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Character Strengths: Anafenza Ejinn

★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆  —  strength

★★★★★★★☆☆☆  —  offense

★★★★★★★★☆☆  —  defense

★★★★★★☆☆☆☆  —  speed

★★★★★★★★★☆  —  durability

★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆  —   accuracy

★★★★★★★★★☆  —  agility

★★★★★★★★★★  —  stamina

★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆  —  teamwork

★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆  —  stealth

★★★★★★☆☆☆☆  —  close combat         

★★★★★★★★★★  —  bladed weapons ( swords, dagger/s )

★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆  —  blunt weapons ( club/s, staff/s )  

★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆  —  ranged weapons ( archery, gun/s )

★★★★★★★★☆☆  —  superpowers / abilities

★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆  —  traps/setups

★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ —  medic

– ––– OVERVIEW ––– –

Anafenza relies on an innate ability to shield herself and her allies from harm, as well as a wellspring of aether to summon a large blade to do battle with. With five turns of practice tapping into this potential, she claims she has a better grasp and control over her powers, but in truth she’s aware that she’s barely scratching the surface of the curse she now bears.  Still, her powers are strongest when she is under duress emotionally, tapping into the extra power this affords her to strengthen her resolve and defensive magicks.  While she had originally been training with a short sword and shield, since the events that resulted in her being cursed she’s found it difficult to wield them with any degree of comfort or practice, an oddity considering her natural ability to master nearly any skill or task she is presented with (owed to her Echo).

ANY LASTING INJURIES FROM COMBAT?  —

Anafenza bears a vine-like pattern of scales that winds up the left side of her body.  When her curse becomes more active, or when she fully taps into her powers, she will complain that the mark burns her.  After years of use, the pattern now stretches from her neckline, down her side, and down to her left knee; it’s also begun to branch out more, as if the scales threaten to wrap around her entire body now.  Despite recognizing this, she continues to use the abilities she’s gained, hoping to still protect her friends.

– ––– FIGHTING STYLE ––– –BOLD WHAT APPLIES.

commander /  duelist / honorable / dishonorable /  would have others do their fighting /  stealthy  / long-ranged /  melee / technological / sorcery  / superhuman abilities /  has fought in an illegal tourney / a lover of fighting / a hater of fighting  / cowardly /  reckless / strategic / uses underhanded tricks  / renowned for their skill / trained /  untrained / keeps skills secret / won a battle / lost a battle / ruthless / merciful

– ––– TRAITS ––– –

╳   flaws

moody | short-tempered | emotionally unstable | whiny | controlling | conceited | possessive | paranoid | liar | impatient | cowardly | bitter | selfish | power-hungry | greedy | lazy | judgmental | forgetful | impulsive | spiteful | stubborn | sadistic | petty | unlucky

♔   strengths

honest | trustworthy | thoughtful | caring | brave | patient | selfless | ambitious | tolerant | lucky | intelligent | confident | focused | humble | generous | merciful | observant | wise | clever | charming | cheerful | optimistic | decisive | adaptive | calm | loyal

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“You’ll always have a place here.”

Guilty or Innocent: Anafenza Ejinn

Asked someone to marry you?

“Well, no.  I haven’t really had anyone that close.  There was a time I thought maybe Kiratai would be the one I’d wind up with but...I’m not even sure that’s an option.  Or if I really want to, either, I guess?  I guess that matters, too.”

Kissed one of your friends?

“On the cheek?  Plenty.  Kissed like lovers?  No.  No one.”

Danced on a table in a bar / tavern?

“I think I did that one time in Ul’dah.  But it was during the end shift at the cafe and we were cleaning up.  Um...don’t tell Miss Sasari.”

Ever told a lie?

“Plenty.  I feel like I still have to lie.  Hells, I think I have to lie to myself just to justify waking up most mornings now.  ‘It’s important that I’m there.’  I dunno.”

Had feelings for someone you can’t have?

She sighs and nods.  “Twice.  She abandoned me when she left the Tower and I haven’t heard from her in a long time.  He...”  She shakes her head again.  “Let’s not talk about it.  It’s been awful enough.”

Ever kissed someone of the same sex?

“I’m still assuming this is as lovers so...no.  I have not.  I think I would have liked to, once, but...nah.”

Kissed a picture?

She shakes her head in confusion.  “Do people do that?  Why?  Next you’ll tell me people try swiving pictures, too.  Wait...they do?”

