#zuzu lore

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Reference Sheet by @poisonkkay

I'm sooooooo obsessed with this please look at my beautiful boy drawn by a wonderful artist

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Tag Game: Get To Know My Boy

Name: Z’Uzuoaka Tia - “Uzuoak’a” is an Ala Mhigan name that his parents gave to him and was written on the letter that they left with Zu’zu when they left him. The “Z” comes from the patriarch of his village, “Zuli Nunh.” Despite the fact that Zu’zu was born a Keeper of the Moon, his naming convention is a Seeker of the Sun name because the village he was raised in was a Seeker of the Sun village, so they got rid of the “‘a” in his name and added the “Z’” and the “Tia” suffix.

Nickname: “Zu’zu” is the name his childhood best friend, Z’rotar, gave to him because he couldn’t pronounce the full name (a lot of people couldn’t). When he left the Village of Orphans, he picked up the last name “Duhawl” and started going as “Zu’zu Duhawl” as his adventurer name. No one knows him by anything other than his adventurer name save the people he grew up with. The Scions occasionally call him just “Zu”. Other than that, the only “nicknames” he gets is when G’raha occasionally calls him pet names (his favorites are “my moon and my stars” and “my guiding light”)

Gender: nonbinary man

Star Sign: FFXIV kinda has its own star signs, he was born during the 4th Umbral Moon and his nameday assigned patron is Rhalgr, but his personal patron is Nymeia. In non-FFXIV terms, his star sign is Virgo.

Height: 6’ 0” (I don’t care that miqo’te don’t normally come in that height, I make the OC and I decide he’s six feet tall)

Orientation: Gay

Nationality/Ethnicity: He is Ala Mhigan, but was raised in Eorzea, specifically Thanalan in a place called the Village of Orphans. His parents were Ala Mhigan freedom fighters and when Garlemald invaded Ala Mhigo, they left to go fight and left Zu’zu in Thanalan because they knew they would probably die. He doesn’t find this out until he’s well into adulthood and returns to Ala Mhigo to help with the liberation and is told that “Uzuoak’a” is an old Ala Mhigan name and then is told he looks like his mother who died in the rebellion with his father and that they had a son. He spends a lot of the time after trying to connect with a background he doesn’t fully understand and people he never knew. Zu’zu has complicated feelings about it and flips between considering himself Ala Mhigan and not.

Favorite Fruit: Zu’zu loves apples and his favorite apples are from Norvrandt known as miracle apples. G’raha remembered Zu’zu liked apples from when they were working together on the Crystal Tower and brought him some in his early days on the First, claiming that they were his own favorites and he figured Zu’zu would like them. He apologized because they weren’t exactly the same and at the time Zu’zu had complained that they were too sour (which was saying something because his second favorite strain of apples are faerie apples from Coerthas), but he rapidly grew to enjoy them because that meant the Crystal Exarch would come and talk with him while they sat alone in either the Ocular or his room and shared apples. Zu’zu would sometimes go to the First specifically to pick some up and bring them back to share with G’raha when they’re alone. In the time recent after the Final Days and the incident with Meteion now that the Scions are separated, he sometimes will send them to New Sharlayan for G’raha as a care package.

Favorite Season: Winter, he loves the winters in Ishgard specifically because he loves snow and never grew up with it. When he’s traveling, he’ll bitch about it up and down, but when he’s in his comfortable little apartment with frosted windows, a million blankets, and coffee, he’s content as can be.

Favorite Flower: Elpis flowers are a new favorite of his, but his all time favorites are yellow carnations because they were always in a vase on the table in Haurchefant’s outpost in Coerthas. He often goes to Haurchefant’s grave when he can and brings some for him.

Favorite Scent: Cured wood or softened leather, they remind him a lot of growing up because he spent a lot of time with Z’aria, a bow maker. The Village of Orphans’ chief exports were parentless children and the best bows in Thanalan. Zu’zu often spent a lot of time skirting around Z’aria’s wares, breaking them until she chewed him out and started teaching him how to take care of them and use them. Zu’zu always repairs his own bow and related equipment, keeping alive the skills he grew up with and sometimes will turn to looking after his bow when he’s stressed and needs to calm down.

Coffee, Tea, or Hot Chocolate: Hot chocolate, but only made a certain way and, unfortunately, the only person who made it perfectly is now buried on a hill in Ishgard

Average Hours of Sleep: It ranges. Zu’zu either sleeps 10+ hours or sleeps for 3 for days and there is no in-between. When it’s particularly bad, the Scions will take turns sitting with him trying their various methods of sleep-including tricks. More often than not, Zu’zu will start playing one of his instruments and they end up asleep slumped on him. Most of the time with them laying on him, he tends to find sleep.

Dogs or Cats: …he’s a catboy. Is that cheating?

Dream Trip: Zu’zu is honestly on his dream trip right now touring Eorzea (and occasionally going to other places like Doma or Rhalgar’s Reach) from tavern to tavern playing as just an idle, nameless bard. That being said, Zu’zu would fuck up a Margaritaville.

