#suzune.doc

Suzune was trained by her family in their eastern style - even though she is a mage it is common practice in Othard for both physical and aetheric capacity to be honed as one.

Honor is for sparring and friendly matches and duels - not for the road, not for the battlefield and she is wholly a combat pragmatist. The only time she would play fair is during tournaments or sparring matches - the goal there is fun, bonding or training - it’s not a fight for survival and she rarely bothers to cater to other’s expectations of her actions.

She will taunt her opponents if she’s in a good mood but becomes more vicious and silent the more frustrated she is. What she does in battle is highly variable. She will give her all if she wants to end it quickly or if the opponent is truly a threat

Though she likes the thrill of battle, she much prefers the thrill of adventure - of exploring new lands, meeting new and interesting people, of finding new locales and secrets. 

 She prefers ranged combat largely utilizing magicks be it by sutra/grimoire or staff or the bow and chakrams. However, she is also well trained in kenjutsu wielding the katana and is decent at knife fighting 

Suzune’s primary mood of attack is by magic (Casters/Healers) but she will also fight at range using either chakrams or a bow. She can also fight in melee using her prefered close quarters weapons of a katana with the spear being her second choice and the daggers (and ninjutsu) as a last resort. On occasion she even uses a gunblade. However, the greatsword and the great axe both hurt her arms.  She hates the shield as it seems to encourage people to bash into her and the shield and the weight of her opponent disturbs her arm and put pressure on her right side.

She relies highly on speed and force, peppering her enemy with poisons and crippling blows to weak points - unless she breaks out her specter in which she just throw fireballs and levinbolts until it’s dead.

Suzune’s Nine Intelligences

Musical-Rhythmic Intelligence - 9/10 - (the capacity to discern pitch, rhythm, timbre, and tone. This intelligence enables us to recognize, create, reproduce, and reflect on music.)

Suzune is attuned to the various sounds of combat, able to determine what attack is being used by its sound. She uses this to create instrumental music to calm people and is good at identifying out of place sounds and various animal calls and can even hear the aether itself.

Spatial Intelligence - 8/10 - (the ability to think in three dimensions, creating mental imagery, graphic and artistic skills and active imagination. sailors, pilots, sculptors, painters and architects exhibit this trait.)

Being Lominsan and a sailor, Suzune is well versed as navigation and she used this aspect to craft her carbuncles and visualize the effect of her magick

Intra-personal Intelligence - 10/10 - (The capacity to understand one’s self, thoughts and feelings and use this knowledge to direct one’s life. These people may be shy, self-aware and self motivated.)

Suzune is quite in tune with herself and rarely denies her own feelings nor does she doubt her judgments and instincts and she rarely allows people to dictate to her what to do - she always judges whether or not, they are correct. If so, she follows through and if not she will upend all of their plans.

Linguistic Intelligence - 6/10 - (to think in words, use language to express and appreciate complex meanings to reflect on the use of language )

Suzune knows more than one language even without the Echo but this was more a detriment as a child. She primarily communicates in hyperboles, brisk words and gestures and body language and thinks more in patterns and images. When attempting to get a point across, she speaks slowly and thoughtful and has long pauses.

Bodily Kinesthetic Intelligence - 10/10 -  (the capacity to manipulate objects, use a variety of physical skills, involving a sense of timing and the perfection of skills through mind–body union. Athletes, dancers, surgeons, and crafters exhibit well-developed bodily kinesthetic intelligence.)

Despite her focus for magic, Suzune is also well versed in spear fighting, archery, dagger fighting and the gunblade, the basics of pugilism and can employ dancing as combat.

Interpersonal Intelligence - 9/10 - Suzune is an effective communicator through patience and sympathy and understands other feelings and motives and is able to bring people together. Sometimes, however she doesn’t care or they are beyond her ability to persuade.

Existential Intelligence - 4/10 - (Sensitivity and capacity to tackle deep questions about human existence, such as the meaning of life, why we die, and how did we get here.)

Suzune does not concern herself too deeply with existential questions and is merely concerned with staying alive as long as possible and creating the best life for herself and whomever she comes to care for.

Logical-Analytical intelligence - 6/10 - (the ability to calculate, quantify, consider propositions and hypotheses, and carry out complete mathematical operations. It enables us to perceive relationships and connections and to use abstract, symbolic thought; sequential reasoning skills; and inductive and deductive thinking patterns.)