Slept until 5pm?

“Gods, yes.  When I’m sick mostly, but there were days in the other world when I had to stay awake for bloody days on end to play games with the Pixies...when I finally convinced them to see who could sleep the longest I’d sleep that late.  Funny, I still never beat them in those games, either...”

Worked at a fast food chain / restaurant?

“I suppose the Cafe would count for that, so yeah.  I can cook, I can bake, I can serve tables.  It was fun.  A lot of fun.  I enjoy working for Miss Sasari and learning from her.”

Stolen something?

“Probably?  If I did it was years ago; I haven’t stolen anything in recent memory.  Cookies in the kitchen don’t count.  Especially if you help bake them.”

Been fired from a job?

She stiffens and grumbles, then nods with a huff.  “Yeah.  It was horrible.  Miss Sasari just left a note for me an’ Kiratai, said we were no longer needed by the Caravan.  No reason why just...done.”  She shakes her head.  “Sasari came back and I asked her why she did it.  She never told me.  No one tells me anything.  But she was back and offered me my job back, so I took it.  It still hurt.  It wasn’t just losing a job...I lost my family.  And the timing of it too just...”  She shakes her head sadly.  “Next.”

Done something you regret?

She closes her eyes and nods, chuckling humorlessly.  “Yeah.  Actually telling people what I’m feeling.  Didn’t do me any good.  No one wants to hear it anyway.  So now I get to lie to them and myself.”  She puts on (an almost) genuine smile.

Laughed until something you were drinking came out of your nose?

“Oh gods, yes!  Too many times to count, but milk?  Uggh...that was never fun.  It always seems to be milk.”

Caught a snowflake on your tongue?

She pauses, tilting her head.  “I...have never tried that before.  Can you do that?  I should try that the next time I am in Ishgard!”

Sat on a rooftop?

“Uh, yes?  It’s not that hard to do, it’s a great vantage point, and in the afternoon it’s a great place for sunning after a swim.”

Kissed someone you shouldn’t have?

She shakes her head.  “I thought we already answered the kissing questions?”

Sang in the shower?

She laughs.  “I mean...no?  The few times I’ve taken a shower were in and out quickly.  Bathing, I mean...I’ve hummed a song now and then, I suppose?”

Been pushed into a body of water with all your clothes on?

"Uh...yeah.  That’s not that weird in my tribe.  We do that all the time when we’re kids.  It’s a large reason why I don’t really enjoy wearing clothes - they’re hard to swim in.”

Shaved your head?

She shakes her head.  “No way.  Why would I do that?"

Made a boyfriend / girlfriend cry?

"That would probably require a boyfriend or girlfriend first so...no.”

Shot a gun?

"I have not, but I do want to learn.  I’m not sure if Sasari or Mercer would still teach me, but I would like to learn.”

Still loved someone you shouldn’t?

She hangs her head.  “Probably easier to say that I don’t love them anymore.  Those bridges were taken out by the floods and even if they are rebuilt...no.  I don’t love any of them anymore.”  She sighs, before looking up.

Have / had a tattoo?

She smiles a little and shrugs.  “Thought about it, when Llaine went and adopted me into her family.  But she left before I could do it.”

Liked someone, but will never tell who?

“My problem was I did tell him.  Now?  I don’t think I’d tell a soul anymore.”

Been too honest?

"Yep.  And look at all the good it’s done for me.”

Ruined a surprise?

“I...don’t think so?  I’m usually good about keeping a secret.”

Been told that you’re beautiful by someone who totally meant what they said?

She bites her lip and sighs, looking away.  “No.  No, I haven’t.  I wouldn’t know what that’s like.”  She turns back and smiles.  “Oh well.”

Stalked someone?

She shakes her head.  “No.  Don’t know why I would.”

Thought about murder?

“Certainly.  Plenty of times.  I’ve even done it.  It’s why it confuses me so much and makes me so angry when I’m asking for restraint and everyone looks at me like I’m the naive one that needs to learn better.”

How about mass murder?

"Um...no.  Definitely not.”

Cheated on someone?

She shakes her head.  “No.  No one I could cheat on anyway.”

Gotten so angry that you cried?

“Plenty.  More than I ever cared to.  Not sure I’m done, either.”

Tried to stay away from someone for their own good?

She shakes her head.  “Not even for my own good.  I probably should have tried.  I didn’t know I needed to.  It was stupid.  I know better now.”

