Sounsyy Mirke
 Sounsyy Mirke
| |
| |
| Gender | Female |
| Race | Miqo'te |
| Clan | Seeker of the Sun |
| Citizenship | Ala Mhigan |
| Guardian | Llymlaen, the Navigator |
| Nameday | 11th Sun of the Sixth Astral Moon, 1546 |
Contents
Biography
Given name: Sounsyy Mirke
Nickname: Souns (Only close friends call her this.)
Nameday: 11th Sun of the Sixth Astral Moon, 1546
Age: 26 (31 after Time Jump)
Guardian: Llymlaen, the Navigator
Place of birth: Ala Mhigo
Current residence: Limsa Lominsa
Grand Company Allegiance: The Maelstrom
Occupation: Maelstrom Captain
Appearance
Height: 5 fulms
Weight: 120 ponz
Hair: Sounsyy has light brown hair of a medium length. Because she lives on the beach, she has long since given up taming it. The best she has managed is to sweep her long bangs backwards, and she pulls the sides and back up into a short one or two ilm tuft of a ponytail. The wind then just has its way with it and scatters the hair into a bird's nest. She almost never wears her hair down and she tries to keep it about the same length but she has let it grow down to her shoulder blades before.
Face: Sounsyy has a keen face with full cheeks and radiant, avocado green eyes. She has a small, rounded nose that is equipped with an exceptional olfactory sense. Her mouth is small and naturally puckered lips. Sounsyy doesn't usually dapple in makeup, but when she goes into battle she lines her eyes with gold paint so as to accentuate her eyes.
Markings: She has three racial birthmarks on each cheek. On her left cheek is a small scar that runs horizontally through the middle birthmark. It's barely notice-able.
Body: She's stockier than most miqo'te. She has slightly wider shoulders, stronger arms, and thick, muscular thighs. She isn't grossly larger than other miqo'te, just thicker. She remains very well proportioned for being only 5 fulms tall. She has small-ish breasts and lightly tanned skin.
Voice: Sounsyy's voice is best described as "gin-soaked." She possesses a low, but smooth grit that demands affection. Her voice is often low, hard to pick up unless she enunciates. Sounsyy uses heavy aitches in her speech as well.
Clothing: Sounsyy prefers to wear tight clothing, usually leather thighboots, tights, and a tabard.
Personality
Alignment: Neutral Good
Demeanor: Sounsyy outwardly appears quite fatigued almost all the time. Though there are rare moments when her eyes light up like they used to. She has an odd habit of biting her lower lip without even realizing she's doing it. To strangers, Sounsyy can be unnecessarily sharp-tongued, but to her friends you will never find a more loyal or giving heart. If you met Sounsyy in a social setting, you might think her introverted or closed-mouth, and you'd be mostly correct. But as a captain on the field of battle, she wields sword and shield and voice with irrefutable authority.
Likes:
- Beaches
- Fresh Fruit
- Her Chocobo, Clairemont
- Booze
- Flowers
Dislikes:
- Garleans
- Ul'dah
- Cowards
- People of Privilege
- Having no direction
- Being asked about her Family
- Her body
Fears:
- Giant Monsters
- the Dark
- The Black Shroud
Combat
Weapons: Sounsyy excels with both Spears and Short Swords. Her preferred weapons are falchion-type swords. When she forgoes the use of a spear she offhands a scutum-type shield.
Armor: From her time on the Bloodsands, Sounsyy has grown accustomed to wearing a combination of leathers and plate mail in combat. Cobalt Sabatons, cobalt Cavalry Gauntlets, and a cobalt Cavalry Breastplate overtop of an alpine war jacket and tights make up her combat attire. Sounsyy can't afford to have a full set of armor crafted for her, so she buys what she can afford. So she wears just the breastplate and shoulderguards from the Cavalry Cuirass over top of her Alpine War Jacket. She wears leathers unlike most gladiators who wear chain mail. Leathers are cheaper, lighter, yet still provide adequate protection. To offset the quality of her armor, Sounsyy tends to prefer larger scutum or kite type shields over smaller ones so that the shield can cover where armor does not.
Fighting Style: Sounsyy was trained by Roroludo in the Bloodsands to wield a sword and shield after her first desperate victory in the arena. She is a defensive fighter. She uses her size to her advantage, using a lower center of gravity to put enemies off balance. She defends and baits the enemy with her large shield, then strikes once they leave an opening. Taught never to yield ground to an enemy, Sounsyy does whatever it takes to root an enemy. Unlike most other Gladiators, Sounsyy uses her shields both as a defensive tool and a melee weapon, often using it to stun, off-balance, or exhaust enemies before finishing them off with her sword.
