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Defiant Bride

2019-10-12T04:44:36Z

Miss Bride: Removing unwanted tabs and adding artwork

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2019-10-12T04:41:24Z

Miss Bride: semi-nude art of Defiant Bride, by lilbugprincess

== Summary ==
semi-nude art of Defiant Bride, by lilbugprincess

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2019-10-12T04:40:11Z

Miss Bride: Bride in bikini, by lilbugprincess

== Summary ==
Bride in bikini, by lilbugprincess

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2019-10-12T04:37:20Z

Miss Bride: Defiant Bride in Company Tabard, by lilbugprincess

== Summary ==
Defiant Bride in Company Tabard, by lilbugprincess

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2019-10-12T04:33:56Z

Miss Bride: Defiant Bride by lilbugprincess

== Summary ==
Defiant Bride by lilbugprincess

Defiant Bride

2019-10-12T04:31:07Z

Miss Bride: A lot of shit needed updating

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<div align=center><div style="font-size:55px;letter-spacing:0.2em;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver"> Defiant Bride </div></div>
<div align=center><div style="font-size:12px;letter-spacing:0.15em;color:#C05DC7;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;"> I-it's a p-pleasure to make your acquaintance, t-truly! </div></div>
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<div style="padding:10px 35px; background: #876ACD;font-size:14px;color:#ffffff;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black;letter-spacing:0.15em;"><center>'''VITAL INFORMATION'''</center></div></span></h3>
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<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''NAME'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Defiant Bride </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''CURRENT ALIAS...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Def | Bride | 'Amber' </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''PAST ALIASES...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> None </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''RACE & CLAN...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Au-ra, Raen </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''GENDER...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Female </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''AGE & NAMEDAY...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;">26 | Born the 16th Sun of the 2nd Astral Moon</font>

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<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''NATIONALITY...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Abalathian (by location of birth)</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''CITIZENSHIP...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Ul'dahn </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''FAMILY...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Mother, Father, Papa, Older Sister, two Older Brothers, Estranged Sibling (no biological relatives) </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''RESIDENCE...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> The Collegia Arcanum, Mists – Ward 12, Plot 45. </font>

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<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''PATRON DEITY...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Menphina </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''HEIGHT & WEIGHT...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;padding:0px 5px;"> 4 fulms, 8 ilms, 146 ponze. </font> <br>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''ALIGNMENT...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Neutral/Lawful Good </font>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="General"><div style="font-family:Georgia;padding:10px 15px; background: #876ACD;font-size:16px;color:#ffffff; text-shadow: 1px 1px 3px black;letter-spacing:0.2em;"><center>GENERAL INFORMATION</center></div></span></h3><br>
<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#51339C;font-family:Georgia;"> Most hearing the name of 'Defiant Bride' immediately summon to mind a proud Hellsguard... tall and broad-shouldered, a stubborn and rebellious daughter of the mountains of Abalathia. Few expect a raen, much less one so tiny and shy. With a warm smile and perpetual stutter, Defiant Bride has gone from an outsider new to Eorzea to a well-liked and well-connected member of the community in only a few short years. With a smile and a deft hand for people, she works hard and enjoys a life in the city. </div></div>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="General"><div style="font-family:Georgia;padding:10px 15px; background: #876ACD;font-size:16px;color:#ffffff; text-shadow: 1px 1px 3px black;letter-spacing:0.2em;"><center>APPEARANCE</center></div></span></h3><br>

<div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#51339C;font-family:Georgia;">Not even reaching five fulms tall, Defiant Bride is short even for an au-ra. Despite being an active woman who trains and fights regularly, she doesn't bear much visible muscle. Instead, she's noticeably round, an overweight and chubby woman, whose surprising muscle is hidden. She's curvy all around, with an impressive bust, soft hips, and a noticeable belly, her tail also a bit on the thick side. She bears several visible scars of her time in Eorzea, but none are more prominent or obvious than her single horn, bearing only her left-handed appendage and sporting nothing but a smooth stump of bone on the other side of her face.

Defiant is unusual among Raen for her dark brown skin, contrasting with the white scales that cover her body. These too are more heavy than many others of her race, bearing fine, snake-like scales all the way around her neck from her jawline to her collarbone, with others covering her inner and outer thighs or gathering at her spine before her tail emerges. Though not noticeable, she is heterochromic, with her left eye green and her right a more aqua color. Her hair is naturally a soft, unusual shade of pastel blue, but she often dyes it other pastel hues. Regardless of color she tends to wear it pulled back and straightened, whether her hair is long or short. She takes a small amount of pride in the softness of her hair, skin, and scales, though her hands are well-callused with years of hard work.

She scars heavily and visibly, with shiny pink keloid scars decorating her chest, thighs and stomach. The most prominent among this is visibly twisted and poorly-healed, a heavy rip that bisects her stomach and has fresh white scales growing over the very ends... anyone with a modicum of knowledge can tell whatever wound caused it wasn't properly cared for. Her single horn also bears hints of damage, small hairline cracks covering it's surface and several scales missing where it was heavily injured.

She's quite the open book when it comes to her reactions and emotional state, and blushes easily... it's simple to tell how she's feeling just by glancing at her, her feelings writ over her face and in the motions of her tail. Many find her habits adorable, and call the woman irresistibly teasable, much to her chagrin. Rumors that she peeps loudly when agitated remain mere rumors, so far as anyone knows.

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<div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#51339C;font-family:Georgia;">'''Distinguishing physical characteristics:'''</div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#C05DC7;"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> Mismatched eyes, bright and often smiling.</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#C05DC7;"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> A single horn, curved by her cheek and bearing signs of past damage.</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#C05DC7;"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> An incredibly tiny build, noticeably plump all around.</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#C05DC7;"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> A warm, welcoming smile, sincere as anyone can be.</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#C05DC7;"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> Cheeks that are quick to redden, be it out of embarrassment, shyness, or some combination of both.
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#C05DC7;"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> A thick tail that, while not prehensile, tends to reveal her mood in it's flicks and swishes.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="General"><div style="font-family:Georgia;padding:10px 15px; background: #876ACD;font-size:16px;color:#ffffff; text-shadow: 1px 1px 3px black;letter-spacing:0.2em;"><center>PERSONALITY</center></div></span></h3>

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<div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#51339C;font-family:Georgia;">Sweet and well-natured, Defiant is nothing but earnest and welcoming to new acquaintances and a fiercely loyal friend to those who accept her affection. Despite her name, she's quiet obedient and agreeable, and tends to aim to act as mediator and greeter in social circumstances. She's quick to follow orders and considers herself far more a follower than any kind of leader, more than happy to take support roles and handle paperwork and details for other, more active people. She's both forgiving and quite polite, but those who get on her bad side can find themselves the target of bitter, hidden grudges that she won't so much as reveal in her polite smiles.

Defiant is warm and eager to make friends, and her extensive social contracts have made her VERY good at socializing. As a result she's developed an impressive poker face and a knack for how to hide her emotions or release them to make sure people see her the way she wants to be. Her smile is natural, but she can still unleash a sharp tongue, and she doesn't mind if she has to lie or act to make sure things stay smooth. She's quite good at lying, and has a good poker face... except when she's embarrassed, particularly from being teased about her love-life.

For all her appearances, Defiant suffers from intense anxiety and recurring bouts of severe depression. In the past, she's engaged in extremely risky behavior in an attempt to gain some control over her life or fill what was lacking. She risked her life in battle, failed to treat injuries, drank heavily, and more... but in the long years since she came to Eorzea, she's come to find solace and warmth in life. She lives day to day in quiet happiness, not afraid of what the future brings, and only rarely suffers from panic or depression.
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''HARD WORK:''' Few women can say they take as much pleasure in a job well done as Defiant... throwing herself into one of her many jobs fills her with a sense of contentment that's hard to beat. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''KNIGHTS:''' Raised on old Ishgardian books about the noble exploits of the Holy See's Heavensward, Def still idolizes knights of all kind and seeks to hold herself to the same code they do... even if she admits there's no such thing as a noble white knight, not outside storybooks. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''FUZZ:''' An abandoned spriggan who Defiant took home one day and has been raising for years. Her doting behavior has lead her to treat him more like a son than a pet, and he's shockingly well spoken at this point. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''CLUBS:''' Working hard calls for playing hard, and when Defiant needs relax and unwind, she loves nothing more than hitting a dance club and partying until the night is long!. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''ANCIENT AESTHETICS:''' As a goldsmith, her job has driven her to investigate and study the designs and styles used in the Fifth Astral age and earlier. She's developed quite a fondness for the architecture of Nym, aesthetics of Mhach, and stonework of Amdapor. </font></div>

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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''RUDENESS:''' While she has a high tolerance for even the rudest of individuals, those who are incapable of meeting her even in the most token attempts at politeness (or worse; mock her attempts to be kind,) better watch out. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''LARGE BUGS:''' Particularly sandworms, diremites, and yarzons. Absolutely disgusting, she'd rather fight a chimera than have to deal with one. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''COLD:''' Abalathia's Spine had frozen, dire winters, but at least she lived with a family of living furnaces... on her own, she grows sluggish and numb a few minutes in the snow, and is extremely prone to hypothermia. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''FLYING:''' A deep fear of falling combined with airsickness means even a brief airship jaunt leaves her pale and shaking. More extended ones can have her vomiting for hours even after she touches down. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''RECKLESS STRENGTH:''' Defiant has met many, many strong people in her life... and has come to only respect those who know how to hold back. Those who injure others in spars, or lash out without thought... are pathetic, in her eyes. </font></div>

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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''READING:''' While she favors romance novels, Defiant is a voracious reader of all sorts of books. She favors them to learn new things, and owns an extensive personal library. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''EVENTS:''' For as shy as she can be, Defiant's desire to meet new people tends to push her out into the world where she can be met attending all kinds of shows and special social events around Eorzea. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''GARDENING:''' Though her home is in the Goblet, Defiant has a lush enough lawn to tend to several beautiful flowers and some very healthy strawberry bushes. Digging around in them puts her at ease. </font></div>

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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''HARDY:''' Beyond any natural talent or particular skill, Defiant ENDURES. She can walk for malms in plate armor, remain conscious after life-threatening blows, stay standing after massive bloodloss or intense aetheric depletion. She survives, even if she might not always want to. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''EMPATHETIC:''' There are countless experiences and lives Def can never know nor understand, but it doesn't stop her from trying. She always goes out of her way to see things from other people's point of view, and she's painfully empathetic. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''MERCIFUL:''' After a very, very long time and a lot of pain, Def believes that everyone deserves the chance for mercy. Her sense of justice is informed by this desire, and anyone seeking a second chance will find an extended hand and a kind smile waiting for them. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''INDUSTRIOUS:''' While she doesn't have many natural talents, no one ever told Def that. She's willing to put in hours of hard work and practice to learn and hone her skills, and never skimps on effort. </font></div>

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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''DOCILE:''' Any questioning of her choices or opinions are sure to stop her in her tracks, and she's hesitant to volunteer her thoughts on things if they might be challenged. She's the type to follow orders from superiors, even if it leads her to regret not objecting later on. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''REPRESSED:''' Her desires, her fears, her anger and sadness... just... just bottle that shit up and never tell anyone. No one has to know! </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''INHIBITED''' In truth, Defiant's own fears and beliefs about herself hold her back. Her blade is slower when she's afraid of hurting someone, and her potential for magic is stifled by her belief that she's incompetent in wielding it. </font></div>

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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''PROTECTING OTHERS:''' More than anything else, Defiant fights to protect those who matter to her, regardless of how capable they are on their own. She will stand for them the best she can. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''LOVE:''' Defiant's seen countless ups and downs, sworn off love more than once... and yet finds herself back in it. For the sake of the warmth that love gives her, she'll do quite a bit. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''THE GREATER GOOD:''' Defiant has a very carefully defined moral code, and swore an oath of mercy to her Paladin Soul Crystal. She may not always work with people on the right side of law, or do things that seem right... but she always strives for something that meets her personal code. </font></div>
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=Inventory=
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#51339C;">'''FLAME OFFICER'S BLADE:''' A heavy, unusually-shaped longsword and Defiant's main arm. Earned through moons of hard work and effort put in with the flames, she wields it with an ease that belays it's true weight. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#51339C;">'''HIGH MYTHRITE SHIELD:''' A gorgeous work of art in shield form, Defiant's mythrite shield was originally crafted by [[Rawkin Forgeheart]] and served well until it was shattered in combat with Garlean forces. This new piece is magnitudes finer, heavier in exchange for being harder to pierce.</font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#51339C;">'''PEISTBANE:''' A gift by a dear, dear friend and her employer, the eccentric gillionaire, [[Sigurd Sundsteigen]], this cereulean-powered gunblade is sleek and modern and folds up small enough that it can be concealed in Def's clothing. While new to shooting, she treasures the gift and the affection behind it and keeps it on her where normal blades might draw unwanted attention. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#51339C;">'''GOLDSMITHING SUPPLIES:''' Ever the hard worker, Def keeps several types of jewelry-making supplies on her, from a miniature tool kit to a variety of samples of chains and beads, to scraps of ore and jewels. The latter serve as gifts and payment when she finds herself in debt to others; the former tend to go right into her pet Spriggan's waiting mouth. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#51339C;">'''SILVER NECKLACE:''' A very simple silver necklace, not the finest quality but very well cared for. A valentione's day gift from her dearest friend [[Khyran Oisin]]... no matter how many fancy and intricate pieces she makes, it remains her favorite. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#51339C;">'''AMBER RING:''' A finely made ring with a golden band and a near-flawless cabochon of amber as the focal piece. While she started wearing it on a whim, circumstances have drawn her to the stone and she wears it as a reminder of her desire to serve as a guardian to others. She keeps it on her at all times, even when wearing gloves. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#51339C;">'''NOTEBOOK:''' A pocket-sized notebook with plenty of pages bound in soft aldgoat leather, with a tiny loop to hold a pen. A key point in her work as a personal assistant to Sigurd Sundsteigen, this notebook holds detailed reports of meetings of a clandestine group, long lists of tasks to be accomplished, a variety of receipts of sale for all sorts of goods... and a whole lot of grumbling and complaining about her employer, usually written down when she's told "Take a note, my most defiant bride!" before he begins to ramble. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#51339C;">'''LINKPEARL STRAND:''' A string of linkpearls with individual clasps designed to nestle them neatly against an auri horn. They range from casual social groups to formal military and secret society pearls. Her own has a personal line that's easy for any standard model to tune to, if messages need be sent. </font></div>
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=Behind the Lies=
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A caravan in flames, exotic goods scattered through burning woods. Two bodies, tattered, bleeding, in pieces on the ground, one before the other as if trying to protect them. A chocobo, injured and crying, hunched in the underbrush. An infant, sick, a few hours from death, dark skin contrasted by soft, milky scales.
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=Relationships=

