Mikki Viper

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Gender	Female
Race	Miqo'te
Clan	None
Citizenship	Gridania

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Basic Info

Mikki isn't your typical Miqo'te on many levels. This could be attributed to her being raised by a family of Midland Hyur farmers in La Noscea and having no real understanding of what being a Miqo'te is actually supposed to be like. She's a speak and act first, think later kind of girl with a short fuse and an extensive vocabulary that she's willing to use at a moments notice with a tongue as sharp as any sword. She doesn't make friends easily, her often times effusive nature makes getting close to her difficult, but when she does make a friend she's loyal to the last. Of course friendship alone won't spare one her razor wit and tongue, she'll just feel badly about it afterwards. She's a dreamer and can often be caught with her head in the clouds, determined to one day have stories and songs written about her.

Appearance

Mikki is a short young lady, even by Miqo'te standards, standing at a mere 4'9" or so. She has a dark skin tone that really brings out the brightness of her shimmering green eyes, to further accent her eyes (one of her most favorite features) she applies a light dusting of green eyeshadow. Her hair is often kept in a ponytail of sorts and split at the bangs and is an ebony black color with bright yellow highlights. She does her utmost to maintain her appearance at all times, taking every opportunity she can to wash away grime and muck not only off of herself but off of her clothing and posessions as well. Although one wouldn't be able to call her a fashionista by any definition of the word, she does like to coordinate her clothing as much as she can, for the most part though, function over fashion...but still with fashion in mind.

History

Mikki was found on the side of the road, near a recently attacked merchants caravan, stuck in a nest of pit vipers. She was plucked from this unfortunate situation by the Allistair family, a Midland Hyur farming family with big hearts and an appetite for what life has to offer. She was given the name Mikki Viper by her father who said that such a surname will easily start conversations and remind her of the unusual situations that life can put before you. Growing up she found that helping out her sisters and her mother inside the house was more often an exercise in futility. She couldn't cook to save a life, often over seasoning, under cooking, or otherwise irreparably destroying any dish she tried to create. She wasn't much of a seamstress either, sure she could mend a tear here or there but unlike her sisters and mother, she couldn't create a dress or a shirt that looked like anything other than a misshapen saddle blanket. When it came to cleaning, well lets just say aside from maintaining a large interest in keeping up her own looks, the surroundings around her could be akin to that of a wild animal. Her unerring dedication to making sure that she was as presentable as could possibly be in any situation often made her a target of jests in her family, her mother claiming it was the Miqo'te in her.

Seeing as she wasn't much help inside the house, she found the place where she could contribute outside of it with her father and brother. Outdoors, under the sun and in the wind and even in the rain, Mikki flourished and blossomed. She enjoyed planting and raising crops, more than just enjoying it, she was really quite good at it. Even planting in soil that should otherwise not likely have been able to support growth, she'd manage to get a healthy shoot started and nurture it from there. Her father would claim that she could grow tomatoes out of rocks, she'd simply say that it's only a matter of listening to the needs of the seed and making sure the soil you placed it in was willing to share. For the most part people thought she was joking, or at least exaggerating, but in reality she really could get a feel for the needs of the plants and to some extent the animals around the farm. This showed again when she would go and wander in the wilds outside of the farmstead, intent to gather useful resources as they could be found and without a doubt she'd return home with a basket full of things from berries and nuts to gems in the rough or pieces of wood perfect for cutting.

When it came to making repairs around the house or stables, mending fences, building furniture or crafting tools out of the wood around her she was almost as adept at it as her gardening and gathering. She would often have to concentrate a lot harder and would get considerably more defensive and irate when working with the wood if she was interrupted, but usually she could produce something worth using. A master by no means, but at this young age the talent certainly showed and she was more than happy to use that talent to help around the farm where she could. In one such situation she was carving a fallen branch into a scythe handle when her brother snuck up behind her and placed a field mouse down the back of her shirt. Reacting much like any seventeen year old girl would in such a situation, she screamed and cursed and chased her brother into the fields when something extraordinary happened; quite out of nowhere she simply willed up a handful of stones right from the earth itself and flung them thru the air at her brothers backside. He wasn't hurt, just a little bruised and more so stunned, almost as much as Mikki herself.

