• Gold and Jade •

X’sehya was born in Vesper Bay, far from his tribe. Because of this he has no experience of 'standard’ Seeker life though he took on the ‘Tia’ title per the customs his mother followed. His mother, X’nihru, worked as domestic help for the wealthy of Ul’dah as the nobles enjoyed their vacation homes near the ocean. Though she worked hard, the woman was always frail of her health, perhaps the reason she’d left the X tribe to settle in Western Thanalan.

Life was never lavish but X’nihru did her best to care for her one child she’d borne from across the desert. As X’sehya grew older he became more and more aware of his mother’s frail constitution and pushed to assist her as hired help. Those were long days for the two miqo’te but they managed. That is until one evening where a drunken merchant began to beat X’nihru and a young X’sehya jumped in to try and protect her. Just past his first decade there was little the boy could do. Desperate he took a decorative knife from a display and killed the man while he was distracted. Both remained terrified for whatever punishment may have be wrought upon them for the murder. It seems, however, that the Twelve looked the other way. The merchant’s own wife had been the subject of such abuse and was grateful to see him gone. The incident was swept under the rug and forgotten though the Seekers were fired to be kept out of the way.

X’nihru never quite recovered from the incident emotionally or physically, terrified to leave her residence and find work. Always a bright, stubborn boy, X’sehya took odd and end jobs about the bay wherever he could.

Entertaining came about in a fortunate way. Working as a busboy in the town’s tavern, a passerby made a comment about his voice, the Seeker usually singing or humming as he worked to pass the time. Intrigued, the smart lad approached the owner to performing during quieter hours. It was successful. The mental wheels began to turn and X’sehya grew more and more bold and daring in how far to push his venue. Watching performers of all types pass through the nearby harbor, he learned to mirror their dances, their steps, mannerisms. What did people want?

By his fourteenth spring, X’sehya hopped a wagon to Ul’dah. That was where the gil was. The modest house he’d grown up in was under threat of being sold. Again, the boy flourished. Moonly mog mails arrived to his broken mother, enough to keep the house in her name. Then the big deal came. He was approached to spy on a merchant during a small party. Who would be suspicious of the small boy with bright eyes scampering about, curious about what he shouldn’t know is questionable business? Naive still, he took the deal. It was a trap from the start. His ‘client’ had sold the boy to a slaver and literally had X’sehya deliver himself to the man. Ever a fighter, the miqo’te escaped with some injuries and went into hiding to nurse his wounds and hide from those searching for him.

It was his first personal lesson on how cutthroat the city of sand and sin could be. Now X’sehya knew to step lightly. Now of twenty-two springs with eight years of manipulation under his belt, the Seeker learned how to play the game and play it well. Mail still arrives at a small house in Vesper Bay on a monthly basis.

I. AN UNFORTUNATE TURN OF EVENTS

After a long series of moons of being employed by Quill to gather information about the free company’s newly won auction site, X’sehya finds himself in a whirlwind of bad guy manipulation. The Coeurls, a competitive force, somehow located his mother and held her ransom to turn the Seeker into a double agent. He had little choice in the matter.

This led to his encounter with the man known as Noah and his Oathbreakers. This terrifying presence that all of Quill feared...now X’sehya found himself at his side. A handful of weeks within the beast’s machinations taught the cat what true powerlessness feels like, unable to read his target, gain traction and reputation, and constantly being on edge.

Noah blatantly announced his plan to attack X’sehya in front of Quill to garner a response from the group. And indeed the Seeker was powerless to stop it, taking an attack through and through his chest. But he survived. As X’sehya weathered this, another of Quill had found and freed X’nihru from the Coeurls.

Now X’nihru resides at the new headquarters in Shirogane, Vesper Bay now unsafe and known by hostile forces. Things are quiet...for now, mother and son under the same roof.

II. SHADOWS AND REVENGE

X’sehya lazed about as a housecat for much of the time after. A few errands were run for the shadowy organization of the Quill, now rebranded and uprooted to Kugane as the Kotodama Clan, but besides that he was ‘retired.’

With the shift to the east, he took on acting within the city’s theaters which made enough side gil to keep himself content. Working for the Clan had him eventually paired up with another Tia by the name of W’behna. The two were rather quick to enjoy the benefits of each other’s physical company.

Despite the fact that Tia tried to tell himself it was just an enjoyable time in bed, things had been...different. And he found himself craving W’behna’s company in more than just the physical when the ninja was sent away often for the Clan’s dirty deeds.

It seemed the feeling was two-fold and the two began to date. Not quite...court. But the frisky and flirtatious X’sehya with the more stoic and quiet wolf Tia seemed quite an odd pair that were content in spending time with one another.

All things came to a head however, when X’sehya finally broke his personal oath not to get involved with his bedmates’ personal business. He returned to Ul’dah to aid W’behna in retrieving his nephew from the claws of his former boss.

It was successful. Until the dancer let his guard down and was nabbed from behind by an old enemy. Following after, his lover was also taken into custody by his old employer. It seemed the two mages had banded together to catch the two cats.

In the end, X’sehya’s eyes were magically taken away leaving him blind and W’behna was left with corrupted magic within from seizing the evil spirits about them for aid in their escape.

The former spy now lays in recovery, his whole world turned upside down by his injury. Despite the promise of love and dedication from W’behna, too many years of paranoia make him feel panicked at times...even with a bonding proposal between them.

III. CALM

Though help of dear friends, X’sehya was able to reclaim what was his and made a full recovery. His marriage to W’behna was formally sealed and the two now find themselves home at Suiren Shrine. The former tends to be a lazy housecat most of the time, escaping his chores and not really doing much besides one-off jobs as a bartender and server at various establishments. After working so hard all his life, perhaps he’s allowed to be a bum for a little bit?

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