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! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>Illuminated Bride,</b> <i>Mother</i>. <b>(<font style="color:#54b5eb;" size="2">♥</font>)</b> - <b>Mama</b></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"><b>Character's Thoughts:</b> <i>"There's no one stronger in the world; no one!"</i></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">Defiant's adoptive mother, who found her that fateful day in the woods and took her home to nurse her back to health. A loud, bold former-mercenary, Illuminated has loved Defiant like she was her own flesh and blood, and defied her family's matron more than once in order to raise her. It was Illuminated Bride who named Defiant, after several moons where she was unsure if the child would survive; it refers to her defiance of death, and holds a wish that she continue to live no matter the odds.</div>
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! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>Stalwart Bride,</b> <i>Father</i>. <b>(<font style="color:#54b5eb;" size="2">♥</font>)</b> - <b>Dad.</b></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"><b>Character's Thoughts:</b> <i>"Without Da, I wouldn't be the woman I am today."</i></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">One of Defiant's Adoptive fathers, husband to Illuminated and Silent. A former mercenary who took up hunting and trapping when he got married for the second time. Warm and passionate, he's never been shy about boasting about his littlest girl.</div>
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! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>Indigo Moss,</b> <i>Father</i>. <b>(<font style="color:#54b5eb;" size="2">♥</font>)</b> - <b>Papa.</b></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"><b>Character's Thoughts:</b> <i>"You should SEE what I can make now, papa...!"</i></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">A former mercenary who settled down to dedicate his life to blacksmithing. Stalwart Bride's husband, and Illuminated Bride's best friend. A quiet, stoic man who prefers to let his actions speak instead of his words.</div>
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! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>[[Regal Bride]],</b> <i>Older Sister</i>. <b>(<font style="color:#54b5eb;" size="2">♥</font> <font style="color:#b72a78;" size="2">♦</font>)</b> - <b>Sis.</b></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"><b>Character's Thoughts:</b> <i>"I lost you once... I won't ever let you go again."</i></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">Defiant's older sister has always been close with her, serving as her best friend and confidant until the fateful day the woman left the Spine to study Conjury in Gridania. Her letters reached home as Dalamud began to grow in the sky, and a scant week before it fell, she expressed her interest in fighting back for Eorzea. There was never another letter, and til a fateful reunion in the Golden Bazaar, Defiant Bride only sought to confirm her sister's death at Cartenaeu.</div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">The third child in the Bride Clan, born not long after Regal. Awkward and a bit aggressive in his youth, he's since matured and made up with Defiant for his teenage years, growing into a fine young husband and lumberjack in Abalathia's Spine.</div>
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! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>[[Khyran Oisin]],</b> <i>Beloved, Best Friend</i>. <b>(<font style="color:#b72a78;" size="2">♦</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> <font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font>)</b> - <b>Khy.</b></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">The founder of the free company Aethertide Ventures, Defiant first met the skeletal, quiet man while seeking a a stable job outside the Flames. Though prepared to enter as a soldier, as she'd trained her entire life to be... a chance conversation with him lead her to pick Outreach, a diplomatic branch instead, changing the course of her destiny. Their friendship has blossomed ever since, and she counts Khyran as her closest friend and ally in Eorzea, trusting him above any others and vowing to protect him from the very, VERY many things that would bring him harm. She happens to consider his gaunt, skeletal appearance to be quite handsome and charming and holds quite a bit of romantic affection for the man; they were together for a short time but since have parted. Though hurt at the time, Def holds no ill-will for him, and has accepted that their relationship is simply something different.</div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">A Xaelan fisherman and fairly recent immigrant from Othard who Defiant struck up a conversation with while seeking to buy dinner. A one time purchase became a quiet friendship, with Aghurlal showing Defiant how to swim and speak Doman... and eventually blossomed into a quiet romance. While both are more than a little nervous and unsure, they both come from polyamorous family situations and have been growing closer bit by bit. Defiant's other romantic traumas have hindered their relationship, but she still cares for him.</div>
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=Rumors=
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<p><div align=center><div style="font-family:Georgia;">Some of these rumors are untrue, speculation, or are greatly exaggerated.</div></div></p>
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">✷</font> "Defiant Bride? Yeah, I know her... she's always running around doing something or other. She's hard to miss, what with that skin and that hair and that horn...!" </div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">✷</font> "If you're looking to commission a goldsmith for something unusual, she's one of the best for your money... if you can stand the stutter." </div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">✷</font> "She used to work guard duty a lot... if you ever went to the Golden Bazaar, y'probably met her. She's not around nearly as much but she still takes patrols in the city, I think?" </div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">✷</font> "All I know is, she ain't no Hellsguard. Gal with a name like that, y'get EXPECTATIONS...!" </div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">✷</font> "If you need a hand with something, she's always the first to volunteer, no matter what... don't think she knows people are taking advantage of that, yet." </div>

<div style="padding:10px 25px; background: #280D25; color:#ffffff;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12px;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black"><b>◢ Uncommon Rumors -</b> ''A little more difficult to hear. Use sparingly or ask first!''</div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">✷</font> "She didn' used to have one horn... used t'see her workin' patrols in Drybone all th' time and she was whole n' hale back then. She just vanished one day, n' when I saw her again a few weeks later, it was gone."</div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">✷</font> "That girl looks innocent, but I've seen the people she talks to, what they do... that shy stuttery thing can't be for real."</div>

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<p><div align=center><div style="font-family:Georgia;">Feel free to add your own rumors to this section.</div></div></p>
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">✷</font> "Hey, did you hear about Defiant Bride?" -- YOUR NAME HERE. </div>
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=Gallery=
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File: Sweater lizert.jpg | Art by [http://bride-and-bride.tumblr.com Lil Bug J]
File: Chub def.png | Art by [http://bride-and-bride.tumblr.com Lil Bug J], general body-shape is soft and chubbier than in-game model
File: Chibi defiant.png | Art by [http://bride-and-bride.tumblr.com Lil Bug J]
File: Sketch Defs.JPG | Commissioned Art by [http://dravanian.tumblr.com/ Ashy]
File: W ych4 1.png | Commissioned Art by [http://sera-xiv.tumblr.com Sera]
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File: Def1.jpg | Defiant Bride, casual in the Mists.
File: Def2.jpg | Attending the Sea Breeze Bazaar as a goldsmith and saleswoman.
File: IMAGES.jpg | <s>Sexy Secretary</s> Personal Assistant outfit
File: Def3.png | Natural Hair Color
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=OOC Notes=
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<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">Please call me J, or Def! I'm in my mid-twenties and I'm non-binary. I go by They/Them, and I'm unemployed due to chronic physical and mental illness... which means I tend to be around at all hours of the day. Please don't hesitate to send a message or ask to [http://lilbugprincess.tumblr.com my Main Blog] or over Discord. My ID is: Lil Bug J (they/them)#5634 </div></div>
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:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;"> I'm fine with all kinds of darker themes and more mature topics, up to and including drug use, murder, torture, sex, mental illness, and the effects of all of these... IF discussed ahead of time. </div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">'''I will not engage in darker topics without some kind of communication on both sides about what is in mind.''' </div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">Defiant's story involves elements of explicit abuse and severe depression which sometimes manifests in ways that can affect her personal relationships. Please don't hesitate to talk to me if you're unsure where she stands or how she feels, but be aware that sometimes she might not actually be as interested as you assumed.</div></div>
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:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">I do my best to communicate with my partners and keep up, but I tend to get VERY busy and easily distracted, so if I've been ignoring you please don't hesitate to poke me! I'm always eager to talk about rp or just life, and I'd rather be friends with my RP partners than anything else!</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">Due to above mentioned physical and mental illness, I sometimes drop out of rp entirely, or blur my mood with Defiant... if at any moment you're uncomfortable with how an rp is playing out, please let me know. Similarly, if I end up dropping out of rp when we've been plotting, please try and reach out and I'll do whatever I can to not keep you in limbo.</div></div>

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<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">''While the below is by no means comprehensive, it's a kind of spring board for walk-up RP.''</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">✷ ''"Sorry, can you help me find something around here?"'' Defiant is quite well connected no matter where she is, and always eager to help people get where they're going.</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">✷ ''"I heard you're a goldsmith, miss."'' Be it ordinary jewelry, fanciful magic pieces, or esoteric religious tokens, Defiant's eager to take commissions of all kinds.</div></div>
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<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">''Information in this Wiki is Lore Compliant to the best of my knowledge. Assumptions and small tweaks at play in this character and backstory are listed below.''</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">'''✷ The Roegadyn Old Tongue Isn't Dead:''' While certainly not anyone's first language, and nearly unspoken in most of Eorzea, the old tongue of the Roegadyn remains a language spoken here and there, and while it lacks an alphabet, it's words can be transcribed with Eorzean letters to provide a form of code.</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">'''✷ Au-ra are Rare, but have always been around:''' Regardless of how clumsy their implementation, several post-50 class quests show Auri characters holding skilled jobs in Eorzea... while there's been a recent influx of the tribes lately, it isn't odd to have a Raen pair travelling in Abalathia's Spine with their infant daughter.</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">'''✷ Not all Auri horns regrow at the same rate:''' While most will slowly grow back after injury, the rate and likeliness of a healthy regrow are determined by a variety of factors. The type of injury, how it's cared for initially, repeated trauma and even genetics can all change whether or not a horn injury heals properly. Defiant's missing horn will never regrow.</div></div>
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Miss Bride: Defiant Bride at current, 10/19

== Summary ==
Defiant Bride at current, 10/19

Defiant Bride

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<div align=center><div style="font-size:12px;letter-spacing:0.15em;color:#C05DC7;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;"> I-it's a p-pleasure to make y-your acquaintance, t-truly! </div></div>
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<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''CURRENT ALIAS...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Def | Bride | 'Amber' </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''PAST ALIASES...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> None </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''RACE & CLAN...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Au-ra, Raen </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''GENDER...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Female </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''AGE & NAMEDAY...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;">23 | Born the 16th Sun of the 2nd Astral Moon</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''ORIENTATION...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;padding:0px 5px;">Polyamorous and Bisexual</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''MARITAL STATUS...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;padding:0px 5px;">In an open relationship</font>

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<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''CITIZENSHIP...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Ul'dahn </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''FAMILY...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Mother, Father, Papa, Older Sister, two Older Brothers, Estranged Sibling (no biological relatives) </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''RESIDENCE...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Aethertide Ventures, Mists – Ward 12, Plot 45. </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''OCCUPATION...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Goldsmith, Knight, Private Assistant & More </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''PATRON DEITY...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Menphina </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">✷</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''HEIGHT & WEIGHT...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;padding:0px 5px;"> 4 fulms, 8 ilms, 146 pounze. </font> <br>

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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#51339C;font-family:Georgia;"> Most hearing the name of 'Defiant Bride' immediately summon to mind a proud Hellsguard... tall and broad-shouldered, a stubborn and rebellious daughter of the mountains of Abalathia. Few expect a raen, much less one so tiny and shy. With a warm smile and perpetual stutter, Defiant Bride has gone from an outsider new to Eorzea to a well-liked and well-connected member of the community in only a few short moons... and with hands in all sorts of markets and jobs across the city-states, she shows no sign of shying back. </div></div>

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<div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#51339C;font-family:Georgia;">Not even reaching five fulms tall, Defiant Bride is short even for the noticeably height-challenged women of the auri tribes. Despite being an active young woman who takes to the fields of combat fairly regularly, she doesn't bear much in the way of muscle, instead having grown noticeably soft and chubby over the moons out of her previous intensive training schedule. She's curvy all around, with an impressive breast, soft hips, and a noticeable belly, her tail also a bit on the thick side. She bears several visible scars of her time in Eorzea, but none are more prominent or obvious than her single horn, bearing only her left-handed appendage and sporting nothing but a smooth stump of bone on the other side of her face.

Defiant is unusual among Raen for her dark brown skin, contrasting with the white scales that cover her body. These too are more heavy than many others of her race, bearing scales all the way around her neck from her jawline to her collarbone, with others covering her inner and outer thighs or gathering at her spine before her tail emerges. Though not noticeable, she is heterochromic, with her left eye bearing a green hue and her right a more aqua color. Her hair is naturally a soft, unusual shade of pastel blue, but she's taken to dyeing it blonde with highlights of pink... or lavender, with only hints of blonde. Regardless of color she almost always wears it straightened and pulled back, curly when it's down but found most often in sleek twintails. She takes a small amount of pride in the softness of her hair, skin, and scales, though her hands are well-callused with years of hard work.

She scars heavily and visibly, with shiny pink keloid scars decorating her chest, thighs and stomach. The most prominent among this is visibly twisted and poorly-healed, a heavy rip that bisects her stomach and has fresh white scales growing over the very ends... anyone with a modicum of knowledge can tell whatever wound caused it wasn't properly cared for. Her single horn also bears hints of damage, small hairline cracks covering it's surface and several scales missing where it was heavily injured.

She's quite the open book when it comes to her reactions and emotional state, and blushes easily... it's simple to tell how she's feeling just by glancing at her, her feelings writ over her face and in the motions of her tail. Many find her habits adorable, and call the woman irresistibly teasable, much to her chagrin. Rumors that she peeps loudly when agitated remain mere rumors, so far as anyone knows.

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:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#C05DC7;"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> Mismatched eyes, bright and often smiling.</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#C05DC7;"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> A single horn, curved by her cheek and bearing signs of past damage.</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#C05DC7;"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> An incredibly tiny build, noticeably plump all around.</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#C05DC7;"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> A warm, welcoming smile, sincere as anyone can be.</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#C05DC7;"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> Cheeks that are quick to redden, be it out of embarrassment, shyness, or some combination of both.
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#C05DC7;"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> A thick tail that, while not prehensile, tends to reveal her mood in it's flicks and swishes.
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<div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#51339C;font-family:Georgia;">Sweet and painfully innocent, Defiant is nothing but earnest and welcoming to new acquaintances and a fiercely loyal friend to those who accept her affection. Despite her name, she's quiet obedient and agreeable, and tends to aim to act as mediator and greeter in social circumstances. She's quick to follow orders and considers herself far more a follower than any kind of leader, more than happy to take support roles and handle paperwork and details for other, more active people. She's both forgiving and quite polite, and those who get on her bad side require a GREAT deal of work to do so... most slights are forgiven without even being asked, even if there's no sign of contrition.

Though warm and eager to make friends, she can be remarkably shy when she feels she's in over her head... her interest in keeping people happy means that she tends to worry a lot about what others think, and she can repress her own feelings and opinions if she feels they might upset whatever balance she's managed to carve out. She gets embarrassed extremely easily and tends to stutter more and avert her eyes when lewd or romantic topics come up, growing bright red at the drop of the hat. This same habit makes her transparent as hell, as it's hard to get away with lies when you're burning bright as a cherry and tripping over every other word.

For all her appearances, Defiant suffers from intense anxiety and recurring bouts of severe depression. Her habit of bottling things up to not bother others leads her to lash out in less noticeable ways, and she's prone to overwork, not taking care of health, and engaging in risky behavior as forms of subtle self-harm. While she's promised to live on for the sake of others, she sees her continued living as a painful burden that she wishes to shed in some noble act... the strength of this desire waxes and wanes but has only grown completely silent once. She can work herself into painful panic attacks when she finds herself at a loss, as facing her own innumerable flaws devours her with anxiety. She's unwilling to discuss either of these problems with anyone in her life, believing that some things are unconscionable to burden another with.
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''HARD WORK:''' Few women can say they take as much pleasure in a job well done as Defiant... throwing herself into one of her many jobs fills her with a sense of contentment that's hard to beat. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''KNIGHTS:''' Raised on old Ishgardian books about the noble exploits of the Holy See's Heavensward, Def still idolizes knights of all kind and seeks to hold herself to the same code they do... even if she admits there's no such thing as a noble white knight, not outside storybooks. </font></div>
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''RUDENESS:''' While she has a high tolerance for even the rudest of individuals, those who are incapable of meeting her even in the most token attempts at politeness (or worse; mock her attempts to be kind,) get no more hints of warmth from HER. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''LARGE BUGS:''' Particularly sandworms, diremites, and yarzons. Absolutely disgusting, she'd rather fight a chimera than have to deal with one. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''COLD:''' Abalathia's Spine had frozen, dire winters, but at least she lived with a family of living furnaces... on her own, she grows sluggish and numb a few minutes in the snow, and is extremely prone to hypothermia. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''FLYING:''' A deep fear of falling combined with airsickness means even a brief airship jaunt leaves her pale and shaking. More extended ones can have her vomiting for hours even after she touches down. </font></div>
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''READING:''' While she favors romance novels, Defiant is a voracious reader of all sorts of books. She favors them to learn new things, and owns an extensive personal library. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''EVENTS:''' For as shy as she can be, Defiant's desire to meet new people tends to push her out into the world where she can be met attending all kinds of shows and special social events around Eorzea. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''THING:''' Description. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''THING:''' Description. </font></div>
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''HARDY:''' Beyond any natural talent or particular skill, Defiant ENDURES. She can walk for malms in plate armor, remain conscious after life-threatening blows, stay standing after massive bloodloss or intense aetheric depletion. She survives, even if she might not always want to. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''EMPATHETIC:''' There are countless experiences and lives Def can never know nor understand, but it doesn't stop her from trying. She always goes out of her way to see things from other people's point of view, and she's painfully empathetic. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''MERCIFUL:''' After a very, very long time and a lot of pain, Def believes that everyone deserves the chance for mercy. Her sense of justice is informed by this desire, and anyone seeking a second chance will find an extended hand and a kind smile waiting for them. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''INDUSTRIOUS:''' While she doesn't have many natural talents, no one ever told Def that. She's willing to put in hours of hard work and practice to learn and hone her skills, and never skimps on effort. </font></div>
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''DOCILE:''' Any questioning of her choices or opinions are sure to stop her in her tracks, and she's hesitant to volunteer her thoughts on things if they might be challenged. She's the type to follow orders from superiors, even if it leads her to regret not objecting later on. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''REPRESSED:''' Her desires, her fears, her anger and sadness... just... just bottle that shit up and never tell anyone. No one has to know! </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''NAIVE:''' For all she keeps seeing the worst the six races have to offer, Defiant never seems to catch on enough to prepare her for the next time. She's still remarkably easy to manipulate and exploit. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''INHIBITED''' In truth, Defiant's own fears and beliefs about herself hold her back. Her blade is slower when she's afraid of hurting someone, and her potential for magic is stifled by her belief that she's incompetent in wielding it. </font></div>
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''PROTECTING OTHERS:''' More than anything else, Defiant fights to protect those who matter to her, regardless of how capable they are on their own. Anything to help her loved ones live safely...! </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''LOVE:''' Though something of a romantic, Defiant truly and earnestly wants to feel loved. It seems to elude her time and time again yet still she seeks people who will hold her tight when she's afraid, no matter how many times it goes badly for her. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''VALIDATION:''' Maybe somewhere, somehow, there's a reason for her to be alive? Maybe one day she'll find it. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#51339C;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#C05DC7;"> '''THE GREATER GOOD:''' She joined the Immortal Flames because she wanted to fight for something, and signed up with Aethertide in hopes of making a difference. She's only one small, pathetic woman, but she'll do whatever she can to help others. </font></div>
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#51339C;">'''FLAME OFFICER'S BLADE:''' A heavy, unusually-shaped longsword and Defiant's main arm. Earned through moons of hard work and effort put in with the flames, she wields it with an ease that belays it's true weight. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#51339C;">'''HIGH MYTHRITE SHIELD:''' A gorgeous work of art in shield form, Defiant's mythrite shield was originally crafted by [[Rawkin Forgeheart]] and served well until it was shattered in combat with Garlean forces. This new piece is magnitudes finer, heavier in exchange for being harder to pierce.</font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#51339C;">'''PEISTBANE:''' A gift by a dear, dear friend and her employer, the eccentric gillionaire, [[Sigurd Sundsteigen]], this cereulean-powered gunblade is sleek and modern and folds up small enough that it can be concealed in Def's clothing. While new to shooting, she treasures the gift and the affection behind it and keeps it on her where normal blades might draw unwanted attention. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#51339C;">'''GOLDSMITHING SUPPLIES:''' Ever the hard worker, Def keeps several types of jewelry-making supplies on her, from a miniature tool kit to a variety of samples of chains and beads, to scraps of ore and jewels. The latter serve as gifts and payment when she finds herself in debt to others; the former tend to go right into her pet Spriggan's waiting mouth. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#51339C;">'''SILVER NECKLACE:''' A very simple silver necklace, not the finest quality but very well cared for. A valentione's day gift from her dearest friend [[Khyran Oisin]]... no matter how many fancy and intricate pieces she makes, it remains her favorite. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#51339C;">'''AMBER RING:''' A finely made ring with a golden band and a near-flawless cabochon of amber as the focal piece. While she started wearing it on a whim, circumstances have drawn her to the stone and she wears it as a reminder of her desire to serve as a guardian to others. She keeps it on her at all times, even when wearing gloves. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#51339C;">'''NOTEBOOK:''' A pocket-sized notebook with plenty of pages bound in soft aldgoat leather, with a tiny loop to hold a pen. A key point in her work as a personal assistant to Sigurd Sundsteigen, this notebook holds detailed reports of meetings of a clandestine group, long lists of tasks to be accomplished, a variety of receipts of sale for all sorts of goods... and a whole lot of grumbling and complaining about her employer, usually written down when she's told "Take a note, my most defiant bride!" before he begins to ramble. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">✷</font> <font style="color:#51339C;">'''LINKPEARL STRAND:''' A string of linkpearls with individual clasps designed to nestle them neatly against an auri horn. They range from casual social groups to formal military and secret society pearls. Her own has a personal line that's easy for any standard model to tune to, if messages need be sent. </font></div>
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=Behind the Lies=
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A caravan in flames, exotic goods scattered through burning woods. Two bodies, tattered, bleeding, in pieces on the ground, one before the other as if trying to protect them. A chocobo, injured and crying, hunched in the underbrush. An infant, sick, a few hours from death, dark skin contrasted by soft, milky scales.
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=Relationships=

