Waltz Concerto

Waltz Concerto
Gender	Male
Race	Miqo'te
Clan	Keeper of the Moon
Citizenship	Gridania
Age	19
Nameday	22nd Sun of the 3rd Astral Moon
Occupation	Fortune Teller/Dancer
Sexuality	Homosexual
Relatives	Yehn Merilah - Mother (Deceased), K'jhin Nunh - Father (Estranged), Rhuya Merilah - Aunt (Alive)
Guardian	Menphina, the Lover

Basic Info

LIKES ■ Fortune Telling ■ Dancing ■ Singing ■ Pastries ■ Stuffed Animals ■ Painting

DISLIKES ■ Heights ■ Snakes ■ Loneliness ■ Wasted time and talent ■ When people tell him to wear clothes ■ Failing at the crane machine at the Gold Saucer

OTHER ■ Alignment: True Neutral ■ Vice(s): Easily jealous ■ Favorite Food: Ginger Cookies Bubble Chocolate ■ Favorite Drink: Apple Juice ■ Favorite Color: Violet, Aquamarine

Appearance & Personality

Appearance: Waltz is short, about 5'5 and 130 pounds, with an athletic curvy girlish build layered with lean muscles. Being a dancer with strong legs, this boy can sure pack a kick. While his body is a slightly late bloomer and he's shorter than a lot of male Miqo'te, Waltz's hips are pronounced and attracting. His skin tone is a light muted tan, due to his father being darker who was a Seeker and his mother being fair skinned who was a Keeper. His facial features are soft and warm, cheerful and enchanting in a certain way with sleepy light green eyes and a playful smirk. He has curly and fluffy dark pink hair, sometimes adorned with feathers or different hair accessories. He is often decked out in an entertainer outfit festooned with fringes, tassels, ribbons, veils, feathers, beads, bones, bits of metal, opalescent materials, bold colors and patterns.

Personality: Cheerful probably isn’t enough to describe Waltz’s personality. Waltz is one of those kinds of people who lives off his own eccentricity and without it, the boy would most likely be a bit lost since his charisma is what keeps him going.

Though of course, Waltz knows the difference between when it is time for fun and games and when he needs to behave himself since that was the way that he was raised by her mother and auntie. Waiting for progress to take place is slow and painful for Waltz. Delays he deems unnecessary will be agonizing, but he has learned not to always surrender to his contracting patience. However now that he is slowly entering into a world of adulthood, this childish feature may well wear thin and eventually disappear just as his grasp on the conflict is stretched to be closer to reality.

Through the eyes of others, Waltz comes across as very childish and too overly silly. Perhaps it is due to his age, or perhaps it’s due to his incredible optimism obscuring his view of the world. Having a bit of a theatrical upbringing, Waltz is extravagant and over-the-top, making sure that whatever he may be feeling today is painfully clear to anyone in a ten-metre distance. Growing up around two dancers, he has a firm grasp on the art, but is still developing his skills. He enjoys the spotlight, attention, but most of all, getting a reaction out of his company. Dancing will always be Waltz’s biggest influences.

Around people, he is very dynamic, spoiling friends and strangers alike with love. He can be quite touchy at times; sometimes he forgets the personal spaces of others, violating some common courtesy and his friendliness can become a harmful concoction. He smiles often and laughs genuinely, making him approachable and somewhat charming, yet some, if not many, can be put off by his over the top persona.

Every cloud has a silver lining – or at least that’s what she was brought up to believe. His eccentric auntie always told him that you have to make the most out of every opportunity to get anywhere. If a situation he views as drab, tiresome or even dangerous, the petite boy will almost certainly find something within the circumstances to smile at and hold in more precedence than any of the bad things that might be happening.

Waltz is very strong willed, and has firm opinions of what he qualifies as right and wrong. He has his goals and although at times he can be absent-minded, they are incredibly fixed. If your goal is at odds with his, he will distance himself from what it is you're doing and likely won't be of any help at all. However, if at some point he feels that your goal is aligned well enough with his again, he'll come back like nothing happened.

