Kodie Durant

Kodie Durant
Gender	Male
Race	Hyur
Clan	Midlander
Citizenship	Unaffiliated
Occupation	Adventurer (Independent)
Age	26
Place of Birth	Hyrstmill
Marital Status	In a relationship with Keten Satza
Server	Balmung

Appearance

Kodie is normally seen wearing a wine red coat, blue pants, brown boots, and red iron works glove. While in battle he wears a Garlean mask that has been altered to assist him in combat situations, it can also be used to scan areas to search for life signs, enhance his accuracy, and detect the majority of traps.

He is also known to wear a black coat, with a pair of red pants, boots and shades if he is just wandering around in town as his "casual outfit."

Kodie's eyes are dark red. There is also a facial scar one the left side of his face, as well as various scars across his body due to his years of adventuring.

History

Kodie's parents were both members of the Wood Wailers. His father was a Lancer, and his mother was an Archer. Though when his mother was pregnant with him, they settled in Hyrstmill. His mother would remain guarding the village itself, while his father would constantly go in missions into the Black Shroud. However at the age of five, Kodie's father was killed in combat against the Ixali. Afterwards his mother would leave the Wood Wailers to focus on taking care of Kodie. To make gil, she worked as weapons and armor mender also assist Gerolt, and a paid guard to the village. For a young Kodie, he spent most of his times outside of the town, venturing through the Shroud, causing trouble anyway a young Hyur could. At age eight, Kodie would search to find a four year old Miqo'te girl who was lost in the Shroud, stuck in a tree, he would end up rescuing her and bringing her back to her own mother. The little Miqo'te was Nolwen Stormwinder, she and her mother had recently moved from Ul'dah. Nolwen thought the world on her savior, and would follow him every time he ventured outside. While Kodie was someone resistant at first, he found her company comforting and the two became friends. At age thirteen, his mother would end up taking an illness, and despite the assistance of conjurers from Gridania, and Nolwen (who seemed to have strong natural healing abilities), they were unable to save her, and eventually Kodie's mother would pass away. A year later, Kodie decided he would become an Adventurer, before leaving his home, Nolwen caught up with him, giving him a flower that was coated in amber as something to remember her.

Like any new Adventurer, Kodie had his fair share of struggles, but managed to get through them. He started out as a Lancer, attempting to follow in his father's foot steps. However, he did not become a Wood Wailer, or even join a Grand Company, instead sticking with smaller Free Companies. Despite his troubles as a Lancer, he still continued and did so for a few years, but the Calamity would change that all.

Kodie and his Free Company would not be assigned to fight in the Battle of Carteneau, instead his unit would be sent to Eastern Thanalan to fight off any potential flanking units the Garlean Empire would dispatch. Just as expected, there was such an attack, and his Free Company would be there to intercept, in the middle of the fight everyone stopped to hear the roaring from the distance, and they too would feel the affect of Bahamut's destruction. The attack devastated not only his forces, but the Garlean unit, killing virtually everyone, and leaving Kodie gravely wounded. Kodie's wounds were so dire, that he was prepared to let fate take him, suddenly he reached into his armor to find the flower coated in amber, remembering Nolwen and her reminder never to forget her. It was just the strength he had need to stand back up and make his way towards Camp Dry Bone, from there he passed out right in front of the camp, but thankfully he was tended to. It took him several months to recover from his injuries, even with the help of a Conjurer, who did stick with him through it.

After he recovered, Kodie would trade his lance away for a bow, becoming an Archer. He quickly became a highly skilled archer, finding that he was better with ranged than he was close up. He and the Conjurer ended up forming a relationship, and joining an free company. For the next few years they seemed to be doing well, he was even engaged to the conjurer, and they went on to accomplish many things with their free company. The happy times did not last long though, and eventually Kodie and the conjurer would break their relationship off, this caused Kodie to become distant with the Free Company, and he would leave. He later found out his former love was engaged to someone else right away and his former allies further distanced themselves from him, no longer wanting to be associated with Kodie. He would end up spending many nights drinking himself to a drunken stupor at the Drowning Wench, losing any and all motivation for Adventuring, blaming himself for what had happened. That was until a spastic little Miqo'te yelled out his name, and before he knew it he was tackled and knocked unconscious by a Nolwen Stormwinder.

