Lamwen (Wen) Ivorcyll
a foreign & curious CHARACTER from FFXIV, as planned and loved by Wen's player.a biomechanical construct, an aetherologist, an okayish black mage, and also a venue worker.
rules
Please be over 18. RPing with Wen is always strictly SFW, however, mature themes might show up.
In case you want to RP with her on the wild, send a tell, I will most probably accept it - unless something out of ordinary is happening.
I don't consent to seriously harming / killing my character.In the name of the Twelve, keep Wen and I away from drama. I cannot stress it enough. Conflict and arguments in general are really hard for me to deal with, so I try to stay as far away from it as I can.
In case there's been any misunderstanding or anything that might have hurt you, please, PLEASE, let me know. Good communication avoids bigger conflicts.
That said, in case you keep insisting in disrespecting those rules, I will just cut contact. If one would have to choose between getting stressed with subtle intrigue behind-the-stage mess and being left in peace, the choice is obvious.
No means no.On the same note, clothes do not equal consent. Wen likes dressing up and is comfortable enough with herself to feel confident enough to show skin. She still will 100% dodge and, eventually, outright deny sexual advances. That rule applies in life.
This list can, and most probably will, be expanded.
Relationships
Aestorm Crux — Friend and supplier. Basically set up Wen's lab with definitely not smuggled goods and who brings her books from sources she insists Wen wouldn't want to know.
Aofie Faltur — Friend. Azurea's sister. She sounds a bit too sad, a bit too tired for all that shit and is also cursed with being the responsible adult. Is always telling Lamwen to take a breather for a change.
Aritya Draeor — Friend and Lab partner, an alchemist who enjoys dancing, staying up late, and is good in a crisis. She is always reminding Wen not to overdo with work, while overdoing it with work herself.
Azurea Nulis — Friend and coworker. The extrovert who adopted introvert Wen. After instantly clicking, both forged an unexpected alliance to pick on Yudra. Much like their sibling, she too tries to get Wen to stop focusing on work and relax every once in a while.
Bunbun — Wen's pet bun / guardian / sort of daughter. Not a regular Bun at all, and actually has omnivorous tendencies, sometimes getting Wen in trouble, like when she tried to eat a new neightbor's pet.
Ise Kai — Co-bartender at Blue Diamond. Wen usually covers for her when she gets "extra busy" during work hours. Wen strongly suspects they are from the same place, but is still not sure.
Jagged Phoenix - Friend. Trainer for Maelstrom. Formely a patron at her bar, he is always someone who will put his own life at stake for those he cares about.
Kalestia Synclaire— Friend. Hits people when shit gets sour and also helps with research supplies.
Nisuki Stone— After breaking into Wen's lab to drink stuff way too often, Wen decided to keep her as a willing test subject. Still, she seems to be, as far as she is aware, highly resistant to all her concoctions, which frustrates her more than she is willing to admit.
Novak Kismet — Friend. White mage and botanist who had a paramount role in making Wen's new body. She has also been named her "official tattoo artist".
Rena Synclaire — Friend. Crazy Party Bun™. One can be sure she'll be there when needed.
Syatna Creed — Friend and now employer at The Palace Noir. Also known as Tiny Kitty, she can eat anything. Anything. Also a wiling test subject.
Yerentai Yudra — Friend. Unknowingly guides her through existential stuff when her new reality seems to be too much.
abaout lamwen | the player
| NAME. | Lamwen Ivorcyll |
| ALIASES. | Lamwen, Wen |
| AGE. | Somewhere on the early/mid 30s. Probably. |
| HERITAGE. | Duskwight Elezen - sort of - Biomechanical Construct |
| BIRTHDAY. | Unknown. She celebrates on the 16th sun of the 5th Astral Moon, however. |
| GENDER. | Female (She/Her) |
| ORIENTATION. | Demisexual Polyromantic (male leaning) |
| LOCATION. | Shirogane |
| OCCUPAON. | Aetherologist for profession / venue worker as a hobby (actually, she earns her gil by working at venues to fund her aetherological research, but she'd never admit it) |
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"A safe fairyland is untrue to all words."
-J. R. R. Tolkien
ABOUT THE PLAYER She/Her
A demisexual translator of TTRPG and Fantasy Books, I am from Brazil, in timezone GMT-3.
I have played TTRPGs for nearly fifteen years, and have recently gotten deeper into the MMO world, despite trying to slowly get back to MMO RP.
I like all types of nerdy stuff - except maybe sci fi, which I don't hate, I just don't love -, symphonic metal and goth music.
Also, I'm not a gamer for... reasons. It doesn't mean I dislike games - I fell in love with FFXIV at second sight - but it DOES mean that I probably won't get your cool gaming reference. Sorry.
