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"One, two three and..." Yana stumbled over her feet as she tried to do a twirl. "Fuck, that was not it."
She was beginning to suspect that the whole 'you're a natural' speech that Nashmeira had given was just a practiced spiel to lure in gullible fools. Dancing was not as easy as other people made it look.
One would have thought that having experience in fighting would help provide the coordination she needed, and yet she continued to trip over her own feet.
She had the individual parts down, but as soon as it was time to combined them into one smooth motion, everything feel apart. She really probably ought to go seek out Nashmeira or Ranaa for advice, but Yana was hesitant to admit that she was struggling.
What if they didn't want her to work with the troupe anymore? Even if this was just an occasional thing, even if she'd never considered being a dancer before receiving Nashmeira's offer, it was a way to pass the time that had nothing to do with saving the world and she didn't want to lose it.
"Alright, let's try again." Practice made perfect they said, and so she was going to need lot's more of it. And maybe someone she could somehow get tips from.
Mistress Nashmeira had been adamant about recruiting more members into Troupe Falsiam, and no one was going to bother trying to talk her out of it. As tunnel-visioned as she could be, however, she rarely found anyone in any town that made her confident enough to recruit them.
Not this time, it seemed. Meiko had returned from running errands around Red Rooster Stead, when she returned to the troupe's camp just outside of it and informed that they had a new dancer. She had gone through a few steps with Ranaa, but had been left to practice while Ranaa ran another performance for that wee perv at Costa del Sol.
That meant that Meiko was expected to oversee the new girl, Yana's, training. Honestly, she would have gone and checked on the lass regardless, so this worked out well.
Finding her practicing juust outside of the settlement's walls, Meiko paused to observe her stumbling.
"Yer tryin' tae hard, lass," she spoke up finally, to get her attention. "Gotta stop worryin' 'bout it bein' perfect. That kinda thinkin' makes ye stiff."
(still slowly working on icons so have Edea while I work) "I'm just saying, there's no way we can know it's not edible if we don't at least try it. For all you know it could be delicious!"
"Aye, aye. I see what yer sayin', but..."
Meiko had eaten a lot of things in her childhood that might not have been necessarily great to eat. Her youthful attempt to make alcohol by leaving fruits to dry out under the sun for a few days were the most prominent example.
"Do ye really want tae risk vomitin' oot both ends if it's not?"
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There's also a few posts on forum threads, like this one.
Aether Sickness - When an individual has been exposed to an excessive amount of aether.
Pox - Eorzea's Measles. A recent outbreak of the pox has afflicted the young Doman immigrants in Mor Dhona.
Greenrot - Not much known about this uncurable disease. According to Fernehalwes, Lominsan merchants attempted to sell placebos for the disease off as actual cures, causing the Arcanist's guild some woe. Greenrot may be related to the plague which claimed Nym 1,600 years ago.
Crotchrot - Could be a gambit of any RL venereal disease. Possibly Herpes, Gonorrhea, or Chlamydia.
The Scurvy - Yes, the scurvy. Eat your Sauerkraut. According to the Sauerkraut food description, all Lominsan trade ships have a very large stock of cabbage aboard.
Blight - Disease commonly carried by chigoes and other vilekin.
❝Same goes for you.❞ Hope told her, as he drew his rapier. He was fairly certain he'd mostly be relying on spells in this battle, the poison surrounding them made it too dangerous to get too close to the enemy, but he'd rather have it ready just in case.
Taking a deep breathe, he readied a jolt spell, already going over the order in which he would cast things in his head. Red Magik was all about balance, to achieve the most success he needed to alternate the types.
As well as remember not to backflip back into the poison. When Lightning had first been training him, there had definitely been a few embarrassing incidents when it came to disengaging from the enemy.
No one else needed to know that though.
With his spell ready, Hope sent it off flying at the closest skeleton, making the creature stumble back slightly. It wasn't dead yet, but it was a start.
All right! The lad wasn't freezing up! That was great, she probably wouldn't have to worry about him too much, then.
He was, however, casting magic. So she'd give him a bit of leeway and try and hold the skeletons' attention.
"Awrite, fuckers! Over here!"
