#ooc: i don’t know what area of my heritage this comes from since were like

[askchilchuck]

I bestow upon thee, A KNIFE

WAIT! Don’t just give people knives like that!

Chilchuck checks his pockets for a gold coin, and gives it to you in exchange for the knife. You should never gift a knife. Always ask for something in return, anything to make it a trade. If you give someone a knife, you’ll cut your bond with them at best, and bring harm to them at worst. Always be carful with that kind of stuff, okay?

[ask-badlydrawn-mercosur]

ooc time:

First of all... I had the feeling someone would eventually come up on my inbox and ask something about this... and I can’t really blame people for not reading my about and guidelines ( in which I state I would not be tackling questions regarding current events/politics/sensitive subjects like this one), because outside of desktop, navigation on this site can be very difficult...

Now... since you brought this subject... I guess there are a few things I’d like to get out of my system regarding it, so bear with me for bit, if you will. Also to the people who follow for the fun posts, forgive me for the huge tone shift, y’all can skip this post, have a nice day.

( and please, to the anons who sent these asks: don’t take it personally, as I have stated before, I’m not mad at you guys, or anything like that...)

There are just so, so many things that I'd like to let out, and now that I'm sitting here and typing this... I have no idea where to even start.

I could express my dread for the upcoming elections in Argentina, coupled with the nations economic turmoil or how damaging for them Kirchnerism was; I cold write an essay and go on for hours long about everything that's been bothering me about Paraguay's political situation for the past 10 years alone; how just about a month ago their president AND his vice ALMOST got IMPEACHED because of a irregular trade agreement that is, surprise, surprise, related to their neighboring and most important business partner (also the current reason South America is trending right now in the first place): Brazil... which I’ll be talking about right now. I guess it can’t be helped for being the biggest not only in land area, but economy and influence in the region. Also because its the one that hits closer home to me. I think you all at this point already saw the pictures of the city São Paulo completely dark in the middle of the day. A city that is roughly 100 kilometers from where I live.

The whole situation of the fires in the Amazon, to me, are nothing more than the the straw that broke the camel's back. It’s a shame people wait until it reaches the most developed area of the country, until it hits close to their comfort zone, to start doing something or even talk about it.

The red flags have always been there for decades. The lack of media coverage makes me reminisce about the whole Chico Mendes ordeal, which happened over 30 years ago. What's that you ask me? Well, Chico Mendes was an environmentalist that spent all his life fighting for the preservation of the Amazon forest, always advocating for human rights, indigenous people voices and helping bringing international awareness of the damage that was being done. This led to him acquiring many enemies, specially local ranchers who were annoyed with not being able to make profits anymore and kept on sent him death threats. In the end, he got killed by them, which sadly isn’t something uncommon to happen to people like him. The media coverage on his death at the time was so poor that even today people barely acknowledge him or the work he’s done. One of the affected areas is a reserve named after him.

The worst part of this all is being held hostage by a government led by a complete shit stain excuse of a person who’d rather cut funds from science and education, silence minorities, be a dictatorship apologist, spread misinformation and start childish arguments in social media, manipulate data surrounding the Amazon's deforestation just to make them look good rather than acknowledge the real problems the nation has been going through. It does makes one wonder how people like this are allowed to be on charge of a country. Perhaps the only good thing (and that’s an understatement), is that this is how this excuse of a government will be going down on history. ( even if I’m aware it isn’t 100% this government alone fault, but at this point I could care less about that).

Fire can truly be a devastating force, and I feel like brazilians are well aware of this by now.

In 2016, there was a huge fire in Museum of the Portuguese Language located in São Paulo. Luckily the damage wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been, but one would think that an incident like this would make people aware of how important it is to protect cultural heritage sites like this one, right? Fast forward to last year, we lost 200 years of history in a devastating fire that struck the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, all gone in the blink of an eye. The museum itself was lacking the funds from the government to keep running and was surviving mostly on donations, they didn’t knew for how long they would be able to keep it open for visiting. But now its all gone, just like that. Who knows  what the outcome of the Amazon forest will be, only time can tell.

I barely saw people talking about this on the media. I barely saw people while to drop everything and donate to help like, let’s say, the Notre-Dame fire.