Sounsyy, despite her strong, Miqo'te leg muscles, is slower than most of her own race. She prefers sure footing and correct posturing over the wild dance of other combat styles. She prefers to get right up close to her enemies, bruise them with her shield, find vulnerabilities, and slip her short sword into every one of them. Even when using spears, Sounsyy excels in isolating a weak point and delivering a killing thrust. She is ultimately limited in strength due to her race's size, so by preferring sure footing and body mechanics over wild flurry attacks, she focuses all of her strength into the thrust that will incapacitate her target.
Strengths: Sounsyy is a master at finding ways to make her opponent's own strengths become weaknesses. Whether that is using her size to throw off taller enemies off their balance, or closing the distance so that the enemy's only target is Sounsyy's shield in their face, or simply exhausting stronger enemies over time. Sounsyy is a survivor and before she is done with an opponent she makes them feel that very same desperation to survive that she has lived with her whole life.
Weaknesses: Overpowering speed or strength. While Sounsyy has a rare knack for parrying and countering, a fast enemy may prove deadly if able to flank her and find the holes in her armor. She can pivot on a dime and has a great environmental awareness, but she can only move so fast for so long. Sounsyy's other disadvantage comes from her size. While she knows many ways to use it to her advantage, it comes with limitations. She only weighs so much. Should a larger enemy bear down on her or attempt to knock her down, she can only grow roots so deep.
History
The Sixth Astral Era
1547 - born
1557 - ala mhigo; first resistance
1558~1561 - little ala mhigo; resistances
1562~1563 - the bloodsands
1565 - third resistance; limsa lominsa
1572 - joined maelstrom; calamity
The Seventh Umbral Era
0005 - return to gridania
Relationships
Family
Father: Mirke Regarde - Sounsyy's father was a proud Highlander Lancer from Ala Mhigo. He liked to tell a story of a young lancer who was part of an armed guard of a prominent merchant. While doing business with a Miqo'te tribe, the lancer laid eyes on the most beautiful Miqo'te he had ever seen. But he knew it never could be because she was one of the mating females belonging to the Nunh. But when he was spoke to her, she confided her displeasure with her Nunh. He promised her that he would free her. They met in secret and eventually fell in love. When they were found out, the Nunh became enraged. He challenged the lancer to a duel. The lancer overcame the Nunh, wounding him, but not killing him. The Nunh was shamed so he cast the Miqo'te from the tribe. The lancer took the Miqo'te to his home and they married. Sounsyy always loved hearing the story of her father and mother meeting as a girl. Her earliest memories are of him and she thinks of him as her greatest influence. Mirke was killed when Sounsyy was ten, during the Garlean occupation of Ala Mhigo in 1557.
Mother: R'nalhie Whayko - Sounsyy's mother was a Seeker of the Sun Miqo'te from the Raptor Tribe. She was banished from the Tribe for shaming her Nunh. She fell in love with a young Highlander and the two ran off together. She took care of their two children when Mirke was away. She was kind hearted and well liked by her Highlander neighbors. When the Garleans attacked Ala Mhigo, she fled with Sounsyy and Sophie into the Twelveswood with the rest of the Ala Mhigan refugees. When she knew that they were both safe, she turned back to face the Garleans that gave chase. She had not drawn her bow since her days with the Raptors, but that day she slew over a score of Garleans. Her actions saved the lives of nearly one hundred Ala Mhigans, but her story was never sung. She fell to the Garleans only after exhausting all of her arrows. She did not miss a single shot.
Sister: Sophie Mirke - Sophie Mirke was named by her father, which is why she has a hyuran first name. She was only four when the Garleans invaded Ala Mhigo. She remembers almost nothing of her home. Sounsyy carried her all the way from Ala Mhigo to Gridania on her back. Sophie has lived there among the other orphans ever since. A few months after Sounsyy and Sophie arrived in Gridania, an alliance of Ala Mhigan refugees, calling themselves the Resistance, came to Gridania searching for more recruits. Sounsyy joined their cause, leaving her sister in the care of Miounne. Sounsyy never returned. Sophie assumed her sister was killed in battle, so the Gridanians became her only family.
Friends
Ceirtette Cambre -
Dasil Bellanger -
Iyrnlahz -
Roroludo Dodoludo -
Margo Wiggenour -
Enemies
The Garleans - Sounsyy is nonspecific as to which ones.
Rumors
- Common Rumors (Easily overheard)
- "Aye, that's the broad who got 'er whole damn platoon killed."
- "Ye lookin' fer the short, brown 'aired girl? Aye me too, she ain't come over in a... eh, never ye mind."
- "Don't think she can die. Don't think she can get scratched!"
- Moderate Rumors (Moderately difficult to overhear)
- "How you figure she 'came a Cap'n? I figure she slept her way to th' top."
- "I heard she bought her freedom on the Bloodsands in Ul'dah."
- Rare Rumors (Rarely overheard)
- "Had a drink wit her other night in the Drownin' Wench. Nothin'. She bought my drink and didn't even take me home wit her! I ain't sayin' it weren't appreciated though."
- "I watched her on the Bloodsands. Incredible. Simply incredible. Wish I had bet the other way."
