Biography

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REAL AGE: ??? | Appears to be in her Early 20s
RACE: Hyur? (Midlander) | Elemental, Earth Spirit
SEXUALITY: Bisexual
NATION: Gridania
ORIGIN: Black Shroud, Allag

"The earth by which man walks was to be the heart.
The sea by which life gives way is to be the mind.
...And the heavens that weep for a child returned will become its soul."

Anastasia Loreley is a spirit forced into the man-made flesh of mortal men and mer. A spirit encased in an empty golem's shell made in the bygone eras of the Allagans, she was a spirit made to serve their everyday life. Though, at first she had minded, furious to have been forced to awaken but with the years passing by without the strength nor ability to defy her overseers. She adapted, and learned from those she served, she had gleamed through the life they've lived and understood from that point on the matters of their dreams, their hopes, and their desires in life.

In them she learned the beauties of life but longevity is a curse for those 'blessed' with the life to walk beyond their paths. For the golem embodies both the beauty of life and the inevitable death. She was created way beyond the time of any empire that was the true nature of spirits as was the same of her kin that dwells in the Black Shroud but life was ever growing, and evolution and survival walk hand and hand in the ever shifting revolutions of time.

But like all stories goes, even great empires will fall to ruin by their own hubris. She lived to tell the tale of the fall of the empire, forced to watch the life leave the eyes of those she had grown to care, to raise, and serve. With the Allagans gone, she was forced to enter an indefinite slumber before the Garlean Empire had found her in the old recess of the Allagan's buried laboratories. Awakened to a life she did not recognise, again was she meant to serve. The same old tale, used as an experiment, made to serve and slay... And then, she ran. Sick and tired of the life she was forced to live, she ran... And never looked back.

She ran and ran till she would be forgotten... Just like her past and her home. Now forced to face with the reality that this is no longer, the era she knew. Anastasia is now made to walk a life of a mortal when she herself was not and find meaning in the new role she was made to realise.

Personality

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Anastasia is a spirit in a golem's body as such because of her intricate nature, she suffers from her own woodsin, the Greenwrath that those native to Black Shroud are knowledgeable on. Due to this, she suffers from perpetual pain, thunder and vein-like patterned scars criss-cross her body that caused her to have a tendency to hide her suffering with a smile.

A pacifist and soft-spoken by nature, Anastasia does not favour violence but having been conscripted and experimented by both the Allagans and the Garlean Empire, she will take up arms if needed though reluctant in doing so but if it meant protecting what she must, she will do so at the cost of her own self. The embodiment of a glass cannon. Powerful but just as fragile due to her nature as a man-made golem.

It is good to note that due to her nature as a golem, she does not like physical contact of any form, not in the sense that she is heavily bothered by physical touch but more so because she does not have a temperature of her own, having to rely on the atmosphere around her to embody the same temperature. If one were to touch her it would ruin her cover after all, it's not really normal to touch a body as cold as a corpse. As such she has a very bad tendency to hide every parts of her body to avoid anyone's suspicion and avoid any forms of affection or physical contact if needed.

Overall, Anastasia is a kind-hearted person by nature but due to her 'affliction', she is averse to both physical contact and general affection by those that would come to know her. Especially, when her body itself cannot generate body heat and relies heavily on the atmospheric temperature around her. The woman never bleeds after all, she only ever breaks. Yet behind all this is simply a woman lost and suffering from their own self-loathing, a loneliness that they forced themselves to impose on their heart.

Timeline

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