ROLEPLAYING STYLE.    My style is flexible and adaptable to the situation and my fellow players, but I trend toward shortform to short para in game and multipara over Discord as a general rule.STAKES & SCOPE. I'm happy to interact with many characters, but I'm most drawn to low-to-the-ground concepts and stories.COMMUNICATION.    If any aspect of a scene I am doing with you makes you uncomfortable, please let me know. If you'd like to throw in something dramatic into our storyline, please also let me know! Communication is key to forming a good story.IC =/= OOC.    Kiett is not me and I am not Kiett. I will seek to minimize "bleed" between myself and my roleplay as much as one is able to, and I ask that my writing partners do the same.Mature Themes.    I am happy to work with characters with mature themes or content. Kiett's own backstory includes potentially triggering topics such as violence, abuse, trauma, and sexual coercion. I will not bring up any details pertaining to such without consent from all parties. I do not ERP with strangers.

PLEASE YES.    I love slice-of-life, slowburn storylines, emotional nuance, heavy backstories, and happy endings. I adore getting very in-depth and detailed in my crafting, magic, and study-based plotlines. I'm a certified sucker for for tender bromance, intense plantonic connections, mentor-mentee bonds, and found family. In general though, I love collaborative storytelling in all its forms-- I'm excited for all the experiences Kiett might come across in the future, and I'm honored to play a part in your story as well. Let's work together and build a grand tale.PLEASE ASK.    Please ask about longterm injury and disfigurement, longterm emotional consequences and harm, sincere and serious conflict between characters, and other heavy subjects. I love drama and hurt/comfort and I am very willing to play in these spaces, but I prefer a degree of OOC communication and outlining of stakes and scope first before I get deep into it.PLEASE NO.    I'm ultimately here for a good time and a happy ending. I will not play permanent death plots, rape plots, "bad ends", or similar content. I'm also quite squeamish so I politely request intense gore, vomit, and abject filth to be not described in graphic detail.

.    THE HEAD    .

full name.    Kiett Raeturlune
aliases.    His sisters call him Kietto.
date of birth. 4th Day of 1st Umbral Moon (maybe)
age.    40's (we think); by Vieran standards he's young adult
birthplace.    Fyth, Golmore
current home.    Goblet, Ul'dah, Thanalan
orientation.    homoflexible, demiromantic
relationship status. happily married
occupation.    goldsmith & student

.    THE HEART    .

likes. his work | community | long baths | people | good cooking
dislikes. cold weather | dealing with money | being touched
hobbies. baking | learning & discovering | staying active | socializing
fears & phobias. fireworks & loud sounds | isolation | socializing
wishes & dreams. to become a master goldsmith | to help as many people as he can | to find his place in the world
faith. quietly devoted to Menphina
mbit.    INFJ (the advocate)
moral alignment. neutral good

.    I    .
Kiett may look Veena, but really he just bears a strong resemblance to his sire who passed through Golmore one night traveling from the Range. He was raised by his Ravan mother and aunt in Fyth as siblings to his aunt's children Mjal and Lahnn. A brilliant child with a gift for the arcane, Kiett seemed clearly marked for village life as a scholar-- so it came as a shock to his village and a horror to him when he presented as male at puberty. He had begged not to be taken with the other jacks, that his place was in Fyth, but the Will of the Wood was written clear on his body. Kiett was taken to train as a Warder at the age of twelve.Kiett doesn't speak much about what happened in those decades lost to the Green, but the scars on his body suggest intense violence and struggle, and his husband can confirm he still wakes up screaming some nights.Lahnn and Mjal had been the only ones to fight for him to stay in Fyth, and their continued presence was the only thing that kept Kiett going most days, but they were chafing under their own pressures in the village. Mjal fled the Wood first. After a terrible invasion from Imperial forces, Lahnn followed, bound for Eorzea. And Kiett, with no one he loved left to keep him in a life he hated, finally let himself imagine that there may be a world outside the Wood.

.    II    .
Running away from Golmore to Eorzea was not easy. He didn't speak the language or know the culture; he spent most of his time after arrival hunting for his sisters lost on the fringes of society, sleeping wherever was dry enough. Finally he was able to track Lahnn down to the Black Shroud and bail her out of a bar fight she picked for herself in Buscarron's Druthers. Lahnn took in her long-lost brother without question and contacted her sister to help, and for the first time since he'd been taken as a Warder, Kiett had somewhere safe to rest his head every night.Under Lahnn and Mjal's careful support, Kiett finally began to heal and adapt. He fell in love with goldsmithing after a trip to Ul'dah and threw himself headfirst into the art. After blazing his way through his introductory lessons, he found that the work of a Guild apprentice creatively stifling, so he finally managed to take his first independent steps outside his sisters' supervision and applied for an apprenticeship at the Warden's Grace jewelry shop in the Mists. Once he took this first step out on his own, he finally began to thrive in his new life..    III    .
His first home outside his sisters was as the residential librarian for an Ishgardian-Hingan mercenary guild.

