User talk:Chou
Birth Name: Chou Kagatanto
Gender: Female
Race & Clan: Au Ra, Raen
Age: 22
Height & Weight: X fulms X ilms, N/A
Nameday: 9th Sun of the First Astral Moon
Guardian: Thaliak, the Scholar
Citizenship: Gridanian
Free Company: Aeon
Marital Status: Single
Sexual Orientation: Uncertain
Job: Improvised mercenary, Magitek rigger
Hobbies: Pilgrim, Tech-lover, Books, Haphazard archaeology
Alignement: Chaotic Neutral / Autonomous
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Scars & Markings: Coming soon
Voice: Coming soon
Clothing: Coming soon
- Scary and conspiracy tales
- Spooky and obscure lore
- Libraries and books
- Garlean Magitek
- Allagan technology
- Traveling
- Tree-hugging
- Touching things
- Rainy and stormy days
- Ala-Migho
- Seeker and Coeurlclaw societies
- Her past
- Her clumsiness
- Her lack of assurance
- Her bad luck
- Mushy things
- Being scolded/scorned
- Vexation
- Facing her past mistakes
- Being excluded / marginalized
- Personal attachment
- Mirrors (Cataptrophobia)
- Favorite food: sweets, honeyed bakeries and garlean garlic
- Favorite drink: mead, morning dew
- Favorite colour: yellow
- Vices: unquenchable curiosity, nosiness, snooping around, not thinking about consequences
- Possible alignment: chaotic neutral
Suen is a good-natured, at times spirited, girl, that enjoys simple things and satisfying her curiosity, while fleeing her responsibilities. Having been raised in the Twelveswood in contact with the botanist side of the Gridanian society, she cares very little for luxuries or mannerisms. However, she can be infinitely nosy and excited over anything, which coupled with her scatterbrain nature tends to make her behavior rather unpredictable.
In spite of her nerdy ability to get overexcited at the mention of new horizons, obscure lore, and technology (especially Garlean and, cream of the cream, Allagan), Suen shares the solitary nature of her kin with great zeal. She is often found lost in her thoughts, or outright living in her own world, and it can get pretty difficult to snap her out of her bubble. Her clear lack of realism or even sense of danger can make her engage into incredibly risky situations that no sane person would consider even vaguely safe to do, which can lead her into pretty upside-down situations.
Due to her awful clumsiness, she is for most people a walking danger that should be kept away. In direct relation to that, she totally lacks of self-confidence and often tends to put herself down, preferring heavily to rely on others to take important decisions, but she will still do whatever she wants most of the time, and can actually prove to be very confrontational when things don't tend to go her way.
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Under her propensity for the worst to happen and her utterly clumsy manners, Suen hides a keen and cunning mind that can awaken either at the weirdest times, or when the situation is dire enough to warrant it. Left alone, she remains rather resourceful and can get as crafty as foxes get, either to survive or in pursuit of her goals when fate has not conspired against her. Her pragmatic gridanian upbringing in the woods taught her to do with very little and simple things, and she rarely requires a lot for subsistence, used to take from nature what nature gives. However, she can sometimes get lost on matters of survival in foreign, alien looking lands.
Like most of her kin, she inherited of some of their traits, like better legs, ears and smell, although certainly not in an order of magnitude similar to those shown by the hunters of the family. Suen was not especially favored among her kin for her martial or hunting prowess. While not outright weak, she remains a frail individual. Most of the handful of situations where she got in trouble necessitating to resort to combat, she was too scared to do anything else than panicking, which leaded her most of the time to... interesting results, to say the least. She often tends to rely heavily on her magical perception rather than her physical senses.
Suen's primary weakness consists in a disastrous luck often leading her into an endless catastrophe and unexpected shifts of situations, from the daily blunders that can include butter fingers or bruises to the rarer but nonetheless impressive backfires that afflict the few spells she can be called to cast. Moreover, the handful of skills she might show are often totally overshadowed or outplayed by her clumsy affliction, where everything good, or paved with good intentions, gets often turned into pretty grim or outright dreadful consequences.
Suen is currently learning to use conjury again against her better judgement, and has taken a serious knack for machinistry and firearms, for which she shows a strong affinity despite her clumsiness.
Suen's story is still told occasionally in her family, for its rather peculiar and fuzzy nature is often pointed as an example of all things wrong that proper Keeper of the Moon offspring should never indulge in. Born in the Twelveswood and enjoying a life in the outskirts of Gridania, expected to follow the long standing tradition of botanists in her family, she chose instead to grow a certain fondness for everything exotic, new, or just outright spooky, as her propensity to scare her siblings clearly showed. Overall, she was misunderstood since her early years.
