Qhora Bajihri

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

Character

Qhora has found herself in an odd place. Stifled under unrelenting rage and a growing conscience provoking her to change her life, she decided to abandon the people she knew and strike out on her own. She's had less than the best of luck so far, but she's not without hope for something better, something different.

General

Nicknames/Aliases: Q
Age: 23
Date of Birth: 13th Sun 1st Astral Moon
Sexuality: It's complicated
Marital Status: Unavailable
Religion: Unimpressed 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 and always wears a strip of black paint across her eyes like a bandit mask.
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: Lost, but good-natured, although sometimes it comes across forced. She keeps a cutting tongue, and has to consciously remember not to use it against just anyone.
Quirks: Generally a loner. She'll take a shine to people who display enviable wit in her presence, though, especially if they manage to get a rise out of their targets.
Intelligence: She's smart, and generally acts deliberately, but when she makes mistakes they tend to be a result of being pushed into impulsiveness.

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
Grimoires

Dislikes

Women, girls, females
Crowds
Heroes
Victims

Hobbies/Talents

Fishing
Cooking
Camping
Stealth
Bladework
Basic arcanistry
Reading - she tends to stick to non-fiction, histories, textbooks, etc.

Other

Favorite food: Eel Pie
Favorite color: Royal Blue

Relationships

Family

She says she's an orphan, but people who've heard her get angry or slip up and discuss her past may have noted that she harbors a lot of family-related hatred right up front, which doesn't exactly fit with someone who's never known her family.

She also claims to be the sole survivor of a less than successful Ul'dahn street gang who operated before the Calamity.

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.

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.

In recent months, she's left the Company behind to strike out into new territory, but she keeps in contact with Sindl, if not anyone else from the group.

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

(These need updating.)

Character Tropes

Writings

Annotations

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

Qhora Bajihri

Gender	Female
Race	Miqo'te
Clan	Keeper of the Moon
Citizenship	Ul'dah
Occupation	Finder, Mercenary
Server	Balmung