Hatsukiku Maibito

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• Family and Relationships
• Rumors
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Hatsukiku Maibito
Gender	Female
Race	Au Ra
Clan	Raen
Citizenship	None; Doman Refugee
Guardian	Unknown
Nameday	17th Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon (August 17th)
Age	32
Orientation	Bisexual
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Groundskeeper for the Eagle & Quill

Basic Info

Name: Hatsukiku Maibito (First Chrysanthemum of the Dancer family)

Nickname: Kiku

Accent: Doman

Current Residence: Hatsukiku is currently employed and living at the Eagle & Quill in The Mist.

Summary

Hatsukiku and her sister, Hanatsuma, came from a small town in Doma, where their father worked with the town's guard, using a polearm to help defend the people, and their mother worked with a few of the other women as healers and medics. Hatsukiku was later trained and worked with the healers and medics in town, handling mending mixing of medicines, while her sister trained under the seamstresses and leather-workers in town. As soon as trouble reached their small town, their parents secured passage for Hatsukiku and Hanatsuma to flee to Eorzea during the uprising against the Garlean forces. Being both Doman refugees, and Au Ra Raen, their arrival in Eorzea, was met with some hardships. Hatsukiku has been recovering and adjusting to Eorzea as best she can, working to improve her skills in conjury and the different healing trades a country foreign to her has to offer.

Appearance

Height: 5 fulm, 1 ilm (5'1") (155.0 cm)

Weight: 109 ponze (109 lbs) (49.44 kg)

Build: Average

Skin Tone: Olive - has lovely yellow, green and light brown undertones that makes for easy tanning, sans the burn. While not as easily tarnished by the sun, skin is often oily and prone to enlarged pores and breakouts.

Skin Type: Combination - can be dry or normal in some areas and oily in others, such as the T-zone (nose, forehead, and chin).

Distinguishing Marks: Patch of discoloration on her left shoulder (birth mark)

Hair:  Deep purples with magenta, cropped shorter to her neckline.

Eyes:  Left eye pale blue, right eye pale pink, with pink limbal rings.

Hobbies

Reading: Hatsukiku's interest in reading stems from her wish to learn. Growing up, books weren't overly common in the household as her family didn't make too many trips to the cities.

Gardening and Botany/Herbology: Hatsukiku learned these skills from her mother, alongside her younger sister, growing up. She always found nature and plants interesting as a child and enjoys experimenting with crossbreeding, as well as creating medicines from various plants.

Cooking: Applying her knowledge of plants, herbs, and other chemical reactions to create something that is both edible and tastes good always manages to please Hatsukiku.

Likes

Rain: The sound and smell of rain are always comforting to Hatsukiku, especially in summer.

Warm Nights: Warm nights and relaxing remind Hatsukiku of her childhood, staying up late in the summer moons, excited by the sounds and hum of the insects outside.

Home-cooked Food: More specifically, cooking food with family and friends, and being able to enjoy it with them as well.

Meditation: Meditation refreshes Hatsukiku's mind and allows her to approach everyday trials and obstacles with a clean slate. Since coming to Eorzea, it has also helped in her training to control her aether usage and application.

Dislikes

Crowds: The hum and blur of sound becomes overwhelming, reverberating through her horns, making Hatsukiku unable to think clearly.

Overbearing Male Figures: Aggressive men always put Hatsukiku in a foul mood and she becomes defensive and unafraid to speak her mind.

Hot Weather: The difference between warm weather and hot weather may seem like a small distinction to some, but the difference is very apparent to Hatsukiku. The overly hot weather causes discomfort and annoyance.

Snow: Much like her distaste for hot weather, snow is an annoyance to Hatsukiku, as well as freezing weather. The chill sets into her tail and takes much longer than she'd like for it to dissipate.

Favorites

• Colors:  Various shades of purple, red, and brown.
• Foods:  Fruits (particularly plums), roasted vegetables, sweet breads, vegetable stews and soups.
• Drinks:  Teas, particularly different blends of herbal teas, sweet wines.
• Scents: Forested areas after it rains, the ocean, mint, old books.
• Places: The more wooded areas of La Noscea, as well as the forests near Gridania.
• Festival: Heavensturn.

Least Favorites

• Colors:  Greens and yellows.
• Foods:  Apples, most spicy foods, fresh water fish.
• Drinks:  Hard liquors, milks.
• Scents: Raw meat, garlic, smoke.
• Places: Ul'dah and Thanalan, the market areas of Limsa Lominsa, ships.
• Festival: N/A (Hatsukiku hasn't been around for many of Eorzea's fesitvals).

Alignment

Lawful Neutral: "Lawful Neutral characters believe the best way is to have a specific, strict code of conduct, whether self-imposed or codified as a law. Their first impulse when making a moral decision is to refer back to this code; those with externally imposed systems (codes of laws, hierarchies, etc.) will try to work within the system when those systems go wrong. They will refuse to break this code even if good could be done by breaking it. A lawful neutral character typically believes strongly in lawful concepts such as honor, order, rules, and tradition, and often follows a personal code. Examples of lawful neutral characters include a soldier who always follows orders, a judge or enforcer that adheres mercilessly to the word of the law, and a disciplined monk."

Flaws

Lacks Purpose: Now that she is in Eorzea and no longer working as a town medic, Hatsukiku is unsure of what to do with herself. She has fallen back on her skills in conjury, seeking to improve herself, but she knows that this is only going to be a temporary fix to the issue at hand of not having something to drive her and work towards.

Sacrificed for Training: Growing up, she spent most of her formative years working on training under her mother, shirking spending time with others her own age. Now as an adult, Hatsukiku is finding it difficult to form friendships and navigate social situations.

Commitment Anxiety: Hatsukiku has major anxieties when it comes to relationships with others in a romantic sense. She feels that being in a relationship would detract from her watching out and protecting Hanatsuma in a land so foreign to her.

Fears

Losing Her Sister: Being the older sibling, Hatsukiku feels responsible to making sure that Hanatsuma stays safe and looked after. Without their parents, she feels it is her duty to do this.

Becoming Useless: A major fear for Hatsukiku is being unable to help or assist, not only her sister, but with anything in general, in Eorzea. This is what drives her to further her training and learning of healing arts.

Garleans: After witnessing the tensions of being in a country with Garlean rule, and having to flee to another country, Hatsukiku fears a Garlean attack in Eorzea. Their scattered presence is often enough to put her ill at ease.

Talents

Medical Training:

Reading Languages:

Cooking:

Weapons

Magic

Crafting

Relatives

Mother: Kurimata Maibito - Presumed stuck in Othard. Possibly dead.

Father: Yasunaga Maibito - Presumed dead securing safe passage to Eorzea for Hatsukiku and her sister.

Older sister: Hanatsuma Maibito -

Other family:

Positive/Possibly Romantic

Positive

Shino Senkatsu:

Neith Tumet:

Kukuna Kuna:

Mira Paravane:

Lady Micharan Danasorian:

Ferathir Dawnbreaker:

V'ashir Tia:

Neutral

Zozoju Zoju:

Thata'wo Kaatapoh:

Negative

Affiliations

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Birth and childhood (0-10)

Teen Years

Adulthood

Present