You see…

Who:
A tall Elezen often hiding his face or drinking late at The Gold Saucer.What:
He is a mage, he says, but what tome is he studying this week? Why does he look so embarrassed when he talks about it? Anyone who has witnessed him practice can see the lack of confidence in his casting, as if he is always thinking of something else or expecting to fail.Where:
Often seen looking for work, books, flashy clothes or day-old pastries in the city of Ul'Dah, with the anxious air of a man hiding in plain sight.When:
Wylim is a very ordinary man, one of the untold millions who live their whole lives in the shadow of great events, scarcely aware of the forces shaping his world. He knows little of the news of the day, fully occupied with his own petty concerns.Why:
He does everything he can— and sometimes more— for those he loves. He is desperately trying to keep them safe or keep them close, whether that means hiding his weaknesses or supplementing his strengths by any means necessary.

His Stats

Duskwight cis male | he/him
Pansexual | Open | In a relationship
Height: 6'10"
Age: youthful elezen 40's
Likes: sweets, strong liquor, poetry
Dislikes: guilt, feeling underdressed & outclassed
Patron: Oschon
Guardian: Azeyma
Aetheric Signature: wisps of light that range from green to gold and flicker like a flame in a draft

Looking for

21+
RP / ERP / MRP
Walk Ups/Tells welcome

Storylines

*viewer discretion advised. E=Everyone | M=Mature | A=Adult, may contain sex, violence, dark themes

Errand boy (E) - hire him for a job, he needs experience more than he needs the coin.Writer / Enthusiast (E) - looking for writers, readers, historians, scientists, poets, scholars, arcanists; let him aid in your research, he wants to know.Shroud culture (E) - will often wax nostalgic about the vibrant yet insular life of his community of origin, and the many reasons why he left, and all the gossip and drama of his letters from home.Ul'Dah struggles (M) - having left the Black Shroud for the big city, Wylim is disillusioned but still tempted by dreams of money and power.Duality (M) - admirer of the high ideals of Azeyma, Wylim aspires to greatness but is blown hither and yon by his true nature as a dandy, dilettante and pleasure seeker. How he despises his own weakness.Hiding out (A) - someone he should never have trusted wants to hurt him again.Love (A) - for some he falls hard, for others he falls fast, for still others he falls deep. All of the above? Now that's trouble.

Curriculum Magica

Conjury Proficiency: adept
Studies: under Rhodrydd Gofynan, Master Conjurer, Black Shroud
Specialty: can channel enough aether for small interventions without the use of a wand
Professional Experience:
Adventurer for hire, Mugito Acquisitions And Logistics (~14mo)
Event staff, location confidential (Present)Thaumaturgy Proficiency: intermediate
Studies: under the masters of the Thaumaturges Guild, Ul’Dah
Specialty: accuracy with fireballs has been measured at 78%
Professional Experience:
Adventurer for Hire, Mugito Acquisitions And Logistics (~14mo)
Personal Assistant to private individual (4 mo)
Security guard, Mugito Acquisitions And Logistics (Present)
Freelance adventurer (Present)Arcanima Proficiency: beginner
Studies: self-taughtSpecial Skills:
Writing (prose and verse), research, cleaning, listeningObjective:
To do more good than harm, to advance the study and appreciation of the similarities between the disparate magical practices of Eorzea, to bring a poetic sensibility to the practice of magic in battle and in healing, to create and experience beauty, to recover the lost works of the great Shroud poetsContact:
c/o Hourglass mailroom, Ul’Dah
or my retainers

ooc

✿Me✿
Born in the 1980's, partnered, needs and availability occasionally change.Recently returned to playing, way behind in MSQ & doing very very old content. It's fun though and I'm gradually catching up. I don't play well but I try.✿YES✿
LGBTQIA+
ERP is welcome between mutually respectful partners.
Still learning the game and lore, and his story is still forming, so I'm grateful to my RP partners for being so willing to brainstorm with me and let me make stuff up.
I mostly do dialogue-heavy short paragraphs but I'm always trying to improve, learn, match pace.
I'm learning to enjoy action and adventure as much as parlor chat...maybe even more!
OOC communication is key, don't hesitate to ask for clarification.
Contact me OOC to plan/brainstorm.
Or just walk up if you have time to wait for me to mentally process what's happening. Usually if I'm running around doing content it can be hard for me to switch to creative mode but I'm always interested to meet characters and who knows, maybe something will spark.✿NO✿
No homophobia/racism/bigotry.
No minors; 21+ only.
Please keep OOC & IC feelings separate.
RP is a creative outlet and a passion I'm excited to share with my writing partners, but I will most likely NOT be sharing details of my personal life.
No unplanned violence.
Lalafel are friend-zoned; i.e. will not be in any ERP scenes with him.✿More on ERP✿
Romance, flirting, open relationships, hookups, vanilla to light switchiness.
Not every encounter has to be deep but every encounter DOES have to be character driven and written with OOC care & respect regardless of what's happening in the actual scene. I will politely decline most approaches that don't demonstrate this to my satisfaction, or if I just don't feel like it. That said, I like doing it when the vibe is right.✿More on IC Romance✿
Serious IC romance will involve an OOC talk about whether we want an ethical healthy relationship or one plagued with jealousy, or some kind of beautiful growth arc that benefits both characters, or an opportunity to thoughtfully explore failure, or something else! I don't mind my character feeling bad as long as all OOC players are having THE MOST FUN. Communication will be PARAMOUNT and this'll probably only be an option if we've known each other long enough to have a lot of trust.

