Syrena Kalihd
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| Gender | Female |
| Race | Miqo'te |
| Clan | Seeker of the Sun |
| Citizenship | Ul'dahn |
| Age | Unknown, between 19-22 |
| Marital Status | Single |
| Occupation | Dancer |
| Orientation | Bisexual, Demisexual |
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Basic Info
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Appearance & Personality
Skills and Abilities
Dance
Syrena can't recall when she started dancing; as far back as she can remember, she's identified as a dancer. Fireside dance was used in her tribe to celebrate just about anything: a good hunt, a new Nunh, a birth...and also to honour and pay respect to the dead. However, although dance was pervasive in her tribe's culture, even at a very young age Syrena stood out as one gifted at it beyond the abilities of her fellow tribesmates. She has an excellent grasp of motion and control of her body, and even when not officially 'dancing' there is a sense of visual poetry to her movements.
In addition to her natural proclivity towards dance, Syrena has an unmatched passion for her craft, which results in 'practice' doubling as hobby one might describe as a fanatical obsession. She is skilled in a technical sense and can use with panache and innovation various props such as gossamer veils, coinbelts, fans, swords, finger-cymbals, and (a personal favourite of hers) isis wings. Technical skill notwithstanding, her passion shines through in her dances; it is not uncommon for her to laugh as she dances, simply from the sheer glee she finds in the motions, and at this point her dances are equally as impressive with or without music and props...but although she's come a long way from her tribe's fireside dances, she still prefers (perhaps out of nostalgia) to dance before flames. She has – thankfully – never yet set any props aflame whilst doing so.
Natural talent, practice, and immense passion; these three components have combined to produce a prodigious dancer, one almost fearsome in her ability to draw and hold the eye.
Medicine
Syrena is nominally skilled at nonmagical healing. While she would be utterly clueless given a White Mage's staff or a Scholar's book (her illiteracy adding to the mismatch with the latter), she can bandage wounds and re-set bones using physical methods. She has some knowledge of herbs and poultices, but only so far as those which can be found out in the Sagolii desert (as such, not many).
Most notable, however, would be her knowledge of pressure points and her limited ability to temporarily paralyze specific parts of another miqo'te's body. Although she herself is unaware of the specifics, the practice entails forcing a small amount of her personal aether into another person's body at a pressure point, cutting off her target's aetherial flow from there onwards. She can withdraw it at will, returning function and feeling, but even if left alone function will return to the affected body part(s) within a short period of time – a few minutes, at most.
The technique is performed by hitting pressure points with rapid jabs – Syrena does this with two fingertips or occasionally a single knuckle, claiming that it must be done 'just so', and that a person with larger hands might need to use a single fingertip instead. Precision is of the essence, and so she is generally unable to perform the technique on targets outside her scope of experience (which is limited to miqo'te) due to their slightly differing physiology...not that this would stop her from trying and hoping she'd manage to find a pressure point anyway. It also does not work through metal armour, though cloth and leathers are fine.
Syrena uses this technique in a strictly medical fashion: as an anaesthetic and to prevent movement in response to pain-stimuli while stitching together a wound, or other such uses. She has been learning it since the age of seven, and claims that anyone with the inclination and dedication to study and practice it could learn to do it.
For more information, see Varma Kalai or Chi-blocking (or Vulcan nerve pinch at a stretch).
Scrappy Fighting
While utterly untrained in the arts of combat, Syrena is far from helpless. Light on her feet, creative, and perhaps slightly feral, the miqo'te does not hesitate to fight dirty should she find herself in danger...her favourites include (but are most definitely not limited to) sucker-punches, biting, jabbing her fingers in eyes, and vindictive knees-to-the-groin. She does also carry a kitchen knife from time to time, but this she would hesitate to use. She could potentially turn to her aetherial flow blocking technique, but she has yet to use it for anything outside a capacity where it would be used to aid a healing process, and in a genuine scrap she would be unlikely to think of using it.
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