Lure of Earth

Name: Dotani no Naoki/Naoki Dotani
Race: Hyur Midlander
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Orientation: Demi/Gay
Relationship: Committed to Ambroise Del'ombre
Height: 5'6
Hair: Long, Purple/Lavender highlights
Eyes: Purple/Slightly lighter
Alignment: Lawful GoodPersonality Descriptors:
Gentle, Soft, Warm, Naive, Oblivious, Green-Thumb, Caregiver, Pacifist, Affectionate, Socially Dumb, Confident (in his abilities/skillsIn a world where Naoki didn't establish himself as a professional chef with The Griffin's Heart, he trained with the Botanist guild and shortly after opening his floral/herbalist shop his adoptive parents began to decline in health. He ended up closing up his shop and selling his home in Lavender Beds to return to Kugane to move back in and care for the people who cared for him when the world would rather have let him fade out.Having quickly formed a friendship over their mutual interests and lives in both Gridania and Kugane, Naoki and Ambroise grew close easily. In a moment of bravery Naoki asked him to go to a summer festival with him, thanks to Ambroise's curiosity Naoki was forced to admit he wanted it to be a date. The night was far beyond anything Naoki could have dreamed, his first date, first kiss and first romantic relationship. When he is with Ambroise he feels bolder and more able to be the person his parents want him to be.

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Atsuko Family
Sworn to the Kobayashi family.The Kobayashi family is an old family held in high respect for always maintaining honor both in their family and the community. They are also home to a sizable and well trained military force. Often questioned in hushed whispers for their acceptance of commoners into their higher military ranks and commanding roles.

Atsuko no Daiki-
Age 40
Male
Raen
Pansexual (Very Strong Male Lean)
Lawful GoodFirst born son to Junpei and KyoshiDaiki is the epitome of calm and collected, even as a child he was always able to keep his emotions and temper in check. He was taken into the main family, choosing to keep his family name, as a young teen as a result of his ability to analyze people and their intentions with high accuracy. Groomed as an advisor to the family's diplomats he is highly respected and enjoys a comfortable life.Known connections:Oisin Aoife- former lover (ended on healthy terms, still close friends.), sailor/adventurer, informant
Alyssum Yorn- friend, views as adopted daughter as a result of his relation with Oisin, adventurer
Dotani no Yota- local alchemist and informant, family friend

Atsuko no Jun'ichi-
Age 34
Male
Raen
Demisexual/Panromantic (Male Lean)
Neutral GoodSecond born son to Junpei and KyoshiJun'ichi was always a creative, passionate personality. Where Daiki was collected and calm, Jun'ichi acted impulsively on his emotions and never seemed to have a sense of order to his life. His parents and older brother wanted him to follow in the diplomatic or military paths they had laid for him but try as he might it never felt right. Learning that the life of a samurai wasn't as romantic as the stories he decided to travel and find his place to the disappointment of his family. Reluctantly they allowed him to leave with their love and hard won blessing.Known connections:
Dotani no Naoki- best friend, local herbalist/florist/healer, family friend.
Dotani no Sayuri- views as second mother, local herbalist/healer/florist, family friend
Alyssum Yorn- friend, views as a sister, adventurer
Oisin Aoife- views as older brother through Daiki, sailor/adventurer

Atsuko no Megumi-
Age 21
Female
Raen
Demisexual/Lesbian
True NeutralFirst born daughter, third child to Junpei and KyoshiLike her eldest brother, Megumi is a steady personality. She is often referred to as cold and calculating. While not out of touch with her emotions she watched Jun'ichi struggle and found it wasteful and illogical. Bearing a brilliant tactical mind she quickly rose in ranks as one of the Kobayashi family's most honored military tacticians at the young age of 21. Dedicating all her free time to further studies and training she is a skilled samurai and often served as a personal bodyguard to prominent family members.Known connections:
Oisin Aoife- views as a big brother through Daiki, sailor/adventurer/informant
Alyssum Yorn- views as sister, adventurer
Dotani no Naoki- views as older brother, friend, local herbalist/florist/healer, family friend
Dotani no Yota- family friend, informant, local alchemist

