Lily Nibelung
| Lily Nibelung | |
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General Information
Lily has had a fairly diverse set of experiences in her life for one who has not yet seen twenty-five summers. As a young adult she was inducted into the Wood Wailers as a fledgling member of the Fifth Spears much to her father's delight, and pressed into service keeping the forest paths of Quarrymill safe. Surprisingly adept for one so inexperienced, she found herself able to keep up with most drills and exercises performed by the Fifth Spears. Her career as a wood wailer was not meant to be, however. During a fairly routine mission to cull the annually rutting antelopes on the forest path, she fatally skewered and killed one such antelope. As the light left the animal's eyes, Lily felt a profound sense of sadness that touched her soul. A few days later, Lily resigned her commission as a Wood Wailer, putting up her lance, still stained crimson with the blood of the beast she killed. The next few weeks saw the woman lost, wandering Gridania without purpose, until she was approached by Master E-Sumi-Yan, the conjurer guildmaster.
Sensing the turmoil in the woman's spirit and recognizing her inner potential, he introduced her to the soothing ways of the elementals and the healing power of white magic. Thus, did Lily begin her first tentative steps into the path of the Conjurer. In the years following, Lily continued to progress her skill to the point where she was recently honored to become one of a very small handful of non-padjal white magi. Under the careful guidance of the Padjali, she continues to nurture her mastery of the elements, though she still has a long way to go. Recently she has opened a small apothecary shop, where she uses the woodland skills she learned as a Wood Wailer to procure the herbs and plants needed for her potions, though she remains fiercely loyal to the conjurer's guild and treats the shop as a secondary venture.
Appearance
Lily has a somewhat average frame, very slightly trending towards the petite side. She is slender with only slight muscle mass, giving her the deceptive appearance of one who might be as delicate as the flowers she tends. Nevertheless, Lily has a surprising amount of resilience perhaps as a result of the many exercises she participated in as a Wood Wailer.
She stands roughly 5'2", and has long flowing blonde hair that carries way beyond her shoulders. Her soft blue eyes exude an aura of serenity, and she meets most onlookers' gazes with a hesitant, timid smile.
Cheerful and optimistic most of the time, she almost always has some sort of flower or plant adorning her hair, a subtle reflection of the type of spirit she is inside. Her attire is generally brightly-colored or comprised of pastel pinks.
Personality
Personality Traits
- Nurturer
- Serene
- Innocent
- Quiet
- Shy
- Gullible
- Protective
- Unworldly
- Faithful
- Animal-loving
- Cheerful
Mannerisms
Lily is a friendly and outgoing woman, having grown out of her shell of insecurity into a more confident woman thanks to the support of her closest friends. Scarcely recognizable from the wallflower she used to be, she now easily navigates social gatherings without much issue, even tossing in a joke or two.
She is a dilligent worker, and maintains a sense of responsibility to her fellow conjurers or guildmates. Her calm and serene nature is contagious, and those who spend time with her typically tend to hesitate before doing anything rash. A nurturer by nature, she finds herself fussing over the most trivial of injuries to her companions and she can be prone to being a bit of a worry-wart.
Lily has an interesting combination of a Gridanian and Limsa-Lominsan accent. She speaks with common Gridanian idioms having grown up there, but also has a Limsa-Lominsan cant due to all the time she has spent around pirates and sailors in Limsa Lominsa.
Philosophy & Ideals
Lily is nonviolent by default, preferring to talk or bargain instead of resorting to blows. She is often quick to see the good in people, which can bite her when these people fail to deliver on promises or expectations.
She has a love of animals and those who cannot protect themselves. Though she shies from initiating conflict, she will not hesitate to protect those dear to her when they are endangered. Generally the only way to anger Lily is to inflict pain to her friends, and more than one enemy has been "thunked" by her stave for daring to hurt her companions.
Lily tends to keep dissenting opinions to herself, shying away from igniting conflict and is more likely to simply "go with the flow" unless she feels strongly about something. She is a consummate diplomat, drawing people together, easing the burdens of the troubled, and providing succor to the downtrodden.
Personality Tidbits
- Behind the gentle smile and the petite frame lies a voracious appetite that puts even the largest Roegadyn to shame.
- Lily is a true bleeding heart, often throwing her lot in with hopeless or lost causes.
- She has a tendency to stammer when flustered or uncomfortable which can make understanding her difficult.
- Lily has a tough time traveling by Aetheryte. Prone to bouts of vertigo and nausea, she would rather take a long walk home than use an aetheryte crystal right next to her.
- Lily's tolerance for alcohol has slowly built up over many moons with her closest friends, but she still can over-indulge, making her a giggly goofy mess of a woman on those occasions.
