CHARACTER SURVEY || Aja Hyskaris
@yascaret edited/removed some of the questions to make this more FFXIV-friendly. I made a few of my own changes as well.
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TAGGED BY. @yascaret and @wood-warder
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BASICS.
FULL NAME : Aja Hyskaris
NICKNAME : None (yet?)
AGE : Appears around late 20s/30 by hyur standards
BIRTHDAY : Midsummer
GENDER : Non-binary; she/they
ETHNIC GROUP : Viera (Rava)
NATIONALITY : Ivalician (?)
LANGUAGE / S : Common
SEXUAL ORIENTATION : Homosexual
ROMANTIC ORIENTATION : Homoromantic
RELATIONSHIP STATUS : In a relationship with Lofn Yascaret & Pjel Qoet
HOME TOWN / AREA : The Hyskarian Deepwood, Golmore
CURRENT HOME : A small house in Shirogane.
PROFESSION : Mercenary. Bounty/monster hunter & occasional bodyguard.
PHYSICAL.
HAIR : Vibrant red, wild, curly, falling to mid-back; undercut. Sideburns and widow’s peak.
EYES : Amber.
FACE : Square with a sharp jawline. High cheekbones, thick, arched eyebrows, and a prominent, aquiline nose. Often smirking insufferably or flirtatiously, prone to great expressiveness and wide smiles but just as easily brooding. Sharp teeth.
LIPS : Full. Her smiles are crooked to begin with and deadened nerves on the left side of her mouth add to the effect.
COMPLEXION : Deep brown with warm undertones, lighter palms and soles of her feet, a lighter smudge underneath her nose and around her nostrils. Freckling around her shoulders, arm, the tops of her thighs and her lower back.
BLEMISHES : None of note.
SCARS : Covered in scattered scars of varying age, depth, and severity, particularly on her left side and near her prosthetic arm. Ceruleum burns on torso; old, ringed scar around throat; vertical scar on left corner of mouth; small scar across nose; edge of left eyebrow; three scars beneath right eye.
TATTOOS & PIERCINGS : Blackwork tattoos around forearm and legs, among others (design with art to come); white tattoos (curve, three dots) beneath eyes; Several gold rings along outer shells of ears; gold septum ring
HEIGHT : Just under six fulms, not counting her ears.
WEIGHT : Average.
BUILD : Muscular and stocky, with broad shoulders tapering to a strong waist and thighs. [body type reference]
FEATURES : Her left arm, from the start of the bicep, is a mechanical prosthetic, appearing to be of magitek-or-close make.
ALLERGIES : None that she knows of.
USUAL HAIR STYLE : Worn loose and wild, not so much a style as a thick mane.
USUAL FACE LOOK : Bare-faced, wearing tinted red pince nez. Smirking, grinning, flirting--generally looking like a complete asshole.
USUAL CLOTHING : Loose, open shirts, trousers, long coats, heavy, knee-high boots, leather jackets.
PSYCHOLOGY.
FEAR / S : Imprisonment, isolation, drowning, Garlean war machina.
ASPIRATION / S : Stability, helping others, belonging. In her younger years, she had romantic visions of knighthood, but those have since quieted with the years.
POSITIVE TRAITS : Adventurous, Passionate, Brave, Charismatic, Strong, Empathic
NEGATIVE TRAITS : Cocky, Bull-headed, Self-destructive, Reckless, Impulsive
MBTI : ESFP
ZODIAC : Leo
TEMPERAMENT : Sanguine
SOUL TYPE / S : Warrior
ANIMALS : Wolf
VICE HABIT / S : Brooding, drinking to excess, recklessness, impulsive decisions, using sex as validation.
FAITH : She spares it little thought.
GHOSTS ? : Yes.
AFTERLIFE ? : Maybe.
REINCARNATION ? : Hopefully.
ALIENS ? : When she met her first hyur man, she knew aliens were real.
POLITICAL ALIGNMENT : Garlemald bad, fuck cops.
EDUCATION LEVEL : Average for a viera of her village. She's taught herself to read between the lines better after being conned out of a full hunt reward once or twice in her early days in Rabanastre.
FAMILY.
FATHER : Fleeting contact a lifetime ago.
MOTHERS : Still in the Wood.
SIBLINGS : Several, no contact. She was close with one, but has made peace with never seeing any of them again.
EXTENDED FAMILY : Still in the Wood--as far as she knows.
NAME MEANING / S : Aja, from the Hyskarian Deepwood
HISTORICAL CONNECTION ? : She was born in Golmore, but as far as she knows her name has little meaning.
FAVORITES.
BOOK : Adventure stories and romance novels. She’d never admit it, but they can be found hidden in her satchel or underneath or inside other things.
DEITY : She tries not to think about them.