Despite being an arcanist, Suzune is actually quite bad at mathematics itself (to the confusion of the Arcanist Guild.) In truth, she follows her family’s ancestral onmyodo using patterns and sigils, each one heavily dependent on the caster’s own creativity and preferences. However, she is much better at applied mathematics, able to discern trajectory, patterns and the like.

Naturalist Intelligence - 9/10 - This intelligence designates the human ability to discriminate among living things (plants, animals) as well as sensitivity to other features of the natural world (clouds, rock configurations, aether flow).  Valuable to hunters, gathers, farmers, botanists, mage and culinarians.

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Hair: a natural vibrant purple, going lighter lavender at the ends. Sometimes she dulls the vibrancy to a currant purple and dyes her ends rolanberry red. Occasionally, she dyes her hair jet black. Eyes: pale jade green called ‘Aether Blue’, they’re so pale they seem ghostly, large iris, sharp angles, emphasized with black shadow (they’re not actually aether blue but the unusual color of her eyes prompted her elders to call them this, proclaiming it a mark of an unusual gift) Face: long, angular, has rounded out with better eating and age, small nose. She’s had a few alchemy assisted surgeries, using potions to fix skin damage or cracked jaw. Lips: small bow shaped, painted in various purples and reds Complexion: a cool umber tone but curiously it sometimes seems to turn a warmer undertone and not just because of the lighting Blemishes: Beauty mark by her lip Scars: A web of burns up both arms, assorted tiny scars, some facial scars along her jaw Facial Tattoos/Facepaint: on each cheek, she has two swooping curves. Variant 1 - She usually has another set of waves around her eyes, connecting with the ones on her cheeks and they are dyed blue. Variant 2 - However when she applies a forehead mark, she removes the eye marks and dyes the forehead mark and cheek marks bone white. Variant 3 - Blue Eyeshadow, cheek tattoos no forehead tattoo Other Tattoos: She also has aetheric paints on her arms, she reapplies as needed and a tattoo of Thalaos wrapping around her left leg and on her hip and right rib cage, there’s a tattoos of Perkyos Height: 5'9 (tallest midlander woman)

Weight: 150 ponze Build: Petite, Athletic, Fit, toned Features: Very striking, pale eyes. Described as ghostly and are unsettling Usual Hair Style: She usually wears it short and wears it a bob with a headband or braids some hair into a headband, When it grows especially long she puts it up in a ponytail and braids or else shoves it under a hat. Usual Expression: She looks spaced out but in reality she’s calculating, searching the area for danger or something to interest her. She often looks mischievous, bored, pondering or taunting - like she’s plotting something. Her smile is oft described as ‘a shark grin’. Her eyes makes her hard to look at for more than few seconds. Usual Clothing: She typically stays covered up, tending towards both modesty and wanting to prevent scratches, bites and so forth while tromping through the wilderness. Depending on her hairstyle, she’ll favor flower hairpins, circlets or berets. On the few occasions she wears armor she favors long robes of light metal and leather. She largely wears robes with long skirts and stockings and tall longboots or short jackets with skirts and long boots. 

She also wears shawls and chestwraps and favors long sleeves or long gloves with short sleeves. Occasionally, she’ll mix Othardian and Eorzean style - usually an Eastern body piece with more Western bottoms, gloves and boots. Her favorite earrings are Hardsilver Dangle Earrings cause they look like swords and she likes armillae bracelets, bone-style necklaces and simple leather neck cords - or simple gorgets and chokers for practical reasons. She also favors warm colors like reds and oranges to off set her cool complexion.

Psychology

Fear/s: tidal waves, falling from a height, idiots damaging things, being unable to affect things, being possessed, Boroboroton (a futon tsukumogami yokai that who comes to life at night and kills whoever is sleeping on it, her siblings kept teasing her a kid), rats, giant bugs, sinking ships, shipwrecks, bad storms, floating in the empty ocean

Aspiration/s: to explore everything, to be a powerful and skilled mage, get lots of loot, study more handicraft and become a gatherer

Positive Traits: Curious, Compassionate, Protective, Patient, Dauntless, knowledgeable, intelligent

Negative Traits: Cold, Ruthless, Wrathful, Vengeful, Unforgiving, Reckless, Impulsive, Mocking

Temperament: Choleric/Sanguine

Soul Type/s: Artisan/Scholar

Animals: Caracal, Tiger, Nue/Red Panda, Saltwater Petrel, Lanner, Sea Serpents, Fox

Vice/s: Swearing, Kleptomania, Hoarding, Irregular Sleep Schedule, Smoking, Ale

Faith: the Twelve (Llymlaen, Rhalgr, Oschon), the Way of the Kami

Ghosts: Yes

Afterlife/ Reincarnation: A short time in the Afterlife before moving onto to be Reincarnated

Political Alignment: She believes in Merlwyb’s autocratic rule as the pirates would just do as they pleased otherwise but favors the community and liberalism with room for individual expression.

