Romidant Diarmi
Last Updated: 10/18/16.
 Romidant Diarmi
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| Gender | Female |
| Race | Elezen |
| Clan | Wildwood |
| Citizenship | Gridania |
| Age | 26 |
| Occupation | Mainly a healer, occasionally a fist-fighter, sometimes a botanist |
| Orientation | Demisexual |
| Relationship status | Taken |
| Twelvesign | Halone |
| Grand Company | The Maelstrom |
GENERAL INFORMATION
Romidant Diarmi (Pronunciation: raw-me-dant dee-ar-me; Nickname: Romi), is the daughter of a Gridanian botanist (father) and an Ala Mhigan lancer (mother.) Raised by her father, she followed in his footsteps to become a wandering botanist. Events in her life lead to her studying martial arts - she can wield a bow and lance with equal ease, but her true skill lies in barehanded combat. After the Calamity, when she and so many others were sent forward in time, she lost her taste for fighting and turned to healing instead.
APPEARANCE
At a glance: Romi looks and acts like a typical hedgewitch healer: pointy hat, broom, no outward manifestations of her connection to the elements.
Build: She is tall for an elezen woman, and somewhat slender and soft-looking. This is deceptive, as there is solid muscle underneath the softness, as many an opponent has found to their chagrin.
Skin: Her skin is a dark chocolate color, marred only by minor scarring typical of a botanist (travelling through thorny bushes without sleeves) and several major scars. Her scars usually end up being a shade or two darker than her base coloration.
Hair: Her hair is such a deep black that it has blue highlights.
Eyes: Her right eye is a dark blue, similar in color to an arctic ocean; her left eye however, is ice blue. She has a scar that crosses her left eye from forehead to cheek and is the cause for the color difference. While trauma caused the color to change, she can still see out of it, but her peripheral vision was affected.
Clothing/Armor: Typically, Romi wears a riviera dress, leather boots, and some sort of pointy hat. If she knows a situation calls for a more hands on approach (i.e. a fist fight) she will opt for looser clothing she can move easily in. If she's out in the woods, she will wear her botanist gear.
PERSONALITY
Loyal. Kind. Withdrawn.
Romidant has always kept to herself, preferring the uncrowded wilderness to the bustle of the city-states, due to being raised in a nomadic lifestyle. As such, she became a wandering healer after the Calamity, visiting the small hamlets and camps to offer assistance. Trusting in the elementals and the Echo to guide her to where she is needed most, her travels have taken her all over Eorzea.
She is fairly welcoming, if cautious, when meeting new people, and prefers to observe situations from a distance instead of being in the thick of things. She will step into a situation if she feels things are going to result in someone getting hurt or killed. This has lead her to doing things like, taking a hit aimed at another, or stopping a rampaging morbol from taking out a troop of imperial soldiers.
While she can usually be described as calm, if someone or something should threaten or (Twelve forfend) hurt someone close to her, that calmness will get thrown out the window and she will descend upon the threat with the fury and chill of a Coerthan blizzard.
In the company of friends, Romidant laughs and smiles easily. Teasing will usually result in her getting flustered; she doesn't like being embarrassed in public, so her reaction will depend on the person doing the teasing and what she is being teased about. In the company of those she unfamiliar with or not close to, she keeps strong emotions from showing on her face.
There have been a few occasions where Romidant has let herself go a little wild and have fun; she has used a hoplon shield as a sled in the hills of Central Coerthas for instance.
If she is feeling out of sorts or unbalanced emotionally, she hides her eyes.
Nature. Romi was born and raised a botanist, with a reverence for the natural world instilled at an early age. Dancing. Whether by herself or with others, dancing allows her to experience the same thrill of movement she feels when practicing her martial arts. Stories. She likes to listen to people tell their story and share their histories. |
False accusations. It doesn’t matter if it’s a figure of authority or a beggar, she will come to the defense of the wrongly accused. Lies. Lies are a betrayal of her trust, and while one or two are not enough to make her turn away from someone, continuing to lie to her will. |
Loyalty. She will stand firm against anything, especially in defense of those she holds dear. Bravery. Some would say she is foolhardy, but when you’ve faced down raging primals and dragons? Very little fazes her anymore. Compassion. One of her basic tenets is ‘Everyone is a person.’ She will not kill. |
Illiterate. Romi knows her sums better than her letters. She can read simple things, but don't hand her a book to read, she'll just hand it back. Probably after giving you a Look. Rage. While slow to anger, when she is well and truly ticked off, she can be likened to a force of nature. Only the intervention of a friend she holds dear can calm her. |
CURRENT INVENTORY
This is a list of the items that Romidant currently is keeping on her person. Feel free to use this information if it comes up logically in the course of RP, such as pickpocketing, a search, etc.
Last Updated: 10/18/16.
Magicked broom: Her preferred mount when traveling alone and unburdened.
