RPC Census, Part II (Wealth-CLOSED)

[Kylin]

Part II of the RPC Census focuses on character wealth. Note, this does at all relate to your OOC in game wealth. Just as many RPers do not define themselves strictly by their class levels, many also do not use in game gil to define their character's wealth (though some do, which is perfectly fine).

 

This poll, once again, focuses on your primary character only. This is very important to note because some may hail from wealthy families, but their individual character may not be wealthy at all due to being cut off or whatever. So please keep this mind.

 

Character wealth can also fluctuate naturally over a course of time. As such, this poll will reflect characters around the start of ARR's launch specifically. In other words, how is your character entering the RP scene at his/her most economic stable point in regards to wealth?

 

Not all possible options may be available, so please pick the one that best describes your character. I'm purposely keeping this very simplistic. Feel free to respond with a more in depth response to better explain your character's situation! I'm sure people are interested in such explanations!

[Alothia]

Alothia is a self-made-woman from humble beginnings. What wealth she does have, she shares.

[Rhashi Nefhys]

I went for poor. You won't find my character begging on the streets but he doesn't earn or own much and has enough to keep him well enough.

[Yssen]

I am unsure of how to define a bandit's economic stability.

[Kylin]

I am unsure of how to define a bandit's economic stability.

 

Personally, I'd classify most bandits as lower-class. But that could just be me. I guess another way to word this if one can't figure it out is: how would outsiders generally view the character? ^^

[John Spiegel]

JJ is the kind of guy would give 10k to a begger and someone would comment "Wow! You must be rich!" JJ would reply: "Nope. That was the last gil I had. Time to go hunt dinner!"

 

At times in the past, he's had a good bit of gil saved up that he used to fund his boy to school. Right out of the time-leap, JJ will probably have between 10-100k on him, but go right into camping and survivalism rather than a warm bed and meal.

[Rhostel]

Rhostel lives leve to leve, not concerned with wealth but with life experience. Moneygrubbing's the Ul'dahn way, which she just rolls her eyes at. Getting stronger, proving yourself, that's the Ala Mhigo way - the Highlander way, at least as she knows it. Gil is useful, but you can't bribe a rampaging peiste to not kill you.

 

So she's working class, and proud.

[Duplicitous Rex]

Klarimel has the assets of his now deceased brigand group to work with. This combines up to a fairly high amount of wealth, though it's mostly in goods and not currency.

[Eva]

After some pondering, I cast my vote for 'middle-class' though in some ways Eva kind of spans all three categories.

 

When her father passed (about six months before Dalamud kaboom'd) he left her with an exorbitant amount of gil as her inheritance. She never realized the extent of his wealth when he was alive, and he never really spoke of it in any great detail. But it was important to him that she be brought up modestly, and her childhood home was a glorified hovel and they lived like paupers, but always had what they needed. There are some other reasons for this but I don't want to give away too much.

 

Long story short though, she never really knew what to do with all of the money and essentially just sat on it and never really spoke much about it, even with those closest to her. She made a few small donations to her old boss/friend to keep his book shop afloat, and an occasional donation to the poor - but never anything really life-altering. She'd read her father's journals and knew how he felt about the wealthy, so it always perplexed her why he didn't do something else with the fortune he had amassed.

 

After disappearing into the rift for five years time, we think it makes sense that her home would be looted, her gil found and plundered, and her left borderline destitute. We haven't really pored over the specifics just yet, but she had grown to be an accomplished seamstress over those last few years, so she will possess the means to get back on her feet again. So we felt middle class was probably the most appropriate answer, if we're looking at a character's financial status at the time right when ARR kicks off again.

[Gerik]

Gerik got together with some upper class guy.  That's pretty much it :love:

[Nel Celestine]

Nel is has moved to barely be upper class now. But most of her net worth is tied up inside her business.  "Eorzean Trading Company"  She does have liquid capitol but it's towards the high end of middle class.

[Ciara Snow]

I would have to say both Kyri and Ciara would be about middle class. Ciara was gathering for her late husbands gold shop in Uldah and Kyris always had "expensive" tastes. Things my change with ARR but as neither was sent to the future I doubt they have prospered much.

[Sophia]

I'll be going with Lower-Class, myself!

 

I have the background idea ready. I'm thinking my character used to be somewhere between middle and upper, but Dalamud crashing and Bahamut going crazy had side effects all over Eorzea!

 

She wasn't in the time jump, she'll be played as if she's lived through the change in time naturally. And in turn, she's lost practically everything she had.

 

So, yeah! Lower for me.

