Personality: The short and simple of it: hard exterior, soft interior who at the very least will be baseline polite to people if she needs to be. Her default state is sassy, sarcastic brat.
Caelia is a very distrustful person on the outside and has so many walls put up for people to break through that most don't even really want to try. She's a cold, bitter bitch to just about everyone - to the point where when she was working with Ishgard she was called an Ice Queen because of how cold and uncaring she was toward the other people in the barracks. She's fiery and will run her mouth if she's irritated - or just wants to get under someone's skin. Sure, she has a filter but unless she knows the outcome won't go in her favour it's... well, it's there, but not often. She'll speak what's on her mind, even if it's cutting to someone else, and she has no problem telling someone where to shove their opinions of her. All in all she's very much an untamed wildfire of scathing looks and comments.
However, this doesn't extend out to those that have shown her kindness, children, and those who can't help themselves. When she takes odd jobs and the person requesting help can't pay in gil? Caelia will take whatever they offer as to not be rude about her reward - she's made that mistake before and not only offended the request-giver, but also upset them greatly. She's not made that mistake again. She's taken food, clothes, children's drawings, things that she's afraid that has sentimental value even though she's been told it has none... but she'll use a lot of those same rewards to give back. She has no issue giving out clothes, food, and blankets out to the refugees on Pearl Lane before some go back to her friends and family back in the Wilds. Of course, some of that money stays with her, especially from the higher-paying jobs. She has a good taste for fashion and has a small house she shares with Terris in the Goblet when they're both not out for jobs or work.
Though she may dislike people and is distrustful of most everyone, however, she will still help out - sometimes begrudgingly - should they be in trouble. In order to help Mentor she had to work with Anton, and her opinion of him is incredibly low. She knew that the only way to get into the library and deal with the nasties that took up residence would only really be doable with two people, and having a second set of eyes, even untrained for what she knew they would be looking for, would be a bigger boon than working alone - especially against the clock. With someone like Terris, and anyone who gets close, she becomes fiercely loyal - going so far as to give her own life for that person. Her friends and family are of course in that place, but anyone else that gets that close? She would do anything to help them. That is, of course, if they can stomach her craptastic attitude leading up to that point.
Once someone gets to know her, Caelia will be a lot softer toward that person. She'll still have a bit of sass to her, but she won't purposefully try to get under their skin - she becomes an actual person as opposed to someone who doesn't want to let someone in and does anything to prevent that. She has more of a sense of humor, helps people out without a fuss, and smiles a little more. It's still rare to draw an Actual Smile out of her, but letting her guard down is easier around people who she's closer to. If it's broughht up with her, she'll deny that she's being a softie, and will chalk it up to them being crazy - and she'll do it with a smile.
The one thing that doesn't change, no matter if she's close or not close to someone is how utterly reckless she can be. Charging in to fight a bunch of Garleans? Jumping up on to one of the walls in Limsa Lominsa to spin around with the biggest shit-eating grin on her face (to be met with a Very Unhappy and Disapproving Look from Terris)? Casting magic in a place that's unsafe for her to do so but still does because it kills off voidsent or other nasties? That's Caelia. She has very little regard for herself when it comes to doing anything, really - if it gets her to her destination faster, she'll go through a dangerous area, if she finds something she wants to study in more detail? She'll go and do it, no matter what she has to do to get there. She was recently holed up in the Lost City of Amdapor's lower depths doing her own independant research simply because she wanted to see if there was more she could learn from her ancestral home, magicks-crazed statues be damned.
Building on that, Caelia loves to read and study, though studying new forms of magic and such is the most fun for her. She picks up magical formuale and incantations and their requirements quickly, something her grandmother has always been proud of. It made it easy for her to at least become adept in the art of the Astrologian and the art of Arcanum and the way of the Arcanist in Limsa Lominsa. They're more of a hobby, though the healing arts they both teach help her out in the field since she has no way of casting Actual White Magic. Overall, learning is something she enjoys, and even with her general distaste for people and all, she can overcome that wall with a good learning session with someone else, be it giving a good book recommendation, knowledge she didn't previously have of magic, up to and including how to make some basic food (she's not good with her hands to cook or make things.) She enjoys a good challenge.
