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Koku grew up in a relatively poor family in Sui-no-Sato with everyone working as seaweed or coral gatherers. However, Koku was extremely enchanted of tales of the outside world from fairy tales and the very occasional traveler finding their way into Sui-no-Sato. On multiple occasions she even went venturing towards land before giving up and heading back home. After reaching adulthood, she finally gathered up the courage to leave Sui-no-Sato and live a new life in the surface world.
She tumbled around different regions for a while but ended up staying and loving Gridania. She is completely in love with how different it is from the life she used to know. She stuck around doing odd jobs for the different guilds for a couple of years before hearing about adventuring and the glory of the Warrior of Light. She decided to head to Ul'dah to become a Paladin because it was the most "adventurer-y" class she could think of, as well as the fact that it reminded her of her childhood fairy tales. Unfortunately, fighting didn't come naturally to her and it was so vastly different to what she knew that it took many failures and frustrated party members before she was able to become somewhat competent at tanking and do adventures.
During/After ARR:
Koku felt like an actual hero and was super excited to be able to join the WOL on all of their adventures. She also grew very attached to the Scions and felt like they were her second family.
During/After Heavensward:
She felt very close to Haurchefant due to the fact that they were both paladins/knights and was super excited for the fact that she has a buddy! Losing him was extremely heart-wrenching because she blamed herself for not being able to protect anyone. After HW she took a break from adventuring and went back to doing odd jobs at Gridania.
During Stormblood :
Koku returns to the call of duty and agrees to go to Kugane and the Ruby Sea partially because of homesickness and not being sure of what she wants to do with her life anymore, seeing as how most people she gets close to seem to die. However, after seeing both the Domans' and Ala Mhigans' struggle to just live and exist, she realized that she needs to try harder and better and do her best to save the people that she loves.
Shadowbringers:
Koku gets taken to the First. I feel that at this point she would be a lot more subdued and calm just because the thought that an entire world's population was basically decimated is really overwhelming to her, and the thought that maybe if she came just a little earlier she could have saved more people. Not to mention the stress of the Scions potentially dying from being separated from their bodies is something Koku found really terrifying. She flings herself into killing Sineaters in order to try and take her mind off of everything while being productive. (Koku job class changes from either WAR or DRK at this point I'm still figuring this out). Honestly the entirety of SHB was just stressful and not fun for her. She does find some time to admire the strange landscape though and how different it is from Eorzea and Hingashi. After the events of SHB, Koku takes a break from adventuring and starts up a farm.
Personality:
Koku is a extremely bright, cheery, and positive girl, but can be extremely overwhelming. She's also not the brightest person and is very dense. Her favorite pastime is sightseeing in all of the different locations.
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