(01-28-2015, 07:40 PM)Berrod Armstrong Wrote: ANYWAY. HIGHLANDERS. I'M CURIOUS. How do you roleplay your characters? Well-integrated into their respective pieces of Eorzea? Clinging to the ol' warrior tribe in the mountain ways? As pretty princesses? TELL ALL!Some how I missed this... its such a good question. Aya's background mixes several powerful influence. That of her Ala Mhigan birth and parentage is that which throughout her life she has done her best to resist. She has no interest in ending up like her parents, or so many other Ala Mhigans, wasting away their lives (in her pov) while pining for a past that cannot be reclaimed. Instead she looks toward the future, adapting to her environment as best she can. Because of this she considers Ishgard, where she was raised, her home and homeland. But, she cannot leave her Ala Mhigan birth or her time as a refugee behind. It has left its indelible mark upon her, no matter how much she tries to escape it. To quote from some of what I have written about her:
1) "The way of war required a manner of thinking so apart from herself. One could almost call it unnatural, but it came far more naturally than she would ever care to admit. Born to a line of warriors, and steeped in the blood of heroes, she stepped with discomforting ease into the echoes of the past. She recalled seeing the family's Crow Banner waving high upon the rampart: a last, fleeting glimpse of a child's proud homestead. In her mind she had seen visions of battles long passed, glorious dead and legendary feats of arms. 'Ridiculous,' 'pointless', 'wasteful', she would say, and yet all too comfortable."
2) "Worse was yet to come. She was a daughter of Ala Mhigo, if far removed. She had struggled against everything she was meant to be, yet at times the pull of blood fell stronger than reason: could she bear to see another friend die, while she stood helpless?"
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