Qhora Bajihri

Qhora Bajihri
Gender	Female
Race	Miqo'te
Clan	Keeper of the Moon
Citizenship	Ul'dah
Occupation	Finder, Mercenary
Free Company	The Coral Sea
Server	Balmung

Character

(Entire page currently under editing. 01/21/2016) After going through an extremely rough patch that resulted in difficulty coping with much of her surroundings, Qhora has finally found a safe haven that allows her to come and go as she pleases. She happily works as a finder of things, something like a private investigator, but specializing in object retrieval.

General

• Nicknames/Aliases: Q
• Age: 23
• Date of Birth: 13th Sun 1st Astral Moon
• Sexuality: It's complicated
• Marital Status: Unavailable
• Religion: Unconcerned Individualist (Favors Halone)
• Alignment: Neutral Good (guided by conscience, not by law)

Appearance

• Height: 5'1" On the short side of miqo, but not tiny.
• Body: Dark skin, nearly black. Wiry, all angles.
• Face: Oddly round relative to her stringy body with pinchable cheeks she doesn't much care for. She has an old scar across her right eye.
• Eyes: Blue.
• Hair: Black. Currently wearing it long, but in braids.
• Clothing: She likes to wear black and deep blue, preferring leather, but she's far from fashion conscious.

Behavior

• Demeanor: Cheerful, but often quiet, preferring to observe her surroundings before speaking up. Intensely curious to the point of risk taking, but not so that it shows.
• Quirks: (TBA)
• Intelligence: (TBA)

Combat

• Style: Qhora takes her cues from Limsa Lominsa's rogues with whom she worked for a time before moving back to Ul'dah.
• Strengths: She's fast and tough. She can take a smack and get up and keep fighting, with a tenacity belied by her relatively small frame.
• Weaknesses: She has a sort of endurance, but she doesn't have outright strength. If she can't get mobile in order to get in a lot of fast hits in specific weak points, she's in a tough situation.

Likes

• Fish
• Solitude
• Vicious Wit
• Travel
• Darkness
• Knives
• Alchemy

Dislikes

• Women
• Crowds
• Heroes
• Victims

Hobbies/Talents

• Fishing
• Thievery
• Bladework
• Reading

Other

• Favorite food: Eel Pie
• Favorite color: Royal Blue

Relationships

Family

Her family story is complicated, full of love and hate, joy and pain, often in the same sentence while she recounts events from her past. While she's open enough about her history, none of her immediate relatives have survived, so anything she says is impossible to prove. Anyone researching her by name would find a story completely different from the one she tells in person.

Other Characters

(♥ = Trusted, ♥ = Positive, ● = Neutral, ● = Negative, ≈ = Complicated )

Sindl Arahn ( ♥ ≈ )

Qhora clings to Sindl like she's drowning and he's a life preserver at the center of a landless sea, like he's the only thing keeping her alive. What exactly is going on between them is difficult to determine as both avoid the subject and neither are above lying about it, but the fact that there's something is hard to miss. She sees past his friendly exterior to something harder at his core that she relies on and needs to be around.

Renee Becquerel ( ♥ )

Qhora relies heavily on Renee's hospitality. She finds the woman's strength inspirational and supportive but refuses to question her eccentricities. This is perhaps the only instance in which Qhora willfully keeps her curiosity in check. Qhora would rather trust Renee without knowing her than delve into the strange details of her background.

M'sato Tia ( ● )

One of the few people she's met that hasn't immediately earned her hatred, she initially respected M'sato's sharp, vicious wit and angry attitude. The more she learned about him, the more that fell apart. The result is a difficult balance between admiration of the venomous exterior he's often shown in front of her and outright hatred of what she sees to be his soft, weak core that comes forward in quieter moments. In that sense, she sees him as Sindl's opposite.

Kai'ir Bajihri ( ● )

Qhora wants to not hate Kai'ir, and tries to cheer him on when he's attempting to extricate himself from lady problems, but she finds the way he constantly gets into lady problems so weak and pathetic that she wishes he'd just jump off a bridge so he'd at least have a problem that didn't involve ladies for once. No, they're not related.