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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">Defiant's adoptive mother, who found her that fateful day in the woods and took her home to nurse her back to health. A loud, bold former-mercenary, Illuminated has loved Defiant like she was her own flesh and blood, and defied her family's matron more than once in order to raise her. It was Illuminated Bride who named Defiant, after several moons where she was unsure if the child would survive; it refers to her defiance of death, and holds a wish that she continue to live no matter the odds.</div>
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! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>Stalwart Bride,</b> <i>Father</i>. <b>(<font style="color:#54b5eb;" size="2">♥</font>)</b> - <b>Dad.</b></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">One of Defiant's Adoptive fathers, husband to Illuminated and Silent. A former mercenary who took up hunting and trapping when he got married for the second time. Warm and passionate, he's never been shy about boasting about his littlest girl.</div>
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! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>Indigo Moss,</b> <i>Father</i>. <b>(<font style="color:#54b5eb;" size="2">♥</font>)</b> - <b>Papa.</b></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"><b>Character's Thoughts:</b> <i>"You should SEE what I can make now, papa...!"</i></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">A former mercenary who settled down to dedicate his life to blacksmithing. Stalwart Bride's husband, and Illuminated Bride's best friend. A quiet, stoic man who prefers to let his actions speak instead of his words.</div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">Defiant's older sister has always been close with her, serving as her best friend and confidant until the fateful day the woman left the Spine to study Conjury in Gridania. Her letters reached home as Dalamud began to grow in the sky, and a scant week before it fell, she expressed her interest in fighting back for Eorzea. There was never another letter, and til a fateful reunion in the Golden Bazaar, Defiant Bride only sought to confirm her sister's death at Cartenaeu.</div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">The founder of the free company Aethertide Ventures, Defiant first met the skeletal, quiet man while seeking a a stable job outside the Flames. Though prepared to enter as a soldier, as she'd trained her entire life to be... a chance conversation with him lead her to pick Outreach, a diplomatic branch instead, changing the course of her destiny. Their friendship has blossomed ever since, and she counts Khyran as her closest friend and ally in Eorzea, trusting him above any others and vowing to protect him from the very, VERY many things that would bring him harm. She happens to consider his gaunt, skeletal appearance to be quite handsome and charming and holds quite a bit of romantic affection for the man; they were together for a short time but since have parted. Though hurt at the time, Def holds no ill-will for him, and has accepted that their relationship is simply something different.</div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">A Xaelan fisherman and fairly recent immigrant from Othard who Defiant struck up a conversation with while seeking to buy dinner. A one time purchase became a quiet friendship, with Aghurlal showing Defiant how to swim and speak Doman... and eventually blossomed into a quiet romance. While both are more than a little nervous and unsure, they both come from polyamorous family situations and have been growing closer bit by bit. Defiant's other romantic traumas have hindered their relationship, but she still cares for him.</div>
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=Rumors=
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<p><div align=center><div style="font-family:Georgia;">Some of these rumors are untrue, speculation, or are greatly exaggerated.</div></div></p>
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<div style="padding:10px 25px; background: #280D25; color:#ffffff;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12px;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black"><b>◢ Common Rumors - </b>''Easily overheard. Use these freely!''</div>

: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">✷</font> "Defiant Bride? Yeah, I know her... she's always running around doing something or other. She's hard to miss, what with that skin and that hair and that horn...!" </div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">✷</font> "If you're looking to commission a goldsmith for something unusual, she's one of the best for your money... if you can stand the stutter." </div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">✷</font> "She used to work guard duty a lot... if you ever went to the Golden Bazaar, y'probably met her. She's not around nearly as much but she still takes patrols in the city, I think?" </div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">✷</font> "All I know is, she ain't no Hellsguard. Gal with a name like that, y'get EXPECTATIONS...!" </div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">✷</font> "If you need a hand with something, she's always the first to volunteer, no matter what... don't think she knows people are taking advantage of that, yet." </div>

<div style="padding:10px 25px; background: #280D25; color:#ffffff;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12px;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black"><b>◢ Uncommon Rumors -</b> ''A little more difficult to hear. Use sparingly or ask first!''</div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">✷</font> "She didn' used to have one horn... used t'see her workin' patrols in Drybone all th' time and she was whole n' hale back then. She just vanished one day, n' when I saw her again a few weeks later, it was gone."</div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">✷</font> "That girl looks innocent, but I've seen the people she talks to, what they do... that shy stuttery thing can't be for real."</div>

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<p><div align=center><div style="font-family:Georgia;">Feel free to add your own rumors to this section.</div></div></p>
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">✷</font> "Hey, did you hear about Defiant Bride?" -- YOUR NAME HERE. </div>
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=Gallery=
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File: Sweater lizert.jpg | Art by [http://bride-and-bride.tumblr.com Lil Bug J]
File: Chub def.png | Art by [http://bride-and-bride.tumblr.com Lil Bug J], general body-shape is soft and chubbier than in-game model
File: Chibi defiant.png | Art by [http://bride-and-bride.tumblr.com Lil Bug J]
File: Sketch Defs.JPG | Commissioned Art by [http://dravanian.tumblr.com/ Ashy]
File: W ych4 1.png | Commissioned Art by [http://sera-xiv.tumblr.com Sera]
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File: Def1.jpg | Defiant Bride, casual in the Mists.
File: Def2.jpg | Attending the Sea Breeze Bazaar as a goldsmith and saleswoman.
File: IMAGES.jpg | <s>Sexy Secretary</s> Personal Assistant outfit
File: Def3.png | Natural Hair Color
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=OOC Notes=
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<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">Please call me J, or Def! I'm in my mid-twenties and I'm non-binary. I go by They/Them, and I'm unemployed due to chronic physical and mental illness... which means I tend to be around at all hours of the day. Please don't hesitate to send a message or ask to [http://lilbugprincess.tumblr.com my Main Blog] or over Discord. My ID is: Lil Bug J (they/them)#5634 </div></div>
<div align=justify><div style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:16px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver;">'''Personal RP Limits'''</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;"> I'm fine with all kinds of darker themes and more mature topics, up to and including drug use, murder, torture, sex, mental illness, and the effects of all of these... IF discussed ahead of time. </div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">'''I will not engage in darker topics without some kind of communication on both sides about what is in mind.''' </div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">Defiant's story involves elements of explicit abuse and severe depression which sometimes manifests in ways that can affect her personal relationships. Please don't hesitate to talk to me if you're unsure where she stands or how she feels, but be aware that sometimes she might not actually be as interested as you assumed.</div></div>
<div align=justify><div style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:16px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver;">'''Disclaimer'''</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">I do my best to communicate with my partners and keep up, but I tend to get VERY busy and easily distracted, so if I've been ignoring you please don't hesitate to poke me! I'm always eager to talk about rp or just life, and I'd rather be friends with my RP partners than anything else!</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">Due to above mentioned physical and mental illness, I sometimes drop out of rp entirely, or blur my mood with Defiant... if at any moment you're uncomfortable with how an rp is playing out, please let me know. Similarly, if I end up dropping out of rp when we've been plotting, please try and reach out and I'll do whatever I can to not keep you in limbo.</div></div>

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<div align=justify><div style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:16px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver;">'''Potential Plot Hooks'''</div></div>
<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">''While the below is by no means comprehensive, it's a kind of spring board for walk-up RP.''</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">✷ ''"Sorry, can you help me find something around here?"'' Defiant is quite well connected no matter where she is, and always eager to help people get where they're going.</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">✷ ''"I heard you're a goldsmith, miss."'' Be it ordinary jewelry, fanciful magic pieces, or esoteric religious tokens, Defiant's eager to take commissions of all kinds.</div></div>
<div align=justify><div style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:16px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver;">'''Character Lore Adherence'''</div></div>
<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">''Information in this Wiki is Lore Compliant to the best of my knowledge. Assumptions and small tweaks at play in this character and backstory are listed below.''</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">'''✷ The Roegadyn Old Tongue Isn't Dead:''' While certainly not anyone's first language, and nearly unspoken in most of Eorzea, the old tongue of the Roegadyn remains a language spoken here and there, and while it lacks an alphabet, it's words can be transcribed with Eorzean letters to provide a form of code.</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">'''✷ Au-ra are Rare, but have always been around:''' Regardless of how clumsy their implementation, several post-50 class quests show Auri characters holding skilled jobs in Eorzea... while there's been a recent influx of the tribes lately, it isn't odd to have a Raen pair travelling in Abalathia's Spine with their infant daughter.</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#51339C;">'''✷ Not all Auri horns regrow at the same rate:''' While most will slowly grow back after injury, the rate and likeliness of a healthy regrow are determined by a variety of factors. The type of injury, how it's cared for initially, repeated trauma and even genetics can all change whether or not a horn injury heals properly. Defiant's missing horn will never regrow.</div></div>
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Defiant Bride

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<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''CURRENT ALIAS...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Sig / Sund-ste-i-gen / Vintner </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''PAST ALIASES...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Confidential </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''RACE & CLAN...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;">Hyur, Highlander </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''GENDER...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Male </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''AGE & NAMEDAY...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;">37. Born the 22nd Sun of the 2nd Umbral Moon</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''ORIENTATION...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;padding:0px 5px;">Effeminate blondes.</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''MARITAL STATUS...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;padding:0px 5px;">Married (polygamous)</font>

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<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''CITIZENSHIP...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Unaffiliated.</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''FAMILY...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> (1) Wife – Chirurgeon; (2) Daughter – Princess; (3) Amesoeur – Bardess; and (4) Brother – Memory Healer. </font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#684EA7;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''RESIDENCE...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;"> Sundsteigen Vineyards, Wineport; Le Petite Chateau, Mist – Ward 9, Plot 58. </font>

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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#444146;font-family:Georgia;"> Sund-ste-i-gen. The name rolled off the tongue awkwardly: too many vowels. It lacked the violent nomenclature of Highlander surnames; however, the name "Sundsteigen" once belonged to a lesser noble house of Ala Mhigo reputed for its bloodthirsty dedication to Rhalgr. Despite this lineage, Sigurd had done much to distance himself from that name.
A former son of Ala Mhigo; stripped from his homeland by war and the machinations of the void, Sigurd gradually improved his lot in life and eventually became a multi-gillionaire vintner and entrepreneur. A loud-mouthed narcissist who cares for only himself and the very few he considers family, the vintner leaves a sour taste in most who cross his path. </div></div>

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<div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#26212B;font-family:Georgia;">Standing just over six-fulm-seven, Sigurd towers over most folk, barring the occasional Roegadyn, and possesses a broad build endowed by proud Ala Mhigan bloodlines. Despite these natural endowments, Sigurd’s physique is markedly average, as dense muscle is accompanied by thin layers of “extra padding” disturbed evenly about his lanky torso. Having lost his left hand to a Garlean tribunus, the vintner now sports a gaudy magitek prosthetic limb.

The vintner’s face and body are marred by a maze of small, uniform two-ilm scars. His eyes are a piercing shade of cobalt blue. The smug, satisfied grin that frequents his lips does much to mitigate the wrinkles and age-lines that prematurely settled about his unusually pale countenance. Wispy strands of thick platinum-blonde hair, flush with aging white locks are usually slicked back neatly behind his ears, as few things vex the vintner more than unruly bangs.

Some confess Sigurd exudes physical charisma capable of lighting up a room, but his aesthetics are no doubt old-fashioned, much like an appropriately aged bottle of wine. </div>
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:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ Dozens of small, uniform scars distributed randomly over unusually pale skin.</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ A magitek prosthetic left hand, lavishly gilded with platinum and powered by ceruleum.</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ A tall, stocky (but proportional) build. </div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ Haunting and sunken cobalt-blue eyes.</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ A “winning smile” – a practiced, shit-eating grin befitting of a used chocobo salesman. </div></div>

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<div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#444146;font-family:Georgia;">Painfully affable and outgoing to a fault, Sigurd becomes highly excitable around strangers, crowds, and shallow acquaintances. The consummate networker, Sigurd relies on his "keen" sense of intuition to a fault, forms strong opinions quickly, rarely thinks before acting, and hastily judges others without delay. He speaks in a slow, alluring tone, but his words are often crude and long-winded. Despite this crass demeanor, Sigurd's motives are usually underscored by manipulative intent, narcissism, and low cunning.

Sigurd enjoys mocking social customs and courtesies, especially if nationalistic or religious topics are at play. He bears a special sympathy for the Ala Mhigan and Garlean people, but laments their loyalties to “genocidal nation states.” His moral compass spins erratically but usually settles in the general direction of values that allow others to live autonomously.

