Null Faust
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| Gender | Male |
| Race | Miqo'te |
| Clan | Unknown |
| Citizenship | Ul'dah |
| Orientation | Bisexual |
| Server | Balmung |
Overview
He is a nameless — ageless — extinct essence of who he was supposed to be. The blond miqo’te goes by “Null”, a name (if you can call it that) given to him by his owner, a rich mage from Ul’dah that bought him when he was very young. It is unknown where he came from, meaning any details like a birthday or name are nonexistent. He was taken by pirates as a baby then re-sold off for some quick gil. The mage who bought Null had been dabbling in black magic, researching heavily on the void and the creatures who live there. He bought the boy to be his personal experiment that he could use throughout the years. When he wants the boy, all he needs to do is slip him a sleeping potion and Null will wake days later having no idea what traumatic things his unconscious body had been around. The mage fed the boys lies, raising him to believe he was normal. Null is uneducated, sheltered, and quite a peculiar person due to being treated as an object for majority of his life without even realizing it. With his owner getting more involved with the illegal world of Ul'dah, and building up an empire to help his research that will help him accomplish everything he is after, there hasn't been much time for Null. The mage has begun to leave Null alone for weeks at a time, and his belonging has grown lonely. So lonely that going out into the terrifying world has began to seem like a better solution to his crippling loneliness.
History
Childhood
One of Null's easiest memories is bring brought home with the mage who bought him. The boy had never been taught to ask strangers their names, so when he was told by the man that he wanted Null to call him 'Papa' from that day forth, the boy did not question it. He was brought to a large home in Ul'dah where he was allowed to run about exploring all day long. He didn't understand why the man had so many bedrooms if he lived all alone and the miqo'te also couldn't figure out why the man had two bedrooms with dolls inside. When he touched one of the small play staffs, his hand was hit and he was told to leave everything how it was. His bedroom was going to be on the lower level so he was lead down the stairs, the miqo'te happily hopped down each step until his bare feet hit the cold stone floor. Papa kept the kitten locked down there for a few months. It was awkward for the two. The young boy would quietly entertain himself with the statues and pretend they were his friends. The mage would entertain his guests upstairs trying to pretend he didn't have an illegally bought creature living in his basement. Then again... The kitten he bought from those pirates wasn't exactly the only illegal thing he was hiding. The two seemed to only interact when Papa came down to feed the boy. It was difficult for the man to try and bond with a stray animal like the miqo'te.
After the shock of owning another being settled in the mage's stomach, he decided to get back to work. He wasn't going to bond with the boy, and he wasn't going play the babysitter. This miqo'te was for him to advance on his research and test with. The man wasn't even expecting the boy to survive more than a few years, after all. He was highly expecting the boy's whole being and every ounce of aether to be lost within the void by the time he was done with him. The sacrifice was a small price to pay for the information he wished to acquire though. He was a small lost kitten that nobody wanted. He had nothing to offer, useless, null, impractical... He was Null. When Null was first told that was what he was going to be called from that day forth, he thought it sounded weird. After a week of being called 'Null' anytime Papa needed something, it began to sound like any other name the young boy had heard over the course of his short life. Null's life was a blur at such a young age. All he can remember from his childhood is his hands getting hit a lot for touching things he wasn't supposed to. He remembered befriending the statues in the basement and giving them all names. He remembered being told that he needed to behave and let Papa touch his statue friends with 'the darkness', as Null named it. Null never understood the things that were happening in the large house he grew up in.
Early Adolescence
There was a day when Null finally wanted to go outside and see what was out past the doors he's been hidden behind for as long as he could remember. He'd leave the basement at times to help Papa with chores. The man began to want Null to clean and help hand him things for work when he didn't want to get up from his seat... Then other times he'd be told things that didn't exactly make sense. To put things in order from smallest to largest that seemed completely identical, to crawl under the man's bed and lay there very still for an hour or two at a time, to check behind all the doors, to place plates of food in every closet the house had. Null might not have understood why the man asked him to do these jobs, but he always tried his hardest wanting to get the man's approval.