A little secret about Waltz... he still believes in fairy tales. It all fits together perfectly in his head, The stage has instilled in hopes hopes for his own fairy tale ending, and because of it he believes in all sorts of childish things: soulmates, happily-ever-afters, damsels in distress and prince charmings. He's more confident that all aspects of a fairy tale life will happen to him at one point or another of course, this is his best kept secret. He keep these hopes and dreams under lock and key, but hopes someone, someone perfect for him, will uncover them someday.

Biography

Childhood/Teenage Years

Waltz grew up in Gridania where he was raised with his mother and aunt, living a more sheltered normal life compared to many of his race. His mother was a dancer and performer along with his aunt who did fortune telling on the side. They often took the boy up to Ul'Dah to watch them dance with the other Miqo'te girls there, the boy loving the life they lived and had a love for the stage as much as they did, jumping up in there when he was a kid to dance along beside them. His father was Nunh that he never knew, having fallen for his mother before he was born when he was entranced by her dancing in Ul'Dah. He of course, like a normal Nunh does, knocked her up and left her to be with other girls which did not sit well with his mother's sister who forced him to completely be out of their lives, wanting nothing to do with a Seeker in their family or seeing his son. Despite his mother still being in love with the Seeker, Waltz's auntie was completely against it and protected her younger sister from being with someone like that, especially the taboo of mixing clans. When Waltz was actually born, they kept the fact that he was a half-breed away from their other clan members. Despite that fact, he was still picked on by the other kids in his clan who suspected it as much due to his skintone. Even though he was teased and bullied for it, the small kid did his best to ignore it, putting all his efforts into dance and music as an emotional release.

Living in Gridania, his mother and aunt taught him the art of dancing and showed him everything they knew, the boy often practicing till the break of dawn until he felt it was perfect. His mother protected her son with all her life and wanted him to live normally, not under the constraints and practices that were forced upon their race, which is why his view on relationships and love are very obscured, not understanding the fact that a lot of members in their race had multiple partners. By the time he was 14, he was finally able to be up in the spotlight, dancing alongside his mother and auntie and making a name for himself among the other dancers in his mother's group, becoming one of the youngest only male dancer in their troupe. As Waltz moved closer into his teenage years around 17, his mother began to grow very ill and as much as the conjurers attempted to help her, nothing seemed to help at all. In her final remaining days, the boy spent by her bedside recalling memories with her of times when he was younger and she would read him bedtime fairy tales while he laid snugly in bed inside of their tiny forest home. His auntie and his mother continued to care for her till her very last moment, the boy spending days and nights reading her stories and bringing her favorite snacks always that they shared together while his mother told him stories of when she was a child herself or what she could recall of his father. He loved his mother with all his heart and it really showed all the way up until her death, keeping her memory and her life in everything he continued to do. After his mother passed away, he stayed living with his auntie, helping her around the house and continuing to learn from her until he was ready to get out on into the world on his own. She passed onto him the knowledge of fortune telling as well, hoping he could perhaps the skill to broaden his career. With bright eyes, the young teen set out into the world away from his forest home to seek out fortune and fame like every other dancer with a big dream.

Present

Starting out on his journey, the boy joined up with a caravan of traveling Gypsy performers, who were nomadic and moved from place to place finding new venues and stages that they could attract customers as well as make a good profit. He traveled along and performed with them wherever they moved on to, quickly becoming one of the best just like he did when he was younger. He charmed both men and women alike with his cute smiles and cheerful persona along with his raspy jazzy tenor singing voice, knowing exactly how to woo over a potential audience member. Of course, he preferred the company of the males more than he did with girls so his target audience was usually towards the men. He took on the stage name Waltz Concerto, shedding his name Minh'a and finding that it fit him better than his birth name did, though still using that name with his auntie.