In private settings, Sigurd is far more warm and reserved, especially around those he considers close friends and family. Once deplete of empathy, Sigurd has gradually become warm and supportive of those he loves. Fiercely loyal to these few individuals, they observe a side of the vintner rarely shown to others.
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;"> '''Gentlemen’s beverages.''' Red wine and top-shelf whiskey. A functional alcoholic, the vintner rarely travels anywhere without a flask top-shelf Limsan whiskey or bottle of over-priced red wine. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;"> '''Blondes.''' Sigurd is naturally attracted to blonde women (and men) and often acts like a complete idiot in their presence. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;"> '''Magitek and “Technology of the Future” ''' Although Sigurd is trained in classic Ala Mhigan close-quarters combat and spent much of his early life living in a cave, he is fascinated by magitek technology, especially firearms. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''First-World Eccentric Bullshit.''' Since becoming a multi-gillionaire, Sigurd is obsessed with lavish, stupid displays of wealth and over-priced consumer goods, including (but not limited to): (1) licensed Apakallu sipping birds; (2) expensive Magitek trinkets; (3) “gilded” goods of any type; and (4) refurbished Allagan artifacts and clothing. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Sweeping views and amateur poetry.''' Sigurd loves gazing into the open sky and taking in high views of natural landscapes. The vintner enjoys writing /terrible/ poetry in private while enjoying these views. </font></div>

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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#684EA7;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Dullards. ''' Sigurd despises individuals who walk with tight asses, carry heavy baggage, or lack a sense of humor. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#684EA7;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Religion (especially Rhalgr) and Nationalism (especially Ala Mhigo)''' Having lost faith in gods and nations at a young age, the vintner has very little patience for people he considers zealots. Although Sigurd is fond of the Ala Mhigan people, he loathes the Ala Mhigan state and its bloodthirsty, patron-deity. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#684EA7;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Voidsent, gambling, and unmitigated risks.''' Sigurd /hates/ anything that has caused him undue stress, fear, and anxiety in his life. This trifecta of trouble earns his foulest ire. </font></div>

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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Quality-time.''' Although Sigurd may publicly bemoan those he considers family for a variety of reasons, being in their presence makes him a tolerable hyur-being. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Binge drinking and smoke-outs.''' The vintner adores getting lush via expensive adult beverages and potent moko grass. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Lavish spending.''' Only the best satisfies the vintner these days. This doctrine is applicable to all consumer goods. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Opining.''' Whether reciting shitty poetry to himself or lecturing individuals half his age, Sigurd considers himself a self-appointed expert on an inordinate number of obscure subjects. Not surprisingly, most of his ridiculous claims cannot be verified. </font></div>

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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;"> '''Wine-making / Wine-tasting.''' Sigurd has /many/ faults. But few can dispute the quality of his vintages and exceptional palette. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;"> '''Commerce and industry.''' Having come from nothing and enjoyed the benefits of extensive “self-education,” the vintner developed a shrewd business sense and considers himself a ground-breaking entrepreneur, investor, and “deal-maker.” </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''New-age combat.''' Having fused elements of classic Ala Mhigan close quarters combat with Garlean firearms, Sigurd has gradually shifted from wielding a great sword and aether siphoned from dark places to an “innovative form of new-age combat.” </font></div>
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#684EA7;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Bipolar and insecure.''' Sigurd forces himself to project a confident public image but often feels extremely insecure. Over the years, he has become very skilled at hiding these insecurities, which often manifest in bipolar mood swings. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#684EA7;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''"Man of action."''' The vintner thinks of himself as a “man of action.” In actuality, Sigurd rarely pauses to carefully consider his actions and potential consequences. The vintner has gotten in enormous amounts of trouble as a result of his brash, results-oriented decision making. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#684EA7;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Minimal empathy.''' Unless Sigurd knows a person very well, he struggles to understand the emotions and sensitivity of others, causing him to sometimes offend others through his zany, loud antics. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#684EA7;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Lazy.''' The vintner is inherently lazy. He enjoys “delegating” all “detail work” to others and frequently struggles to find motivation. </font></div>

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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Enjoying time while it lasts.''' – There are five people in Sigurd’s life who he considers close family. He devotes much of his energy to seeing to their happiness while engaging in activities that bring him personal fulfillment. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#684EA7;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Risk mitigation.''' After destroying two great antagonists, the vintner has come to realize the importance of eradicating risks before they blossom into threats that endanger his interests. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#684EA7;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''A brave new world.''' Sigurd desires to see peace between Garlemald and Eorzea and the return of his kin to Ala Mhigo. Unlike many Ala Mhigans, the vintner believes that peaceful coexistence is possible and blames contemporary political figures for the turmoil enveloping the times.” </font></div>
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=Inventory=
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Gilded Magitek prosthetic left hand. ''' After losing his left hand in battle, Sigurd spared no expense on a gilded magitek replacement. Four names are scribed in a tiny font at the base of the prosthetic: Khana Sundsteigen, Anujin Sundsteigen, Odette Saiorse, and Khyran Oisin, along with the makers’ stamps: “Suetonius Donatus and Defiant Bride.” </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Prototype gunblade.''' A cutting-edge, technological marvel crafted by Sigurd’s former Garlean business partner and friend, Septimus Rem Nerva and originally made for the Garlean’s wife, Skylar Brooks. Sigurd now wields the gunblade with surprising proficiency.</font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Doman tanto.''' Gifted by a man the vintner considers a distant brother, Endricane Feltaro, a magnificent hand-crafted doman tanto usually rests at the ready atop the vintner’s chest in a custom sheathe. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Platinum materia-and-shell charm necklace.''' Sigurd often wears a discrete platinum necklace bearing a small materia orb and seashell under his exterior garments. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Griffin sigil flask.''' A prized wedding gift, Sigurd ensures his trusty flask, which bears the sigil of Ala Mhigo, is filled with top-shelf Limsan whiskey and on his person at all times. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Stack of promissory notes''' Instead of carrying a pouch of gil, Sigurd carries a fat stack of blank promissory notes. Each promissory note bears the official insignia of Ul’dah’s finest financial institutions. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Magitek pen''' The vintner carries an exotic magitek pen on his person at all times. Infused with cureleum and containing a large ink-well, the pen has executed several important documents. </font></div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#333333;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Multi-frequency link pearl''' Within Sigurd’s left ear resides a multi-frequency link pearl bearing the stamp of the liquidated free company, Ebonbrand Teknoworks. Sigurd uses this link pearl to maintain contact with various contacts and social networks. </font></div>
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=Behind the Lies=
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Rain followed Sigurd from youth, falling from the depths of the void.
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The sky broke when Ala Mhigo tore itself apart when its walls fell and the King of Ruin abdicated his bloody throne. At the age of ten, Sigurd was taken under the wing of his "uncle," Hunter Sundsteigen. A second-tier voidsent entity, Hunter posed as a priest of Rhalgr and gifted his "nephew" a sharp knife and taught the importance of worshiping through sacrifice. The priest expected the boy to spread the faith, and promised the breaker of worlds smiled every time a throat was indiscriminately opened in his name. Sigurd had few choices other than to appease his uncle's murderous appetite for aether, as even a brief lapse in faith invoked horrific consequences.
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The legions of Garlemald weakened Hunter's control momentarily, as Sigurd and Hunter were forced to flee Ala Mhigo. The priest, however, formed a reclusive commune on the skirts of Little Ala Mhigo and lured drifters, wanderers, and other exiles to rally under the common cause of "restoring the Ala Mhigo." The commune grew into a fringe, extreme wing of the Ala Mhigan resistance. Sigurd remained Hunter's most loyal thrall and endured years of brutal "tutelage," which amounted to little more than instruction in classic Ala Mhigan close quarters combat and murder. Sigurd proved skilled at harvesting aether by quietly eliminating "undesirables" who joined the swelling ranks, including the weak, poor, and infirm.
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Yet, three qualities grew to distinguish Sigurd from his kin: self-interest, wanderlust, and a gnawing sense of guilt. Sigurd grew to despise the blind vengeance and blood lust motivating his countrymen, who oft devolved into zealots chasing a lost cause. Sigurd grew to loath himself for the unspeakable evils he committed under the direction of Hunter and bundled those emotions away while dreaming of escaping the bleak desert landscape surrounding Little Ala Mhigo. Hunter eventually allowed Sigurd to leave and experience the outside world after the commune had swelled to sufficient proportions.
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During his twenties, Sigurd traveled far and wide under carefree skies. He directed his natural faculties and training into the adventuring profession, accepting almost any contract that paid above fair market rate. Over a ten year period, Sigurd gained considerable experience planning expeditions, leading small groups, and motivating individuals to risk their lives for gil. The work was interesting, as it encompassed stealing trade secrets, plundering forgotten ruins, and poking holes into squishy things. But most importantly, adventuring paid extremely well, and countless nights were packed with lush wines, loose women, and easily forgotten memories.
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Over time, it became apparent that the adventuring lifestyle would not last forever. Sigurd encountered a poor string of luck after botching several important contracts, which prompted crippling debt. He discharged all but one debt. The remaining creditor, an influential Limsan gambler, refused Sigurd's attempt to tender late payment. Instead, the gambler chose to waive the debt after a crude torture session. The gambler carved the outstanding sum into pale flesh-- one cut, a total of 30 in all, for each ten-thousand gil owed. These injuries were grievous and necessitated Sigurd's premature sabbatical.
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After losing much of his pride to the gambler, Sigurd tapped his remaining savings and purchased a plot on the fringe of Wineport, where he began cultivating wines and recovering from his injuries. The idea of owning a quaint vineyard had entered his mind several times while adventuring through La Noscea; it was the type of peaceful, leisurely existence he dreamed of as a child. At first, wine cultivation did not live up to his romanticized expectations. Hours were spent in the vineyards learning the basics of grape cultivation. More were spent in the cellars, performing an endless number of tastings and learning pretentious trade etiquette. As a result, Sigurd developed a shrewd business sense and understanding of "high society." The vintner trade provided stability and material comforts capable of sating the Highlander's thirst for severe indulgence and frivolity. Yet, these desires only increased as his wines became the object of greater demand, especially in Ul'dah, where the Quicksand became his highest grossing customer.
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Sigurd gradually declined into a shiftless alcoholic and struggled with severe anxiety and depression, knowing Hunter would eventually beckon him back to the commune. [[Skylar Brooks]] dragged Sigurd away from these destructive habits and set him on a new path. Joining arms with former Garlean centurion [[Septimus Nerva]], Sigurd acquired a fifty-percent interest in the now defunct Magitek free company, Ebonbrand Teknoworks. Through Ebonbrand, the vintner met his future wife, [[Khana Borlaaq]]. Khana suffered the brunt of Sigurd's volatile past and eventually fathered a child to another man. Sigurd, however, grew to love her child as his own and agreed to marry Khana. All the while, Sigurd worked tirelessly to strike an accord between Skylar's lovers, [[Endricane Feltaro]] and Septimus Nerva. His efforts failed and eventually soured his relationships with all parties.
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By some strange twist of fate, Sigurd met [[Khyran Oisin]], a frail cripple who would eventually purge the void from the vintner's life. After Hunter's physical shell died, the voidsent eventually transferred his essence into Khana's infant daughter to torment Sigurd. Around this time, the vintner stumbled across [[Odette Saoirse]], who offered him unconditional friendship at a time when most had turn their backs on the vintner. Sigurd's feelings for Odette grew over time as a result of her "great personality." With the help of his new comrades, Sigurd narrowly defeated Hunter and banished the void's influence from his life for good.
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Sigurd took a much-needed break from public life after Hunter's fall but returned after hearing that Septimus was imprisoned on charges of treason. The vintner briefly joined Khyran's new free company, Aethertide Ventures, to keep the reckless man safe. During this time, Khyran learned of the treacherous plot of Amandus Cassius, a Garlean tribunus who sought to overthrow the Legatus of Castrum Occidens and invade La Noscea. Sigurd felt compelled to eliminate Amandus because few believed Khyran's wild accusations. With the help of over forty adventurers, Sigurd directed an offensive against Amandus, who severed the vintner's left hand and critically wounded several combatants before falling in battle.
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Defeating Amandus made Sigurd realize that not all threats can be drowned in wine. With the help of Odette and assets bequeathed by Skylar, Sigurd formed a clandestine philanthropic organization intended to eradicate unaddressed risks to Eorzean stability, sending him down another path in life to destinations unknown. </div>

'''Notes'''<br>
* Sigurd’s connection with the void was severed by [[ Khyran Oisin]], but he still feels its influence on occasion.
* Sigurd appears to be in his mid-forties due to excessive aether use and channeling during his youth. He suffers from a disproportional number of aches and pains typically felt by much older individuals.
* Sigurd is sensitive to aetheric signatures and can detect them across distances after mingling his blood with others.
* Like the Fists of Rhalgr and Dark Knights of Ishgard, Sigurd can siphon aether from the dead and uses his body as an aether channeling focus. Aether seeps from the scars on Sigurd's body when he becomes highly emotional and can be channeled to hasten movement and form barriers. Sigurd can staunch the flow of aether only by opening a small cut on his body.
* Sigurd /rarely/ utilizes aetheric abilities and keeps his former association with the void closely guarded. Extremely few know about his past.
* Sigurd is especially attuned to sensing and combating voidsent energies. A tamed wolf knows the tricks of a wild wolf.
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=Relationships=

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LEGEND</B></center></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt;"><font style="color:#54b5eb;" size="2">♥</font> Family <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#ae0016;"

size="2">♥</font> Involved <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font

style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical <font style="color:#6b6e72;"

size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#b72a78;" size="2">♦</font> Friend <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#692ab7;" size="2">★</font> Acquaintance <font

style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;"

size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font

style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;"

size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div>
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! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>[[Khana Borlaaq]],</b> <i>Wife</i>. <b>(</b> <b>)</b> - <b>Dove.</b></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"><b>Character's Thoughts:</b> <i>"You taught me how to love, dove."</i></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">Sigurd first viewed Khana as an awkward, waifish girl and tormented her in countless ways. But the pair grew to form a dark, affectionate, and tumultuous bond. Their relationship ultimately blossomed into a joyous marriage. Sigurd and Khana are often disgustingly sappy in private. The vintner admires how much she has grown as a person since their first meeting in Coerthas.</div>
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! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>Anujin Sundsteigen,</b> <i>Daughter</i>. <b>(</b> <b>)</b> - <b>Princess.</b></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"><b>Character's Thoughts:</b> <i>"You may not be my blood, but you will always be my first-born."</i></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">Although Sigurd and his infant daughter are not bound by blood, the vintner considers Khana's first child his own. Anujin’s teething marks can be seen all along the vintner’s right arm.</div>
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! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>[[Odette Saoirse]],</b> <i>Amesoeur</i>. <b>(</b> <b>)</b> - <b>Dear.</b></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"><b>Character's Thoughts:</b> <i>"I love and /trust/ you... even if you could stand to lose a few pounze."</i></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">Sigurd was blacked-out drunk when he met the sultry bardess and treated her like a lowly bar-wench. Odette was kind enough to forgive the vintner and ultimately offered him aid against unspeakable evils. What began as physical attraction turned over time to genuine love, and Sigurd considers the bardess an amesoeur (soulmate).</div>
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! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>[[Khyran Oisin]],</b> <i>"Brother"</i>. <b>(</b> <b>)</b> - <b>Cripple.</b></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"><b>Character's Thoughts:</b> <i>You are a dull, insufferable, self-loathing shit much of the time, but I wouldn’t replace you for anything in this world.</i></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">Khy was a miserable, broken thing Sigurd when Sigurd bumped into the frail man in La Noscea. However, something about the cripple struck a sympathetic nerve, and Sigurd took the man under his wing for a time. Khy selflessly returned these favors time after time and freed the vintner of his demons. Sigurd owes Khyran a debt he will never be able to repay and gladly stomachs the cripple's mopey, humorless demeanor. </div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; background: #000000;font-size:14px;color:#ffffff; text-shadow: 1px 1px 3px black;letter-spacing:0.2em;"><center><B>NON-FAMILY</B></center></div>


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! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>[[Skylar Brooks]],</b> <i>Confidential</i>. <b>(</b> <b>)</b> - <b>Sky.</b></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"><b>Character's Thoughts:</b> <i>". . ."</i></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">Sigurd was drawn to "Sky" like a moth to a flame - the blonde 'secretary' intriguing him like few others he had chanced across over the years. Sky lured Sigurd away from his self-destructive habits. Although Sig and Sky crossed blades more than once, they maintained an unbreakable friendship and unspoken love. After her untimely death, Sky bequeathed the entirety of her 600-million gil estate to Sigurd, giving the vintner's life a new direction yet again. Sig frequently honors Sky's memory in private with a mutual friend of the deceased, [[Yael Cahernaut]]. </div>
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! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>[[Endricane Feltaro]],</b> <i>Distant brother</i>. <b>(</b> <b>)</b> - <b>Ender.</b></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"><b>Character's Thoughts:</b> <i>"Perhaps we'll both be just men in the end."</i></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">Having seen the best and worst of Sigurd, Endricane first stumbled across the vintner on a terribly paved bridge outside of Ul'dah. Over the following months, Sigurd betrayed Endricane's trust numerous times. Endricane, however, forgave Sigurd after he learned the vintner's motivations. Sigurd and Endricane now bemoan the difficulties of fatherhood and still find exciting new ways to vex one another.</div>
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! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>[[Septimus Nerva]],</b> <i>Partner</i>. <b>(</b> <b>)</b> - <b>Septimus Rem Nero Varus Nerva.</b></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"><b>Character's Thoughts:</b> <i>"...Should have listened to me, partner."</i></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">Sigurd counts Septimus a close friend and former business partner, despite their frequent feuds and drastically different personalities. While they operated Ebonbrand Teknoworks, Sigurd worked tirelessly to convince the Garlean to abandon his dedication to the "Fatherland." The vintner was disappointed but not surprised when Septimus was arrested and jailed by Eorzean authorities for treason.</div>
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! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>[[Defiant Bride]],</b> <i>Protégé</i>. <b>(</b> <b>)</b> - <b>My Most Defiant Bride.</b></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"><b>Character's Thoughts:</b> <i>"...I will consider myself blessed if Anujin turns out like you, save for the stutter. Too many stuttering au ra in my life already..."</i></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">Defiant Bride possesses shockingly similar traits to Sigurd’s wife, Khana: short, waifish, kind hearted, and a serious speech impediment. Sigurd finds himself attracted to the stuttering raen while drunk but in rare moments of sobriety, considers her a protégé. Sigurd frequently delegates administrative and "detail work" to the poor Raen and lectures her on a variety of "important issues."</div>
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! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>[[Glace Silencieuse]],</b> <i>Buddy</i>. <b>(</b> <b>)</b> - <b>Frostie!</b></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;"><b>Character's Thoughts:</b> <i>"...Someday, maybe not in this lifetime, I /will/ hug you. I swear it."</i></div>
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| <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:14px;">Frostie! An old buddy of Sigurd. As much a "taxidermist" as Sigurd is a "vintner." Sigurd developed a tremendous amount of respect for Frostie while working in Ebonbrand. He finds the bleak duskwight a bit rigid, cold, and stiff at times, but such things are to be expected, no doubt.</div>
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=Rumors=
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<p><div align=center><div style="font-family:Georgia;">Some of these rumors are untrue, speculation, or are greatly exaggerated.</div></div></p>

