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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>'''L I K E 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>'''L I K E S'''</center></div></h3> | ||
| − | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Solidarity'''. | + | : <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3">■</font> <font style="color:#444146;">'''Solidarity'''. Little else holds higher priority for Shou than harmony and internal peace within her companymates. This is motivated by equal parts love and fear, as she sees internal strife as nothing less than a death sentence for a Company with as many enemies as the Pathfinders.</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;">'''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> |
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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, but not unsanitary, head and tail hair shaggy and mussed, and her choice of clothing is generally. 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.
Note: Aetherial analysis, such as through Sharlayan goggles, reveals the brand on the back of her neck seems to be draining her aether towards some location. The stream is thin and sufficiently obfuscated enough that it is virtually impossible to determine where it's going. Shou's aether appears otherwise normal for a healthy adult Miqo'Te despite this affliction, even if it's a little chumpy for a Thaumaturge.
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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