- Though she has done generally well for herself at her shop, Lily has trouble accumulating a substantial amount of wealth because she is always giving charity to virtually every cause she comes across.
- Largely recovered from the trauma of her earliest experiences, Lily holds a fierce loyalty to her closest friends and family who helped to draw her out of her shell.
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Early Life
Childhood
Lily was born to the Wood Wailer Commander Kelvothan and his wife, Cecilia. She is the youngest child in the family, having an older brother - Jeruh. With her father oftentimes missing due to his responsibilities defending the Shroud, Lily spent most her childhood as a companion to her brother's various mischievious schemes. The two siblings were inseparable, despite the eight year difference in age between the two. Lily's first tragedy struck when she only seven years old, when her mother Cecilia took ill. Despite the ministrations of the best herbalists and conjurers in Gridania, her mother passed away one night peacefully in her bed. This loss was felt particularly hard by the young girl, as Jeruh also left during this time to begin his apprenticeship in the Wood Wailers. Feeling lonely and isolated, she attempted to make friends with the other Gridanian children. Perhaps in part to her shy nature though, she often found herself bullied and teased by her peers. Often she would be chased away to the edge of the woods or even beaten by the stronger kids until she simply stopped trying to fit in. Instead, she spent her time on the outskirts of Gridania, playing with the various critters that would happily accept the scraps of bread she would bring them.
One day while fleeing the cruelty of the older children, Lily fled deeper into the woods and got lost. Wandering around in what seemed like circles, the small child blundered her way straight into a morbol. Screaming in terror, Lily could only stare in fascinated horror as the beast closed on her, maw agape. Moments before the little girl would be devoured, a flash of white light lit up the woods as a winged horse crashed into the creature, battering it with its wings and bludgeoning it away with its hooves. Lily took the unexpected opportunity to flee. She would be found some time later by a Wood Wailer patrol, though they laughed off her explanation of a winged horse as the traumatic experience of a young child.
Frustrated, Lily would often go into the woods as she grew older looking for the horse that had saved her, though her efforts went unrewarded.
Adolescence
When Lily was 16, she formally entered the service of the Wood Wailers as a cadet in an effort to win her father's approval. Somewhat surprisingly, she was an able recruit, capable of matching up with most other Wood Wailer cadets in sparring matches and earning the respect of her trainers. Favoring the lance, she seemed to have a natural affinity with the weapon and often defeated other older Wood Wailers, which did nothing for her popularity among her peers.
By 18, she officially became a member of the Fifth Spears of the Wood Wailers. She became stationed in the South Shroud near Quarrymill and tasked with keeping the roads safe for travellers. During her tenure, things were relatively quiet, and so Lily spent many shifts observing and learning more about the woodlands around her. This fascination with the natural plants and animals of the Shroud grew into a lifelong passion that she still carries with her to this day.
Often left to her devices during offtimes, Lily spent a lot of time traversing the woodland and exploring. She discovered the hidden grove of Urth's Fount, where she would experience a life-changing event though she would not know it at the time. Spending time in the serenity of Urth's Fount's grove, she would begin to feel the energy of the elementals calling to her, tugging at her soul. During one particular such evening, she would experience a moment the Pad'jali call "The Awakening" - a moment in which one's spirit experiences an epiphany that allows them to better communicate with the Elementals. Opening her palm, she found a small crystal clutched there, though she did not understand the significance at the time. Confused, but otherwise unaware of anything changing within her, Lily would continue to meditate in between her shifts at Urth's Fount, slowly becoming more attuned to the Shroud and the whispers of the elementals. It was also at this time when Lily again sighted the winged horse from her youth. Touching down in the grove at one such opportunity, the creature allowed her to approach it. Falling in love with the incredible creature, Lily and the pegasus would share a powerful bond, though she did not tell anyone else of the creature's existance, content to allow it the freedom to live unharassed by the curiosity of man.
Life went on for the young wood wailer, though soon it would turn to tragedy. During one of her shifts, Lily and her squadron were sent on a mission to cull a pack of rutting antelopes that were running amok. As Lily and her companions engaged the beasts, one of the animals charged at her. Instinct taking over, she deftly struck and skewered the animal through the heart. As the beast lie writhing at her feet in its death throes, Lily felt a powerful revulsion that shook her to her very foundation. She fell to her knees, dropping her lance and wept bitter tears as the light left the animal's eyes, cradling the antelope's head in her hands all the while. Soon after, the other animals had been driven off by the rest of her companions - but there had been a cost to Lily's inaction. Arthro, one of her Wood Wailer companions on her side, had been gouged by a flanking animal and gravely wounded. As Lily looked up with her blurry tear-streaked eyes at her Wood Wailer companions, she saw only scowls and disgust in their faces. Arthro would live, though he would never again walk - his leg was mangled beyond recovery.
