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: <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:#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;">'''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;">'''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 | + | : <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="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Deconditioned'''. While many | + | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Deconditioned'''. While many physiques possess a superficial layer of fat as a condition of a hardy constitution, Shou's is not one of them.</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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