Number of Blankets: When he’s on the road, Zu’zu sleeps with one blanket and, more or less, in a pile with the rest of his traveling companions. On his own in his apartment he sleeps with a metric fuckton of blankets unless G’raha is spending the night with him, then he’s sleeping with no blankets next to a large cocoon of containing one (1) single miqo’te.

Random Fact: Zu’zu’s travel kit is a harmonica, a violin, and sometimes a lute, but his instrument of choice is a piano.

Tagged by: @full---ofstarlight

Tagging: @keclan @evelynnsometimes @lenkagamine133 @fluffy-fern @dykedotexe (I don’t know who has OCs they want to talk about, but if you do, you should tell me about them) and literally anyone else who has a character that they want to gush about and do some soul searching for

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My canonical Zu'zu looks* for each expansion

*the hair is a bit hit and miss because they didn't have the mods/hairstyles that I originally had for him for these, but it's more or less accurate

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He's bigger!

He's badder!

He's got tits and an ass that's fatter!

It's Hrothgal Zu'zu!

(Happy Dawntrail, y'all)

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Zu’zu Duhawl

Full Name: Z’uzouka Tia, known broadly as “Zu’zu Duhawl”

Race: Miqo’te

Gender: Nonbinary Gay

Pronouns: He/Him

Sexuality: Gay

Hometown: Southern Thanalan

Patron Deity: Nymeia

Birthdate: 32nd Sun of 4th Umbral Moon

Personality:

He's vain, he's a flirt, he's always smiling, what can I say? Zu'zu really is a bard's bard.

Zu'zu is a man largely shaped by his past, both the good and the bad. An affable, warm, verbose front can sometimes hide insecure little devils beneath. He's never without a smile, a song, or a laugh, but don't look too closely at the way that the image cracks. His friends are plenty, but his close friends are few. What loyalty that is earned, however, is nigh impossible to shake and Zu'zu has been known to leap into the jaws of calamity itself for those he cares for.

Background:

Named Uzouak’a, he is the son of Ala Mhigan resistance fighters who left him in the Village of Orphans in Thanalan before their return to Ala Mhigo during the fall to the Garlean Empire. Raised in the village, Zu’zu was given the name “Z’uzouaka Tia”, though “Zu’zu” quickly became an affectionate nickname. He grew up surrounded by other children without parents, but with a number of adults in the village who looked after him and everyone else. The one he was the closest with was the bowmaker, Z’aria. After Zu’zu’s obvious interest in her work (and a number of damaged goods from his failed attempts to stealthily watch her), she took him under her wing and taught him the craft of bowmaking and bowmanship. Years under her tutelage turn him into a fine archer and fine crafter, the village on the whole expecting him to take up his skills and search out his own fortunes.

Divergent Storylines:

Zu’zu Duhawl, Warrior of Light

Zu’zu Duhawl, Scion of the Seventh Dawn

Zu’zu Duhawl, Adventurer for Hire, Golden Saucer Bunny

OOC:

I’m a veteran rper in my early thirties. I’m looking to find an rp partner or two for my FFXIV OC. I’m happy to work with my partner about a storyline we can both enjoy. I’m fairly adaptable and would love to hear what storyline ideas you have or create one together.

I usually rp through either tumblr messages or discord, but I’m super interested in rping through other methods, especially in-game. If you have a preferred method, please let me know and we can figure something out.

I work a part-time job and go to school part-time, my schedule is a little erratic because of that, so please understand there are times I can rp for hours and other times where I can’t. I need an rp partner who is going to understand that and respect both of our real lives above our rp time. Above all, rp is a hobby for me, I use it to unwind, so please understand that my real life sometimes comes first.

I’m open to rps of all kinds with canon and non-canon character. That being said, Zu’zu is gay and while I’m happy to rp with partners of the opposite sex, I’m only going to peruse romantic rps with male and other nonbinary characters, thanks.

If you’re interested, drop me a message! @cyndaqueer is my main blog, so follows and likes come from there, but I prefer all communications to come to this blog just because I try to keep it separate.

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He's so cute. God. I can't stop staring at him.

He deserves a nice beach vacation.

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Meme that my FC was passing around

From Top L to Bottom R:

Midoriya Izuku (MHA)

Freddie Mercury's (Real Life)

Chaucer (A Knight's Tale)

Ryan and Sharpay Evans (High School Musical)

Hawks (MHA)

John Harkness (Doctor Who)

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I routinely giggle at the fact that Zu'zu did not learn how to read until the twins taught him in the Studium

This full-fledged teenager who's gotten into one of the best schools, if not the best research school, because his talent with the fusion of arcanima and physical attack is unparalleled--

And he can't even write his name.

He's doing really great in his classes, answering every question asked, but turns in his first exam with drawings on it.

Alisaie finds out and laughs so hard she throws up. Alphinaud is faced with mild horror and decides he HAS to teach Zu'zu to read.