Emilia, Warrior of Light

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About

Character :
Emilia - forwent her surname following her leave from the miqo’te tribes in Ul’Dah, never adopted another name and could only pronounce her first when she was found by Conjurers in New Gridania.
Race :
Miqo'te | Seeker of the Sun/Moon (mixed)
Bears Seeker eyes with Keeper fangs and skin pallor
Occupation :
Warrior of Light and Darkness | Wanderer | WHM, MCH, SGE & DRK Age :
Approximately 31 at the start of SHB, 32 by end
Nameday :
5th Sun of the 5th Astral Moon
Deity :
Nophica / Halone; Abandoned all deity worship following Heavensward-era
Gender :
female | she/her or they/them
Orientation :
Demisexual
Height :
5'7"
Hair :
Long, straight layered hair that’s Ashy brown or taupe in color. The length is punctuated by whitened tips within said layers.
Features :
+ Black Gauged piercings in both ears; the left (her left) has an upside-down silver cross through the gauge, the right (her right) has a diamond earring of healing. Two additional hoop piercings sit beneath each ear, respectively, silver and medium in size. Known to occasionally switch from the cross in her left to a chain that connects the gauge and uppermost hoop together.
+ Abnormally long, lean miqo’te ears that bear small tufts at the tips. The tuft normally curves upwards due to her habit
of keeping the base of them lowered against the crown of her
head.
+ Sharpened upper and lower canines
+ Bears bright, luminescent Seeker eyes. Once, her leftmost eye
was gold and the right a soft cerulean but this changed following events on the Source. The overdose of light aether and the rejoining of shard Ardbert caused both her eyes to pale, resulting in a cesious, insipid blue. Her three clan markings, one on each side of her forehead and two on each side of her cheeks, lighten/fade at the tips due to her Keeper blood.
+ Heavily scarred skin she keeps concealed at almost all times; often seen wearing some form of gloves and rimless, black glasses
+ Long, flowing tail in the same color and texture as her hair. The length bears less fur at the base and widens towards the tip, maximum length for a miqo’te.
+ Bears a low, alto voice with a slight rasp, caused by her time smoking and drinking in Ishgard.
+ Ex-alcoholic and self-harming individual.
+ Both her DRK and WHM crystals she wears as necklaces round
her neck, usually one or the other given the combat
situation.
+ Quite a decent artist, self-taught and she often enjoys
drawing or sketching while on missions.
+ Post-Stormblood Emilia began to notice a quivering in her
hands, considered a result of deeply rooted PTSD.
+ Food Likes:
Coffee, preferably cold | onion soup | carrots | croissants | sandwiches, cold or hot | garlic | pastas | breads | omurice | pierogies | Charcuterie boards | fish
+ Food Dislikes:
Tomatoes | beets | cilantro | peppers | most teas | vinegar | pickles | cake | snails | brown rice | most fermented foods | raw eggs | cold cookies | icing | raw milk
Romantic Partners :
Ser Aymeric & Emet-Selch / Hades, aside from various male and female partners during her time in Ishgard.
+ Bedroom Disposition:
+ Unafraid to take on any role but prefers to be a sub. Can be a sub or switch, again depending.
+ Naïve/inexperienced kisser.
+ In the past she preferred to keep clothed during any form of intimacy, mostly due to her scars and dislike for her figure.
+ Weak/affected by praise, dirty talk (e.x. no “baby,” prefers more eloquent language/names), caressing, cunnilingis, tail, hair, or ear pulling/caressing, gloves, stations of title, rough sex, utilizing or learning new positions, blowjobs/fellatio, titty fucking, handjobs.
+ Prefers for partners to initiate any form of affectionate touch.
+ Lacks confidence in any bedroom-based abilities. She has a habit of forcing her mouth and eyes closed during acts, denying herself orgasms either with partners or alone, and holding any prolonged eye- contact. Despite this fact, she does have a rather filthy imagination.Home Country :
+ Born in the Ul'dahn desert, clan of origin unknown; since her relocation she identifies most readily with Gridania.
Descriptors :
Reserved | Work-driven | Selfless | Dutiful | Cold/Prickly | Empathetic | Self-deprecating | Independent | Versatile
Brief History :
