There was this thing going around on Bluesky so I decided to answer them all for M'chiyo and put everything into one big post here!
Name
M'chiyo Yhisa. She used to be a miqo'te so if you know the lore, her nickname is Chiyo with those close to her.
I chose "Yhisa" because I saw it somewhere and it is close to "Yusa", which is my last name for my sona/online presence.
I… don't really have much else to say on this one?
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Race / Mains
Miqo'te until aether corruption caused her to turn into a Hrothgar upon summoning to the first shortly after the Byakko fight.
Mains are RDM, WHM, and GNB but it's really mostly just RDM.
Botanist is canon, Carpenter as well.
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Striking Feature
Face stripes, and she always has her oval glasses. usually in gold, but she does have lots of pairs to match every outfit. You lose lots of glasses being an adventurer, and I imagine glasses makers are all over having the wol rep their glasses and send her plenty. LOL.
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Age
Time in this game is weird and unclear….. I originally put her around my age (early 30's) but have since kinda changed it that she's probably mid 20's or so. I don't know, man.
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Personality
Pretty outgoing these days. Doesnt want to be still, wants to be on the move and doing something
Foodie, but cant cook worth a damn. Knows a lot about teas and herbs though
HATES the cold
Spends time at the gold saucer/seeking treasure in free time
Messy/unorganized
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Clothing
Kind of all over the place, but big on theming jobs around colors. Red/pink is her favorite.
Before her change to hroth, she covered up a lot. She didn't think she was much to look at.
These days, likes showing off her stripes a bit with her newfound self love/confidence after EW :)
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Childhood
Pretty typical childhood in Gridania. Spent a lot of time in the Botanist's and Carpenter's guilds.
Set out to be an adventurer (non wol) when Ikhi'a came to gridania and the two of them met.
If she's the wol, well just the normal MSQ stuff more or less. Still working that out.
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Goals
Nothing too surprising here, just seeing more places & getting stronger.
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Making a Living
She could use her crafting and gathering skills if she really wanted to, but there's just not time (or patience) for that.
Instead if she finds herself with free time she's out treasure hunting.
She'd get by more than fine just with what she makes as the wol though.
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Favorite food
Blueberry anything, anything floral as well. Being a botanist you learn to forage! So all of that kind of stuff. Fruit, veggies, mushrooms, edible flowers, etc.
Though if presented with meat she'll go a little feral, maybe it's a hrothgar thing.
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11. Worst fear
One of them has already happened! She really wanted kids, but is unable to have her own after the aether corruption/transformation. (This applies to both timelines, but is a much bigger plot point when she's not the wol, and she's with Ikhi'a #chikhi)
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Hobbies
Just being active. If she must rest and do something chill, spending time in the sun is still a must.
She's also very into making tea. Coffee somewhat too, but much prefers tea.
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Preferred party role
She can flex, but RDM (and therefore, DPS lol) is her best skillset and what she prefers to do.
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Talents
I feel like I've gone over them above (Making tea, botany/foraging, carpentry). I don't have much to add to that!
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Hometown
Born in the M tribe, moved to Gridania with her mother very very young so it's all she really remembers.
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Parents, 17. Siblings
I don't really have anything for this, just haven't felt like writing or thinking about it. I don't think she's close with any family at this point, they very well may have disowned her after she came back a hrothgar all of a sudden.
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Other family
I joke that there's a Eureka NPC that looks just like her, and maybe they're related. I dunno though. Kinda same answer as above, if anything.
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Love
Get crushes easily, oblivious when someone's crushing on her though. SHB is so ridiculous because they're BOTH stupid!
Once Chiyo and Raha do figure out feelings are mutual, they have an unspoken thing; they can't really be together due uncertainty of things until he can be returned home.
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Sex
Her new body came with all sorts of having to re-acclimate to her senses and everything, I feel like sex or being touched much at all would be difficult for a while. Plus body image issues. That's why not much happens until the EW inn room scene despite her and Raha being together since 5.3
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Thoughts about gil
Despite loving treasure hunting, and of course the money being a nice part of it, it's not the main motivator. It's just fun and keeps her busy!
She's not a big spender most of the time, she saves.
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Faith
I'm sure she grew up around certain beliefs, but I'm gonna be honest and say I haven't put the thought into this one and am not good enough with the lore in this area to have a good answer. For now it doesn't play much of a part in her story.
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Enemies
I mean………………. the usual suspects. Obviously.
Because I personally find it funny, she probably has the most beef with Emet-Selch. She was Going Through It so bad during SHB and he's making his stupid sassy little comments at her, plus causing the Exarch problems…so…
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Role models
Has a lot of admiration for all of her fellow Scions & other friends for different reasons. I don't have a more interesting answer, sorry!
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25. Fondest Memory
(1) #chikhi - Proposal on top of Kugane tower. They started the day climbing it together and finally got to the end at sunset. Ikhi'a can climb it no problem, but Chiyo was tghe one who struggled all day.
(2) #wolgraha - Their time hanging out together in Lakeland when she wasn't aware of the Exarch's Identity. She was going through a lot and the Exarch was such a comforting presence.
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Biggest flaw
Impatient, can have a one-track mind. She gets better with this but it was REALLY BAD in early game. She would often have this "can we hurry this up?" attitude about things
(That's absolutely some self insert flaws. And a callback to when I was impatient with the game itself.)
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Beliefs
I dunno what to put here, skipping for now!
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Thoughts on societies
Some of them (Like the Omicrons and Loporrits) she really enjoyed helping out, while others, like the Moogles, really pissed her off.
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Greatest regret
Maybe some of her attitude & disinterest in the beginning, and being hard on herself.
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Secrets
None that I have thought of…
