Riku Toiiku

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Riku Toiiku
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Gender	Male
Race	Lalafell
Clan	Dunesfolk
Citizenship	None
Age	Apparently 12
Affiliations	Ishgardian Dragoons / Tatsugawa Family
Occupation	Azure Dragoon
Job	Dragoon

Riku Toiiku

Riku is a young, incredibly timid Lalafell with a playful curiosity that only shows when he is comfortable. He is so socially naive that he takes everything said literally. Innuendo and euphemisms confuse him greatly, and any talk about romance or sexuality has little meaning to him. Despite appearing to be incredibly fragile, clumsy and anxious, Riku is a fierce fighter, especially when protecting his friends. Despite his great improvement in confidence when in combat, Riku still abhors killing and will often go to great lengths to keep his opponant alive whilst still completing his objectives, no matter who or what said opponant is.

Riku's time spent in solitude has made him incredibly detatched to social life. However, due to his timid nature, and the vast amout of discomfort even one stranger in a room full of friends can bring him, Riku has been known to become clingy and seek more physical comfort from those he is comfortable around. His sensetivity toward social situations is so intense that being the centre of attention for a prolonged period is enough to force him into tears.

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Basic Info

• Pronunciation: ri:ku: ˈtoʊi:ku:
  

• Age: Apparently 12
• Race: Lalafell
• Clan: Dunesfolk
• Gender:Biologically Male, Mentally Androgynous
• Current Residences: La Noscea - Tatsugawa Residence
• Place of Birth: Unknown
• Relatives: Immediate Family - None / Adoptive Family - The Tatsugawas
• Affiliations: Ishgard
• Occupation: Dragoon
• Religion/Philosophy: Open-Minded
• Combat Style: Skilled with the lance, Riku is a Dragoon who uses his acrobatic abilities to overcome his height difficulties. Against larger foes, his feet are rarely on the ground as his acrobatics keep him airborne to inflict a constant stream of damage.
• The Echo: Although Riku has the power of the Echo, he has never experienced it beyond the ability to understand all languages of speech.
• Status: Riku is currently suffering from amnesia caused by an extended period of time petrified to stone by an unknown mage.

== Backstory ==

Before Meteor

Formerly a member of Corvus Cinis before the calamity, Riku was once a lieutenant of the Order of the Twin Adder. During his time at the Corvus Cinis adventurers guild, Riku was a highly active member with depression and anxiety issues that caused him to be a rollercoaster of emotions.

Appearance

Stature

Riku is a small 15-year-old Lalafell boy with an apparently small appetite. However, although he may only be seen eating small amounts of food, Riku eats very regularly whilst he is out in the wilderness, and usually consumes more food than the average Lalafell. Despite this, however, he remains to be rather skinny, and quite light for his height.

Facial Features

Riku has short red hair, which is often untidy and unruly. His eyes are violet, and as is typical for a Dunesfolk Lalafell, are also glossy and somewhat reflective of light. Riku has a small band of freckles crossing the bridge of his nose. These freckles are more visible below his eyes, where they are most numerous.Despite not having spent much time with his own people, like most of his clan, Riku wears a gemstone on his forehead, although it is barely visible as it is usually covered by his fringe.

Bodily Features

Riku's skin is incredibly pale, and seems to glow when light hits it. For some reason, he seems almost immune to sunburn, despite his skin colouration and poor heat tolerance. Riku's skin is also prone to turning pinkish hues, as is most visible in the colour of his cheeks. The tips of his toes, fingers and the soles and palms of his feet and hands are also slightly more pink than the rest of his body.

Riku has one distinctive scar across his left breast from an incident when he was twelve years old involding wolves. The scar has still not fully healed, hinting at just how deep the original wound was. Other than that, despite the odd cuts and bruises from time spent in combat or playing in the wilderness, his body is generally undamaged.