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Tasi'sae Naia

Male
23
Gay (Will take affection from anyone)
Switch (Most comfortable subbing)/Verse (Service top)
5ft (152.4 cm)
Dancer's buildOpen for all RP
Multi-ship/Multi-verseThe fourth born son to Tasi Naia was a runt and not expected to live long, which was fine with his mother as she had no want of a small, possibly sickly, child while she had three previous sons who were among the strongest of the tribe's hunters and warriors. She refused to nurse him herself and passed him off to her cousin who had recently lost a child to use her as a wet nurse, who also had little interest in the boy as she was grieving the loss of her own child. Once he was of age to walk he was left on his own to survive by begging from tribe members or wandering off into the woods to gather what he could to eat. As he grew and adapted, he would trap small animals but if he didn't cook and eat them in the woods they would be taken from him leaving him starving yet again. He proved more resilient than predicted, he grew more beautiful year after year yet not a bit stronger or braver. With no skills worthy of honor to give him status and no traits beyond his beauty to pass on he had no place or worth to his tribe.They were growing smaller as people left to find stronger tribes or join the different battles for Eorzea. Hearing whispers of a man who would pay very well for beautiful youths, even more for the pure and untouched his mother decided it was time to be rid of her runt son. In the night he was easily taken from his bed and suddenly his mother was living far more comfortably as was her tribe. Tasi'sae found himself as the property of a high class brothel in Ul'dah, he couldn't complain as it couldn't get much worse than the abuse and neglect of his tribe, had he stayed with them much longer he more than likely would have been cast out any way. At least he had a purpose here and a life of relative ease.Eventually Tasi’sae saw the truth of his new life and realized that it wasn’t much different than that his tribe had offered. Over time he used his beauty and natural charm to pick up skills that suited his body type and even improve upon his strength and agility. It wasn’t long before he had grown to be a talented dancer both for entertainment and battle.Hooks:Client- Are you perhaps interested in Tasi’sae for one of his many talents? He is far more than just flesh for sale. Find out what other talents this beautiful man has to offer.Teacher- Tasi’sae is always trying to learn more skills and enjoys soaking up all the knowledge he can.Escape- While life at the brothel isn't the worst option, Tasi’sae isn't happy there. Is there a way to escape? Would life as a house servant, a pet, a runaway adventurer or just a companion by your side, be better for him? Will you purchase him, steal him away or help him run away?

