Singing Raptor

Singing Raptor
BASIC INFORMATION
Birth Name	Singing Raptor
Nickname(s)/Alias	Singer
Age	23
Born	1554 6AE
Nameday	Unknown. Celebrates 10th of 3rd Umbral Moon.
Birthplace	Abalathia's Spine
Race	Roegadyn
Clan	Hellsguard
Alignment	Chaotic Good (for the moment)
Citizenship	Ul'dah
Guardian	Azemya, the Warden
APPEARANCE
Height	7'3"
Weight	268 ponze
Physique	Muscular
Hair	Black, usually worn short and out of the way
Eyes	Reddish-brown
Skin	Dark brown
Noteable Features	Many scars of various types and sizes on both arms. Light scarring on torso. Identical vertical scars centered on each eye.
SKILLS
Combat Style	Monk
Non-combat	Weaver
EQUIPMENT
Primary Weapon	Unbreakable Knuckles (or barehanded)
Secondary Weapon	Darklight Claymore
Armor Preference	Cloth or steel plate
ABOUT THE PLAYER
Time Zone	MST (GMT-7)
Server	Balmung
Tumblr	raptor-and-company
Additional Characters	(See the tumblr for more info) Xizfahb Sketjarvl Ayuudalai Haragin Albrid Gaffington Waembryda Doermholwyn Pikuku Piku Shimoyo Yumishi U'lamla Khepat
FOOTNOTES
**Infobox template adapted from: Infobox-TMI by [MoenMoen]

Backstory

Singing Raptor is the adopted daughter 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, Raptor saw little resistance or discipline from her adoptive family. 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.

Plot

Pre Timeskip

Singing Raptor trained under Hamon, master pugilist. Without land or money, she would normally be SOL in Ul'dah, but Hamon was impressed by her advancement and allowed her to sleep on a bench in the guild in exchange for buying him a pint every so often. Hamon then sent her to Forgotten Springs to win the favor of the U tribe by distinguishing herself as a strong fighter, and to learn numerous survival skills along the way. He reasoned that these skills would serve her in and out of combat. While traveling to Forgotten Springs, she was attacked by a horde of Ifrit's tempered. The ensuing fierce battle opened a chakra within her, starting her upon the path to monkhood. However, without an Ala Mhigan monk nearby to recognize this phenomenon, she had no idea what occurred. After concluding her training with Hamon, she eventually found someone willing to train her and instruct her in the ways of chakra ((an NPC named Widmund Cantrell)), and she can now utilize what chakras she has opened to their full extent.

Post Timeskip

Raptor has returned from a mysterious disappearance, older and calmer. This maturity comes at a heavy cost, however - the violence was cleansed from her blood by moons of Garlean torture.

While opening her final chakra at the Keeper of the Lake, she was overwhelmed and taken prisoner. The Garleans subjected her to intense pain to encourage her to reveal the secrets of chakra. To enhance their own fistfighting units, the Secutores? To more effectively crush the last pockets of Ala Mhigan resistance? Whatever their reasons, Raptor would have remained their prisoner forever had a guard's lust not got the better of him and afforded her an opportunity to escape. The prolonged agony had taken its toll on her once irrepressible will, however, and her patriotic urges and fighting spirit have dissipated considerably. Singing Raptor is now pursuing a career in weaving, putting her zeal for comfortable, attractive clothing to work.

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 trained her personally. She has also proven to be a quick student when it comes to chakra, her tendency to put her entire body into her attacks translating surprisingly well to focusing her entire being on the quasi-physical manipulation of aether.

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 become belligerent. 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. Having now mastered chakras, she is able to exert a little more control over her own personal aether, and Teleport is no longer out of her grasp. Conjury and thaumaturgy are not feasible as of yet, though, and arcanima, being largely geometry, is right out.

Likes

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

Dislikes

• Alcohol, and those that overuse it
• Coblyns (Noodle incident. Don't ask.)
• Flashy or noisy magic, or mages that flaunt their abilities
• Restrictive or awkward clothing
• Silent or sullen opponents
• Unsavory or unscrupulous merchants and nobles
• The Brass Blades

Hopes and Dreams

√ Class/Job Mastery: Having opened her seventh chakra, Raptor can now count herself among the strongest monks, but even this victory's sweetness is diluted by the cost it came at.

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.

Patriotism: Singing Raptor holds a somewhat idealized view of Ul'dah as an infinitely prosperous and mighty nation state - and the greedy, grimy reality does not sit well with her. More mature after her disappearance, she now realizes how shortsighted her previous expression of this desire was. She has sought instead to foster change without violence, offering her time to organizations that aid refugees and others driven to poverty by aggressive mercantilism.

Trivia

• Singing Raptor has decided that the word "raptor" in her name refers to the bird, rather than the reptile.
• Singing Raptor cannot hold liquor to save her life, and is possibly somehow allergic to it. Any amount of any alcoholic beverage that she consumes causes her to become severely dizzy and disoriented. The three times she has tried booze, she has knocked herself out by hitting her head on something as she staggers and falls.