Putting this behind a spoiler because kind of longCendrillonne (aka 'Braids') is clanless, with whatever stigma that has. Her mother left her clan long before she was born, wanting to see the world. The arguments over this desire to see the world resulted in not being able to go back. Braids doesn't know the details. Hell, until she wandered out of her cave she wasn't really aware that she was supposed to have a clan in the first place.

Her mother went to Ala Mhigo seeking her fortune. Found it, for a while. Got married, had one kid. In a display of spectacular timing, she managed to go into labour with her second child while she, her husband and her firstborn were trying to flee their burning home. Braids was named for this incident (Cendrillon means 'little ashes'. I added an 'ne' to fit naming conventions) because the only thing her father managed to say to her before he was separated from them was laughing about his 'ash girl'.

Her mother had had quite enough of big cities and seeing the world. Unable to go back to her clan, they instead settled into a cave on the outskirts of what would become Little Ala Mhigo. And for a long, long time, Braids never left this area. The bitterness of the Ala Mhigan refugees and her mother's own belief that she should have never left the safety of her clan's cave left her content to stay in her cave, despite the fact that there were really no children her age. They weren't well off - none of the refugees ever were. Eventually her older sibling came of age and, despite their mother's warnings, left for the city themselves to find work. They sent money back home and things started improving. They had money. They could afford proper meals rather than just whatever food they could scramble together, as well as a basic education for Braids. For a few years, things got better and better. Braids never wanted to leave Little Ala Mhigo, but she was developing skills and maybe one day she could make it a better place.

And then Bahamut decided to throw a big hissyfit. RUDE. Her mother died, a lot of people in Little Ala Mhigo were hurt and needed help and she forgot her sibling.

You'll notice I've been very vague about sibling. The reason for this is that they're a friend's abandoned V1 character, and so became a Warrior of Light during the Bahamut mess. She can't remember a thing about them. Incidentally, this is also why I'm using a nickname instead of a family name. Since she shared a family name with her sibling, that's gone too. It's something like reverse heroic amnesia - instead of the hero forgetting everything, she's gone and forgotten the hero.

There's nothing like the end of an era and a little bit of a calamity to change one's outlook and seeing all of the pain that Bahamut caused, as well as the knowledge that her forgotten sibling had become a Warrior of Light, was enough to change Braids. Almost overnight she changed from a mousy seamstress with a great fear of the outside and a bitter streak a mile wide into a kind and spirited young woman who wanted nothing more than to make things easier for everyone and live up to what her forgotten sibling achieved.

She left eventually, because it's hard to make a living on good cheer alone and the cities had work. She headed to Gridania first, which turned out to be something of a poor idea. Nobody ever got around to warning her that Wildwood elezen aren't too fond of Duskwight. It was upsetting. She's still very, very wary of most Wildwood elezen. Aside from that, though, seeing the world has been THE MOST EXCITING THING TO EVER HAPPEN EVER. She's only become more cheerful, more spirited, more confident and more determined to make everyone happy as she's continued her travels. At some undefined point she joined what will eventually be the FC some friends are forming, a group of performers. She's significantly more enthusiastic about being an actress than she is good at it, but she's been travelling with them for a while and generally plays the big bad guys in their plays. Despite the fact that she's a scrawny blue idiot in a costume three sizes too big, nobody else is quite ridiculous enough to storm out on stage and yell I WILL KNOCK YOU ALL DOWN totally unironically. Eventually she wants to find her lost sibling, but that's pretty much in the same way that Ash Ketchum wants to be a pokemon master. Never happening (largely because I'm probably playing her on a non-legacy server so, you know. they won't actually exist).