Konalie Soucieux

Konalie Soucieux
Gender	Female
Race	Elezen
Clan	Half Duskwight/Wildwood
Citizenship	Ishgard
Nameday	23rd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon
Age	28
Orientation	Demiromantic Pansexual
Guardian	Halone
Nicknames	Friar of the Frost
Marital Status	Single

Konalie Soucieux

Konalie Soucieux is a Halonic Friar, hailing from Ishgard. A minor noble of house Haillenarte, she is the bastard product of her Wildwood mother’s affair with a Duskwight priest of Halone. Escaping the life of a knight, she became a fully trained friar to the Ishgardian church instead. Despite recent events being deeply ingrained in her heart, she still upholds the faith and offers guidance to those who would need an escape for their troubles.

Interests

Likes Helping others with their troubles Keeping the faith Teaching others

Dislikes Gaelicats (they terrify her) Snow Deliberate ignorance

Favorites Foods: Hot chocolate, Pancakes with syrup, stews, warm meals Drinks: Mead, Cider, Broth, Tea, Coffee Colors: Any shade of blue or red, black, and gold

Hobbies

• Writing prose/poetry + reading
• Playing musical instruments
• Painting

Appearance

Hair/Fur: Black with a red hue, tips dyed crimson
Skin: Pale with a greyish hue, covered by layers of makeup for the most part
Eyes: Honey
Height: 6'6"
Weight: 150 (PONZ)
Build: Long limbed, spoon shaped

Konalie is both Duskwight and Wildwood, her mother being Wildwood, and her father being Duskwight. She makes an effort to make herself look more Wildwood, however; Konalie often wears multiple layers of carefully applied makeup to try and make her skin tone closer to her mother's. Within a meter of her, however, you would be able to see the grey in her skin tone, with her being so pale as it is.

Konalie also dyes her hair different shades very often, though keeps the base of it black. Some of her favorite colors to switch between is the colors of her house, and also varying shades of blue and gold. About 90% of the time would you find her with bags under her eyes, as she either looks permanently worried or exhausted. Despite being a monk, her hands tend to shake a lot when not clasped together or fiddling with her clothing (mostly due to nervousness.)

Personality

• Alignment

  Lawful Good

• Motivation

  Being accepted for who she is and what she represents

• Disposition

  Anxious

• Outlook

  Dwelling on the past does nothing to shape the future.

• Positive personality traits

  Charming, Gentle, Eloquent, Dedicated, Caring

• Negative personality traits

  Painfully Honest, Independent, Obsessive, Perfectionist

• Miscellaneous quirks

  Konalie likes to dye her hair to match whatever she is wearing, even though she actually doesn't wear much other than her robes.

Biography

The youngest of 5 children, from a young age Konalie knew that she would have virtually nothing to inherit or gain from her social standing; being born a bastard, she was already ill afforded the comforts that would normally come of her title. Originally, her brothers did not resent her, but accepted her into the family - only after being taken in as a ward in their household.

Even so, her stepfather took great pains to hide the truth of her existence from the world; with his overwhelming worry that her mixed race being discovered as she grew older, Konalie had no choice but to comply. Only after he was killed in the Dragonsong war when she was barely older than a year, Konalie was recognized formally into the family as an adopted child, to avoid any further questioning.

Konalie found herself left alone in the halls of the Soucieux estate more often than not, holing up in the library or simply just staring out the window for hours waiting until her siblings returned from their duties. It was no surprise that she begrudingly came to accept that being alienated by her brothers was how things simply were, and having no place to escape it, Konalie's self-loathing grew and grew.

Her saving grace was her birth father, forbidden from making contact directly, after hearing of her plight he began sending letters about his duties in the royal vaults and all over Ishgard, telling vibrant stories of how others lived within Coerthas and even trips to the borders of Gridania.

Most of all, he would talk about his prayers, and the teachings he would preach about Halone wherever he went; and as a missionary teaching about the Twelve - through this newfound curiosity of the faith, she was introduced to one of her dearest friends at her very first church service, Adaline. Although they were different in many ways, being one of the only friends she'd ever had, Konalie absolutely cherished the time she got to spend with her.

Time went on, and eventually, Konalie heard the ill-hidden whispers of her family trying to figure out what to do with her; fully knowing what becoming a knight entailed after hearing rumors of Adaline being forced into it against her will, Konalie put her faith in the one thing she knew that would be constant, that being the faith of the Holy See.

The decision to become a Halonic Friar didn't come easily at first, as Konalie hadn't harmed a fly ever in her life - but after pleading her case through one final letter to her father, emissaries soon came to her doorstep to whisk her away to be educated further in her nation's religion. There, she found, it was easier to hide the truth of her birth, behind the preachings of Halone that she grew to love.

Soon Konalie found herself neck-deep in physical training, her overseers soon discovering that she had little talent with a sword. They instead decided to try out something different than the usual, testing out her physical abilities by going through different practice courses while getting used to fighting with handheld weaponry. She lost contact with the harsh world that she grew up in, and the teachings of Halone quickly filled the void of her loneliness.

Now a fully ordained friar, by the urging of her father Konalie travels from Ishgard to around Eorzea, to learn about the lives of others and help them along their chosen paths should they accept her philosophical teachings. Given the soul crystal of a monk by an Ala Mhigan refugee she helped come to terms with the past, it was a well needed adjustment to learn how to use her newfound abilities.

One day she hopes to be able to return home, to her mother and half-brothers to tell them about all of her acchievements, but until then, Konalie is satisfied with making small differences in those that she helps and gets to know.

Rumors

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Commonly heard ■ "You look troubled, outsider. Pray know that if you need someone to lend an ear, a friar in the Vault would be more than willing." - Ishgardian Knight ■ "I've seen this lady wandrin' round the city at nighttime, helpin' some o' th'drunk folk get back home. She even gave me n'm'family a warm meal once, too!" - A child in the Brume ■ "Friar Soucieux is one of the most dedicated women I have ever met, so treat her with respect should you meet her." - Halonic Priest

Occasionally heard ■ "Keep an eye out for the Friar of the Frost wandering the Brume in the evenings. I don't know what that woman is up to, but she always seems nervous about something." - Concerned Citizen ■ "Lady Soucieux, or so I've heard, is as much of a bastard as that late Fortemps knight was. Though what makes her even more disgusting is her being, well... Being of both clans. " - Snobby Noble

Rarely heard ■ "Ah, yes, Konalie? She helped my son out of a tough time after he was rejected his place as a knight. She hides a lot of pain behind a well pained mask, so choose your words with care." - Old Woman in the Brume

PC Rumors (written by other players) ■ "RUMOR 1" - CHARACTER NAME ■ "RUMOR 2" - CHARACTER NAME ■ "RUMOR 3" - CHARACTER NAME

Gallery - Nothing here yet!

OOC

((Mun here! I'm just here to make a quick note that A) things on this page are obviously subject to change, and B) on my RP preferences - I do not under any circumstance do ERP or things that are borderline, and would greatly appreciate if this is respected. I'm totally okay with walkup RP or you letting me know beforehand (via /tell and so on), and am open to just about any plotline or RP otherwise. Thank you!))

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