Education Level: Arcanima Guild Graduate (Bachelor’s Degree equivalent, self-educated)

Family* (in development)

Suzune lives in a large clan were they communally raise everyone and blood lineage doesn’t matter as much as mentor-apprentice chain. They are also matrilineal and matrilocal. However, her father Ryuunosuke is a non-Seruk, Doman samurai who remained with the clan and her mother is Kotone

Clanhead: Utane

Elders: Undetermined

Grandparents:  Utane (Grandmother)

Parents: Kotone (Mother), Yuzuka Ryuunosuke (Father), 

Mentor/Guardian: Hamayo

Birth Sibling: Ozakai

(agemates) Hisana, Hidone, Yusuke, Kazuma,

(Older ‘agemates’): Takeru, Tsukito, Yui, 

(Oldest ‘Agemates’): Noburo, Tschuida, Hasei, Kagome

Younger Clanmates: Uzushio, Kazane, Sachi

Kotone is her mother.and looks the picture of a traditional Doman woman and is ever calm but she’s an even better summoner than Suzune, being a traditional onmyoji and passed along her penchant for mischief. Suzune calls her ‘Mama’, ‘Ma’ , Kaa-chan or ‘Sifu Mǔqīn’

Yuzuka Ryuunosuke is a samurai of Doma who possesses his fallen family’s knowledge of firesand and cannons. He was a regular contact with the Akigawa and was visiting them during the Doman invasion. He had a visiting marriage with Shizune in the past during which they birthed Suzune but now they are divorced in a sense. They get along splendidly though. Suzune calls him ‘Tou-san’ or ‘Otou-sensei’

Family/Clan Name Meaning/s: Kumomizaki means ‘Cloudy Headland’. Akigawa means ‘Clear River’. or ‘Autumn River and is also read as Qiuchaun which is Old Yanxian. Her own name means ‘Bell Sound’. Nishihama means ‘West Coast’ or ‘West Shore’.

Historical Connection: Suzune and her family are of the Seruk Hyur who settled in Eorzea permanently after the Garlean Occupation of Doma in 1555. Of their family, she was the youngest at the time and thus first blessed on the new land as was their custom (to prevent the youngest from taking ill and dying). They are now called the Nishihama (West Coast) Seruk. Before that happened, her clan was great friends with the Rijin Ichizoku - it’s even codified in a traditional story - and they were considered two parts of a whole and mutual allies for many years. 

Their clan includes Au Ra and Roegadyn (none of whom are blood related; direct lineage and blood relation is the least of their concerns). The family is apart of a larger clan, the Kumomizaki.

The Seruk are the descendants of the old Yanxian civilization and speak Old Yanxian

Favorites

Book/s: Folklore, Aetherology, Arcanima, Foreign Texts, Plays and Poetry, Historical, Adventure and Fantasy Novels, Erotica, Romance (can Fantasy exists if you live in a fantasy world?)

Deity: Llymlaen, Rhalgr, Oschon

Holiday: All Saint's Wake

Month: Navigator's Moon

Season: Summer (in La Noscea)

Place: La Noscea, the Cieldalaes, her cottage, Red Rooster Stead

Weather: Light Rain, Sunny,Mist, Storms

Sound/s: her siblings antics, the crash of the waves, ring of the city/ship bells, the hum of aether, the sound of limit break going off, Hien's deep belly laugh, her friends voices, bellowing sea shanties, wind in the seas

Scent/s: salt spray, tang of aether, rolanberry, cooking fish, ale, bonfires

Taste/s: Seafood, ale, rolanberry, oranges

Food/s: Mint Lassi, Walnut Bread, Apple Tart

Feel/s: Wood grain, carbuncle fur, carbuncle gems, water, seashells, warm sand under her toes, 

Number/s: 3, 5, 12, 15 - 3 can make so many bigger numbers, 5 is a nice grouping, 

Color/s: Rolanberry Red, Regal Purple, Midnight & Ink Blue, Morbol Green

Extra

Main Disciplines: SMN, BRD, SAM

Sub-Disciplines: DRG, WHM, RDM, BLM

Talents: Blending magic with fencing or kenjutsu, befriending animals, Public Speaking, freerunning, long distance running, sneaking, singing, cutting the knot (getting to the point), writing papers