On top of all of this, Caelia can be very prideful. While she won't outright admit her status of being an Amdapori (which loops back around to trust; to date the only person that knows this about her is Terris) or anything like that, she finds it difficult to sometimes speak her true feelings. This past Valentione's Day celebrations, she very nearly told Terris that she loved him, but refrained from doing so, citing that she was afraid he'd leave her. Most of the time it comes down to a fear that she's got with telling people her feelings. She's good at keeping them locked away, and it takes a lot to get her to actually speak on them - a feat not even Terris has done. Letting her guard down and fully trusting someone is difficult for her, and few people have gotten to that point with her. Freely admitting anything about her or her innermost thoughts is a surefire way for her to dodge the questions or change the subject entirely as subtly as she can.
A quirk of Caelia's is that while she's fairly well-spoken when she talks to people, biting commentary or no, if she's angered enough she loses that well-spoken tone and could probably make a former pirate blush with what comes out of her mouth, and how it comes out of her mouth. She doesn't like it when it happens, and tries to keep her cool, but when people push her buttons once they see the fire burning in her eyes... well. It doesn't end nicely.
Abilities: Despite her blood being of those of the White Magic users of the past, she has no ability to cast them. She has figured out how to cast some larger, more ancient (and sometimes forbidden) magic through changing magical properties, but for the most part she won't cast them - casting them that way takes a toll on her body and her innate aether, something she won't do no matter how reckless she is... with some exceptions. She'll do so if there's someone willing to shoulder half of the aether burden, something she did when Mentor was aging rapidly. When she got in contact with Kine, a friend from her hamlet, the two of them cast an old spell found in one of the tomes Caelia had brought back with her from the Gubal Library - it still took a nasty toll on her, and she slept for a week after.
As for what she can do without little thought or toll on herself, a list of Black Mage abilities is here - all abilities to level 70 are what she can do. Through Terris' military training, she can handle a bow and a dagger, though that's more for if she gets into a scrape she can't cast magic in, or she needs a distraction - he taught her with the idea of her protection in place, just in case he couldn't reach her in time. Nothing fancy, but she does know them. Swords or anything too heavy are a no go for her, she's a noodly mage after all!
As for other schools of magic, abilties from the Astrologian tree are here - Caelia is only adept enough to know the basic spells, and does not have a Deck of Sixty to be able to draw the cards - not that she would know what to do with them anyway with no formal trainer. (So in plain terms, the abilities to 26.) Her abilities as an Arcanist are lacking as she's not had the time to actually study it in any real capacity beyond "basic". She can cast things up until Miasma at level 10 - her ability to sustain a Carbuncle is still shaky, but she can summon one for a short time.
As stated in her history, she has no ability to cast White Magic. The most she can do is convert it over to a different element, and she really only has interest to do so if it's a bigger spell. She would love to learn as a Red Mage, and has a basic understanding of how it works, but no real investment has been made to learn the inner workings thus far.
To go along with her being a fast learner, she has an insight to the history of the War of the Magi, and can prattle on about what she knows. Not entirely an ability, but she does enjoy the history for as far back as she can learn, and she knows her facts.
Alignment: Piphron - Caelia works heavily on trust and how much she trusts someone. However, her emotions also run on how she's fiercely loyal to someone once they've gotten far enough into knowing her and broken down walls to get to know her. Considering she's highly distrustful of people for a good amount of time before she starts to maybe warm up to them (and that's the main source of her dislike of people) since they could just be her friend for the power they think she posesses... Piphron is perfect.
Other: Kineta will be coming along for the ride with her into Emp if that's cool!
⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
General Sample: [Upon her return home, or at least home enough to be in La Noscea and not half a world away, Caelia found herself running an errand – job? – errand-job for someone, leading her to the U’ghamaro Mines for some specialized ore. It wasn’t the most glamorous job, but it was going to line her pockets nice enough. There was really no issue getting into the mines undetected, but when she looked at her orders again to see what exactly she needed, it gave her pause.
Iron ore, sure. That was easy. But from the coblyns– er no, doblyns? Same family, same difference– instead of just grabbing it out of the mine carts the kobolds had amassed. A few of the creatures skittered by her, with their weird gurgle-cries, almost as if they were playing tag or something. They were out of sight for a moment, before skittering past again, still playing coblyn tag or whatever it was they were doing. Cae almost felt bad that she was going to need to end their silly lives, but… money talked.]
Dunno what sort of money coblyn ore rakes in, but it’s enough. And to think, someone some time ago thought that you weird rock things would be good eatin’ too. How, I’ve no idea, you don’t look appetizing– I mean, I guess hunger does weird things to people, but you things are the last creatures I’d want to try to eat.
[With how they skittered and gurgled and were almost… cute, oblivious to their impending doom to be used in some jewelry or somesuch, it gave Caelia stay of her hand after she watched them for long enough.
Lucky bastards.
After a few bells, Caelia was back on her way to Limsa Lominsa, iron ore in hand– ore she had just rifled through to find the purest rocks of to bring back. They’d not know the difference, she didn’t think they would.
At least she didn’t eat them.]
Emotion Sample: [Plenty of things about this place were nice, but they were also weird. She had heard tales that her emotions could have adverse effects - or positive effects! Depending on what triggered it and all. She had seen a positive side effect so far when she was reunited with Kineta and all of a sudden she felt warm - come to see that she had a glowing aura and emitting heat - like a warm fireplace; comforting and bright. It alarmed her at first, though the red panda she had been snuggling didn't mind the warmth. Once she learned it was because she felt a surge of happy emotions, it intrigued her more. Happy emotions as hiding in the streets a day or so later after she arrived, is what she surmised had been what triggered the surge of emotion. Kineta was, after all, a connection to the man she'd not gotten the chance to tell how she felt before she ended up in Verens.
But so far, nothing had really set her off to see what the negative effect was, not yet.
Not until her second day that was. The day where everything was going wrong.
First, she had woken up on the literal wrong side of her bed and in her turned around confusion, ran face first into a wall. Next, in trying to make something fairly basic for breakfast she burned it beyond something that was remotely edible - which, while would almost be the norm for her, she had been getting better up until today! - so... well, there went some of the welcome money she had gotten for a breakfast not made by her. Not long after she tripped and dropped the contents of her coinpurse on the street, followed by heavy foot traffic to stop her from picking it up as quick as she'd like.
The final cherry on top after she had felt her ire rising was as she was walking home in defeat after only getting some of her money back? Was as she passed under some windows to be met with someone opening their window and throwing some dirty water out. She didn't know why they'd do that, but it landed square on her, drenching her from head to toe. It was in that instant that she let out a roar of frustration and the ground - and the building closest to her, at least to a small degree - as well as parts of herself began to ice over.]
Godsdamnit this isn't funny anymore! If I'm going to be used for some... some gods' comedy show, I want out of here! Wait, what the--
[The realization of the ice finally hit her, and as she glanced around, the ice slowly thawed. Was that the reaction to her negative feelings? As she thought about it, the person who had thrown the water out poked their head out to see what the fuss was and yelled out a quick apology. One Caelia didn't hear.]
Thal's balls, that's-- that's definitely something. Reminds me of switching from Astral to Umbral in my magic... I like it!
[Well, crisis for the day somewhat averted? Sure, she still needed to go and get into something dry and probably lock herself in her room for the rest of the day, but it was at least a small light at the end of the really dark tunnel of bad luck.]
