and misses him dearly.

Neutral:

• C'sanhsa Tia: He doesn't particularly dislike or like him. He finds him strangely happy, and it bugs him but he views him as more annoying than a negative person to be around.
• Lolohala Memehala: While they have only spent a brief time together, Naoh'ra is quite intrigued by the Lalafellen man and hopes that he'll be able to learn quite a bit from him while he studies in the Thaumaturgy guild.

Negative:

• K'ovu Tia: X'tai's brother. Dude literally stole his leg and blew it up with a firework, calls him names and kicks his crutches out from under him, then stabbed him. Naoh'ra dislikes him greatly.

Romantic or otherwise:

• Aran'sae Dia: Naoh'ra views him romantically, but is unwilling to attempt to show so.

Disability and Physical Limitations

Naoh'ra lost his left leg from the mid thigh down due to a run in with a cannibal. He paid a hefty fine for a blacksmith to fashion him a new leg that was lightweight and functional, as well as easy to hide. He took some time to pretty it up to make himself feel better, figuring that if it was more ascetically pleasing it wouldn't be as depressing. He can still feel his leg there from time to time, and will often scratch and itch or try to move his toes, which brings him near to tears when he is reminded his leg isn't there.

Due to the severity of the injury Naoh'ra has a hard time running and keeping up with others, and needs to take his time when walking or simply standing up. He is pretty prone to falls if he puts too much weight on the leg, though most often it's simply because the knee either locked up or didn't straighten out before he took his step and he just falls over.

Some days are better than others pain wise. It's either a constant annoyance, or agony. It tends to hurt the most at the end of the day after he's traveled or walked around a little more than he should have, or if he took a tumble down some stairs (again.)but most often he can cover it up and carry on his day.

More recently, his prosthetic had been blown up by K'ovu, and he just doesn't have a leg there any more. He gets around with a crutch, and most often covers up the fact there is no leg there by wearing loose skirts.

Tiny facts

• He can't see very well in the day light or even indoors if it's brightly lit and often wears shaded spectacles. It physically hurts to be in bright area's and he will more often than not choose not to be there.
• He has a couple body piercings.
• He always wears a ribbon with a red rose on his wrist, saying it's from an old mate of his. He also wears various necklaces from children.
• At the end of the day he's crankier than in the early times he's awake. He gets angry when in pain.
• He has 8 children.

Relationships and Sexuality

Naoh'ra is demisexual, not experiencing sexual attraction to anyone until a romantic or emotional bond is formed between the two of them (and even then it's up in the air if he'll find sexual attraction there). Race, sex, gender expression and so on make no difference to him in his attraction to someone, as personality and just 'clicking' with someone is far more important to him.

He craves romance, but he doesn't pursue it. He's nervous to try anything anyway and isn't overly bold in his approaches. He hopes to one day have a mate find him, but won't actively look.

One of the most important things to him is romance and just being with someone, and he is actually very sensual and caring toward lovers despite how mean he can come off at times. He is just in love with being in love.

Quotes

• "If I hit you hard enough I could drive you into the ground like a lamp post, but you're not that bright."
• "You'd think for a guild run by mostly Lalafell, they'd have shorter shelves."

Rumours

Common Rumours:

• "He's always giving everyone such a dirty look!"

Moderate Rumours:

• "He smells of death, it's a little off-putting at times."

Rare Rumours:

• "I heard him sing once. He's very passionate in it."

PC Rumours (Feel free to add!):

• "He's got a stick so far up his rear he could legitimately be called a miq'abob." -C'sanhsa Tia
• "The guy burned my shirt up...so attached his prosthetic to a fire work and blew it to pieces in the heavens." - K'ovu Tia
• "He's quite the quick reader, from what I've seen. I wonder if he could teach me that skill." - Lolohala Memehala
• "He rarely knows peace. That bothers me." - Aran'sae Dia
• "Naoh'ra is...irritable. Deep inside him, however, is someone whom I can call 'friend'." -Mhastoum Greinsyn
• "He seems nice. He was the one who gave me the news my father, X'vett, passed away... And then he hit on me..." - X'vhana Vett
• "Handsome man who lies. He speaks and causes pain and grief that taste like Galago Mint and Honey across my lips. Ooo... How sweet his lies are... I can still taste them." - Pimrhi Dia