Lily never again raised her lance. Three days after the incident, she resigned her commission and returned to Gridania in shame, blaming herself for Arthro's injuries. Too ashamed to return to her father who denounced her cowardice, she wandered the city in a daze seeking solace for the turmoil in her heart. One evening, sitting on the outskirts of the city as she did as a child, she was found by Master E-Sumi-Yan of the conjurer's guild who had taken a short walk in the early evening hours. He noticed the young woman's inherent rapport with nature and recognized the potential within her for channeling white mana. Soothing Lily's wounded heart, he was able to convince her to return with him to the conjurer's guild where he took her in as an apprentice conjurer. Lily would later describe her moment of Awakening and show him the Soul Crystal she had recieved. Surprised that the elementals would select a non-padjal to ascend to the mantle of white mage, he urged Lily to keep such information silent for now, fearful of the prejudice and reaction others might give to the woman should they discover the ascension of a white mage given to an untrained acolyte.
Adulthood
Lily has spent several years in the employ of the conjurer's guild where she practices her conjury daily on those petitioning for aid. Having been blessed by the elements for reasons unknown with the rarest of treasures, Lily has only just begun to explore the power of the elements within her. She continues to portray herself as a higher ranked conjurer, and only her closest friends know the truth of the soul crystal entrusted to her.
Moving to Mist to better represent the guild, Lily was prepared to sorrowfully leave behind her beloved pegasus companion. However, unbeknownst to the woman, the creature unexpectedly followed her to her new home finding its own niche amongst the nearby La Noscean peaks. Lily and the Pegasi always manage to find each other in the wilderness when they desire each other's company.
These days, Lily owns a small apothecary shop that operates in Mist, where she uses the knowledge she learned during those long nights as a Wood Wailer to brew all sorts of elixirs. Her lance, still stained crimson with the blood of the fallen antelope, sits above her mantle as a reminder to her of that fateful day. She is often contracted out through the Conjurer's guild to aid bands of adventurers who need a skilled healer for their ranks. She accepts these occasional commissions without complaint seeing them as part of her dues to the guild, and an opportunity to practice her craft.
Recent Times
Lily's early adult life in Mist found her visiting local establishments and trying to broaden her social circles, despite her shy nature. She met with some limited success and soon became affiliated with a number of establishments, primarily the Whispered Wish and Reverie in Ul'dah as well as the Calamity's End in Mist. During one of these trips, she met the first person she would become close to, a woman named Reina. The two would become close friends and confidants, and their relationship would eventually blossom into something more.
Tragically, Reina's past would catch up with her, resulting in her abduction at the hands of her former pirate crew. Devestated at the loss, Lily set off on a mission of recovery where she would encounter many dangers and challenges. In the end, Reina would be recovered though she was never the same after her ordeal. Reina soon took her leave from Lily to travel on her own, much to Lily's resulting sorrow. Lily would find it difficult to reconcile this loss, and closed herself up swearing never to become so close to someone again as she was always abandoned in the end by those she trusted most.
Despite this, Lily would find herself spending more and more time at the Whispered Wish - primarily with a few patrons and courtesans she enjoyed the company of. Soon enough, the barriers would begin to come down and the white mage was allowing herself to enjoy evenings of peach wine with a group of close companions. Of note were the lalafells Zozola and Lalamune, the Roegadyn Bhaldbyrm, the Miqo'te La'nette, and the Viera Daerin. (See Relationships)
Her most recent misadventure involved the voidsent Lydaea. Having been marked by the voidsent while gathering ingredients for her apothecary shop in the Southern Shroud, Lily was plagued by foul magic and nightmares that rendered her more and more susceptible to Lydaea's insidious manipulations. This culminated with a suggestion that Lily travel to the ruins of Amdapor and open a sealed recepticle that housed the trapped voidsent. Sensing the large amount of Lily's internal aether, Lydaea usurped control of Lily's body from her and used it to cause all sorts of mayhem across Eorzea. Luckily for Lily, her companions caught wind of Lydaea's possession and were able to tear the voidsent from the woman, freeing Lily and destroying Lydaea.