Rumors

Common Rumors

(Easily overheard)

• Oh, her. Yeah, she'll track things down for cash. Not the only one, but it can't hurt if you're desperate. - Shady Dunesfolk

• Didn't she used to camp out on the Grindstone rock when Sindl was running the show? - Enthusiastic Hyur Fighter

• I swear she only smiles when something horrible happens to someone else. - Unpleasant Seeker

Rare Rumors

(Difficult or rarely overheard)

• I remember a girl with that name from years ago. Didn't she have red hair and pale skin? Must be someone else. - Curious Lalafell Merchant

• She looks really familiar. She didn't have facepaint or a scar, but other than that, I swear I saw her around before. Is she Coeurlclaw? Those mooncats all look the same after a while. - Suspicious Wood Wailer

PC Rumors

(Rumors written by other Player Characters. Feel free to add any IC rumors of your own.)

History

After the Calamity

The way Qhora tells it, she was part of a gang of scrappy street urchins who ran certain corners of Ul'dah before the Calamity. Despite surviving, the gang ended up getting wiped out by rivals in an extended conflict over territory. Some people remember the gang, but no one from Uldah in those years seems to remember her.

After losing all her friends, she decided to try and turn her life around by learning to be a healer and traveling around the world helping people. The more she traveled, the more she loved learning. She would beg lessons on almost anything from any trainer who would take her, trading everything she'd earned, as well as doing chores and running errands in exchange. As a result, she gained a base competence in a wide variety of skills - academic, martial, and practical. Her favorites were arcanistry focusing on healing, archery, and cooking, especially preparing fish.

Her story gets especially murky about a year ago. She avoids talking about what happened then, but people who saw her during that time might know she was seen in and around the Shroud.

She resurfaced in Limsa Lominsa, hiding among the rogues there.

Grim Echo

How Qhora came into contact with Sindl Arahn is unclear, but it was obvious from early on that he was the only reason she had anything to do with the Grim Echo company. She frequently expressed confusion and discontent at the way the group seemed to actively hinder what were supposedly its own goals. When Sindl stepped back from the Company for a time, Qhora also disappeared.

When Sindl returned, Qhora did not, though she keeps in contact with Sindl, if not anyone else from the group.

The Coral Sea

She roamed for a time, landing in a few different places, thinking she'd found a home and finding out she was wrong repeatedly. She began scrutinizing the members of each company she looked at, and settled at last with The Coral Sea. They promised and surprisingly delivered safe haven. She told little of her history, but over time relaxed and even grew her hair long, something she hadn't done since she was a child. Though she mostly keeps to herself, Qhora is currently happy where she is.

Other Things

RP Hooks

What does your character do?

She's trying to get away from her old life, but she keeps mercenary tendencies. She'll do all kinds of jobs for pay, but she turns them down more often than not these days, only accepting the ones that sound most interesting, involving travel or encounters where she's sure she'll learn something new.

What does your character want?

She's curious about all a wide range of things, especially alchemy and magic, but she'll often keep quiet about that curiosity unless it's drawn out of her. Still, that basic curiosity guides a lot of her decision making.

What does your character avoid?

Anything connected with her old life as an assassin, or her family most of the time. The secrets she keeps, while they might occasionally surface, aren't something she wants to push. Also, sex as a proposition or activity (less so a mere topic of discussion) will send her running, as will unwelcome physical touch.

What do you want to build on?

The basics of adventuring and making friends. She needs to find people with similar interests to bounce ideas off of and rebuild her identity that was recently broken.

Soundtrack

• Paramore - Ain't It Fun
• Pink - Stupid Girls

Character Tropes

• Beware the Quiet Ones
• These Hands Have Killed
• Used To Be A Sweet Kid
• Freudian Excuse
• Sympathetic Murder Backstory

Writings

• Stitched with Color (Journal)
• Shadowplay
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Annotations

Modified (read: mangled) from Deirdre Ta'ea's and Bancroft Gairn's templates.