I may be a little edgy for my own good lol, but I still dislike gore, bigotry and similar stuff, which means I wouldn't like to get involved in this type of storyline unless it involves kicking some bigoted asses. Yes, I will fight you over that. No, I won't regret it, even though I can be terrified of conflict in every other aspect of my life.
personality
| TEMPERAMENT. | Too curious for her own good, a bit of a (failed) control freak. Workaholic. Pretends to be bothered by chaos, but she actually enjoys it as long as it is kept under some sort of control. |
| ALIGNMENT. | neutral / good |
| LIKES. | Bunbun, sweet foods made with love (the second part is non-negotiable), books and acquiring knowledge, blowing up stuff (she'd hardly admit that), keeping things under control |
| DISLIKES. | Messy stuff, bitter tastes, rudeness, the ginourmous ladybugs in the Shrouds (that seem to be regular-sized ones to everybody else) |
| HOBBIES. | She's a workaholic. She swears her venue work is her hobby, but it's actually her main form of income. She also loves to read, and frequently vents by reading things unrelated to her research. She's also tried exercising, but realised that she still hates it as much as she did before she got her new body. |
appearance
| HEIGHT. | 6’0.2″ / 183.39 |
| HAIR. | Long, purple, straight / wavy, soft |
| EYES. | Purple, literally luminous, some circuits apparent from up close |
| BODY TYPE. | She has a soft belly, larger hips, and is not phisically fit. Disturbingly absent of regular skin imperfections |
| OTHER. | Lamwen is a bit too good for this world, which could make her seem a bit naïve at first sight, but she's got good intentions, a — too frequently — curious mind, and is always enthusiastic about this new world. After recent events she has got less shits to give and patience seems to have lowered, too. Wen has been trying to losen up and finding herself, and the journey itself has been intriguing. She is open-minded, for she is fascinated about the diversity of lifestyles. She doesn't like taking lives of people, but is able to defend herlself almost decently with her limited black magic control, as smaller as it is now that she hasn't fully figured out to work it well on her new body. She is a bit of a control freak, but it is the way she tries to help keeping everybody she cares about safe - sometimes from themselves, considering the level of chaos of the people she surrounds herself with Also, when crossed, Lamwen can be terrifying, being particularly creative with her threats and insults, and, while most know she would probably not go through with such threats, one can't help but wonder when she would end up snapping into someone. It takes the quietest people, they say... |
story & trivia
STORY.
Lamwen is not native to Etheyris. Coming from a place in which Aether was unknown to people, she used to be a scholar for pay and a witch as a hobby, in a place where witchcraft used to be seen as delusional and Aether working was unknown. Lamwen didn't use to have this name nor this appearance.She ended up in the star after a spell to get away from someone go to wrong - or too right. Her body came undone, and she spent an unknown amount of time adrift at the Aetherial Sea, holding on to her individuality by sheer stubbornness. Much of it was lost, must of it was absorbed by other souls drifting in there during their cleansing process, and, whoever emerged in Gridania, lured by the Aetherite, didn't look nor think like her previous self, most of her memories from the world of before gone, and the remaining fragments, either hers or someone else's, too scrambled to make sense of. She couldn't even notice that there was something wrong with herself and she wasn't as substantial as she was supposed to.Disoriented and half lost, she managed to slip away from the city. A stranger managed to help her less than a kilometer away from the gates, swarmed by ladybugs. He helped her and brought her to people who would be able to guide her. Amongst those people, she met who was going to be her husband and, what was instant fascination became love. He started teaching her to bartend, and parallel to mixing, she started on her quest for knowledge of the world around her. Firstly, to find out about the rules there to be able to come back from where she came from, as vague as her memory of there was and, eventually, mostly because she ended up falling in love with that man who gave her so much to live for, including Bunbun, the bunny he found and who would become her most trusted companion — and with that place.She joined the Thaumaturge's Guild after hearing a few whispered rumors regarding the void and thought that would be the best place to start trying to find answers. She learned much from there, showing a higher proficiency on the theoretical than on the practical usage of Thaumaturgy, but they had a falling out after, thanks to her insatiable thirst for knowledge, she started dabbling in Black Magic. Out of the guild, she decided to continue her research by herself, counting on one of her clients to bring her more books and equipment, and, counting on he started, little by little, setting up a lab.Her research and extensive testing on herself, comparing with calibration data, made her notice that her Aetherial density was too low — and getting lower by the week. In despair, she reached out to a friend, her previous savior, who once again brought her to someone: this time, to his partner, a friend of hers, who she didn't know was deeply connected with the void. In an act of sacrifice that Wen had no idea was going to happen, her friend poured so much of their energy to "sew" her to reality that they had to return to the void, filling Wen with permanent survivor's guilt, as much as she could still feel her friend through their new connection.Until, someday, she couldn't. And, slowly, her stiches started coming undone again. Lamwen barely had time to mourn her friend, since she had to save her own life. Inspired by a previous joint project in order to create a prosthetic eye for her then husband, she assembled a team for her most ambitious research project by then: the creation of an artificial body for herself.The research took too long, and it got nearly too late. But, at the end, they all managed to put everything together, a plant-based body with a mechanical structure, put together by aetherical code imbued in it. And, with the help of a third party besides the support of a friend, [her consciousness was successfully transferred], despite one or another close call.The adaptation to her new body has not ended, and it has not been easy. She got a new layer on her senses, her Aetherical sensibilities too high, and her brain can't keep up with the new influx of information. Sometimes, she gets hugely overwhelmed by sensory overload, and, as a distraction, she throws herself deeper at work. In order to finance her researches and continue acting independently, she works at venues during the night and keeps on with her research during the day.Currently, she has been researching the most subtle effects of slight aetheric imbalance and treatment methods. Due to the importance of her research, she dig even deeper at work. Adding that to her difficulty in dealing with sensory overload and her unwillingness to put up with his mercenary friends who started making her the butt of their jokes and treating her like a freak after they found out about her conditions led to her divorce. Crestfallen, she moved her lab to a place far away from her previous address, and started living above it while she doesn't get a bigger place to give poor Bunbun more room to hop around. Wen also has thrown herself deeper into work and has also been trying to loosen up and explore the word — and herself — through her new set of eyes. She is doing that to avoid thinking and facing logically her new reality, but sooner or later it is going to sink in.
