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The Starlight Dragoon
Design Notes
- Height is 5'3"
- Always wears short hairstyles.
- Favors outfits in purple, dark blue, white, or red/dark fuchsia.
- Has white freckles on her cheeks, nose, and shoulders
- The two beads in her hair should be dark violet, with the feather being a small yellow chocobo feather.
Argwynn is a fiery little Au Ra that is able to dish out as much as she takes, whether it be friendly japes or hits in battle. She is an incredibly diligent and assertive individual; almost to her detriment sometimes since she often falls into troughs of melancholy when she isn't able to meet her own expectations, and grows angry when her loyalty or intentions are questioned.
Overall she has quite a spunky disposition, not to mention a wicked temper when something gets on her nerves. She is generally a serious and protective individual when in "work mode". She does have a "fun mode", but its rather hard to reach by others, as she tries her best to separate her personal life from her role as the Warrior of Light (with middling results, ultimately).
Argwynn feels things very intensely, but tends to keep more vulnerable emotions close to her chest. She has trouble broaching sensitive subjects with people in fear of irrecoverable change. Often she finds herself lost for words and instead favors acts of service and attentiveness to show her appreciation for others.
Jobs
DragoonWeapon: Augmented Menis
The art of the Dragoon is Argwynn's bread and butter. While her roots lied in archery, once she took up the lance it quickly became second place to the spear. She was a natural adept, and her time in Ishgard during the Dragonsong War only solidified her passion for the position. It remains her strongest and most famed identity.
While the formal knightly title of Azure Dragoon became antiquated at the war's end, she became known coloquially as the Starlight Dragoon for her silvery hair and shimmering white drachen armor.
DancerWeapon: Enchufla Recollection
The Dancer's art brings out the more feminine side of Argwynn, in stark contrast to her rough and brutal Dragoon fighting style. As she continued her training, she learned to embrace the graceful maneuvers and grew into a luxurious and deadly practitioner. After taking up the path of the Dancer, her dragoon maneuvers became more arabesque as the styles bled into one another.
Red MageWeapon: Tsukuyomi's Moonlit Rapier
Argwynn is a physical combatant at heart, but after seeing how potent magic can be in battle, she sought out an instructor to teach her in the ways of red magic since it blended the art of the blade with the arcane. She instantly fell in love with the art, and has proudly mastered the spellsword techniques of the Crimson Duelists.
SageWeapon: Hagneia
Argwynn picked up the art of the Sage during her forays into the First. She quickly found it more suitable for her style of healing, and so abaondoned her Astrologian tools for the path of the sage thereon. The scholarly nature of the job is not her forte at all, but she mustered though and really grew to value the power it can wield.
BardWeapon: Suzaku's Flame-kissed Greatbow
Archery was Argwynn's starting passion. Even when she took up other jobs on her adventures, she always made time to maintain her bardic skills. While traditional bard's wear was often too gaudy for her, and she is known to complain about it, the passion of her singing was unparalelled.
AstrologianWeapon: Pleiades
Astrology was Argwynn's first healing job, but the newest techniques proved too much of a change for her, and she moved to pick up training as a Sage. Astrology was a huge part of her life for so long, though, that she still thinks fondly of its meaning and its role, not to mention the aesthetics.
SamuraiWeapon: Inferno Katana
The way of the Samurai proved to be only a fleeting love for Argwynn. While she dove into the art with fervor and enjoyed herself, it didn't last, and has fallen by the wayside in favor of other jobs that she felt she was better at. Perhaps once she's though with her adventures she will dust off her katana to refresh that old passsion.
SummonerWeapon: n/a
Argwynn's newest job. She always loved carbuncles and speculated on how Summoners were able to transform their pets into avatars of primals. She is still in the middle stages of learning the art – trying hard to keep up with the raw studying involved in the endeavor – but is enjoying the job nonetheless.
Argwynn was born in Radz-at-han to upper-middle class parents who were both skilled textile artisans. Unfortunately, Argwynn did not inherit her parents' love for the craft. Her Echo abilities became readily apparent even as a young child with how quickly she was able to improve at her hobbies, and while her parents would try to encourage her to take up an artisanal craft knowing she would likely excel, she consistently refused in favor of more physical hobbies like dance, archery, and swordsmanship. As a child she fluctuated constantly between wanting to be a professional dancer or a member of the Radiant Host. After an accident during a recital where she was grievously wounded by a chackram, however, she was unable to dance for a long time, and her parents forbade her from practicing Kriegstanz after she recovered.
After the injury she focused more on her archery exclusively. Her dexterity and speed made her already adept at the skill, and with a new single-minded focus on it she improved markedly, even winning a few local contests with her sharpshooting and acrobatic skills, as well as her miraculous draw strength despite her petite size. It didn’t wholly satisfy her, but it was a good enough outlet nonetheless.
During a sea voyage to visit Sharlayan on business, a terrible storm capsized the ship off the coast of The Black Shroud. Argwynn and her parents survived and were able to make it to shore safely. Her parents, who took an immediate dislike to the sparsely-populated Shroud and its elemental inhabitants, planned to leverage their neutral-trader status with Garlemald to have the Garleans sail them back to Radz-at-han. This goal put them at direct odds with the Gridanians, who, along with the other Eorzean Allied states, were currently fending off the 14th Imperial Legion.
While Argwynn wasn’t the biggest fan of the Black Shroud either, seeing the disruption and brutality of the Garleans and the altruistic nature of the Gridanians and Eorzeans in general, she had a change of heart. While the Garlean’s conquest of Aldenard had reached Argwynn's ears growing up, it was so far away from her that she hardly formed an opinion about it. Now, seeing the violence with her own eyes, she felt strongly against her home state’s selfish neutrality towards the conflict.
Argwynn and her parents could not resolve their differences on this matter, and ultimately came to bad terms with one another. When her parents boarded a Garlean ship to sail back to Radz-at-han, Argwynn did not join them. Instead she cut her hair, donned a hooded cloak, and took a carriage to Gridania, intending to start a new life with a new purpose there.
- "Gwynn" is a common nickname she goes by with close friends.
- Argwynn's dedicated mount is the Fatter Cat.
- Argwynn meticulously maintains her glamours; many of her friends make fun of her for it.
- Argwynn used to have very long hair growing up, but cut it all off when she began her adventure in Gridania.
- Her rank in the Maelstrom Grand Company is Second Storm Lieutenant.
- She ownes an apartment in Limsa Lominsa, but deeply wants a home in Ishgard.
- Her riding chocobo is a yellow chocobo named Nuggie, while her racing chocobo is a yellow chocobo named Saffron Lancer.
Traits
Orthos "Oregano Beard" has been Argwynn's long-term adventure companion. Though they parted ways ways for their own seperate voyages after the destruction of the Ultima Weapon, their fates crossed once more when Terminus struck the Source some time later. Oregano's funny and charming personality is in stark contrast to Argwynn's bratty disposition, but she does tend to mellow out when around him in private and the two are quite close. He also is almost singlehandedly responsible for enabling her glamour habbit, and she often jokes about him being her glamour-sugar daddy.
V'kesh is a bit of a "sad little meow meow" as most would put it. He's nice enough and quite kindhearted, but a total pushover in Argwynn's eyes and ultimately not cut from hardened-adventurer cloth. In the short-term, Argwynn would go on forays with V'kesh during the events of the Dragonsong War and the liberation of Ala Mhigo.
