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<div style="padding:10px 35px; background: #000000;font-size:14px;color:#ffffff;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black"><center>'''D I S L I K E S'''</center></div></span></h3> | <div style="padding:10px 35px; background: #000000;font-size:14px;color:#ffffff;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black"><center>'''D I S L I K E S'''</center></div></span></h3> | ||
| − | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'' | + | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">''Disharmony'''. Nothing is quicker to drive Shou to anger than squabbles within an organization, from bar fights, to passive-aggressive sniping to outright betrayal. Shou is always swift to demand at the very least a veneer of solidarity within those she considers comrades. This doesn't always mean deference to authority, or even hierarchy, and Shou is swift to condemn unjust command as well. Similarly, while she refuses to tolerate such things within the Pathfinders, Shou is quick to capitalize on them within her enemies', relying on fear, distrust, and doubt both on the battlefield and in diplomacy to slice the ankles out from tyrants, while hesitating to strike immediately at mere lackeys, who she tends to view as victims, instead of co-conspirators.</font></div> |
| − | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">''' | + | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Voidsent and Void Magic'''. Shou has every reason to fear the Void. However, through familiarity, Shou's fear of the Void has matured into a roiling contempt. She finds void magic odious and its' practitioners despicable. Even in the hands of sympathetic practitioners, Shou finds invoking the void idiotic at best, and Voidsent themselves to be creatures deserving only of immediate and utter destruction, full stop. Further, her staunch defense of Thaumaturgy as a practice often puts her in a position where she publicly has to put as much distance between its' history and her own art-- an opportunity she relishes. Curiously, she can often be heard defending Mhachi methodology and ideology in the same breath, a distinction she's more than eager to delineate at length, typically to an often confused and disinterested audience who immediately regret asking.</font></div> |
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| + | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Garlemald, Gridania, and Ishgard.''' Having fought against the Garlean Invasion, Shou doesn't need much more reason to hate Garlemald, but her contempt goes beyond that, even extending to criticisms about their magitek, ethos, and interpretation of Allagan history. It's enveloping and petty, as only a true hate can be. Her distastes for Gridania and Ishgard are somewhat more difficult to pin down, mostly because they're born of ignorance. She sees them both as faith-driven, underhanded, xenophobic and stagnant. How much of this is mere paranoia is debatable.</font></div> | ||
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Shou Lushan is a career Thaumaturge and archaeologist for the Pathfinders' Free Mercenary Company, where she serves as head of Aetherial research and development.
Shou Lushan is a short, slightly overweight Miqo'Te, with slate-gray skin, and black hair, highlighted with orange. Shou generally appears frazzled, with head and tail hair shaggy and mussed, and her choice of clothing is slightly wrinkled with smudges and spots, but always well-tailored and in otherwise immaculate condition. Her body hosts a large number of scars, none deliberate, but several modified for either magical, or ritual purposes, with the scar tissue embedded with deeper rents that form magical arrays. Her left ear bends over about halfway up, and doesn't always keep up with her right as they pivot towards sound. She favors dark cosmetics for everyday wear, including black lipstick, and a large stripe of charcoal painted across her eyes to divert some of the light from the sun. Though she makes extensive efforts to conceal it, Shou bears a coiling, abstract brand on the back of her neck about six ilms in diameter. It's a deep, black rent, perpetually damp, and clearly magical in nature, both by its' effects on her Aether, and the fact that it tends to squirm when observed.
Owing perhaps to her numerous and bizarre experiences throughout her life, Shou comes across as a bizarre, but committed individual. Devoted to her Company, and solidarity within it, Shou values principles of honor, harmony, and generosity. Unlike most scholars of antiquity, her studies into the-- often apocalyptic-- mistakes that have defined the vanished civilizations of Eorzean history gives her hope for the future, instead of despair. She's a driven idealist, placing trust in the goodness of people, and answers with spite and vindictive force when that trust is betrayed. A trained mercenary, she defers to her superiors, and sees value and dignity in rank and title, but generally regards authority as an abstract with contempt. Literary, and driven by scholarly knowledge, she regards endeavours of the mind and soul with enthusiasm, and has a tendency to gush about metaphysical mechanics and thought to an often baffled audience, even quoting her own translations of centuries-old philosophical esoterica at length. However, despite her intellectual nature, her typical manner of speaking is coarse and direct, and tact seems to be a secondary concern, and often considered as an afterthought.
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