Renzhen Berkuul - Revision history

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Renaud Becquerel: Added some pictures under the appearance section!

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Added some pictures under the appearance section!

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-Renzhenbybraeya.jpg|[http://theroyalwitch.tumblr.com/ Source!]
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-<div align=left><div style="float:left;font-size:16px;width:52%;padding: 5px 0px;font-variant:small-caps;"><div>female</div><div>Elezen</div><div>Xaela</div><div>Limsa Lominsa</div><div>34</div><div>13th sun, 6th UM</div><div>Four fulm, nine ilm</div><div>190 ponze</div><div>Llymlaen</div><div>The Coral Sea</div><div>The Maelstrom</div></div></div>
+<div align=left><div style="float:left;font-size:16px;width:52%;padding: 5px 0px;font-variant:small-caps;"><div>female</div><div>Elezen</div><div>Xaela</div><div>Limsa Lominsa</div><div>34</div><div>13th sun, 6th UM</div><div>Four fulm, nine ilm</div><div>220 ponze</div><div>Llymlaen</div><div>The Coral Sea</div><div>The Maelstrom</div></div></div>
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-<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 15px;">To put it simply, Renzhen is short and noticeably overweight.  At four fulm and nine ilm and weighing every bit of 190 ponze, she sports a full, wide-hipped and thick-waisted figure that's definitely certainly more chubby or really even downright fat than what some might idealise as “curvy”.  As one would expect from a well-travelled adventurer, small stature and overfed figure or not, she has a hearty bearing that betrays a healthy layer of muscle beneath her soft exterior that serves to further widen her doughy figure.
+<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 15px;">To put it simply, Renzhen is short and noticeably overweight.  At four fulm and nine ilm and weighing every bit of 220 ponze, she sports a full, wide-hipped, thick-waisted, and generally overfed figure that's definitely certainly more overweight or plainly fat than what some might idealise as “curvy”.  As one would expect from a well-travelled Eorzean, small stature and doughy build notwithstanding, she has a hearty bearing that betrays a healthy layer of muscle beneath her soft exterior that serves to further widen her silhouette.
 Her features are plump with full cheeks and a slight double chin.  Her face runs a little long with defined cheekbones framing a rather prominent nose.  Her sharp, cunning eyes are mismatched; one a dark green, the other a bronze brown and sit beneath a sharp brow, often in the earliest stages of a wolfish grin, crooked to match her lips with dark lipstick usually making them look fuller than they actually are.
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-<div align=justify><div style="padding: 10px 15px;">Like many adventurers and, ideally, all officers of the Maelstrom, Renzhen is a surprisingly deadly combatant, making up for what she lacks in physical prowess with a calm, tactical mind.  Renzhen took up the gun after the advent of modern machinistry as the product of combining Lominsan tactics and Ishgardian technology.  Though her technical skills as a machinist don't set her ahead of her field, her aim with and understanding of firearms makes up for her shortcomings in the more cutting-edge aspects of her field.
+<div align=justify><div style="padding: 10px 15px;">Perhaps surprisingly, given how one might judge her appearance, Renzhen is a deadly combatant, making up for what she lacks in physical prowess with a calm, tactical mind and brutal efficiency.  Renzhen took up the gun with the spread of modern mechanics as the product of combining Lominsan tactics and Ishgardian technology.  Though her technical skills as a machinist don't set her ahead of her field, her aim with and understanding of firearms makes up for her shortcomings in the more cutting-edge aspects of her field.
-In spite of some cursory training in other weapons, her field of expertise is absolutely ranged combat and she relies heavily on the tactics of that speciality.  What sets her apart as a combatant is a well-focused calm, eschewing anger and instead focusing on the task at hand with a calm and usually lethal intent.  Renzhen is well aware of her "fragility" in direct combat and while that is indeed a weakness, she makes it a very difficult weakness to exploit.
