#oday oronir

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behold: Themst.

This is Oduyanga Oronir Oduyanga Tsollogo Nergui Tsollogo Oduyanga “Oday” Solongo Oronir, also known as Oday of the Rainbow, Scion of the Seventh Dawn, former exile, Warrior of Light, and General Menace and Nuisance to All Eorzea.

Smith @bladeverbena​ dragged me along behind him into FFXIV story, but as i am sadly hindered by anxiety from successfully playing combat games, he was kind enough to build Oday in the CC with me on a vidcall earlier. Bless u my beloved smiffman.

Bonus screenshot of Altanaran “Altan” Oronir, Oday’s beloved late husband.

In their “canon,” Oday isn’t the Warrior of Light, but one of the original “Warriors of Light,” aka the party that got yote into a rift when Louisoix realized there wasn’t gonna be any winning against Bahamut at Carteneau.

Oday tumbled out five years later near Ul’dah, taking on the name Nergui (literally “no name,” i.e. a name given to evil spirits to mislead them) and quietly rejoining the adventurer’s guild. They were content to stay on the down-low, but that pesky sense of justice and their bad habit of standing up for the downtrodden got in their way, and they ended up as guest of honor at a banquet thrown by the Sultana and their old friend General Raubahn -- who, like everyone else, didn’t remember them. Knowing they had to get out of Ul’dah before memories broke them, they took Raubahn’s offer of being his emissary and, after confessing their true identity, left the city.

However, along the way, they met a Viera by the name of Ressaunt, who was similarly hailed as a hero in Gridania -- and who was similarly tasked with bringing the proposal of memorial services to the other two leaders. They fell in together, and Oday discovered that Ress also possessed the Echo when he saw a vision of the Calamity -- specifically, what Oday saw of it.

Flashing forward a bit, they joined the Scions together, already friends, and Oday once again confessed that they remembered many of the main members of the group, since they were one of the “Warriors of Light.” A Roegadyn woman snorted and said, “So was I.” (Indeed she was -- Doenlona Wyssbharwyn, monk and champion of the deadpan snark. Other old party members re-met along the way include Zieh’to Pahjantal, Miqo’te red mage; and Vespersineaux “Ves” Evequaint, Elezen white mage.)

Oday saw hope in Ress, and they promised to keep him safe and be at his side. Through good times and bad, they stuck with him, and it turned out mostly well. It was on the way to the Azim Steppe that Ress noticed Oday getting quieter and quieter, and when he asked what was wrong, they simply said, “There are places on the Steppe I’m not allowed to go. I’m not even permitted to visit my husband’s grave.”

This being the first time Oday had ever even mentioned to him a husband, let alone a dead one, Ress was understandably taken the fuck aback. Turned out that Oday was originally known as Oduyanga Oronir, born into a highly tradition-devoted clan against which they chafed, and chafed hard. However, their saving grace came in the form of Altanaran “Altan” Oronir, next in line to the khan’s seat, who saw Oday’s fierce heart and fell in love, and his younger brother Magnai, as proud and strong as Oday. Oday fell in love in return with Altan and his kindness and steady-eyed understanding, and the two of them were wed shortly after Altan became khan. Their marriage was blissfully happy, but tragically short -- Altan was grievously wounded during a Naadam less than two years later, and after Magnai, promising he would win, ran off to try and do so, Oday, also wounded, didn’t dare try to carry Altan to the healers alone in the middle of a melee. Their husband died cradled in his injured spouse’s arms.

Less than six months later, with Magnai as the new khan, the elders of the clan attempted to bring the rebel to heel by invoking the tradition that a widow of a chief would marry the next. Oday refused and, frustrated with the Oronir tribe’s refusal to accept the change they and Altan had tried to make, had a knock-down-drag-out argument with Magnai that ended with Oday exiled from the tribe.

And now they head to the Steppe for the first time in years...

(Spoilers: Oday wins the Naadam and becomes khagan, as they had planned with Altan for the Naadam in which he died, by defeating Magnai after stopping him from killing their friend and a very violent rehash of their last argument; they’re absolutely delighted to turn the entire fucking Steppe on the Imperials who show up. And they maybe fall in love again with a certain fellow exile, this one from Doma...)

More Altan because Smith’s a fruit (affectionate) and took extra screenshots of him:

Big handsome man. Oday still loves him.

[lorspolairepeluche]

15 Lines: Oday

Rules: Share 15 or fewer lines of dialogue from an OC, ideally lines that capture the character/personality/vibe of the OC. Bonus points for just using the dialogue without other details about the scene, but you're free to include those as well!

"You aren’t wrong. It is a sorry fate. I would know. But it is not my fate here. No — very few in my tribe made the effort to love me." (The Dawn Star, ch. 4)

"I was once forcibly apprenticed to a storyteller of my tribe, in yet another effort to turn me from the path I wished to walk. It lasted less than a year. Perhaps I did learn some from him, in the end. It would have been hard not to — he never shut the fuck up." (The Dawn Star, ch. 9)

"I am going to kill [Thybé]. Don’t worry yourself — his life is forfeit to me for several other things too, and he likely plans to kill me for just as many, but we have many a task to see done before we ever get around to actually killing each other." (The Dawn Star, ch. 13)

"I have stood in the presence of three Suns — and they have stood in mine." (The Dawn Star, ch. 13)

"I am Oduyanga! I am the Sun’s bright star! I am the widower of Altanaran, radiant Sun and khan of the Oronir! And I have come home, little brother." (The Dawn Star, ch. 13)

I knew when I was younger that I would die in battle on the Steppe. It’s just coming later than I thought it would. And perhaps a little less gloriously. [...] Perhaps it is glorious to die like this." (The Dawn Star, ch. 18)

"They’re [Magnai's] older sisters. A height advantage is worth bollocks to them. Do your pleasantries, Hien. If you would have the Oronir as allies, these are the women to convince." (The Dawn Star, ch. 22)

"You don’t have to prove you’re returning to your old self by telling me how Daidukul’s dick tasted." (The Dawn Star, ch. 26)

"The way every warrior did not hesitate to rush to battle together like that… Perhaps that is how it should be. Rivalries will never die, of course, but…they should not divide us so." (The Dawn Star, ch. 26)

"Hey, sun. I’d call you by name, but ‘Altan’ usually comes out of my mouth in a roar these days, when my daughter’s doing something she knows she shouldn’t." (The Dawn Star, ch. 27)

"Hey, with all the trouble Lord van Ballsack Better-Than-Thee gave me — on two separate, near-apocalyptic occasions — I think I deserve to annoy you once in a while." (Day's End)

"Then, Master Leveilleur, I must ask you to hasten your exit. You have insulted and demeaned beloved and respected members of the Solongo tribe, and as its khan, I cannot abide such behavior toward those in my care. [...] I believe you heard me, ser. You're upsetting my kids." (this post about Oday adopting the twins)

"Moogles, great one, are vastly different from the people I escape by visiting Zenith." (this post about places the usual suspects go to get away)

"Look, dragoon -- do you wipe your ass on the carpet when you visit someone else's home? You're the guest here! Shut the fuck up." (this one about the dravania road trip)

"And if the Fury’s people can give hope and a new dawn to someone as hopelessly dark as I was when I first came to the Holy See, then I know that you, those people, can keep what you love fixed in your sight and your hope firmly in your hands, and you can keep walking to that dawn together." (from their speech to the ecumenical council during the endwalker role quests; it's not posted anywhere)

(thanks @camelliagwerm for the open tag; tagging @bladeverbena bc i wanna see some bnuuy lines; @solipseismic to reignite the three-way ping-pong we had going on that one time)