#anyways shes a cryptic little wierdo who will not saying odd shit
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Ok I thiiink I have a backstory for Orion. Still some points I might change but
When Orion was 6 years old, an epidemic came to her home of Terncliff. When her family, who had never been fond of the imperials, fell ill, nobody dared help them. Orion tried her best to treat them herself, but one by one they worsened and withered away. She alone was unaffected, blessed with some secret resistance to the disease. To her young mind, however, it seemed like some cosmic mistake. When her elder sister finally passed, Orion gently laid out her family's bodies, set out all their favorite things, and then set the home on fire. People rushed to investigate, but she turned away, not daring to look back, and withdrew to the cliffs’ edge.
And she jumped.
As she fell, just for a second, she looked back- looked back at tall flames dancing bright against a dark sky- and she heard a voice.
When the voice commanded her to hear, feel, and think, however, young Orion refused. Her despair had grown too great to be so assuaged, and she knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that she was supposed to die with her family. And so the voice gave her a glimpse- just a glimpse- of the truth, of herself, of something to fight for.
When the sun rose Orion was found unconscious but uninjured at the cliff’s edge. If she knew how she had been so saved, she told no one. In fact, from then on she spoke little, but had such a strange air about her- well, such things are often expected of orphans. At the orphanage she was taken to she grew close to nobody, but threw herself into her own singular trainings, learning both archery and music with such a fervor few dared approach her. Many thought she aimed to join the imperial military- after all, why else would such a girl be so interested in combat? Indeed, on her sixteenth birthday she signed up for the XIVth legion- only to leave immediately when they arrived in Eorzea, her escape obviously predetermined. From there she made her way to Gridania, resolute and eager, ready to meet destiny.
#ffxiv#Orion Strand#she is of course a bard main. how did i not rrealize it b4#points i might change: I am debating whether Elidibus or Hydaelyn should be the one to give her a reason to live#or if Elidibus should try but Hydaelyn succeed#(I am basing this off of baby Utena lmao)#also if she went to an orphanage or if she was just taken in#I like the idea of her being taken in by a well meaning imperial#and she's still jsut like byeeeee when she turns 16#anyways shes a cryptic little wierdo who will not saying odd shit#equal parts portentous and anxious#has totally focused her identity on being the hero's companion before the hero was anything of the sort#relies on an air of mystery to keep apart from others bc shes afraid of getting close to anyone
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