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	Aelienor Estienie (FFXIV WoL)
	Gender: Female Age: 27 Race: Elezen (Duskwight) Main Job: Dark Knight Server: Aether (Sargatanas) A woman from Limsa Lominsa whose frequent silence belies a sharp mind and a sharper tongue. The weight of her failures and anger-driven mistakes sits heavy on her shoulders, but ever she carries on. For those she has lost, and for those she can yet save. Current thru 6.1		❧ History ❧ Personality ❧ Impressions ❧ Relations ❧ Kinklist ❧ credit

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History

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Personality

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Personality
Aelienor is a bold, outgoing, and relentlessly curious young woman, with a seemingly unbreakable determination. Raised around barely retired pirates and other sailors of questionable repute, she has a very rough and tumble attitude that belies her scholarly nature but serves her well in her search for the truth. Dauntless, she seems to fear very little, and dives into monster infested ruins with the same eager abandon she does a well-stocked library. Though often quiet, when she does speak, it's often with a playfulness or wit that proves her silence isn't a result of shyness, and she will eagerly engage in acts of harmless mischief when granted an opportunity. Though not false, and not quite a front, this is very much the side of her she wants people to see. Under the surface, though she is as confident in her physical prowess as she acts, she is markedly more insecure about how people view her. Though she has a heavy port accent, she fears the working class pronunciations will make people assume she's stupid or uneducated, and does her best to clamp down on it outside of trusted company or the company of those she's too angry with to care about their opinion. As a result, she often takes her time before speaking and seems more withdrawn than she really is. People's expectations also weigh heavily on her. As the Warrior of Light, she constantly deals with people holding an idealized image of her in their minds. Loathe to disappoint them, she puts on a brave face whenever she's in public, while at the same time distancing herself from her admirers. If someone is relying on their image of her as an emotional pillar and a beacon of hope, she reasons, then she can't allow them to see her faltering or vulnerable. And if she can't allow herself to falter or be vulnerable in front of someone, then she can certainly never call them a friend. Lately, however, she has begun to lose her patience with those who try to take advantage of her, and responds with snark or sarcasm when someone is being unreasonable…or simply when she's especially stressed, and would rather come across as rude than admit she's not okay. On multiple occasions, the combination of frustration with a situation and not feeling free to voice her pain has led to impulsive and downright reckless behavior.		On the subject of being taken advantage of, she is helpful almost to a fault. Her adventuring career started with a desire to make a difference in people's lives through her scholarly pursuits, and continues with a tendency to try to make a difference through more direct means. Further, she's taken that natural inclination to an extreme as a coping mechanism, both carrying the aspirations of the dead with her as a means of honoring their memories and actively seeking out those in need of help to distract herself from the pain of everything she's suffered through. While she has resolved to work on pacing herself better, this is a recent change, and she's likely to find herself falling back into old habits fairly easily. All of this does not mean she is without a dark side, as her Dark Knight capabilities would attest. Beyond simply enjoying the thrill of an all-out brawl, she has an angry, vindictive, and even bloodthirsty streak to her that has claimed numerous lives in blind pursuit of revenge. Forgiveness does not come naturally for her, but rather as a result of deliberately trying to think about her enemy's perspective, and considering whether or not their actions were really unreasonable. With the Echo granting her insight into many people's pasts, the answer is often no, but she is truly vicious on the rare occasion when she finds someone worthy of hate, and frequently finds herself regretting a kneejerk reaction of spite or hostility toward enemies she has yet to get to know.
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Impressions

