Sumari Polaali

Sumari Polaali
Gender	Female
Race	Miqo'te
Clan	Keeper of the Moon
Citizenship	Gridanian
Age	19
Marital Status	Open relationship
Occupation	Bounty hunter/Scientist/Strategist/Dusk Dancer
Height/Weight	5'4”/114 lbs
Orientation	Bisexual
Relatives	Hanji'a Kiraja (father) (deceased) Pyha Polaali (mother) (deceased) Pyha'to Polaali (brother) Tikka Swift aka L'anya Polaali Quickpaw (half-sister) Tarra Quickpaw (niece) Sumi Vee Swiftpaw (niece) Rana Ari Quickpaw (niece) Shiro Quickpaw (nephew) Aitana Quickpaw-Locte (niece) Genji Quickpaw-Locte (nephew) Khaala Quickpaw-Locte (niece) Isaac "Zack" Quickpaw (nephew) Cherry (niece) Jet Rayn-Polaali (nephew)

Sumari Polaali is a miqo'te bounty hunter and mercenary. With her mystical might and talent for gadgetry, she and her twin brother track down and capture dangerous criminals, and other targets of note who've had bounties placed on their heads by various parties and organizations across Eorzea.

Basic Info

LIKES ■ Family ■ Kittens ■ Puppies ■ ICE CREAM ■ Dramatic explosions ■ Sarcastic quips ■ Witty banter ■ Intelligent humor ■ Shiny objects

DISLIKES ■ Goats -.- (long story) ■ Broccoli ■ Arrogant people ■ Ridiculously loud noises ■ Ghosts :( ■ Chewy candy (gets stuck in your teeth!) ■ Excessively negative people ■ Boring people ■ Uneducated people

OTHER ■ Alignment: Neutral Good ■ Vice(s): May have a gambling problem ■ Favorite Food: Cotton candy ■ Favorite Drink: Margarita ■ Favorite Color: Blue ■ Favorite Weapon: Scepter ■ Favorite Climate: hot ■ Hobbies: Reading, gadgetry, drawing ■ Special skills: Thaumaturgy, arcanism, detecting magical auras, creating gadgets

Appearance & Personality

Sumari is a bright young woman with a positive outlook on life despite what she has experienced in the past. Her silver hair is kept in dreads, and her blue eyes shine with an inner light of intelligence. She is petite in build and, while not out of shape by any means, she has the physical build of someone who lets magic (or her brother) handle most of the heavy lifting. She loves intelligent conversation, but has no patience for boring people. She has a wild imagination, and often gets lost in her own stories and fabrications.

Biography

Sumari and her brother, Pyha'to, were both born and raised in the secret underground enclave of the Dusk Dancers. The Dusk Dancers was a group of rogues that operated independently of any of the larger thieves guilds based out of the three major Eorzean city-states. Their existence was tolerated due to their altruistic nature – their mission was to help anyone who came to them with problems which were too complicated to be handled by members of any local authorities.

Their mother and father had an open relationship with each other. When Sumari and Pyha'to were just babies, they were introduced to their half-sister, L'anya Kharja, who was the result of their father falling for a Seeker woman who was part of a more traditional Seeker tribe. L'tarra Khoran had to keep her visits to their group a secret, and her daughter was named in a traditional Seeker fashion, as she had to maintain the ruse that the baby's father was L'kharja Nunh, a man with influence within her tribe. Though visits were less than frequent, Sumari and Pyha'to accepted L'anya as their sibling and, as they grew older, the three played together whenever L'tarra brought little L'anya to visit.

Magical talent was seemingly absent in their family's bloodline on both sides of the family. Pyha'to and L'anya likewise showed no sign of mystical affinity, and everyone was certain that all three children would continue the family legacy. However, Sumari manifested her gifts at an early age, much to the surprise of everyone. Not only did she have a magical gift, but she had quite a strong innate talent. She was always accidentally setting something on fire, much to the delight of her half-sister, L'anya.

While her brother honed his martial skills on the practice fields, Sumari was instead inducted into the small cloister of mages that the Dusk Dancers kept in their enclave. She soon learned to direct and shape her magical energies, and discovered that she had a special affinity for destruction. Sumari also discovered that she enjoyed learning how things worked. In her spare time she often worked with the Dusk Dancer Engineering Corps, and helped to take things apart and put them back together again.