Clothing

Riku has a moderate wardrobe of clothing collected as rewards for various errands. Usually, he prepares to wear simple outfits that are practical, comfortable and unrestrictive; however he also has his own sense of style, and although not one to care about fashion or fad, he will often refuse to wear and outfit he does not like. Riku has a selection of casual, formal and combat-ready outfits. He can most often be seen wearing Dragoon armour or an Order of the Twin Adder uniform.

Personality

Riku is an incredibly timid boy. The slightest scare can easily set him off in panic, and he will often hide away from strangers. Despite being solitary, he will seek protection from his friends when in social discomfort. Although Riku is used to being alone and does not like spending too much time in the company of others, the comfort offered by a close friend is something he likes to seek out when he returns home after a day of adventuring. Although he warmed up to Kassandra Dawn, Alothia Starkwood, Miyuki Tatsugawa and Endricane Feltaro rather quickly, he generally does not make friends in a short space of time. However, in the case of the aforementioned individuals, Riku was subconsciously seeking out friendship, and now that he he has a nice group of friends, he no longer seeks to add to their number.

Sexuality

Having spent most of his life alone in the wilderness, Riku has no notion of romance or any knowledge of sexual desire. Perhaps influenced by such facts, Riku is an asexual boy, meaning he is not attracted to either gender. He does, however, have the capability to love someone very intensely in a platonic manner, as he has shown by his sudden and quite deep platonic relationship with Miyuki.

Alignment

Riku is a neutral-good individual. Almost all of his efforts go toward aiding those in need, and he has little thought for himself, except when he has nothing else to do. Although he respects and obeys laws, if such a rule were to contrast with his sense of morality, he would happily disregard it.

Motivations

The main motivation for any action Riku performs is the wellbeing and safety of other individuals - especially his friends. However, there are also a number of items that he will personality work to possess. Such items are mostly specific foods he has a fondness for, and include tea, raw meat, raw fish and milk. As well as all of this, Riku would happily take any excuse to explore new lands.

Fears

Being a timid and jumpy individual, Riku has a significant list of personal fears. Firstly, he can often become panicked when confronted with a crowd of people. As well as this, he is easily intimidated by an individual's appearance,s hould they look frightening to him. Thirdly, Riku is scared of strangers and will even often stop talking in the middle of a sentence should a stranger walk into the room. Riku is also rather jumpy, andd is frightened by even the slightest of sudden noises or movements. Finally, the last of Riku's most prominant fears is his disliking of social attention. He has been known to burst into tears after prolonged attention by too many individuals.

Demeanour

As well as being excessively timid, Riku is also incredibly curious. He has often been accused of being nosey and enjoys examining strange new artifacts. This curiosity is usually accompanied by a playfulness that often causes others to regret allowing him access to rare treasures. Riku enjoys climbing, playing with animals, and even playing with toys in a manner a child half his age would. Despite his shyness, Riku is very friendly and does not anger easily. He never holds a grudge, although his trust for an individual can sharply drop if said individual teases him or acts in a manner he finds inhumane or unfair.

Talents

Riku is exceptionally talented at mathematics and physics, having an affinity with numbers and calculations. As well as this, he is a musical prodigy and has a pleasant singing voice. Also, Riku is a skilled swordsman and lancer with admirable knowledge of thaumaturgy. His combat style is often based about his acrobatic and athletic ability which he has built up over the years of surviving in the wild. His perceptive ability is also above average from time spent in dangerous places. His hearing is particularly sensetive, but his eyesight is also above average. However, oddly, he has never had a particularly good sense of smell.

Riku does have some major weaknesses on the other hand. Firstly, he is incredibly clumsy, and has been known to quite often break or drop fragile objects. This means that he is unsuitable for crafting and has difficulty with even the basics of crafting chores. He also has little to no knowledge about geography and finds human geography especially difficult to grasp, particularly when it comes to the commercial aspects. His ability with natural geography is quite decent however, due to the sciences involved, but when it comes to mapping, using maps, and following his sense of direction, Riku is at a major disadvantage. He has an absolutely terrible sense of direction and can easily get lost in a place, even if he has been living there for a while. Generally he has more difficulty with this in citys rather than forests and plains.