Lily was bedridden for days following the possession, weak and in need of serious medical attention. With the assistance of the Whispered Wish's physicians, she was able to make a recovery though the after-effects of Lydaea's cruel magic would be felt upon her companions for a long time. During this time, Lily confessed her feelings to one of her companions, Zozola, who had risked life and limb to save her from Lydaea's clutches. The feelings were reciprocated by Zozola, and the pair became partners and lovers - marking a significant milestone in the young woman's life. Zozola is a much needed source of comfort and support for the insecure woman, and Lily loves her dearly.
Most of the daytime hours, Lily operated her apothecary shop in the subdistrict of Mist where her potions were in high demand. With alchemy and botany not so common in the city of pirates, Lily often-times found herself buried in work orders. Thankfully Lily had the good sense to hire some help. She hired on a shinobi-turned-maid named La'nette, and she finally begins to see her workload dwindle to the point where she can spend more time out and about.
During the night-time hours she spent most of her time at the Whispered Wish, taking her evenings in the company of those who would call the establishment home. Sadly, this was not to last as other events would unfold surrounding Lily and her companions that would shatter the peaceful respite of the upscale place, including an episode in which one of Lily's companions was assumed to have been killed. With death and destruction so frequently happening around Lily and her companions, it soon became apparent that the group was no longer welcome there. Lily and her friends resolved to start their own establishment, and soon the Purple Orchid Cabaret of Mist was born.
The Purple Orchid Cabaret is still in its fledgling phase of development, but Lily does everything she can to help it thrive, particularly because her lover Zozola is the Director of Entertainment. These days, Lily finds herself working the bar in the recently opened establishment, mixing drinks more often than potions these days. Together, they have carved out a peaceful niche for themselves, but rarely are the fates so kind as to allow such moments to last long. There is movement in the shadows, and soon Lily's world will be turned upside-down once more...
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Relationship Status Key
- ☀ Loved One
- ❤ In Love
- ✿ Attraction
- § Complicated
- ♫ Friend
- ✔ Good Standing
- ✘ Poor Standing
- ● Neutral
- ✫ Uncertain
- ✞ Deceased
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Screenshots
Lily in her apothecary shop.
A moment she'll never forget.
The Voidsent Lydaea, in possession of Lily's body.
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RP Hooks
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Contracted White Mage
Lily is often contracted out on various jobs for adventurers with a need for mid-level guild support. She is a competent healer, a pleasant companion if a bit quiet, and more than capable in her own right.
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Need a Potion?
Lily is rapidly making a name for herself as a primary provider of alchemy and botany supplies in the Limsa-Lominsan region. Her prices are fair, and her goods are high quality. If you've a need of a potion, you've come to the right place!
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Child of Gridania
If you've grown up in Gridania, and are around Lily's age range, you might have vague memories of her as that "weird child" or the "animal girl".
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Wood Wailer
Lily's misadventure as a Wood Wailer is commonly known, especially to other members of the fifth. If you were a Wood Wailer in that part of the shroud, you might have even have been a part of the incident.
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Sketch Artist
If you're lucky, Lily will take a fancy to you, and you may find yourself the unaware subject of her night's charcoal sketch.
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Conjurer
Lily's is a mid-rank conjurer guild member and quite attuned to the elements thanks to her soul crystal. If you are a lower-level conjurer, she might have tutored or aided you at one time. If you are a higher level conjurer or white mage, you might have tutored her at one point in the past.
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Out and About
With the assistance of her closest friends, Lily is taking her first tentative steps into the world outside of her potion shop. You might get lucky and see her sitting at a bar, or eating a meal alone at a restaurant she's never been to before. With the right approach and a little encouragement, you could probably open up a conversation, were you so inclined.
Preferences
RP Preferences:
I'm open to roleplaying with just about everyone - Veteran or novice RPer alike! Walkups are welcome and encouraged. My only three real requests are:
First - That you try to keep OOC and IC interactions separate when possible. I really prefer trying to keep character interactions in-character, and trying to differentiate when I'm talking to your character and *you* is difficult when someone constantly switches between the two without a warning. So trying to use "(( ))" tags when possible is greatly appreciated! :)
Second - I welcome almost all backstories and roleplays. If you'd like to do some sort of life-changing collaboration storyline involving Lily, please clear it with me first so I can think about the story a bit ahead of time and make it an awesome experience for both of us! That being said, I almost never turn down playing a role in your character's development.
Third - Regarding character relationships, while I am okay with Lily becoming - slowly - involved with somebody romantically, It would need to be something that would be built up upon many roleplaying sessions. I also want to stress that it would be strictly IC and would have it not bleed into the real world. Please respect that I prefer to keep the boundary in-game and will respond negatively if you try to make it go beyond that. Thank you! :)
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Last Updated: March, 2020 Lily's Journal: https://lilynibelung.tumblr.com/ |
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