But her happy life within the enclave was soon to change. L'kharja Nunh soon discovered that L'tarra had been deceiving him about L'anya's origins. When he learned about the Dusk Dancers, and that L'anya's true father was one of their lieutenants, he couldn't let the insult stand. Accompanied by a group of assassins, he swept through the enclave, bringing murder and destruction in his wake. Hanji'a and Pyha fought to keep their children safe, but they were each slain by L'kharja. Sumari and Pyha'to managed to escape, with L'anya in tow, but with the assassins right on their heels. As they neared the surface and it was clear that they were about to be overtaken, Pyha'to turned and stood fast, ready to buy Sumari and L'anya time to escape. Sumari refused to abandon her twin at first, but when she saw that L'anya wouldn't flee without her, she was left with no choice but to leave.

They fled into the forest, but Pyha'to's sacrifice hadn't given them much breathing room. They could hear the assassins closing in. The ground gave way beneath L'anya's feet and she tumbled down a steep embankment. Sumari couldn't catch her in time, and knew that if she went after her, they would both be overtaken. She stopped long enough to spot the assassins, sent a torrent of flame towards them, then took off in another direction in the hopes of leading them away from her half-sister.

The gambit worked and the assassins followed her through the forest. After an extended game of cat and mouse, she finally managed to evade her pursuers. She returned to search for L'anya but, as she closed in on where she'd last spotted her, she came across the mortally wounded form of L'kharja Nunh making his way through the forest. She confronted him, and he presented her with his bloody weapon, told her that he'd just killed her sister. Rage built up inside her and she was about to incinerate the vindictive nunh, when she heard his men approaching. Left with little choice, she fled back into the forest. After some time had passed, she stealthily returned to the caves to search for survivors. Her parents were dead, as was everyone she had ever known. Sumari was about to give in to despair when, as she crossed a bridge leading towards the cavern's exit, she heard the muffled sounds of labored breathing coming from below. Sumari climbed down into the chasm beneath the bridge, and she discovered that Pyha'to was severely wounded, but still alive.

She managed to rig up a harness and help Pyha'to out of the chasm. He suggested that they return to bury the bodies, but Sumari reasoned that L'kharja likely had men stationed to watch the enclave, and there was no way that they could remove that many bodies without drawing attention to themselves. They fled to the city-state of Gridania, and she looked after her twin while he recovered from his wounds. Once he was well again, they decided they needed a plan. They had very little coin to their name, which meant they needed to figure out a way to earn more. Sumari spotted a notice on a nearby board which listed escaped criminals in the area. With her brother's tracking skills and martial prowess and her own mystical talent, she reasoned that it would be an easy thing to track some of them down. They became bounty hunters, a career which wound up making them some useful contacts. Although their past was behind them, Sumari and Pyha'to vowed to find L'kharja Nunh and bring him to justice – one way or the other.

Developments

● Has recently discovered that her half-sister, L'anya, may still be alive.

● With the aid of a large group of friends and allies, and several months of planning, L'anya has been rescued and retrieved from the cultist stronghold where she was being held.

● She has since helped to found a group called The Radical Dreamers. With them, she serves as second in command and head strategist. She also uses on site lab facilities to aid in her research and development.

● She has been working with L'anya and Pyha'to to revive the Dusk Dancers in order to honor the memory of their parents.

● The Dreamers have recently received a threatening notice which hints at the return of L'kharja's organization.

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) ■ “She has a knack for fixing things that are broken.” ■ “She's a mage, no small amount of natural talent either.” ■ “I hear she's got a twin brother, who's some kind of ranger or tracker.” ■ “Watch yourself, she and her brother are bounty hunters.” ◢ Moderate Rumors (Moderately difficult to overhear) ■ “I hear she was a member of some group of altruistic rogues that operated out of the Shroud. The Dusk Dancers, I think.” ■ “Her family was killed by assassins.” ■ “I hear she's looking for someone named L'anya.” ◢ Rare Rumors (Very difficult or rarely overheard) ■ “She seems to be intent on digging up any information about a “L'kharja Nunh”.” ■ ■ ◢ PC Rumors (Rumors from the character's of other players) ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Sumari and Anton watching the fireworks together Sumari looking like a magical badass! Sumari with her half-sister, Tikka Sumari with her brother-in-law, Gen Sumari looking thoughtful Sumari as a bounty hunter