Tynan Esha

Male
Seeker of the Sun (Potential mix with Keeper due to features of both)
Self-Exiled
Orientation: Pan
Switch/Verse
Status: Open
Age: 40
Skills: Dancer, Machinist, Rogue, Culinarian, Fisher, Weaver, Leather working.Villan type OC. Ask for TW/CW. Seriously, Ty can be a very dark character at times.Tynan was born V’tynan Tia, and accepted his role in the tribe for years, even becoming one of it’s youngest Nuhn. Fathering at least four sons and three daughters which he watched grow beyond their tenth year before growing weary of what seemed a dead end life. He felt tied into a role, that while it had its perks for the cocky male, left him feeling unsatisfied. There was more to be seen and experienced beyond the tribe life. As a child he had admired the adventurers that would pass through and often bartered with his people, they seemed so free and filled with excitement in their everyday lives.V’tynan had ensured his legacy, supported his offspring and made his mark in his tribe, there was nothing to hold him there when the world was calling to him to discover what it had to offer. Without warning he left at the break of dawn and set out to start over, taking the name Tynan Esha, after a former mate that he had grown close to and admired. The thirty year old man picked up odd jobs here and there to earn enough to book passage to the far east. Along the way the ship encountered a dangerous storm and lost many of its crew. Not one to sit idly by he offered his brawn to fulfill any task that might help. He wasn’t much of a sailor as it turns out but he was able to pick up a few helpful skills along the way.Once he made port in Kugane the miqo’te quickly found his place in the market district. He was charismatic, exotic and handsome so naturally people flocked to see what he had to offer. Working multiple jobs as a cook, apprentice weaver and bartender he was kept entertained and eventually found his calling. Entertainment.Bold and free spirited he lacked the reservations most people did when it came to letting loose and having fun, instead he embraced it. After a few years of saving and honing his skills as a bartender he began observing the local dances, how the people moved and the way they let the music and energy flow through them. It was very different from what he had observed in Eorzea. There was an ethereal sensuality to it, tasteful and alluring instead of vulgar and provocative. Tynan mimicked the movements until he felt confident that he could merge the two styles, along with the combative dancing he had picked up along the way, into something that would draw people in and prey upon their primal instincts.Setting out to return home to Eorzea the miqo’te found himself on the winning end of a bet that landed him with not only a job but the prospect of owning his own tavern just outside of Ul'dah. All he had to do was bring it back from the crippling debt it was under within two years and the owner had agreed, in writing, to hand over ownership. With a lot of over time, a few bribes, trade arrangements and the use of some of his other skills, Tynan was able to secure the tavern through restoration, introduction of foreign foods, and the main feature of dancers both erotic and other. Renaming it The Risky Venture after the bet that started it all, the once bored nuhn now had all the entertainment he could ask for as well as a few underground connections that could end up being useful. After all, even powerful people need entertainment.Hooks:Looking for a job? There's always room for more dancers, cooks, bouncers and bartenders in a busy establishment like The Risky Venture.Underground connections. Tynan made many deals along the way, some owe him, others he is in the process of making good on. Are you here to pay up or collect?New to the area? This miqo'te not only knows his way around, he knows how to show someone a good time as well. Want a tour guide? He gets off work in a few hours. Sit and enjoy what they have to offer.Admirer? Tynan has been known to take the stage every now and then to hype up his employees and customers. Don't be shy, he loves attention and gives just as much in return.

V'lolah Tynan

Age: 23
Gender: Female
Orientation: Straight
Race: Seeker Miqo'te
Skills: Warrior, Dancer, RogueLola is the first born of Tynan and the only mate he ever truly bonded with and still considers a dear friend. She is bold, brash and sadistic just like her father, she enjoys torture and breaking people. As a lover she is fairly noncommittal and picky, she won't even consider a lasting relationship unless the man is her equal in all ways and recognizes her as such.In the same manner her father did, she found tribe life unsatisfying and had no intentions of raising children in that environment, so she left without a word to anyone besides her mother, who knew it was coming eventually. Finding her way to Limsa, she fell in love with the city and calls it her home, the only loyalty to anything besides family she has ever felt belongs to Limsa.She fills her time amusing herself with stirring up things with the citizens when she isn't out on a random ship, pirate or private. When that fails to satiate her restlessness she goes to the Risky Venture and helps her father with his tavern. Things are never dull in this little family.

