Paerl "Rita" Guldbloewyn

[edit] Character Tendancies Relationships Rumors RP Hooks Related Images Links & Footnotes  Paerl "Rita" Guldbloewyn Retired Bandit Queen Gender Female Race Roegadyn Clan Lohengarde Citizenship Limsa Lominsa Alignment Chaotic Good ♦ In-Game Brief Tall and Bothersome, Rita walks and talks like she's seen and done it all. Obnoxiously butting herself into other's lives, this old Roegadyn has lived too long for the sins she's committed. In general, send a tell first. If I'm out and about I may miss any emotes. Rita is a woman who could literally be doing anything at any time. Got an idea for a hook? Pitch it. It'll probably work. ♦ General Paerl Guldbloewyn, assumed named Rita, is a Lohengarde Roegadyn currently living in retirement from a profitable life of banditry. Born into a wealthy and once prosperous mercantile family within the merchant city of Ul’dah, Paerl and her family were struck low by tragedy, leaving them poor and destitute, many forced into the criminal underground to make good on long outstanding debts. With an uncanny skill for the trades and gil, Paerl used her privileged upbringing to her utmost advantage, eventually growing into an infamous bandit queen who harassed and tore through Eorzea up until just years before the Calamity. Though the events are unknown, Paerl has since retired from her old life, and has since assumed her new identity as simply Rita. Using the vast fortunes she had amassed during her numerous successful campaigns and her own self-styled adventuring, she has since established herself as a woman of high class, with various holdings owned in Eorzea. She has kept to herself since, seemingly having turned her back on her former life entirely. ♦ Appearance With over seven fulm to her height, Rita boasts a hardy and well worn appearance earned from a lifetime of working and wandering. Her cheek bones high, eyes narrow, strong nose and well built jaw give her a handsome appearance. Auburn hair sits on her scalp, combed back neatly, sometimes cut short. Her body is often marked by a few nicks and scars, most to be found on her arms. She is a storied woman, entering into the fifties of her years. Dark shadows and lines in her cheeks give away her age, and she boasts the creases of someone who smiles frequently, her cheeks constantly stretching to the edges of her visage. ♦ Demeanor Rita is prone to relaxing in her old age. Simple if somewhat fancy clothing is all she seems to desire, with the woman often happy to don a simple sundress and sunhat. However, her simplicity in cloth is completely contrasted by her complete excess in jewelry, to the point that some may call gaudy. An eccentric by heart, she carries copious jewels, golds and silvers on her person. From simple things as a gold chain necklace, to a brilliant ruby ring on her forefinger. The number of decorations on her can go from anywhere to a number easily counted on one hand, or to a massive shining collection hanging from her neck and shoulders, with ornamental plate pieces fashioned onto her ceremoniously. She wears these regardless of it being appropriate to what setting she finds herself in. ♦ Personality Rita would like to style herself as a writer, a scholar, a fighter and a lover. However, she tends to present herself as intentionally slow witted, lazy and self-deprecating. Her sense of humour bizarre and sometimes inappropriate, she is really quick to laugh and jest at herself and others though more often than not it is never above a childish tease. As a retired bandit and adventurer, she has largely backed away from the heat and pressure of her old life, instead choosing to live out the rest of the life she has in luxury and to hope for contentment. She reacts slowly to events, and sometimes will even play herself as just dimwitted to achieve this. She is also an impressively maternal person, who is somewhat notorious for picking up strays and caring for them. However, she is also an incredibly restless and rambunctious old woman, with far too much energy that often boils over into immediate fits of adventure and wanderlust. She is prone to leave any of her homes unoccupied for months at a time, only returning once she had returned from some grand epic, or at least with a good story to tell. Stories are an incredibly important part of her repertoire and motivations. They are the single greatest thing she seems to seek out at the middling of her life, willing to go to extraordinary lengths to collect them. Stories as simple as those from long lost cultures, ancients, gods. Or tales as grandiose as long arduous epics involving clashing