Amrine Windmere

❛  ...that amount of glory does sound reasonably glorious...  ❜

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Hello!
         
30+, white, bisexual, married, working full-time. Lifetime fan of videogames, and my favorite genres are sci-fi, fantasy, and horror (particularly psychological horror). I've been playing XIV since January 2024.❗️NOT A ROLEPLAY ACCOUNT.❗️
I love roleplay, I used to roleplay and I still love to write and draw and do collaborative projects. However, I'm not currently interested in RP, especially in-game or in DMs.I don't tend to yap on socmed but I'm often online if I'm awake. You can find me at skelosbadlands.bsky.social (I have/use this handle on most socmed sites, but atm I am only active on bsky). If you have any concerns about certain themes or elements around my characters, please just ask me. I do not post everything I make. 99% of the time, opinions and 18+ content I keep to myself.However, I apologize, I do not allow ways to contact me anonymously.

About

  •   name    Amrine Windmere

  •   nicknames    Ammy (family only), Mahr Ohl (dragons)

  •   age    ~35

  •   pronouns    She/Her

  •   race    Rava Viera

  •   birthdate    Mid-Summer

  •   sexuality    Bisexual

  •   birthplace    Tailfeather

  •   height    6' 4"

  •   eyes    Blue (L), White (R)

  •   hair    Blue

  •   jobs    DRG / GNB / RPR / BOT

  •   notable marks    Black-tipped ears, freckled face, black diamond tattoo on nose

  •   languages    Common, Dragon, a few words in Dalmascan and Yangxian

  •   ♫ soundtrack ♫   

  • Creature - Half-Alive

  • Beyond My Wild Dreams - The Little Mermaid

  • Who Is In Your Heart Now - Studio Killers

  • Graveyard - Halsey

  • Crystal Chamber - Atlantis: The Lost Empire

  • Gales of Song - Belle

  • Not Tomorrow - Silent Hill

  • Let My Name Be Sorrow - Mary Hopkin

  • Loch Lommond

  • Iron - Woodkid

  • Hozier - Strike

  • Homecoming - Thomas Bergersen

Personality

Amrine (pronounced am-rin) is a sweet individual, but is not known to be the most forthcoming person. She rarely feels the need to correct or confirm assumptions about her, unintentionally making it hard for others to know her deeply. Friends and acquaintances alike find that the secrets she usually holds close are rarely of any consequence. This sometimes causes people to not take her want for privacy seriously, or underestimate when she is actually struggling.Many who meet her are often surprised to discover that Amrine is an extremely young viera. With their long lifespans the first thought to come to mind, she often gets asked if she meant to say she is one hundred and thirty five. As a result, Amrine does not quite have the lived experiences or wisdom one would expect, and makes choices she likely wouldn't if she were fifty years older.

History

 Amrine   was born in the forested outskirts of Tailfeather, a small settlement in the Dravanian Forelands. Her mother was born and raised in Dalmasca as the daughter of a Golmore exile, and had travelled through the eastern nations and skirted the fringes of the Garlean Empire where she picked up and honed her skills as a Reaper. She met Amrine’s father in Yanxia, a travelling merchant-trader and Samurai. Her father caught up to her mother in Dravania in time for her birth and seven years later they had their second child together, a son named Sincere. Amrine’s father continued working as a trader-merchant, coming home for the fall and winter months of the year until his disappearance when she was eleven summers old. Leaving home  at around thirty-five years old, years after her younger brother left, she was found by and asked to join The Scions of the Seventh Dawn. The adventures and travels led to seeing many places and meeting many people, which did result in the birth of her only son. Despite  not attending any formal schooling Amrine can read, write, and do math. Both of her parents have a background in trading with various cultures and countries, though Amrine admits her language skills would fall further under “jack of all trades, master of none” if it weren’t for the echo.  She honed her botany skills   at a young age, starting with foraging and later farming. She continues to use these skills through her adulthood, surviving the changes brought on by the calamity. She is, however, a terrible chef. She avoids cooking anything more complex than stews and soups, and often does not prepare meals beyond washing her foraged finds. Amrine is vegetarian, losing the taste for meats after having to go without so often in the aftermath of the calamity.  Exploring the forests  and ruins making up the Forelands, Amrine was familiar enough with the vath and especially the dragons. Unbeknownst to her that the echo is what allowed her to understand their conversations, she grew curious about them; the places they talked about, the lands they flew to beyond the mountains and clouds. Through listening and practice, Amrine can do dragonspeak. Dragons give mixed reactions to this.  Her aether   naturally is ever so slightly shifted in favor of wind.  Amrine  was not born with the family name of Windmere; she had a mononym, and came up with a last name when entering Eorzea. Her parents and brother still have mononyms.  For the longest time  Amrine had no idea that she had the echo. Those around her thought she was pretending to understand dragons, so she stopped talking about it. Her parents assumed that she picked up on languages naturally when foreign traders came through and she understood them. The migraine-inducing visions did not start until just before she left home, but these weren't clear in her mind until Amrine was in Gridania. The first echo memory that was clear was her looking at a giant blue crystal in a sea of stars. She doesn't remember the actual vision, just the memory of seeing the vision. It is a memory of seeing Hydaelyn before being born, though whos life or which life of hers it was...

