User:X'issi Sunde

X'issi Sunde
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Gender	Female
Race	Miqo'te
Clan	Seeker of the Sun - Lynx Tribe
Citizenship	Vylbrand
Age	25
Marital Status	Open Relationship
Occupation	Shop Owner, Dancer
Height/Weight	4'9"ft / 102 lbs
Orientation	Pansexual
Relatives	X'Sunde Tia (Father) X'Kolai Ren (Mother) Only Child

X'issi Sunde (pronounced/she·ee·see sünde/) (Born: 1st Sun 3rd Astral Moon (May 1st) is a fun loving lynx tribe girl native to Vylbrand. Her whole life has been either in or out of the water. In fact, water is a very sacred element to her. She’s a calm surfer girl, who is fun loving, caring, and nurturing. She’s grounded, sensible, and often inspires hope and faith in her family and friends.

Issi is often considered ‘the mediator’ among her closest friends. Her mental stability and deep rooted calm energy is peaceful in nature and often acts to bring people together when there is something driving them apart.

Issi also acts as some what of a water priestess to her tribe. They worship Llymlaen primarily and send gifts out to sea with leis of flowers lead by a dancing girl (a priestess) from shore to surf. This bounty is often a prayer for the tribe itself, an offering for a good bounty of fish for their anglers, or a prayer for their pregnant mothers to have a safe birth, even a prayer that the Nunh may favor a woman from their small settlement. But at the head of these prayers in recent years has always been X'issi, leading her people into the surf, singing their song, and praying to Llymlaen. It’s quite a gift.

Basic Info

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PERSONALITY ■Excitable, adventurous, playful, fun loving, impish, and coy. Her playful demeanor compliments her professions. ■Teacher, nurturer. Likes to take people under her wing, teach them how to surf/swim. Also enjoys helping others with injuries and long time recovery. IE: Physical Therapy. ■Island Miqo’te. Lives up to it. Spent life at the beach wandering the Vylbrand region with her Tribe. Loves to surf, swim, dive, dance, and explore. Feels incomplete when unable to be around large bodies of water, be it lakes, rivers, or oceans.

FASHION ■ Loves to wear hoods in both extreme cold and hot weather. The fabric of the hood is often reflected by the environment. ■ Wears lots of white crochet. ■ Prefers bohemian and tribal fashions ■ Often wears flowing thin fabric skirts that run to the ankle and/or baggy pants made of the same material. Loves to collect different fabric patterns for said attire. (inspiration pictures often posted to my tumblr blogs) ■ Scent: Honeysuckle, Sandalwood (oil/incense), and Sea Salt. - This is a strong scent, and one easily recognizable for her. Its also a scent that strongly ties in with her deceased Mother.

LIKES ■ The Ocean & Surfing, Thunderstorms. ■ New Experiences. ■ People who know how to have a good time. ■ Spontaneous Outings.

DISLIKES ■ Being Landlocked. ■ Boastful Authority. ■ Foggy Weather. ■ Morbols.

Current Plot

With Kade's recent disappearance, X'issi has found herself a bit lost. Home doesn't really seem like home any more and she finds herself unwilling to remain and suffer through the pain of losing him again. So she skipped the first ferry out of town across the sea to Ul'dah. It was a spontaneous venture, but here she's determined to carve her own path into the world. To form her own story, free of her past, and hopefully to see lots of new and exciting things and make lots of friends.

As it stands she's well on her way already. She's made contact with Syrena Kalihd over an amusing exchange while bathing in the Goblet's warm waters. There she also met Orpheus Arkouda, both of which were generous to offer X'issi a home. Issi has currently taken residence with her fellow lynx-tribe member, Syrena, in the Sanctum's Song where she will soon become employed.

(... Backstory RP currently in progress, will update as it continues.)

Tribe Lore

About X'issi’s Tribe and Dance:

The strongest form of self expression within X'issi’s small ocean side tribe, is song and dance. Almost all members of the tribe, regardless of gender, dance in their own ways. Those who do not dance, however, play drums or other instruments and chant/sing for those who do. Tribe dancing consists mostly of hand and hip movements that closely resemble both Hawaiian and Tahitian dancing in our world, for example Hula. Dancers use elaborate body motion to tell great stories about the twelve and of their tribe’s history. Rolling hand and hip movements express stories about nature like the sway of the palms and the roll of the ocean waves.

Women of the tribe often take woven baskets and hike into the inland jungle to gather local materials like fronds, coconuts, reeds, brightly colored flowers, and hemp. They use these materials to create costumes and accessories for their dances. While gathering the women often sing and chant together in unison to ask Oschron to keep them safe as they gather.

Elaborate Leis and other flower based accessories are often strung together with shells and fronds for each member of the tribe to wear during important ceremonies such as prayer, visiting Nuhns, and offerings to the Twelve, namely Llymlaen who is the tribe’s patron deity. Leis worn during performances are considered sacred, are never to be worn again, and are afterwards cast into the surf with prayers and offerings to Llymlaen for bountiful fishing trips and calm seas.

Among the tribe females danced topless, save for intricate leis and wrapped pareos about their hips. However, when visiting a neighboring tribe or if a tribe was visiting they would adorn their bosom in a beautifully beaded cloth wrap.