+In spite of some cursory training in other weapons, her field of expertise is absolutely ranged combat and she relies heavily on the tactics of that speciality.  What sets her apart as a combatant is a well-focused calm, eschewing anger and instead focusing on the task at hand with a calm and usually lethal intent.  Renzhen is well aware of her abilities in direct combat and while that is indeed a weakness, she makes it a very difficult weakness to exploit usually by engaging in tactics many might call unfair.
-In terms of both her abilities in combat and her general personality, Renzhen does not take well to light scraps or, in fact, "honourable" combat.  Renzhen relies on stealth, the element of surprise, brutal efficiency, and even what some might call unethical tactics to ensure victory.  Her attitude towards combat as a lawless affair that must be ended as swiftly as possible goes a long way to explain just why she so eagerly avoids prolonged violence until absolutely necessary.</div></div>
+In terms of both her abilities in combat and her general personality, Renzhen does not take well to light scraps or, in fact, "honourable" combat.  Renzhen relies on stealth, the element of surprise, efficiency, and even what some might call unethical tactics to ensure victory.  Her attitude towards combat as a lawless affair that must be ended as swiftly as possible goes a long way to explain just why she so eagerly avoids prolonged violence until absolutely necessary.</div></div>
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	While she keeps no shortage of more practical armour, Renzhen's sense in fashion occasionally nears the elegant but more often dives into the showy and downright extravagant. Sweeping coats, contrasting colours, deep necks, and ample jewellery make picking her out of a crowd an easy task as long as she’s not surrounded by taller folk. The same care for her physical appearance carries over to her grooming as she obviously pays meticulous attention to her hair, skin, scales, and nails keeping them all in the best condition one could reasonably expect from an adventurer. Usually lingering around her is the scent of floral perfume, moisturising oils, and a faint hint of fragrant tobacco, making her presence just that much more obnoxious.		While she keeps no shortage of more practical armour, Renzhen's sense in fashion occasionally nears the elegant but more often dives into the showy and downright extravagant. Sweeping coats, contrasting colours, deep necks, and ample jewellery make picking her out of a crowd an easy task as long as she’s not surrounded by taller folk. The same care for her physical appearance carries over to her grooming as she obviously pays meticulous attention to her hair, skin, scales, and nails keeping them all in the best condition one could reasonably expect from an adventurer. Usually lingering around her is the scent of floral perfume, moisturising oils, and a faint hint of fragrant tobacco, making her presence just that much more obnoxious.
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		+	Renzhenbychise.jpg\|[http://theroyalwitch.tumblr.com/ Source!]
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 <div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 15px;">To put it simply, Renzhen is short and noticeably overweight.  At four fulm and nine ilm and weighing every bit of 190 ponze, she sports a full, wide-hipped and thick-waisted figure that's definitely certainly more chubby or really even downright fat than what some might idealise as “curvy”.  As one would expect from a well-travelled adventurer, small stature and overfed figure or not, she has a hearty bearing that betrays a healthy layer of muscle beneath her soft exterior that serves to further widen her doughy figure.
-Her plump features run a little long with defined cheekbones framing a rather prominent nose.  Her sharp, cunning eyes are mismatched; one a dark green, the other a bronze brown and sit beneath a sharp brow, often in the earliest stages of a wolfish grin, crooked to match her lips with dark lipstick usually making them look fuller than they actually are.
+Her features are plump with full cheeks and a slight double chin.  Her face runs a little long with defined cheekbones framing a rather prominent nose.  Her sharp, cunning eyes are mismatched; one a dark green, the other a bronze brown and sit beneath a sharp brow, often in the earliest stages of a wolfish grin, crooked to match her lips with dark lipstick usually making them look fuller than they actually are.
