Ferah Parohren

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250px "My acting like an idiot is my choice; you pegging me for one is your mistake"
Ehcatl Blackguard
Gender	Female
Race	Miqo'te
Clan	Seeker of the Sun
Citizenship	Gridania

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Character

General

Ferah is a miqo'te bard well-known for her clumsiness and her love for elezen males. Just by looking at her or spending a couple hours with her, it's very hard to tell she's actually a powerful, strong willed person, and a Warrior of Light.

Appearance

Ferah is a very small (less than 4"9) dark skinned miqo'te female with raven black, long straight hair and piercing green eyes. Her body is very slender, humble chest and small hips, making her look a lot younger than she actually is. She's pretty athletic but her muscles don't seem to show. Her tail is pretty long for a miqo'te, and very fluffy. She has a very small scar on the bridge of her nose. Whenever asked where it comes from, she says when she was a kid, she took a wooden shutter to the face while running in the streets of Ul'dah, but no one knows if it is actually true. She's usually clothed in very casual and practical garments, for she doesn't like her clothes getting in the way of her adventuring. She has a particular liking for comfy shirts.

Personality

Ferah has a bubbly, friendly personality. She's outgoing and friendly, pretty chatty, and just loves talking about everything and anything. She's very clumsy, and likes to spend a lot of time daydreaming or napping, especially when people around her are discussing very serious matters, like politics, strategies, battle plans and so on.

Turns out her clumsiness is actually faked, as well as her not paying attention during important meetings. Ferah likes letting people think she's a lot more stupid than she actually is, and that she doesn't take anything seriously. She's actually a very smart person, a skilled, experimented strategist, and letting others believe she's a dummy is always part of the plan. Taking fake catnaps while people are having serious conversations around her is one of her favorite things. She never forgets anything she hears that can be of any importance.

Before the Calamity, she used to let people see the strategist, serious, organized and clever side of her personality, but she found out it made people wary and would often make her job very difficult; since she's physically so unimpressive, it was very hard for her to bring people to respect her. Therefore, she now prefers to let people believe she's just a mindless follower and doesn't think twice before obeying orders, when she's actually already planning a million possible case scenarios in her head, and getting ready to take any opportunity to show authority and take the lead if necessary. Her showing her dominant side has made her capable of many tour de forces in the past, earning her respect, and sometimes fear from others. She doesn't plan on stopping this behavior anytime soon.

She likes to think she would be an incredible double or even triple agent if she wanted to, yet isn't using her skills to serve any kind of "bad" cause. It makes her feel a lot better about herself whenever in doubt.

Among friends, Ferah is extremely affectionate, she just can't stop herself from showering her loved ones with care and affection, both with words and actions. She doesn't trust easily but when she does, it's 200% and basically indestructible. She's very loyal and will always put other people's needs before her own, often hurting herself in the process. Ferah's greatest fear is that she might not be loveable, and so she cherishes any kind of affection other people give her. Sadly, Ferah's huge needs have led her to terrible, short living relationships. She's a one night stands collector, and only had one serious relationship so far, which crashed down dramatically when she realized she wasn't in love with the guy and just wanted *him* to love her. She's never fallen in love and seriously doubts she is capable of it.

Combat

General

Although she is also a dragoon and a monk, Ferah is a lot more at ease using a bow and arrows. She doesn't like being close and personal with her enemies (meanwhile she likes being up and close with other people, but that's another story) and feels safer in the backline with the mages. She also likes how it makes her able to have a larger view of her surroundings, and see what's going on, making her able to plan ahead if necessary, or see reinforcements coming. Whenever needed, she is also able to be a white mage. She's not very confident in her capabilities, but is always happy to get some training.

Although she adapts to fighting in a team, she's a lot more at ease when fighting on her own. Ferah is a huntress, and she likes how she can let her feral instincts drive her whenever hunting on her own, no matter which prey she's after.

Tendencies

Likes

• Pastry fish
• Cat naps in the sun
• Elezen males

Dislikes

• Water
• Feeling rejected
• People staring at her

Hobbies/Talents

• Cooking
• Fishing
• Pestering her favorite people

Other

• Hangs out in the Alchemists' Guild a lot, helps Severian with errands
• Lives in the Lavender Beds
• Awfully lazy

Relationships

Family

Ferah's family life is complicated. She's the fruit of a one night stand between a Seeker female, G'Fehr, and a Keeper male, Tyak'a. They both met in a small camp, Y'Fehr was a warrior, Tyak'a was a traveling tailor, and they were only stationed at the same place for a short while. When G'Fehr found out she was pregnant, she told Tyak'a she would throw the baby down a cliff if he didn't take her, for she didn't want having a kid to ruin her life as a warrior, and didn't want to infuriate her Nuhn. Tyak'a was forced to take baby Ferah with him home to Ul'dah, for he didn't want to abandon her. He quickly realized he was the only person who could love and save her, immediately making him an overprotective dad, even though he was very young and didn't have the slightest idea what to do.

When they found out about his bastard seeker/keeper child who looked way too much like her mother, Tyak'a's family turned their back to him, including the woman he was engaged to at the time. Only his grandmother decided to help, and raised Ferah as if she was her own great granddaughter. Tyak'a got into a new relationship a few years later, and married Rhesh Parohren. The two of them eventually got a daughter, Qiln, and a son, Rhesh'a.

Ferah goes along great with her family and siblings, and though she is aware of her physical differences (shorter fangs, black hair, slit pupils, dark skin, fluffy tail VS long fangs, blue hair, round pupils,grey skin, lion tail), she doesn't seem to suffer a lot from it at first glance. However, she is internally struggling a lot with how out of place she feels. As a kid, she's tried a couple times to change her appearance to match her family; she's cut her tail to try and make it look like Qiln's, she's tried to dye her hair blue on several occasions. Qiln often reminds her of how they both have their father's green eyes, soft features and tiny nose, appeasing her a little. Yet Ferah often feels like she doesn't belong, is often made fun of by Keeper children, and sometimes bullied by Tyak'a's family members whenever they happened to bump into her. Thankfully, both Tyak'a and Rhesh are very protective, understanding and affectionate, allowing Ferah to still have a happy childhood overall.

This trauma has led her to believe no one will ever love her for what she is and that she's a mistake, which is making her relationships in general and her love life in particular very difficult.

Friends

• Satisiun Desain
• Mattoid Shappo
• Most of her Free Company members
• Feels very close to Y'Shtola

Enemies

• Most of Tyak'a's family

Rumors

Common Rumors

• Manizer
• Airhead
• Warrior of Light

Moderate Rumors

• Dumb and clumsy
• Keeper hater (false)
• Well known fisher

Rare Rumors

• Plotting to take over her mother's part of the G clan
• Various rumors about her nose scar
• Manipulative and fake

PC Rumors

• Fusional relationship with Satisiun Desain
• Unhealthy habit of squealing about minions with Mattoid Shappo
• Is very often made fun of for being small

History/Timeline

She took part to the battle of Carteneau, which traumatized her greatly especially since she got separated from her sister in the midst of a fight. She's now technically 22, but officially 27.

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