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<div style="padding:10px 25px; background: #280D25; color:#ffffff;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12px;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black"><b>◢ Common Rumors - </b>''Easily overheard. Use these freely!''</div>

: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">■</font> "Sundsteigen? I've heard of that name before! It's on red wine bottles sold at the Quicksand!" </div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">■</font> "Last week, /that/ Highlander shoved a glass of wine in my hand, slipped an arm around my waist, and proceeded to compliment my blonde hair ... I would have pushed him off, but the wine tasted too good..." </div>
<div style="padding:10px 25px; background: #280D25; color:#ffffff;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12px;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black"><b>◢ Uncommon Rumors -</b> ''A little more difficult to hear. Use sparingly or ask first!''</div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">■</font> Something is /really/ off about Sigurd; he comes off pleasant enough, but... I've never liked the look of those eyes of his, especially when he's not grinning." </div>

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<p><div align=center><div style="font-family:Georgia;">Feel free to add your own rumors to this section.</div></div></p>
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<div style="padding:10px 25px; background: #280D25; color:#ffffff;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12px;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black"><b>◢ Player Character Rumors -</b> ''Some of these are more rare than others!''</div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">■</font> "He sure seems to know his wine! He knew exactly what rare wine Madame Momodi had available." -- [[Aya Foxheart]]. </div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">■</font> "Conniving, desperately scrambling for power... I've yet to ascertain if that's cause for concern, but I will figure it out and respond accordingly." -- [[Faye Covington]]. </div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">■</font> "Sigurd is a crass, lustful, shallow man who would much rather take the easy way than face reality. He's a bantering coward, drooling over blonde women and more often than not, drunk with his own wine." He sighs, and shakes his head. "But, who am I kidding. I love this man, as one of my dearest friends. I would die for him in a heartbeat." -- [[Khyran Oisin]] </div>
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#543950;" size="2">■</font> "Completely absurd sometimes, but I know something of masks. I've recently come into some rare good fortune, and I have Sundsteigen to thank for it. Like it or not, I'm in his debt." -- [[Glace Silencieuse]] </div>
: <font style="color:#aac5b4;" size="3">■</font> "Sigurd like bee, buzzing everywhere and anywhere. Always amusing in Sigurd's company, never once boring but.. must be difficult to keep smiling and grinning like that." -- [[Tsaganarii Dhoro]]
: <font style="color:#aac5b4;" size="3">■</font> "Someone didn't bolt his brainpan squarely shut. He seems like he loses his mind over stupid nonsense." -- [[Glace Silencieuse]]
: <font style="color:#aac5b4;" size="3">■</font> "The man is a quick talker, and a damn good complimenter.. He slipped me a coupon and linkpearl, and I for the life of me have no idea what the pearl was for still.. the conversations over it though are interesting." -- [[War Bear]]
: <font style="color:#aac5b4;" size="3">■</font> "Sigurd is... a work of art formed by various brush strokes of differing mediums. Each one a layer atop the other, lapped and overlapped to the point of being nigh indistinguishable beyond small chips that marr the surface. He's a smart-ass, a shit-stirrer and an incorrigible pain in the ass. Suffice t'say, however, a recipient of my support and developing friendship. Give him my regards." -- [[Odette Saoirse]]
: <font style="color:#aac5b4;" size="3">■</font> "This guy tried to sue me for spilling wine on him! Total prick." -- [[Spahro Llorn]]
: <font style="color:#aac5b4;" size="3">■</font> "Wha' he lacks in taste in women, he makes up fer with wine. Mostly." -- [[Avelyn Firestone]]
: <font style="color:#aac5b4;" size="3">■</font> "H-he's a frustrating, obtuse idiot w-who demands a l-lot just t-to feel important a-and assigns t-the worst jobs t-to me whenever he g-gets frustrated... a-and... h-he's... he's very kind, too. He's v-very very kind when h-he wishes to be, and I trust him w-when things come down to it." -- [[Defiant Bride]]

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=Gallery=
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=OOC Notes=
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<div align=justify><div style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:16px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver;">'''Player Note'''</div></div>
<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">'Pending.''</div></div>
<div align=justify><div style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:16px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver;">'''Personal RP Limits'''</div></div>
<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">''Pending.'' </div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''''I will play''' Almost anything that isn't described below.'' </div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''''Pending. ''</div></div>
<div align=justify><div style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:16px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver;">'''Disclaimer'''</div></div>
<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">''Little Tidbits.''</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ ''If you're ever uncomfortable, tell me! I don't bite! I can get pretty into RPing out consequences however and while I do my best to make sure permission is had and everyone is comfortable I'm not perfect. If you have a problem speak up.''</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ ''Pending.''</div></div>

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<div align=justify><div style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:16px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver;">'''Potential Plot Hooks'''</div></div>
<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">''While the below is by no means comprehensive, it's a kind of spring board for walk-up RP.''</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ ''I heard you make wines, Mr. Sundsteigen! ''</div></div>
<div align=justify><div style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:16px;color:#000000;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver;">'''Character Lore Adherence'''</div></div>
<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">''Information in this Wiki is Lore Compliant to the best of my knowledge. Information that has been changed to better fit with the lore of XIV will be listed below as necessary.''</div></div>
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ ''No changes required.''</div></div>

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: <div align=justify><div style="padding: 2px 1px;font-size:13px; color:#444146;font-family:Georgia;">Template borrowed wholesale from [[Sigurd Sundsteigen]]. Original design by [[Abagail Graves]] and [[Bancroft Gairn]], with edits by [[Xheja Rajhera]], inspiration from [[D'lyhhia Lhuil]], and more edits by [[Glioca Sargonnai]]. With the inventory page used with [[Odette Saoirse]]'s permission. Please leave the link-backs if you use or modify the template.

[[Category: Player Character]]
[[Category: Balmung]]
[[Category: Raen Au Ra]]
[[Category: Au Ra]]
[[Category: Character Stub]]

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Miss Bride:

{{Infobox-character
| name = Regal Bride
| image = Regal_Bride_Icon.png
| imagewidth =
| caption =
| title = The Widow of the Woods
| gender = Female
| citizenship = Gridanian
| race = Roegadyn
| clan = Hellsguard
| stat_1 = Age
| stat_1_value = 27 Cycles
| stat_2 = Height
| stat_2_value = 7'8"
| stat_3 = Weight
| stat_3_value = Heavy
| stat_4 = Patron
| stat_4_value = Azeyma
| stat_5 =
| stat_5_value =
| stat_6 =
| stat_6_value =
| server = Balmung
}}

==Appearance==
Regal lives up to her name in every sense of the word... she's taller than even other male Roegadyn, with a well-muscled body and gorgeous dark skin. She wears her copper hair in locs to keep them neat and long, and her golden eyes easily pierce through people. She's proud of her body and the work she's put into making it what it is, and has no shame about showing off her body in the skimpiest of outfits. When she strips down, it's easier to see the scars on her thighs and stretchmarks on her stomach, but she makes no effort to hide them.

The only thing she hides is her right eye. A scar crosses over it, but it's old, and long healed... what she conceals behind the eyepatch is a strange and terrifying socket of crystal, like a geode settled in her skull.

==History==
===Early Life===
Regal was the second-born child to Illuminated Bride, a Hellsguard mercenary of no small acclaim. As a child she saw little of her mother, instead being taken care of by her father and his husband while her mother worked. The state of things changed when she was only 5... her mother happened to be preparing to leave on a job guarding a caravan when Regal came down with an extreme fever. Unwilling to abandon her daughter when her life was in peril, Illuminated stayed with her for days, carefully tending to her illness and nursing her back to health. When Regal at long last was well enough to sit up and smile, her mother felt safe in departing, hurrying to catch up with the caravan she'd let go ahead.

Illuminated Bride would return a few days later, leading a badly injured black chocobo and cradling an infant au-ra in her arms. It would be her last mission, and the start of a new kind of life for Regal.

Her mother retired from mercenary work, instead raising her new daughter, Defiant, and teaching Regal all she knew about fighting with her fists and curing wounds through conjury. Regal would find herself a natural at both, excelling in unarmed combat and taking in the principles of conjury faster than anyone could teach her. She'd come to be known as a prodigy of sorts, a 'Bride among Brides' who had the potential to lead the entire clan one day should she choose. However, Regal decided to continue to pursue conjury, eventually leaving her home in Abalathia's Spine in order to travel south to Gridania where she might better hone her skills.

===The Calamity===
Over the course of several moons, Regal became a star student at the Conjurer's Guild as well as a fairly well-regarded adventurer. Though still naive and far from the best, her cheery personality and affable nature made her popular with citizens of Gridania and she came to regard it as her second home. When in time, it would be threatened by the Garlean Empire, she didn't hesitate to come to it's defense, and joined with the Twin Adders in order to fight back. She rose in the ranks from various missions and in time, she volunteered to take to the fields of Cartenau in defense of Eorzea.

She was still there, fighting to heal every person she could, when the moon fell. Regal watched it descend, failed to retreat fast enough or far enough, the world exploding around her....

And then she woke up in an unfamiliar bed, in an unfamiliar home, three years later.

===Present Day===
Regal lives out of the East Shroud, having a small hut to herself where she spends her days harvesting plants and wood for sale and visiting Buscarron's Druthers for drinks. It's taken years for her to piece together what happened to her after Cartenau, and even now the details are fuzzy... it seems she somehow survived, gravely injured, and wandered off into the shroud. In the panic and crisis after the calamity, one woman without memories went without comment. She went for three long years, never remembering so much as her name, rebuilding a life and even going so far as to start working and finding love and friendships and then simply awoke one morning without any memory of the previous years at all.

Though she's worked out quite a bit of what happened, Regal lives in fear of one day forgetting who she is again and losing everything all over; she avoids getting attached to things and is more than happy to allow the rest of the world to think she's dead. She's gone so far as to call herself Regal Widow rather than identify herself properly, at times, even. All she wants is a quiet life alone and enough money to enjoy drinks every now and again; anything else would be too painful to lose.

==Personality==
Regal's cheerful, friendly and almost always seen smiling. She likes to let the little things go, and often teases people around her in somewhat crude ways. She can be quick to get offended or pissed off, though, and sometimes throws punches when she should try to be diplomatic. She REALLY enjoys seeing interesting things unfold around her, and is often happy to take a step back and watch things happen while she smokes or drinks. In terms of promiscuity, she can be quite open about her desires, and doesn't censor herself much at all, regardless of how others might view her.

She cares very deeply about her own memories, as well as her family... particularly her younger sister, [[Defiant Bride]], who has been looking for since she disappeared five years ago. Mention of either ones is a surefire way to shake her out of her usual grins.

==Affiliations==
Defiant has connections with some of the less-savory elements of the Black Shroud, though it's mostly by a shared desire not to attract much attention from the Wood Wailers. She also has deep ties with the Sylphs of Little Solace, born of mutual respect, years of trade, and a willingness to dance while drunk that GREATLY endears her to them.

She was formerly a member of the Twin Adders and the Conjurer's Guild, but is officially listed as KIA, and she has no interest in correcting them.

==Rumors==
===Common Rumors===
* "If you need fresh flowers for your Bonding, we have JUST the woman to get them!" - ''Sanctum of the Twelve Worker''
* "Regal? Yeah, she comes here time t' time. Don't play cards with her, trust me." - ''Buscarron''
* "She keeps asking me how boats work. At least once a moon. I tell her to go ask a shipbuilder but she never does..." - ''Beatin''
===Uncommon Rumors===
* "Teetering One is so funny!! They always bring us the most interesting things!" - ''Little Solace Sylph''
* "Rumor goes here!" - ''Rumormonger''
===Rare Rumors===
* "...I dunno how she knew... there's... there's no way she saw, but she knew all the less. G-godsdammit... she's dangerous....!" - ''Gridanian Outlaw''
* "Rumor goes here!" - ''Rumormonger''
===Player Rumors===
* "Insert your own rumors here!!" - ''you, potentially''

==Family==

*'''Mother:''' Illuminated Bride (Former mercenary, de facto town leader)
*'''Father:''' Stalwart Bride (Hunter and trapper)
*'''Father:''' Indigo Moss (Blacksmith)
*'''Younger Brother:''' Silent Moss (Scout, hunter)
*'''Younger YOUNGER Brother:''' Burly Bride (Lumberjack)
*'''Younger Sister:''' [[Defiant Bride]] (adventurer)
*'''??????:''' Alder (unknown whereabouts)

==Companions==

==Other Notes==
Defiant's missing eye holds an unusual power that allows her to see things, and it's really late so I'llw rite moer late.r

2016-02-28T06:22:13Z

Miss Bride: Added relationships and shit

John Waterstrike

2016-02-27T06:33:49Z

Miss Bride: Added a quote from Def

{{Infobox-character
| name = John Waterstrike
| image =John1.jpg
| imagewidth = 350x350
| caption = Following ever in my sister’s shadow
| title =
| gender = Male
| citizenship = Ul’dah but now Limsa Lominsa now
| race = Miqo’te
| clan = Keeper of moon/actually clan unknown
| stat_1 = Age
| stat_1_value = 20 soon to be 21
| stat_2 = Guardian
| stat_2_value = Thaliak, the scholar
| stat_3 = Occupation
| stat_3_value = Arcanist/Fisher
| stat_4 = Sexuality
| stat_4_value = Bisexual
| stat_5 = Martial status
| stat_5_value = Single
| stat_6 = Nameday
| stat_6_value = 23rd Sun of the 3rd Astal Moon
}}
{{Character-stub}}

==Character==
===General===
John is always at the edge of the goings on in the world. Since he was raised by Hyur, he doesn’t have that clan identity, though he wants to find the clan that he came from. His actually nameday is unknown but was given the date by his huyran sister. He’s quiet and sad, yet there is a weight that he bares on his shoulders, place there by himself.

John is able to sense the aether around him, in objects, and people as well. Truefully, he can't not see aether in the fashion that most would, he only knows the color of his own aether by his mom and dad, and it's his fingers that does the reading. The gloves act as a barrier between his other ability, that he calls "Dreaming", so that he doesn't see the aetheric memories of the object that he might be holding...or a person that he might touch. To John, "Dreaming" is a curse, because it can not be control except by wearing gloves. Since he had been suffering from a fever when his sister, Tanya found out of the ability, she warn him that seeing another person memories was wrong. His fever twisted her words in his mind, making the child think that he was a bad person for using the ability. As he grew older, he has to come to think of "Dreaming as worst then rape to the other person...and that it was a curse that the Twelve was using to punish him. John hasn't touch anyone with his bare hands for 11 years now.

===Dreaming===
For the Dreaming to work, John has to remove his gloves, allowing his finger to come into contact with the person or object. From there, his finger has a deeper read of the aetheric vibrations of the object of person, John's brain and aether translating the vibrations. From there, the brain reforms the memories in John's mind, seeing the memories, though unlike with the Echo, he can only see not interact within the memory. Also the stronger the emotion within the aether, the clearer the memory will be for John. Since if has been so long since he has "Dream" there is a higher chance that he could be overwhelm by the memories that could pour into his mind, losing his pathway back to 'himself'.

===Appearance===
John hair is purple, with lighter highlights running through it. Some of the hair falls over his right eye and the back is done in a short braid. Reddish brown eyes gaze more often at the ground, as if he’s trying to not look at anyone. He carries a worn book at his side, yet most can see that is very much cared for. He always has gloves on.

===Personality===
John is quiet, hanging back to keep out of the way, and not to be notice. His bearing can seem overly polite, taking to calling people sir or madam, sometimes even when he’s told otherwise. It takes time to see the laughter that will flash across his face, reveal what John was like as a child. His temper flares up when a person has done something to injure themselves or that could injure others.

==Combat==
===General===
John is an Arcanist, though he hasn’t had much battle experience. His dad is has been trying to get him use to battle, know that John may find himself following too closely to his sister’s footsteps. He is more a healer then a fighter.