Smallish travel pack: A waterproofed bag of essentials, containing a spare set of comfortable clothing, a bit of non perishable food, and a package wrapped in layers of waxed paper.
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION
Voice Claim: Female elezen voice 8; Aya Uchida[2] Japanese voice actress, VA for Bianca[3] from Izetta the Last Witch.
Singing Voice reference: Mikumo from Macross Delta. When Romi sings, she likes to belt out the lyrics, but doesn't like to sing with an audience.
Music Inspiration: Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress by EGOIST
Character Inspirations: Tarma, Kethry, and Kerowyn from the Valdemar series Vows and Honor;
COMBAT & WEAPONRY
White Mage: As a white mage, she has access to the usual stone and air spells to subdue opponents. Thanks to a natural affinity to ice, she also has an ice spell that freezes nearby foes and allows her to distance herself from them. Most of her attention during a fight is focused on keeping the people around her alive.
Monk: Romidant’s barehanded fighting style is fluid, acrobatic, and fast.Training as one of the new order of the Fists of Rhalgr has allowed her to experience a range of different fighting styles that she has incorporated into her own. (For examples, see T’ai Chi Chuan, Northern Shaolin, and Muay Thai.)
She carries a maple crook to denote to herself as a healer; it is a simple, unadorned crook to put people at ease and more likely to approach her for healing, as she prefers to wander Eorzea to offer her services. |
She carries no weapon when fighting as a Fist, as she feels they get in the way of her technique. |
She's pretty handy at using her woodcutter's axe for combat, and is almost more natural with it than any other weapon she carries. |
EXPERIENCE LOG
Here is a list of recent and/or notable fights, roleplay scenes, etc. that Romidant has been a part of. This list is by no means all inclusive, and serves more as a general reference as to what she has been up to.
- Unnamed Midlander man and Wildwood man (pre-Heavensward) : Magic and staff. Romi had just stepped inside the Carline Canopy to get out of a rainstorm, and found herself witness to an unprovoked attack against a Duskwight man. Using the water from the rain, she cast Fluid Aura on the Midlander to knock him into the levecounter before parrying the Wildwood's attack and stunning him with a blow from her maple crook. She then cast Blizzard II to freeze the Midlander to the counter while she tended to the injured Duskwight.
BACKSTORY/PRE-CALAMITY
Her parents met in 1548 SAE (Sixth Astral Era) when her mother, Skadi, was visiting Gridania as a caravan guard; her father, Alric, was immediately smitten after seeing her enter the gates and earnest in his courtship, bringing Skadi an Azeyma’s Rose every time he saw her. Three years later they were married, and she formally emigrated to Gridania to live with her new husband. One year after they were married, Romidant was born.
In 1557, when Romi was 5, Skadi went back to Ala Mhigo to help her countrymen and women in the uprising against the king, but lost her life when the Empire took control of the city-state. Alric, heartbroken at the loss of his wife, took up the life of a nomad and brought Romi with him on his journeys. After two years on the road, they came upon the scene of a slaughter while in the region of Thanalan; a small Seeker of the Sun tribe had been all but wiped out. They found a single survivor, a small Miqo’te kitten that had been hidden and thus escaped the death that claimed the rest of her tribe. Romi refused to leave the kitten until Alric relented, adopting and raising the girls together as sisters, the kitten giving her name as Meikoi, but could not tell them what tribe she was from.
The same year of the disaster at Silvertear Falls, both Romidant and Meikoi woke with nightmares of crashing airships and falling stars.
After years of travelling, Alric finally retired to Gridania as age sets in, but Romi and her sister kept up the wandering way: she as a botanist like her father, while her sister fell in with something of a rougher crowd. Due to them being nomadic, it was rare for both to meet while on the road, or when visiting their father in Gridania. During her travels, she practiced with lance and bow, as she felt she needed some skill to protect herself. She then met a man that trained her in the nearly lost arts of the Fists of Rhalgr, accepting the soul of a Monk.
During the year prior to the Calamity, Romidant was captured by Imperials after attacking a unit that had gotten lost in the Twelveswood. It was in this attack that she received the scars on her face and hip, given to her by the Duskwight sub-commander of the unit when they fought; she was held captive for several weeks before she was able to escape. During the battle at Carteneau, she re-encountered the Imperial sub-commander who had taken her captive; she had been helping a wounded Imperial soldier to some measure of safety after disabling a magitek armor when they came nearly face-to-face. Not long after that encounter, Bahamut broke free of Dalamud and Romi was caught in Louisoix spell along with the other Warriors of Light.