I'm not even writing this with rage.

The only thing I feel right now is apathy. Just apathy.

Sometimes its hard to talk about your own nation with pride or even feel something about it when things like these are going down. I felt that many times, even on my blogs. For the past two weeks, for example, I’ve been trying to rework and revamp my @askbrasil blog, I truly enjoy making content not only there, but all my ask blogs in general. Talking about and sharing little tidbits of trivia about all these nations has always been such a joy to me. But then things like this happen and it can dry out all motivation you once had. I’ve saw a good blog give up because of this before, it truly is upsetting to see things end like this.

Though one thing I’ll always be grateful about this fandom, regardless of what people say about it, is giving people a little space to be proud about their own heritage, even if just for a bit.

With all this said, I really have no idea what the outcome of this whole situation is going to be, dunno if all these prayers or hashtags alone will be able to change something but...well... let’s see how this all play out in the end.

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For those of you who managed to make it this far, thank you for taking your time to listen to my ramble, I'm not good with words and this isn’t something I usually like to do online, but I guess sometimes one just need to let it all out of their system once in a while. Admin Rena’s out ✌️

[aliapohno]

character information { kaguya mori } { balmung&mateus }

The Basics

NAME: Kaguya Mori NICKNAME/ALIAS: n/a AGE: 30 RACE: Au Ra (Raen)/Miqo’te (Keeper) mix GENDER: Female SEXUALITY: Bisexual MARITAL STATUS: Single SERVER: Balmung & Mateus

Physical Appearance

HAIR: Long, jet black hair; the longest falls just to the top of her butt, the strands of hair that she wears over her shoulders fall to the curve of her breasts, and she had full bangs that fall below her eyebrows. She pulls back some of her hair into a looped bun.

( HER MATEUS-VERSE has short, wave black hair that falls to her shoulder.)

EYES: A piercing ice blue that always seem to carry a playful calm to them.

HEIGHT: 5 fulm 7 ilms

BUILD: Tall and slender, Kaguya surpasses the normal height of Auri women; she has little muscle definition, a rather ample bosom, and curves for days.

DISTINGUISHING MARKS: Her scales - and her horns - are opalescent in appearance, a rare trait that runs in her family. Because of her half-breed heritage, Kaguya has a pair of fluffy, black with red tipped Miqo’te ears. She also has sharper than normal canines; her tail is long, has scales on it, but also has fur -- akin to that of a Chinese or Japanese dragon’s tail.

COMMON ACCESSORIES: A curious looking necklace that she’s always had since she was a child.

Brief History

= Found in the middle of one of Hingashi’s many wooded areas at the age of 5 by slavers

= Sold off to a Hingan merchant, alongside a few others

Was raised and trained on how to cook, clean, and sow

When she turned 10, the merchant fell into heavy debt and she, along with the rest of the staff, were let go

= Was taken in by a friend of the merchant’s, who found Kaguya’s appearance exotic and interesting.

The man’s wife was unable to conceive children, so she raised the little girl as her own.

Taught her how to read, write, sing, dance, and play various instruments (koto, piano, shamisen)

The man’s wife passed away when Kaguya was 16, and he sold her off to another merchant.

= Her third owner - who wanted her to call him master - abused his servants - mentally, physically, and verbally.

He only kept her around because of her heritage, and would verbally degrade her for being a half-breed.

She didn’t take any of his shit, and fought back against him the next four years of her life.

= At 20, she was dragged across the ocean and to Limsa Lominsa, where she was sold off to a brothel because the man was tired of her attitude and thought that she could be broken in better in an environment like that.

= Is currently 30, and is still working at the brothel down by the docks.

