#[ so by shb theres toddler ryna; grown lyna & later ryne... ]

[soulgathered-archived]

I am still not sure how to write liokki on tumblr but for his general backstory I got the following:

liokki was born on the azim steppe, his father was a viera that traveled through the place as a gleaner. he fell in love with liokkis mother & after a while they had liokki. his father passed in a hunting accident.

in his youth, liokki traveled to old sharla.yan where his father was born to get to know his paternal side of the family. they welcomed him with open arms & soon after he followed his dad's footsteps & became a gleaner.

for a while he seemed happy with that life until he started to clash more & more with sharl.ayan politics & left ( he can technically still return, he just quit his job & traveled around, doing odd jobs here & there ).

he gets caught in the ARR shenanigans & becomes the wol - however, his timeline is a DSR timeline. - he also has never entered the CT.

anyway, because of DSR his timeline got majorly screwed, the exa.rch had to summon him at the start of stb - only to realize that liokki had no idea who he was & that something went terribly wrong in this liokkis story. when the exar.ch reveals all that he knows, liokki & him can pinpoint the differences to a ) liokki never doing CT b ) the vault ending entirely different.

the differences are so grievous that the light had started to rapidly corrupt the first even faster - when liokki appears in lakeland it is not 100 years after the flood but 50 & yet, there is no time left. the exarc.h & liokki then come up with the plan to use the abundance of light & the power set free during a rejoining to power the CT once more & send liokki back in time - leaving that timeline to its doom ( the first gets fully flooded & a rejoining happens on the source ).

liokki however does not travel fully by himself. the ex.arch entrusts him with a newborn viera named lyna that liokki has now adopted. another preparation was liokki becoming a reaper - since they used so much light for this journey, it seemed saver to have an umbral being tied to liokkis soul - good foresight, because without his avatar, liokki would have died in the rift between time & worlds.

anyway from then on forward, liokki follows the game storyline, though he is more distant in hw, knowing what he has to do for things to go the "right way."

as said this is more of his backstory for twitter / gposes / fics etcs ... i know people on tumblr are a bit iffy about an OC being so strongly tied to canon characters, though the people liokki knew would not fully be the same ... so yeah...still gonna have to come up with a backstory for him here...or link his backstory & make him a request muse only...