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Sterling (Mara) Auclair

Age: 30Gender: Male (Trans, physical details depend on further discussions with rp partner)Eyes: WhiteHair: Silver/WhiteSkintone: Charcoal GreyRace: Keeper/Duskwight/Wildwood MixOrientation: GaySkills: Sword and Shield (Paladin), Firearms (Machinist), Healing (Whitemage), Culinarian, Chocobo Raising/Training.Likes: Hot Tea, Cooking for others, Affection, Nighttime, StormsDislikes: Bitter tastes, Being alone, Unnecessary Violence, Being touched unexpectedlyMajor Personality Traits: Kind, Skittish in the beginning, Loyal, Romantic, Smart but a bit oblivious, Generous, Overshares.♡♡HEAVENWARD SPOILERS♡♡He was found abandoned at the Observatorium not far from Camp Dragonhead as an infant. Appearing as little more than a Keeper infant he was viewed as less than any of the other inhabitants and was saved on the basis of good morals alone. No one was willing to take the kit in within Ishgard walls so he was passed off to an older female servant at the Observatorium and raised as a servant.It wasn't a bad life but it was little more than survival until he was pulled into the kitchen once he was old enough to see over the counters and be useful. Cooking became his passion. The feeling of a knife running through ingredients, the sound of the sizzle in a hot skillet makes his soul settle and his mind quiet. Showing a natural aptitude for the job he excelled and soon became welcomed face as well as gained about as much respect as a simple cook could obtain.Building no significant bonds, even with the elderly woman who raised him, he always seemed melancholic and distant even when smiling. Mostly due to how he never felt right in his own body and hated living a lie.The day would come when Camp Dragonhead had need of a cook as theirs was getting too old to keep up. With a good word from his guardian he was sent off to take up this position. Thankful to escape the same boring environment he was stuck in Mara was excited and immediately fell right into place with the other staff.This is where he found his first friend and only true confidant. The bastard son of Lord Fortemps was the only person to see past his race and gender to the soul inside and helped him embrace who he really was. Able to see features that were all too familiar along with the youthful look that lingered like that of an elezen, Haurchefant started an investigation into his new friends background, surely there was information to be found. Finding little more than rumors of a drunken night between a nobleman and Keeper female who left her tribe and was never seen again. Sharing these findings did little to help and may have made the miqote even more of a target. His father eventually stepped forward once he was confronted by Haurchefant and the two are slowly creating and bond.Teaching Mara skills with a sword and shield, and arranging for some machinist and healing tutoring as well they filled the down time with enough training that the miqote was no longer helpless. This didn't stop the prejudice and many times Haurchefant had to step in. One night he wasn't quick enough and the little miqo'te was found bloody and on the verge of death, the result of a violent and traumatic assault the hands of two guards who found amusement in tormenting and trying to "fix" the "mongrel cat". The details of the assault are only known to those involved as Mara refuses to speak about it to anyone outside of a partner and even then it's a very difficult discussion.It wasn't long after the Calamity that Mara began hearing the voice of Hydaelyn and experiencing the Echo. Between this new development and fear for his best friend's safety, Haurchefant sent Mara to Limsa to start a new life and seek out the Scions to help him find answers. Upon starting his new life he took on the name Sterling, a nickname Haurchefant and the Fortemps family often used for him due to his silver/white hair and white freckled charcoal skintone.(Timeline is up for discussion and I don't mind jumping forward well beyond Heavensward as long as we set up what happened in the events between. Other WoL OCs absolutely accepted! His WoL status isn't required for RP but at the very least he will be a Scion.)

Beauregard Auclair

Age: 52
Gender: Male
Orientation: Pan
Status: Committed to Sylvien Ironheart (Singleship only)
Race: Wildwood/Duskwight ElezenBorn from an affair between an Ishgardian Wildwood nobleman and a Duskwight servant in an attempt to have a male child to become his heir to the Auclair House, Beauregard was raised never knowing of his mixed blood and was ever the dutiful son. The woman he called "mother" never grew to love him but never rejected his "birthright", his father was distant and paranoid most of his life.Once Beauregard learned of his heritage, he decided to earn his right to lead his house and went to serve as a soldier, quickly rising in the ranks. All his hard work was lost in one moment t of weakness blended with drunken decisions. A beautiful Keeper woman, Nuray, wandered across him on one of his patrols, between her secretly decaying mental state and his inebriated choices the two shared one night and she became pregnant.The Auclairs became aware of this when Beauregard asked to either bring her to live with them at least long enough to have their child or to be free to go to her people for the same purpose. Instead of acceptance he wa met with an ultimatum, kill her and the child or all three would be killed in order to avoid a scandal. Neither was acceptable to Beau and he left to find a way to avoid it. Telling Nuray to flea to her home where he woild come find her and be a proper father somehow. This also wasn't meant to be, Nuray knew her people would never accept a mixed race child, so she hid in the wilderness until she gave birth on a dangerously cold storming night only to abandon the child at the gates of Camp Dragonhead.Word of this never reached Beauregard in all the time he was searching for the mother and his child. All he knew was that Nuray had been found dead in the woods without the child. He was told the child had been killed along with the mother. The few who knew of the scandal made it clear Beauregard was unwelcome in Ishgard and went as far as to label him a heretic.Living the life of a mercenary beside his young lover, Sylvien Ironheart, he avoided his home for years up until he received a missive from Haurchefant. This letter changed his life when he found out his son had been alive the whole time and needed his father now more than ever. He now works to build a relationship with is son and enjoy his lover and their life together.

