Sana Sunada

INTRODUCTION Just as childhood was a tangle of mysteries and puzzlement, so too is Sana's adulthood. With a birthplace well-remembered but unmarked on any map, an incurable homesickness but no homeland, and a wealth of untold stories crumbling into forgotten words, she finds herself clinging memories and hopes. Her surname she invented at a desk to sign paperwork, and her name was decided by the stranger who first thought of something suitable. Her heritage is comprised of theories. She is a woman without history, and attributes the hollowness within her to it. APPEARANCE Her horns are seashell-shaped oddities framing a pretty, pale face. Like conch shells, they unwind upon themselves, tapering into thin, taffy-twisted spirals. They are smooth and almost silky to the touch, shining with a peachy glow in the sunlight. Oddities, too, are her scales. As if shaped by the hand of a dollmaker, they are molded in a lace-like pattern that seems more decorative than functional. Any dips, folds, or ridges are staggeringly shallow, terraced so uniformly that they look fake; in the places they grow thickest—which isn't thick at all—they are even pockmarked with little, symmetrical shapes of no function. She is, put politely, dainty. Frail from head to tail to toe, the contours and ridges of her bones create for her a figure more than any curves do. Her ribcage juts from under her clothing more than her breasts swell; her legs, with her feet put together, only touch at the knees. With the move of a finger comes the twitch of a tendon on the back of her hand; her wrists look as though easily snapped—one looks like it has been snapped. And she is beautiful. It isn't so much enchanting or psalm-inspiring so much as it simply is. It is a fact. Framed by her long bangs, her gentle features are made gentler. The soft swell of her cheekbones and the dip of her brow into the shallow slope of her nose draw the observer’s gaze to sleepy, half-lidded eyes, that, in the right lighting, turn dark and sultry. Distinguishing marks: + Underweight; bony + Seashell horns + Unusually patterned scales + Fair skin; dark hair Common accessories: + Light necklaces, sometimes; usually easy to overlook. + Feathered hair ties + A touch of clear nail polish PERSONALITY She’s a people-pleaser, ever at the mercy of her loved ones when it comes to emotional stability. But she’s too quiet—she just can’t overtly ask for the love that she needs; instead, she’s forever trying to subtly gain it through small, silent gestures: making rosemary tea, mending clothes, listening to woes for hours on end, or tidying up living spaces. If there’s one thing Sana is good at, it’s cleaning—she’s a only clear-minded person because she makes a habit of straightening things in houses. She’s very talented at keeping herself distracted and her hands busy. She covers her mouth with her hand when she smiles. Aspects that stand out: + Observant + Quiet + Hardworking LIKES + Luxurious baths + Warm days and breezy nights by the sea + Cleaning, organization, and reassembly + Learning and studying—but mostly its payoff + Losing herself in boozy soirees DISLIKES + Gunblades and gunbreakers + Any talk of heresy at all + Unexpected physical contact/closeness + Talking about herself + Having to wear close-toed shoes FEARS + Killing + Hand-to-hand combat + Imperial weaponry, conscripts, and castra. + Ghosts and phantoms, spirits, and other spectral entities. + Superstitions STRENGTHS + Intuitive + Self-reliant + Polite and poised + Observant + Capable in crisis + Organized WEAKNESSES + Indecisive + Devotional + Ruminative + Dishonest + Nonconfrontational GOALS + To say thank you and goodbye properly + To compartmentalize the past neatly + To aid Othard's liberation and restoration + To hone a skill and/or trade to perfection + To live in the present OOC OOC INFORMATION PLAYER NOTES + 18+ and comfortable with mature/dark themes + I bounce between paragraphs and one-line banter depending on setting/crowd size + See the carrd for more info. Remember when it was cool to have a wiki? Me neither PERSONAL RP LIMITS + I will play: Things I am comfortable with. + I won't play: Things I am uncomfortable with. CONTACT INFORMATION + In-game: Sana Sunada, Mateus + Tumblr: heritageless.tumblr.com + Discord: spectra#5678 CHARACTER DETAILS SONGS + Jennifer Van Der Harten - Gu De Niste Ni Mise (Voice reference!) + The Battle of Land and Sea - Birdsong + Mariee Sioux - Wild Eyes + Lana del Rey - Say yes to Heaven + Mirah - Shells + Japanese Breakfast - The Body is a Blade PLOT HOOKS + ✦ An Ill-mannered Maid:: After being caught bathing in her employer's quarters on the job, it has been increasingly difficult to find any work at all. The bad word of a prominent Ul'dahn merchant-lady has all but blackened Sana's once-nonexistent reputation. Luckily, she doesn't have to worry about that for now. + ✦ Girl with the Pearly Horns:The likeness she bears to the subject of a since painted-over mural in Ul'dah would be uncanny if she weren't actually the subject. For a handful of gil and a hot meal, she posed for a Lalafellin painter with tall aspirations—and a taller ladder. Sitting still for bells and bells and *bells* ultimately birthed a masterpiece—but now, Sana would say that the night she spent in a warm bed with a full belly wasn't worth the nightmare of being recognized for moons + ✦ Firefly of the Greenwater:Partygoers, privateers, and party-crashing pirates present during the last year's Greenwater Slurry—an annual Lominsian drinking festival celebrated in the early summer—might remember a dancer dressed only in her smallclothes and a light-catching robe spinning beneath strings of light. So taken with this dancer were the attendees that she earned herself a nickname. The firefly is still spoken of aboard some ships—more often, though, is she dreamt of, a vision of golden embers and glittering gauze set aflame by lanterns.

INFORMATION Name - Sana Sunada Pronunciation - Sah-nah Race - Au Ra, Raen Name Day - 4th Sun of the 2nd Astral Moon Deity - Imagination + Citizenship: Eorzean + Occupation: Translator; gunslinger + Hair color: Silky black + Eye color: Periwinkle + Complexion: Porcelain + Piercings: None + Marks or tattoos: None + Alignment: True neutral + Sexual orientation: Asexual + Romantic orientation: Fearful + Relationship status: Unwed + Favorite food: Steamed shrimp dumplings + Favorite drink: Creamy milkshakes with piled-on sweets + Favorite color: Green Template made by User:Abelia Kir Armiger and free for use!