Questions: None! Just the one in the "Other" section regarding her pet! If any of her abilities need to be nerfed down, just let me know as well.
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Caelia is a very distrustful person on the outside and has so many walls put up for people to break through that most don't even really want to try. She's a cold, bitter bitch to just about everyone - to the point where when she was working with Ishgard she was called an Ice Queen because of how cold and uncaring she was toward the other people in the barracks. She's fiery and will run her mouth if she's irritated - or just wants to get under someone's skin. Sure, she has a filter but unless she knows the outcome won't go in her favour it's... well, it's there, but not often. She'll speak what's on her mind, even if it's cutting to someone else, and she has no problem telling someone where to shove their opinions of her. All in all she's very much an untamed wildfire of scathing looks and comments.
However, this doesn't extend out to those that have shown her kindness, children, and those who can't help themselves. When she takes odd jobs and the person requesting help can't pay in gil? Caelia will take whatever they offer as to not be rude about her reward - she's made that mistake before and not only offended the request-giver, but also upset them greatly. She's not made that mistake again. She's taken food, clothes, children's drawings, things that she's afraid that has sentimental value even though she's been told it has none... but she'll use a lot of those same rewards to give back. She has no issue giving out clothes, food, and blankets out to the refugees on Pearl Lane before some go back to her friends and family back in the Wilds. Of course, some of that money stays with her, especially from the higher-paying jobs. She has a good taste for fashion and has a small house she shares with Terris in the Goblet when they're both not out for jobs or work.
Though she may dislike people and is distrustful of most everyone, however, she will still help out - sometimes begrudgingly - should they be in trouble. In order to help Mentor she had to work with Anton, and her opinion of him is incredibly low. She knew that the only way to get into the library and deal with the nasties that took up residence would only really be doable with two people, and having a second set of eyes, even untrained for what she knew they would be looking for, would be a bigger boon than working alone - especially against the clock. With someone like Terris, and anyone who gets close, she becomes fiercely loyal - going so far as to give her own life for that person. Her friends and family are of course in that place, but anyone else that gets that close? She would do anything to help them. That is, of course, if they can stomach her craptastic attitude leading up to that point.
Once someone gets to know her, Caelia will be a lot softer toward that person. She'll still have a bit of sass to her, but she won't purposefully try to get under their skin - she becomes an actual person as opposed to someone who doesn't want to let someone in and does anything to prevent that. She has more of a sense of humor, helps people out without a fuss, and smiles a little more. It's still rare to draw an Actual Smile out of her, but letting her guard down is easier around people who she's closer to. If it's broughht up with her, she'll deny that she's being a softie, and will chalk it up to them being crazy - and she'll do it with a smile.
The one thing that doesn't change, no matter if she's close or not close to someone is how utterly reckless she can be. Charging in to fight a bunch of Garleans? Jumping up on to one of the walls in Limsa Lominsa to spin around with the biggest shit-eating grin on her face (to be met with a Very Unhappy and Disapproving Look from Terris)? Casting magic in a place that's unsafe for her to do so but still does because it kills off voidsent or other nasties? That's Caelia. She has very little regard for herself when it comes to doing anything, really - if it gets her to her destination faster, she'll go through a dangerous area, if she finds something she wants to study in more detail? She'll go and do it, no matter what she has to do to get there. She was recently holed up in the Lost City of Amdapor's lower depths doing her own independant research simply because she wanted to see if there was more she could learn from her ancestral home, magicks-crazed statues be damned.
Building on that, Caelia loves to read and study, though studying new forms of magic and such is the most fun for her. She picks up magical formuale and incantations and their requirements quickly, something her grandmother has always been proud of. It made it easy for her to at least become adept in the art of the Astrologian and the art of Arcanum and the way of the Arcanist in Limsa Lominsa. They're more of a hobby, though the healing arts they both teach help her out in the field since she has no way of casting Actual White Magic. Overall, learning is something she enjoys, and even with her general distaste for people and all, she can overcome that wall with a good learning session with someone else, be it giving a good book recommendation, knowledge she didn't previously have of magic, up to and including how to make some basic food (she's not good with her hands to cook or make things.) She enjoys a good challenge.
