#tenaki

Selection: “. . . As you wish.”

Job: Chirugeon Arcana (Healer based arcanist) Role: Melee Healer

Weapons: Twin Carbuncles (Amethyst and Garnet); Arcanima-based support magic through rapier focus.

AI Behavior: Tenaki takes up a position close to the tank at all times, but remains on the opposite side of the boss/any mobs from them. She starts the battle with protective shields for her allies, and orders her carbuncles into battle, with one providing debuffs and the other maintaining heals for smaller amounts of damage.

For herself, Tenaki utilises her Red Mage rapier in conjunction with levin-aspected magic to deal damage during any DPS phases, but her primary focus is keeping her allies alive. Tenaki will sacrifice her carbuncles aether in order to do large burst healing when required, and is capable of calling upon the xaela shaman powers she was taught, which bears similarity to conjuration, in order to deliver potent burst AoE heals when required. 

As a melee healer, she will almost always stack with the tank when required, shielding them both through the worst of things, and usually follows up this with a buff to get the tank right back into the enemy’s face and working on their assault. 

Tenaki is a coordinated Maelstrom Captain, and will often call out battle field commands when required, and likes to keep an eye on the battlefield; as such, when it comes to mechanics, she is often the first to act and encourages her allies to get into position. 

Battle Lines:

“Be prepared.” – Starting Attack Line/Shielding the party “Trinket, attack!” –  Using Specialty Skills, Variation 1 “Frumpkin, cover our friends!” – Using Specialty Skills, Variation 2 “Do not push beyond your limits.” – Assisting an ally

Limit Break:

“Nhaama preserve us!” – Using Limit Break at 1 bar “The spirits of the Earth and Sky move through me!” – Using Limit Break at 2 bars “You are done when I say! Up and at them!” – Using Limit Break at 3 bars

KO’d:

“Tch…” – Variation 1 “Not quite… Enough…” – Variation 2

Revived:

“I will not make that mistake again.” – Variation 1 “I presume this means I owe you one.” – Variation 2

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Tagged by: nobody but that won’t stop me

t e n a k i 

BASICS

Full name: Tenaki born of the Dotharl, raised by the Borlaaq, Captain to the Maelstrom. 

Pronunciation: Ten-AH-key

Nicknames: Tenky; Tonky; Captain; Frumpkin’s Mum; 

Height: 5 fulms, 43/64th’s of an ilm

Age: 24.

Zodiac: Unknown

Languages: Eorzean Common; Old Auri; Modern Xaelic; rudimentary Doman 

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Hair color: Black, with the occasional violet or caramel dyed into it. 

Eye color: Red, with sharp red limbal rings

Skin tone: Olive with a light sea-breeze tan.

Body type: Small and lithe, some previous muscle mass having given way to body fat.

Accent: Extremely enunciated Othardian. Tenaki never uses contractions and speaks almost stiffly, on account of learning Eorzean Common from various stuffy sorts.

Dominant hand: Left

Posture: Stiff and business like, most of the time, with a lot of arm folding and sighing.

Scars: A host of small scars all over her body, even some on her scales. Her left horn has a nick about the size of an unshelled peanut out of it. 

Tattoos: Nothing permanent, but depending on holidays or times of important (i.e.; a time of mourning) Tenaki does decorate her body with henna tattoos or war paint.

Most Noticeable Features: The “100% done” look in her face usually hits people before the eyes, the heart shaped face or the horns do -- despite her slight stature, Tenaki has a loud non-physical profile.  

CHILDHOOD

Place of birth: Travelling the Nhaama Dessert, in the Othardian Steppes.

Birth weight/height: Unknown

Manner of birth: Natural

First words: "Soooobie” - her attempt to say the name of her father, Tsubodai.

Siblings: Tegusken (older brother); Obtgish (older half-brother, deceased); Soghaktai (younger brother, deceased); Enebish (younger half-brother, deceased); Turakina (younger sister)

Parents: Tsubodia of the Dotharl (deceased); Sarise of the Dotharl (deceased)

Parental involvement: As strong as parental influence tends to be on the steppes, prior to their deaths.

ADULT LIFE

Occupation: Captain (Chirugeon) within the Maelstrom; Head Chirugeon for the Coeurl’s Coffer

Current residence: Has an apartment in the Lavender Beds, but frequently passes out in her office.

Close friends: I’Shanna Bhen, Kaede Nolan and Thomas Hayward are her closest friends. Close behind these come Alexander Rendon, Rauffe Bell, Lukas Goodwill and Niwa Yasuraoka. She likes a number of the other Coeurl’s, but not enough to consider herself close to them, given that they are patients and she is a very closed off individual.

Relationship status: Extremely single. 

Financial status: Very comfortable.

Vices: Tenaki would posit that due to her busy lifestyle she has none.

SEX & ROMANCE

Sexual orientation: Bisexual

Romantic orientation: Homoromantic

Preferred emotional role: submissive | dominant | switch | unsure (preferably none)

Preferred sexual role: submissive | dominant | switch | sex repulsed | unsure

Libido: Comes around once in a while, but she rarely indulges it.

Turn ons: Tenaki is a study in contradictions, given that she’s a bisexual switch and likes a whole lot of things, but the list includes (not being limited to); assertiveness (from the right person), submissiveness (from the right person), soft touches, roughness, quiet souls, comfort in another, intelligence (or at least common sense), strong arms.

Love language: Tenaki hasn’t quite developed a love language of her own, yet, since she’s so closed off, but one could argue the way she berates her friends to keep safe and tells them off when they’re not taking proper care of themselves, acting like a nagging mother hen is the closest you’re going to get to love from the spiky little lizard.

Relationship tendencies: Lighting a branch on fire and beating relationships away, mostly. 

MISCELLANEOUS

Hobbies to pass the time: Study, research and spending time with Frumpkin. Honestly, she has almost no free time that requires passing, so it doesn’t come up terribly often.

Mental illnesses: PTSD

Physical illnesses/disabilities: Short-sighted. 

Left or right brained: Left brained.

Fears: Parenthood, commitment, letting people down, letting someone die (again), being taken advantage of.

Self-confidence level: Usually very self-confident. 

Vulnerabilities: Due to her lack of self-preservation, targeting her friends is a sure fire away to get past her defenses, but it usually ends badly.

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Thanks for the tag, @kalonxiv ♥

         ( I guess...I'm getting scared. Sometimes...when I'm with all of you...  I...feel like we're on the same wavelength......you know?            But when the battles start happening, it's different. Everyone's tempo seems to pick up and...                                   ...I get left behind. I try to catch up, but it's no use... How far is everyone going? I can't hear anyone... 

one of two attacks for my beloved @danniiiyyyl, bc a) i love them so they get an extra one, and b) the other one i did is So Cursed And Awful and i couldn't not do them a nice one for their first artfight :')

it’s ya girl, cutieface spellslinger tenaki borlaaq!