She called out, twisting 'round and throwing her chakrams with all her strength. The bladed rings flung through the air in an arc, skimming the sternum of the one Hope had hit and knocking it off balance. The second glanced off another's skull before both made it back to her hands, and sent them back around again.
her colourful vocabulary and immediate hostility causes emet-selch to bark out a laugh, clasping his gloved hands together in amusement. he's far from put off by her dislike of him, the glint in his eyes tells as such. the ascian only takes another step closer, regarding her with an almost predatory tilt of his head.
❝ my, my. not feeling the camaraderie this evening? ❞ golden eyes flicker over her features, watchful, studying. ❝ I have nothing to say. you, however, appear to have a myriad of thoughts rattling around in that concrete skull of yours. perhaps it would do you well to lighten the load? ❞ it's a genuine offer, as it always seems to be with him. for all his faults, lies aren't one of them.
"Ye earn camraderie, ye dinnae just request it just 'cause I've foiled yer schemes," Meiko hissed. A part of her was tempted to start throwing hands -- it would have felt nice to do -- but knew that would only cause a commotion and potentially frighten people in the Crystarium. Plus, he clearly wouldn't be affected without white auracite. It would be a waste of her time.
Maybe she would punch him, though. If he didn't leave her be.
"'Sides, can ye no guess what could be on my mind? Considerin' all that's bein' asked o'me?" She gave a dismissive wave and turned away. "Neither o'us are gonnae speak, so haunt someone else."
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There was never a dull moment when it came to the Allagan's. And yet, although Hope probably should have been worried about the situation they were in, he couldn't help but feel a thrill of excitement. As much as he enjoyed studying artifacts and dong research, sometimes he wanted a bit more excitement.
It wasn't too hard to find something more adventurous to do most of the time, but it became more difficult when collaborating with others. There was a tendency for people to insist that researchers were more valuable back at camp then out on the frontlines, and while it wasn't entirely wrong, it did get boring.
He didn't expect to be first on the scene like Meiko and the other adventurers, but cleaning up the remaining monsters like this wasn't bad. Even if he would have preferred it not to be because they'd triggered a trap.
❝I'm fine,❞ He assured Meiko, peering down at the green liquid surrounding the platform they stood on. He couldn't really tell if it was acid or poison, but either way he didn't want to step in it.
Raising his gaze from it, he glanced at the skeletons approaching them. ❝What do you think, do we take down one at a time or split them between us?❞
Meiko had been prepared to be a protector in this moment. After all, she and her brother had had their fair share of escort missions! But Hope didn't scream -- he barely flinched when she pulled him up onto the platform. She had noticed he had a sword on his hip earlier, but hadn't been sure how experienced he was. In this particular instance, he almost looked kind of excited.
Huh!
"Yer calmer than I thought ye'd be," she commented with a grin, turning to face the skeletons. Of course, they had no problem wading through the potentially dangerous liquid. "Right!"
She unhooked her chakrams from her belt and dashed over to the next nearest platform, giving Hope plenty of space on his own square.
“S'fine, it went numb a few minutes ago.” And she was still running off adrenaline, although it was waning. “Promise I’ve had worse. An' I can still throw my chakrams, so probably no avs bad as it looks."
“Okay, okay -- a scale o' one tae ten, how bad is it? ‘Cause it is numb, but s'also burnin’ like Ifrit's taint.” She paused. Then asked, “Is it supposed tae burn? Am I poisoned?”
This verse description includes details that spoils events for Stormblood, Shadowbringers, and Endwalker and contains references to human trafficking.
Please read at your own risk!
THE BASICS IN CASE YOU DON'T CARE
Meiko was not saved from the slavers ship; they kept her aboard until she was 14. She was looked after by a Hingan refugee, who gave her the name Meiko, and the slavers mainly consisted of a Lominsan crew, thus her accent.
Meiko is sold at 14 to a man in Garlemald who employs Viera to dance as entertainment for Galean nobility. At 17, she ended up killing a drunken high-ranked military Garlean because he wouldn't take no for an answer. She was immediately arrested and sentenced to execution, but...
Meiko has her own Ancient, rather than sharing Lux with her brother -- her Ancient was Apate, and she was an assistant to Hades in his duties as Emet-selch.
Because of the above, Emet-selch -- or rather, the aged Solus zos Galvus -- chose to spare her. Instead, he decided to spare and employ her.
By the time Solus zos Galvus "dies" in A Realm Reborn, Meiko is aware of his true identity, of the Ascians, etc. She is 24 during the events of ARR (+1 year per expansion) and complicit in his plans, acting as a whatever-is-necessary assistant: errand girl, messenger, spy, assassin? Whatever.
