Tiskha'sae Solawne

Tiskha'sae Solawne is a typical tribal male Keeper of the Moon. Born in a very traditional and old-fashioned family, he is torn between wanting to pursue his dreams or following the path laid out for him by his family. Especially when his dreams go against everything that is expected of him.
Native to the South Shroud, he also came across a long-abandoned Scholar soul-stone, and befriending the faerie inside -- Aria -- has only fueled his interest in books, discovering the world, and city-life.

Tiskha'sae Solawne
QUICK FACTS
Birth Name	Tiskha'sae Solawne
Pronounced	TIS•kah•seh Soh•lawe•neh IPA: [ˈtɨskʀ̥̞̆ăsæ soˈlɔwnæ]
Meaning	Fourth son of Tiskha of the Solawne family
Nickname(s)/Alias	Tisk, Tis, Tiskha
Age	23
Born	Year 1554 of the Sixth Astral Era
Nameday	21st Sun of the 6th Umbral Moon
Birthplace	South Shroud
Race	Miqo'te
Clan	Keeper of the Moon
Alignment	Lawful Good (tentative)
Citizenship	Gridanian by proxy
Guardian	Menphina, the Lover
APPEARANCE
Height	5 fulms, 7.6 ilms (171.7cm)
Weight	148 ponze (67kg)
Physique	Lean and tall, with a strong torso and strong arms from wielding the bow, but also good flexibility.
Hair	Pearl platinum blond
Eyes	Luminous pale yellow
Skin	Dark grey
Scars	A small vertical nick on his left cheek
Facial Features	Darker male miqo'te tear marks at the inner corner of the eyes
Tattoos	A stripe on each side of the jaw, a horizontal moon crescent between his shoulder blades, stripes across his shoulders and forearms, a few lines and spots along his spine, all pale yellow
Clothing	Nice fabrics but not too flashy under the night sky : a variety of muted colours like the night (loam brown, shale brown, ceruleum blue, shadow blue, etc).
PERSONALITY
MBTI	INFJ
Keywords	Cheeky, friendly, frustrated, empathic, assured
Hobbies	Reading, writing, discovering places he's read about and documenting them in his notes, wandering the shroud
Likes	A clear night sky during the full moon, learning, seeing the world and meeting people, the mild bittersweet satisfaction from fulfilling his 'duties'
Dislikes	The peer pressure he's under, the guilt that comes with doing what he loves, male keepers who shirk their 'duties', having to ask his faerie to stay hidden
Core Motivator	Helping out and learning
Fears	Being caught by his family when he's sneaking off to city-states, his faerie being discovered, being thrown out/disowned by his family or disappointing them like his brothers did
Greatest Accomplishment	Managing to successfully summon and befriend Aria, his faerie
Greatest Regret
IC SKILLS
IC Profession	Shroud guide. Toeing the line with poacher at times.
IC Jobs	Archer. Secretly a self-taught Scholar.
Combat skills	Proficient in archery, handy with the knife, excellent knowledge in poisons and poison-making thanks to botany
Physical Advantages	Excellent balance thanks to a long tail, excellent night vision, blends well with his surroundings at night
Physical limitations	Very poor vision in the daylight, nearsighted, sticks out like a sore thumb during the day
Non-combat	Botany, skinning animals, good with the letters and numbers, healing and first aid
EQUIPMENT
Primary Weapon	Bow and arrows. Books.
Armor	Sturdy cloth armour.
OOC INFORMATION
Username	Alnee
Time Zone	UTC+1
Server	Mateus
Free Company	Hands of the Vagrant
FOOTNOTES
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Native to the South Shroud to a very traditional family of Keepers of the Moon, still perpetuating the traditions of old and appearing as nothing more than poachers to the Gridanian population, Tiskha'sae Solawne may seem like the typical keeper male archer dwelling in the forest.

And while some of that might be true, there is an internal struggle in him between wanting to follow his family's wishes, and the appeal of city-life and the learning opportunities it provides. But with his older brothers having all succumbed to that attraction and abandoned tribal life -- which he's come to resent them for -- there is too much weight on his shoulder for him to come out about wanting the same.

But there is nothing that can seem to stop him from sneaking out and indulging when he thinks his family isn't looking.

[Warning]: This character is centred around potentially controversial topics, such as tribal mating practices, internalised oppression, internalised self-hate, and internalised homophobia. The goal is to get the character to overcome those difficulties through character development, but if those concepts bother you, I'd recommend not reading further.