==Tendencies==
===Likes===
::* Kit, his familiar
::* His family
::* Healing

===Dislikes===
::* Not knowing where he actually came from before his family found him as a baby.
::* Reading
::* Not being able to touch anything without gloves on his hands.

===Hobbies/Talents===
::* He is very good at mapping out a way to solve problems.
::* He has a good eye for drawing
::* Fishing

===Other===
::* Even if he is anger, his voice won’t go higher then speaking volume
::* Very polite, address the person as sir or madam
::* He can see in the pass but only if he touches an object or person, hints the gloves that he always wears.
::* Unknown to him his Keeper’s name is Rhag’ra Tayuun.
::* Will pull out his sister’s chocker and unglove one hand to see his sister and her past.

==Relationships==
===Family===
Father: Thomas Waterstrike- Alive, Thaumaturge
Mother: Margret Waterstrike- Alive, Conjurer
Sister: Tanya Waterstrike- Dead, Conjurer

===Friends===

===Enemies===

==Rumors==
===Common Rumors===
::* Thomas’ adopted son… yeah, use to see him following his sister around here. –Ul’dahan merchent
::* Purple hair Miqo’te was down at the dock fishing. –unknown Adventurer
::* Never ever seen him without gloves. –Limsa woman

===Moderate Rumors===
::* Ah, don’t even know he’s in the room. –Baderon
::* Always seem so sad… maybe a girl rejected him. –Barmaid.
::* Hasn’t seen the boy smile since Tanya’s body was brought back from that battle. -Momodi

===Rare Rumors===
::* What’s be weird about the kit was him staring off into the blue water holding a sunstone chocker. –Shady dealer
::* Saw him putting a glove back on and then told me to check all of the creates that came in. Found a small box of Dream flowers in the bottom. –Dock worker
::* Hear’s he from Ul’dah. Think himself too good to touch us without gloves. –Back alley wretch

===PC Rumors===
::* "Oh, yes. I've met him. He's rather quiet and soft spoken. And did really well in that drinking contest at the Ruby Carbuncle! Despite it being his first time drinking." - [[Ojune Wajune]]
::* "John? He comes to the Grindstone regularly. Always polite, always eager to help. Good kid." - [[Warren Castille]]
::* "Master John is very giving and attentive. He even risked harm to himself to help Sir Gegenji's brother in recovery. Are you close to him? Pray encourage his abilities and skill; he has a grand gift in sight!" - [[Jancis Milburga]]
::* "Ser John is ever eager to be of assistance. For that, he has both my thanks and my interest. Do give him my regards." - [[Tengri Moks|Tengri Geneq]]
::* "Just give me five minutes with him! -What, no! I'm not going to beat him up!" - [[Jana Ridah]]
::* "He appears to have a tendency to over-exert himself, though our interactions were brief. I would venture to guess he is good-natured to a fault. If he wishes to help others in matters of the mind, he must be impenetrable by emotion." - [[Khyran Oisin]]
::* "H-he's a very kind and helpful man...! W-we've only worked together a-a few times, but he's attentive a-and very gentle! I'm sure he's a very good man!" - [[Defiant Bride]]

==History/Timeline==
Rhag’ra Tayuun had only been a month old when his mother’s cart of goods heading to Ul’dah was attack by an Ixal hunting party. His mother was killed trying to protect him and he would have died as well if not for Thomas and his family coming across the cart. As Thomas used a linkpearl to contact Ul’dah, his 5 year old daughter, Tanya, found the baby under his mother’s body, and then asked her parents if she could name her new brother. Since they had no idea where the baby Miqo’te’s family was, they gladly took the child in.

Tanya was overjoyed at her new brother and in many was a second mother to the little miqo’te. Perhaps that was why she notice that her brother at five would stare into the distance when he would hold something. Thinking that her brother was more dreamer then her, she didn’t give much thought to the matter…that would be a regret that she would take to the grave with her years later.

For young John, the miqo’te kit wasn’t sure of the dreams himself that he would see when he held something in his hand. His parents would smile at the story he told, though others around them thought that the child might not have all of his gils together. As he grew older, the daydreams seem to grow stronger, though he didn’t speak about them now, mostly because he didn’t want his sister to worry about his mental state as she began her training in Gridania as a Conjuer. It would have continue this way if a fever that ran though the Pearl Lane area hadn’t also hit the 10 year old John as well.

What she found when word got back to her about her brothers illness, made her guts twist in dread. What she thought might have been an echo ability was nothing of the sort. It had always been with him, no stare shower starting it up, yet hope when these dreams of the past came from holding an object. She asked her mother for gloves to be given to her, which she then place on his hands. They were found curled up in his bed, his fever broke, and her energy drain. By the end of the month John and Tanya had recovered from that night. During that time, John would steal an old book, a book that seem to have deep magic in it, Tanya telling him that she would research for him. She return to her training, leaving her brother with the reminder, “Keep your gloves on so you don’t have nightmares,” and a promise between the siblings that when John was old enough, they would travel together and find out everything that wanted to know.

Things went back to normal for the Waterstrike family, the time nearing for John to leave Ul’dah and join Tanya on the Adventurer’s path. Plans that ended the day that the battle of Carteneau. The lost of Tanya in that last battle and the world almost ending was a turning point for John. The happy eager teen closed off, the grins turning into small smile, if the other person got one at all. Another five years would pass and John would uphold his end of the promise the two had made so many years ago when word of Limsa Lominsa opening up the Arcanist guild for membership. On his twentieth name day, he gave his goodbyes to his mother and father, taking with him the book that he called Kit and Tanya’s sunstone chocker.

It was a year later that Thomas, in order to return his son from the shadow that he had become, sent John to help out with a fighting tournament, called Grindstone, that was in need of healers. In many ways, it was something that save John for fleeing altogether from his curse and the pain that was in his soul from his sister's death. He would remain in his home city, joining the Flames, first in his brother-in-law unit, and then being pulled into Zero Division.

===Echo Memories===

(This is where those that have the echo can see what memories John carries with him if you interact with him. This section will be updates periodical.)

WIP

==Annotations==

This Template was created by [[Deirdre Ta'ea]]

Khyran Oisin

2016-02-22T05:03:15Z

Miss Bride:

<section begin=featured-blurb />''"I'm a mind healer. I can restore and remove memories, cure curses, and exorcise possessions. Khyran Oisin. A pleasure." With such a clinical tone, it hardly sounded like a pleasure.''<section end=featured-blurb /> <br><br>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:12px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#999999;font-family:Georgia">As winter takes me now, of cold and clammy skin. <br> A barren, empty womb as I am born again.<br>It's pulling at my hair, and clawing all within.<br>The monster in your head won't surface again.<br> Be still my child, wash away the sin.<br>
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<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:16px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">✦</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">'''PRONUNCIATION:'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;color:#B30909;padding:0px 5px;"> KAI-ruhn OSH-een</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:16px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">✦</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">'''NICKNAMES:'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;color:#B30909;"> Khy, Vulture</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:16px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">✦</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">'''RACE & CLAN:'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;color:#B30909;"> Hyur Midlander.</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:16px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2emr">✦</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">'''GENDER:'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;color:#B30909;"> Male.</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:16px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2emr">✦</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">'''AGE:'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;color:#B30909;"> 27.</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:16px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">✦</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">'''NAMEDAY:'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;color:#B30909;"> December 2.</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:16px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">✦</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">'''HEIGHT & WEIGHT:'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;color:#B30909;padding:0px 5px;">5 feet, 6 inches. 90 pounds.</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:16px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">✦</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">'''ORIENTATION:'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;color:#B30909;"> Romantic Asexual.</font>

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<br><font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:16px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">✦</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">'''BIRTHPLACE:'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;color:#B30909;padding:0px 5px;">Unknown.</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:16px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">✦</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">'''RESIDENCE:'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;color:#B30909;"> Unknown.</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:16px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">✦</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">'''GENERAL HEATH:'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;color:#B30909;"> He is severely underweight. He either has an eating disorder, or is too poor to eat. He has a sickly constitution. He walks with a limp. His right leg is false- upon inspection, it appears to be ceruleum-powered Magitek.</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:16px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">✦</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">'''OCCUPATION:'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;color:#B30909;"> Voidhunter.</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:16px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">✦</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">'''AFFILIATION:'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;color:#B30909;">Leader of [http://aethertide.enjin.com Aethertide Ventures.] Loose affiliations with Ebonbrand Technoworks.</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:16px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">✦</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">'''PATRON DEITY:'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;color:#B30909;"> He worships the Twelve to an extent, indiscriminately.</font>

<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:16px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">✦</font> <font style="font-size:12px;color:#232323;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em">'''REPUTATION:'''</font> <font style="font-family:Georgia;color:#B30909;">Mixed. Opinions about the nature of this man vary widely, depending on who is asked. Some praise him for his kindness and selflessness. Others report underhanded tactics, ulterior motives, and controversial means of using his rare magical gift. Some would trust Khyran with their life. Others do not trust him at all.</font>
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<td><i>Brown. He only has his left eye in-tact.</i></td>
<td><i>Black. He has a thick mane past his shoulders, often greasy and unwashed.</i></td>
<td><i>Pale. His complexion is often sallow, nearing jaundiced.</i></td>
<td><i>Skeletal. He would probably be naturally lean, had he not been starved.</i></td>
<td><i>Mellow. His face/voice claim is, loosely, [https://youtu.be/iX9MkW5gkL4?t=2m47s Adrien Brody]. </i></td>
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<td><i>Subdued, hunched.</i></td>
<td><i>Right-handed.</i></td>
<td><i>A long scar cuts from his brow to lips over his missing eye.</i></td>
<td><i>He has several linkpearl piercings in his ears.</i></td>
<td><i>He favors wearing black, white, and red.</i></td>
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<br>[[File:Khyran.gif|300x497px|right|frame|<div style="padding:10px 22px; font-size:13px;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.1em;"><center><font style="color:#706b68;">'''❝'''</font> <font style="color:#333333">I know to live, you must give your life away.</font> <font style="color:#706b68;">'''❞'''</font></center></div>]]
Khyran isn't "attractive" by conventional standards. He has a face like a skull, with deep sockets and sharp cheekbones. His nose is too long, jutting, and pointed. He only has one eye, dull brown in color. Where his other eye should have been, there's a gouged socket instead. He has thin lips concealing crooked, imperfect teeth. His long hair looks greasy and unkempt. He has a short, trim goatee and a stubble-darkened jaw. His voice is mellow and airy.

He is about 5'6" and corpselike. His skin is sallow and pale. He usually smells as an unwashed man would- with a lingering hint of copper. It is safe to assume he has an eating disorder, or is too poor to eat. More often than not, he stands in a slouch and moves slowly. He seems incapable of running very long, as the attempt leaves him breathless to the point of collapse. When he walks, its usually with his head bowed and with a consistent limp. If he carries weapons, they must be expertly concealed, for there is absolutely no sign of such things on his person. His voice and expression rarely betray his emotions. He tends to avoid eye contact with people, and keeps his head down. Even so, he seems to be paying very close attention to everything around him.

'''Early September 2015 Update'''

''Whirr. Clunk. Whirrrr. Clunk.'' Khyran walks loudly. His left leg purrs when idle and clicks and clatters with each step he takes. If he pulled up his pant leg, one would see that his leg is sleek, black metal. His other leg, too, is carried strangely. There is an attachment in his heels and calf, melded into the rest of his flesh.

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<br>[[File:Khyran3.jpg|left|frame|<div style="padding:10px 20px; font-size:13px;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.1em;"><center><font style="color:#706b68;">'''❝'''</font> <font style="color:#333333">For the beauty of grace is that it makes life unfair.</font> <font style="color:#706b68;">'''❞'''</font></center></div>]]
Khyran Oisin is a man that knows no pleasure. Neither food, drink, or good company can wipe the seriousness from his face. The man knows little more than hard work and an endless supply of pessimism. It would even appear as though he outright hates himself. He is propelled by his willingness to be of service to those he cares about. If he must do something for the sake of his own survival, it is often with reluctance and guilt. It is nearly impossible to threaten him; he simply does not know fear.

He does, however, know anxiety- for he is nervous in social groups. To him, socializing is like pulling teeth. He prefers watching people from corners or meeting with individuals privately. He's a good listener: honest, genuine, and forthright. He doesn't sugar-coat things- iif he sees a problem, he brings it up. He has no motivation other than to be helpful, even though his good intentions can often backfire by angering his friends and stirring up controversy where it was not needed.

Unfortunately, the man is quite bleak. He is known to expect the worst- and hope for it, too. He is rarely good-humored, and often resorts to subtle sarcasm to express his displeasure. It's exceptionally difficult to get Khyran to have a good time. On rare occasions, he enjoys a smoke or a drink with select company- so long as it doesn't involve lusty women (or men) and loose tongues. Khyran is an insufferable prude. Some would describe him as the human equivalent of a toothache.

At his best, he makes for pleasant, helpful company and an unbiased listening ear. At his worst, he's depressing, blunt and stubbornly set in his ways, making him infuriating to those who care about him.
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: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Strong-willed
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Perceptive
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Forthright
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Selfless
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Attentive
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Honest (Sometimes To a Fault)

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: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Stubborn
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Self-destructive
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Blunt
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Impatient
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Physically Flimsy, Breakable, Sickly Constitution
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Bleak, Humorless
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Prudish
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Overconfident (In Matters of the Void)

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: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> ISFJ
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Type 4/6 Enneagram
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Depression
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Restricting-Type Anorexia
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Painkiller Addiction (Dormant)
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Social Anxiety

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: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Cool Autumn Air
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Lakes, Rivers, Babbling Water
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Moths and Butterflies
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Vegetables, Soups, Teas
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Planting Wildflowers
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> People-Watching

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: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Spicy Food, Meat
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Dogs
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Large Crowds
: <font style="color:#232323;" size="2">✦</font> Darkness
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=Magic and Combat=

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Long story short? Khyran can go into people's heads. All he has to do is touch them on the forehead. It is based on the magics involved in '''spiritbonding''', '''materia''', and the '''aether''' which encompasses one's being.

Once he touches a forehead, he spiritbonds with that person. He can view their memories, replaying like a dream. He can place himself within the context of that memory, as a 'projection' of himself. He can also be joined by the projection of his patient. Within their mind, he can snag his patient's memories and convert them to materia. It is drawn out and forgotten by the patient entirely. Thus, he considers himself something of a "bad memory surgeon". Though these abilities come with varying degrees of suspicion and discomfort from those who know of his gift, there is always the few desperate enough to ask him for help.

Depending on how long he is able to focus and how willing the "patient" is, Khyran can do anything from wipe out entire sections of someone's memories to selectively drawing out the bad parts from an otherwise good memory. He collects the materia thereafter. Some patients request that he do specific things with the materia and he always follows suit. But if the patient is unable or unsure to specify, he keeps them very safe - but won't say exactly where.

Due to his ability, Khyran can do any number of unusual things, which make him versatile in many situations.

