Erin Blackhall

Erin Blackhall
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Gender	Female
Race	Miqo'te
Clan	Keeper of the Moon
Citizenship	Ul'dah
Age	19
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Food Vendor Rookie
Height	5 fulms, 1 ilm
Orientation	Heterosexual

(This character is still under development! Information may or may not change.)

Basic Info

A young woman from Ul'dah whose hopes and dreams lie in being one of the best Food Vendors in Eorzea! When it comes to picking ingredients or handling a skillet, this Miqo'te will try her best to please all that sample her cooking..even when its still rough around the edges.

LIKES ■ Gardening ■ Culinary Arts ■ Mercantile ■ Organization

DISLIKES ■ Sewing ■ Archery ■ Dust Storms ■ Little Ladybugs

FEARS ■ Large Insects ■ The Amalj'aa ■ Heights ■ Sultansworn (more intimidated than fearful of them)

OTHER ■ Alignment: True Neutral ■ Vice(s): Gluttony ■ Favorite Food: Chanterelle Saute ■ Favorite Drink: Mint Lassi ■ Favorite Color: Nophica Green

Appearance & Personality

Height - 5 fulms 1 ilm

Weight - 120 ponze

Eye Color - Left Blue, Right Green

Skin Color - Erin's quite pale for someone living within the hot sun of Thanalan. Her attire for working outdoors supports this, as she normally wears heavier clothing and hats in an attempt to protect her from stray sand blowing in the wind.

Body - Erin has a slightly lean figure, all but more pudgy namely in her hips and cheeks. She doesn't appear to have much of a muscular build in anywhere else besides her arms, sculpted mainly from lifting crates back and forth and doing garden work. In edition, Erin has a set of pointed ears, and a tail that reaches no longer than her knees- common traits of a Miqo'te.

Additional Features - Erin's hands and face are often shown to be covered in dirt from working outdoors. However, she normally bathes when either going out to the Markets or when handling food. She has a scar running across her left cheek from a run-in with a Marmot when attempting to learn Archery.

Personality - Erin aims to be successful in the life of mercantile. Seeing the amount of merchants coming in and out of Ul'dah has been enough of an influence to get her started.She's nice to those she trusts, and also tries cracking a joke or two. Erin more than often tries to be a people person, trying to start conversations as much as she could. However, whenever Erin tries professionally conversing with others, she quickly becomes tongue-tied. As a result, talking publicly or in groups could prove a bit of a challenge, something she knows she must overcome in order to become a merchant. However, she does eventually warm up to more familiar faces. She also tries to pay attention to detail, taking note of certain things people say for future references.

Erin's skills are mostly limited to cooking and botany. She has tried picking up a bow once, but it quickly resulted in an empty quiver, dozens of missing arrows, and several angry Marmots.

Her skill in cooking is mainly influenced by her mother, who tries to encourage Erin to try to take up more than just botany. Through her culinary practice however, Erin developed habit of stuffing her face with about anything she could get her hands on, which could possibly annoy others with her gluttonous behavior.

Overall, Erin does have a sense of 'balance' issues. She's fine with walking, but running can prove to be difficult for her without falling over due to not being used to having a tail. She also has difficulty staying still because of this, and is mostly seen leaning against anything available to keep her steady.

Whenever Erin's not out in Western and Central Thanalan gathering ingredients, she's usually browsing the markets of Ul'dah.

Biography

Childhood

Erin was born and raised in Ul'dah by her parents, Gladys and Walter Blackhall. Every day always consisted of a routine for Erin. In the morning she would watch her father get ready for his duties with the Brass Blades, and for the rest of the day she would assist her mother with either going out to harvest fruits and vegetables or helping with housework. Sometimes, she would try to stay up all night just to see her father come home from duty, though it usually ended with her being scolded by her mother. After her tenth nameday, Erin was always itching to travel to new places. This has developed habits such as sneaking out of her house at night, or trying to hide herself in merchant wagons whenever one happened to be closeby. However, after being caught several times by her father while he was patrolling the gates, Erin was put on close watch by her mother.

