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★ Character Information ★

Character Name: Pahja Nyancoya
Character Age: 28
Character Species: Miqo’te – she has fur covered ears and a tail, blue skin, and is rather short at 5’3”. Her eyes look like they are nearly constantly dilated – allowing her to see better in the dark. She also has two little fangs and her nails are more like claws.
Current Health: Alive
Outfit: Here.

Character Canon: Final Fantasy XIV
Link to History:

This is a general summary of where the majority of Final Fantasy XIV takes place. If you wish to read more about the universe as a whole, please let me know and I will do my best to find links for you!

The Warrior of Light's story can be found, unfortunately in bits and chunks: A Realm Reborn, Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers, and Endwalker. Pahja's own personal history does not deviate from it beyond events pre-ARR. She was born in the Black Shroud as the middle child of a family of five, with one elder brother and three sisters. As a Keeper of the Moon Miqo'te, Pahja was raised without a father and in a medium sized extended family group -- again with no adult men to speak of, as is traditional amongst Keepers. It was a relatively happy life with few incidents of tragedy -- her tribe were primarily nomadic, keeping to the forest. Eventually Pahja grew restless for adventure and struck out for the city state of Gridania, thus beginning her journey to become the Warrior of Light.

Canon Point: post patch 6.25
Canon Iteration: Canon Alternate
Canon Iteration Explanation: She is simply one of the other versions of the Warrior of Light that exists by implication in Final Fantasy XIV’s canon.

★ Folkmore Roles & Attributes ★

Skills: Pahja is a skilled leader, combatant, hunter, and adaptable problem solver. She is also an artist.
Canon Abilities:

Pahja starts out as a simple archer, but eventually becomes a Red Mage and Reaper.

Role: Legend
Role Qualities/Attributes: Pahja will eventually be obtaining a halo and wings like so.
Role Reasoning: Pahja is very much the hero of her story – she’s a leader, the go-to problem solver, and the general answer to “we need to bring in the big guns” of any situation be it diplomatic or combat. She’s the protagonist, after all. Sometimes at the detriment of her own well being and personal desires – it would do Pahja good to allow her to further grow into that hero role away from her world where she can actually find a balance between her the person and her the hero without the fate of her world hanging in the balance.

★ Personality ★

Option 1. Summarize your character's personality in general and what their full potential would look like to them and what they would be willing to go through to meet that potential and what gaining that potential would mean to them.

At first glance, Pahja Nyancoya hardly appears to be a woman who commands the respect of many, nor the sort of person you would want the weight of the world resting upon. She's cheerful, quick with a smile, mischievous, and always up to something. Responsibility seems to not bother her beyond the basics; more concerned with a quick laugh and a good time. And all of this is Pahja, make no mistake. Most times she wears her heart on her sleeve and her face -- she's honest and compassionate, seeing no reason to maliciously mislead those around her, friend and enemy alike.

And it's for the sake of kindness that she does, in fact, keep others out of her true thoughts and feelings when the topics are too weighty, too bitter and resigned. Most of those who know her well know the toll that being the world's only hope takes on her -- she's resigned to lose those who she cares about, that she will always have to put what she wants aside for the sake of the world, and that the world will always need something from her. But Pahja does her best to hide those particular thoughts and feelings, the resentment for people continually calling on her to fix their menial problems that they can't do themselves, her grief for the lives she couldn't save.

Luckily for her, her personality mostly keeps people from digging past that, into the darker conversations. No one would expect the woman who's willing to lick rocks to also accept that she may just have to die in order to save the world; she is tired, exhausted, ready to have a severe identity crisis but also totally down to eat worms for the greater good. And maybe just for kicks. Life is worth living to the fullest, even with the sorrow that comes with simply being alive. And for Pahja, those costs are an ever-present weight on her mind and her heart.

Keenly aware of the cost of being the Warrior of Light and knowing what she has to sacrifice makes Pahja deathly afraid of losing those close to her even as she accepts that they just might. Her happy upbringing and early adventuring meant that when things started to get serious she was utterly unprepared, and the early deaths of her friends left a mark. The responsibility that she seems to eschew is, in fact, the thing she cannot forget nor escape -- she just refuses to let it destroy her, basking in the enjoyment of the world around her and the people in it. Her easy smile and genuine joy at life inadvertently hides a woman who has gone through much, and came out the other side still standing.

Pahja herself has never given much thought to her ‘full potential’, too concerned with just making it out the other side of every encounter she finds herself in; but if she were to give it some thought it would involve being strong enough to defend everything she loves (something she is, arguably, already capable of doing) while being able to hold onto her sense of self and not sacrifice parts of her in order to do so. She considers her wants and desires to be secondary to her role as Warrior of Light, and if she were ever made aware that such a thing is possible, there’s very little that she wouldn’t do to achieve it so long as it never crossed a moral line, or involved the harming of others. Reaching that point would be the best thing to happen to her, and she would be exceptionally thankful for that revelation – she’s a confident woman, yes, but the idea that she can be a confident woman named Pahja instead of the Warrior of Light would mean the world to her.

★ Player Information ★

Player Name: Ammay
Pronouns: She/Her
Are you over 18?: Yes
Contact(s): PM or Plurk @ tsarcasm
Who Invited You?: Current Player
Current Characters: Elera Lavellan
Permissions: Here
Writing Samples: A PSL thread and previous game thread.