On top of all of this, Caelia can be very prideful. While she won't outright admit her status of being an Amdapori (which loops back around to trust; to date the only person that knows this about her is Terris) or anything like that, she finds it difficult to sometimes speak her true feelings. This past Valentione's Day celebrations, she very nearly told Terris that she loved him, but refrained from doing so, citing that she was afraid he'd leave her. Most of the time it comes down to a fear that she's got with telling people her feelings. She's good at keeping them locked away, and it takes a lot to get her to actually speak on them - a feat not even Terris has done. Letting her guard down and fully trusting someone is difficult for her, and few people have gotten to that point with her. Freely admitting anything about her or her innermost thoughts is a surefire way for her to dodge the questions or change the subject entirely as subtly as she can.
A quirk of Caelia's is that while she's fairly well-spoken when she talks to people, biting commentary or no, if she's angered enough she loses that well-spoken tone and could probably make a former pirate blush with what comes out of her mouth, and how it comes out of her mouth. She doesn't like it when it happens, and tries to keep her cool, but when people push her buttons once they see the fire burning in her eyes... well. It doesn't end nicely.
Abilities: Despite her blood being of those of the White Magic users of the past, she has no ability to cast them. She has figured out how to cast some larger, more ancient (and sometimes forbidden) magic through changing magical properties, but for the most part she won't cast them - casting them that way takes a toll on her body and her innate aether, something she won't do no matter how reckless she is... with some exceptions. She'll do so if there's someone willing to shoulder half of the aether burden, something she did when Mentor was aging rapidly. When she got in contact with Kine, a friend from her hamlet, the two of them cast an old spell found in one of the tomes Caelia had brought back with her from the Gubal Library - it still took a nasty toll on her, and she slept for a week after.
As for what she can do without little thought or toll on herself, a list of Black Mage abilities is here - all abilities to level 70 are what she can do. Through Terris' military training, she can handle a bow and a dagger, though that's more for if she gets into a scrape she can't cast magic in, or she needs a distraction - he taught her with the idea of her protection in place, just in case he couldn't reach her in time. Nothing fancy, but she does know them. Swords or anything too heavy are a no go for her, she's a noodly mage after all!
As for other schools of magic, abilties from the Astrologian tree are here - Caelia is only adept enough to know the basic spells, and does not have a Deck of Sixty to be able to draw the cards - not that she would know what to do with them anyway with no formal trainer. (So in plain terms, the abilities to 26.) Her abilities as an Arcanist are lacking as she's not had the time to actually study it in any real capacity beyond "basic". She can cast things up until Miasma at level 10 - her ability to sustain a Carbuncle is still shaky, but she can summon one for a short time.
As stated in her history, she has no ability to cast White Magic. The most she can do is convert it over to a different element, and she really only has interest to do so if it's a bigger spell. She would love to learn as a Red Mage, and has a basic understanding of how it works, but no real investment has been made to learn the inner workings thus far.
To go along with her being a fast learner, she has an insight to the history of the War of the Magi, and can prattle on about what she knows. Not entirely an ability, but she does enjoy the history for as far back as she can learn, and she knows her facts.
Alignment: Piphron - Caelia works heavily on trust and how much she trusts someone. However, her emotions also run on how she's fiercely loyal to someone once they've gotten far enough into knowing her and broken down walls to get to know her. Considering she's highly distrustful of people for a good amount of time before she starts to maybe warm up to them (and that's the main source of her dislike of people) since they could just be her friend for the power they think she posesses... Piphron is perfect.
Other: Kineta will be coming along for the ride with her into Emp if that's cool!