Had she been raised near Gridania she may have been spotted at a younger age, but out in the farmlands of La Noscea nobody suspected that Mikki's talents for the earth and the plants stemmed from an untrained ability in the arts of conjury. It took almost a full year of convincing, but ultimately she got her parents approval to go to Gridania to try to study and learn more about these arts so that she could become an adventurer, something she'd often dreamt about. With the chance to make her dreams come true she's embracing all the stories of the world she's ever read and setting out on a brand new adventure, one that she hopes will spawn its own legend and story someday.

Personality

Mikki could be considered to be a bit of a little miss can't be wrong in most situations. She'll very quickly form opinions and state the facts (as she sees them) and expect that those around her take those facts as useful information. She has a short fuse and when it's lit, it burns brightly, often causing her to shower the target or targets of her ire with colorful expletives and otherwise un-lady like language. When she's not going off like a cannon in war, she tries to be as much a proper lady as she can be, often times this is a bit difficult when she can be caught with her head in the clouds at any given moment and is not one to say no to a pint of ale or a glass of wine when the offer is made.

She doesn't make friends easily because of her temper and her sometimes effusive language, but when she does call someone a friend she means it and will be as good a friend as could be. Granted just because you're a friend doesn't spare you from the razor like wit and tongue of her anger when she's overtaken, but there's a good chance she'll feel badly about it afterwards and apologize, or at the very least buy you a drink in lieu of saying sorry. Because she's so far from her family she's eager and willing to create a surrogate one of sorts with close friends, should she ever manage to not chase someone away within the first ten minutes of introduction.

She will go out of her way to make sure she's as clean and pretty as can possibly be. Where she's almost never hesitant about anything when it comes to adventuring, asking her to step ankle deep in fresh mud with a new pair of boots would be a reason to give her pause. She can often be the easy target of jokes and pranks that involve muck, dirt, or creepy crawly insects. Yes, bugs, a farm girl tuned in with nature finds bugs to be frightfully repulsive. She likes to claim that the reason for maintaining her appearance in such a way is so that when there are stories about her, they're about her skill, grace, and beauty. Not her skill, scars, and stench.

To say the least, any world wise observer would be able to see thru Mikki's facade of claiming to have extensive knowledge of anything outside of her families little farmstead. Her sources are storybooks, fairy tales, rumors from local taverns and other such not so reliable sources. Of course the more she travels the more that situation corrects itself, however until then she's essentially naive and refuses to play that part. In her mind she needs to come across as a sturdy and tested adventurer simply because the simple little farm girl that she started as isn't something to tell a story about.

Her naivety could be said to truly surface when she's the target of some ones amorous intentions. She's never held hands let alone been kissed or had a relationship outside of being a close friend. Often times when someone flirts with her she's so truly oblivious to it that it would be almost comical and should she become aware of it, she'll turn redder than you can imagine and clam up. Her otherwise quick wit and talkative nature will have shut down and become reduced to stammering, stuttering and the occasional understandable world..likely followed up with some kind of squeaky sound.

In short, Mikki is somewhat of a self absorbed girly girl with a raging temper, a penchant for exaggeration and unusual interpretations of her situation. She is clearly driven by wanting to become some kind of hero the stories tell about and hates showing others that she's anything other than the heroic sort. Not to mention clueless and naive about quite a bit but more so in matters of the heart.

Affiliations

Currently she has no affiliates, she's at the beginning of her journey and is eager to meet other like minded, future heroes to save the world with.

Family

Mikki doesn't know who her birth parents are or if she has any biological relatives alive anywhere. She honestly hasn't given it any thought and has no interest pursuing it either, the Allistair family is her family and that's good enough for her.

Father: Donnal Allistair, Mother: Serah Allistair, Sister: Marcella Allistair, Sister: Luccia Allistair, Brother: Garen Allistair

Marcella is the oldest child of the family, followed by Garen, Luccia and finally Mikki.

Goals

Without a doubt Mikki is driven by one, all encompassing goal; to become a hero of legendary proportions. Naturally there's vanity in this desire, but more than that there is a deep rooted sense of purpose within her. She truly feels that she can make the world a better place and help those who may not be able to always help themselves. Aside from this major goal, she has set forth a few smaller and unrelated goals. She'd like to learn how to cook at some point, wants to follow up on her carpentry, and finally wants to own a nice home that she can call all her own and maybe have a little garden to tend.