As Erin grew older, she had grown more interested in the world outside of Ul'dah. Every now and then whenever the streets were full of merchants coming in from different parts of world, she would wonder what it would be like to be a merchant herself. With this interest, she often sat around Ruby Road Exchange eavesdropping on business deals between buyers and sellers.

Teenage

After Erin's fifteenth nameday, her mother has decided it was time for her to try and expand a bit more on her capabilities as a woman and teach Erin how to cook and sew. Sewing didn't go so well for Erin, as it had left her bored, and a lot of pricked fingers. Sometimes, she had even refused to pick up a needle altogether. However, despite having failed at sewing, Erin had enjoyed taking up cooking, and wanted to learn even more than just the basics. When Erin turned eighteen, she had decided that she wanted to become a merchant. She's had a little bit of luck, selling as much as she could make out of the ingredients she picked out on the roads, or more foreign ingredients she could buy from the Sapphire Avenue Exchange. Compared to the more successful merchants in Ul'dah, she was thrilled whenever she was able to make more than 50gil selling the different dishes she had made. Even though some of Erin's food had left some people satisfied, she was slightly discouraged by the more successful food stands that had caught more attention than she did.

One day, a peddler had approached Erin's stand in an attempt to sell her a 'new' type of potion, not disclosing any other information other than it would leave her feeling more energized. Erin thought it was a bit expensive for her, but didn't want to be rude to a potential future customer and purchased the potion. After drinking said potion, Erin didn't feel much of an effect except for a bad headache, in which she decided to turn in for the day. Having woken up the next morning, Erin was terrified at her reflection in the mirror. She had taken the appearance of a Miqo'te. She stumbled her way to her mother, her body not used to its normal balance now that there's an edition of a tail, and tried to explain the situation to her. Erin's mother was baffled, but tried making light of the situation, saying it could be a new start for Erin. Her father was reluctant to agree with the statement, claiming that nobody would believe Erin's tale. After a long time of thinking about Erin's case, he decided that his daughter was just the same person, only in a different body, and had grown to accept it, only thinking of it as "Erin's old childhood antics having returned." F

Present

Now Nineteen years old, Erin has adjusted a bit more to living as a Miqo'te. At first she made a habit of stuffing her ears into hats and her tail into her trousers, but after proving to be greatly uncomfortable and even slightly painful, Erin decided to leave them out. Not much about Erin's lifestyle has changed. However, her issues in balance still linger, mostly having to rely on leaning against things to keep herself up when standing still. She has brushed up on her culinary skills more, and seeks to travel to Limsa Lominsa one day to visit the Culinarians Guild in an attempt to gain even more knowledge. She managed to make enough coin to let her begin travelling, trying to gather enough inspiration for new and different foods and settling down in markets to sell whatever it is she could make.

Miscellaneous

RUMORS Some of these rumors are untrue or are greatly exaggerated. Please feel free to add your own rumors under PC! Just be sure to leave your name~ ◢ Common Rumors (Easily overheard) ■ "She tries too hard at sellin' her things. Shoutin' in peoples' faces and whatnot." ■ "I remember her, sneakin' out in the dead of night tryin' to snake her way into wagons..A troublemaker, she was. Poor Walter." - ■ "Different smells are always coming from her house. Either smelling like actual food, or something burning." ◢ Moderate Rumors (Moderately difficult to overhear) ■ "Something's different about those eyes of hers. They look almost...bigger." ■ "If she's not home, she's at the Market..or messin' around with the plantlife outside. The lass doesn't do much." ■ "Saw a ladybug outside the gate sneak their way onto her tunic...never heard a girl scream so loud!" ◢ Rare Rumors (Very difficult or rarely overheard) ■ "That girl there used to be a Hyur..I swear on it! Not sure what sorcery caused this, but by the twelve.." ■ "Some shady-lookin' guy was sellin' her some special potion..I guess that was the result. Gotta be careful on what people be sellin' these days." ■ "Are those ears real? That tail too? I bet she wants to be like them dancers on Ruby Road." ◢ PC Rumors (IC Rumours..Feel free to add your own if you've met me IC!) ■ ■ ■ ■

RELATIONS ♥ Romantic Interest ♥ Platonic Love ● Good Standing ● Poor Standing

Gallery

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  Choppin' for Ingredients

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  Erin behind the oven

Footnotes

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