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<div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#444146;font-family:Georgia;">Laugh at Danger, and break all the rules.</div> | <div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#444146;font-family:Georgia;">Laugh at Danger, and break all the rules.</div> | ||
| − | <div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#444146;font-family:Georgia;">Shou Lushan is the Thrill-Kill Cat and a danger magnet of her own making. A veteran mercenary now in charge of a misfit adventuring band, Shou has a wealth of practical historical and arcane knowledge that could perhaps rival that of tenured professors or scholars in any scholasticate on Eorzea. She's accumulated this wealth by acts of daring, stupidity, spontaneity, trust, desperation, and love. | + | <div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#444146;font-family:Georgia;">Shou Lushan is the Thrill-Kill Cat and a danger magnet of her own making. A veteran mercenary now in charge of a misfit adventuring band, Shou has a wealth of practical historical and arcane knowledge that could perhaps rival that of tenured professors or scholars in any scholasticate on Eorzea. She's accumulated this wealth by acts of daring, stupidity, spontaneity, trust, desperation, and love. She's a mess, but she cares about people; with the parlance of a ganger and a ere dreaming, heroic heart, </div> |
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| − | : <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;">'''Laughing at danger (and breaking all The rules)''': Shou has no reason to ware or defer to authority. With enough experiences facing head-on the intoxicating narcotics of 'power' and 'tradition', she does not consider anyone with a badge in any way superior to her. Diplomacy is one thing, deference is another. Shou's bullheaded, reckless, and roguish in her conduct. Yet, this hellion streak is tempered by her idealism; Shou is a vengeful bully, unflinching towards direct action against the powerful and cruel, but likewise eager to spread, mercy, love, and power to those who have found themselves under the bootheel of tyrants big and small.</font></div> |
| − | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Philosophy''' | + | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Philosophy:''' The discipline of Thaumaturgy requires intense regulation of emotion and knowledge of the Self and its' Aether. While this does not necessarily equate to restraint or temperance, Shou bears an intense passion for matters of the soul, and that passion can often equate to great power.</font></div> |
| − | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Aetherophysics and Phenomenology'''. Despite, or perhaps because of, her mediocre Aetherial capacity, Shou's grasp of her own personal Aether, and her ability to manipulate it, borders on prodigal for her age and experience. While her abilities often want for raw power, Shou's study of arcane lore gives her a veritable library of spells, and ways to implement them, and little gives her greater pleasure than zeroing in on a commonality between magical traditions separated by centuries, and combining them for increased effect. She says it gives her faith that common ground can be found among all peoples.</font></div> | + | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Aetherophysics and Phenomenology'''. Despite, or perhaps because of, her mediocre Aetherial capacity, Shou's grasp of her own personal Aether, and her ability to manipulate it, borders on prodigal for her age and experience. While her abilities often want for raw power, Shou's study of arcane lore gives her a veritable library of spells, and ways to implement them, and little gives her greater pleasure than zeroing in on a commonality between magical traditions separated by centuries, and combining them for increased (or innovative) effect. She says it gives her faith that common ground can be found among all peoples.</font></div> |
| − | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Hurting Other People''' | + | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Hurting Other People:''' Virtuous or not, Shou is an apex predator. While she bristles at the attribution of this behavior to her nature as a Miqo'te, Shou nonetheless delights in a good fight. However, this is not and entirely benevolent, competitive interest in martial arts-- Shou likes the power trip of completely dominating another creature. and the thrill of being pushed to the brink of death herself, only to return. She's far from suicidal, her interest in death is more mischievous: having experienced the journey of dying down to the last second before her soul departed her body, Shou sees death as a line set by the highest power, and she delights in teasing Nald'Thal by getting as close to it as possible. She's pretty good at it. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, Shou doesn't like killing. Maiming, certainly. Trickery, terror and pain are her favorite tools in the practice of battlecraft, but she finds no joy in the act of murder itself, like a cat letting a petrified mouse run free after she has exhausted its' potential for merrymaking. She is no pacifist, technically or otherwise, and , though the rakish smile and howling laughter that accompanies her in battle fades when she must take a life. But what else is she to do? Some people are better off dead. </font></div> |
| + | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Solidarity:''' Shou really believes in people. </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>'''H O B B I 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>'''H O B B I E S'''</center></div></span></h3> | ||
| − | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#000000;">'''Literature and Poetry''' | + | : <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 and 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''' | + | : <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 as normal and healthy as breathing. 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 | + | : <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, and she has been known to partake in other inebriating substances, including a stash of Red Moko Grass in her room, which she quietly partakes in after great successes or crushing failures. </font></div> |
| − | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Voiding Warranties | + | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Voiding Warranties''': As is fitting for an Archaeologist with a talking armor for a friend, Shou loves fussing with old junk, whether Magic, Magitek, or just a mousetrap from a bygone era. After accumulating a collection of tools and machines that enable her to, perhaps not approximate, but play copycat to the methods of magical and magiteknical production known to the ancients and forgotten in the modern Era. Her inventions tend to 'break the rules' too, such as Hawkmoth. Whether for knowledge or efficiency, Shou wants to figure it out. This is limited by her experience, of course. Some things are not to be tampered with, some boxes never to be opened, and some weapons never to be wielded against another ever again. She is not afraid to intrude, mutilate or preserve, but nor is she afraid to destroy.</font></div> |
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: <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 excruciatingly precise knowledge of her own aetherial composition 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;">'''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 excruciatingly precise knowledge of her own aetherial composition 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;">'''Intellect''' | + | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Intellect and Experience:''' While questShou 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. This is particularly striking, given that Shou has never attended a day of school in her life.</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> | : <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="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 component of a hardy constitution, Shou's is not one of them.</font></div> | + | : <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 component of a hardy constitution, Shou's is not one of them. Couple this with frequent wounds and Shou is often found bone idle, recovering from her injury and munching away. Blessed with a Soul Crystal and linkshell, Hawkmoth serves as a sort of commiseration interface.</font></div> |
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Obsessive'''. Shou has a tendency to throw herself mind, body and soul into her work, and the success or failure of her most recent project can tend to consume her entirely, for good or ill.</font></div> | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Obsessive'''. Shou has a tendency to throw herself mind, body and soul into her work, and the success or failure of her most recent project can tend to consume her entirely, for good or ill.</font></div> | ||
| − | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Spiteful'''. When well and truly provoked, Shou has a whipcrack-fast temper, and anything that is sufficient to move her to anger will find no breathing room between 'calm' and 'full-throttle rampage'. When Shou fancies she's found an enemy, she is incredibly difficult to stop.</font></div> | + | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Spiteful'''. When well and truly provoked, Shou has a whipcrack-fast temper, and anything that is sufficient to move her to anger will find no breathing room between 'calm' and 'full-throttle rampage with a truck made of axes and swords'. When Shou fancies she's found an enemy, she is incredibly difficult to stop.</font></div> |
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Shou Lushan is a career Thaumaturge and freelance Archaeologist, who bears the custom-tuned, Animus-enabled suit of Allagan powered armor "Hawkmoth" into battle.
Shou Lushan is a short, slightly overweight Miqo'Te, with slate-gray skin, and black hair, with striped orange hair, trimmed into a shaggy ombre. Shou generally appears frazzled, with head and tail hair shaggy and mussed, and her choice of clothing is typically old, worn, and often repaired with smudges, spots, patches and stitches. Her body seems to have fared no better, and hosts a frankly concerning number of scars, and several appear to modified for either magical or ritual purposes: with cleaner cuts and aetheroconductive tattooing applied to the scar tissue to form magical arrays. Her left ear flops over itself 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 protect her nocturnal vision from some of the light from the sun.
Due to recent, traumatic events Shou has become bonded to her living armor, Hawkmoth, which has 'evolved' its way into her body to serve as a life-support system, expressing itself as darkened veins, patches of silvered wootz emerging in irregular patches from her skin, and intermittent bolts of Cyan light tracing her veins under stress. It does not look comfortable.
Laugh at Danger, and break all the rules.
Shou Lushan is the Thrill-Kill Cat and a danger magnet of her own making. A veteran mercenary now in charge of a misfit adventuring band, Shou has a wealth of practical historical and arcane knowledge that could perhaps rival that of tenured professors or scholars in any scholasticate on Eorzea. She's accumulated this wealth by acts of daring, stupidity, spontaneity, trust, desperation, and love. She's a mess, but she cares about people; with the parlance of a ganger and a ere dreaming, heroic heart,
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