Bad at: Swinging an axe or a greatsword, keeping one train of thought (interrupts herself), actually doing ninjutsu, the Fist of Rhalgr style, sympathy, patience, teaching, lectures

Turn ons: voices, laughs, humor, sincerity, battle prowess, muscles, intelligence, confidence, cuddles, hugs

Turn offs: negativity, martyrism, emotional constipation, serial flirting, arrogance, aggressive forwardness

Hobbies: traveling/seeing new places, fighting dangerous monsters, experimenting with new battle techniques, playing the harp, mah-jong

Tropes: the Ace, the Cynic, Blue Oni, Jumped at the Call, Static Character, Genius Bruiser, the Archmage, Good is Not Soft, Military Mage, the Captain, the Stoic, Jerk with a Heart of Gold, Ambadassadress, Spellblade, Katanas are Just Better, Friend to All Children, Combat Pragmatist

Quotes: 

“Till last breath.... till last blood... TILL. SEA. SWALLOWS. YOU!”

Kill me or shut the hell up.

 “I only lose when I’m dead; and I am bad at dying.” 

“People keep forgetting I am Lominsan which is both convenient and annoying. You either want a living champion or a dead paragon; I ain’t giving you both.”

She began to do as she like and to feel as she liked. She had resolved to never take another step backward.”  - Kate Chopin

:You’ll understand why storms are named after people.” -  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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 - I was into Chinese Dramas for a bit and it would be totally like a chinese martial arts film with chinese dramatic romance and fairy tale with hints of folklore and yokai stuff. Suzune would be a mysterious water spirit woman

Q2 -  What would their soundtrack/score sound like?          

A2 : Some classic Japanese or Chinese music mixed with modern techno

Q3 - Why did you start writing this character?  

A3 - I had already come up with characters prior to playing so I picked the one based in my favorite city of Limsa Lominsa and then she just... wrote herself.

Q4 - What first attracted you to this character?

A4 - I based her in Limsa Lominsa, but I just grew to like and develop her more as I played her. Like, I had originally intended her for to be Raen Au Ra but went Hyur due to the free trial restrictions. Intended to fantasia when I reached Stormblood but by that time, I liked her the way she was.

Q5 -  Describe the biggest thing you dislike about your muse.

A5 - I made the terrible mistake of tweaking her facial design and now I can't get her in-game face right; if i ever get another fantasia i may go ape shit and race change. Or just go back to her original face, full stop even though her jaw was too narrow. It’s her. Her speech mannerisms sounds like me but I've accepted she's at least half me anyway. Also sometimes, she's TOO stoic so that makes it hard to have emotional conversations. You know how the Warrior of Light brings hope? She does that best when she doesn’t use her words too much.

Q6 - What do you have in common with your muse?          

A6 - A lot of her morals and ideals and actions are things I would like to do in reality but can't because she and I live in different societies. But she likes knowledge and reading and stuff - but she applies it more.

Q7 - How does your muse feel about you?          

A7 - Probably that I'm a duckling who needs to be protected. also, i'm a generous and benevolent goddess who only wants good things for her.  

Q8 - What characters does your muse have interesting interactions with?   

A8 - Remember I said, she's at least half self-insert? She pretty much hates every character I do and likes every character I do. (and we both hold grudges about it). I like writing thinking about her relationships with my various other OCs and NPCs like Merlwyb and Enyzahr (her commanding officers) and with Lord Hien (ruler of her ancestral home and good friend) and their clans have history. Hien is also always caught off guard by her. Also, it amuses me to write Aymeric as having an unrequited crush on her but he’s a good sport so they can be good friends.

Q9 - What gives you inspiration to write your muse?        

A9 - My outrage, honestly. I was pretty tired of the and blank-slate/almost-no-agency ‘i am so burdened’ protag very quickly. So Suzune acts on the plot and derails canon as a result and doesn’t carry the weight of the world on her shoulders, and rarely bottles up anything so the entire DRK storyline is moot to her.

If she doesn’t like something, she leaves and forces a re-negotiation - she revels in the praise and the glory and if she’s tired, she delegates.  Every hero seems burdened; its rare one that enjoys their role. She doesn’t bitch about fetch quests because she’s a citizen of Eorzea and an adventurer; the reason she fights primals is so people can go about their basic chores in peace  She also sees everyone as a community and she’s apart of it as long as she’s in the area. 

Q10 - How long did this take you to complete ?