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A bump to this, as the character has been somewhat rewritten, and some might find this new Red more interesting.

Well things certainly have changed since I originally posted this. Both in life and how Rhosyn has developed as a character. I had been wanting to tweak things about Red for awhile and while brainstorming I came across a song I really liked and I honestly thought would more realistically fit a lone traveler for thirty-something years. The short of it is: it's hard to survive without doing some bad things sometimes. And those things can change a person. Major changes: Alignment shift from chaotic good to neutral evil. Yes a very drastic change but one I think could be more fun to RP and seems reasonable to me with the background I imagine as fairly realistic. My own personal real life schedule; I'm working nights for the next couple months and as such an mostly around during degen vampire hours. I remain free at basically any time on weekends still. And I only work half days Th and F (home around 6 PM CDT). Ah but who is the bun, I hear you asking? Behold: Rhosyn Ysgarlad I've made his history quite vague compared to the original write-up as I kinda want the why of it all to be more of a mystery and RP discovered. But some things to note: Native Dalmascan, and Veena. More familiar with the northern regions of the nation as well as other Veena tribes, despite his living there being rather short. Red has traveled far and wide across Ilsabard and Othard as a Garlean "citizen." As well as brief forays into Hingashi and Thavnair. He is relatively new to Eorzea, but if roughly familiar with the broad strokes of the realm. High aether reserves. Very noticeable to those who are sensitive in the aether of others'. Nothing of it is out of sorts, and it's not super abnormal, but he's definitely quite the aether battery. Rare Info, ask me first: He learned Red Magic from a resistance cell in Ala Mhigo a few years before the liberation. Said cell was discovered and murdered by the Empire. How Red survived, or where he was at the time is unknown. But those from the area during that time might recognize him. If you've gotten this far and are interested, let me provide a writing sample. I have permission to share this, and I like to as I feel it's a very good scene. It is from the character that used to be -- before Rhosyn took his place. It's a fairly sad scene. Also I'm pretty sure I did this on my phone from bed late at night a few years ago. Writing/RP Sample Either leave a post here or a DM here or if you see me in game poke me there as well! If, alas, none of those work for you then my Discord is fine but I do prefer to touch base elsewhere first. Aquizit#4130 Thank you for taking the time in checking this out! Hope to hear from interested parties soon.

DON'T SCREW IT UP AGAIN BALMUNG. :^)

So really all this is doing is screwing over the people in their own time zone because those in Eastern/Central will be able to get home and log in before others and still afk out using the work around. Or the people that get home after that but still have things to do can just do it again. I think it'll help some, but in the grand scheme of things it may do very little. Time will tell, I guess. I think just based on the nature of time zones anyway that this would always be the case unless they did the reset at like 5PM EDT, which I feel would be a bad idea.

Looks like today's (and possibly all future occurrences of this) will be happening at Noon PDT.

It's a good solution for Balmung. But the rest of the Data Center is livid because EVERYONE has to suffer for it. So it's normal Balmung hate x10000 right now.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/263f9a10fe534e8c93e43d08fde73eaba1c52976 Because SE's preferred solution is a rusty hatchet.

The guy who plays Marluxia (Pink hair, not the redhead), I think it's Kieth Ferguson. That is Tenrilaux's voice, definitely.

Ok so I'm a huge fan of music in terms of ambience, tone, and mood setting, and I use it a lot in my writing when it can be more of a multimedia sort of project. I also love character themes, whether for certain events or just leitmotifs or the like. A lot of us probably do have at least one, if not multiple musical themes for our characters that fit their personalities or histories. The challenge I propose is -- what if something happened just a little bit differently to your character? What if instead of a specific life event occurring, the coin flipped and Fate decided on a different outcome? How would it effect the feel and emotion of their themes today? Example for Tenrilaux here. He's pretty jaded and cynical and has a more serious and darker look upon things. I reflect that in his general theme with the song I have in his wiki (which I recently remade which is why the song is so darn new). However as I was going through Civ 6 music, I stumbled upon Greece's industrial era theme, and that was when this thought occurred to me. It would fit Ten greatly -- IF he were just a bit more heroic. If some of the stuff that happened to him in Ishgard played out just a tiny bit differently. So as I said the normal theme is in the wiki so I won't like it here again, but if he were just that little bit more ... pleasant, he could have easily sounded like this. https://youtu.be/-T3t2LdCEBw?t=2m34s Anyway I thought this could be a fun little character expression challenge. EDIT: I didn't really want this stupid video to embed because it's not starting at the section I want it to it's just starting from the beginning. x_x The section I want is at 2:34

I did see it, but it seemed... I dunno. Bardy? Or rather, an entertainment troupe or the like isn't really Ollie's scene? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Oliver grew up hearing the tales of the adventurers that came to serve after the Garlean invasion, and during the moons before the Calamity. For him, it's a call to do something great. Perhaps not to the levels of glory that the adventurers of old have, or of the fabled few heard talked about in the current day. But he wants to help as much as he can, in his own small way.

I had always figured that a normal dragoon was just like ... an arm of the Ishgardian military, but only really the WoL and Estinien (being Azure Dragoons) were special. I mean hell a PC even trains a new dragoon in the 50-60 quest line so... But I guess it also makes sense since if Dragoons are able to tap into their inner dragon (definitely an Ishgardian thing, what with the blood of dragons and all), maybe only the special few could be chosen to make sure they could control themselves and not succumb. Unless I'm misremembering, it's been over a year since I did those quests and how that whole blood thing was presented. It's either all Ishgardians have it within them, or it's a pure consumption thing like the heretics. I forget exactly.

I didn't happen to see anything in either the Linkshell or Free Company directory, so I will fish here! At the start, I want Ollie's character to revolve more around him being Gridanian, so I figure this is a good place to start. I think I'm more looking for just a LS at first so if anyone knows of one I'd be highly interested!

Yeah I'm doing that now. Well, the making connections thing. There's no Gridanian-based/centered advertisement for either LS or FC. At least that I noticed sometimes I'm just blind I guess. But yes thank you and hello! (By which I mean I should be posting in making connections but am busy reading other things like the RIP DRG thread.)

Good morning/afternoon/evening! I'm Ollie, a sorta veteran on Balmung. Or rather, I've been playing on it for awhile on another character. However, I grew tired of him and made a new guy -- this guy. So hello and well met and uh what's an Eorzean way to say hello. I dunno, but I assume it involves the words "must needs." So who is Ollie? He is a smol youngish Midlander from Gridania. He's fairly new at adventuring in general, but is eager to try and help. That's about all I got I have spent most of my energy leveling and not on his backstory much. It's usually something I kinda make up on the fly anyway, and just remember for the future. He's currently circleless. As in he has no social/adventuring group just yet. No linkshell, no Free Company. I hope for that to change in the nearish future. But for now, hello!