Despite Riku's skill with weaponry and his agility, the child has poor physical strength, even for one of his age.

Musical Talents

Riku is notably musically gifted and is skilled in a variety of music instruments, except for the harp and a number of wind instruments. Despite the skill he has in this area, his lack of training with the bow makes him unsuitable for training to be a bard. Riku also has a pleasant singing voice, and the ability to almost perfectly stay in tune to a song even without a backing melody to guide him. Despite how his voice sounds untrained and lacks the usual flurishes and effects professionals are known to include in their vocals, Riku's voice has much potential.

Interests

Riku enjoys cold weather and darkness rather alot. His poor heat tolerance gives him a disliking to hot weather, and he often feels safer at night, when less people are awake and the air becomes quiet and still. He also prefers quiet, natural environments to loud, busy cities. As well as this, Riku has a particular fondness for marmots, having spent a lot of time sleeping with them and becoming friends with various marmot families. This drives him to feel great distaste for anyone he discovers killing them for reasons other than survival.

Riku has a huge dislike for impoliteness in general, especially rude behaviour, bad manners and vulgarity - although he can rarely tell when the latter is being performed due to his naïveté. he also dislikes prejudice and unfairness, and holds little respect for those who treat others harshly. When such treatment falls upon him, Riku can often get upset easily and start crying.

Hobbies

Riku's main hobbies include studying physics and mathematics, playing or composing music, studying thaumaturgy, exploring the wilderness, climbing trees and petting marmots.

Other Information

Mind

Riku is very intelligent but also incredibly naïve. He is quick to believe another's word due to his gullibility and has difficulty telling lies. Despite how easily he can fall for a trick, Riku is slow to trust anyone.

Emotions

Riku's usual emotional state is that of timidness and nervousness. However, when comfortable, the boy can become rather calm and friendly. His feelings can be easily hurt, on the other hand, and so if pushed he may quickly break down in tears. On rare occasions he has been known to get angry when those he cares about are threatened.

Voice

Riku's voice is soft and quiet. It is also somewhat high-pitched without being unpleasant. His voice has a childish tone to it that makes him sound even younger than he already is, even by Lalafell vocal standards. Most of the childishness of his voice comes from speaking in the manner of a timid boy about two or three years younger than himself rather than the actual tone.

Relationships

Family

Blood Relations

Mother: Deceased

Father: Deceased

Corvus Cinis

Kassandra Dawn: Kassandra Dawn is Riku's first ever friend. He used to see her almost like a motherly figure, feeling safe in her presence and looking to her for guidance. Kassandra's role in Riku's life has somewhat reduced after Riku met Miyuki, and has dropped ever further now that Riku rarely sees her.

Alothia Starkwood: Alothia once filled the role of aunty to Riku, but has since felt more like a motherly figure. Although Riku had a greater bond with Kassandra, Alothia's presence within Corvus Cinis has allowed Riku to see her more often, and thus come view her as his parental guardian. Second only to Miyuki, Alothia is an important part of Riku's recent life.

Endricane Feltaro: Endricane's care toward Riku has been far from subtle, and Riku realises it. Although originally, Riku had some cautious feelings toward Endricane and his joking personality - which still confuses the Lalafell - the defensive barrier has begun to drop. There are times when Riku wants to snuggle up to the man; but there are are also times when he wants to hide away from him. It all depends on the subjects being mentioned at the time, and whether or not Endricane is teasing him. Riku's feelings back toward Endricane are somewhere between seeing him as an uncle and as a fartherly figure.

Miyuki Tatsugawa: Riku loves Miyuki with all his heart. He cares for her perhaps more than most people care for their romance partners, despite the fact Riku's relationship with Miyuki is purely platonic. He feels he can share everything with her - both mental and physical - and often through his innocence, persuades her to feel the same. Sometimes Riku's innocence causes him to behave in a way that would be deemed innapropriate for someone without his ignorance, but whereas Miyuki would be uncomfortable with someone possessing the knowledge Riku lacks, she is able to accomodate Riku, albeit with some embarrassment from her own thoughts and experiences from society. It is probably Riku's innocence over sexual matters that allows him to forge such a pure, yet deep relationship with the Lalafell, although his deep care for others and the similaries between him and Miyuki are probably important factors as well. It seems that with every passing day, their relationship becomes deeper and deeper. It has become so deep as of late that the only way for it to get any deeper would be for the pair to merge into one being.