 While she keeps no shortage of more practical armour, Renzhen's sense in fashion occasionally nears the elegant but more often dives into the showy and downright extravagant.  Sweeping coats, contrasting colours, deep necks, and ample jewellery make picking her out of a crowd an easy task as long as she’s not surrounded by taller folk.  The same care for her physical appearance carries over to her grooming as she obviously pays meticulous attention to her hair, skin, scales, and nails keeping them all in the best condition one could reasonably expect from an adventurer.  Usually lingering around her is the scent of floral perfume, moisturising oils, and a faint hint of fragrant tobacco, making her presence just that much more obnoxious.

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-<div align=justify><div style="padding: 10px 15px;">Like many adventurers and, ideally, all officers of the Maelstrom, Renzhen is a deadly combatant.  Renzhen took up the gun after the advent of modern machinistry as the product of combining Lominsan tactics and Ishgardian technology.  Though her technical skills as a machinist don't set her ahead of her field, her aim with and understanding of firearms makes up for her shortcomings in the more cutting-edge aspects of her field.
+<div align=justify><div style="padding: 10px 15px;">Like many adventurers and, ideally, all officers of the Maelstrom, Renzhen is a surprisingly deadly combatant, making up for what she lacks in physical prowess with a calm, tactical mind.  Renzhen took up the gun after the advent of modern machinistry as the product of combining Lominsan tactics and Ishgardian technology.  Though her technical skills as a machinist don't set her ahead of her field, her aim with and understanding of firearms makes up for her shortcomings in the more cutting-edge aspects of her field.
 In spite of some cursory training in other weapons, her field of expertise is absolutely ranged combat and she relies heavily on the tactics of that speciality.  What sets her apart as a combatant is a well-focused calm, eschewing anger and instead focusing on the task at hand with a calm and usually lethal intent.  Renzhen is well aware of her "fragility" in direct combat and while that is indeed a weakness, she makes it a very difficult weakness to exploit.

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 In the intimacy of a private setting, something she deeply values, Renzhen displays a level of deliberativeness and near-introversion her more stereotypically passionate qualities might not immediately suggest.  Often to a fault, she is prone to introspective dwelling and places a great deal of importance on intimate personal relationships and, above all else, the embracing of honesty and the rejection of deceit.
-Many might know her as a Storm Captain of the Maelstrom and an outspoken proponent for the integration and assimilation of refugees from Othard, Doman Hyur and Au Ra alike, into Lominsan society.  That an Au Ra would hold her rank is a cause for suspicion for some, but it is certainly tied to her candid patriotism and status as a low-level politico within the thalassocracy.<br>
+While capable of considerable warmth and as someone who proclaims herself to be an idealist and a romantic (in a philosophical sense), Renzhen is no less capable of pragmatism, even to a harsh degree.  The same jealous protection she wards over the people and things she values most extends to a hard heart when it comes to those who've proven incompetent or malignant to the point they cannot be trusted among the more valuable.  This same penchant for hard-heartedness informs the colonialist attitude she takes towards much of Eorzea, as she believes the Thalassocracy to be far and away the most superior and modern of the Eorzean city-states and the one best-equipped, at least as a society, to combat the threats Eorzea faces from without.  How this hasn't translated into hostility towards other nations is anyone's guess.
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 <div style="padding:0px 0px; font-size:16px;color:#6f373a;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #dddddd;font-weight:bold;">'''Outside Links:'''</div>
-:: <div><font style="color:#585350;" size="2">■</font> '''[http://RenzhenBerkuul.tumblr.com/ Character Tumblr]''' - Occasionally-updated character blog with all manner of extra stuff going on</div>
+:: <div><font style="color:#585350;" size="2">■</font> '''[http://scionofvylbrand.tumblr.com/ Character Tumblr]''' - Occasionally-updated character blog with all manner of extra stuff going on</div>
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 :: <div><font style="color:#585350;" size="2">■</font> Template adapted from [[Bancroft Gairn]], with edits by [[Xheja Rajhera]] / [[N'hadiya Khei]].

