"Look to the stars, and tell me that our dreams are impossible"
Art By Archery
A thavnarian with a starlit soul, the man carries himself with grace, elegance, and humble nature that serves him well both as a diplomat, and a courtesan. Nor is the oracle hard to find given the celestial-themed silks he never seems without, and the mirror-polished silver of his jewelry that accents the rest.A feast for the senses, for those who indulge within his company - both fleeting, and long term. While a smooth silvered tongue offers only genuine sincerity and truth. Even when delighting with wordplay and poetics for the entertainment of those he's with. Ever eager and curious, to explore and enjoy the stories of others and turn the pages with each encounter.Perhaps, maybe they'll offer him the same in kind?
"Caught your eye? I'm honored, may I ask what sparked your curiosity?"
Full Name: Aludove
Nicknames: Alu, dove.
Age: 30
Gender: Androgynous Trans Male
Race: Immortal Elezen
Origin: Born Ishgardian, Raised Thavnairian
Height: 5'1 (154 cm)
Scent: Sandalwood and Rose Oil
Eye Color: Pale stardusted violet
Hair Color: Rose Red, moon-blue highlights and tips
Skin Color: Pale, but has actually been outdoors.
Faction: Courtesan's Guild, Thavnarian Chapter
Crest: A bloomed rose with celestial coloured petals and stained glass leaves.
Social Status: Upper Middle Class
Sexual Orientation: Demisexual, heavy male preference
Current Residence: Lavender beds, Gridania
Occupation: Dancer at the Gilded Knob, Courtesan.
Philosophy: Philosophical Hedonist
Ailments: Managed Depression and PTSD
Art By Zeiyth
"That's the funny thing about imagination, it only makes you want to know more about the unknown."
Vices: Smoke (Natural herbs, no drugs), Tea, Gambling, physical sensuality (touch)
Likes: Triple Triad, Chocobo Racing, Pleasant Company, Conversation, Exploration, Adventuring, Nature's beauty, Good Food, Games, Harmless Pranks, Traveling, Snakes, Birds, Horses, Plays, Fiction, Flirting.
Dislikes: Sandstorms, bitter foods, children, heavy crowds.
Loves: Strawberries, Chocolate, Seafood, astrology, hot fragrant baths.
Hates: Extreme Heat, Coffee.
Fears: Fire
Interests: Culture in general, Psychology, Philosophy, Astrology, Botany, Relationship Dynamics, Exploration, Discovery, History, Aetherial Manipulation
Hobbies: Breeding Roses, Making Tea (Growing, Harvest, Processing, Blending), crafting glamours, and pushing the boundary of what is possible with them.Personality: Aludove is a curious yet disciplined individual who carries himself with grace, elegance, and allure that suits him well as a courtesan. He is vain but humble, confident, flirtatious, playful, and affectionate yet reserved. Even his sensual silvered words hold only honesty and sincerity. While his touch is genuine in its tenderness and compassion. In truth, he operates with no agenda, no motives, and simply seeks to enjoy what life has to offer him. Drinking deep the stories offered by those he meets, as if they were books within an endless library.
"I'm the way I am for my own pleasure, if someone else finds me enjoyable? I'm flattered."
At a glance, the man seems far too good to be true. Pleasing to the eye, yet naturally executed. Pleasing to the ear, and with casual ease. His androgyny seamless, and his celestial aether as deep and vast as the sunless sea itself.
Body Type: Slender and Androgynous, the life of a dancer both in and out of combat has shaped him well. With pleasant curves, and just enough tone to give definition. It's a proper regime of training, diet, and routine that keeps him looking the way he pleases.Eyes: Pale violet makes up the iris around each rounded pupil. But it's the glimmering stardust within both, that makes the former seem as if liquid trapped beneath perfectly translucent glass. Their glow, almost akin to violet moonlight in dim lighting.Eyes (Fae Form): A starry expanse of night itself fills where the Fae's eyes would be. Endless, and glimmering with living stars - while a moon reflecting it's current phase has taken the place of an Iris and pupil.Hair: Soft as rabbit's fur to the touch, and smooth as spun silk. His natural wavy rose-red hair is often left loose, and only lightly braided in some places for accents. Of which have silver chains and celestial charms woven into them. While the highlights and tips of a pale moon-blue seem to glow in dim, or low lighting. It's kept to thigh-length and well-tended.Hair (Fae Form): From root to tip, his hair turns a sheen of luminescent pale moon-blue that glows as if made entirely of spun moonlight.Skin: Pale in hue, its texture is that of rose petals smooth, soft velvet. A fitting canvas for the faint, iridescent star chart patterns that cover him from the jaw down.Skin (Fae Form): Those previously faint markings glow with natural bioluminescence. Vibrant in low and dim lighting, as they shift between the green, blues and violets of an Aurora Borealis.
Art By KatheRead
Wings: Called upon only when needed, the fae's wings are not only useful in some situations - but vital to his work. Like feathered paintbrushes, the proportional wings are shaped like a phoenix and seem as if forged from the night sky themselves in their coloration. A deep, dark night sky blue-black that serves as the backdrop to endless living stars and constellations. Yet despite the stained glass seen to the surface of them, the feathers themselves are softer and lighter than any true birds. When stationary, the vibrant shifting hues of the Northern Lights dance as if trapped beneath the surface. But when in flight, they pour from his wingtips like paints from a brush - and fill the air within his wake.Wings (Fae Form): When not formed into the wings themselves, they forge a cloak that trains behind him as he walks. As if the Northern Lights had been forged into silk so fine, no mortal eye can see its fibres.Bird Form: Like all members of the Court of Night, he is able to take the shape of a bird. For him, this means a pale moon-blue peacock with a tail shifting with the tri-coloured hues of the Northern lights. This train, serves as his brush, much as his wings do in Fae Form - but is also large enough to serve as a mount. Provided he was up to offering such an honour.