RELATIONS ♥ Romantic Interest ♥ Sexual Interest ♥ Platonic Love ● Good Standing ● Neutral Standing ● Poor Standing ♥ Pyha'to Polaali : Sumari's twin brother. She shares a deep connection with him, and he is entirely too protective of her. As her last living family member (that she is aware of), the feeling is definitely mutual. ♥ Tikka Swift : Known to her as L'anya, Sumari and her brother recently discovered that she was alive. However, before they were able to reunite with their half-sister, L'anya was abducted by L'kharja Nunh's men. Sumari and her brother worked alongside L'anya's various friends and allies to assault the cultists' island lair and rescue her. ● Vanilla Wayfarer : Sumari met Vanilla shortly after L'anya's abduction. L'anya was one of Vanilla's best friends and the abduction hit her particularly hard, and she told Sumari that she felt weak and helpless. Sumari could identify with Vanilla's feelings, as she had gone through the same thing when she believed that L'kharja Nunh murdered her sister. She now feels a certain sense of responsibility towards the girl. ● Arianne Soren : While looking for L'anya, Sumari showed Arianne a picture of her while at the Quicksand in Ul'dah. Arianne knew L'anya as Tikka Swift, but she feigned ignorance as she didn't know who Sumari was, and assumed that if someone was looking for Tikka, it was bad. Sumari has since learned that Arianne is a member of the Light Crusaders. She doesn't blame Arianne for her deception, but she does believe that if the woman had been more up front with her from the start, there is a chance that it may have prevented L'anya's kidnapping. ● Glow N'amownoc : The subject of one of the first bounty contracts that she and her brother accepted. This contract was also their first significant failure. However, while they failed to capture this elusive target, their target -- unintentionally or not -- led them to stumble across an underground slave trafficking ring that they were subsequently able to put a stop to. The bounty for capturing the criminals worked out to be more than Glow's was worth. As there is no longer a bounty on this individual that has been posted by anyone that she would care to work for, Sumari's feelings towards her are neutral. ♥ Gen Quickpaw : Sumari met Gen once or twice after her sister's abduction, but she didn't really get to know him after she worked with him while investigating certain aspects of her sister's abduction. After a night of heavy drinking and a night of equally heavy passion, she's discovered that she gets along fairly well the with rogue. ♥ Valkhiss Lasher : He was the mage responsible for creating the portal that enabled L'kharja Nunh's men to abduct her sister, L'anya. Sumari and Pyha'to tracked him down with the help of one of Valkhiss's angry ex girlfriends. They sought to capture him and needed to take their quarry down quickly due to the elusive nature of their prey. As such, Pye convinced Sumari to take an untested gadget into the field. The device worked, but it worked too well. It overloaded Lasher's nervous system and wiped his long term memory. When he came to, he was a different person. Although she didn't trust him at first, her time spent guarding him as caused Sumari to realize that the man Valkhiss is now is not the one that he once was. Her trust eventually grew into something more, and she now considers him someone that she cares for deeply. He has since used his magic to help Sumari and her allies rescue L'anya from the clutches of the cultists that abducted her. He has since vanished without a trance, and without any clues to his whereabouts. Sumari is only just now beginning to come to terms with the realization that he is gone. ● Ashlee Quinn : Sumari met the hyuran girl shortly after the Dreamers moved into their new estate. Ashlee saw Sumari as a source of knowledge, a role that Sumari was happy to fill. She has since taken Ashlee under her wing as her apprentice, and has been teaching her facets of both magic and science. In return, Ashlee assists her around the lab and helps with her experiments. ♥ Anton Borneheld : A hyuran man who was a friend of L'anya's, who joined the Radical Dreamers after reconnecting with her. He since took a position as company chef and martial arts trainer. Since Sumari often tends to neglect her body's nutritional needs due to being absorbed in her work, Anton took it upon himself to take care of her. She has since found herself becoming attached to him -- he treats her nice, and provides a source of comfort when she's lonely. In the wake of Valkhiss's disappearance, she's felt lonely often. They have recently decided that they are dating.

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