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: <font style="color:#808c72;" size="2">✦</font> '''REMOVAL'''. Once a bond has been formed, Khyran can remove a memory from his patient. Once the patient recalls the situation, he can remove it from their head in the form of materia. Materia removed in this way can be returned to the patient’s head if they wished for him to do so. Khyran can also place materia from other people within someone else’s head, giving them a first-hand experience from someone else’s shoes.
: <font style="color:#808c72;" size="2">✦</font> '''RESTORATION'''. If a patient has been injured or cursed in a way that has given them amnesia, Khyran can attempt to restore those memories by assisting the patient in surpassing whatever mental blocks have formed to hide the memory.
: <font style="color:#808c72;" size="2">✦</font> '''GRAFTING'''. Because Khyran can't make something out of nothing, he cannot create false memories in normal circumstances. However, given a lot of time and care, he can perform something he calls "grafting": snipping tidbits of dialogues, emotions, people, and places out of one memory and placing them in another. Jobs like this are almost always imperfect and with noticeable seams, and Khyran only does this if he feels there is no other choice to help the patient recover from a circumstance. It does come with its own set of risks.
: <font style="color:#808c72;" size="2">✦</font> '''CONTEXT'''. Being able to dive into someone’s head allows Khyran to search for the truth in a first-hand account of a situation. He can view memories without taking them out, and he can insert himself into the context of a memory. This is called a “projection.”
: <font style="color:#808c72;" size="2">✦</font> '''PROJECTIONS'''. Every time Khyran enters someone's head, he, as well as they, can create a "projection" of themselves. It's a subconscious thing, the natural response to dreaming. But with practice, just like lucid dreaming, someone can change the form of their projection if they so wish, with practice. Khyran, himself, particularly favors the form of a vulture. Changing one's projection is often very difficult, as it requires a skill similar to lucid dreaming. It is difficult to alter one of the most fundamental aspects of how one views themselves.
: <font style="color:#808c72;" size="2">✦</font> '''HE CAN DESTROY'''. This ability as a whole should not be underestimated under any circumstances: Khyran's power is terrifying. If he so chose, he can wipe away everything about someone. He could cause a great deal of pain and damage simply by touching someone on the head. He can steal their secrets, weave through their darkest closets, remove aspects of their personality, history, and core memories, and expose them to a most bitter end.
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: <font style="color:#69735d;" size="2">✦</font> '''WARDS'''. Khy can create 2 different kinds of wards: physical and mental. He can enhance an object in the physical world with materia designed to repel voidsents. These can be placed on necklaces to ward voidsents away from a wearer, or placed upon trees or rocks to ward voidsents away from a location. He can also enter the mind of a person and leave a ward inside their head. The mental wards require him to sacrifice some of his life force, however...
: <font style="color:#69735d;" size="2">✦</font> '''INTERFERENCE'''. On rare occasions, people who are around Khyran while he's asleep, unconscious, or emotionally distressed might hear ringing in their ears. If asked, Khyran's explanations are often vague, but it seems connected with the process of memory removal that he instills upon patients. Those who have recently had a memory removed by him will hear the ear-ringing more than others, and only when they are around him. On occasion, the ringing grows louder, and could be almost maddening. It seems he can cause it on purpose, if he really wanted to.
: <font style="color:#69735d;" size="2">✦</font> '''NORMAL MATERIA'''. Khyran can create materia out of objects in the “normal” fashion. The process breaks down the object and reforms it as a crystal. If he really concentrates upon an inanimate object, he may be able to catch glimpses of what “memories” that object might hold, though its nothing as concrete or as complex as what he sees within a person’s mind.
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: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> '''EXORCISMS'''. Khy can perform exorcism. If a character is possessed, Khy is uniquely equipped to hunt the thing down. He can enter a character’s mind and search them for the Void taint. If he and the patient can defeat the Voidsent inside their head, Khyran can weaken it enough to turn it into materia and rip it out. Once trapped in materia, the voidsent can never return to the Void… unless it is released from its crystal prison by manner of powerful magic.
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> '''RESISTANCE TRAINING'''. Khy can train people to increase their awareness and resistance to possession. However, the training is grueling, and often cripples the recipient for several days. He, himself, is nearly immune to possession in most circumstances.
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> '''GENERAL KNOWLEDGE'''. Because of Khyran's experience in dealing with matters of the Void, he is well-traversed in understanding their hierarchy, behaviors, typical locations, manners in which individuals can be caught, and ways to protect against their attacks. He is considered ''very skilled'' as a Voidhunter despite his appearances.
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: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> '''CONTACT REQUIRED'''. Physical contact is required between Khyran and the patient in order for any of his powers to work. If Khyran can’t touch them on the head with skin-on-skin contact, he can’t do anything at all. If he is able to touch someone on the head, both of them will be paralyzed and unable to move unless the patient’s mental willpower is strong enough to break free of him, or if an outside third party removes Khyran from them.
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> '''IF CONTACT IS BROKEN.''' If the connection is severed prematurely by a third party, then there is the particularly chilling risk that Khyran's mental aether would be trapped within the patient's mind, or the patient will be trapped in his.Their body, alive, would be left behind, mindless. One would be forced to carry around the other in their head until a solution could be found.
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> '''PROJECTION DEATH.''' If the projection in someone's mind is damaged or killed by an inhabiting curse or Voidsent, there are great risks posed to the physical body. Someone's aether can be damaged, even to the point of death.
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> '''RESISTANCE'''. It is possible to put up mental resistance against Khyran, even if he currently has physical contact with the patient. If your character is strong-willed, well-trained, or magically gifted in any way, they can resist him even if he grabs their head.
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> '''TAXING POWER'''. The power is physically and aetherically draining on both Khyran and the patient. After a session, a patient might experience headaches or terrible pain in their body. On occasion, Khyran himself can be caught suffering nosebleeds or gripping at his head as if in pain. The more he does it without rest, the weaker he becomes.
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> '''KHY CANNOT TELEPORT.''' Due to reasons he has not made known, Khyran cannot teleport by will. He can only teleport by directly touching an Aetheryte and entering the Aetherstream through them. Anyone else who attempts to teleport with him in tow will find that he is “too heavy” for them to take along, and the attempt will fail, and leave them completely exhausted.
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: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> '''KHY DISCRIMINATES.''' In the event a storyline leads to combat situations, Khyran will respond depending on who the target is. He is only willing to inflict harmful damage on non-sentient, undead or voidsent targets. His definition of "sentient" includes Beastkin.
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> '''KHY CARRIES NO WEAPONS.''' His only "weapon" requires him to touch his target on the head with skin-to-skin contact. This limitation is both in place as part of his character as well as a balance against his powerful abilities.
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> '''MAGITEK BOOST'''. He has a Magitek false leg which enables him a limited-capacity jump boost. He can briefly launch himself a short distance. He can only do this twice per combat session. It causes him considerable pain.
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> '''KHY IS (NEARLY) IMMUNE TO POSSESSION'''. Khyran cannot be possessed by a Voidsent due to the level of self-training and practice he has undergone. At least, not easily, and not by any simple voidcreatures.
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> '''KHY IS FLIMSY'''. Khyran is remarkably flimsy and I will play him as such: his body cannot take much before it is damaged beyond usefulness in combat.
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As with all my RP, OOC consent is always requested and discussed before Khy uses his mind powers on anyone. Khy's ability is powerful, but he will never use it on anyone OOC unwilling. Generally, he gets IC consent as well, but there may be rare cases where the character may wish to remove a memory by force from someone. If this situation arises, all details will- and must- be decided on and agreed with OOC beforehand, and will only be done if all parties involved in the memory removal agree and think it's a good addition to their character's plot. There will not be any power-playing from Khyran!

Anyone wanting to RP a memory removal with Khyran should be willing to RP with him for a long time. Part of the materia creation process is about a bond between Khyran and the individual in question. This is just a reason to RP with him and develop our characters together! Due to the nature of his magic, as it deals with matters of the mind, it is malleable to suit your purposes.

Basically, please keep an open line of communication with me. Khyran's various abilities exist to make RP a little more interesting, not to hinder your story or throw a wrench at your character. I hate power-playing- I hate it when it is done to me and I have no plans to do it to anyone else!

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Another consequence of his lack of aether is his poor ability to teleport. He can only teleport if he directly touches an aethyrite, which contains enough raw energy to transport his aether-weak body.

His body has a subconscious hunger for aether, seeking to fill the emptiness within him. This is why it is so easy for him to pull aether out of other people in the form of materia. He often stores the materia he collects in his own body.

He has a subconscious desire to be around people who are similarly aether-rich, like a moth to flame, and often gets niggling little urges to reach out and place his hand upon their heads. He has not fully realized this ye, or how it makes him unnervingly similar to the very voidsents he hunts.</div>
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: <font style="color:#808c72;" size="2">✦</font> "Khy is still alive? I thought he'd have shriveled up and blown away by now." — ''Proprietor of a Gridanian Bar''.
: <font style="color:#808c72;" size="2">✦</font> "He has this... ''look'', you know? Like he's seen things and he'll never be the same because of it. Wonder if it was the Calamity." — ''Quicksand Regular''.
: <font style="color:#808c72;" size="2">✦</font> "What a kind man. He helped me let go of things. I wish him the best of health." — ''Doman Refugee''.
: <font style="color:#808c72;" size="2">✦</font> "That bastard didn't help at all! If he'd have charged, I'd want my money back!" — ''Pearl Lane Beggar''.
: <font style="color:#808c72;" size="2">✦</font> "I don't believe him. He's just... ''too'' nice. The things he offers are too good to be true. He's after something." — ''Pearl Lane Beggar''.
: <font style="color:#808c72;" size="2">✦</font> "Hahaha! What a pushover! I only had to punch him once and he just smiled and gave me all his money!"— ''Ul'dahn Ruffian''.
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: <font style="color:#69735d;" size="2">✦</font> "I was on a delivery route from Limsa Lominsa to Summerford Farms. I saw a man just... sitting there on a bridge. Hours later, I saw the same guy. Sitting there. I thought he was asleep, but when I walked past, I heard him muttering." — ''Lominsan Courier''.
: <font style="color:#69735d;" size="2">✦</font> "My ears hurt when I'm around him sometimes. I don't know why. But there's something... off about him. How's he even standing?" — ''Gridanian Farmer''.
: <font style="color:#69735d;" size="2">✦</font> "Khy doesn't look like much, but he's actually a Voidhunter. One of the really good ones, too. I've seen him in action, up in Coerthas. People like that shouldn't be judged by their looks." — ''Adventurer''.
: <font style="color:#69735d;" size="2">✦</font> "I could have sworn that man drowned. Didn't he? Please tell me he's dead. If he weaseled his way out of ''that'' one, he has something coming to him." — ''Costa del Sol Fisher''.
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: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> "WANTED: Khyran Oisin. Dead or alive. REWARD: 50,000 GIL." — ''A Poster in Costa del Sol''.
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> "That man is cursed. He cursed his family, cursed our entire city. He was born a demon in a child's skin. He deserves to rot in the seventh Hell." — ''A Blacksmith in Costa del Sol''.
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: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> "I trusted the bastard—let him see me in my weakest moments—and he was hiding the fact that he did ''that''..." — ''[[O'jirho Tia]]''
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> "He may not always have been Twelve-guided, but he is now and that's what matters. Mayhap not in matters of personal hygiene, but in matters of action? Certainly." — ''[[Vi Lindon]]''
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> "Khyran Oisin? He is /insufferable/ company on most occasions, as he is grievous on the eyes, socially inept, devoid of humor, and fails to appreciate the finer things in life. He'll likely never understand why the rest of us stop to smell the flowers. But I love and owe that frail little man so much that I will never stop trying to show him the value of simple pleasures. We've weathered many storms together, and Khy has always shined at times when all light has puttered out." - ''[[Sigurd Sundsteigen]]''
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> "That man is so far in over his head I am surprised he hasn't developed fish lungs yet." — ''[[Jikam Constans]]''
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> "One cannot be more proud of Khy. From the beginnings met upon that fateful bridge to this sun.. Khy has grown so much, more than one ever hoped for. Took much pushing for Khy to finally accept this one into heart and now allowing others in. For Khy to be truly happy, will bring this one such joy." — ''[[Tsaganarii Dhoro]]]''
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> "Sir Khyran? I meet him twice and he seem like a man of good heart. I worry about him as he seem to carry such sadness in him. Maybe I'll have a chance to work with him as both of us are healers of the mind." — ''[[John Waterstrike]]''
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> "I am not a woman t'believe in fate, yet circumstances have seen our paths cross as of late. As for the man himself? Khyran is... an enigma to me. A self-sacrificing shadow weighed down by the world. I can only imagine the things he has seen and had to do. Pray, he will go it alone no longer." — ''[[Odette Saoirse]]''
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> “…I know him. I know Khyran. Please don’t do that. That — looking at his picture that way. Don’t judge something you clearly know nothing about!” — ''[[Elyon Eba]]''
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> “Yes, Mister Oisin, he leads my company. Though frail of form, he has a formidable mind, and a talent that is unique and terrible, and I owe him more than I can count.” — ''[[Izanami Tatewaki]]''
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> “Sir--ah, Mister Khyran, you mean? H-he... um, I-I think h-he's remarkably kind...! He goes out of his w-way to show mercy even to his foes, and he often pushes himself hard for others... er, y-you're not going to t-tell him I said this, right?” — ''[[Defiant Bride]]''
: <font style="color:#515948;" size="2">✦</font> “Your Rumor Here.” — ''[[Your Character]]''
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: <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">❀</font><font style="color:#47B247;" size="2">♫</font> [[Khana Borlaaq]] has been nothing but kind to him, in the times he needed her most. He appreciates her immensely. Due to a complex series of events, he knows quite a lot about her- probably as much about her as she knows about herself. His only desire in regards to her is to keep her happy and safe, and protect her from the various threats in her life, even though he often feels it is a fruitless endeavor. He is the godfather to her child, Anujin, and is currently focusing most of his efforts on saving her from a most unfortunate predicament.
: <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">❀</font><font style="color:#47B247;" size="2">♫</font> [[Mikha Sunthistle]] won Khyran's affections over time due to his unabashed optimism. In matters of personality, "opposites attract" might be a viable statement to make. While Khyran could aptly be described as a personified toothache, Mikha's chipper, happy-go-lucky nature effectively serves as his foil. He has grown very fond of Mikha, and would give his life to protect him, knowing full well Mikha would try to stop him if he did. While Khyran often struggles to be happy, if he's with Mikha, he really does try- more for his sake than his own.
: <font style="color:#47B247;" size="2">♫</font>[[Odette Saoirse]] walked through hell with Khyran. It's hard to do that with someone and not feel a connection to them. He opened up to her, at a great risk to their relationship, but would now consider her a friend.
: <font style="color:#47B247;" size="2">♫</font> [[Sigurd Sundsteigen]] and Khyran's relationship could best be described as "complicated." There are times Khyran finds himself loathing the man to the point where he questions why he's even his friend. And then, there are days when Khyran would desire nothing more than to have a nice smoke with him and talk for hours about life's various hurdles. In the end, Khyran knows he's been to hell and back so many times with Sigurd, it would be foolish to turn away. Despite their extreme moral differences, Khyran would gladly plunge into hell again and again for him, if it meant he could finally free Sigurd from his personal demons.
: <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">❀</font><font style="color:#47B247;" size="2">♫</font> [[Tsaganarii Dhoro]] painstakingly chiseled past Khyran's armor, becoming his very first friend. While they have somewhat drifted apart in recent days, he still considers her very close. They have unfinished business hanging between them, however, and he feels as though she is resistant to the idea of finishing it. It has caused some subdued tension that he has been unwilling to communicate. While they are not often seen together, he can still be heard speaking affectionately about her, and praises her strong will.
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: <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font>[[Avis Inkwood]] is the sort of stranger you'll meet on a cold, rainy night and never forget about. Their brief encounter resonated with him. She might be able to help him with a very particular problem he is faced with... hopefully they will speak again.
: <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font>[[Caolan Achaius]] is perhaps one of the few men that Khyran would actually enjoy sharing a pint and no conversation with, and find absolutely nothing awkward about it.
: <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font>[[Connor Tavarin]] seems to have come to terms with Khyran's secret. He thinks Connor is pure of heart and noble to a fault. He respects the man. He does, however, feel awkward, as he knows he had exposed the worst side of himself to Connor.
: <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font><font style="color:##A34719;" size="2">⚖</font>[[Defiant Bride]] is one of the sub-officers of the Outreach branch in Aethertide. Khyran thinks she's very simple and innocent, too willing to throw herself in the deep end without thinking enough for her own wellbeing.
: <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> <font style="color:##A34719;" size="2">⚖</font> [[Eduard Harlow]] is one of Aethertide's three co-founders, though Khyran rarely works with him directly. Eduard strikes Khyran as simple-natured, though pretentious and full of himself. However, his straightforward nature and ability to point out simple truths is useful, however annoying it might be.
: <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font>[[Elyon Eba]] was there at the right place at the right time- or the wrong place at the wrong time, depending on how you look at it. Because of their circumstances, Khyran found himself giving his trust to her quite readily and quickly. He knows very little about her, however, a fact that he hopes will change soon.
: <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font>[[Fabebe Fabe]] is an impressive warrior. Khyran thinks she's a bit too easily flustered, but he finds her abrasive and honest demeanor quite charming. Even if it's the opposite of what she might have intended.
: <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font>[[Glace Silencieuse]] assisted in an amputation, but Khy's brief impression of him is negative. Something about him rubs him the wrong way. Perhaps it was the way he claimed to enjoy the taste of raw meat? Or the way he so delicately sliced perfect designs into his flesh during surgery? Or perhaps it's how unnaturally cold he is, in more ways that one.
: <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font><font style="color:##A34719;" size="2">⚖</font>[[User:Haku]] is one of the sub-officers of the Commerce branch in Aethertide. Khyran trusts her, and has grown quite fond of her over time. Even so, he feels he does not know her as well as he would like, and understands there are some things she prefers to keep buried.
: <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font><font style="color:##A34719;" size="2">⚖</font>[[Izanami Tatewaki]] is one of the sub-officers of the Aegis branch in Aethertide. Khyran has seen into her mind, and understands the horrors she must deal with, no matter how suppressed. He admires her courage and loyalty, however, and wishes to assist her further on the burdens she carries.
: <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font>[[John Waterstrike]] struck Khyran as good-natured, and he wishes to know more about his services as a mind therapist. He exercises some amount of caution around John, as he is fairly certain the fellow is more suspicious of him than not.
: <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font>[[Selthrana White]] has stuck with Khyran through many trials and hardships, yet they never quite were able to bridge the gap and come to a mutual understanding, despite how much the two know of each other. Khyran respects her deeply, however, and wishes to find some way to get to know her better.
: <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font>[[Silbyrund Valyss]] is an enigma. He saw in her something she likely shows very few others. He does not know what to make of it, but he wishes to see an ally in her.
: <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> <font style="color:##A34719;" size="2">⚖</font> [[Vi Lindon]] is one of the three co-founders of Aethertide. She and Khyran's relationship extends as far back as the old caravan. Though he still is wary of considering her his friend, as there are many concerns he has yet to unravel, he does care deeply about her wellbeing.
: <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font>[[Y'paanko Rhak]] is a bit full of herself. Then again, maybe Khyran is full of himself, too. He doubts he can be of any service in teaching her about his magics, in the same way someone can't take a speck of dust out of someone else's eye.
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ENEMIES AND RIVALS''
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: <font style="color:#6666CC;" size="2">☘</font>Khyran's opinion of [[Lathu'a Jhiyati]] is more like a lake of confused concepts, emotions, and actions rather than a straightforward fact. There is not even a simple way for him to be sure if they are friends, foes, or existing in some strange place between the two. They are both enemies and allies at once, and the line has blurred between the two.
: <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font>[[Llinos Silvernail]] once could have been considered a friend, but Khyran's actions burned the bridge. Now, they'd be lucky even to be on speaking terms.
: <font style="color:#6666CC;" size="2">☘</font>[[Narantu Dazkar]] was once considered one of his greatest enemies- but due to complex circumstances, Khyran is now simply keeping a watchful eye on her. Hoping. Praying that the person she once was won't return.
: <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font><font style="color:#A34719;" size="2">⚖</font>[[Nathaniel of Salem]] isn't exactly an "enemy" or even a "rival". However, Khyran finds himself, more often than not, so strongly disagreeing with Nathaniel's views and principles that his negative emotions are often stoked in his presence. Khyran does a lot of ornery yelling, and Nate tends to return it with mere annoyance. Thus, Khyran probably feels more strongly about Nate than he does towards him.
: <font style="color:#FF1919;" size="2">⚔</font>[[O'jirho Tia]]'s hatred of Khyran is one-sided, alas.
: <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> <font style="color:#A34719;" size="2">⚖</font>Septimus [[Nero Varus]] Nerva is a Magitek engineer and proprietor of Ebonbrand Technoworks. He was responsible for Khyran's false leg. Even so, Khyran's view of him teeters between mild annoyance and seething dislike. He is wary, too, as one would be wary of a snake, and keeps a close eye on Septimus's movements.
: <font style="color:#FF1919;" size="2">⚔</font>[[Skylar Brooks]] and Khyran have a difficult to describe relationship now... due to circumstance. Khyran, however, can be seen actively avoiding her whenever possible.
: <font style="color:#FF1919;" size="2">⚔</font>[[Wemrys Quintos]]'s hatred of Khyran is one-sided, and very well justified.
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: <font style="color:#FF1919;" size="2">⚔</font> <font style="color:#527ACC;" size="2">⚯</font> Khyran's mother. ''Sairah Oisin''
''I wonder if she still loves me. Can a mother- a good mother- truly stop loving her children? Is she even capable of it? If she saw me again... would her face turn away? Would she curse me, as the others did?''
: <font style="color:#FF1919;" size="2">⚔</font> <font style="color:#527ACC;" size="2">⚯</font>Khyran's father. ''Ray Oisin''
''I recoiled as I watched the hammer fall. It fell... and fell... and fell again.''
: <font style="color:#FF1919;" size="2">⚔</font> <font style="color:#527ACC;" size="2">⚯</font>Khyran's brother. ''Kane Oisin''
''I would give you more... but I cannot face you now. Not yet. I'm not ready.''
: <font style="color:#FF1919;" size="2">⚔</font> <font style="color:#527ACC;" size="2">⚯</font> Khyran's niece. ''Lily Oisin''
''I cannot even look at the flowers you were named for. I would defile it.''
: <font style="color:#191900;" size="2">☠</font> Khyran's mentor. ''Isolde Wren''
''I had not the strength to even bury you.''
: <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">❀</font> Khyran's goddaughter. ''Anujin Sundsteigen-Borlaaq''
''I will give my life so that you can be a normal girl.''
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::* <p><b>Pearl Lane, Ul'dah:</b> Very High probability.</p>
::* <p><b>The Goblet, Poor Districts:</b> Very High probability.</p>
::* <p><b>Gridania, Poor Districts:</b> High probability.</p>
::* <p><b>The Lavender Beds, Poor Districts:</b> Moderate probability.</p>
::* <p><b>Limsa Lominsa City:</b> Moderate probability. </p>
::* <p><b>Southern Thanalan Desert:</b> Moderate probability. </p>
::* <p><b>Mists:</b> Low probability.</p>
::* <p><b>Costa del Sol and surrounding areas:</b> Never.</p>
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::* <p><b>Ebonbrand Technoworks:</b> While no longer an employee, Khyran has close ties with many who work there, and can often be seen at their estate.</p>
::* <p><b>Wayfinders Solace:</b> The caravan seems to be out of business, but anyone who was once associated with the traveling merchants may have heard of him or remember his face.</p>
::* <p><b>But Did The Hound Bark, My Lord?:</b> If you know not the answer, then you're free to go about your business.</p>
::* <p><b>Aethertide Ventures:</b> Khyran is known to be the founder of the Free Company.</p>
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::*Khyran is an exceptionally rare find: he can remove your memories, and remove voidsents from your body if you are possessed.
::*Anyone from, or spends a lot of time at, '''Costa del Sol''' might have heard of him. Let's talk about how our characters might have known each other in the past!
::*Khyran often lurks in places where people are poor, desperate, and struggling. He might approach your character by his own volition if your character happens to appear "desperate".
::*The Arcanist's Guild and Thamaturge's Guild both wish for Khyran's cooperation to study his abilities. He continually refuses and avoids confrontation with scholars who wish to probe him for his knowledge. If your character works for such associations, they might have heard of him.
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::* <p><b>The Bonding Ceremony of [[Sigurd Sundsteigen]] and [[Khana Borlaaq]]:</b> Khyran was one of the guests and carried the couple's baby with him, suggesting he is close to them in some way.</p>
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''Section is intentionally vague and only meant to chronicle significant portions of this character's life and arc as he is roleplayed in-game. If you want more details, ask him IC!''