Bonds

  •   MINFILIA WARDE  ㅤ . love .

  • Amrine loved Minfilia. Amrine was quick to accept a place amongst the Scions, realizing Minfilia also had the echo and learning more about this power from her. A unique trust grew between them. They both could tell they loved one another, they both knew their feelings were mutual but Amrine respected Minfilia’s focus on her goal of protecting Eorzea. She made the decision to tell Minfilia her feelings outright at the Banquet in Ul’Dah, to properly ask to be together.

  •   URIANGER AUGURELT  ㅤ . confidant .

  • Amrine found him awkward at first as most people do. After his role played in Minifila’s fate she’s so angry at him. In the first, she gains the full realization of his devotion, the harshest parts he plays and the high prices he willingly pays to do so. After some time and closure, Amrine does forgive and apologizes to Urianger.

  •   THANCRED WATERS  ㅤ . ally .

  • Amrine picked up on his lone wolf schtick immediately and let him be. She was the one who became awkward towards him when she realized she had feelings for Minfilia. In the first they do get into a “physical altercation” over their grief and regrets over Minfilia. Thancred's been a gunbreaker longer than her but his ammo is limited; Amrine simply (and barely) outlasts him. After this, everything is okay between them.

  •   MIDGARDSORMR  ㅤ . confidant .

  • Amrine had a religious experience meeting the Keeper of the Lake. Midgardsormr calls her Soon Tharl (Sun Crystal), while other dragons call her Mahr Ohl (Summer Call).

  •   ZENOS YAE GALVUS  ㅤ . enemy .

  • Amrine hates what he represents; the Garlean empire, and all it has wrought and being the prince, he is a promised continuation of destruction. She wanted to stay in her emotional stupor, dissociating, too mentally unavailable to consider that there could always be a bigger threat and he reminded her of that with such violence. Zenos made her realize she was giving up, despite all those who were still by her side.

  •   ZENOS VIATOR GALVUS  ㅤ . ??? .

  • Her feelings towards Zenos in the end are frustrating. Zenos' reverence for her strengths, his confidence in her ability to do anything makes her so angry when she realizes this reminds her of Minfilia, leaving her distraught at realizing how much she missed this feeling in comparison to where it is now coming from.

  •   MOTHER  ㅤ . mother .

  • Born in Dalmasca after her mother left the Golmore Jungle, she became a reaper after leaving home. Skirting around the borders of Garlean territory and learning from the lemures, helping exiles/deserters and killing imperial soldiers. She eventually ended up around Kugane, and that’s where she met the man who she would fall in love and have two children with. With her bonded missing and her grown children out of the home, she left as well to see her mother and sister in Dalmasca after so many decades apart with the intention that Amrine would eventually make her way there as well and meet the aunt and grandmother she's never known.

  •   FATHER  ㅤ . father .

  • He earned gil trading and selling goods between Eorzea, Ala Mhigo, and Yangxia in the warmer months and would return home in autumns and winters. He brought home trinkets and gifts for his bonded and children every time. He doubled as a samurai to protect himself and his entourage, and to earn more money as a guard during slower parts of the year or when trade was made more difficult by the Empire. When Amrine was eleven and Sincere only four, he did not return home.

  •   SINCERE  ㅤ . brother .

  • Amrine's only sibling. A lot like his sister, albeit a little more talkative. He left home around his sixteenth summer. Sincere is known for being an excellent scout and an equally incorrigible flirt that's been chased out of more than a handful of taverns and allied encampments. He and his sister were close in childhood and are still close in adulthood, with Sincere occasionally helping out the Scions when he stops by to see Amrine and share any leads about their father's potential whereabouts. Following one of these leads takes Sincere to Kugane where he falls for a xaela man who comes from a prominent goldsmithing family.

  •   CAELO  ㅤ . son .

  • Her only child. She was extremely young for a viera to become a parent when she did, this along with her role as warrior of light created unique hurdles that she struggled through. Amrine loves her son, but she is equally fearful of the potential in Caelo. She is uncomfortable with being truthful with him, and he catches onto her. He spends his earliest life living with his uncle. Unbeknownst to all, Zenos should not have been able to get her pregnant but dynamis is a tricky thing.

  •   GRANDMOTHER  ㅤ . grandmother

  • After leaving the Golmore jungle by means of simply leaving without a word, she settled in nearby Rabanastre. She opened a corner market to support herself and the two daughters she would have, but she always kept her battle axe nearby. Patrons who were fellow rava would find her quite accommodating, willing to haggle, and she would freely give small discounts or favors. All others were "encouraged" to make their purchases and leave. Her older daughter left home for Eorzea, and her younger daughter remained. When Dalmasca fell, she refused to evacuate and died doing what she enjoyed; killing garleans.