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About Eva
The emphasis with Eva has been less on the specific lore itself - though the importance of such cannot be discounted.  Instead as a character she is very highly attuned to other characters and interactions with them.  As a character she has strong tendencies towards being a pacifist (which has been fun to RP during wartimes).  She is very motherly, nurturing, kind, and protective of those close to her.  Her areas of expertise are weaving and nursing (less a direct doctor role that some RPers take and more a sort of supporter of such with focus on providing comfort, care, a good bedside manner).  She is also an extremely spiritual character, a fatalist, and puts devotion before most everything else.  Eva's wiki page will be updated in the near future with a lot more information, but the link in my signature to her journals (which are extremely vast) may offer some insight into the character's thoughts and a glimpse at her motivations and interests.  She is also duskwight elezen and some backstory we've concocted introduces a clan of these people.

OOC I have been RPing for nearly 20 years in some form or another.  I started out on a text-based game (MUD) called GemStone III (now GemStone IV) in which being in-character was mandatory.  After playing that for several years I moved on to a few other games - none of which took much hold - before landing in the world of Final Fantasy XI.  I played on the Gilgamesh server for several months but grew frustrated at the lack of RP until I heard about a group on the Sylph server.  I scrapped that character and started fresh on Sylph and was part of a few RPLS's that had relatively brief and tumultuous existences before finally starting one up of my own.  Over 8 years I RPed in Vana'diel, and I learned a great deal about RP, perspectives, managing disputes, creating entertaining and believable stories and characters with depth.  Those of us who came from Sylph cannot deny that we dealt with a lot of drama there at various points over that time, and I like to think we handled things gracefully throughout most of it.  We ended on a high note and disbanded shortly after news of FFXIV was announced.

In Final Fantasy XIV, I have been around since the 1.0 alpha testing and have never quit nor taken any break from the game for more than a week or two.  I have no interest in any other MMO's on the market and plan to be around for a long time to come.  At the onset I did not wish to lead a linkshell again.  I felt I would be more useful in an 'advisor' type role, and Eva was created to help facilitate this IC in tandem with OOC.  I have belonged to a number of linkshells.  I was an arbiter in TALE, I was a premier in Outer Heaven, a lieutenant in the Eorzean Guard, archonte in Everwatch, and most recently upon the disbandment of Everwatch I have decided to take up leadership again with Crystalline - which in 1.0 had no real purpose or mission, though this will be changing in ARR.  How Eva will fare in-character as a character that was designed to be an advisor in the role of a leader will be interesting - and I think a lot of fun - to RP.  I have met a lot of wonderful RPers with varying styles and techniques and preferences, and it has been a lot of fun so far, and looking forward to more!

While the background may seem daunting to some, please understand that I very seldom hold any grand expectations for other RPers.  I have said before a number of times that I would RP with most anyone.  While I can be somewhat opinionated at times, I am tolerant and patient and love to hear other RPers talk about their characters, ideas for characters, event plans, and really just about anything pertaining to RP in FFXIV.

I'm happy to mentor or help mentor anyone who would like to talk about RP and their/our characters.  I do invest a lot of time and energy in establishing backstory, history, and plausible motivations for character behavior, though I admit some of this happens on the fly as well.  I have strong opinions about the use of healing (both magical and mundane methods), as I do about the game's theological system.

I do not possess the "alt-itis" that some RPers have.  I have very seldom played more than one character in any game-type environment, investing all my energy into one character and making her as realistic and plausible.  She embodies various strengths and weaknesses that I feel make her somewhat unique.

I also prefer to RP in-game in a "realistic" manner rather than conveying character thoughts or feelings through emotes.  I have always favored using facial expressions, emotes, and the character's words herself to convey her thoughts and feelings.

The type of RPer who might be interested in having me as a mentor might be anyone regarded as a healer, anyone spiritual in nature, any duskwight elezen (though I admit Eva is RPed somewhat as an exception to the stereotype), or anyone who invests a lot of time into one character and values complexity, complication, realism, and "grit" - or that some stories do not always have a happy ending and dealing with loss, trauma, heartache, and betrayal is a very real part of life.

I should also mention that I was endgame oriented in FFXI and was never one of those RPers that didn't understand how to play the game.  I was a dragoon with a fully upgraded relic weapon, a good assortment of gear (I did not participate in /every/ facet of endgame), and usually led DD parses (yes as a loldrg, and prior to relic upgrade) and things like that.  While I don't think I will be as crazy about the endgame scene this go-round, I do mean to take that facet of the game seriously as well.  Though my primary reason for being here is - as it was in FFXI - for the RP.  Endgame will always take a back seat to that, for me at least.

I'm not sure what else I can add, and this has become long enough that I feel it best to put under a spoiler tag, but do feel free to send me a PM if you have any questions or would be interested in being mentored.