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Ban Olkund

Age: 34
Height: 9.5 ft
Build: Broad, muscled
Skintone: Medium tone, some obvious scarring on face and body
Hair: Long usually kept in low ponytail or braid. Rarely cuts it short. Jet black.
Eyes: Sky blue
Orientation: Gay
Voice: Base, steady and generally well controlled almost to the point of sounding apathetic or cold.
Skills: Marksman (Mostly firearms) Dark Knight, Warrior, Pugilist, Charisma, Intimidation
Alignment: Ranges from Neutral Good to True Neutral depending on circumstances. Rarely acts in truly Evil ways.
Ban is a black market boss working with the Ul'dah Syndicate. He is known for being especially brutal when someone crosses him. He enjoys power and status as well as flaunting his material wealth by spoiling those he cares for and donating to causes he approves of.
Having watched his parents die from starvation and neglect in the streets of Ul'dah as a young boy he vowed that he would never again be in that situation nor anyone he held dear. Thinking his infant sister dead with his parents he turned to the streets and eventually clawed his way up the food chain to become one of the most feared and powerful men in Ul'dah. Reconnecting with the sister he thought long dead and working with the only friend he had growing up be built an orphanage for the young victims of Ul'dah's corruption. After the tragic deaths of his husband and their two children, Ban has started losing all joy he once found in life and is slowly being consumed by loneliness. When he isn't burying himself in work he drowns himself in alcohol or spends his time fighting at the Bloodsands.

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Tuya Olkund

Little Death

Little sister to Ban Olkund, she is the spy master and leads the assassination side of business. Having earned the title Little Death, she is vicious and has yet to miss her mark since joining her brother.Age: 24
Gender: Female
Orientation: Pan (female lean)

Dalai Orl

Bloodwyrm

Age: 40
Gender: Male
Orientation: GayOlder half brother to Ban, Dalai is one of two remaining of the Orl tribe. He is a reluctant Warrior of Light who seeks justice even if at a steep cost. He is ruled by the beast within and struggles with his inner darkness.

Valbrandr Rivers

Warbear

Age: 30
Gender: Male
Orientation: GayValbrandr and his sister are twins born to a Sultansworn mother and a bard father. After a stretch of family tragedy they joined Ban to find answers and found family instead. Val is a highly dominant man with anger issues and fists and axe to match, he is Ban's main enforcer in the streets.

Melantha Rivers

Swiftsong

Age: 30
Gender: Female
Orientation: Pan (Male lean)Melantha works beside Tuya as an infiltration specialist and sharp shooter/bard. Together with her brother, the twins are searching for the truth behind their mother's disappearance, with Ban's help they are uncovering dangerous secrets.

Yakiki Yaki

Mother Venom

Age: 46
Gender: Female
Non-Rp OCMother Venom works as Ban's head of housekeeping. She over sees the daily business of his staff and makes sure everyone is in line. Brought into the Vipers after Ban found her in one of his safe houses after poisoning her husband for molesting their child and selling her to a child trafficking ring where she died. She is loyal to Ban and their family without question.

Daegwyb Zirnwaht

Darma

Age: 38
Gender: Female
Orientation: PanDarma is the head of security/enforcement and personal bodyguard for Ban. The daughter of a pirate and a merchant's daughter from Ul'dah she was unplanned and left to basically raise herself. Her home wasn't an abusive one yet she was an inconvenient reminder of her mother's indiscretion and bad judgment, so she was left on her own and more often than not found that trouble was more entertaining than being a well behaved young lady. Some of that trouble lead her to find a scrawny little Au'Ra boy who had been badly beaten up when he failed a pickpocket attempt. She is his oldest friend and second in command.

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