It was, frankly, mostly a pity position as he still couldn't read well, but the staff were fond of him. It was during Kiett's time with the company that he met a man named Jeremiah in a local coffee shop.Jeremiah had never been a Warder, but he was no stranger to hardship, and early in their budding relationship he and Kiett talked at length of their dreams of building a place for people like them to rest. Together they built Chrysalis Harbor Safehouse, a nonprofit institution dedicated to feeding, sheltering, and healing those in need. By the end of its first year, the organization had grown too large for the staff of amateurs to manage themselves, so they passed along daily operations to a more qualified staff and stepped back to focus on new projects-- namely their marriage, and the future they'd build together..    IV    .
Their honeymoon was barely over when drastic changes tipped the equilibrium of Kiett's newfound happiness. A misadventure in Doma has left him changed and scarred in ways he's still coming to terms with. He returned from that trip still reeling to find he'd been offered a full ride scholarship to the Studium to further develop his art. His story now finds him trying to adapt to both his newfound opportunity and noteriety as an artist, and his newfound limits that the damage he sustained in Doma impose on him.

.    JOURNEYMAN YEARS    .
^{requirements: none}
Kiett is currently a Journeyman Goldsmith-- one quite respected within the guild as an up-and-coming artist, but still with things to learn. He's always searching for further training in his field, especially in places other than Eorzea. These are his journeyman years after all! If you're an expert in any field even remotely related to goldsmithing (and for Kiett, most fields can trace back to goldsmithing eventually) he would love to learn from you!.    NEW STUDENT    .
^{requirements: sharlayan}
Kiett has recently been accepted to the Studium to continue his education-- on full scholarship no less, after recommendations from certian professors in the soft metals department. His coursework is a healthy mix of goldsmithing technique proper, medical courses for his prosthetic and assistive device work, and aetherology courses to bolster his enchanting. This is his very first experience in a formal classroom setting. He's... not managing. He could use a hand.

.    ARTIST FOR HIRE    .
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In the market for fine jewelry or tools? Looking for a new magical focus, or even something more strange and experimental? Whatever the commission, Kiett is happy to help! You can find him at the Warden's Grace for short and quick service, or commission him privately for a more drawn-out collaboration. Please visit his Portfolio below for examples of work Kiett has done IC..    LACERATED AETHER    .
^{requirements: aethersense of any sort}
Kiett has an expertise in arcanima that suggests he could be a powerful mage, but in practice, he can't do anything more complicated than summon a carbuncle. Anyone who examines his aether in any detail will easily see why; the reserves and flowpaths of aether he'd normally use to cast look like they've been sliced apart and huge chunks simply taken out. Its clear this doesn't effect him beyond limiting his spellcasting, but its a wonder he survived whatever did this to him.

.    TALK NERDY TO ME    .
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Kiett is incredibly curious, to the point of nosy; he wants to know everything about everything. If you let him, he'll joyfully probe you for all the details about about any interesting work or research you do. Feel free to talk to him for hours about your unusual spellcasting methods, your creative works, your research passions, or whatever else you choose to dedicate your time to-- you'd be hard-pressed to find a more engaged audience!.    BROTHERHOOD IN DIASPORA    .
^{requirements: ex-warders, especially ravan}
It would be an understatement to say Kiett has a very complicated relationship with his former life in the Wood. He was miserable as a Warder and and he's much happier in Eorzea as an artist and service worker... but the Wood was all he knew for most of his life, and there's people and places and rites he'll never get back. He's very interested in connecting with other ex-Warders, and maybe starting a hunting group to regain some of the sense of brotherhood he's lost.

.    Jeremiah Raeturlune    .

husband.Even-minded, playful, and impossibly kind, this Priest of Menphina and chef holds Kiett's entire heart in his bejeweled hands. The shy goldsmith is entirely devoted to him, and he always seems braver and brighter when Jer is close by. In peak slowburn fashion, these two were in love for ages under the guise of "best friends" before they figured out how they really felt about one another. The two were eternally bonded on the 7th day of the 6th Astral Moon, by the Spinner's Stone in La Noscea overlooking the sea.

.    Siol Kalux    .

girlfriend.A bartender, sellsword, courier, and aspiring resturanteur, Siol travels far and wide and lights up Kiett's life like a comet whenever she passes through his orbit again. Her current projects these days involve training an aspiring young shinobi, remodeling her adoptive father's old bar, and helping to rebuild her homeland of Dalmasca alongside her parents.

