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Limsa Lominsa-transparent.png Rhu'to Brom
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Everything can be logically explained. Even you.
Detective
Gender Male
Race Miqo'te
Clan Keeper of the Moon
Citizenship Limsa Lominsan
Age 28 (in Hyur years)
Nameday 8th Sun, 6th Umbral Moon
Deity Not Applicable
Occupation Private Investigator
Birthplace Within the Shroud
Pronounciation Rue-Toe Brahm

Rhu'to Brom

The Basics

Biographical

Family

  • Father: Xha'a Brom (estranged)
  • Mother: Rhu Brom (estranged)
  • Brother: Rhu'a Brom (estranged)

Friends & Enemies

  • No Current Associations

Appearance

  • Height: ~5 fulms 7 ilms
  • Weight: 130 ponz
  • Body: He's pretty damned thin - not sickly thin - but more like often-forgets-to-eat-meals thin. His muscles are also pretty toned as well, he keeps himself pretty fit due to his present and past lines of work.
  • Hair: Navy blue, medium-length, extending to 3/4 of the way down his neck and is naturally slicked back into a spike pattern in the back. He has a neatly trimmed beard- really the only thing on him that it appears he puts any effort into at all.
  • Eyes: Beautiful bright vibrant amber color, normal Hyur shape.
  • Skin: Bluish-gray.
  • Clothing: Normally seen wearing something similar to the Miqo'te racial clothing - that is to say - anything that's comfortable and fits, and sometimes not even the latter. Brom doesn't particularly care to look fancy.

The Rumor Mill

  • Common Rumors (Easily overheard)
    • "Brom? BROM? That guy's a dick. Just stay away. Seriously."
    • "He's an ass. Nothing more to be said."
    • "He used to own this detective agency, Umbral Investigations. They went bankrupt because he's a jerk. Seriously, I'm not making that up."


  • Moderate Rumors (Moderately difficult to overhear)
    • "Pretty sure he used to live in Ul'dah. I wish he'd go back... Let them deal with him."
    • "He was a soldier or something like ten years ago, I dunno. Can we talk about someone else?"


  • Rare Rumors (Very difficult or rarely overheard)
    • "You know he was THERE, right? They say he looked Bahamut in the eyes and it stole his soul or something."
    • "I met his wife once, she was sweet. What? Yes, I'm PRETTY sure we're talking about the same Brom, why?"


  • PC Rumors (From Other Characters)
    • "Go away." -Rhu'to Brom
    • "What? He says I'm a cheap prostitute? *laugh* Well, I charge by the inch... for him that's cheap!" - (Actually heard in Soliloquy RP) Adriel Marchand
    • "I have it on good authority that he's such an arse because he's overcompensating. Seriously, you'd need tweezers." - Tyriont Gaidal
    • "He's all right, I suppose. If he hurts my sister, he'll find himself laid out by my...associates." - Erisande Marchand
    • "Brom? Oh Sure he is a lackluster cheapskate, but Ah hear that is all just a ruse...secretly he's...wait yer gonna spread this aren't ye..." - Abaigeal Causland


  • Things You Can't Possibly Know (But I want you to know OOCly)
    • There are REASONS Brom is such an asshole!
    • Anything specifics in the history section not communicated by Brom himself or heard through rumor.


  • Wanted for Interesting Roleplay
    • Everyone.

You May Know Brom From

  • The Mist

Personality

Alignment: Chaotic Good
Morals: Pfft.
Likes:
  • 1 Puzzles/Mysteries
  • 2 Solving Those Puzzles/Mysteries
  • 3 Learning Useless Talents
  • 4 Making People Feel Uncomfortable
  • 5 Extremely Attractive Women
Dislikes:
  • 1 People
  • 2 People's Problems
  • 3 People Lying
  • 4 Stupid People
  • 5 Pears
Fears:
  • 1 Losing His Intelligence
  • 2 Winding Up Alone (Ironic Fear!)
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Strengths:
  • 1 Extremely Intelligent
  • 2 Stubborn
  • 3 Brutally Honest
  • 4 Detached
  • 5 High Alcohol Tolerance
Weaknessses:
  • 1 Extremely Intelligent
  • 2 Stubborn
  • 3 Brutally Honest
  • 4 Detached
  • 5 Rude
Favorite Places:
  • 1 Alone
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

By The Numbers

(This is taken and modified from a post on teso-rp.com)

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Abilities

Adventurer:
  • Archer
  • Conjurer
  • Gladiator
Strengths:
As he served in the military for a long while, he's fairly adept at multiple forms of combat, especially with a lance and a bow.
Weaknesses:
Many forms of magic are foreign to him. He is good enough at healing magics to get by, but it is unreliable. He has almost entirely retired from combat of any kind unless absolutely necessary or serving his agenda.
Crafter:
  • Alchemist
  • Leatherworker
Strengths:
Alchemy is a private study of Brom's, one of his seemingly random down-time hobbies.
Weaknesses:
He's crap at pretty much everything else.
Other Skills:
  • Deductive Reasoning
  • Detection
Strengths:
Brom is a master of deductive reasoning and an extremely skilled detective.
Weaknesses:
Social skills are ....... somewhat lacking.