The Rest Of It! Rare Advanced Secret Lore, Ideas, MRP & Content Warnings in a disorganized format!Contents:
Wylim's NPCs
MRP / His Trauma (Content Advisories marked as spoiler)
Shared Stories In ProgressWylim’s NPC’s & My Headcanon Lore, for use in developing more advanced hooks & continuations:Crieux De Poisson — appalachia/arcadia inspired hometown
OOC I’d be open to consulting with / joining forces with someone with IRL experience in these regions/cultures (I myself do not have that experience so my intention is to keep that lore fairly private as I research/develop it.) I think of it less as a small town and more of a deep-rooted commune that has its own folkloric traditions, is fiercely tight knit, protective of its people and aloof from the outside world. Attitudes toward Wylim leaving ranged from ‘why’ to ‘naive’ to ‘who do you think you are and what do you think you’re going to accomplish out there, it’s not safe’ and they were kind of right.Rhodrydd Gofynan, master conjurer
Wylim’s uncle, he refers to him often, knows a lot about gentlemanly things like poetry and cocktailsLeam Gofynan, master carpenter
Wylim’s father, stoic & judgmental, it’s where Wylim gets his toxic traits & insatiable need for validationBriallen Kulhain (nee Guletie)
they were engaged to be married, he still loves her bc he still loves everybody. She resides in The Hollow and is an accomplished herbalist, soon to start a family, they’re still in touch occasionally but it’s a pretty sore spotSashaux Liecelle
another ex, apprentice carpenter, Wylim broke his heart, he probably needs to get out of the small town but he’s modeling himself after his mentor Leam and suppressing his feelingsUlto Mugito
A merchant Wylim worked for in Ul'Dah, ostensibly the owner of his warehouse crashpad, a little unethical but nothing terribleMRP / His Trauma:::Severioux Quincompt::Wylim only speaks of him to close friends and generally tries not to involve more people in the potential dangers he currently faces trying to settle things with this dangerous man.The worst of it he has only disclosed in one (ill-advised) case.I don’t go into specifics without OOC warnings; he will be vague about it for IC reasons unless/until it's need-to-know information for the person he's talking to.OOC I have a story for what happened between them but in most cases it's not essential to go into it. I mostly wrote it this way to have an understanding in my mind for what unforgivable thing(s) the villain did.// // // // // // // // // //
::OOC Content Advisories::physical and emotional abuse forced intoxication rape racism fetishization sadism::IC His Version vs What Really Happened::“My previous employer abused my devotion” or “I’ve always been quick to trust and I fall in love too fast… it gets me in trouble sometimes.”“I was hired as his servant. I loved him. I betrayed him.”Wylim is still sort of in denial about it but he was emotionally manipulated, abused, at one point drugged & raped while unconscious by this person.Severioux has a pattern of behavior and does this for fun in a serial way.// // // // // // // // // //We don’t know where he is right now. Wylim would like to move on but worries about being found, since Wylim’s last act as Severioux’s employee was to semi-intentionally fumble the transport of a high-ranking member of an enemy faction, thereby causing major trouble for the organization Severioux belongs to.How it could work for hooks:Severioux is an NPC for now and I do have plans with a current RP partner for Sev’s ultimate demise BUT adjacent to that he could be connected to any number of characters & stories -- as a business contact, a run-in, friend-of-a-friend or enemy-of-a-friend or some combo thereof. Just know (see Content Advisories) he’s bad in a not-fun, not-cool way and unless your character is also on the Evil-Evil end of the spectrum they probably won’t be close associates.(Grey-to-good characters could also have a connection to the Rival Faction mentioned above; I haven’t developed that much so it’s wide open, probably redbelly bandit types, Marqellus Redwash is the NPC name I made up for the man Wylim met. Open to playing around with that too if any Shroud-based characters want to loop into it and build a bigger story there or connect him to their own lore instead.)What we do know:
Severioux Quincompt (probably not his real name) is a Wildwood Elezen with mysterious/as-yet-unclear origins and plans; he styles himself as an Ishgardian but is probably Gridanian; he behaves with animus towards Duskwight people. I have some sketched-out ideas of his backstory and origins, maybe the orphan child of a Wood Wailer, aetherically weak etc.Eventually he’ll be dead and Wylim will have some new problem and this can recede into the background/be material for therapy sessions.Shared Stories In Progress (RP partners pls lmk if you’d like me to link to you):
Guest of the Graveyards
Looking Into Sev’s Background
I Won’t Let Anything Happen To You.
Search For Rare Books?
He Tells People [The Whip] Is A Cigar Bar*
Teaching Aether?
Being “Helped” By An Experimental Potion Master
I Love You.
Mahjong Nights
Other Crushes & Liaisons e.g. Anything & Everything; The Parlor* (unless he plans to get you in but that’s probably not happening rn because he’s trying to mind his p’s and q’s)

could dedicate a page to npcsto do:
character designs for all his npc's, profile them
create a real notebook page somehow
//ask permission to link to carrds?//A Writing Sample
notes...could use this space for Relationships and other Developments
or more detailed backstory/timeline … “Resume / CV” format???feels like it needs SOMETHING that makes this a Story Update and significant change to what he is and does, where he's at in his life and which paths he has already taken!also write more poetry and/or a sketch, like, develop shit that wayOR hidden #adult profile to give out to ERP specific contacts / “so you want to fuck him” lol cringe

Specific Triggers may includeexperiencing/witnessing racism, sexual assault, intimate partner abuse, abuse by an employer, violence, crime, torture, sexual exploitationi limit most of this to vague mentions & don't generally make it the point of his stories. details can come out through rp but only if he's repeatedly and specifically asked