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: <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> | : <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> | ||
| − | : <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;">'''Arrogance.''' Though unbothered by swaggering and bombast, Shou has been looked down upon for most of her life -- often literally, considering her unimpressive stature-- and holds no sympathy for those who exploit the weak and think themselves great or noble by sheer virtue of power, status, or wealth. Her most acrid contempt lies with those who see their own cruelty as some kind of twisted virtue, which she sees as the height of delusion.</font></div> |
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| − | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#000000;">''' | + | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#000000;">'''Literature and Poetry'''. Given her profession, Shou spends days utterly buried in books, but particularly enjoys literature and poetry, both archaic and modern, particularly ones of romance. Among her most treasured is her ever-expanding collection of Allagan erotica, whose historical merit she's quick to defend. That said, the actual contexts of the tomes are richly illustrated and unspeakably perverse, evidence both of the Allagan literati's decadent lifestyle, and Shou's own blasphemous interests. She, nonetheless, finds them deeply romantic and moving, presumably somewhere in the subtext between the lechery and pseudopods.</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;">'''Magic'''. Given the deeply spiritual nature of her Thaumatalurgical practice and her intuitive grasp of her own Aether, Shou finds practicing and experimenting with magic to be a holistic practice, and expressing her Aether to be like exercise for the soul. This is, of course, supplemented by the simple joy she finds in blowing stuff up. </font></div> |
| + | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Food and Drink, and inebriation.'''. Shou's developed a love for exotic fare in her life, often having to subsist on creatures never considered to be edible by less desperate folk, only for Shou to discover they're delicious when fried in batter. Perhaps genetically prone to it due to her Miqo'te ancestry, Shou will proudly admit she enjoys the taste of everything from nutkin, to rat, to warmoura. Beyond this, she favors confectionary of all kinds, subsisting on them as snacks during long periods of study. Though not a drunk by any means, Shou favors potent, throat-burning spirits, with a particular love for those produced by the Nami still in Wellwick, one she finds particular significance in, since that whiskey, too has survived the Calamity only to emerge stronger, richer, and a touch more bitter. Additionally, she has been known to partake in other inebriating substances, and has a stash of Red Moko Grass in her room, which she quietly partakes in after great successes or crushing failures. </font></div> | ||
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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>'''S T R E N G T H S'''</center></div></h3> | <div style="padding:10px 35px;background: #000000;font-size:14px;color:#ffffff;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black"><center>'''S T R E N G T H S'''</center></div></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;">'''Intuition'''. Shou's aetherial reserves are almost offensively average, so her grasp of Thaumaturgy comes not from raw force, but with the swiftness and efficacy by which she can manipulate it. Shou's internal discipline, and knowledge of herself gives her incredible ability to manipulate her own life force.</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;">'''Intellect'''. Shou is an almost worryingly quick study, with an ability to read, process and recombine a vast wealth of information in a short period of time, and it shows. Shou's sheer breadth of knowledge is impressive even by academic standards, and she's fully capable of discoursing on any of the great civilizations of eld, on topics practical, esoteric, to flat out weird. This is particularly striking, given that Shou has never attended a day of school in her life, and it's hard to say if her applying her knowledge to a formal, academic setting would end in tenure, or a fistfight with the dean.</font></div> |
| + | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Devotion'''. Shou can come off as lazy, but she is damn stubborn. While always willing to take a hit for what she believes in, her dedication to her ideals goes beyond simple martyrdom-- Shou is willing to pour her soul (often literally) into her work, be it frantic translation, scouting runs, or the chaos of battle, Shou is fully capable of throwing the whole weight of her being behind a cause. </font></div> | ||
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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>'''W E A K N E S S 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>'''W E A K N E S S 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;">'''Deconditioned'''. While many chunky physiques conceal potent muscle behind them, Shou's is not one of them. While resistant to pain and exhaustion, Shou is neither physically fast, strong, nor tough.</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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