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Visual: At 6'4", Aelienor is of average height by her own race's standards, but remarkably tall by those of a human. Her hair is short and purple, with highlights of a lighter purple scattered throughout. She has a tattoo over the right side of her face and wears light makeup, though the scar across her left cheek may draw more attention. She generally favors sleeveless shirts that bare her stomach, making her toned body and stone-white skin both highly noticeable. Demeanor: Generally playful and seemingly upbeat, it can often be difficult to tell how much Aelienor is really hurting inside. She projects an air of confidence, which isn't necessarily false, although she tends to stay fairly quiet in most public contexts. Aural: Aelienor has two distinct ways of speaking, depending on whether or not she's worried about the impression she gives. Generally speaking, and particularly around fellow academics, she tends to speak with a strained deliberateness, and limits herself to occasional interjections. The reason for this is because when she speaks naturally, she has a thick accent best described as like that of a stereotypical English sailor. Either way, she tends to be fairly foul mouthed, and her dialect often hints at her rustic upbringing. Olfactory: Perfume isn't really her thing, so she largely just smells like wherever she's been that day. A lot of the time, this means dirt, sweat and sometimes blood, but she enjoys bathing and does so regularly. If she isn't just back from a day of fighting and dungeon delving, she'll typically smell like basic soaps.		Mental Information: She has two fragments of her psyche with wills of their own, a fragment of her soul that has his own identity attached, and sometimes has visions of other people's memories. No particular shields against mind reading, but...it's a little noisy in there. Magical Information: She's a reasonably competent mage, with multiple familiars and the ability to draw on traces of deiform summons in her aether to conjure facsimiles of them. She also has a pact with a demonic creature that devours the life force of those she slays, but surely that part isn't worth noting.
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Alisaie: If she had to name her best friend, it would be Alisaie. Though she generally dislikes attitudes of hero worship, the way Alisaie treats her as a rival to catch up to rather than an ideal to be in awe of makes a dramatic difference. Plus, they're frequently on the same wavelength, and so she considers Alisaie the most likely person to understand her a lot of the time. Alphinaud: Though she initially found Alphinaud stuck up and obnoxious, his growth since the disaster of the Crystal Braves has not gone unnoticed. Though she often teases him when the opportunity arises, and still considers him a bit dense about some things, she is, ultimately, very proud of him. There are few people she'd rather have at her back, and she's quite happy to be able to leave the political maneuvering to him. G'raha: G'raha is an awkward thing for her, as she has fond memories of him from the Crystal Tower, and fully understands his excitement over archaeology and historical discovery...but his hero worship makes her uncomfortable. She often wonders if he'd care nearly so much if she didn't have any of her accomplishments behind her. Still, she knows he's a genuinely good person at heart, even if she feels pressured to live up to his expectations for fear of disappointing him. Thancred: Of all the Scions, Thancred is the one she's most uncertain of her standing with. He was possessed by Lahabrea not long after they met, and so she had little chance to get to know him before the unfortunate incident and its awkward fallout, though her first impression was a favorable one. She greatly disliked his behavior after returning from the Lifestream, and though she's regained respect for him following their experiences in the First, she remains uncertain if he views her as anything more than just a useful ally. Even worse, she fears he would reconsider whatever positive opinion he does have if he were to learn how much she cares for a particular Ascian... Urianger: By contrast, Urianger is the one adult Scion that she is fully confident of her friendship with. Not only is he a fellow history enthusiast, not only has he gone out of his way multiple times to try to ease her burdens at the expense of his own comfort, but he actively reached out to her and offered her his trust. He relies on her not just as a warrior, but as a person, and it makes it easier for her to rely on him in turn. Y'shtola: Y'shtola is a kindred spirit, a fellow lover of historical research who can spend days lost between the shelves. However, Y'shtola's no-nonsense, borderline judgmental air makes it difficult to truly relax around her. She also feels some lingering tension from the days where the Scions held her at a distance and were seemindly indifferent to the stress she was under as long as she kept killing Primals, though overhearing Y'shtola worrying about her in Slitherbough has helped ease her frustration enough to crack the occasional joke.		In ac leo odio. Maecenas sed quam enim. Praesent eu odio tincidunt, ultricies dui at, rhoncus risus. Vivamus a elementum mi, ac molestie purus. Morbi lobortis dapibus purus, non fermentum nibh dignissim ac. Duis at lacus sem. Curabitur vehicula lectus vel ante sodales, tempor malesuada leo hendrerit. Proin ullamcorper libero et sem tempus condimentum. Donec varius vestibulum nibh, eget lobortis augue ultrices eget. Quisque dapibus ultrices cursus.
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