Thoughts about suicide?

She looks away silently, then shakes her head.  “I’d rather not...start telling the truth now.”

Had a girlfriend / boyfriend?

“No.  Would have liked to.  Don’t think I will.”

Gotten totally drunk during a holiday?

She finally laughs.  “Sure.  Plenty of reasons to celebrate in the Caravan, and then here for all the holidays Eorzeans celebrate...it’s fun.” Tagged by:  @mercermachines​ :)  Thanks for the tag! Tagging: @little-purple-thundercloud​; @steelcarbuncle​; @eightswordsparrow​; and of course anyone else (if anyone else even reads this blog, lol) :)

Magus Musings - Reflection

“Wicked white, Angan, not again! I told ye’ already, we don’ ‘ave no berry fruits ye be after!”

Angan tilted head to the side, staring at the hume merchant in confusion. “But I haven’t asked for any berries, Varden. I was just coming for the daily supplies like always, for the Spagyrics. What is this about berries now?” The young drahn woman shook her head, her mop of unkempt black hair falling over her shoulder. This was the third time today on her daily rounds through the Musica Universalis that someone had been exasperated with her for some reason or another.

The hume pointed a fat finger at her. “An’ another thing, how the bleedin’ ‘ells ‘re ye changin’ yer hair so damned fast like? It ain’t natural it ain’t! Ye look a sight better now than ye’ did just a bell ago, tha’s fer sure.  Bleedin’ bright pink as a pixie, as if we didn’ ‘ave enough bright colors ta stare at in the sky! But the answer’s still ‘no,’ so don’ think of addin’ – “

“Berries to the order, no, I got that. Pink hair? Me? Have you been drinking again, Varden? It’s only the eighth bell in the morn!” She took the sack of vials with an annoyed “thank you” and turned to walk away, shaking her head.

All morning, her usual rounds had led to one odd encounter after another. Pink hair. Barely dressed. Smelling of seaweed and “wet” – whatever that smelled like – and always, it seemed, just a bell or two ahead of her.

It was difficult in a town like the Crystarium to be mistaken for someone else. Sure, the occasional dwarf was hard to tell apart, and the zun all looked alike anyway, but there were so few people left in the world to begin with…well…it was difficult to find someone that would look or sound so similar to you that people you’d known for years could mistake you.

“What bloody sinner is going around acting like me,” Angan wondered aloud, making her way to the next stall. She paused, thinking her route again. The imposter was further ahead of her by at least a bell; what if she cut her off at her final stop?  Angan hurried out of the markets to the aetheryte, then down the steps to the Horotorium. It was usually her last stop, so she could go to the library for a new book, and then take the aetheryte back to the Exedra. She hurried down the stairs, her powerful tail swinging behind her.

In the Horotorium, no one seemed to notice anything amiss with her presence, other than noting how oddly *early* she was. “And you’re sure, there hasn’t been another drahn that looks like me down here” she asked the botanists.

“No one except you, Angan. Is something the matter?”

She shook her head, scratching behind her horn a moment in thought. “Thanks anyway,” she replied, turning away. She approached the Cabinet of Curiosity, deciding she could at least get her new book while she was down here, and then return to her daily errands.

The doors of the great library swung open in front of her, and she looked up in time to see –

She blinked.

She saw herself blink back at her. At least, it could have been her, if she had decided to put a flower in her hair and color it bright pink. Or if she had decided to dress as if she were cavorting on a stage in Eulmore.

Angan raised a finger, pointing at the other woman. “You!” She took a threatening step towards…well, herself. “I have been looking all over for -!”

The other woman went wide-eyed, then made a dash for the nearby aetheryte. Her hand reached out and she was gone in a flash, just as Angan managed to hustle to close the gap with her. She cried out in frustration; the woman could be anywhere in the Crystarium now, or even leaving.

But there had been no mistaking that face…those horns…the tail even. Her eyes had been ringed yellow, like Angan’s…the patterns of scales covering her. The woman could have been her twin, had Angan not known better.

“Who the hells do you think you are,” she said to no one in particular. “How did you…wicked white…”

At that moment, Angan thought it may be wise to finish her errands in the markets – the sooner she finished, the sooner she could enjoy a much-needed drink.