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'''IN THE PAST:''' Few in Costa del Sol may know his name and loathe it. Popular theory is that he drowned. But Khyran Oisin lives. His power remains. How is he going to use it?

'''JOINS WFS. JULY 2015:''' Despite his misgivings about traveling with people, Khyran's hand was forced by his own poor health. He could no longer do what he intends to do alone. He joined the Wayfinders Solace Caravan, and made known his secret to the caravan master, Jikam. His intent was not to make friends, or family. It was to be useful. The caravan encountered a brief spat with gremlins, and he injured his leg. He recovered well, but his self-sacrificial actions that day were observed as foolhardy and stupid.

'''WFS FIGHTS THE VOIDSENT. EARLY AUGUST 2015:''' The Wayfinders became embroiled in a plot involving a Voidsent. Taking great personal risks, the Wayfinders defeated the Voidsent monster in the frozen mountains of Coerthas. The caravan generally felt Khyran's foolhardy- and unexpectedly effective- contributions were helpful against the metaphysical monster, and he won some respect among them.

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'''OUTED AS A FUGITIVE; CRIPPLED PERMANENTLY. LATE AUGUST 2015:''' Following a complicated string of events, Khyran's secret was revealed to the majority of the caravan's members. Driven by guilt, fear, and external pressure, he left the caravan. He was tracked down and taken back by force, but not after he made a terrible mistake and was shot in the leg by someone in self-defense. His left femur was shattered. He awaits trial within the caravan's own system of government. He will likely never walk on his leg again without external support, and is permanently crippled.

'''TRIAL COMPLETED; GOING THROUGH CHANGES. EARLY SEPTEMBER 2015:''' The outcome of Khyran's trial was as good for him as it could have been, given the circumstances. He is now trying to re-evaluate his life and figure out how he can best make up for his sins and be stronger for others. But because of his shattered leg bone, he's having difficulty doing *anything* beyond lie around in bed or struggle to get places on crutches. He is staying on a regular supply of pain relief injections just to stay sane, and he's developed an addiction to them. He's struck up a very difficult deal with an engineer in hopes to have a replacement leg built for him.

'''LEG REPLACED. EARLY SEPTEMBER 2015:''' Khyran now has a prosthetic leg, and modified his existing leg to accommodate a new ability. He now has a limited-capacity jump boost, as well as increased stamina. As far as the rest of his weak, withered body goes, however... there's little to be done about that.

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'''ON THE HUNT. LATE SEPTEMBER/EARLY OCTOBER 2015:''' Khyran became aware that two of his acquaintances are dealing with Voidsent enemies. Though he is still struggling to walk on his still-healing legs, he began the struggle to locate, and kill, these Voidsent creatures. One of them, he barely managed to remove traces of its influence from his friend's mind. The other, he only managed a slight lock on the creature before it eluded his attention. As so much of his time is absorbed in trying to track down these creatures, he hardly had a chance to rest, and his abuse of the painkillers reached a critical level. He began stealing from his friends and co-workers, which led to an eventual intervention by Khana.

'''LEAVES WFS. IN THE SHADOWS. LATE OCTOBER/EARLY NOVEMBER 2015:''' Khyran left his previous company. Many who he considered himself on friendly terms with no longer associate with the company, and due to a recent issue involving Voidsents, he felt it was no longer safe for those remaining in WFS for him to stay. The few he considered close enough to be his friend, he harshly turned away, in hopes that they would not try to follow him. Depressed and homeless again, Khyran began searching for meaning in life beyond his desire to hunt and kill Voidsents. Alas, finding a new home has eluded him as of late, and he has put himself completely into his work. While drunk, his friends Sigurd and Mikha convinced him to buy a chocobo chick, which has given him some hope.

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'''EVIL REARS ITS HEAD. DECEMBER 2015:''' Khyran made a great sacrifice for his newborn goddaughter, Anujin. Now, it seems an old enemy of his friend Sigurd is rising up again, after he was once thought banished. Khyran is scrambling to put together what meager resources he has in order to stop this creature- all the while balancing new and difficult health problems that arose due to his sacrifice. He feels this is the deep breath before the plunge.

'''PARANOIA. LATE DECEMBER 2015:''' Khyran is crushed by a tremendous amount of pressure, facing off a Voidcreature more powerful than anything he has ever seen. He gathers impromptu, unlikely allies in his haste and desperation to stay a step ahead of the Voidcreature, and must make many difficult decisions to ensure the safety of said allies. Unfortunately, he is nearly beaten at every turn. His body is pushed to its brink and beyond. He must learn to rely on the love and support of his friends, or risk an untimely demise.

'''RELEASE. JANUARY 2016:''' The Voidsent, Hunter, is gone. Khyran quite nearly sacrificed his own life to ensure Hunter's end. With the great enemy gone due to the brave efforts of many, and Khyran's odds-defying survival, he found himself renewed and reinvigorated with purpose. His life feels open to the possibilities, and he feels confident that he is well on his way to redeeming himself. He established a new company with hopes to continue making Eorzea a safer place to live. Aethertide.

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A recently-hatched chocobo in Khyran's care was named '''Bastion''' by his business associate, [[Connor Tavarin]]. The bird was lovingly purchased for Khyran by [[Sigurd Sundsteigen]]. His friends additionally felt that having such a companion to care for would help give Khyran purpose. The bird is not yet saddlebroken and is too young to ride. At nearly two months old, however, the chocobo is growing bigger every day. Khyran often entrusts [[Mikha Sunthistle]] to the bird's care, as he is often busy traveling.

A mandragora creature was given to Khyran as a Starlight Festival gift by [[Mikha Sunthistle]], and was named '''Pink''' by Khyran. The plant-creature can sometimes be seen following Khyran around, however, he often leaves it in the safety of a fenced garden at [[Nathaniel of Salem]]'s estate.
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Image: WFSbeach.png| OOC Beach Shot at WFS.
Image: ViKhy1.png| Vi and Khy discuss a job...
Image: EdKhy1.png| Ed and Khy discuss philosophy...
Image: OdinKhy.png| Khyran's gloomy disposition.
Image: FlowerKhy.png| Khy sometimes enjoys nature.
Image: OrchidKhy.png| He also enjoys not being happy.
Image: LlinKhy1.png| Khyran needs help.
Image: WFSritual.png| The ritual begins.
Image: LiliaBlueKhy.png| Two Lalafels help him heal.
Image: WFSice.png| A deep breath in the icy cavern...
Image: ViKhy2.png| Arrangements are made.
Image: WFSdream.png| A Shared Experience...
Image: WFSfinalconfrontation.png| It All Ends Here
Image: ViKhy3.png| Did it really help her, in the end?
Image: WFSmisunderstanding.png| "We're not courting. There's been a misunderstanding..."
Image: WFSconfession.png| The Confession.
Image: EdKhy2.png| A Fight of Life, Death, and Selfishness.
Image: WFSmistake.png| He made a terrible mistake.
Image: NariiKhy1.png| When you need a friend most... they will be there.
Image: SigSkyKhy.png| Hope before the dark.
Image: WFStrial.png| The Trial.
Image: WFSEBaftermath.png| Negotiating a new leg.
Image: Ffxiv 09042015 003616.png| Out of place here.
Image: KhyEmber.png| Hoping for something new.

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Main Instrumental Inspiration Track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haOqG7erU6M

Instrumental Compilation (credits inside): https://soundcloud.com/kaylaaeolian/audiomix-kai-inspiration

Original Composition: https://soundcloud.com/kaylaaeolian/redemptions-pursuit

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Hi, I'm Aeo! Or Aeolian. I'm 23 and I've been roleplaying for the better half of my life. You may have seen me before in some fashion on WoW, ESO, NWN2, and Lotro. I've also been dabbling in a lot of RP forums. RP is a hobby of mine. I really enjoy it. But I just do it to have fun. I'm not scary, and I'd love to talk to you about anything at all. ^^ Feel free to catch me in-game to ask for my skype, or send me an ask on my [http://aeolian-mode.tumblr.com tumblr] blog.

I'm an artist. I make graphics for a sporting goods company full time. When I'm not RPing in my spare time, I'm drawing or working on my graphic novel [http://www.btcomics.com Age of Mortality]. If you're interested in the art found throughout this profile, it's mine! And I have commissions available [https://artistsnclients.com/people/AeolianMode here]!

I live somewhere in the American South with my husband, who plays [[Selthrana White]]. We have two cats, Chai Tea and Total Biscuit.

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'''Let's Communicate.''' I want to hear what you want to do! RP is all about telling stories and making friends. Don't be scared of me- I'm probably more scared of you. x.x'

'''Yes, I Have Triggers.''' "Trigger" is a word that gets thrown around a lot, but yes, I have one. Please keep me informed if you are planning to RP anything that has to do with baby death. Otherwise, I don't have any serious issues with dramatic or serious content.

'''I'm Heavy-RP.''' I rarely even play the game for the game. I'm RPing almost all the time. I haven't even gotten into the Heavensward content. I live and breathe storytelling and thus I'm willing to pay money to put myself in a community of like-minded people. Additionally, I never take into account character class, level, gear, stats, etc. in my RP. I treat characters as I see them as people, not DnD sheets.

'''I Match Your Style.''' Generally, if you give me short posts, I'll give you short posts. If you give me long posts, I'll give you long posts.

'''Plot-heavy.''' I prefer telling stories and involving the community at large. I will rarely be found idling in taverns, I prefer pursuing a story or a conflict.

'''OOC>IC.''' Your personal happiness will take precedence over preserving my character's integrity. If Khy would do something that YOU don't want, he will not do it. Simple as that! I am not a 100% immersionist RPer.

'''No ERP, Romance Limited.''' Please don't RP with me just to bang Khyran. I've had a few people hit on me OOC and I don't really appreciate that. (I'm married!) I'm really uncomfortable with RPing romance and sexuality most of the time because it's often difficult for people to keep the OOC=/=IC barrier in tact. If you want to pursue a romance plot with Khyran, you're welcome to do so, but please keep communication open with me. You WILL NOT get in his pants, so if you're still interested in a romance plot regardless, then we can totally see what our characters do. I can't guarantee anything, though. ^^

'''Lore-lite.''' I know enough FFXIV lore to play here comfortably, but I'm not super knowledgeable. I have made sure to run my concepts past people who are more knowledgeable than I, but please be gentle with my goof-ups.

'''Medical-heavy.''' I prefer to RP medical cases as realistically as possible, with both the body and mind. I use Google to research medical material. Given magic/aether healing is present in this world, I tend to view it more as a supplement than a catch-all. If your character tries to insta-heal mine, please don't be offended if I modify the intended effect to match the situation. Otherwise, no judgments given based on how you want to rp!

'''Once more... Communication is Key.''' My character sometimes deals with heavy, sensitive material, but I will always ask before springing something on you if you are feeling sensitive or if you have triggers. I always care about your OOC comfort before IC integrity. RP is for fun, and if it becomes something uncomfortable, it's not worth it.

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Thank you ''[[Odette Saoirse]]'' and ''[[Tsaganarii Dhoro]]'' for help with coding!
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