Yagaan Malaguld

Yagaan Malaguld
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Gender	Female
Race	Au Ra
Clan	Xaela
Citizenship	N/A
Server	Balmung
Age	16
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Medicine Woman/House Stewardess
Height/Weight	57 Ilm/103 Ponze
Orientation	Bisexual

Basic Info

Stubbornly asocial and hellsbent on study, Yagaan is one of the many Malaguld tribe to make their way to Eorzea trying to find a place for herself. She (at least tries to) keeps an air of maturity around herself, stemming from years of work as the clan's medicine woman - being bedside to many dying, dead, suffering, and battle-hewn does that, after all. Her facial features, voice, and height betray her true age, however, as well as her lack of experience in most anything other than medicine/animal dressing. Her clansmen know her to be notoriously grumpy and dangerously curious - a combination that she quickly bounces between.

LIKES ■ Lace/Silk ■ Sweet/Spicy Foods ■ Fortune-Telling ■ Reading ■ New Experiences/Learning

DISLIKES ■ Dotharl ■ Stubbornness ■ (Too much) Company ■ Being Treated Childishly/Teased ■ Being Touched ■ Many, Many Other Things

OTHER ■ Alignment: True Neutral ■ Vice(s): Sweet Tooth, Curiosity ■ Favorite Food: Chocolate Torte ■ Favorite Drink: Chocolate Wine ■ Favorite Color: Olive Green

Appearance

With hair in a chronic mess and a listlessly sleepless look from her, Yagaan is but a wisp of a girl - thin, wiry, and tiny - the only exception being a pair of strong, long legs. Her hands are small, and fingers thin and delicate - though a few small scars remain on them, alongside a rather large, slashing scar on the top of her left hand. Her scales, rich navy like most Xaela, cover her body a little more along her sides and hips than average, and her tail is thin and long with an almost spade-tail tip. Her horns are thick and curl in a manner to protect her face, tipped in light green pigment.

Personality

In a word, Yagaan can be describe as "Temperance" - despite her sometimes rather terrible social gaffs, she excels at keeping people (and herself) calm in many situations; be they far too excited to stand still, too angry for reason, or too sorrowful to stand. Most of her social experience, after all, comes from tending to people within the medicine tent of the Malaguld; with ailments varying from simple scrapes to shock and hallucination plaguing the tribe, keeping someone from reacting while trying to help them recover can sometimes be a difference between life and death. The lass also holds the ability to conjure up sympathy and happy lies -- another holdover, from time of comforting the dying.

Beyond that, however, even Yagaan doesn't fully understand. As lacking in genuine socialization as she is, she tries her damnedest to try to fit into situations and conversations with people (or topics) that interest her. Favoring reason and logic over sentiment, however, she can fall short in the sympathy department during genuine conversations -- using her blunt worldview of one who has, indeed, had to see a lot of death -- and be a hand for it. It's not something that has totally ruined her inside (as she can attest, quite calmly), but the cool ease she speaks of various morbid topics and desires can catch one off guard. The biggest problem of all is that she still has yet to grasp her personality, despite acting as the mature woman she wants to be - leading to her very often being flustered or insecure (especially when comparing her traditional methods to those involving aether!). She is also quick to try to prove herself wise and intelligent, spouting (sometimes relevant) bits of wisdom and trying to use the various new/"complicated" words of Eorzean she picks up.

However, even temperance can fly out of the window when something piques her curiosity.

Biography

Childhood

An average child by most Xaela means, Yagaan's early childhood was mostly uneventful. Her parents had their roles in the tribe - Khurel, her father, was a herbalist, whilst her mother Maalingyn was one of the tribe's spearmen. Indranil, her paternal grandmother, was a long-lived 'silverscale' (half-Raen, half-Xaela) and one of their most esteemed of healers. Their family was a small one that was on good terms with the rest of the tribe - though many a Malaguld, be they elder or youth, shudder at the thought of having to enter Indranil's tent, lest they get her lecture and glare - and even more thought it was better than the old hag beating them into submission with her cane.

She was a friendly child, close to many of the others around her age - particularly close to dreamy Hariko and scrapper Temujin.

Like many things, however, it wasn't meant to last. At five summers, a rather peculiar illness overtook a few of the tribe's younglings. Her father and a few others volunteered to seek the cure - a rare herb that, unfortunately, grew in territories known to be contested over. Knowing the risks, they undertook the quest.

Unfortunately, that was also the last they saw of the men and women who went to scout alive. Less than a month later (as the tribe moved as they often did, knowing the scouts would know of their location) the well younglings were out playing as they often did on the trails, when a fell wind crossed the air. While this deterred a few of them, Yagaan (younger and eager to prove herself brave) followed those who so dared to investigate the thicket.

It was there she made eye to eye(less) contact with the decaying corpse of her father and the others.

It was the screaming of them, the terror of the others, and the smell that brought the adults to the sight; Maalingyn simply shut down at the mention of it, not having the will to investigate -- whilst Indranil screamed in horror of the state of her beloved only son. For Yagaan, it was the last she had time to play so often with her friends, as her grandmother took to her tent as a young apprentice - with little argument from her mother, as it meant the girl would never possibly be killed like her husband.

Miscellaneous

RUMORS Some of these rumors are untrue or are greatly exaggerated. Please feel free to add your own rumors under PC! ◢ Common Rumors (Easily overheard) ■ "I've thought her grandmother's glare'd died with that hag, but Twelve above! Worst idea to be stubborn when she's doing medicine..." - Malaguld member ■ "Rather strange seeing it -- A chirurgeon who works without magic! It wasn't... as effective as conjury, but the lass did save my son." - Gridanian merchant ■ ◢ Moderate Rumors (Moderately difficult to overhear) ■ ■ ■ ◢ Rare Rumors (Very difficult or rarely overheard) ■ "That look in her eyes... I don't know how much death that girl's seen, but there's something wrong with her." - Ul'dahn lichyard digger ■ ■ ◢ PC Rumors (Rumors from the character's of other players) ■ ■ ■ ■

RELATIONS ♥ Romantic Interest ♥ Platonic Love ● Good Standing ● Poor Standing ● Hariko Yutsuken : One of the Raen within the Malaguld tribe, Hariko (or Hako, as Yagaan calls her) is one of Yagaan's closest (and possibly only few) friends.

Gallery

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  Yagaan in her robes

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