Around the time Waltz was 18, he split away from the motley crew of performers with a thank you and set off to find his own way again. Having continued to move along, he soon had found a home and family within a Free Company known as the Templars. He spent his time with the group where they often set out on tasks to help people in need or contracted them. Making friends and forming bonds with them was an opportunity that he knew he would keep in his heart for his entire lifetime. It was also in that time frame that Waltz fell for his first love with a Seeker much like his mother did by the name of S'Demyx Tia. Even from the warnings given to him by the Templars, he completely broke away from them to be with the Seeker who he deeply cared for, not realizing that his heart was soon to be broken. He devoted a good chunk of his life into being with the Seeker regardless of the other male having many more lovers, even wanting to start up their own dancer's club together. He was making the same mistakes as his mother did and he didn't understand it. By the time the other Seeker had broke his heart, it was already too late for him to go back to the Templars. He had wasted so much of his time into a man, the family that he had spent so much time with had split apart. The Templars all broke off into different groups and there was nowhere left he could go back to. The experience of falling in love and being crushed had left the dancer in a mess of trust issues and sadness, yet with nothing left to lose, he continued on dancing and performing with everything he had. He knew he was lost and fallen off his path, but he wanted to find his way once again to continue his dream that he had promised to accomplish for himself as well as his mother. Donning back on the pair of gold dancing sandals his mother once wore, he was well on his way from picking back up his life again from the hole he had dug for himself.

Now a year later, Waltz has yet to find a new home for himself with another group like he did with the Templars, though he performs in a newly opened attraction venue for tourists and visitors known as the Gold Saucer. He works there, entertaining guests and employed by the attraction to give the visitors a fun experience away from the gambling tables and the hundreds of games that the theme park offered. He often comes home to visit his auntie and recall all his adventuring stories with her, being scolded by the older woman of course for not taking better care of himself and loving her with the same respect he had with his mother. Performing out from the Gold Saucer, he has hopes of perhaps starting fresh again with a new company of fools and friends, vowing to never allow himself to fall for someone that would ruin him like that again. He also has hopes of perhaps maybe finding his father someday, though that's on the bottom of his priority list. For now, he just wanted to find his path once more and make his mother proud of who he had become.

Miscellaneous

RUMORS Some of these rumors are untrue or are greatly exaggerated. Please feel free to add your own rumors under PC! ◢ Common Rumors (Easily overheard) ■ "I hear he's a halfer, I wonder how that's like for him?" Gold Saucer Bunny Girls ■ "I bet you he has like 16 girlfriends, no way he'd ever go for me..." Gold Saucer Fangirl ◢ Moderate Rumors (Moderately difficult to overhear) ■ "His gold sandals are really tacky, but he wears them with every performance." Gold Saucer Dealer ◢ Rare Rumors (Very difficult or rarely overheard) ■ "He looks like he over works a lot, sometimes looks kinda tired. I hope he's getting enough rest." Gold Saucer Manager ◢ PC Rumors (Rumors from the character's of other players) ■ ■ ■ ■

RELATIONS ♥ Romantic Interest ♥ Platonic Love ● Good Standing ● Poor Standing ♥ Auntie Rhuya: His only living relative that he knows about. Often scolds and pulls his ear when he doesn't come home enough. Taught him everything he knows about dance. ♥ Yehn Merilah: His deceased mother, who he still visits by the grave near their home to talk to every single week. He is a big momma's boy and loves his mother more than anything in the world. ● S'demyx Tia: Ex-Lover. He still cares and misses him a lot, being his first and only love. He was a big part of his life and the Keeper will never forget that despite how it ended. He's not sure where he went or what became of him, but someday perhaps they'll meet again.

Footnotes

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Theme Song:

The Red Shoes - IU -Lyrics Theme-

The Red Shoes - IU -Piano Version- -Instrumental Theme- (Heard when meeting him)

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