Elija

Overview  

An orphaned male Viera with dreams of becoming an engineer and building his own airships one day.  He is pretty reserved and has a love for human girls, so he tries his best to fit in with the humans, even though it's obvious that he doesn't.

Background

Elija is an orphan who was taken in by Montblanc's guild in Rabanastre after his father went away to fight the human war (Similar to Vaan's situation in that case).  When he was young, his father and him moved to the city.  The reasons for this are unknown to Elija since he was too young at the time to know that Viera's live far out in the woods, away from the human cities.

Montblanc help set up a small home for Elija in Lowtown when he got older, and Elija uses it as a workspace for building things and making blueprints.  He hopes one day to build an airship, or gain the money from his small business to fly to a big city, but until then he just helps Montblanc with guild errands.  He has lived in the city his whole life, never dare to step outside the civilian area because he's petrified of the monsters that are there. He is definitely level 1. Inexperienced.

Elija had a huge crush on another orphan, a human who was also helping out the guild, but she loved somebody else, and Elija blamed his race as the problem.  The reason why Elija's ears aren't pointed up, and instead down, is because he started to consciously move them down, trying to make them less obvious. If he hears a sound in the distance, his ears will still perk up totally straight subconsciously, and so he can't have them down all the time. He wears human styled clothes and attempts to fit in, but his lanky body and his ears make him stick out quite a bit. 

Elija works almost obsessively on his blueprints in his spare time, and his home is littered with things he's been trying to build or pieces of things that he's found and is attempting to fix.  He's hurt himself multiple times with experiments, one of these experiments being the reason why he now has a hole in his ear.  People bring him work with broken machinery all the time that he fixes for extra cash, but he tends to just use the cash to buy more books or pieces to keep building.

Misc Facts

• Elija cannot hear the voice of the wood since he has lived in the city his whole life.  
• Elija still has a tail (Usually Viera tails are cut off, it's a tradition, but Elija's father left the clan before Elija was old enough)
• Elija gives names to all of his creations

RP Info

I was thinking that Elija's blueprints could be stolen from him, and the same thief who stole them from him could also have stolen something from your character.  Means they got to work together to travel.  Another idea is that you could play a human that manipulates Elija into doing something bad? Possibly something that makes them get into trouble together.

Or if you have any other ideas let me know!

I'm willing to play Elija in a non-Final Fantasy AU where he is just a kemonomimi, but the AU should probably keep the aversion between kemonomimi and humans, so his backstory still makes sense.