Kodie would awaken the next morning, it took a moment but he then realized it was her, after eight years apart the two were reunited. Nolwen was a new Adventurer, wanting to see the world finally, she surprised him with the fact she was given a job already and was about to leave for that. Kodie was wary about her job as Nolwen told him she was offered a job by someone not affiliated with Limsa, or any guilds. He would let her go on the job as she promised to return so they could talk about the past years, Kodie's suspicion and worry was too much for him to stay, so he followed her. He was correct to be wary as she was tricked by the man who was there with several pirates to capture her. Their plan was to capture unsuspecting female Eorzeans, and sell them off as slaves outside of the continent. Kodie was able to fight them off and free her, then the two would seek out the pirates' hide out, and dispatch them, freeing the other captives. Though Nolwen was felt discouraged in regard to what happened, she was prepared to quit being an Adventurer and return home. Kodie encouraged her to continue the path, and he would be there with her every step of the way, making sure she would learn the ropes. That quickly changed Nolwen's mind, and the two became inseparable ever since.

Kodie, and Nolwen stuck to working small adventuring jobs, and to no surprise, Nolwen was quickly becoming an accomplished Adventurer. She would show him affection, and at first he didn't return it due to his damaged heart, he slowly began to respond to it. One night, it hit him that Kodie realized that the love for the other he had felt didn't seem like the love he had felt for Nolwen, this was different. After the past few months they spent together, Kodie finally professed his love to her, a love that Nolwen had always had for him since the day he rescued her. He apologized for taking so long to realize this and then purposed to her, not wanting to waste any time and lose her again. She of course agreed, and the two quickly had their Eternal Bond ceremony.

He joined the Pugilist guild, wanting to improve his hand to hand combat skills in case he would need them. Though despite being a very accomplished, and highly skilled Archer, Kodie would trade in his bow for a gun to become a Machinist as soon as the gates to Ishgard was open to outsiders.

Tragedy had struck, while Nolwen was out on a quest for the Arcanist Guild, and Kodie was on a separate job, there was an incident. The incident lead to the death of Nolwen, Kodie stopped what he was doing and rushed to where she was, but by then he was too late. Nolwen sacrificed herself to save several apprentice Arcanists from a large Kobold attack. He was devastated with the loss, after a long time apart they had only spent a year together. It took him time to recover, and once again he did visit many bars, but unlike last time he still continued his work, knowing Nolwen wouldn't want him to be self loathing like she found him.

A year had past since the loss, while Kodie had spent his time with various women, he has been cautious about going into another relationship, focusing more on his work as an Adventurer. Though he would never forget his first true love, and to this day he still carries the flower coated in amber.

As time moved on, Kodie would eventually develop feelings for two others, though he pursued a relationship with Keten Satza, who started to remind him that he could indeed fall in love with someone else. Kodie is also hired on occasion to assist in protecting cargo from a well known perfumer, but also takes other contracts in the meantime. He prefers the independent Adventurer life, not wanting to be long to a Free Company, and doesn't have an loyalties to any of the city states.

He wanted Keten involved in his job, so he had her use her talents of being a spy to assist him in obtain a key from an unsuspecting target. She was successful with the task, however things went south when Keten saw a familiar face. Kodie quickly got her out of there and took her to the safest place he could think of, his home town of Hyrstmill. It was there Keten revealed to him that she was once a slave to a very powerful crime lord of the Ul'dan underworld, the collar she wore was magicked and could not be removed, she had thought he was dead but that wasn't actually the case. Kodie vowed to kill him, but Keten made him promise not to attempt so, for fear that he may lose his own life. With that Kodie made the promise, wanting more to focus on protecting her, and also revealed about his past with Nolwen telling her his own tragic tail. It further strengthened their bond to one another, admitting they loved each other.

Personality

Kodie can have a very calm, and cool personal, though at times he can have moments of being very high strung. He is also very confident and can come off as cocky, due to being a veteran adventurer. Despite his experience, he will always be helpful to an inexperienced Adventurer, knowing full well what he had endured when he started. He can also be extremely loyal to the people he cares about. Kodie will not judge anyone, through his years of experience and traveling, he has met all kinds of people in all walks of life. He can easily befriend anyone (and is even a friend to a Voidsent).

He doesn't like combat unless it's life threatening, and if that is the case he will attempt to kill his opponent, the list of deaths he is responsible for is almost endless. Though of course he will use judgement on a fight, if someone was drunk trying to pick a fight with him, he will at least make them unconscious (He even has specially made ammunition that can stun opponents). But if someone tries to harm a person he cares about, it's something they will quickly regret.

