tagged by @miqojak months -ago but I am so bad at profiles... please get this thing away from me. I think an Astrologian photo is pretty suitable for a profile...
May 6th, 2023 / Dec. 4, 2024
—BASICS
Public Name: Murakumo Suzune OR Suzune Tideharrow
Records Name: Murakumo noh Suzumine Igarashi. Her name means (Clan) Murakumo's Suzumine of House Igarashi
Technically, she should go by Suzune Murakumo or Suzune Igarashi to reduce confusion but she isn't going to. reduce confusion that is.
Age: 23 (Legacy), 28 (ARR) / Dawntrail - 34?
Race: Wavewalker Hyur, a group of water nomads commonly found in the Far East; her clan moved to Limsa after their harbor was burned down by a Garlean attack.
Birthday: She doesn’t remember (i don't remember). like everyone she counts of another year at the relevant seasonal transposition which is when she was Named. Its written down. But she never checks. She was born in the Year of the Water Snake in 1552 though.
Birthmoon: Navigator's Moon
Nameday: three moons after her birth, she remembers her nameday. It's during the Destroyer's Moon
Nicknames: Suzu (generic, acceptable, everyone), Suzie (only Eorzean friends), Ane-hebi ('Big Sister snake' - little sisters, younger clanmates), Jian (clan/agemates), Tsuki (moon) or Suzumushi (cricket, her father mostly/elders), hebi-chan (little snake by her mother, grandmother, other elders), Jia (Sazanami)
Profession: Senior Assessor of the Merlago Jaws'/Captain of the Maelstron, Arbitrix - basically a third-party when two parties are having an argument
Gods/Religion/Spirituality
the Seruk are polytheistic but only have one god of their own; they pay respects to gods of their host nations.
Native God: Valigarmanda-ilgal-kibrat-erbetti (Valigarmanda, Great God of the - world's - Four Corners), the Great God Tritoch, an auspice of Othard. (not to be confused with Tural's Skyruin Tritoch)
Doman Tutelars, i think: Takemikazuchi-noh-mikoto-sama, Takeminakata-noh-kami, Yasakatome-no-kami
Eorzean Tutelars; Llymlaen the Navigator, Rhalgr the Destroyer, Nymeia the Spinner?
Religion/Spiritual: Suzune is a devout believer though Seruk thought holds that the gods are more sources of inspiration and maintainers of the world than ones expected to directly intervene. You know the expression: 'you're heavensent'? That's often true. Other people are the gods' gift - and curse - to their parishioners.
PHYSICAL ASPECTS
Hair: her hair is actually purple not stylised black
Eyes: pale jade. or are they blue? "ghost pale"
Skin: copper with a cool, "bluish" undertone
Tattoos: no tattoos but face paints that curve around her eyes and eyeshadows, she reapplies it maybe every week; it's very resilient, good face paint. She's rarely seen without it.
Tattoos/scars: rope burn around left leg, tattooed over into an yanxian dragon
Markings/scars/other : scar on the bridge of her nose, mole at the corner of her lip, sharp teeth
height: five fulms seven ilms
FAMILY
Aunts/Uncles not shown: Mizuta (deceased), Sanga Igarashi, Yusei, Kazusano, Kuzunoha
Parents: Murakumo noh Kotomine Igarashi and Yuzuka noh Ryunosuke
Sisters: Utami, Ryuteimi (?), Odorine
(Utami in the green, Ryuteimi in black and red and Odorine in the nue togi, Suzune in blue)
Pets/Familiars: the carbuncles Nasreen - white (opal), Vayu - blue/green (turquoise) and Torrun - purple (amethyst)
Mounts - Kokomo, Chocobo: Kokomo is a Grand Company issue chocobo who was raised at a La Noscean farms in the hills. He was named by Suzune's niflings. They could not pronounce chocobo. In fairness, neither could Suzune when she was young. Kokomo is a weirdly business like chocobo
An Alligator - there are no chocobos in the Cieldalaes so the islanders make do. for some reason, there's an alligator perfectly happy to let Suzune ride on it's back? the islanders are use to this but they still get out of the way.
A Broomstick - Suzune made it when she was young. Kotomine, her mom was not convinced of it's safety but she had other problems when the other kids also wanted broomsticks
SKILLS
Discipline - Arcanist/Samurai
Suzune studies both Eorzean arcanima and Othardian Fuinjutsu though she actually doesn't know a lot of math and uses highly subjective symbols that confuses Eorzean arcanist. She is called / calls herself a Ritualist
Arcanima centers around controlling the field and debiliating the opponent, there Suzune deploys 'arenas' in which the fight is contained, using Damage over Time Spells such as shadowflare, miasma and bio. Arcanist are supplemented in their power by familiars - in times past wooden ones were common but Eorzeans currently use gemstones to summon carbuncles and Onmyoji use clay and various lesser yokai. Suzune got attached to carbuncles when she was a toddler and uses them despite fuinjutsu not including carbuncles. She thinks they're cute.
She also trained in Kenjutsu from a young age, thanks to her blacksmith-samurai father, Ryunosuke, mostly in a bid to get her to stop treating the swords with naïve disrespect and careless, reckless abandon. To his slight distress, she attunes her swords to her elemental carbuncles - water, wind and levin for a spellblade effect.
She recently came to the realization that other magical disciplines do have things to offer so now she wants to study those… such as thaumaturgy, conjury and when she encounters it spellfencing
Other combat skills include chakram war dancing, conjury (healing magick) and some gunbladework. Gunblade feels like an expansion of kenjutsu but as gunbreaker style is a defensive, frontline she is only marginably comfortable with it and dons full armor in emergencies
Other skills: Enchanting items and making potions, cooking, woodcarving
Abilities: Suzune has the Echo but never seems to be debiliated by it; this is because she shuffles the Echoes onto her carbuncles who hold it - like they're crystal balls and she can view it in her mind at her leisure. Suzune is also a master ward-crafter; her shields are second to none. However, she usually uses them as pit traps
Hobbies: woodcarving, playing tricks on people, writing fuinjutsu for fun, painting, dance, brewing, pottery.
she also enjoys playing flying polo with her clanmates - on broomsticks - or playing pitch-pot or mahjong
—TRAITS
Pragmatic (Ruthless), Easy-Going (Apathetic), reserved smiles, smart, calm, patient like a tiger, confident, self-assured, Honest (Blunt, harsh), Confrontational (to the point)
Most Positive Trait: Competenent, Patient
Most Negative Trait: lack of sympathy. this is covered by politeness and tact but sometimes she doesn't care.
—LIKES
Colors: She loves bright and bold colors like in Thavnairian architecture but sadly her complexion limits her personal color palette. Rolanberry red is her favorite color followed by sunset orange