Appearance

Hair & Eyes

Tiskha'sae has pale hair and pale eyes, almost pearl-like in hue. His hair and fur is a pale, washed out silver with pinkish and yellowish parts, while his eyes are more of a luminous washed out golden silver. The tip of his tail is yellower, while the tips of his ears are nearly black. His tail is long and thin, providing excellent balancing aid.

Tiskha'sae is as nocturnal as can be. He lives during the night, as has his family for generations with little to no mingling with diurnal races or tribes. His night vision is excellent, thanks to his very wide pupils. His daytime vision, however, is lacking. He is also a little nearsighted, reading and other activities of that type tiring his eyes quicker. He thus wears reading-glasses when he needs to read or write more than a few words.

Physique & Markings

Tiskha'sae is lean and strong, on the tall end of the scale for a male miqo'te. He owes his strength to bow wielding and a life out in the wilds. Coming from a highly traditional and tribal family, he is used to a nomadic life, away from the easy comfort of the city-states (as he views it from the outside), travelling from Keeper group to Keeper group, mainly in the Black Shroud but also in other regions. He still regularly comes back to his home family, which he considers home.
With all the practical exercising this involves, he is finely and functionally muscled.

His skin is a dark, slightly brownish grey, seemingly just as washed out as his hair and eyes in the sunlight, but blending well with his surroundings under the night sky. His skin is covered in very pale yellow tattoos: a stripe on each side of his jaw and elaborate shapes on his back, shoulders and forearms (see gallery hereafter).

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Hygiene & Attire

Tiskha'sae is a fervent adept of wearing clothes adapted to the activity at hand, and it's not the fact that he's on the move nearly all the time that is going to stop him. In the same idea, the fact that he lives outside most of the time isn't going to keep him from being meticulously clean. He always plans his trips in advance and comes well prepared.

Tisk has two main outfits he likes to wear.

- A practical leather outfit which he wears most of the time when he is out in the wild, travelling or hunting (his ARC outfit).

- A more comfortable cloth outfit he usually wears when he sneaks out to the city-states and spends time in libraries or indoors. This is incidentally also the favourite outfit of his faerie Aria, as she has many more comfy hiding places to hide in (his SCH outfit).

He also has a specific, warmer outfit for colder places like the Coerthas when his jobs bring him there, and can be sometimes found in simple gatherer clothes when he is focused on botany.

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  Archer outfit

As for colours, he appreciates colours which blend well with his surroundings at night. Mostly sandy browns and faded blues, both light and dark. Although those work well at night, they make him stick out like a sore thumb under the sunlight.

Personality and practices

Psychological profile

Tiskha'sae is a friendly, assured, and empathic young man. Often cheerful, he loves to meet new people and keep contact afterwards. In addition to making money, it's also why he loves taking on fetch or guiding jobs, and advertises his services as a Shroud guide.

Habits

Sunset in the South Shroud

Struggles

Having grown up in the shadow of his brothers' legacy, Tiskha'sae tends to bury and hide a lot of his struggles and not dare speaking up to his family. Indeed, his three brothers left the tribe for the city life, some to marry other races, one of them getting into a same-sex relationship, all of them abandoning their tribal roots and turning their backs to tradition.

His family didn't understand those behaviours, they felt betrayed and lost in addition to it being seen as a disgrace for his mother, unable to bring into the world useful sons. And this was the sort of place Tisk grew up in: in a confused family, with everyone loudly hopping he wouldn't turn out like his brothers.

Because of this, he struggles with a lot of self-hate, guilt and denial. Because deep down, he is just as attracted to the city as his brothers. He loves book ever since he came across one in the Amdapor ruins. He's discovered an all consuming love for learning and seeing the world. He could spend days on end in a library if he was left to his own devices. He loves helping people and getting to know strangers. All things frowned upon by his family. So he hides what he can, and tries to seem disinterested about what he can't.

Part of him wants to leave, like his brothers did before him. It would be so much easier. But the biggest part of him cannot bear even entertaining that thought. He doesn't want to be like his brothers. Turning out like them is one of his biggest fear. So even if part of him wants to leave, he is also desperately afraid of being cast out by his family. He doesn't want to disappoint them nor to betray them.

All in all, deep down he really hopes that maybe one day he'll find the courage to tell them about his passions. And that maybe he'll be able to pursue those while still following his family's traditions and making them proud.

Because of all this, despite his attraction to the city, he tends to be overly critical of city folks and to hold great contempt against them. He sees them as fragile weakling unable to withstand the real life. The one out there beyond the protective walls, the warmth, the artificial lights everywhere and the hot shower water.

Truth be told, all that contempt mainly comes from bitterness and frustration. Envy for something he'd like but can't let himself have.