History

Before The Calamity

  • Brom's childhood was unexceptional in almost every way. He'd always had the gift of intelligence, but his parents always 'allowed' him to squander it on things that his teachers would often call illogical. It was his imagination that flourished at such a young age. He was always the ring-leader amongst his friends, always coming up with new ways to get them into trouble, always coming up with new stories to act out, new imaginary enemies for them to pretend-fight.
  • To clarify, saying that Brom's parents 'allowed' him to use his gifts as he saw fit would be something of a misnomer. Truth be told, his parents weren't around very much. They were lower class citizens, and as Brom himself always says, "Those who work 8-Gil-an-hour jobs tend to need those 8 Gil very much." Brom was raised in infancy by his grandparents, and as an adolescent, he was largely responsible for himself while his parents were away. His father was harsh on his failures. Nothing ever seemed to be good enough for Brom Sr, a trope that played out well into Brom's adulthood.
  • When he was 16, Brom met, courted, and fell in love with a young Hyur by the name of Leyara by way of introduction from his best friend and her sister, Alsa. Brom and Leyara were married by the age of 19, a wedding that was nearly derailed by Brom's enlistment in the Gridanian militia - he was being transferred to Ul'dah to assist with the oncoming Garlean forces. Leyara refused to lose him, however, and enlisted right alongside him (it was the only way, due to certain circumstances surrounding Brom's father), purposely requesting transfer to Ul'dah - a request that was begrudgingly approved, so long as they served in different units.
  • From age 19 to 23, Brom, Leyara, and eventually Alsa, though she lived separately, lived happily in Ul'dah as a loving family. Though Brom had always been slightly abrasive and difficult to get along with, the worst of him was yet to come, and Leyara kept him in check, as she was generally considered to be a sweet, even if somewhat snarky, girl.

Post Calamity

  • Brom was a broken man following the calamity. His wife, Leyara, had disappeared that day along with the other Warriors of Light. Determined to find out what happened to their mutual loved one, Brom and Alsa moved to Limsa Lominsa and opened Umbral Investigations, a private investigations firm created simply to find and bring home those who disappeared that day. There were very few leads, and the ones that were, were few and far between, so the pair started taking cases on a private basis, sometimes even going so far as working for the Eorzean Alliance members.
  • As time marched on, Brom's depression at losing his wife ate away at him. He became reclusive, bitter, downright angry. He drove away everyone who tried to get close to him, he focused solely on his cases so that he never had to deal with actual people. He became obsessed with his puzzles, like they might hold some kind of hidden truth for the world.
  • Together with his team of employees and Alsa, they moved throughout Eorzea, taking cases, completing puzzles, solving mysteries. For roughly two years, this continued, until finally, Brom's self-destruction had gone too far. He'd been drinking heavily, he'd been hiring prostitutes for twelve-knows-what on an almost daily basis. Sometimes he even hired them *just* to go out on cases with his team and antagonize them. Shortly thereafter, after over two years of working together, his team unceremoniously left him, moving onto other jobs, other agencies - less asinine people.
  • It was Brom and Alsa alone for a long while after that. Alsa was extra sweet to people to make up for Brom's malicious attitude. When asked why she hung around him so often, she always replied, "Oh, he isn't so bad, once you get to know him!" Though, toward the end, even she didn't sound like she believed it anymore. One day, Alsa left, every bit as unceremoniously as the rest of his team. Rumor has it that she didn't even tell him she was going, she just disappeared.
  • Brom was alone then. And that was how he stayed for over a year. Alsa wasn't there with him when the Warriors of Light returned and his wife wasn't among them. Nobody was. He was alone - and he was sure he would be forever. He continued taking cases, though his ability to focus on even them waned as he got angrier and angrier, drunker and drunker, lonelier and lonelier. After a while, Umbral Investigations went bankrupt, the storefront closed, and Brom started taking cases on a personal basis - he still did love his puzzles after all.

Present Day and Beyond

  • Brom was briefly associated with Alothia Starkwood's investigation firm, Jutat De. Ever the self-saboteur, Brom ran. He, in his own words, "Stepped off the world, watched it turn for a spell," before returning to Limsa Lominsa to start anew ... again..

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