[Deirdre]

Deirdre is in Lower Class~

 

While she makes a good chunk of gil with her various skills, all of it goes to her children, who are being taken care of by another family. This is the case for now, she could very well drift in to the middle class.

[Nako Vesh]

I guess the closest thing for Nako is lower class. Somehow I doubt Wood Wailers get a large salary. It seems like a job that someone would only take if the job was the reward in itself, which is how Nako views it. She has simple tastes, and can easily live off the land so she has little need for money anyway.

[Gospel Gestalt]

Gospel is well situated within the high upper class. Being born into an already strong family, while also having both the families business and his own in dealing with automaton creation, repair, and selling. One thing that lead to his families great wealth was having almost the entire business be ran by the Mammets that were being produced. This was not only used to help save on having to pay workers, but it also served as a powerful advertising tool and to prove just how useful the machines could be. It took some time but eventually it allowed both business chains to be ran with only a handful of human workers. Their jobs mainly dealt with making sure the Mammets weren't defecting, being tour guides and also to handle some of the transactions.

 

I also figured with ARR and the whole pet thing, his business would be as strong as ever, having a hand in the mass production of the mini Mammets that adventurers were running around with in the tour of Eorzea video.

 

Another tribute to Gospel's wealth would be his spending habits. One could consider him to be "rich miser," only spending money on things that he felt were essential, such as: Nice house, food, clothes, hobbies and leaving it at that.

 

So there you have it.

[Jackscarab]

It's tough to picture Kannadi without her exorbitant yet carefully-managed wealth. Even after the nine-tenths economic contraction, she'll still be loaded.

[Aysun]

Lower class, always has been, always will be. Aysun makes enough to survive in what she deems a comfortable way and doesn't feel the need to make more than that unless she has a reason to.

 

Prior to Dalamud, she did seek extra gil, saving it and giving it to Nel in hopes of helping purchase supplies needed for the boat. This essentially left her with nothing, which, since she thought she was going to die anyway, wasn't an issue.

 

Coming back to ARR she'll have no actual job (5 year absence from the Mineral Concern? Yea... she'll be seeking that out again but I'm not sure when), and no possessions to her name.

[Varus]

In truth, Tyonis is loaded, but all of the money he uses actually belongs to his brother, who is the Patriarch of the family. It's comparable to an allowance of sorts. Without this support, he'd definitely be lower-class, because he spends money as he earns it and doesn't have any interest in forging long-term investments to drastically improve his livelihood. He made enough to buy a single-roomed studio in Ul'dah, although that was probably requisitioned by the government since he hasn't lived there for half-a-decade.

[Merri]

Endemerrin himself by no means lives an upper-class lifestyle (opting to go the route of staying in inn rooms or camping out in the middle of nowhere), but technically he is very wealthy. His best friend (Who is basically a brother to him) is loaded to the teeth, and the two share coffers for numerous reasons. Endemerrin himself has contributed quite a bit to those very coffers over the years, of course. Adventuring can be quite profitable when undertaking the dangerous jobs no one else wants to do~

 

He pretty much only dips into them when he needs supplies for his adventuring or materials for his engineering and metalworking. Luxury living and fancy clothes aren't his thing.

[Olofantur]

I think it important to add that while I choose "middle" I think that the wealth fluctuates depending on the opinion of the people viewing the objects. while not possessing much Gil in and of itself, or a steady income, relics left over from 1.0 and other various reagents I consider as "capital" that would bump him up to the middle level. Whether he is able to sell them at a decent price is another matter entirely.

[Rhio]

Rhio has never been wealthy, exactly, but she's never been poor for long either. In 1.0 she made more than a decent living and was actually quite well-off for a while, although she gave most of it away either as gifts or as charitable donations. By the time that Dalamud fell, Rhio's home was already destroyed and she was marked as a criminal in Gridania, thus resulting in the seizure of most of her assets.

 

Despite that, I still picked middle class, for two reasons. First of all, she had squirreled some things away in buried caches prior to Dalamud's fall, and while most of those caches contained historical records that would be of interest to future explorers (since she expected that Eorzea might not make it through) she also did tuck away some gil and useful items for herself in the event that she survived. Second, however much money she might actually have, she doesn't give the impression of poverty.

 

Well, unless she does. Rhio's like that sometimes.

[Anzio]

Anzil is lower-class as an indentured servant. 

[Fearless]

I would put Fearless as middle-class.  His family runs a profitable ranch but he doesn't rely on that for financial security. He has a steady job and often takes side-jobs to pay for the rent and stuff.

[Myal]

An enormous debt and no job stability leaves Myal smack dab in the lower class. Post-impact, with everyone she cared about seemingly dead, she lost all motivation for stability altogether and turned to banditry.