His flaws are at times he will keep his negative emotions bottled up, quick to self blame which then can lead to heavy drinking or disappearing for long periods of time, and while it may not be considered negative, he is rather flirty, especially towards Miqo'tes. He does have strong negative feelings towards the Ixali, and Kobolds due to both races being responsible for the deaths of people he loves.

Rumors

"When he's at the bar alone, I notice him staring at his necklace with a forlorn look. I don't know what the necklace is, but I think it's a flower coated in something.."

"I've seen him wear a strange looking mask, with eyes glowing red, I was alarmed because it looked Garlean!"

"Wow he really likes red, I think it's ingrained in his wardrobe!"

PC Rumors: (Feel free to add your own, just be nice please!!)

• "Yes, I've seen him! He seems to like the Quicksand, you know, standing there in that coat of his! Like adventurers do! He's a friendly guy too -- and actually seems to know what he's doing too!" - Aya Foxheart

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Current Relations

♥ Lovers/Dating    ♥ Romantic Interest    ♥ Attraction   ● Friendly    ● Neutral    ● Negative

♥ Keten Satza - Kodie ran into her often at the Quicksand or various areas of Ul'dah. The two developed a friendship, and had often traveled together just to do something different than sitting around and drinking at the bar. He encouraged her to pursue becoming a spy, and in fact has recruited her to assist him in a job that would require someone of her skills. Their attraction to each other grew in each meeting they've had, and he has admitted he has feelings for her, even saying he may be falling for her. In their recent date..or mini vacation at Costa, the two admitted their feelings and officially became a couple. Though her only limit was that she not "belong" to him, but only be partners and lovers. Kodie found the request a little odd but accepted, wanting to be with her no matter what. Kodie discovered she was an escaped slave, but vowed to protect her, he in turned revealed that she wasn't his first love, losing his previous one over a year ago. That did strengthen things between the two, admitting that they love one another. While Kodie promised not to go after her former Master, he has vowed to find a way to free her from the collar, and will protect her from any threat no matter what the cost. Both he and Keten have decided that they will make Limsa their home, for the time being staying at the Drowning Wench's Inn for the long term until they're able to obtain a house in Mist.

♥ U'ami Rahz - Another he met at the Quicksand, her constant excitement, and seemingly endless boost of energy quickly reminded him of his wife Nolwen. Though U'ami obviously stands out on her own, always curious of everything around her. While she doesn't carry herself as a woman of class, he is also drawn to that carefree, upbeat attitude. He also admitted his feelings for her, as they have spent several nights together. He has not seen her in several weeks, and while he has moved on to a closer relationship with Keten. After over a month, the two would reunite, he told her about his relationship with Keten and she seemed somewhat understanding (well as understanding as one would who doesn't know a lot about Hyur style relationships), but at least the two are able to spend time together, and continue their "fun".

♥ Madam Seraphine - Kodie met her at the Colosseum of Ul'dah. He was drawn to her by the fact she wore a mask, and eventually convinced her to remove it. When she revealed to him she was a Voidsent, Kodie showed no fear, in fact treated her the same way he did before the discovery, even allowed her to feed from his aether when she needed it. Though the pair meet few and far between, Kodie does enjoy every time they do meet up, there is an obvious physical attraction they share for one another. The two finally had the date they had planned weeks ago, he enjoyed the time they spent, and hoped the feeling was mutual with Sera. He considers her one of his most trusted friends.

♥ Ari'za Tyanu - Their first meeting didn't go too well, when he approached Ari'za she was rather standoffish, but Kodie's persistence paid off as she finally began to open up, and the two became close friends. Her past life seems to cause a lot of walls to be built up, and Kodie has helped somewhat to break them down, the two have also spend a few nights together, but due to how different things are going on in their lives, an actual relationship would be difficult. Still Kodie cares greatly for her, and has even helped by playing match maker for her (though it was a semi failed attempt). A second attempt occurred that seemed to be successful, and Kodie is happy at the fact the Ari seemed to have found someone, and is there to encourage her when her doubts begin to creep up.

● Isetaari Nuru - Kodie was given a job where he would be paired off with a healer for the mission. At first he was hesitant as it would be the first healer would team up with since Nolwen was his partner. There was something calm about her, but she seemed to keep a lot of her past hidden. Their mission went over well despite a few snags, and in the end they considered each other friends, even to the point where Kodie would simply call her "Partner", he hopes to work with her more in the future and hope to develop their friendship.

