📗 replito ( ffxiv )

Due to the inconsistent “connection” they have to their data repository in Azys Lla, their mental health often appears to be wildly erratic; has a poor memory, especially in the short-term. While this is comparable to a state of dementia, it should be noted that no active degradation is taking place — instead, it’s as if “sections” of their memory are being shut off or on (often in no discernible pattern.)

Naturally, there’s still a consistent undercurrent of personality despite the memory imbalance: even with no recollection of their past, Replito is, unfortunately, still Replito. Has a love of experimentation and examining how different variables interact with one another, with this being especially evident in their chimerical research in ancient Allag. While they aren’t able to make crimes against nature like they used to (with a lot of grant money), that doesn’t stop their impulse to do so, even when they can’t quite remember what their past work even was (or their grant money.) To use a cooking metaphor, Replito is the kind of person more interested in how a selection of random stew ingredients would interact if you threw them all in the pot, rather than concerning themself with the resultant flavor. In short: they’ve made some pretty bad chimeras.

While most of the time Replito seems more like senile comic relief, they are at their core a deeply amoral person with a rampant god complex. They delight in “twisting” nature to their liking, and are certainly not above experimenting on the more sapient life on Hydaelyn. When in full possession of their faculties, they can become a difficult-to-kill threat, due to their automatic soul-transfer system. In terms of the soul, Replito’s ability could be compared to an artificial version of an Ascian’s body hopping (albeit more limited.) Luckily, however, their connection to Azys Lla is usually too fuzzy for them to have complete “network access,” and they remain a mildly-annoying eccentric.