RECENT HISTORY/POST CALAMITY
Five years after the Calamity, Romidant found herself outside the Blue Badger Gate in the Central Shroud. Somewhat disoriented, she managed to make it to the cottage where her father lived, resulting in a very tearful but happy reunion. Thanks to the battle at Carteneau, she laid down her monk weapons and picked up the staff of a white mage. Her travels as a botanist, training as a monk, and five year immersion in aether all contributed to the awakening of strong powers of healing and a deepening of her connection to the elementals of the Twelveswood. She also does not feel the cold as badly as others from the southern parts of Eorzea do since she returned, due to becoming naturally aspected to the element of ice.
After seeing the changes to Eorzea, Romidant decided to return to wandering, resuming her previous path but as a simple hedgewitch healer (while still gathering requested materials), offering her healing services to the many outlying settlements of the city-states.
RECENT HISTORY/HEAVENSWARD
Just prior to the events at the disastrous banquet in Ul'dah, Romi was in Gridania for a visit to her father when she came across a rather one sided fight in the Carline Canopy involving a Midlander and Wildwood versus a very familiar Duskwight. After evening the odds with judicious applications of water and ice, she took the injured Duskwight and fled with him to Buscarron's Druthers, intending to make a stand against the Wood Wailers and Gods' Quiver should they seek to imprison the ex-Imperial. Kan-E-Senna agreed to speak with the other Grand Company leaders and help plead his case; Romi took the opportunity to seek assistance from the commander of Camp Dragonhead in hiding her new charge while he healed, and waited for word from the Elder Seedseer.
RELATIONSHIPS
| ♥ Romantic Attraction – ♥ Physical Attraction – ♥ Platonic Love – $ Business – ❖ Deceased – ✔ Positive – ✖ Negative – ● Neutral – 🔃 Unsure – 🔒 Trust |
FAMILY & TRIBE
These are mostly backstory-related relationships.
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NON-FAMILY
Listed here are the non-family characters, both PC and NPC, that Romidant has interacted with enough or in such a way for her to form a real opinion about them. Please don't take personal offense if your character isn't listed here, or how the interaction or relationship is described. It isn't that I dislike your character or our RP. I just tend to only add these as necessary for those who make a real impact on Romidant, and descriptions are purely based upon in character experiences and opinions!
Last Update... 10/18/16.
* An asterisks denotes that Romidant doesn't know the individual's true name.
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RUMORS
- "Alric’s eldest? Bit too much outsider in her. Doesn’t stop her from helping people, though." -- Gridianian native.
- "She’s as quick with a kind word as she is with a punch." -- Ul’dahn pugilist.
- "I heard she attacked a Midlander at the Roost! Froze him right to the leve counter!" -- Excited youth.
SCREENSHOTS
Botanist
Monk
White Mage
Lalafell
ARTWORK
You are not permitted to re-use this artwork for your own characters or purposes, whether on Final Fantasy XIV or on other games, forums, etc.
Commissioned from ffxivfisticuffs[1]
ROLEPLAY HOOKS
Here are a few ways to start an interaction:
- Need a Guide: Trying to find a particular location? Being a drifter by nature, Romi probably knows a way.
- Heals plz: She knows her conjury and is willing to barter her skills. If the need is great (read: life threatening,) she will help regardless.
- Do you have any ____?: Romi is essentially a trader. She gathers materials through botany as well as some hunting, and takes them to other nomad camps and the more remote settlements as well as the major outposts.
ABOUT THE PLAYER
World: Excalibur, Goblin
Timezone: Eastern (UTC -5:00)
Active Hours: Usually after 6pm to about 11pm most days due to work; Fridays and Saturdays can be from as early as noon, and playing until midnight. This is not set in stone and depends on personal mood.
Offline RP: Yes! More than likely on Tumblr [4]. Also has an About page you can look at [5].
Joined: "Beta" for 1.0.
Interactions. No pressure! I am very laid back with my RP. I don't mind if it takes a long time for a reply or if you need to drop an interaction.
Communication. Tell me things! Let me know if something's not working right or if my reply is below quality. Editing is easier than letting things stew.
Style of RP. Free style. I will try to match my partner's style when possible.
Plotting. Totally up for plotting. Drop me a line on my tumblr (see link up above).
OC and NPC muses. I will RP with OC and NPC muses.
Affiliations Not currently affiliated with any RP groups. Don't know if that will change, but I will probably try to stay independant.
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GUIDELINES
Overall, I'm pretty chill as far as guidelines go. I don't have an extensive list of 'Do's or 'Don't's or things that I personally find triggering. So chances are, you won't offend me or make me uncomfortable unless you're trying to or just being really skeevy in general. Still, for the sake of making sure everyone's on the same page here, let me make a few mentions in particular:
ERP. I just do not feel comfortable with ERP. I don't care if other people do (more power to you!) I personally will not. Do not force this issue.
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Dark or Mature Themes. Perfectly willing to do dark/mature, but please run it by me first. It will depend on personal mood and if the muse is willing to cooperate.
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OTHER LINKS
Tumblr [6].
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