Player Name: Bookie Contact: Bookie#7341 on Discord Invited by: i live here now Other Characters: G'raha and Zagreus
Character Name: Lillian Shikibu, aka another Warrior of Light Canon: FFXIV Canon History: Lillian was born in Doma, a few years before the Imperial occupation began. However, her merchant parents had a suspicion that was where the winds were blowing, and had already began making preparations to get on the Garleans good side (including naming their daughter with a distinctly non-Doman name, in the hopes that would make them seem less 'savage'). Their intent had been to raise Lillian as a proper lady, in the hopes she could marry into a Garlean family and ensure their health and safety. This... did not take into account any of Lillian's actual personality traits. To call her a 'wild child' would be an understatement, and the only even remotely 'proper' activity she took to was sewing, which seemed to have at least something to do with the fact that stabbing fabric with a needle worked to vent some of her frustrations. She spent most of her days, once she was old enough, out of the house, training by herself or with what villagers (some of who she suspected were Resistance members) in the hopes of fighting back against Imperial rule one day. However, on her return home one evening, she found her home to have been ransacked and her parents killed, and no obvious explanation for why. (To this day, she can't help but wonder if they were punished for her behavior.) Having no desire to wait for someone's return, and knowing she wasn't yet strong enough to win a fight alone, she took what valuables she could find, using them to pay for her passage to Eorzea.
Canon Personality: -Lillian mains monk and dark knight. Really that tells you everything you need to know about her. -She presents as very cheerful and sunny, and mostly means it, but she's covering for a little of darker emotions that she doesn't quite know what to do with. -She finds as outlet for these emotions in fighting (though that becomes harder throughout the series as motivations become more nuanced and complicated), and also, uh, Adult Activities. I should probably mention she's kind of a sadist???? -She is also not a smart person and she very much knows it. She is very much a "point me at what to punch" kind of person and, while having sort of gotten used to strategy meetings, heavily leans on the Scions who are better at that kind of thing. -Despite her rather aggressive nature, she has learned to love the Scions as her own family, and will do anything to protect them and help them advance their dreams. -She also absolutely adores children, and is genuinely very good with them. She ran around so much with the Doman Adventurer's Guild playing games and going on 'adventures' with them. -The whole thing with Zenos really fucked with her, because in many ways she is his mirror- someone who found a cause to fight for, rather than just fighting with no cause. Post-Stormblood, that encounter (plus seeing too much of herself in both Yotsuyu and Fordola), forced her to confront her weaknesses, and she's been trying very hard to think about what she does and what she fights for, so she doesn't lose herself in the midst of fighting. It's... a work in progress, but post-Endwalker she's pretty proud of how far she's come, now working towards focusing on people to help rather than enemies to fight.
AU Name: NA AU Birthday: February 2nd Faction: Black Order
AU History: Lillian's parents immigrated to the States from Japan before she was born, and sort of tried to toe the line between adjusting to their new home and keeping their traditions. Lillian pretty promptly ignored Asian parenting attempts!! She was always pretty horrible at school, and probably only got away with picking fights because no one would believe the 4"11 girl would/could actually start the fights. She started in karate very young, and then promptly switched to kickboxing when she was old enough because "forms were boring". She's a bit of a fitness nut, and whenever a new guy comes into her gym and harasses her at the weights they quickly learn to regret it.
Her junior year of high school she started developing scales across her body, which to her extreme confusion no doctor could see. She wound up kind of ignoring it because, seriously, fuck it, it doesn't itch or anything so it's probably fine, and she didn't actually run into the supernatural side of Kaisou until the summer before her senior year, where she basically beat the shit out of something that had crawled through (she thought it was like, a mutated raccoon or something). That caught the Black Order's attention, and she's been with them for a few years now. They send her places where they really just need someone to beat the problem up.
AU Personality Differences: Lillian is still pretty firmly in her 'fight wherever she's pointed' stage. She hasn't really had to face herself and her own shortcomings yet, soooo it'll be interesting to see what the Black Order tries to direct her!