Blue Sunil: Riku is beginning to see Blue Sunil as a friend, although he still holds some caution toward her.

Lily Dawnsworn: Riku has spent some time around Lily, but is still not completely comfortable around her yet.

Tessa Jalloh: Riku definately finds Tessa to be friendly and cheerful. He considers her to be a nice person. Although he hasn't spoken to her much, he knows that she is a member of Corvus Cinis, thus he considers her to be an ally.

Miyu Evans: Riku has yet to spend enough time around Miyu to become comfortable around her. He is a little fearful and cautious of her due to warnings from Aylis.

Rosa Canina: Riku is afraid of Rosa. He has alway been cautious of her, but after she had mentioned eating what she had described as Wild Lalafell (although it turned out she had mistaken Marmots as such), Riku began to feel terrified of her. Although a little has transpired since then, Riku still feels somewhat cautious of her.

Zenge Eien: Riku's experience of Zenge thus far has been good. He has quickly become comfortable around the man, despite their lack of interaction prior to the night where Zenge bandaged his wounds. Although Riku does not yet consider him a friend, and still holds some shyness toward Zenge, he is comfortable enough to enter conversation with the man without hesitation, even though he is not yet comfortable enough to initiate such a dialogue.

Burgenheim Rousa: Although Burgen is a Roegadyn, Riku isn't that scared of him. Although no opinion has been formed as of yet, Riku believes Burgen is at least a nice person.

Daemon Blade: Riku hasn't spent much time around Daemon, but he thus far considers him to be a good person.

Souyo Xander: Souyo certainly likes to cook... and he makes delicious cheesecake! Riku looks foward to having him around, but beyond the cooking, there is still much more to find out about Souyo to forge any other opinion.

Allies

Player Characters

Aylis Crescent: Riku is barely comfortable enough around Aylis to be social toward her. However, he does respect her after she healed his injuries when he hurt himself whilst balancing on a wobbly stool in Corvis Cinis HQ.

Deirdre Ta'ea: Although Riku has not personally spoken much dialogue with Deirdre at all, he has seen her a few times. Although Riku considers her an ally, rumours of her habits for stabbing people have left him terrified of her.

Xenedra Ambreaus: Riku doesn't know what to think of Xenedra. He hasn't seen her enough times to form an opinion. However, he does believe she is a nice person, and views her as quite an entertaining bard. However, he knows now not to reveal his talents in music in front of her...

Non-Player Characters

Torran: Torran is a thirteen-year-old Hyur boy who Riku met in Gridania. He lives with his mother and younger brother. Although Torran is younger than Riku, he is more socially mature, and thus treats Riku as if he is a younger sibling.

Mickel: Mickel is Torran's eleven-year-old brother. Although Riku spends more time with Torran than with Mickel, he feels a closer connection with the younger of the siblings. Riku and Mickel are quite similar in terms of personality, except Mickel doesn't have Riku's intelligence and knowledge of the outside world, whilst Riku doesn't have Mickel's confidence or social experience.

Aeraea: The mother of Mickel and Torran, Aeraea is a Hyur woman who originally was somewhat cautious of Riku because of his age in relation to her sons. However, when she got used to him, she soon became fond if his innocent personality. In all, Riku gets on well with Aeraea, although sometimes Aeraea can be quite stern with Riku, especially when Torran persuades Riku to take him on an adventure, and the children return home rather late. But eventually, most of the blame lands on Torran.

