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tired • solitary • persevering
My main character in Final Fantasy 14. [Lodestone link]
Xephre's echo manifests in a time loop: every time they fail, they reset to the moment they awakened to their Echo, memories intact, made to try again and again. After a few hundred loops you can imagine they're a little tired. They've tried everything to break the cycle: preventing the calamity, killing antagonists early, doing nothing and letting it all pass by. Seems the only solution is to follow the script and try not to screw up too bad.
As Viera show little sexual dimorphism before coming of age, and Xephre continued not to do so even after puberty, they have never felt beholden to a particular gender. They left their village early, learning under an older male as many young jacks do, but has otherwise always acted and dressed in whatever fashion pleases them at the moment.
Sometime a few dozen loops in, Xephre makes a pact with not one, but three voidsents: sisters called the Keres, taking the form of beastly birds with jagged talons, whipped tails, and gaping maws full of teeth. Waning, she of suffering and torment. Demise, she of snipped ends and fleeting moments. Remains, she of all that is left behind. Together they grant Xephre the power to smite their foes, and in exchange Xephre's soul will not return to the aetherial sea when they have completed their task. Xephre may not have mentioned in the contract that they reincarnate endlessly, though. The Keres were none too happy to find that out.
Outside of canon stuff, I often portray or take pics of them smiling and laughing and having a good time, but that's more "me" than "them" if that makes sense. They're not a complete downer in-story, but their happiness then is a quieter one, tempered by hardships and coloured by the knowledge that it is hard-earned.
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