Zhaavi Perigeaux

‡‡ Appearance ‡‡

Hair: Black with teal tips
Eyes: Emerald Green
Height: 6 fulms tall
Build: Athletic, slightly muscled, toned‡ Physical Appearance ‡
Zhaavi stands rather short compared to other Elezen, but is a rare beauty among her kind. Blue-black hair tipped with teal tumble down her head. When not in dreads, it can usually be found braided back along her head and brought together is a small flip of a bun at the back of her head, straight down around her shoulders or in a large braid over her shoulder. Two black silver clasps clamp her small half-elezen ears while her lips, ever in a soft smirk or knowing smile, remain ruby red. She bears little eyeshadow but keeps a nice frame of black eyeliner around her eyes.‡ Tattoos/Scars ‡
Though a handful of scars mar her creamy flesh, namely on her shoulders and one on her side, she stands and walks with a regal and poised countenance.She also has one long scar over her left eye that has seemed to have left her vision intact but mars the smoothness of her features.There are six evenly distributed black tattooed dots on her forehead. When asked about them, she'll usually brush it off. When she uses any strong aetherical abilities, however, these dots on her forehead glow an electric blue.‡ Attire: ‡
She can usually be found in modern-styled attire that seems more practical than stylish and she always has some form of gun and multiple knives on her body, even if you can't see them.She always wears a chain with a pendant on her forehead, suspiciously covering where a Garlean's third eye might be. It is rare to see her without this. If it is not the chain with a pendant, it is another form of hat, jewelry or well-groomed hair covering it.

‡‡ RP Hooks ‡‡

‡ Former Garlean Soldier ‡
Zhaavi spent 9 years in the XIIth Legion. She served at the battle of Doma and the Ghimlyt Dark. This is not common knowledge but perhaps you remember her from one of these conflicts? Maybe you were once Garlean yourself?‡ Former Tempered Garlean ‡
Soon after Ghimlyt Dark, when she was recalled to Garlemald, she was among those of the military to become tempered. She was recently saved at the second Battle of Carteneau by the Scions of the Seventh Dawn. Were you at the second Battle of Carteneau?‡ Other Elezen ‡
Zhaavi has a weak spot for other Elezen, particularly Ishgardians. She never got the chance to meet many of her mother's kind, save other conscripts, and she finds them, and that side of her own biology, fascinating.‡ Ala Mhigan ‡
Born and raised in Ala Mhigo, Zhaavi has a distinctive Ala Mhigan accent at times, heavier when she's tired when its not being covered up by her attempts to mask it. And even if the Mhigan doesn't come out? The proper Garlean Imperial accent definitely does from time to time. While her father was arrested for war crimes when Ala Mhigo was freed, her mother has kept her residence and is working hard to help the people of Ala Mhigo - despite their disdain for her and her associations with the Garleans.‡ Ishgardian ‡
After her tempering, she took up residence in Ishgard, her mother's homeland, and studied to become an astrologian, dedicated to healing instead of killing. She left the program however a few months ago and does not seem keen on resuming it, even if she is determined to remain in Ishgard. Did you study with her? Maybe you knew her mother or her family was close with your family (they were wealthy merchants)?‡ Voidsent Researcher/Hunter ‡
After a recent experience that turned very painful and nasty for Zhaavi, the former Garlean now dedicates herself to not only the study of the arcane, but of the void as well. She is often found out searching for voidsent to study them but, more often then not, ends up hunting them.I am open to other hooks. Just get a hold of me and we can work something out!

Zhaavi, born Zhaverra aan Servatius, is the daughter of a Garlean praefectus castrorum, named Maximus sas Servatius, and an Ishgardian elezen merchant, named Éliane Perigeaux, who was trapped in Ala Mhigo when the Empire invaded. Her parents were a true love match born in Ala Mhigo but, because of her low status, it was a secret love at first. When their union bore a child, however, it was harder to keep it a secret and eventually Maximus accepted the shame and claimed Zhaavi publicly as his daughter.Thus began Zhaavi's life towards becoming an Imperial citizen.With her father being a praefectus castrorum, much was expected of Zhaavi at a young age. She began training of weapons when she was ten and by the age of sixteen, she was well versed in a number of martial battle styles, thanks to her father. She was also quite the magitek tinkerer, always enjoying taking things apart and try to put them back together better than they were before.When she was sixteen, she joined the Garlean military. Half-elezen as she was, despite her father being who he was, she was regarded as second-class and always had to work twice as hard as everyone else. The hate she received for being a 'mongrel' festered deep in Zhaavi's heart, adding to the ostracism from her childhood and her mother's secret whisperings of dissension against the Empire.Still, she was the good little soldier and she worked twice as hard as everyone else. What else could she do? She was trapped by her family and the stifling grip of the Empire. There was no hope for her. Her military service as part of the XIIth Legion took her from her home in Ala Mhigo all the way to the East and Doman where she quickly worked to rise in ranks. When Doma was liberated and the XIIth retreated home to Garlemald, Zhaavi and a portion of her regiment were sent to the Lochs to fight in the battle of Ghimlyt Dark.When the Garlean forces were forced to retreat once more, Zhaavi followed the rest of her legion to Garlemald and there was elevated to the position of primi ordines and trained as a Centurion for her service in both Doma and the Ghimlyt Dark.
When Garlemald was thrown into civil war by the actions of the returned Prince Zenos, Zhaavi fought alongside her countrymen under the direction of the new legatus of her legion. Soon after, however, things became fuzzy. All Zhaavi can remember is a fierce desire to serve Garlemald, something she never had and loathed actively.When Garlean forced clashed against the forces of the Eorzean Alliance on the battle-scorched field of Carteneau once more, Zhaavi was there fighting. But it was not of her will for she had been tempered by the Telophoroi. Only when she was defeated in battle was she cured of her tempering.Awake with a new light, Zhaavi deserted the Garlean military. Her tempering was the last straw and she finally, after so many years of service, had found a way out - a way she had been desperately looking for all her life. Taking on her mother's name, she left Carteneau a new woman.She returned to Ishgard, the homeland of her mother, and set aside her gunblade. She instead took up study at the Astrologium to become a healer. She had spent her life bringing death and destruction, she wanted to heal and bring Light to people instead. She took to her studies like she did everything in life and soon became a prodigy in the arts, looking to the Heavens for guidance and Sight.Upon meeting a Dalmascan Elezen however, Zhaavi's whole world got turned upside down. Adventure across the world, demons, voidsent, ancient magicks, revenge - she experienced it all and more!Then her new world, and the happiness she had found with the Elezen, came crashing down and she lost everything. Now lost without the purpose of saving her love, and no desire to return to the safe ways of her studies at the Astrologicum, Zhaavi has returned to her apartment in Ishgard. Her sights are now set on learning more of this newfound arcane power she recently discovered within herself while, at the same time, doing all she can to study, research and hunt voidsent in the Source.