Other Companions

Arthur: Arthur is Riku's chocobo. Riku and the bird immediately built a bond between each other, with help from Riku's empathy with animals. Arthur is well behaved and quite docile. He loves attention and enjoys travelling. For a wild animal, Arthur is oddly hygene-conscious and will refuse to travel through dirt unless there is no other alternative. Arthur is also particular about where he relieves himself and what he eats, turning down any food other than Gysahl Greens. Arthur was not in fact the stable owner's first choice of chocobo for Riku - he was a chocobo that could not be sold due to disobedience and free-spiritedness. Riku, however, immediately felt a connection with him, and outright asked for the bird. The stable owner warned Riku, but was cut short as Riku managed to persuade the bird to come to his side and allow him to mount. Despite Arthur's nature, with Riku's ability to control him, Arthur would make a suprisingly good house pet, so long as he is allowed plenty of exercise.

Rumours

Within Corvus Cinis

"Riku...? I heard he and Miyuki have a thing going on..."

"I think he has a security job. He doesn't look particuarly strong, mind..."

Within Adder's Nest

"He's a Serpent Sergeant. And a damned fine one, despite his timid disposition."

"How can he keep up with all these jobs!? He's a Dragoon and a Serpent Sergeant?"

Ul'dah

"Oh, that shy Lalafell always running errands? He's so sweet - he wouldn't hurt a fly!"

"Did you see that Dragoon guarding that building at the end of Sapphire Avenue?"

Gridania

"I hear the Wailers tried to recruit him, but he turned them down."

"Isn't he a member of the Order of the Twin Adders?"

"Yeah, I've seen that boy. He seems to like marmots, and spends a lot of time outside with them. Strange kid."

"Oh... you mean the one who gets upset at the mere mention of hunting...?"

"He fought well defending Gridania from Imperials. It's surprising how fierce he is, given how shy and quiet his personality can be."

"I've seen him playing with some kids around the city. He must be a young Lalafell... it's so hard to tell with that race..."

"That young Lalafell? I'm surprised one so young would even be accepted as a soldier! He must have been recruited by one of the tallfolk - a Lalafell would never make the mistake of recruiting a child..."

Coerthas

"Riku? Oh, you mean that Lalafell who is one of the Azure Dragoons?"

OOC Information

• Riku's distant relatives are alive and well, currently living in the dunes of the Dunesfolk homeland.
• Most Lalafell hate cold temperatures, whereas Riku for some reason loves them. This is due to numerous things, including personal preferences and the fact that he was not only born in a frozen region, but also his parents were present there since his conception.
• Riku is completely asexual (in terms of sexuality not biology). His relationship with Miyuki is completely platonic, even though it does not appear as so.
• Riku was trained to be a Dragoon by a man posted outside the Gates of Judgement. This man was not the quest-giver NPC.
• Although Riku was promoted to sergeant by the Adders, he still has nobody under his command because he lacks command ability. They promoted him mostly to allow him higher-level clearance after he had proven his potential.
• Riku's job at Corvus Cinis does not officially place him as the company's security. His post is mostly unofficial, taking Endricane's request for him to take care of the company too seriously.
• Riku's skill with the lance makes him a combatant at the same level as some of the more powerful people in Eorzea. He still has room to improve, however, and is still a way behind the level of more experienced warriors, such as Endricane. As well as this, Riku's sword skills are to a professional standard, although nothing special, and his Thaumaturgy, although particularly impressive for someone with no training, is below the level of standard soldiers of that class. Riku also has some skill with hand-to-hand combat, but due to his physical strength, is unsuitable for the role. He does, however, incorporate some of the hand-to-hand style in his lance combat, utilising the blades attatched to his armour, and using kicks quite often whilst airborne.
• To other Lalafell, Riku is very obviously young. Not only is he small, but his facial features and his mannerisms are child-like. He looks youthful enough to be any age between thirteen and fifteen. To non-Lalafell, however, it is difficult to determine his age as all Lalafell look child-like to the other races. Riku is certainly a young Lalafell, though, going by his personality. His height might even make him appear as a teenager to those who have spent more time around Lalafell or are perceptive enough to notice his height, given that where Riku would be a few inches shorter than an adult if he were Hyur, the difference is much smaller between Lalafell, as they are a small race in the first place.

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