Element: NA Purchased Powers: Au Ra scales (not horns yet) - 2 points Dark Knight sword - 3 points WoL superstrength - 3 points Chakra usage for monk abilities - 4? points The Blackest Night - 3 points Pink hair - 1 point
Lillian Shikibu/WOL | FFXIV | Black Order AU
Contact: Bookie#7341 on Discord
Invited by: i live here now
Other Characters: G'raha and Zagreus
Character Name: Lillian Shikibu, aka another Warrior of Light
Canon: FFXIV
Canon History: Lillian was born in Doma, a few years before the Imperial occupation began. However, her merchant parents had a suspicion that was where the winds were blowing, and had already began making preparations to get on the Garleans good side (including naming their daughter with a distinctly non-Doman name, in the hopes that would make them seem less 'savage'). Their intent had been to raise Lillian as a proper lady, in the hopes she could marry into a Garlean family and ensure their health and safety. This... did not take into account any of Lillian's actual personality traits. To call her a 'wild child' would be an understatement, and the only even remotely 'proper' activity she took to was sewing, which seemed to have at least something to do with the fact that stabbing fabric with a needle worked to vent some of her frustrations. She spent most of her days, once she was old enough, out of the house, training by herself or with what villagers (some of who she suspected were Resistance members) in the hopes of fighting back against Imperial rule one day. However, on her return home one evening, she found her home to have been ransacked and her parents killed, and no obvious explanation for why. (To this day, she can't help but wonder if they were punished for her behavior.) Having no desire to wait for someone's return, and knowing she wasn't yet strong enough to win a fight alone, she took what valuables she could find, using them to pay for her passage to Eorzea.
And then the story of FFXIV proceeds roughly as normal: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/endwalker/patch_6_0/story
Canon Personality:
-Lillian mains monk and dark knight. Really that tells you everything you need to know about her.
-She presents as very cheerful and sunny, and mostly means it, but she's covering for a little of darker emotions that she doesn't quite know what to do with.
-She finds as outlet for these emotions in fighting (though that becomes harder throughout the series as motivations become more nuanced and complicated), and also, uh, Adult Activities. I should probably mention she's kind of a sadist????
-She is also not a smart person and she very much knows it. She is very much a "point me at what to punch" kind of person and, while having sort of gotten used to strategy meetings, heavily leans on the Scions who are better at that kind of thing.
-Despite her rather aggressive nature, she has learned to love the Scions as her own family, and will do anything to protect them and help them advance their dreams.
-She also absolutely adores children, and is genuinely very good with them. She ran around so much with the Doman Adventurer's Guild playing games and going on 'adventures' with them.
-The whole thing with Zenos really fucked with her, because in many ways she is his mirror- someone who found a cause to fight for, rather than just fighting with no cause. Post-Stormblood, that encounter (plus seeing too much of herself in both Yotsuyu and Fordola), forced her to confront her weaknesses, and she's been trying very hard to think about what she does and what she fights for, so she doesn't lose herself in the midst of fighting. It's... a work in progress, but post-Endwalker she's pretty proud of how far she's come, now working towards focusing on people to help rather than enemies to fight.
AU Name: NA
AU Birthday: February 2nd
Faction: Black Order
AU History: Lillian's parents immigrated to the States from Japan before she was born, and sort of tried to toe the line between adjusting to their new home and keeping their traditions. Lillian pretty promptly ignored Asian parenting attempts!! She was always pretty horrible at school, and probably only got away with picking fights because no one would believe the 4"11 girl would/could actually start the fights. She started in karate very young, and then promptly switched to kickboxing when she was old enough because "forms were boring". She's a bit of a fitness nut, and whenever a new guy comes into her gym and harasses her at the weights they quickly learn to regret it.
Her junior year of high school she started developing scales across her body, which to her extreme confusion no doctor could see. She wound up kind of ignoring it because, seriously, fuck it, it doesn't itch or anything so it's probably fine, and she didn't actually run into the supernatural side of Kaisou until the summer before her senior year, where she basically beat the shit out of something that had crawled through (she thought it was like, a mutated raccoon or something). That caught the Black Order's attention, and she's been with them for a few years now. They send her places where they really just need someone to beat the problem up.
AU Personality Differences: Lillian is still pretty firmly in her 'fight wherever she's pointed' stage. She hasn't really had to face herself and her own shortcomings yet, soooo it'll be interesting to see what the Black Order tries to direct her!
Element: NA
Purchased Powers:
Au Ra scales (not horns yet) - 2 points
Dark Knight sword - 3 points
WoL superstrength - 3 points
Chakra usage for monk abilities - 4? points
The Blackest Night - 3 points
Pink hair - 1 point