Jebke Ackerman

• First name: Jebke (named after traditional Xaela conventions)
• Surname: Ackerman (from his Hyur father's side)
• Race: half Xaela, half Hyur 
• Gender: ♂
• Height: 174 cm
• Fandom: FFXIV
• Class: Warrior
• Sub-class: Culinarian, Goldsmith
• Title: Hungry Wolf

Jebke is the interracial son of Mr. Ackerman, an established Doman scholar, who met and fell in love with a Xaela woman on his cultural exchange field research trips. Caught between two cultures, Jebke’s life is full of awkward moments, occasional hardships and silly TV sitcom level cultural clash misunderstandings -- but more importantly, all the more rich for the wonderful variety it has brought him.

By nature, Jebke is overly enthusiastic and very much the “leap before you think” type of person, … and probably the type of Warrior who will accidentally run off without tank stance due to being way too hyped for the duty at hand.

Although he is very short for an Au Ra male due to his mixed genes, he has an insatiable appetite, and he will often let his hunger and delicious scents blindly lead him to wherever -- you could probably accidentally lead him off a cliff with a delicious lamb roast. His love for food is enabled by his unnaturally enormous and sharp teeth, which his father keeps begging him to get fixed at a dentist for his own good -- much to his mother and Jebke’s own disapproval and refusal.

Optimistic and always with a smile on his face, Jebke is, for a lack of better words, a dumbass with a heart of gold, and although he is a troublemaker and rushes in head first, you can always count on him to have your back and to be there for you, whether it’s for a pep talk or a delicious shared meal. 

And although he is quite hotheaded and often ... quite stupid, he is surprisingly mature and diplomatic when it comes to troubles and conflicts between tribes, cultures, and different races, given his background. Besides fighting he also excels at, obviously, hunting, but also cooking and crafting gear typical to Azim Steppe tribes -- good luck trinkets made out of teeth and gems, clothing and accessories made out of pelts and feathers, and so on. And as he is not the best with words (you can imagine...), this is how he more than makes up for and shows his love and support to the people close to him. When it comes to love and care, he is terrible at mincing words (he'd rather be mincing meat), but his care gets conveyed through his own unique means -- "show, don't tell", as they say.