Mairead

Hi! I am very new to Final Fantasy 14 (and Final Fantasy in general), and to RP. I played for a little bit a while ago but am really now just starting to get into it. So far my highest class is 35. My main focus for adventuring is being a healer but I also very much like crafting. I was thinking to start to look for a FC. I was hoping to maybe find one kind of on the smaller side I could possibly grow with and who wouldn't mind having someone new to everything. Probably by now it would be hard to find one who is doing stuff way back at my level but that would be nice too. It would be nice to get into RP but probably nothing too deep right at first, something more social and lighthearted/fun to start. If you have any advice for me that would be awesome! You could reach me here or in game as Mairead Winterblue.

Thank you, that all makes a lot of sense! I did a little bit of peeking about white mages without spoiling things too much so I think I understand what you both are getting at. Since I have a good idea where I'm starting from, I think my plan will be to just start from these humble beginnings and be open minded, see where the ride takes me in the future.

This sounds really awesome. I'm very new here and would love to get on the waiting for invite list!

Ok. I started in Gridania as a conjurer and I really love it there! I'd much rather have a place of origin that's closer to that if possible. I wonder if there is a way to adapt things to make that work, or at least some reasonable excuse to have gone all the way over there from home. Maybe because I heard that's the place to be for healing type stuff?

Thank you and hi-5 gingers! I haven't gotten very far through the actual game yet so I'm not sure what happens in the main story. I have been trying to avoid stuff that would give that away as I read a lot of other things. I'm not sure how it will limit what I want to do, if at all. How do people usually relate the game's story to their character? I mean I'm sure it tells you a lot about how the world works so it would influence what you do, but at the same time I'm guessing it can't be used too literally. I mean if it was then you would have everyone who all had the exact same experiences. I don't know yet though. I guess my idea is to sort of start as someone who seems generally pretty normal but with a lot of potential (and maybe some unexplained stuff going on), and then eventually grow into the level of abilities that other players have. Would that work?

Hi! So I hope it's ok I stole borrowed this template because I liked it. The first thing to say is that I'm really new to the game (and Final Fantasy in general though it seems really cool). So basically, I have pretty much no idea what I'm doing yet though I'm trying really hard to read and learn stuff. Hopefully I picked an idea for a character that will actually let me have a good IC excuse for being pretty clueless about pretty much everything for now and help give some avenues for learning during RP itself. I could use some help and advice for some parts of my story. If you have any ideas that would be extremely awesome! Name: Mairead Winterblue Age: 18 Race: Hyur (midlander) Eyes: Light green Hair: Light red with some subtle blonde highlights Marital: Single Occupation: None yet. I plan for her to eventually become a white mage and also get into a some trade skills that fit her well. Personality: Mairead is a huge introvert. She is quiet and very soft spoken. When she is comfortable she can be very silly and sometimes even a little snarky in her quiet sort of way. With new people or even those she doesn't know well she can be very shy to approach them but is mostly capable of carrying on a conversation so long as the other person makes the first move. Aside from the shyness, which she wishes she could overcome better, she is generally happy with the way she is and never really wished she was a more outgoing person. She is caring and generous to a fault. She would give someone the shirt off her own back without a second thought, but that combined with her trusting (gullible) nature, innocence, and lack of life experience makes her extremely easy to take advantage of. Strengths: Loyal, Generous, Very intelligent, Quick learner, Passion and aptitude for healing Weaknesses: Shy, Naive, Inexperienced, Overly trusting, A little clumsy Physical Features: Mairead has a rather delicate appearance with red hair, green eyes, light skin, and freckles. She doesn't appear to have seen much hard labor but does not have any sort of noble or royal appearance either. She generally has a very modest and simple style giving the feel of someone of lower class. She has no scars, tattoos, or piercings aside form her ears. Family: All of her immediate family is alive and well, along with her extended family too for the most part. Father: Pard Mother: Sarah Siblings: Youngest child with two older brothers Connor and Wren Her Story: So I have a very general idea of a story but I don't have the specifics figured out yet. A lot of that is because I don't feel like I know enough yet so I was hoping to maybe get a little bit of help. This is sort of the basic idea. Mairead was born and raised on her family's farm in some rural place. I'm picturing a really sleepy little farming hamlet, the kind you would completely miss if you blinked as you traveled by. Also, it would be a place as untouched as reasonably possible by all of the recent stuff going on. I could really use some help figuring out where it makes sense for this place to be and maybe what it would be called. As the youngest and the only girl Mairead was perhaps a little bit babied compared to her older brothers. She mostly got away with not doing the harder farm work in order to focus on other things. She learned the basics of cooking and mending clothes from her mother, and fell in love with the idea of learning how to heal or treat sickness and injury. She would always volunteer to help the local healers in any way she could even if it was mostly running errands or doing unskilled tasks. Her family and the people around the village noticed as she grew up that Mairead was pretty smart. With her strong desire to learn how to heal and help others her family decided it would be best to send her off to the big city for a while to learn all the things that she could not in the tiny village. In her mind, and everyone else's, once she learned what she needed to know she would return home and share all of her wonderful fancy new learning with the village and maybe spend the rest of her life tending fevers and mending sprains. Amount of RP: Medium to heavy. I'm sort of new at it though so as much as I can manage. I will probably just do a lot of listening in for a while which fits perfectly for someone who is quiet and introverted. Views on RP combat and injuries: Ok to a point, I definitely don't want her getting killed or too seriously hurt right now. Mairead is not at all violent, or likely to provoke violence so I see it hardly ever coming up. At most it would probably be more like RP running away! Views on IC romance: I'm totally fine with it if it should happen. Views on lore: There is a lot and its kind of overwhelming!! I want to follow it as close as I can and I'm trying my best to learn. Since I have a character with an excuse to be pretty clueless for a while I feel like it should be fine to just not know things until they are learned (hopefully through RP with others).