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Firoza Istus ([personal profile] bladeofnymeia) wrote2021-07-09 12:04 pm
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☄ First Impressions

♚ VISUAL: Firoza is a Highlander Hyur, 30yrs old, standing at 5ft, 9 and 1/4th inches. Build and bust are in average range. Pale skinned, short dark brown hair. Some of her hair is tipped a soft sort of powdery blue, and her right cheek bears a tattoo in a matching shade, the mark reminiscent of aetheric tendrils.
♚ FASHION: Practical and flattering. Firoza likes simple, functional things for daily wear. Shades of blue are her go-to. A sword and shield are the perfect accessories for any occasion. Pants are default, but if she must wear a skirt/dress, it can't be poofy - her hips just make it look comical.
♚ DEMEANOUR: Serious yet gentle. Quiet. Awkward when out of her depth, which is a fair amount of the time. Patient with children, not so with bullies. Firoza doesn't tolerate that shit. Can and will swear a lot, which surprises most people when they realize just how filthy her mouth can be.
♚ SOUND: Has a surprisingly boisterous laugh and can cheer and holler with the best of them. Loud in battle, will shout and scream to get an enemy's attention on her and away from you, and she can take the hits to back it up. Normal voice is a little hoarse from all that shouting, but kindly all the same.
♚ SCENT: On the road, it's a mix of dust, sweat, a little blood, and various oils used to maintain armor and weapons. In town, the maintenance oil smell is behind freshly cleaned linens and freshly baked bread; the former is from working with weaving materials, and the latter is because by the gods, does she love to eat bread.
♚ MENTAL INFORMATION: Firoza is. Not smart? Not intelligent by any means? She is highly aware of her mental limitations and tries very hard to follow along and parse more complex concepts, but a lot of times she just doesn't grasp them. If she trusts you, she will ask if you can speak plainly about these things, but it's embarrassing for her to admit. She's also got a lot of hangups about her physical appearance and not being very typical of the majority of women she sees out in the world, nor is she typical in looks to other Highlander women. It's...kinda rough, but she's dealing with it.
♚ MAGICAL INFORMATION: As a Paladin, Firoza has limited spellcasting abilities. Most of them are for defense buffs, though she does know one healing spell, Clemency. She knows some offensive spells, aka Confetior combo, and loves setting it off.



☄ BACKSTORY

♚ IN GENERAL: One day, a sellsword from Gyr Abania worked to protect a humble chapel in Coerthas as part of a contract. At the chapel was a priest whom the sellsword found attractive, and the two were intimate for the sellsword's tenure before parting ways. As the sellsword journeyed on towards Ilsabard, she realized she was with child, and, unable and unwilling to change her life to care for a baby, left it in the home of an elderly weaver woman who lived in the Magna Glacies: Cassandra cen Istus. The sellsword gave the child nothing but her life and her name before she left - Firoza.

Growing up, Firoza was keenly aware that "Mother Istus" was not really her mother, though the woman never made her feel unloved or unwanted. No, it was those who visited the old woman for her wares that would take one look at a small child, spit upon her, and call her a "savage", finding ways to cheat the pair out of money or resources just for existing together. It was this treatment that gave Firoza her intense disdain for bullies, seeing no proper reason why the both of them should be hated at all. In time, she took it upon herself to learn the ways of the sword, and though inexperienced, she came to be able to protect her elderly caretaker, and found pride in that.

But Cassandra cen Istus would not let the girl she so dearly loved spend all her days in the middle of nowhere, being hated for something she could not control. Making a set of traveling clothes and procuring what supplies she could find, she set Firoza off on her journey, filling the woman's head with half-remembered secondhand tales of the land of Eorzea, and of grand adventures upon which she could hone her skills and see great sights. And so, Firoza set off, donning the surname Istus to never forget her past, and stepped out into her future...

Inexperienced with the outside world as she is, Firoza finds comfort in helping others, not asking for much in return. Any money she does make is quickly spent on materials for weaving, the craft which Mother Istus laboured to teach her in her youth. Actually living amongst a wealth of different peoples has made her a bit self-conscious about her looks, though she copes by learning about the culture of wherever she goes and adapting her armor to fit in better. Not surprisingly (because what is socializing when you live in bumfuck nowhere), her social skills are lacking, and her lack of formal education can leave her feeling awkward in situations where there's a lot of technical jargon going on. Gifts given to her, especially precious or beautiful things, are highly treasured, as she is moved by sentiment very easily. The earnestness of children also warms her heart, and she would do anything to help or defend those younger than her without question.

She sees Ul'dah as a second home, and is happy to roam as one of its free paladins.

♚ NON-WARRIOR OF LIGHT: If the Firoza you're interacting with is not the Warrior of Light, then her personality and pregame backstory doesn't differ from the stuff above. Instead, you will meet a woman who has made a name for herself in Ul'dah as The Blue Flame, ferocious with sword and shield on the Bloodsands and a stalwart free paladin of the Sultansworn. She has three friends who are also tank classes (Telulu Terune the Gunbreaker, Rayne Clearbrook the Warrior, and Khaliun Mol the Dark Knight) with whom she has been traveling Eorzea with; they are taking some forays into Coerthas and Gyr Abania lately and would like to go as far as Othard in the future, being the bulwark that stands strong between those who would do harm and those who cannot take such pain on their own.


☄ OOC

♚ BACKTAGGING: Yes
♚ FOURTHWALLING: Ask first please
♚ PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Please please PLEASE ask about this first
♚ PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Yeah dude just hit me up and we can roll dice and have a fight
♚ RELATIONSHIPS: Please ask me first, I'd like a relationship to be built up to and slowburn. Firoza has her own anxieties and is not used to romance in any capacity.



☄ Permissions

♚ WARRIOR OF LIGHT: Do you want to RP with Firoza as the WoL, or as a regular adventurer? The last thing I want to do is make someone else uncomfortable or assume something.
♚ THE ECHO: If you're okay with WoL!Firoza, let me know if you're okay with the power of the Echo. In FF14, the Warrior of Light can sometimes receive visions of someone's past or memories. This power activates at random, if at all (ie whenever the plot wants it to happen), but considering it is invasive and 4th wall breaking, I would not want to use it without your explicit permission to do so - and even then, I would concede to whatever you wished the Echo to show. If you'd rather forgo this power, that's no problem, just tell me.
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