General Sample:
[Upon her return home, or at least home enough to be in La Noscea and not half a world away, Caelia found herself running an errand – job? – errand-job for someone, leading her to the U’ghamaro Mines for some specialized ore. It wasn’t the most glamorous job, but it was going to line her pockets nice enough. There was really no issue getting into the mines undetected, but when she looked at her orders again to see what exactly she needed, it gave her pause.
Iron ore, sure. That was easy. But from the coblyns– er no, doblyns? Same family, same difference– instead of just grabbing it out of the mine carts the kobolds had amassed. A few of the creatures skittered by her, with their weird gurgle-cries, almost as if they were playing tag or something. They were out of sight for a moment, before skittering past again, still playing coblyn tag or whatever it was they were doing. Cae almost felt bad that she was going to need to end their silly lives, but… money talked.]
Dunno what sort of money coblyn ore rakes in, but it’s enough. And to think, someone some time ago thought that you weird rock things would be good eatin’ too. How, I’ve no idea, you don’t look appetizing– I mean, I guess hunger does weird things to people, but you things are the last creatures I’d want to try to eat.
[With how they skittered and gurgled and were almost… cute, oblivious to their impending doom to be used in some jewelry or somesuch, it gave Caelia stay of her hand after she watched them for long enough.
Lucky bastards.
After a few bells, Caelia was back on her way to Limsa Lominsa, iron ore in hand– ore she had just rifled through to find the purest rocks of to bring back. They’d not know the difference, she didn’t think they would.
At least she didn’t eat them.]
Emotion Sample:
[Plenty of things about this place were nice, but they were also weird. She had heard tales that her emotions could have adverse effects - or positive effects! Depending on what triggered it and all. She had seen a positive side effect so far when she was reunited with Kineta and all of a sudden she felt warm - come to see that she had a glowing aura and emitting heat - like a warm fireplace; comforting and bright. It alarmed her at first, though the red panda she had been snuggling didn't mind the warmth. Once she learned it was because she felt a surge of happy emotions, it intrigued her more. Happy emotions as hiding in the streets a day or so later after she arrived, is what she surmised had been what triggered the surge of emotion. Kineta was, after all, a connection to the man she'd not gotten the chance to tell how she felt before she ended up in Verens.
But so far, nothing had really set her off to see what the negative effect was, not yet.
Not until her second day that was. The day where everything was going wrong.
First, she had woken up on the literal wrong side of her bed and in her turned around confusion, ran face first into a wall. Next, in trying to make something fairly basic for breakfast she burned it beyond something that was remotely edible - which, while would almost be the norm for her, she had been getting better up until today! - so... well, there went some of the welcome money she had gotten for a breakfast not made by her. Not long after she tripped and dropped the contents of her coinpurse on the street, followed by heavy foot traffic to stop her from picking it up as quick as she'd like.
The final cherry on top after she had felt her ire rising was as she was walking home in defeat after only getting some of her money back? Was as she passed under some windows to be met with someone opening their window and throwing some dirty water out. She didn't know why they'd do that, but it landed square on her, drenching her from head to toe. It was in that instant that she let out a roar of frustration and the ground - and the building closest to her, at least to a small degree - as well as parts of herself began to ice over.]
Godsdamnit this isn't funny anymore! If I'm going to be used for some... some gods' comedy show, I want out of here! Wait, what the--
[The realization of the ice finally hit her, and as she glanced around, the ice slowly thawed. Was that the reaction to her negative feelings? As she thought about it, the person who had thrown the water out poked their head out to see what the fuss was and yelled out a quick apology. One Caelia didn't hear.]
Thal's balls, that's-- that's definitely something. Reminds me of switching from Astral to Umbral in my magic... I like it!
[Well, crisis for the day somewhat averted? Sure, she still needed to go and get into something dry and probably lock herself in her room for the rest of the day, but it was at least a small light at the end of the really dark tunnel of bad luck.]
Questions: None! Just the one in the "Other" section regarding her pet! If any of her abilities need to be nerfed down, just let me know as well.