heroes. The romance of such real life events stirs the fires in the Roegadyn's heart, urging her onto often ill-advised quests of her own. Likes ■ A dusty old tome, long forgotten by those who penned it. Rita finds the prospect of finding lost literature to be one of her greatest treasures. She values her library above even herself. ■ Her beloved pet Bombs, Powder Keg and Neige. She lavishes both of these bombs with tailored outfits and styles their flames as if it were hair. She is prone to taking either of them with her on a leash, if she is able. ■ Gold, jewels, diamonds, fabrics, furrs. Rita pretends that she does not understand the definition of the word 'subtle'. Rita collects and wears all sorts of adornation, especially if they have a story associated with it. A ring she often wears? Once belonged to an affluent Allagan. The silver necklace? Was crafted in the name of a King's unrequited love. ■ Ambition. Rita is absolutely tickled by any who show any desire to rise above, regardless of context. She finds it to be one of the most important indicators for a great individual. ■ Myths and Legends. Rita absorbs herself into the misty stories of the past. A great part of this were the stories her father used to tell her when she was young. Dislikes ■ Monetarists. Rita's long list of sins in her past as a Bandit made her much an enemy of the wealthy and affluent in Ul'dah. Even in the present, she sees their influence as a corruption that taints the very foundation of her beloved home nation. ■ Lalafell. Rita has developed a very deeply rooted bias against this race, whom she sees as untrustworthy and greedy. There are exceptions to this, as Rita is a avid Royalist and supporter of Sultana Nanamo Ul Namo. ■ Slavery and related trafficking of both the beast races and those of men. In her career as a Bandit, Rita went above and beyond for her own reforms within her ranks. Those associated with any of these trades were immediately put to the axe. ■ Oath Breakers. Rita expects any promise made to her to be kept. She expects the same from herself. Hobbies/Talents ■ WIP WILL ADD MORE. Weaknesses/Faults ■ WIP MORE TO COME Relationships ❤ Platonic Love ❤ Crush ❤ Romantic Love ❤ In a relationship ✔ Good Standing ● Neutral Standing ✖ Poor Standing ¿We Just Don't Know ❤ ✔ Aurorane Saielle – Spouse ◢ Common Rumors (Easily overheard) ■"You know, I heard a few people caught her roughing up a pair of Wailers. Something about her deviled voidsent pet lighting up a bush." ■"She got out of a fine from the Yellow Jackets by playing herself off as daft and old." ■"She orders tea at the pub! I'm serious!" ■"She keeps stealing and eating the fruit from my shop! Everytime, I have to tell her to pay!" ◢ Moderate Rumors (Moderately difficult to overhear) ■"There's been rumblings that she keeps a dormant bomb in her basement. Not just any ol' Voidkin bomb either. But one of the big ones. One summoned by the Allagans... Y-You don't think it could.... Blow? Do you?" ■"She used ta' frequent the local brothel - though haven't seen her sneak off there recently." ◢ Rare Rumors (Very difficult or rarely overheard) ■"So. Keep this down low, mate. I was commissioned for a very hush-hush repair job on that woman's Mammet retainer. I did not get why she wanted it so secretive until I actually started the job. Under that fresh paintjob, clothes, is parts older than I am. For fuck's sake, I think they even further back than her whole family. I'm talking about bits and pieces that looked to be Allagan, originally. Whoever first built him, they're long dead. I kept trying to tell her that I couldn't feasibly do this on my own, kept trying to get outside help. She kept turning me down and just offered more gil instead." Player Character Rumors (( Feel free to add some!)) ■"She's dim as a guttering candle and overly fond of bombs. Not the exploding kind, the other exploding kind. Probably pretty easy to fleece." - Spahro Llorn ■"She keeps asking for grilled cheese. I don't know what that is. I don't offer that service. Why does she keep asking for a damn grilled cheese?? Pays well, though." - Z'zhumii Umi ■"I haerd she wendway the full o' Eorzea! I reck she's treasure in her dwell! Gryr mouns of klybrighy gold ayn geim!" - A Roegadyn lass ★ RP Hooks and Potential Connections ★ General ■ MORE TO ADD, WIP Currently Looking For ■ WIP Screenshots Soon. Artwork Soon Links: Character Tumblr: Ageing Pearl __________________________________________________________ More on Character: Good Golly look at this WIP __________________________________________________________ Credit: Wiki layout belongs to Yorumei Uranakei.