Religion

To Mikki, The Twelve are a huge part of her life. She absolutely believes without a doubt in their existence and their presence all around. Altho she reveres all of the gods and godesses, there is a special place in her heart for Nophica. She believes that it's by Nophica's will that she's been given the gifts that she has and is always going to be grateful for that. Mikki will often admonish someone for blaspheming or improperly calling upon one of the Twelve, of course when she gets angry enough she certainly does it herself.

Likes

Adventure Stories Mikki will almost always make time to hear someone tell an action packed story of some adventure or another and she absolutely adores hearing bards sing heroic songs. She'll very often let her mind wander and become one with the story being told when she's listening. So much so that getting her attention back to the real world can be a difficult undertaking.

Wine and Ale In only a small few circumstances will Mikki pass up a cup of wine or a mug of ale. She prefers sweet wines and light ales, but isn't so picky as to turn down anything else. Hard liquors like whiskeys and the sort are not to her tastes. She tries to avoid drinking herself into a stupor but is frankly quite a light weight when it comes to such things and tends to get drunk rather quickly. When drunk the harsh and snappy girl disappears and is replaced by the kind of girl she was at the farmhouse. Fun loving, sweet and adventurous.

Festivals and Celebrations Going to a festival or a celebration of any kind is another way that Mikki can let down her guard and just simply enjoy herself without putting on pretenses. She loves the foods, especially the sweets. Of course there's almost always plenty of drink to be had during such events, not to mention the styles of clothing that get shown off. She also enjoys the little games and mostly the carefree atmosphere of everyone enjoying themselves.

Being Right Nothing will get this young lady to beam quite like being told she's right about something, especially after an argument or debate. It doesn't matter if she actually IS right or not, but being told that she is is akin to a little victory to her.

Dislikes

Bullying Given the pushy nature of Mikki, one might think that she condones strong people pushing weak people around. This is definitely not the case, where yes her temper can get the better of her often enough and she has no problem putting someone in their place, pushing someone around just because you can will get her as angry as she can possibly be. It's one thing to try to badger a burly marauder over a mug of ale, it's another completely to walk up to some poor dock worker and threaten him. When witnessing such a thing she will almost always intervene on the behalf of the downtrodden or weak, and woe be to the bully that presses the issue farther should that happen.

Being called a child or naive It's important for Mikki to present herself as a capable and worthy adventurer. Someone calling her out on her youth, inexperience, lack of knowledge or downright naivety will often visibly hurt her feelings to the point of having to fight back tears. Her temper does little to help her in these situations, often causing her loss of emotional control to get even further out of control and unfortunately showing more of the core of who she is, that little girl from the farm.

Bugs and gooey stuff Bugs cause Mikki's skin to crawl, the little creepy crawly ones, the big ones, even the giant ones that adventurers have to face down. All of them give this young lady pause and she'll often try to stall or otherwise avoid having to place herself in the path of one of the creepy critters. Along with this dislike of bugs comes a dislike of gooey, muddy, mucky glops. There's no specificity in there, anything with a texture akin to pudding or jelly often will cause a visible or audible reaction from Mikki. The exception to this is of course foods she enjoys. She's not likely to turn down a tasty jam filled pastry or super smelling spiced pudding anytime soon. It's when she's making her way thru a cave and steps in a pile of something that looks like giant snot when she'll react rather poorly.

Being interrupted When she's focused in on a task at hand, which isn't very often to be sure given her easily distractable nature, Mikki tends to get quite angry when someone interrupts what she was doing or saying. This shows to a minor degree during conversation, if she's speaking and someone speaks over her she may well quite bluntly request that you hold your tongue until she's finished speaking. If you were to interrupt her while working on something like her carpentry or gardening...well in that case just hope there's no sharp objects around for her to fling your direction. She knows that getting into a focused state for her is difficult and when someone pulls her out of it she becomes very very upset.

Other Notes

When she's not daydreaming or putting on appearances she can be seen jotting down notes in a well worn journal. It's in here that she writes down what she feels are noteworthy things about her adventures so that one day someone can write stories about her. Of course quite often what she jots down is almost always exaggerated but at the very least based in situations that really occurred. She doesn't know anything about Miqo'te history or culture but is also wonderfully oblivious to the fact that she's likely very different from other Miqo'te girls.