SELPHIE TILMITT, SeeD Black Mage
Story - A young Mithra trained at the Fauregandi Garden to the north, Selphie had recently transferred to the Zulkheim Garden and graduated to become a member of SeeD. Though she appears to be whimsical and carefree, Selphie harbors a dark sense of humor that at times catches her teammates off guard. Her first official mission sees her as a member of the La Vaule liberation squad. Strangely, as the party travels to San d’Oria, they are struck with a strange sensation and fall asleep. Selphie witnesses the actions of a small unit of soldiers embroiled in the Crystal War that was waged twenty years ago and a bard whom one of the soldiers fell in love with. Upon awaking the squad would discover that they all had shared the same dream. They are given little time to ponder this as their mission soon begins only for disaster to hound their efforts at various turns. Just narrowly avoiding a diplomatic incident sees the squad taking shelter at the Aragoneu Garden. It is hear that they receive their next assignment. A powerful summoner has become the adviser of a corrupt San d’Orian noble who intends to use her power for his own gain. Fearing the summoners power, Aragoneu Garden assigns the squad with assassinating her...
Design - Here we have Selphie redesigned as a Mithra Black Mage/Dancer. Her dress and boots have been altered with inspirations from the Black Mage artifact armor set, and she wears a Dancer’s Bangle artifact piece on her arm. Her weapon is a combination of her nunchaku weapon and the Claustrum staff relic weapon with a Garden logo emblazoned on it.
Comments - Wow. I am really bad at keeping this stuff updated. Anyways, here’s Selphie accidentally looking like a pikachu. This picture, along with a whole slew of pictures I need to post, have is several months old at this point. I had a hard time picking which subjob combination I wanted to give Selphie, but black mage worked well since she has the Slots limit break that lets you cast random magic. And her obsession with the Garden Festival made me decide to make her subjob a dancer. I was tempted to make her subjob be summoner since she did acquire a summon at a young age, but it didn’t really fit into FF11′s lore. Though class changing is easy in FF11 so who knows? I decided to make Trabia Garden into Fauregandi Garden since they are both snowy regions that are well known for being remote. Though I’m not sure what kind of calamity will eventually befall Fauregandi Garden. Potentially the missiles could be replaced with a powerful summoning that damages the region? I also considered FF11′s Lightbringer, a sword that can cause mass destruction, to be the culprit. But that might not fight into FF11′s timeline. Maybe some new beastman weaponry or magic? But either way, I’m now four down out of six of the main FF8 cast for FF11. Hopefully I’ll get the last two posted soon!
