I've been on Balmung for a little over a month on my alternate character Leonnaux Altoix (RPC page linked there), I figure it's about time I start looking for some connections for him since I'm pretty much done grasping at his character and trying to get a feel for him.
So, to save any readers of this thread the trouble of reading through my whole RPC page, to sum up Leon in a paragraph: he's a bit self-absorbed and obsessive in his studies. After coming to the conclusion that he had been afflicted with some mysterious 'aether sickness' (read: Echo), he took up arcanima and alchemy in thus-far vain attempts to study it more closely and left his family in the Shroud because they were too worried about his well-being (and went about it in all the wrong ways), so now he's plunked himself down in Ul'dah in an attempt to find some peace and quiet while he tries to get to the bottom of his predicament.
(Also he's a Duskwight that I purposefully designed to at least somewhat-pass as Wildwood. "Attempts" to fool people IC with it has been an astounding success and is definitely something I'd love to play with.)
Connections I'm looking for are pretty vague and general. Mostly, I want to meet people who wanna take playing with my character for a spin. I don't have any particular plotlines in mind, but I'd love to see where things take me in regards to Leon as a character. However, because of how... Self-absorbed and obsessive Leon is, it's safe to say that I'm only looking for platonic connections for now. Following are just some ideas in regards to connections that would be nice to have, but aren't necessarily required for anything I wanna do in particular, since I'm so new to this character and the server that I only have the vaguest idea where I wanna go with him overarching plot-wise.
And those are just some ideas outside of the usual friends/allies/rivals/enemies paradigm, all of which are ties I'd definitely be willing to roll with since you know the vanilla relationships are amazing in general anyways.
I'm also looking for an FC! I'm a member of one at the moment, but I want to kind of shop around to see if there's any other particular one that fits my character better since I joined my current one primarily because it has a few of my friends in it and it's easier to get my feet wet into things when I'm with friends, but I'm definitely interested in branching out some more so I was planning on FC hopping a bit before settling one one to stick with hopefully-permanently. Also, linkshells.
Whew, that was a mouthful. Thanks for reading! That's basically it; hope I can find some neat contacts for my dumb Duskwight!!
So, to save any readers of this thread the trouble of reading through my whole RPC page, to sum up Leon in a paragraph: he's a bit self-absorbed and obsessive in his studies. After coming to the conclusion that he had been afflicted with some mysterious 'aether sickness' (read: Echo), he took up arcanima and alchemy in thus-far vain attempts to study it more closely and left his family in the Shroud because they were too worried about his well-being (and went about it in all the wrong ways), so now he's plunked himself down in Ul'dah in an attempt to find some peace and quiet while he tries to get to the bottom of his predicament.
(Also he's a Duskwight that I purposefully designed to at least somewhat-pass as Wildwood. "Attempts" to fool people IC with it has been an astounding success and is definitely something I'd love to play with.)
Connections I'm looking for are pretty vague and general. Mostly, I want to meet people who wanna take playing with my character for a spin. I don't have any particular plotlines in mind, but I'd love to see where things take me in regards to Leon as a character. However, because of how... Self-absorbed and obsessive Leon is, it's safe to say that I'm only looking for platonic connections for now. Following are just some ideas in regards to connections that would be nice to have, but aren't necessarily required for anything I wanna do in particular, since I'm so new to this character and the server that I only have the vaguest idea where I wanna go with him overarching plot-wise.
- Roommates? In my head, Leon doesn't have any sort of really permanent employment since he kind of just absorbs information like a sponge and therefore taught himself a lot of what he knows, but obviously since he's living in Ul'dah he probably would be living on the street if he couldn't find someone who was willing to put up with him. I mean, he's capable and willing of doing menial jobs if it'll earn him some money... But he considers it a better deal if he can dedicate as much of his time as possible to studying rather than like, cleaning the streets or something.
- Study partners? As potentially-annoyingly self-absorbed as Leon is, he's also rather excitable when it comes to studying and, as single-minded as he is, he occasionally decides to toy with things outside of his interests. He enjoys hearing others' theories and findings -- especially if they have to do with aether in any capacity -- and, well... If you got him going about his own findings and studies that the possibility of getting him to shut up is slim.
- Unwitting (or witting, that's cool too) assistant? Probably requires some pre-establishing, but honestly Leon considers anyone who hangs around him often enough to be more of an assistant than a friend. It's a bad habit.
And those are just some ideas outside of the usual friends/allies/rivals/enemies paradigm, all of which are ties I'd definitely be willing to roll with since you know the vanilla relationships are amazing in general anyways.
I'm also looking for an FC! I'm a member of one at the moment, but I want to kind of shop around to see if there's any other particular one that fits my character better since I joined my current one primarily because it has a few of my friends in it and it's easier to get my feet wet into things when I'm with friends, but I'm definitely interested in branching out some more so I was planning on FC hopping a bit before settling one one to stick with hopefully-permanently. Also, linkshells.
- The FC/LS has to be friendly OOC! This isn't really an issue but I like to be able to approach and strike up conversations OOC even when doing IC stuff currently. I'd like an FC with a base community that's at the very least LGBT-friendly and doesn't fling slurs around. Mostly this is just here because I've had some Experiences with FCs on my primary server, and I'd rather not repeat them because I wanna feel comfortable when I RP with people.
- The FC/LS has to be RP-oriented! I like OOC linkshells so long as they give me a chance to make/plan some RP stuff, but some IC linkshells are greatly appreciated. Insofar as FCs go this is kind of a given I think, and not everything has to be tooootally IC with the FC chat and all, but I'd like RP to be the primary focus of it since I don't plan on doing any raiding with Leon on Balmung. Raiding is kinda a Perc-only thing. I'm just too lazy to gear Leon up when I hit 60; ain't no one got time for TWO lore grinds...
- I'd prefer an environment that Leon fit into IC.
- And of course since my intention is to shop around for FCs and then decide which one I wanna stick with, I'd really appreciate FCs that are okay with me FC hopping and then potentially coming back. Being chill about that is a great bonus.
Whew, that was a mouthful. Thanks for reading! That's basically it; hope I can find some neat contacts for my dumb Duskwight!!