Singing Raptor

Basic Information

Origin

Name: Singing Raptor

Place of Birth: Unknown

Current Place of Residence: Pugilist's Guild of Ul'dah

Age: 22

Physical Characteristics

Height: Seven fulms, three ilms

Weight: Two hundred thirty-eight ponze, all muscle

Hair: Black

Eyes: Brown

Skin: Dark

Backstory

Singing Raptor is the adopted child of a Lalafellin trader and his Ala Mhigan bride, who owned a shop selling pewter jewelry in the Golden Bazaar. While these two likely know more about Singing Raptor's parentage than they initially told her, they both died in the Calamity, so that information will remain buried. Being almost as big as her father at birth, and towering over her mother by her early teens, her adoptive family found it daunting to exert any control over her behavior. She would often run off to play in the desert instead of attending school, her teachers also wary of attempting to discipline a child willing and able to bench-press them. Thanks to this tendency, Singing Raptor is still weak in essential skills such as mathematics and reading maps, among other things. This has proven to be a substantial handicap; for example, an unscrupulous Ul'dahn businessperson was able to take advantage of her mathematical ineptitude in order to defraud her, leaving her with very little money to her name.

Abilities and Preferences

Competencies

Singing Raptor is wholly at home in combat. Coordinated and deft, every blow is calculated to inflict maximum damage on her unlucky foe and backed by the full force her body can throw into it. When performing any physical activity, as a matter of fact, she throws the entirety of her strength into her movement, driving herself to exhaustion quickly. It was this willingness to devote her energy so completely to physical tasks that resulted in her current state of surpassing physical fitness, and it was this same willingness that caught the attention of Hamon, who has undertaken to train her personally.

Incompetencies

As discussed above, Singing Raptor is academically dense, particularly in math. She is often susceptible to subtle suggestion, although if she senses she is being manipulated she may retaliate with her fists. She finds weapons unwieldy and awkward and eschews them in favor of unarmed combat techniques. In addition, unlike other Hellsguard, she is practically illiterate when it comes to magic, constantly flubbing even basic spells like Teleport. It is this failure combined with her lack of cash that has resulted in her being temporarily grounded in Ul'dah.

Likes

• The color red
• Physical combat
• Jewelry
• Showing off
• Heat and fire
• Watching metalworkers do their job
• Tea
• Fancy clothing
• Banter

Dislikes

• The color green
• Alcohol, and those that overuse it
• Coblyns (They're so spiky! Hard to punch.)
• Flashy or noisy magic, or mages that flaunt their abilities
• Restrictive or awkward clothing
• Silent or sullen opponents
• Aetherytes (She feels like they somehow dislike her, and that's why she can't teleport reliably)

Hopes and Dreams

Class/Job Mastery: Singing Raptor would love nothing more than to become a top-class monk and exert total dominion over her own body.

Social Status: Singing Raptor harbors a secret longing to be accepted into Ul'dah's social elite, and have enough money that even she can't waste it all by being bad at math. She tries to emulate the cultured customers that pass the Pugilist's Guild on their way to the Platinum Mirage, but she's got a long way to go before she comes off as sophisticated. She has never disclosed this wish to anyone; she fears scorn or derision.

Immortal Flames: Singing Raptor wants to rise through the ranks of the Immortal Flames.

Gladiatorial Arena: Singing Raptor would like to make a name for herself in the Coliseum or Halatali. She tried briefly, and enjoyed it, but the crowd found her inability to draw blood with her preferred blunt fist weapons boring.