Ryanti

"Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for." ~ Bryant H. McGill

I'm afraid my response will be short because I'm tired, but I think I'll get the point across. There's basically two different kinds of paths you can take. You can either immerse yourself into the lore of the more tribal side of Miqo'te given by Square Enix, or you could be a city-dweller. Someone whom is distant to a tribe, left, or simply was never part of one to begin with. I understand there's a lot of people on this thread already that are talking about how the Miqo'te tribes aren't savage people. I think that's more of a OOC issue then an IC one. They aren't savages. They actually remind me more of Native Americans then anything. However, it will not stop some characters from seeing them as such from a IC perspective. Specifically, characters with influenced or skewed views. My character does not like the tribal side of the culture, for example. Then again, I made my character have a Hyur father and be in a Hyur family with a Hyur name and a Miqo'te mother from Garlemold. In the least likely position to appreciate the tribal culture of his cat half. The perspectives are diverse; as diverse as people are IRL, really. There are people rp'ing tribal Miqo'te as not understanding or supporting technology and science and etc., and there are some well-educated, very intelligent tribalesque Miqo'tes too here in the RPC. It's all over the board. Base your roleplay on what you want to roleplay at first, and see what you can work with in the lore to create something that is comfortable for yourself to fill your shoes in.

Ryanti's father, the War Hero Lorenthian Veanysus. He is Ryanti's role model (A little too muchly): So who gave him that scar? Hmmm... And in war garb: He is actually my alt. He is retired from active service but he still ventures ever so often. If you keep looking, maybe you'll see him! I'm sure you'll see his mother, too. Aria, at times. :thumbsup:

I just want the damn coat.

1.0 What Ryanti wished he looked like: 2.0 What Ryanti ACTUALLY looks like: Poor Ryanti.

I spent a whole entire school week fishing moat carp in XI to get a Haubergeon early for the SAM class. An entire week. From 3:30 PM to 11:00 PM. EVERY DAY. I never even leveled high enough to wear it. :dazed: NEVER AGAIN.

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Couldn't of said it better myself, but I think I'll add to this some. When I was younger, I had a very close community of online friends that I could be myself around. That shared in my interest in telling stories, and that didn't judge me about telling them my way. That loved me for who I was, and not for trying to be perfect, or as likable as possible. That made me smile, even during the darkest days. That kept me going, even when I felt like I couldn't trudge anymore. As life, being cruel, does sometimes, they all moved on with their lives, slowly. One by one. Until I was left on my own. I'm not sure if everyone would understand the feeling of sitting there at night, completely alone, with no one to talk to. About the things you like. About the things you feel like talking about. About what you need to get off your chest, or.. even so much as just wanting a hug. The RPC has done something for me that no one has done in years. Made me feel like I belong somewhere. For a person who never had a place to rest in life except for those few fleeting moments, that's something wonderful and something that I value greatly. It's beyond me feeling like, oh I get along with these, or, oh, I can talk to these people.. it feels like home. For people who never have that kind of thing in their lives, it means the world to people like us... So thank you, RPC. For taking me in. For making me feel like I belong. For giving me a home.