Despite her affliction that appears to jinx everything she does, it never seemed to bother the elementals of the Twelveswood, that wholeheartedly embraced her as she showed strong natural bonds with the wood and the wilderness. She was often seen to spend her time perched on trees, leading some to call her various names like the 'tree-hugging lass'. It was not really surprising to see her assigned to conjuring circles, but her somewhat random inability to learn and properly cast spells without collateral damage soon made people rethink twice their decision to let her deal with aetherial powers. Her rare natural gift of Hearer pushed her not to cling too much to her conjury circles and instead to go wander in the woods, at times trying to sneak on padjals and hear their stories.
Her coming of age saw the apparition of two life-changing events: her refusal to play the family game with a wandering male and a certain incident involving a Magitek Reaper near the brand new Castrum Oriens that eventually leaded her native village to be burned to the ground. A fact Suen does not know though, is that the incident proved more impressive than really harmful, and nobody really got hurt.
While she got without news from her family for a few years, trying to survive and leading a carefree life on the road, Suen never tried to reach them out, the same way she was too scared to get back to the village to look for survivors. This leaded her to feel even more remorse over her deeds, and the emotional burden she now has to wear has brought her to hide behind an exaggerated lack of seriousness, which she rarely breaks out.
Suen was raised in a Keeper of the Moon family that tended to take Memphina's teaching very literally. Not only content to spend a day full of prayers for the moon divinity, they considered displays of affection or love through physical contact - snuggles, caresses, kisses, intimacy - to be pretty normal, something that shocked good Gridanians from time to time. For that reason, it was mostly kept internal to the family circle. She might consider it pretty mushy and awkward, she still has difficulties to refrain from it at times.
Suen is now settled in Ul'dah against her will, being part of a mercenary company based in the Goblet. Being involved directly in their intrigues and facing the same enemies, she has no choice but to face the same challenges that they all do and is still trying to adapt to her new lifestyle.
Suen recently got involved in her first operations as part of that group, and no matter how exciting, they also proved very taxing for her. She had take upon herself to learn doing her part as a mercenary, and has taken a certain knack for guns, for which she surprisingly proved not to totally suck with.
Suhyi Shyu (♥ ≈ ) - Mother
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Position: Family head.
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Luvoh'sae Dachei (♥ ≈ ) - Father
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Wanderer male of the kin.
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Selo Shyu (♥ ● ) - Older sister
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Suen's sister, 2 years older.
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Aeon
Leon was the first to introduce Suen to that group of mercenaries called 'Aeon'. He has so far shown a steady welcome toward her, and proved to be very supportive, and even receptive to her debatable wits, where both of them enjoy taking friendly jabs at each other. Leon is also willing to help Suen learn to defend herself through physical arts and proved to be a caring friend to Suen when she needed it the most, but she is just starting to see his darker side appearing through the cracks.
Aeon
Aurou has always been around Leon. Having learned of her Sharlayan origins as well as her studies of the art of conjury, Suen's interest has been piqued even further. The quiet tranquility of the mi'qote sometimes succeeds in snapping Suen out of her bubble and make her take her responsibilities. Aurou offered Suen to help her reconcile with her broken conjury. Aurou proved to be the most caring (and inquiring) confident, and is probably the only one to whom Suen sometimes shows her true self.
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Maybe feeling a certain familiarity for a fellow Keeper of a similar age and their similar tastes, Suen connected immediately with the gridanian mi'qote, who seems to struggles with similar past issues. Suen feels very admiring and maybe a bit envious of Raih's self-assurance and carefree life. She found a confident and unexpected promising good friend in Raih, who exerts an emotional magnetism on her.
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Learning about her investigation services, Suen initially redirected Liselotte to various cases that could require her skills, but Lise has grown closer to Aeon and subsequently to Suen, and now lives in Suen's room in Cliffperch. Suen is not really sure to understand Lise's colorful imagination and happy go lucky mood at times, but she sure finds it rather fun. She has grown rather fond of her recently.
Aeon
Ferus mostly left an impression of coldness and appeared as a no-nosense, rude, unwelcoming ala-mighan character. His insistence at first in trying to marginalize her tended to get on her nerves, though Suen also actually enjoys his grumpy and cynical side as well as his veteran stories. Despite all that, Ferus is always here to defend her and may have accepted her as a part of the group after she proved she was able to kill.
Aeon
Kairen is another member of Aeon, and Suen also learned recently her love affair with Ferus. While she usually does not care much about racial mixes, coupled here with the age difference the thing tends to rebuke her probably out of prejudice. In any case, Kairen saved her life from aggressors without thinking about it first.
Aeon
Suen does not know much about Lute other than she came with Kairen to save her life without asking any questions.
Aeon
Oyungujin is the newest Aeon member. Suen finds him very secretive and hard to approach. He seems to seep a certain amount of dark mystery, which leaves Suen rather intrigued.
Aeon
Altani seems to be a rather bizarre shaman-arcanist living in her own peculiar world, something that Suen can relate a bit with. In contrast with Altani's happy go lucky side, Suen is not sure what to think of her shocking indifference to kill yet though.