Meiko's mishmash of experiences lead to a mishmash of a main class. Her years spent as a dancer affects the way she moves, the time spent on the slaver ship (and mostly helping in the galley) improved her dexterity, and she likely employs the magic of gun as her main weapon.
== AND HERE'S THE LONG-WINDED NARRATIVE VERSION ==
Like in her main verse, Meiko was only two years old when her birth mother was kidnapped by slavers when she was outside of her village. Her mother was abused and murdered in front of the child, who witnessed the horrors even if she did not understand what was happening.
The slavers, a crew of from Limsa Lominsa, decided that she was too young to sell off just yet. So they kept her, but left her in responsibility of the ship's cook, a Hingan refugee woman who named the child Meiko. It is from this that she earned her name and, inevitably, the rough Lominsan way of speaking.
One would think that staying on a crew for a dozen years would potentially endear them to you, but that did not turn out to be the case. When Meiko was fourteen, puberty had started to hit her, and she was immediately sold off to a man in Garlemald who collected Vieran women specifically.
Fortunately, she had NOT been sold to a brothel -- she had been sold to a business. Specifically, the man trained Viera to dance as entertainment, specifically for the nobility in Garlemald. It's still a form of slavery, but it is a little better than being a cabin girl. Dancing is also a fair distraction, and while she isn't fond of the man who bought her, she appreciates that he does not deal in flesh. Things are... fine.
Until they are not. Meiko is seventeen when a high-ranking Garlean military officer does not take well to her rejecting his advances. There is a violent struggle, and Meiko manages to kill him; of course, she is immediately arrested and set to be executed.
Solus zos Galvus -- still in his elderly mortal form -- is present. Sentimental as he is, Emet-selch recognizes the color of Meiko's soul and realizes she is a sundered being of the Ancient Apate, who had been an assitant to Hades in his duties in the Unsundered World. For whatever sentimental reasoning, Solus spares her and has her employed instead
Seven years pass. By the time Solus zos Galvis has died of "old age", Meiko has already been brought into the fold. She is aware of Emet-selch's true identity, the Ascians' intentions, and she has long since accepted her role in all of it.
As far as personality: Meiko is very much the same in some aspects, but missing a lot of core elements that gave her the warmth she is known for. She did not have a mostly loving home and she did not have a younger brother to dote on and look after and self-sacrifice for. She is based, instead, on survival.
She still speaks like a Lominsan. She can still be crass. She still has a penchant for alcohol, although she doesn't drink nearly as much. But she is quite serious, to-the-point, and vicious. She leans into her more violent side and follows orders, even if she'll still snark Emet-selch over being a dramatic old man from time to time. She still wants to be helpful, and in this case, that cause she is dedicated to is his.
She does not care about the fate of the Source. And while survival has always been at her core, she isn't too concerned with what will happen to her when the world ends. Because everything ends eventually, doesn't it?
They say that the tide began to turn with the liberation of Doma. Whispers followed as Ala Mhigo, too, finally fought its way out of the Empire's grasp. From there, Bozja and many other provinces followed suit. And as the Garlean Empire fell, Nhalmasque -- the very first nation that fell in Garlemald's imperial expansion -- joined them in freedom. Nhalmasque has finally began to rebuild. Nestled in the mountains of central Ilsabard, this small nation began to develop its own identity after over sixty years of subjugation.
WELCOME ONE AND ALL
The newly-elected King Regent seeks to share in the culture (and coin) of other peoples. What better way to do this, than through a masquerade? A Nhalmasquerade, if you will! (Ha…ha…)
While the King Regent intended to only invite other nations' leaders (and members of the Ilsabard Contingent, the Scions, etc.), there may have been a small Moogle-related mix-up along the way, allowing invitations to find their way into the hands of those unaffiliated with the above. Regardless, if you have an invitation: You're in!
"Aye! We're set up close tae the Drownin' Wench, an' m'sure we'll wait 'til dark tae start th'show. Ye can likely catch us after ye've had a rest," Meiko agreed, as they started heading down the beaten path, which would take them past Aleport.
"I see! I'll have to take you up on that, then. Perhaps I can get a nice rest in and then Kitty and I can come and watch you." She nods eagerly as they walk step in step. Or - as in step as one can be with the difference in their heights.
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