I have to say, I've really warmed up to this thread, and I appreciate that there are people out there that enjoy reading about how characters came to be, and the story of the process. M character, Ryanti Veanysus, was born around the year of 2010. The first name, Ryanti, was actually the middle name of a character I created for Star Wars: The Old Republic. The name of that character was Bain Ryanti Noronel and the name Ryanti itself was his real name, Bain being the name he would go by, because his presence around others normally spelled doom for their fates considering that he was a Sith. When it came time for Final Fantasy XIV to come around, I was already an individual who had my neck deep into JRPG's. Ever since Tales of Symphonia in 2004, I had been immersing myself in more of the JRPG philosophies of world building, and spent many late nights studying what makes a JRPG wonderful. I became inspired by the natural idealistic beauty of the words, and also with sophisticated names. The word Veanysus came from a combination of things. There was a character at the time whom I had a thing for, particularly in the new Star Ocean game that had released in 2009. This game was called Star Ocean: The Last Hope. In that game, there is a character by the name of Myuria Tionysus. Myuria Tionysus was a very capable woman who walked with a charismatic stride, and seemed to be perfect on the outside, but in truth had many faults and challenges battling her on the inside. I realized that I wanted to make Ryanti's surname as a tribute to that wonderful game, but at the same time, I wanted to change that last name into a more romantic sounding tone. I took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance as well as romantic space fantasy. Quite odd inspirations for a pseudo-medieval world, but, the result, Veanysus, I believed was a unique one. I made him a Hyur Midlander, with white hair, and cyan eyes. I went for the bishounen look, because I had come to admire the idealistic, ethereal storytelling atmospheric practices of the games and anime I had watched. I decided that he needed to look angelic above all else. The first ideas I had for him were quite primitive and impromptu at first. I never really got that deep into roleplay in FFXIV 1.0. The game turned out to be very disappointing, so I decided to take the Ryanti concept elsewhere. Enter TERA. Upon garnering interest in that game, I completely redesigned Ryanti's story to fit the universe of TERA. In TERA, Ryanti was a high elf male, who's father was lost in the great war that came before the present time of that game, and was forced to grow up before most boys did in order to succeed where his father had failed. I won't speak much of it, as I wish to erase that recorded story I did in TERA. Although I did write a few short stories about it. However, TERA's community made me leave only after a few months. It was then that I realized that my internet pseudonym, which had previously been something else, was now becoming Ryanti, because of old friends leaving, and new friends being made. Ryanti Veanysus were two names I had came up with by the concurrences of my own mind, unlike other names I had came up with. Therefore, it began to become my own internet pseudonym. For a while, that was its purpose. When Final Fantasy 2.0 was relieved, I waited a few months before coming back here. When I did, I sat down, and figured out how to redesign Ryanti completely again. I realized I wanted to keep that aura of capableness that Myuria Tionysus from Star Ocean had. However, I wanted him to be defined by his weaknesses, not his strengths. I wanted him to radiate a feeling of vulnerability and struggle, but keep the sensations of beauty and gracefulness. I felt like I needed a tough young man, but I couldn't make him gritty. I felt like I needed a strong soul, but I couldn't make him cold. I felt like I needed him to be heroic, but I couldn't make him sure of himself. I thought back to the stories and trials and tribulations that I valued immensely in the past. Stories that stayed with me in my heart for many years. For Ryanti's personality, I ended up using the bishounen prince archetype. I combined the personality of Prince Arslan from the Heroic Legend of Arslan, Ciel Phantomhive from Black Butler, and inspirations from the original characters I am working on in my own original world. I ended up adding some aspects of myself in there as well, in order for me to relate to him to a certain degree, so that I would find it easier to suspend disbelief, and of course, to empathize with him. I wanted him to have a beautifully flawed inside, and define his strengths through his perceived weaknesses, in order to place emphasis on the wonder of being 'human'. Though of course, as you can see, Ryanti isn't human. __ For his backstory, I wanted to be a male Miqo'te for the sole sake of OOC preference. As I have waited, and waited, and waited, in MMO's for years, in order to be able to play a race similar to the Miqo'te. With a few animistic features, but mostly humanoid. FFXI didn't allow it, so eleven years later, I couldn't resist. However, I did not desire to RP him from the culture of Miqo'te. I wanted him to possess the affinity and the aura of man. (AKA Hyur). So I decided to make him a Miqo'te halfbreed, with his father being a Hyur. I wanted to RP a perspective from the haves, and I wanted most of Ryanti's suffering to have to deal with social life and self-actualization, so I made his family wealthy in a capitalistic sense. I wanted to put pressure on him to live up to his family name, so I made his father a War Hero, and an extremely successful man in life, that refused to show weakness in front of his son, and that who's 'perfect father' aura during the rare times he was home that he showcased to his son backfired into his son believing him to be perfect. That living up to him would be a nightmare. I wanted him to despise the side of himself that made him feel like an animal. I wanted him to feel terrible about his mixed blood. I wanted him to frown upon the Miqo'te's tribal culture, as well as him being half-blooded with them. I gave him a ton of depth by diving deep into his personal life through his childhood, and involved nearly most of his backstory to be very close to psychologically ripping him apart. To define who he is in on the inside without being so blunt about it. I made him a complicated, conflicted person by having multiple opinions about single situations. I made him so that his opinions are not iron clad, and that his values and views would forever be moldable by the world around him, which he looks at in a very rose-tinted perspective because he has had such a sheltered life. I wanted him to have a sheltered life because I wanted a character who had his own perception of the world that would make sense to others if they had an open mind. I wanted a kid who spent his hours looking up in the stars, or balancing himself on a fence post while the rest of the world stared at him with a weird look. I wanted somebody who would walk their own path in perspective and by doing so, I would be able to create something interesting out of the way he behaves. I didn't want him to be grounded. So fast forward to how, and you have Ryanti Veanysus. :thumbsup: Another product of my passion for writing.

