Suzume Kurogane
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Suzume no Kurogane wandering warrior priestess
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A B O U T Suzume was born 3 years after the invasion and subjugation of Doma by the Garlean Empire. Born to a family of what appeared to be simple farmers the girl wasn't given much notice, and that was exactly how the family liked it. While the Kurogane family boasted a small, modest, farm out of the way of most it was naught but a cover for their actual occupation. Resistance. The Kurogane family was not at all accepting of their new rulers and did everything they could to undermine the Garleans, disrupting supply lines and tainting food stores. Largely they were able to get away with it, but only until Suzume turned 2. A few moons after her birthday the Garleans delivered swift and brutal justice to their home. Suzume's mother Ayake hid her child away when she saw the soldiers approaching, tucking her away in a small compartment under the floor of their hut while the altercation took place. It was a violent thing that left the girl with a deep seated hatred for the Garleans later on, but that terrified her. After the soldiers were finished they dragged her mother away and left her father dying in the hut, setting it ablaze with him still inside. The girl herself was trapped in the small compartment, pushing hard at the door but failing to open it. Her cries for help however did not fall on deaf ears and while the house burned around them her dying father dragged himself to the compartment as quickly as he could. He would not let his daughter die. He released her from the prison and the child screamed and cried over his fading body until the smoke became too much and though she tried she could not drag him from the house. She was forced to flee and she found once she started running she could not stop herself, not until she collapsed near the road. It would be there that Shouhei would find her, a wandering Priest come to investigate the smoke that he'd seen rising. Shouhei took in the girl without a thought, nursing her through her smoke inhalation and then raising her to become one of the Priestess that attended his temple. He had known of her parents, having stopped many times to purchase fruit or other foods from them for the temple itself but he'd never been close to them enough to have much of a hand in Suzume's life. She was mistrustful at first but grew to love Shouhei as one would any parent. Grateful the girl threw herself into his tutelage at the young age of 8. Around her 10th birthday the Garleans called on the temple and bade it be shut down, they did not condone the worship that the Au Ra perpetrated. Shouhei fearing for his many wards agreed and sent the soldiers on their way. But he had no intention of taking away he hope that the Temple sewed in the Domans that prayed in their halls. The temple was moved to a more secluded part of the surrounding area and operated in secret, along with training to become a Priestess, or Priest the wards of the Temple were now taught how to fight as well and trained in the art of subterfuge as much as possible. Suzume flourished in this environment, becoming proficient with the Bow, a Bo Staff, Naginata, and to a much lesser degree the sword. As with all Priestess' she was also taught in the arts of healing to take care of the injuries of those that passed through the temple like the rest. Her zealotry against the Garleans however was noticed and Shouhei, who had always felt close to her, decided it was time she aided the Resistances with him. For moons he'd been helping them by supplying food and the like form the temple, even weapons that they had been making as quietly as possible. Suzume accepted without hesitation, becoming the only other in the Temple to know where these people hid. The temple evaded detection for a long while, providing succor to those who needed it regardless of their status or position on the war and aiding any Resistance that asked it of them. However as with all things kind the Garleans in the area took notice and captured one of the travelers that the Temple had cared for, the man fearing for his life, professed everything. The Temple was raiding the following evening, instead of a massacre however the soldiers captured those that worked there and dragged them away, though inevitably some were able to escape. Suzume refused to run and fought side by side with Shouhei until they were overpowered by the much larger amount of soldiers. Shouhei was captured and tortured while his student was forced to watch, but they would not kill him, needing his knowledge on the resistance's locations and members. They were becoming a thorn in the Empire's side. In the end Shouhei refused to tell them and both he and Suzume were taken prisoner and dragged from their burning temple to be taken to the local Legatus. In the night before the reached their destination however some of the Shinobi in the resistance they had been aiding would raid the camp of the Garleans. In the confusion Suzume was able to escape but while freeing Shouhei she was wounded and he forced her to abandon him in favor of running, they would not kill him, he was sure of it. With no alternative Suzume ran, their Shinobi saviors being overwhelmed slowly, she'd never be sure if they saved Shouhei or survived. Suzume fled to the nearest province and did her best to lie low but it was not to be. She was hunted relentlessly for her knowledge, and for the Legatus' pride, so when the Domans fled she blended herself in with the crowd and was whisked away to Eorzea. Now she seeks only to return to Doma and find Shouhei if he yet lives, but with little money and only what she could carry on her she knows she has a long road ahead of her to get herself back.
Recently Suzume has run into a companion that she has dubbed a bodyguard while in Eorzea, Hayate Ashikage. The two met when Suzume was attacked by bandits on the way to Ul'dah and she fled them only to run into a man who had already gained their ire. After a quick but bloody fight the bandits were left dead and Hayate actually -indebted- to the woman. The two are traveling together for the moment and doing their best to survive.
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