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moremystyle) wrote2023-08-18 07:47 pm
moremystyle) wrote2023-08-18 07:47 pm
About
pirating's much more my style.
about
Faris is one of the main characters of Final Fantasy V. Born Princess Sarisa Scherwil Tycoon, Faris was lost at sea age five and taken in by pirates, who raised her as a man. Now Faris is a feared pirate captain at the young age of twenty. Though an unreptentant brigand, she has a sentimental side and a protective streak, both of which she keeps well under wraps. Faris represents the element of Fire, the essence of Courage. She has long purple hair, generally tied back, sea-green eyes, and suitably swanky piratical garb. Due to his upbringing, Faris' internal narration usually uses male pronouns and terms... except when it doesn't.
personality
There is no fight that Faris would not take on, no danger she would not leap into--often with laughter. She is adventurous, not as a philosophy or as a conscious choice, but as an immutable element of her being. She tackles challenges with well-earned confidence in herself and her abilities, and since fighting across two worlds to destroy a 500-year-old demonic tree, that confidence has only increased. Rarely is there any moment of indecision.
That said... all of this applies to physical danger. When it comes to the realm of emotion, Faris tends to be rather at sea. Raised for fifteen years as a pirate and as a man, Faris learned how not to cry, how to push sorrow into anger, and how to be extremely bad at expressing any feeling of sentiment in real words that humans use. So when confronted with a situation in which "be a pirate at it" doesn't work, Faris does her level best to pretend it's not going on at all. She'll even run away, as though trying to physically flee emotions she doesn't know how to cope with. Even if it hurts people close to her, her initial reaction will be one of denial and she will push away difficult or unpleasant truths for as long as she can.
At the start of her journey, Faris was self-centered and avaricious. She fully intended to hold Princess Lenna for ransom and only changed course when she realized Lenna have might something more valuable: clues to Faris' past. Faris has become a much more altruistic person since then, protecting others for the sake of protecting them rather than personal gain, caring about the emotional well-being of her weird adopted kin, and in general giving more of a damn about the world than she's really comfortable being open about. That said, Faris is still unapologetic about being a pirate. She tries at being a princess for a while, but in the end she returns to what she knew for all her life, which is a life on the sea, robbing rich people.
Because of her upbringing, Faris is not exactly one gender or the other. If pressed she will describe herself as a woman who was raised as a man. At this stage, Faris is not trying to hide her femininity, but she still feels male most of the time and will use male pronouns and terms. (If she isn't, it's usually because she's dealing with emotions she was taught are "unmanly.") If her world's vocabulary had the word "genderfluid" she would probably use that to describe herself. Since it doesn't, she uses "you'd better not have a problem or I'll keelhaul you."
That said... all of this applies to physical danger. When it comes to the realm of emotion, Faris tends to be rather at sea. Raised for fifteen years as a pirate and as a man, Faris learned how not to cry, how to push sorrow into anger, and how to be extremely bad at expressing any feeling of sentiment in real words that humans use. So when confronted with a situation in which "be a pirate at it" doesn't work, Faris does her level best to pretend it's not going on at all. She'll even run away, as though trying to physically flee emotions she doesn't know how to cope with. Even if it hurts people close to her, her initial reaction will be one of denial and she will push away difficult or unpleasant truths for as long as she can.
At the start of her journey, Faris was self-centered and avaricious. She fully intended to hold Princess Lenna for ransom and only changed course when she realized Lenna have might something more valuable: clues to Faris' past. Faris has become a much more altruistic person since then, protecting others for the sake of protecting them rather than personal gain, caring about the emotional well-being of her weird adopted kin, and in general giving more of a damn about the world than she's really comfortable being open about. That said, Faris is still unapologetic about being a pirate. She tries at being a princess for a while, but in the end she returns to what she knew for all her life, which is a life on the sea, robbing rich people.
Because of her upbringing, Faris is not exactly one gender or the other. If pressed she will describe herself as a woman who was raised as a man. At this stage, Faris is not trying to hide her femininity, but she still feels male most of the time and will use male pronouns and terms. (If she isn't, it's usually because she's dealing with emotions she was taught are "unmanly.") If her world's vocabulary had the word "genderfluid" she would probably use that to describe herself. Since it doesn't, she uses "you'd better not have a problem or I'll keelhaul you."
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OOC:
Backtagging: Yes!
Fourth-walling: Probably not.
IC:
Mind-reading: Let's talk about this first!
Hugging: Faris will not know what to do with it but let's see what happens
Kissing: you're probably gonna get a fist to the face
Other:
I probably don't need to say this in 2023, but it's been a problem in times past, so: please do not have your character magically intuit that Faris is afab. Faris' looks and mannerisms are that of a short, wiry man--a man living in Yoshitaka Amano's world, but nevertheless he has successfully passed for most of his life.
Opting Out:
If you would rather not Faris' gender issues get involved in a thread we're doing, let me know and I will not bring it up!not like Faris voluntarily thinks about such things anyway
Backtagging: Yes!
Fourth-walling: Probably not.
IC:
Mind-reading: Let's talk about this first!
Hugging: Faris will not know what to do with it but let's see what happens
Kissing: you're probably gonna get a fist to the face
Other:
I probably don't need to say this in 2023, but it's been a problem in times past, so: please do not have your character magically intuit that Faris is afab. Faris' looks and mannerisms are that of a short, wiry man--a man living in Yoshitaka Amano's world, but nevertheless he has successfully passed for most of his life.
Opting Out:
If you would rather not Faris' gender issues get involved in a thread we're doing, let me know and I will not bring it up!
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