Dances among the tribe could be performed spontaneously for daily amusement and for family events with no particular ceremony. X'issi often danced to her Father playing the Ukulele as a small cub growing up when she wasn’t being taught to dance by the tribe matrons. However, dance used for worship and to honor visiting Nunhs are very serious affairs.

About Mating Rituals and Relationships:

The lot of her tribe is made up of free spirited free thinkers. So love is not something that is strictly monogamous among them. As such it is not uncommon for a Miqo’te (male or female) to take more than one mate within X’issi’s tribe. What may be odd about her tribe however, is that same sex mates occur quite frequently. There is usually at least a male female coupling, but along with that the male might seek another male mate or vise versa.

While a portion of the tribe is of course made up from the Nuhn’s offspring, tias still mate and have families of their own as well. The cubs often don’t grow up to be the fiercest warriors or hunters of the tribe, but they usually excel in other proficiencies. For example, Issi’s father, a Tia, has been an Angler for their tribe his entire life. His mate, her mother, was a dancer for her entire life as well.

X'issi & Dancing

X’issi has been dancing among her tribe quite literally before she could walk. Cubs are often taught to dance before they can fully stand, often mimicking the dances of their sitting parents. So dancing has been a part of her life for longer than she can remember.

In recent years she has become one of the leading female dancers of her tribe. While she’s not the best, she’s still quite good and an apprentice to one of the elder matrons.

She has a strong passion for being able to express herself and her stories through the dances her tribe has taught her. She very much views dance as a sacred art of expression, honor, and religious prayer to the Twelve.

As such she is very adamant about sharing dance with others. So she’ll happily dance on the beach with tourists, teach them about her culture and tribe, and share with them her life experiences. However, she turns down all tips or form of payment for her time spent with them.

While she believes that its perfectly fine for professional dancers to make coin for their profession, she feels she is committing a religious sin to accept payment for prayer and ceremony. I think a part of her feels that Llymlaen herself will set a mighty tempest upon her village should she commit such actions against her tribe’s sacred beliefs.

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Employment

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Surf/Swim Instructor: In the summer time X’issi has two primary jobs. One of which is being an instructor for Surf lessons.

Seaside Surf Shop: The second is that she owns a seaside surf shop in which she retails her hand made surfboards and surfing accessories. She also retails her crocheted bikinis out of this shop.

Bartender/Waitress: However, if the season proves to be tough, she also works part time as a bartender waitress for Gegeruju in Costa del Sol. Especially at the restaurant/bar near the aetheryte. She mostly works as a bartender, but when Gegeruju is feeling a bit ill tempered, she’ll sometimes work as a waitress, bringing vacationers drinks and what not. So there is an assortment of chances for a lot of characters to meet her while on vacation.

Dancer: Gegeruju has been looking for new forms of dance to interest tourists in Costa del Sol and stumbled onto X’issi’s tribe’s dances. To her dismay she’s been struggling to keep up rent on the shack she sells her surf supplies out of and Gegeruju has managed to corner her into a very unfortunate situation. If she dances and makes a profit for him and his resort, he’ll pay for her surf shack and then some, even letting her take time off from bar tending. However if she doesn’t, she doesn’t just lose the shack, but her job as well. So, very reluctantly X’issi has recently taken up dancing in Costa del Sol, trying to instruct other dancers in the ritual dances of her tribe. While she has no problem sharing, she is still uneasy about the profits being made at her history’s expense. As such, she never lets tourists tip her for her lessons or her dance

Animals & Pets

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Thunk, a baby raptor chick. The two have been adventuring in La Noscea for years now. Issi found his egg abandoned. It’d floated down the river near Raincatcher Gully, and she’d noticed it washed up and slightly cracked among the rocks. Quick to move the tiny thing she’d brought it out into the sun to warm snuggled against her bosom where almost immediately after the egg had hatched and a wee baby raptor sat derpishly honking up at her. Almost instantly she’d become a mother.

The derp turned out to have a slight mental condition, so in order for Issi to continue to care for him a small enchantment was placed upon the babe so that he would not age into an overgrown and potentially dangerous derp.

He managed to earn his name, as most animals in Issi’s life do, by the way he often runs into walls. He tends to tilt his head back, tongue lolling out the side of his mouth, as he runs around… which results in him not being able to see where he’s going. Hence the name “Thunk.” To this day she devotes time and care to him on a daily basis. He’s one of the biggest joys in her life and she would be heartbroken without him.

Miscellaneous

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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 heard she was recently escorted from one of the city fountains!" - Ul'dah Commoner ■ ■ ◢ Moderate Rumors (Moderately difficult to overhear) ■ ■ ◢ Rare Rumors (Very difficult or rarely overheard) ■ ◢ PC Rumors (Rumors from the character's of other players) ■ ■ ■ ■

RELATIONS ♥ Romantic Interest    ♥ Platonic Love     ● Good Standing     ● Poor Standing ♥ A'kade Tia : Childhood and life long friend turned romance. A'kade has currently gone missing. ♥ A'rian Rossi : Childhood and life long friend also turned romance. A'rian hasn't seen X'issi in recent times. ● Syrena Kalihd : Recent Acquaintance helped hire X'issi to Sanctum's Song ● Orpheus Arkouda : Recent Acquaintance, met the same time as Syrena.

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Footnotes

X'issi's voice is inspired by (coming soon)

Theme Song: "Fantasy" - Alina Baraz & Galimatias

Website: FFXIV/Personal Tumblr Artist Website

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