You better not cut it down with me. :thumbsup: Three/four semesters left in college. I remember when I was the 12 year old keeping up with the 35 year olds. I was able to type like this while very young because my pride wouldn't let me be worse then the others were. I was a second-in-command of a RP guild in SWG at 12. Though I told no one my age until after it disbanded.

Beautiful. His gaze and his hair, oh my goodness. The facial expression certainly reflects a miffed mood. Poor Ryanti. I love, cherish, and respect that you did this for me, Xenedra. Thank you. :love:

I really hoped that this topic wouldn't show up in, of all places, a Final Fantasy community. One of the reasons why I'm into Final Fantasy is to get away with the obsessive fascination the world currently has with grittiness and dystopian mindsets. I have a pretty character. Big whoop. Mostly it has to do with his heritage, and the fact that he's lavish, and has not been through much physical activity in his life up to this point. I assume that kind of bishonen prettiness is more accepted here in a franchise that is Japanese and includes the cultural practices of romantic bishonenism and vibrancy. For me, it really has to do with preferences in taste and presentation. Console JRPG's, to me at least, have always been more romantic, idealistic, and vibrant then their western counterparts. Even if 'gritty' things happen in a 'harsh' environment, the elements of the presentation is the difference. Yes, Eorzea is a harsh world, and yes, it's a dirty world, but it's also a romantic and idealistic world. It's Final Fantasy. There are differences in the presentation and actions and events and even dialogue itself. Just how there are differences between JRPG's and WRPG's in presentation. For me, it fits my tastes. I have always been fascinated by romanticized worlds. For me, they provide a stronger sense of escapism then stories that try to keep to realism. Sure, it might sound ridiculous for someone grounded to Earth, but one has to realize that this game has different atheistic tastes then those hour-long HBO series. I gravitate to these aesthetic tastes because I don't get it anywhere else. I don't get it on TV, I don't get it IRL, I don't get it in pop culture. I get it in anime, and I get it in JRPG's. It's just my thing. It's what I like. It's what I prefer. It's what suits me. People who are needing more grittiness here can find their grittiness and ugliness in every other kind of entertainment medium they could possibly think of, especially here in the States. Just leave me a corner where I can live in a world where the fantasy element is ramped up to the point of idealism. It's what I like. And thank goodness there is a medium out there that suits what I prefer characters/plots/a world to be presented like. Final Fantasy and JRPG's in general have always been prettier. Always been more theatrical and poetic. I got the same kind of praise for making a pretty character in Star Wars during my time in TOR that people probably get here for making gritty characters in Final Fantasy. It's just something more different then expected, really. This always ends up being brought up in one way to another when it comes to Eastern tastes.. 'Why the pretty?' 'Why the romantic' 'Why the-...'x'' ... honestly, sometimes it hurts my feelings because it makes me feel like the kind of imagination I have in my head and what worlds I prefer to sink myself into are frowned upon. Even in a place like this I see it's inescapable. But please just understand that there are people out there that prefer it this way. Like I said before, it's a matter of preferences and artistic tastes. It's on 'the other side of the fence', and grittiness as a result of the harsh world is a statement made based on reasoning in the real world.. fantasy has nothing to do with the real world..

Who's that good lookin' guy?

It was going to be one of my main sources, as I was planning on it since I love the minigame. Oh well, alchemy and weapons shit it is. It will definitely sound like I will be fishing less. And I'd like to see the logic behind that decision. Meh.

I will see if I can make it. However, I have to go to a Liberty Day Festival later in the day so I will only be there for a hour or so. Since there's really no way Ryanti can be in that location canon-wise yet, it will probably be non-canon, so it'll be a good time for me to get some practice in.

Character music is an interesting subject. I have always been fascinated with the idea of having a soundtrack to roleplay to. Going to my roots, which was and still is original story IM group roleplay and 1v1 roleplay, soundtracks did not just help build my writing, but also defined it. I recognized the value that certain musical styles and implications can have on setting the mood of a story, a personality of a character, or defining a horizon. For me, music is just as much important to providing the presentation of the story as the actual words being used. I would of typed out a lot more about my thoughts concerning music and roleplay, but I'm very tired! lol. So I'll just leave a few songs here and my philosophy behind them. First, a straight up theme song.