Aeon
Suen met Rei'li through his half-brother Leon. She finds him cool and affable enough, but she isn't sure yet where to position herself towards his sudden displays of affection.
Aeon
Seemingly part of an intricate Keeper family that Suen is just starting to see how far and intricate it seems to extend, Khuja'sae is a young boy that often looks very whimsical and childish to her, and is apparently prone to put himself in the worse situations possible rather willingly, which Suen finds a bit masochistic.
Jackal & Hide
Suen met Haydn'to through her acquaintance Raih. Sharing the same native homeland, he proved to be friendly enough, accepting her as a friend of Raih, and a fellow Keeper from the Shroud. Suen enjoys a lot his alarmist stories on the primal Odin.
Dufresne Bellworks
Brave Horizon showed immediately that she was a considerate person, and her involvement in the Airship maintenance and design of Aeon sure proved to be a point of interest for Suen.
RareX
Suen got abducted and nearly physically tortured by a band of shady individuals lead by this tall mi'qote woman, that took her for someone else. Suen is still deeply shaken by the experience, the first time she had to look at death in the eyes, but she is slowly healing through it. Since then, Yashaix proved to actually be a very caring, gentle Keeper mother with a strong sense of kin.
Oathforge
U'xi is part of Yashaix' little gang of Keepers, and the one that abducted Suen for her. Suen appreciates her social flair, but her often lewd, flirting comments and manners tend to weird her out.
Trident
Sami is the daughter of Yashaix, and proved to have quite a different personality. Suen immediately got along with a simplicity they both share. They promised to see each other again.
Aethereal Warriors
Paul caught Suen in Uld'ah when she got the attention of the authorities by sneaking into the area around Castrum Meridianum. He was a reminder of the consequences of her actions, but not really interested in taking her to the Blades, he offered her to do some investigative work for him instead. She eventually did the work that culminated in the death of a target, and got cleared of her warrant afterwards.
Mysterium
Suen got the recent visit of Kerin "Misteyes" Lebeaux, a senior conjurer for Stillglade Fane that knew her back from Suen's early classes in conjury and her frolicking around padjals. While the conjurer proved to be considerate, Suen is still a bit suspicious as to the reasons of her specifically stopping by the company HQ 'just to get news from her'...
- ■ "What is that cute little animal you draw Suen?", "It's a Morbol, mom." 7 year-old Suen and her mother
- ■ "The Twelve know why, but the child suddenly decided not to eat meat again and live on vegetables! What got into her this time?" Suhyi Shyu, during her daughter teen whimsical crises
- ■ "But... where are you going like that lassie?", "How should I know??" Suen's answer to a concerned inkeeper on her pilgrimage
- ■ "You see that lass there? Yes? Now... Look at her left pocket... See? I would bet my wages that's fucking garlean tech! Some kind of key? I dunno.." An observant patriot
- ■ "How did that stupid mi'qote got into possession of that reaper? I am not really sure how that shit did ever happen to begin with... We stumbled on her, spying on us... Then the decurion slipped on something and all hell got loose. The last thing I saw was her, sitting on the reaper, and i'm not even sure she was more in control than us... Kind of embarrassing, when you think about it." An anonymous garlean evocatus
- ■ "And the reaper? What about it?", "It kinda burnt the village for us, actually... Really, we were just there for the show... And no, I don't know how it self destructed." An anonymous garlean triarus answering to the same evocatus
- ■ "Mor Dhona is a silly place." Suen to various people.
- ■ "A lot of things seem to go above her head." Leon Greymoon.
Stances on RP: Usually 'heavy' kind of RP, with emphasis on character development and growth. Modest characters, lasting and creative plots. I absolutely refuse to deal with overpowered types of characters, or unrealistic characters. I am not okay with breaking the lore. I will also always try to adapt to my RP partners specific styles and needs in any case!
Hooks and relationships: Totally open to any idea that can provide potential quality RP with my character. If you feel that my character profile can provide a hook for a story you have in mind, don't hesitate to reach me out to see what can be done! I am also definitely open for family ties, or background/business connections between characters. Suen is mostly designed as a supporting character, even if she has her own story.
RP combat and injuries: Open for most systems as long as they make sense to me. I can roll random dices or settle it through a fully organic RP exchange without any other tool, or a combination of both. As long as both players are conscious of the limitations and strengths of their characters, it should flesh out pretty good situations. As I am a strong supporter of dealing with the consequences of every actions our characters do, I will go by almost anything that can happen (except when true death, or other very dire things have to happen).
Player Info: EU player, GMT+1.
Server: Balmung
Wiki Templates: Using the skill stats window from Fancy Template and my layout is inspired by Rixo and Nanagi's template. You can use this page layout at will and I will be glad if people actually do, but please try to change the colour theme at least (Yes, mine is not just gray...)! Thanks.
