GliocaGlioca started out as a character for me a long time ago.  I originally pulled her concept from another game I played when I was first starting out in MMO's.  She was a goddess who was defined in the non-player game lore with one sentence about her.  I loved the idea, but I wanted to give her life and depth and story.  So I jerked her out of her setting, trashed the world she'd been on (in a literal sense in her AU), and ended up transplanting her into a number of settings since then.  I've run her in other MMO's, in forum based Final Fantasy RPs, she's been in several D&D campaigns as both a normal player character and very powerful NPC.  I've had her since roughly late 2000ish, and she's been a blast to develop.  The last five years or so of play have really shaped her, though.

ICly, she's a little weird, because I have two versions of her I run.  In private, and with friends who are okay with that kind of thing, she's a very powerful entity who basically got into the world through the Void, and a trip in the Lifestream.  I originally had this set up as her main idea, but after seeing the walk people reacted negatively to the concept of any kind of world-traveling character, I shelved this back in a corner as something to play only in private, and to keep as character notes to add to her several notebooks long history.

Instead, the Glioca presented to the public is the second one, which I crafted after I'd been playing the game for about six months (most of that spent in PvE content).  I usually play her as an elven or fae type race, going with human only if the models of the first two races are so bad I can't stand them.  That gave me the springboard of making her an Elezen.  Most of what I'd read from Elezen directed me to them being from the Shroud.  Gridania, Elezen. 

I wanted her backstory to be sufficiently gloomy (she's always had a rough past, in every incarnation), and the FF world is pretty war-torn, so one part of her backstory, her father's death, was easily explained.  For her mother, I gave her something that would give her a motivation into Conjury, as she was always a healer: her mother died of a wasting sickness. 

Once I had these springboards, I filled in tidbits of her history as she developed, leaving some 'several year' gaps so I could fill in things as lore became more known, and as she developed naturally through RP, giving the character a chance to tell me her own story, as opposed to me just writing the story for her.  I know that sounds a little odd, but that was the general idea of her.

LivianaLiviana was a concept that was as easy as could be to put together.  I wanted a girl who had ties to Gridania and Ul'dah, who was very new and fresh off the wagon, as it were.  I wanted her to be idealistic, and upbeat, optimistic and eager to learn everything.  I basically wanted the exact opposite of Glioca, for those times when I really just wanted to relax.  I also wanted a much more easily lore-immersed character, one without ties to anything else, and any former stories or characters I'd created.  

So I took a girl who was born in Ul'dah, returned her to her father's family home in Gridania, and had her grow up there until the Calamity wrecked it all, and took two of her family members.  Unlike Glioca, who is worn down by time, Livi accepts that even though her family is gone, she's not alone, and she's got a life to live, so she's moving forward constantly.

Glioca's also very adept at fighting, so I wanted Liviana to be very bad at it.  She's just now gotten to the point where Marmots don't constantly kick her butt, but she's still not very adept, and comes home bruised and hurting more often than she does triumphant and unmarked.  She wants to be an adventurer some day, she listened to the stories of adventurers in the Carline Canopy, but alas, those days are very out of reach for her right now.  She's probably going to be a Pugilist who can't do much of anything for a very long time.

That said, I'm having a ton of fun with her.