Unique Features
Curved claws tip every finger and toe.
The glow of his eyes matches the intensity and potency of his emotional state and overall health. Being more vibrant when emotionally heightened, and dim when ill or nearly aetherically drained.
He is abnormally small for an elezen, the result of stunted growth as a child.
Scars
None, thusfar
Tattoos
None, thusfar
Markings
Faint iridescent star charts cover his body from the jaw down. To those knowing how to read them, they would be of the skies of the first astral era.
Piercings
Both ears, from the lobe to the tip along the lower edge of each.
Both nipples.
Navel
Corset piercings have been done down both of the man's sides from just below the armpit, to his hips, and deep enough to be permanent.
Clitoral hood
Physical Defenses
Strong sense for Aetherical, spiritual, and supernatural energies.
High Aetherical Endurance and Stamina
Well suited to speed and agility.
Flight Capable
Higher resistance to cold, ice, and colder climates
Peaks in strength during the winter months, in colder climates.
Physical Weaknesses
Susceptible to iron
Penalty to heat/fire resistance, and ill-suited to hotter climates.
Low physical stamina
Low physical strength and Endurance
Empathic to emotions, he can become overwhelmed in crowds.
Weakest during the Summer months, and in hotter climates.
"Curiosity is the key to opportunity, why not indulge yours and see where it leads you?"
Solais a Tuath, Painter of the Northern Lights
One of the elder Seelie Fae belonging to the Court of Night, it is both his duty and his passion to bring the beautiful colours of the Aurora to the skies above Coerthas and Dravania. As such, it is not far-fetched to say - that a wandering individual within these regions at night. Might catch the fae in the middle of the act, and oh what stories, rumours, and reactions that might bring.Even when not painting, however, Solais himself is a wanderer and uses his mortal form to walk, talk, and interact with the Mortals of the Source. Though he hides well - the keen and the curious might not be so willing to brush off that celestial, ancient aether as mere astromancy. Throw in his selfless, caring nature, and his favouritism for bards, poets, artists, and other Mortals seeking inspiration from the starlit sky - and there are quite a number of potential scenes and rp opportunities that could come from this.Or perhaps, your character is already a believer in the fae - a devout, who has simply yet to meet these ethereal forces of nature in the flesh? I'm open to many ideas, and you are free to bring all that comes to mind to me if you wish.
*This part of his character can be opted out by those uninterested in exploring his Fae Identity and Heritage.
Though I have done all I can to ensure I'm as lore adherent as possible - I understand some rpers would still rather not.
Please let me know if this is your preference, and I can RP Alu as just a normal, undetectable, astrologian for you.*
A Companion's Loving Touch
Trained in Thavnair within the Companion's Guild of the Gilded Sands. His focus as a courtesan lies more in a focus upon 'The Bond', then sexual acts and services. which means that not only is he focused upon the unique dynamic forged with his clients, but the authenticity of their connection and chemistry. Due to this, he is a favoured pick of those who are in loveless marriages. Or would otherwise be unable to hire a companion out of concern for their reputation, and worry of a potential scandal.Highly educated, multi-talented, and well-spoken - he is just as suitable upon the arm of an affluent noble within the highest tiers of Ishgardian Nobility. As he is within the shadowed underground of Kugane's criminal circuits. Combined also with the man's penchant for authenticity, sincerity, and genuine interest in those he works for and entertains. His clients have never been left guessing, or doubting that what they forge with him is anything but real - and far from motivated by coin. Given that the Courtesan strangely never seems to hold interest in Gil, or charges for his services.
I never charge real gil for any of Aludove's courtesan Services outside of venues.
A Wanderer's Soul
With as insatiable as his curiosity is, the Thavnairian is not a difficult man to track down or find. From stumbling into him on the city streets to happening upon him out in the wilds of the world. Aludove has a reason to be just about anywhere, for anything. Due to this, organic out in the open world scenes and scenario's can be easily thought up and run by me as you please. Perhaps, he even stumbles upon your own character out in the middle of nowhere unexpectedly.His favoured locations over most, are the shroud, Ishgard, Coerthas, and Dravania. More often than not, he's around these areas - even more so at night.
The 'Tea House' of Ishgard
House Corbeaunt - is a name well known in Ishgard, though not in the way many would expect of Ishgard's mid-teir nobility. For where many of its families, houses, and names are known for their military, or their contributions to the church. It's to the growing, harvesting, blending, and supplying this luxury that has branded the 'House of the Raven' into the minds and hearts of Ishgards citizens.Grown in Corbeaunt-owned greenhouses that have allowed pre-calamity species to survive within the wake of Coerthas fall into endless winter. The year-round, high-quality, high-yield production methods have been a closely guarded secret for generations. But allows the Corbeaunt teas to become so affordable, that is often a staple of the military - and even enjoyed by those of the Brume!The families' financial contributions have always made their way back into the city itself in kind. Most notably, in the reconstruction, and reformation efforts of Ishgard itself post-dragonsong. No doubt your character has heard of them, enjoyed them, and likely has a few favoured signature blends of theirs in their cabinets!