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 <div style="padding:10px 25px; background: #B59AA4; color:#ece8bd;font-size:14px;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #6f373a;"><b>◢ UNCOMMON RUMORS -</b> ''A little more difficult to hear. Use sparingly or ask first!''</div>
-<div><font style="color:#948d8a;">■</font> “Berkuul?  Gods, to think of what's become of them but...  Yes, I worked with ''her''.  Certainly fine work from an outsider and a good deal more trustworthy than a lot of adventurers.  Really thought they were going to settle down and stay, join up with the Gods' Quiver.  Good sort, they are, if a bit brutal.  'Tis rare to see an outsider hunt the Coerlclaw so viciously.  Suppose fear's a good a tactic as any.”<br>
+<div><font style="color:#948d8a;">■</font> “Berkuul?  Gods, to think of what's become of them but...  Yes, I worked with her.  Certainly fine work from an outsider and a good deal more trustworthy than a lot of adventurers.  Really thought they were going to settle down and stay, join up with the Gods' Quiver.  Good sort, they are, if a bit brutal.  'Tis rare to see an outsider hunt the Coerlclaw so viciously.  Suppose fear's a good a tactic as any.”<br>
 '''<font style="font-variant:small-caps;font-size:14px;">- a member of the Gods' Quiver in the Carline Canopy</font>'''</div>
-<div><font style="color:#948d8a;">■</font> “What, the dark-skinned, loud, 'Wildwood' with too much jewellery?  Surely you mean that Friloux woman, don't you?  Oh, I suppose that could be Berkuul, too, but really, it's half-dozen of one, six of the other, isn't it?  Even look alike...  huh.”<br>
+<div><font style="color:#948d8a;">■</font> “Don't you mean...  Yeah, nevermind.”<br>
 '''<font style="font-variant:small-caps;font-size:14px;">- a carpenter in Gridania</font>'''</div>
 <div><font style="color:#948d8a;">■</font> “Oh, aye, I know the Apkallu.  Good sort, good sort, true and true, real bleedin' heart and all that, but hells.  Y'ever seen the inside o' a pirate, like after gettin' flayed and left t' rot in th' sun?  I have...  After Berkuul got 'er mitts on 'em.”<br>
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 : <div> Dhemgeim was a friend and a catalyst for an immense amount of change in Renzhen's life, including some of the most obvious.  Though they were wildly different people, Renzhen viewed their lives as oddly similar, capable of great potential but hampered by deep flaws.  It was Renzhen's experience with Dhemgeim, both in life and in death, that turned her desire to enable the potential of others into a more nurturing and even parental desire to protect the good in others.  In death, Dhemgeim holds a unique place in Renzhen's heart and while she will own the woman's flaws, Renzhen assertively defends Dhemgeim's memory.
-Perhaps strangely, Renzhen has come to almost revere Dhemgeim, using her as the "Dusk Gem" as an aspect of the Berkuul mythos.  With apparently intense earnestness, Renzhen believes Dhemgeim is responsible for killing off the person who came before her by wounding them so severely that they wandered the lifestream in a state of near-death, if not ''actual'' death.  It was from and during this intense trauma and death that Renzhen believes the first spark of herself came into existence and she intensely regrets not knowing Dhemgeim "herself".</div>
+: Perhaps strangely, Renzhen has come to almost revere Dhemgeim, using her as the "Dusk Gem" as an aspect of the Berkuul mythos.  With apparently intense earnestness, Renzhen believes Dhemgeim is responsible for killing off the person who came before her by wounding them so severely that they wandered the lifestream in a state of near-death, if not ''actual'' death.  It was from and during this intense trauma and death that Renzhen believes the first spark of herself came into existence and she intensely regrets not knowing Dhemgeim "herself".</div>
 : <div>'''<font style="font-variant:small-caps;">[[Ehla Selhah]]</font>'''  '''('''  <font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> <font style="color:#533A8E;" size="2">♥</font>  ''')</div>