First of all, thank you! :love: Secondly, yeah.. that's pretty much a prime example of what one of Ryanti's pet peeves are. I would take your character first seeing the city as a prime example of what he detests about Miqo'tes. He would think "You don't get it, your brain is incompetent of thinking beyond feeding and pissing and I can't stand having half the blood of them in me!" However, if he met a more... civil Miqo'te, or an intellectual Miqo'te with tribal beliefs that was yet, in his eyes, fully educated (for example: Manari Onai) he's a lot more ...curious. And more of a pleasant person. You could say he is a scientifically and emotionally curious individual. He has a fascination for the unknown.

Ryanti was born in the upper class society of Ul'Dah, where there were certain kinds of procedures and traditions that you had to follow. He's a halfbreed, his father being a Midlander Hyur. His father was Ryanti's role model, considering that he was a war hero in the Immortal Flames, and always seemed to be away when he needed him most. He loves his mother, but feels like he can't relate to her. Like he can't connect to her. He never liked the fact that he wasn't born a full blooded race. He never liked the fact that he had Miqo'te ears and a Miqo'te tail. He has a fascination and a determination to be like his dad. He looks like his dad, except for the Miqo'te racial traits. But that gets to him. He got bullied when he was younger because of it. Ryanti believes that all races are able to live with one another alright, but he also believes that all races behave differently, and think differently. That's why he believes they have such different cultures, that evolution is driving them to different places. Ryanti feels like he can't completely relate to Hyur culture and mannerisms because of his Miqo'te side, and he believes that prevents him from embracing the culture he was raised around. Even though, from the outside looking in, he's extremely familiar with urban culture. He would never want to be with his Miqo'te 'origin' culture. He feels like he is a refined individual, and somebody whom believes in progress and technology and dreaming for the future. He does not like anything tribal. He feels disgusted with himself for having that 'side of him' in his DNA. He feels polluted and impure because he's a half breed. He would of preferred being a pure blooded Miqo'te, or especially a pure blooded Hyur. A pure blooded anything. He's not, so it gets to him. He's not so much disgusted with tribal Miqo'te as he is.. disappointed. He feels like their achievements pale compared to the deeds of men. That they are far behind. But he also wants to be proven wrong, so that he could feel better about that side of himself. Hope that makes sense.

I'm going to post some myself. Some screens of the new Thanalan will do! (Sorry for the UI, I only figured out scroll lock later on)

Nice RP'ing with you too, Arky. I see some arr pee for us in the future. And it was AWESOME what happened in the last hour on that server. Us two RP'ing attracted the ENTIRE CITY! The whole pub was in smoke with emote posts! Such a pleasant thing to realize that so many people were ignorant of a RP community in this game and delighted to hear we exist!

Post your screenshots of Phase 3 here! Remember, screenshots ONLY. Video is NOT allowed under NDA!

This initial choice doesn't matter because Balmung will be made available in the weekend after, thus giving us access to our characters. Once the Legacy server is reopened, weren't we going to move back to Balmung? Is there proof of that? I assume that server list will be the same for the entirety of Phase 3. If that is true, the things will be complicated this week.. really complicated. For everyone, not just us. Because that means all Legacy characters will have to switch and it'll be back to level 1 again for non-Legacy therefore slowing a bunch of people down from higher level content which is.. counterproductive. So I actually hope they don't do that. Assuming Kylin is correct, Balmung isn't open yet, hence why the RPC is choosing a server just for this week. That's... Really stupid. :dazed: I've come to expect such from Square. Since my 1.0 character will be my alt I guess this entire weekend for me will be all-for-nothing.

This initial choice doesn't matter because Balmung will be made available in the weekend after, thus giving us access to our characters. Once the Legacy server is reopened, weren't we going to move back to Balmung? Is there proof of that? I assume that server list will be the same for the entirety of Phase 3. If that is true, the things will be complicated this week.. really complicated. For everyone, not just us. Because that means all Legacy characters will have to switch and it'll be back to level 1 again for non-Legacy therefore slowing a bunch of people down from higher level content which is.. counterproductive. So I actually hope they don't do that.

These are my thoughts that I'm just throwing out here to be digested. First of all, of course, any server we choose should be our server throughout Phase 3. It is probably best to be on a US recommended server, since EU servers may contain non-English speaking individuals such as French/German/Italian, etc which might hamper communications more then normal. And as far as I know, most Phase 3 beta testers in the RPC are US-based. Again, it's just my thoughts that I feel like projecting outwards.

Four Words: Draw distance. Green goop. ...EAT YOUR GREEN GOOP NOCTIS.