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Conflux, Pt. 7

Anafenza tugged on the small jewel embedded in her horn.  She twisted it and tugged, feeling a small pop in her horn as the pearl came free, chipping away some of the horn as she did so.  She handed is to the Commander, who was pulling out her scanning device – the “tricorder.”

“Alright, that takes care of the two of us.”  The Commander looked up to the other blue woman.  “Your phone; it’s still getting a signal, yeah?  That should help locate and isolate your signal as well.”

“I can do you even better,” Stormy grinned, pulling the slender, black, rectangular device from her pocket. “It’s tied to the medicom system; when it detects my lifesigns are hitting critical levels, it activates the emergency transport beacon to send me to the nearest hospital.”

“It’s tied to a system on Earth in your time with a full reading of your vitals!”  The Commander smiled wide and nodded.  “That’s great!  Let me pair it to my tricorder.”  She began tapping buttons on the device, then paused and looked up.  “Um…do you have a ‘blue tooth?’”

Stormy snickered, tapping the device’s screen before handing it over.  “Bluetooth is enabled; you can pair it to your tricorder?”

The Commander shrugged. “It should be sending the correct signal?  Oh! There we go.  Yes.”  She took the phone and began tapping on the screen, then set the two aside with her badge.  “That takes care of those.  Now how do we fit the linkpearl in?”

“I could…”  Anafenza began, thinking aloud.  “What if I activated it, and then we meld it to your badge, like a materia?”

The other two women looked at her with an expression that told Ana they had no idea what she just said. The auri sighed.  “We attach it to the badge after I activate it.”

Stormy raised her hand, starting to ask “what is a materia-“ when the Commander elbowed her to shut up, then nodded.  “Alright, let’s try that.”

The women gathered around, as the Commander looked at the pearl in one hand, and her comm badge in the other.  The badge was gold and silver, with a thin wire bent around in the shape of an arrow, and two gold strips behind it.  She shrugged, then shoved the pearl between the two gold strips in the center of the badge.

Anafenza and Stormy chuckled a little, and the Commander just looked up and nodded, satisfied with her work.  Her tricorder beeped then, and she picked it up to read off the screen.  “It’s Rafale; they think they have a solution and said to contact when we’re ready to try it.”

The three women all looked at one another.  Stormy spoke first.  “Well…if it doesn’t work…”

The Commander shook her head.  “It has to work.”

“If it doesn’t, alright?” Stormy shook her head.  “I do feel a little bad we didn’t…really get to learn more about each other.  But this was neat.  A very…interesting experience.”

Anafenza nodded in agreement.  “I..am sorry Jessika could not be here to share this with you.  I think she would have enjoyed meeting you both.  I certainly have.”

The Commander sighed and nodded.  “Would love to be able to share this with the scientific community if we make it out of here. Not just proof of parallel universes but even parallels across time as well.  This was incredible.  I just wish the circumstances were better.”  She smiled. “Are we all ready?”

After they all nodded, the Commander took a deep breath.  “Jess, activate your medicom; Ana, your linkpearl.  Then, Jess, take the badge, and charge up.”

Stormy tapped her phone, while Ana took the badge and pressed the pearl in the center.  She felt the small tug of aether as she activated it, connecting it to the lifestream, before handing it to Stormy. The blue woman held it tight, powering up her electricity again, then pressed the badge.  It chirped.

“Rafale, St. Peter. We’re ready!  Go with the plan!”

“We have you Commander. M’Ral tied the navigational chronometric sensors to the transporter system; we were able to trace the link to the tricorder, now we’re switching to the comm channel…”  The woman on the other end gasped.  “Whatever you’re doing over there, I can pick out all three distinct signals for you.  Keep it up: M’Ral, prepare to initiate transport!”

Stormy screamed.  “Whatever it is, hurry up!”

Anafenza looked around; the creeping Nothing was closing in faster.  Even the tree in the center was starting to disappear.  She grit her teeth, her scar suddenly burning.

A gravelly voice came across now.  “Positive lock through the aether interference, initiating quantum transport in five…four…three…”

Anafenza shrieked, the burning was far greater.  She could see the dark aether begin to roll off of her body now, in the same way it was rolling off the tree before.  Her vision blurred, and she felt like she was reaching out in the lifestream, her aether chasing something unseen, searching…

“Two…one…energize!”

Ana screamed over the sound of chimes in the air, and a swirling vortex of lights wrapped itself around each of the three women.  Her vision was consumed with light.

Magus Musings: Week 1

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