In the same vein, he tends to look down on and silently judge gay Keeper males, as well as those who choose strict monogamy or hook up with members or other races. As a male Keeper from a very traditional family, he's been taught from very young that his duty is to travel between keeper families to offer his services to women who are looking for it. Seeing other males waste themselves in ways that keep them from fulfilling that tends to make him quietly angry.

While Tiskha'sae sees himself as strictly devoted to that duty and refuses to look elsewhere or about what he might want, he is actually pansexual but in denial. And even when he realises that he might want other men, it'll be extremely hard for him to admit it openly to anyone who might have links to his family. Or to anyone at all.

Coming to terms with what he is and what he wants, and accepting that, is one of his big struggles.

Abilities and skills

Combat training

Tiskha'sae's bow

Relationships

Family

Mother: Tiskha Solawne

Father: ???

Sisters:

Brothers: 3

- Tiskha'a

- Tiskha'to

- Tiskha'li

Mounts and companions

Talula: His trusty chocobo. She's a watchful, sand-feathered sweetheart.

Aria: His faerie. Cheeky and curious, she often nearly gives him heart-attacks. But she cares for him a great lot.

Player characters

Riopheux Valtin

RP info

Common places

From most frequent IC appearance to least frequent:

South Shroud

Black Shroud in general

La Noscea

Thanalan

Ul'dah

Limsa Lominsa

Mor Dhona

Coerthas

Dravania

Gridania

Ishgard

Most other areas

IC inventory

A couple of books

Reading-glasses

Ink and quill

Spare paper

A few blank copies of contracts

Hunting knife

Some rope

Bow and arrows

Bandages and some medicinal plants

Spare clothes and equipment

Gysahl greens

Scholar soulstone

War paint

RP limits and preferences

I am flexible and will RP virtually anything as long as it fits the character. I usually try to direct as little as possible and feel where he wants to go. As such, unexpected things may happen.

That being said, I will never force anyone into anything, so speak to me about your limits and triggers if you have any.

Plotting is love, so are random things. I don’t bite.

I will play Pretty much anything. Dark themes, light themes, angst, hurt comfort, calm stuff or adventure. I might even dabble in mature content if it takes that direction, but fair warning, it would take some building.

Ask about I’d rather be able to discuss it if our characters were to have a fight. I don’t mind him being injured, far from it, but it has to be fair. No godmodding.

I won't play . I’d rather avoid having him dying, or being permanently injured. Extreme kink are usually a no as well, but you’re free to ask. I won’t play pre-established relationships and cannot tell you yes if you ask for our characters to be romantic. That has to be built and will heavily depend on chemistry.

RP hooks

As I’m relatively new to MMO RP, I’d rather you send me a tell first, even if I have my RP tag on. I will however answer and play along without it if I’m in RP tag, but if you want more involvement on my part, OoC talking is the way to go.

When out in the field: It usually means I'm busy with quests or gathering, but unless I'm queued up for a duty or in the middle of a levequest, I'm always open for RP. All of Tiskha'sae's classes are IC except miner. He usually travels a lot and spends most of his time in the wilds. He's always ready to help someone in need or to offer his services if someone needs to be guided/escorted to a safe place.

When in town: I'm usually either updating my gear/glam or hanging around for RP if you see me in town. Tiskha'sae will likely be less relaxed if he is seen there IC, and less open and friendly than when out in the field, but as a player, this is some of the best moments to catch me in. He is most likely to be seen in town with books and maybe with his Faerie Aria if you're lucky.

Around the FC house: Also a good place OOCly, but not as good ICly, as Tisk isn't often around there.

In general: I'm always open for RP, just shoot me a /tell <3

OOC Notes

Tropes

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CatFolk
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CatGirl?from=Main.CatBoy
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CuteLittleFangs
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorkingClassHero (the book-reading kind)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigScrewedUpFamily
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackSheep (Played straight for his three brothers, abverted/zig-zagged/mayby even backfired for Tisk):
a mash up of https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheDutifulSon for his attitude towards his family, The black sheep for what he wants (but still wants to be the dutiful son) and some https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CulturalRebel and https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWhitestBlackGuy.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CategoryTraitor (played with, toeing the line, fear the character has and how he might be seen, rather than something happening yet)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArmouredClosetGay (despite being actually pansexual, this fits, as the attraction for the same sex is the issue here)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Gayngst
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheTwink (somewhat) to https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StraightGay
Coming to term with all that in https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IAmWhatIAm and https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ComingOutStory
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BiTheWay (except he's pan)

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Bookworm
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpecsOfAwesome
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassBookworm

Credits and Disclaimer

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