Personal

PROFESSION: Former slave; sold to a brothel in Limsa HOBBIES: Dancing, making tea, reading about & studying magics, collecting little trinkets & stuffed animals, sewing LANGUAGE(S): Common, Hingan/Doman  || she has a light Hingan accent RESIDENCE: Limsa Lominsa BIRTHPLACE: The Far East ( she assumes ) NAMEDAY: 12th Sun of the 3rd Astral Moon { 5/12 } PATRON DEITY: The Kami { Eorzean standard: Azeyma, the Warden } FEARS: Being told she’s not worth anything, never finding “freedom”, spiders, being alone

Relationships

SPOUSE: None CHILDREN: None PARENTS: Unknown SIBLINGS: Unknown OTHER RELATIVES: Unknown PETS: Momo (Red Panda)

Traits

extroverted / introverted / in between disorganized / organized / in between close minded / open-minded / in between calm / anxious / in between disagreeable / agreeable / in between cautious / reckless / in between patient / impatient / in between outspoken / reserved / in between leader / follower / in between empathetic / unempathetic / in between optimistic / pessimistic / in between traditional / modern / in between hard-working / lazy / in between cultured / un-cultured / in between loyal / disloyal / in between faithful / unfaithful / in between

Additional Information

SMOKING HABIT: never / sometimes / frequently / to excess. DRUGS: never / sometimes / frequently / to excess. ALCOHOL: never / sometimes / frequently / to excess.

RP Hooks

The Far East - Kaguya was (presumably) born in over in Hingashi. from what her first “Owner”/”Master” told her - when she was just a child - she had been sold off by her parents to slavers; thus is the reason why she has little memory of them and her home village.

Former Owner/Master - Kaguya was roughly 5 years old when she was first sold off by slavers to her first owner; she has spent the years - up until she was 20 - as a maid for her owners/masters. She’s gone through a handful so...

Customers - Her previous owner had grown bored of her, took her with him on business over seas, and basically sold her to a brothel in LImsa. Because of her unique looks - an Au Ra with Miqo’te features - Kaguya wound up relatively popular there.

Limsa Lominsa - It’s where she currently lives and resides, leaving the brothel on occasion to wander around Limsa and the surrounding areas.

OOC & What I Am {and Not } Looking For

LOOKING FOR:

Friends || She gets lonely, easily, and likes to spend her free time with people she feels she can trust and be friends with. She’s outgoing, and loves meeting people!

Former Owners || Since she was sold as a slave, I would be more than happy to play with someone who was her former owner/master. The Master/Slave dynamic is fun, especially when there’s varying degrees of such.

Customers || She a ho Men or women are more than welcome, since Kaguya doesn’t discriminate against gender. This also includes trans characters.

Plot || Considering she is, more or less, stuck in Limsa unless a customer pays to take her elsewhere in the world, there’s very little I can do plotwise with her. However, she wants to be free from her cage, and not spend the rest of her life chained down. She wants to learn about the past she doesn’t remember, about herself, and I want to flesh out her entire story since I have it all thought up in my head. { spoiler: HER NECKLACE PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN EVERYTHING. }

Future/Possible Love Interests || While I’m don’t do the whole... pre-establishing a romantic relationship thing, especially so given Kaguya’s feelings about herself and relationships - I am always, always up for playing out the slow burn process of seeing how well characters mesh together. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SHIPPING WITH HER please let me know and we can totally see what happens!

NOT LOOKING FOR

ERP/Smut - I’m not interest in writing out the actual details of any sexual encounters Kaguya may find herself in. Also, I’m not interested in it being pointless or without plot; she might be a courtesan, but she isn’t there solely to get someone’s rocks off. I prefer Fade To Black, and writing the aftermath.

[Permanent] Character Death || I have no plans on killing her - or any of my other characters - off permanently so this isn’t on the table, sorry.

OOC

My availability is open at the moment, given I am out of work and looking for a job.

I prefer to roleplay via Discord (message me for it), as I can focus on replies there, but I am not opposed to in-game rp. It’s just a personal preference.

When it comes to roleplay, I have a habit of writing long responses, and go the para-rp route; however, I can adapt to any play style, and match my RP partner relatively easily. I’m just a tl;dr person by nature I’m so sorry.

I’ll write just about anything as long as it isn’t the aforementioned erp/smut, or anything that deals with my characters death; I also won’t write extreme gore, or vore. But I will more than welcome dark themes in roleplay.

Please note that I am a very casual player when it comes to Final Fantasy 14, and that I do not always feel up to roleplaying. My mood fluctuates, and I can go a handful of days without replying ( which is why I prefer Discord for RP ). This does not mean I’m not interested. I AM. I just need to give my brain a break.