#out of personal grudges and agenda and not just 'get tf off my land' (meowdred) and 'im in the neighborhood ig' (liios)

[meowww-ffxiv]

I think I'll free Yukinko up from Gridania and pick up rogue/ninja for his leveling to 50, then pick up samurai [kind of an Again for him; he started as samurai] just to enjoy the stories.

But now I need to think about what he's been doing for like 10 years and why he's in Eorzea at all.

After getting freed from Garlemald, Yukinko was taken by his benefactor to Ala Mhigo where he saw how awfully shit life was. Unfortunately, he didn't do well there due to the heat and the terrain, so she arranged to have him "repatriated" to Yanxia within 2 years.

Never made it that far. Someone took a liking to Yukinko in a port town in Hingashi and set him up in Kugane, where he found himself right back in the profession he had while a conscript. Indentured hitman jobs.

But his "handler" this time was a smiling old woman who ran three teahouses she used to spy on the Garlean empire and intercept imperial missives coming in and out of the area, as well as arranging the deaths of any Garlean officials who got too big for their breeches re: ambitions to grow in Kugane.

She told Yukinko, bluntly, that his beauty was wasted on soon-to-be-dead men. So she had him trained to gather information with her girls, and only very rarely risked him as a hitman.

It was a comfortable existence, and a much needed reprieve from the horrible decade he'd spent before as a prisoner and a living tool for Garlemald. The Proprietess and her kindness were mostly to thank for Yukinko being well-adjusted by the time he received a summons from his original benefactor to go to Eorzea, where the next big push by Garlean forces was happening.

And then, Dalamud.

And now, everything else.

Yukinko was aware he could probably just...go home. Clearly nothing worked out. Dalamud fell, shit was bad. Baelsar's Wall stood impregnable, as before. He'd even lost contact with the person whose email sent him here.

But (a) dude broke as fuck, can't afford to sail back to Kugane and (b) it didn't feel right to just leave. So Yukinko is currently mucking around in the Black Shrouds watching Eorzeans tussle with their internal strife like. Yikes. 😬