HOLIDAY : Moonfire Faire, ????
MONTH : Summer
SEASON : Summer & Fall
PLACE : A grassy field. The back of a cycle. On top of someone or between someone's legs.
WEATHER : Thunderstorms, rain showers, clear skies and bright sun overhead.
SOUND / S: Rain, thunder in the distance, the soft breathing of a woman asleep.
SCENT / S : Metal, cedar, rain, leather, girlfriend ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
TASTE / S : Meat, whiskey, curry, girlfriend ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
FEEL / S : Furs, leather, grass, rain, girlfriend ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
ANIMAL / S : Cats, coeurls, dogs.
NUMBER : 7
COLORS : Red, browns, black, gunmetal
EXTRA.
TALENTS : She's a blunt instrument, so beating the shit out of things. Flirting. Fixing things, usually the mechanical variety. Making friends. Diffusing social conflicts as often as she creates them. She's a good cook, but it's suitable really nowhere else but over a fire with a beast's flank in one hand and a metal spit in the other.
BAD AT : Love. Understanding and accepting her feelings. Has a chronic case of Foot-in-Mouth Disease. Has a long fuse, but her temper can spin out of control when pressed. Terrible at restraint and not being reckless and impulsive.
TURN ONS : Stockings, especially with the seam up the back. The nape of a woman's neck. Banter. Compliments. Smiles. Give her a smile and a coquettish eyelash flutter or make her feel strong and she's useless putty in your hands.
TURN OFFS : Flirtatious men, cowards, cruelty, Garleans.
HOBBIES : Fishing, tinkering, gambling, trying new foods, sparring and training, exercise.
TROPES : You Can’t Go Home Again, Badass Longcoat, Dark-Skinned Readhead, Cannot Spit It Out, Hot-Blooded, Scars Are Forever, Everyone Can See It, Artificial Limbs, Berserk Button, Unusual Eyebrows, Dark and Troubled Past, Rage Breaking Point, Cool Bike, Hot-Blooded Sideburns, Fiery Redhead, Red Oni Blue Oni, Gun Blade, La Résistance, Spell Blade, Love Epiphany, Bruiser with a Soft Center, Didn’t Think This Through (Gonna stop now or I’ll be here all night)
QUOTES : “Ah, fuck.”
MUN QUESTIONS.
Q1 : If you could write your character your way in their own movie, what would it be called, what style would it be filmed in, and what would it be about?
A1 : John Wick mixed with Final Fantasy VIII mixed with Drive but with Garlean soldiers, turncoats, gay bro content, a sorceress, and also heaps of gay in general.
Q2 : What would their soundtrack/score sound like?
A2 : Chromatic rock, Nightrun, hair metal, a lot of Deftones, Tool, the Weeknd, indie and acoustic rock for angst.
Q3 : Why did you start writing this character?
A3 : When viera were teased at Fanfest, I lost my mind and have been unable to concentrate on any other character since. Aja was actually going to be a hrothgar, but when they genderlocked them and the model and general design didn’t fit her body type, well… plans changed.
Q4 : What first attracted you to this character?
A4 : Much like @yascaret’s answer, getting my gay hands on viera in FFTA and being obsessed since then. I wanted to write a warrior, a little battered but unbroken despite everything. She came out differently than originally planned, but in a good way. She’s just an even bigger himbo now.
Q5 : Describe the biggest thing you dislike about your muse.
A5 : I worry about Flanderizing her too hard, because while she is a big flirtatious himbo idiot I also want it to come across that she has depth.
Q6 : What do you have in common with your muse?
A6 : Not a lot. I guess we're both stubborn idiots with very long fuses that nonetheless eventually explode and/or destroy whatever is on the receiving end. Also what's gender precious
Q7 : How does your muse feel about you?
A7 : She probably wouldn’t acknowledge me at all, but we might bond over spicy noodles.
Q8 : What characters does your muse have interesting interactions with ?
A8 : Lofn and Pjel are the obvious choice, but… Lofn and Pjel. I really love writing her alongside and against them because their personality traits both complement and chafe against one another, often in the same scene. Also I love their chemistry and look forward to how that plays out. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Q9 : What gives you inspiration to write your muse ?
A9 : B u n y d e a t h s q u a d. Just in general seeing my RP partners and roleplayers I haven’t interacted with yet writing and posting content for their characters really inspires me. As far as writing Aja, I take a handful of aesthetics, design elements, and themes and smash them together until something clicks. Listening to music and rolling through a prompt generator usually kick starts me into writing a drabble or developing something, and the FFXIV Write challenge has been great for that this month.
Q10 : How long did this take you to complete ?
A10 : About an afternoon and part of an evening. I fell into TV Tropes a little too hard near the end.
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