.    Mjal Fyth    .

cousin by blood, sister by birth.Voidsent hunter, primal slayer, premier sellsword, top-class adventurer, and Kiett's oldest sister who likes to steal his good bath products and take naps on his bed. She's impossibly powerful, and now that the world no longer needs saving she uses that power to be a menace to her siblings. One time she punted Kiett across a bay so hard he skipped on the water like a stone. The pair bicker near-constantly but that's part of the game for them; below the jabs they'd do anything to protect and care for one another.

.    Lahnn Fyth    .

cousin by blood, sister by birth.Surly, punchdrunk, known arsonist Lahnn tends to avoid people in favor of her oversized collection of plants, but her baby brother Kiett is one of her few exceptions. When Kiett first came to Eorzea, Lahnn was the one who housed him and fed him and held him through the flashbacks, and he feels eternally in her debt. He wouldn't have survived without her constant care. As with Mjal, the pair would do anything to protect and care for one another.

.    Mallon Fauwrae    .

brother at heart, occasional housemate.Mallon is, essentially, a feral stray cat Kiett fed too many times. They met at Kiett's stint as a mercenary guild librarian and connected deeply despite their radically different personalities. While technically homeless (and refusing any offer of housing), he "stops by" the Raeterlune household so often that Jeremiah and Kiett have just given him a spare key and leave out a futon for him.

.    lord cyrano panthalassa    .

patron & muse.This Dalmascan lord more or less scooped up the socially struggling goldsmith and tucked him in his pocket for safekeeping. He finances Kiett's work, pushes him both to grow and to rest when he needs it, and has helped introduce Kiett to higher society through his frequent formal events. In exchange, Kiett is always sure to have a new bespoke masterpiece on hand for presentation whenever the Lord visits. The pair have developed a steady friendship outside their commercial arrangement, and Kiett is becoming an increasingly frequent guest at Palazzo Panthalassa.

.    Chee Angharad    .

mentor & boss.It took three tries coming into the Warden's Grace for Kiett to finally gather the courage to ask to apprentice under Chee. He's grateful every day that she accepted, because under her tutelage, he was able to grow into the artist he is today. As a fully fledged goldsmith and a success in his own right, he doesn't need to defer to her expertise in his work anymore, but he still makes a point to seek her input. No matter how far in this field he goes, she is and will always be his teacher.

.    E'lias Windjammer    .

mentor & surrogate father.Growing up in Golmore, Kiett doesn't exactly get the cultural concept of fatherhood, but if he did he'd consider E'lias a father figure. As it is, Kiett looks up to the physician greatly. He's the first positive male role model Kiett's ever really had in his life and the younger man finds a rare sense of peace and safety in his presence. He's helped Kiett work through some of his deepest struggles adapting to Eorzea, and on the side he's started teaching Kiett to dance. E'lias was also the officiant at Kiett and Jeremiah's bonding ceremony.

.    Ube    .

biological father. (NPC)Kiett might not get the cultural concept of a father-- but he's having to learn fast after unexpectedly finding his own as part of the Ruby Sea Confederacy. Ube is a bitter and stoic man by nature, and he's less than impressed with the decidedly un-Warder life his son leads, but he's trying to connect. Really. He's recently left the Confederacy to work as a courier in Eorzea to stay close to his newfound family.

.    Fana Majora    .

collaborator, material supplier, & fellow rock nerd.Fana and Kiett think on the same wavelength-- which is to say, mad science with rocks and crystals and metalwork and magic. They've been known to talk for bells on end about the most minute aspects of geology and aetherology. Beyond their shared mineral mania, they have a steady work trade; Kiett designed Fana's nouliths and collaborates with her on several projects, and Fana is generally willing to put her old Gleaner skills and contacts to use fetching Kiett whatever esoteric material he needs.

.    Helisent Wildstone    .

mentor. (NPC, played by Fana)A lead professior of the Soft Metals Department at the Studium, known for no-nonsense personality, her distain for Sharlayan decorum, and her high standards for her students. When she learned from her granddaughter Fana that Kiett was applying to study at the Studium, she pushed for his acceptance and the approval of his full scholarship. Kiett still doesn't quite know if his work is worth this much support but he's not going to waste the chance to study under her.

.    Neisti    .

baby. (NPC)Kiett is very, very attached to his carbuncle Neisti. He's been summoning them since he was a child and they've been his steady companion in his harshest times. The little creature is old enough and complex enough to have developed quite a personality; they're curious, affectionate, and they have a habit of getting into mischief when Kiett's not paying enough attention. They bite to show affection and might steal your shoes.