● M'jumalis Yashna - Kodie met her in the Quicksand, he quickly found out she was a famous perfumer and a very successful businesswoman. He has worked a few jobs for her, escorting shipments from Limsa to Ul'dah, and has even made sure his mid week schedule is clear to assist in further shipments. Though the two will constantly meet in the Quicksand and converse to borderline flirting.

● Shar Torgud - The two met at Limsa, though it took them awhile to introduce, they were both seemingly too busy to stare at one another. But once the pair got talking, they got along fairly quickly. Kodie discovered she was a wanderer, seeking a place of her own, or possibly return home to Othard. She told him she had skills with healing magic, so he took her to the Conjurer's guild in hopes she would decide to stick around a little longer.

● Haleine Charbonneau - Another person he had met at the Quicksand. Haleine had challenged him to a game of dice, Kodie would win the game in which Haleine would assist him in anything Kodie required his services for. Still Kodie has not used the favor yet, but the two would meet at the Quicksand a few more times, both seemingly quick to outwit each other with words. While others seem to find Haleine odd, and even mistreat him, Kodie doesn't judge his antics, and will always be friendly to him, even when Haleine seemingly flirts with him.

● Midori Moonsong - Kodie overheard a few other people giving her a hard time, while she seemed very inexperienced, and well to put the term easily naive. Kodie decided to offer his assistance in getting her from Ul'dah to Gridania while exploring the lands. She however disappeared for a few weeks, and he was very worried fearing the worst. Though thanks to someone else, he did find her at a Mansion in Lavender Beds, though it would seem she ended up with someone who she refers to as "Master". While Kodie is very wary of her situation, he is leaving it be due to the fact that she is safe, and seemingly very happy with her current state. The two will meet on occasion at the Quicksand.

● Sachi Mori - Kodie met Sachi at Ul'dah, the two seem to have gotten along rather easily. When mentioned he was looking for someone that he thought was missing, and giving Sachi the person's name. Sachi immediately took him to the house Midori was living in, as it was the same place she was working at. While Kodie doesn't seem very trusting of the residence beside Sachi and Midori, again he doesn't interfere seeing as Sachi seems to be happy about her situation.

● Rihxo Matoi - Their meeting was based on how much the two seemed to love the color red, especially on their coats. Kodie found her to be very interesting, and sweet like her nick name. While their first meeting was a brief one, he hopes to run into each other often and develop their friendship even more.

● Tazara Terumi Yuuki - She literally ran into him just outside of the Drowning Wench, and it was thankfully that he wasn't close to the edge of the balcony, he may have taken a sudden dive into the water. Her Dragon companion needed help, so he used one of his favors (one of many) from the Arcanist guild to provide him an antidote to nurse the Dragon back to health. He paid no mind to the strange senses he was feeling towards it, in fact the almost felt similar to Seraphine's which lead him to believe there was some sort of void magic within her, that did not matter with him though. The two parted ways soon after, but Kodie had a feeling he would see her again.

● Leon Azarias - A Sharlyan who just recruited him for a job that would require them to enter Amdapoor. The pay was rather lucrative so it was difficult to pass up (especially since he also knew that Sera would be recruited for the job), while Kodie doesn't seem bothered by Leon's eccentricness, he can see why that would annoy others. Though while he has no problems with the Sharlyan, had he known the things Leon did to Sera, the Sharlyan would more than likely have several bullet holes in him.

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Other Notes

Kodie is an Adventurer for Hire, though he can be found in Quicksand, or The Drowning Wench during his time off.

He is highly skilled in range combat from bows to guns, his accuracy is almost unmatched. He prefers hand to hand combat if having to fight up close, though depending on the situation, can be very ruthless and will use anything to take down his enemy. He doesn't like sporting fights, and thus you'll never see him in any competitions. While he is formally Lancer, he'll never use a weapon like that again, and has very low skills when it comes to using swords. Kodie also has no magic abilities.

OOC Notes: My character is the typical "Rogue with a heart of gold" troupe, is willing to shoot first if needed (Think Han Solo, Malcolm Reynolds, Peter Quill) and obviously his main outfit is inspired by Star-Lord. Though lately he's been more of leaning towards the good side of things, but still he's willing to work with criminal organizations for certain jobs, as long as they don't involve harming, killing, or kidnapping innocent people. Also this wiki is always in a work in progress, so check often for updates and changes! Who knows maybe I'll have a nice set up like Madam Seraphine's!

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