Born and forgotten in the desert lands of Ul’dah, this mixed miqo’te of Seeker and Keeper origins was found hiding in a carriage amidst shipments in Gridania. As a result of her tumultuous travel, the child was covered in both dirt and bruises, unable to look her new-found captor in the eye. Before much fuss could be made E-Sumi- Yan took it upon himself to take the young miqo’te in, offering her a place within the guild. Over time, he and the fellow Conjurers taught the non-verbal child how to write, read, and speak in addition to her lessons in white magic, harvestry, and general etiquette.
As she grew so too did Emilia’s desire to leave Gridania; she wished to explore, as the many who visited her homeland did. She took up various missions and ere long her first squad of adventurers were set take down the Primal Ifrit. Thinking their rank strong enough to best the creature, they journeyed the land to fight the beast strengthening its cause in the desert. Their fight was valiant, given the circumstance, but inexperienced adventurers made poor sport for the primal. Hydaelyn, whose voice Emilia had yet to hear before now, admonished her with her blessing of light ere Emilia, too, fell to the creature. Her comrades, tragically, were not fortunate enough to share in her respite. The newfound Warrior of Light emerged heavily scarred and bleeding, though Ifrit lay bested in the sands. Emilia was brought back to Gridania to heal, but not before running into twins Alphinaud and Alisae.
Throughout her adventures Emilia fought, growing stronger and wiser as she slew creatures, Primals, and Ascians. All fell, in both Hydaelyn and the Scions name.
She witnessed war and famine, poverty, death, and suffering in such measure it dulled her once childlike wonder, flattening her disposition to a stoic, cold shell of her former self. Within Ishgard the Warrior of Light took up self-deprecating habits; alcohol as a means for her to quell nightmares, spare blades burrowed to flesh in attempts to repress guilt, anger, and self- loathing. ‘Twas here she evolved to take up a sword, fighting on with dark magicks and abandoning both White Magic and companions in favor of bloodlust and battle.
Concern grew amongst her comrades though some solace was found in the presence of a friendly Ishgardian Commander, Ser Aymeric. Both he and Haurchefant took in the beaten hero, helping her through a time in her life she oft looks back on with revulsion and fury.
Reunited following the war, she and the Scions continued their path onward through Stormblood. This travel took her between lands and stars, joined now by her alliance comrades Yvette, D’ve, Drag, Arvid, Coeus, and Notus. A rival, Zenos, emerged and fell in during this eastern-bound journey. Many battles between she and the Garlean prince unfolded, though his presence taught the aging hero an important lesson: weakness. In hand-to-hand combat she was no match, bested time and time again by the larger man's prowess with a blade—she bore many scars from their encounters, but in the end the Garlean, too, fell to Hydaelyn’s chosen.
Upon the First, Emilia fell back to her old, comfortable habits; a bottle, a cigarette, and a blade. Awash as the star was with Light, she discovered her magicks held little power against the sin eaters, let alone any other. Once more she adopted her Dark Knight cleaver, besting Warden after Warden ‘til she happened across him, Emet-Selch.
Eldritch Ascian and immortal, this man showed her the faults of their kind, the folly of her long, wary journey and struggle therein though...he too offered solace, empathy. Their bond grew strong upon this star, familiar though it, too, severed ere long. The blade she rent through him not only felled the Ascian but it, too, broke her soul to pieces, shattering memories and aether to naught more than a sea of reflections in her chest. When next she woke, it was too with a struggle; her once-found independence was taken in favor of her condition, which worsened day by day. As she sat upon the precipice of death, Hades himself returned in the visage of Solus, now soul-bound to the woman who slew him.
This, is where Redemption takes place;
[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21082586/chapters/50157497]
Redemption Comic:
[https://x.com/MagicaAria/status/1614911920506552320?s=20]


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