Shane Manjum

Shane Manjum
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Gender	Female
Race	Miqo’te
Clan	Keeper of the Moon
Citizenship	Transient
Age	24
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Layabout/Odd Jobs
Height	5 fulm 6 ilmz

Basic Info

Immediate features

• Comfortable in her skin
• Fit, but not muscular
• Dangling Gem Ear-rings
• Tongue and Nose piercing
• Freckles
• Most times she'd smell faintly of lingering sweat and various delectable foods.

♦Appearance

Shane Manjum is an odd woman among an odd people. Most Miqo'te that were seen on the streets of Ul'dah tended to fall into one of two camps. They tended to be either nearly naked, perky and friendly with an odd sort of steel behind their luminous eyes. Or they were of the affectionate variety that gave the quicksand it's name. There were exceptions to the rule, though Shane isn't what you would call one. The woman herself was one of the Keepers of the Moon, and her own cultural differences tended to lead to the differences in her appearance.

Shane tended to clad herself in puffy voluminous clothing, heavy robes, her brilliant honey colored eyes often hidden behind the golden frames of her reading glasses. The faintest aromas of sweat and sand clung to her form, though often they were drowned out by the scent of delicious cooked meat, stews, fruit or even the scents of the latest of the odd jobs that she'd taken on to pay for her bedroom for the night.

She didn't 'walk' so much as she swayed. Her slight hips and spry form moved with an odd feline fluidity. She was a creature that oozed confidence and comfort. She was attractive, for a Miqo'te, and she was well aware of it. She moved casually through the crowds, eyes drifting from person to person, sizing them up, She'd offer a faint smile here, or a lazy wave there. If you stared at her too long you'd catch her eye, though she didn't seem to offended by such a thing at all.

The woman spoke with a sibilant accent. Her voice was rich and deep and she had a habit of drawling her words. And her affection for pet names was exceptionally well known. She tends to refer to most people she doesn't know as lovely, pet, or dove. If you get to know her better you might even get your own personalized name.

♦Personality

Shane was comfortable in her skin, the woman possessed an interesting combination of confidence and blunt honesty that was common to members of her clan. Her Keeper heritage had graced Shane with a rather profound understanding of a number of different disparate fields though the woman didn't seem to have a particular attachment to anything beyond her cooking.

Biography

Shane Manjum is the oldest daughter of Manjum Larian, the Matriarch of a small collection of Keeper households. Manjum herself was an impressive specimen of Miqo'te Biology. The woman was short with wild black hair, brilliant amber eyes and a deep and potent grasp of the field of alchemy. The woman's skill and innovation kept her families prosperous, and beyond that even the surrounding farms and towns that supplied the woman's trade. Followers of the field would recognize Manjum's name as a woman that was at the forefront of the field in aerosolizing common battle-field potions to allow their use during the heat of battle.

Shane is Manjum's only daughter with her primary Mate, Though the girl is neither Manjum's oldest or most well known child. Throughout most of her life, the young woman had spent her time at the hip of her mother, or one of the various men or women that lived in the small community with them learning to do this or that in an effort to keep the curious young woman out of her busy Mother's hair. Little of note could be recalled about Shane beyond that fact that she'd inherited Manjum's Blunt honesty and perceptiveness, though she lacked the experience to use either as well as Manjum could.

Eventually though Shane's Mother decided that her daughter had grown as fully as she could amongst the ranks of the family and she'd sent her daughter out in the world to see what it had to offer both in knowledge and people. She'd given the girl a sack of gil, a bag of supplies and told her that she was on her own until she could come home with a story or a mate that could impress her mother. And so Shane found herself wandering from city to city, plying what skills she had to keep her comfortable, and spending her free time wandering the world, looking for something 'really interesting.'

Miscellaneous

Likes ■ Talking to interesting people ■ Observing Seekers like a Cat might a mouse ■ Fishing and lazing about in the sea air ■ Sleeping in late ■ Making shy people blush ■ Terrible, Terrible Jokes ■ Laying around listening to people work ■ [Secretly] Being romantic

Dislikes ■ Unexpected Loud Sharp Noises ■ Tail Pulling ■ Touching her ears without express permission ■ Overly Confident Flirting ■ People who can't hold their liquor

Hobbies/Talents ■ Can defend herself with 'Cantrips' [Low Level Thaumaturgy] ■ Attentive ■ Perceptive ■ Quick on her feet ■ Excellent Memory ■ Picks things up quickly ■ Improved Senses

Weaknesses/Faults ■ Overly Confident ■ Lacks Motivation ■ Rarely takes no for an answer ■ Really terrible at conserving funds ■ Tends to get involved in situations that don't really involve her.

Rumors

◢ Common Rumors (Easily overheard)

■ “Shane? Who? Oh. Oh! That Cat. Yeah. She's good, raises hell with a skillet. I'd hire her on if she'd find a place to stay, but she doesn't really seem interested in living in the city.”

■ “That black haired woman? Oh. Yeah. She comes through from time to time. Always sleeps in a room upstairs, sleeps in most of the time too, but she pays up her bill easily enough.”

◢ Moderate Rumors (Moderately difficult to overhear)

■ "She's always taking the Air Shifts from city to city, I see her carting things around and carrying food to and fro. You'd think with a body like that, she'd at least find a job waiting tables or something."

■ "She tends to talk to women this way that just. Catches you off guard. She's not like a Rampaging Bronto like most Miqo'te tend to be. She just talks to you and before you know it you're just stammering and blushing, confused as how you talked yourself into a corner like this."

◢ Rare Rumors (Very difficult or rarely overheard)

■ “So, You know how I do weekends down on the lower docks? Yeah~ over by the piers. Sometimes if there isn't a very thick fog, though I see this black shape up on one of the support pillars. Once I went over there, and there was this Miqo'te but she wusn't like those ones you see in Ul'dahn. She had this dark hair and her skin was like. Moonlight pale. She was humming to herself, laying there naked as the day she was born. There was this string on her foot that went into the water. And right afore my eyes one of them pointy ear things flicked and she just flicked her foot and hauled this massive 10 pound fish right up and out of the water.”

■ "She always does those odd jobs, but this one time she tripped and spilled all these coins -everywhere- she could spend weeks lounging around, eating like a queen and still not put a dent in the Gil that she scooped back into that magic bag of hers.."

Relationships

♥ Romantic Interest ♥ Platonic Love ● Good Standing ● Neutral Standing ● Poor Standing ¿Entirely Unclear

¿● No one yet~ Could be you!

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