TRIVIA.
Bunbun, Wen's pet Bun, was brought to her by her ex husband, who found her lurking while following the then couple.
However, Bunbun is not a regular Bun and has been watching over Wen in secret since her arrival in Gridania. In layman's terms, Bunbun could be understood as a miniature unaspected primal, summoned by the pure desire of not being left alone and helpess and to have someone to take care of her in the hardest moment of her existance (And yes, Bunbun's pronouns are she/her).
She's got a very sweet tooth, both for food and drinks. She wouldn't reject savoury food, however.She didn't use to go out dancing before, she had been literally forced to go out and socialise by friends. Nowadays, she has lots of fun, as she sees it as yet another way of knowing more about the star, besides being her major source of income.
She has a theory that there might have been other travellers before her, since, according to her fragments of memory, the foods on both stars sometimes are uncanningly similar.
The idea of building her a new body came from the first iteration of the task force, reunited to build her ex husband a new eye after he'd been shot and nearly died.
She has no idea, but her OG body, the one from her home star, is actually quite dead.She has never met the warrior of light, and she dreads to, since she deeply fears they would want to harm Bunbun due to her nature.
After having her lab broken into too many times by curious miqo, she gave up on trying to stop then, employing them as willing research subjects instead. If questioned about the ethics of such proceedings, she just affirms that they would go through the stuff on their own anyways, so now she can at least keep an eye on them and have result reports.
After acquiring her new body, she frequently suffers from sensory overload, and tries to deal with it by never allowing her mind to rest. Or soaking into her bathtub in absolute silence.
Recently, she has started developing
a visual dampenerto diminish the visual overload from all the new aetheric stimulation. She has just created her first prototype.
galleries
1. ISE'S BIRTHDAY SHOPPING SPREE. — CW (click on the spoiled area to see it):
It is Ise's birthday and, as a present, she asked Wen to go shopping with her for the outfit to be worn in the new Blue Diamond theme night. The catch? She is choosing Wen's clothes.
Click here 2. LATE NIGHT DISCOVERY. — CW (click on the spoiled area to see it):
Wen is working late at night again, surprising no one, when Bunbun opens the door and drags her on a short race through the ward. What awaits her there is dire indeed.
Click here 3. PANICKED LINKPEARL CALL. — CW (click on the spoiled area to see it):
With a stranger bleeding on her diagnostics module and getting closer and closer to death, Lamwen has decided to ask her friend Aritya for directions. However, help arrives from the most unexpected source.
Click here 4. INTRODUCTIONS. — CW (click on the spoiled area to see it):
The mangled stranger finally wakes up and finds a blood-covered Lamwen. Who is that man? How are they going to react to each other?
Click here 5.0. HEALER VISIT - PT 1. — CW (click on the spoiled area to see it):
Aritya has finally arrived to lend her aid to poor Silvaire.
Now, the two beings most inclined to ignore their own rests in all the star have to convince an unknown man about the importance of resting.
Click here 5.5. HEALER VISIT - PT 2. — CW (click on the spoiled area to see it):
Aritya has finally arrived to lend her aid to poor Silvaire.
Now, the two beings most inclined to ignore their own rests in all the star have to convince an unknown man about the importance of resting.
Click here 6. GYOZA FOR DINNER. — CW (click on the spoiled area to see it):
Aritya has left both of them alone. Now it is time for a short conversation and understand what exactly has happened. However, things might get a bit awkward, despite Bunbun's best efforts.
Click here 7. GOODBYE. — CW (click on the spoiled area to see it):
Morning has come. The scare seems to be fading away and some resemblance of routine seems to be coming back. However, with the new day comes the need to return to your own obligations, and thus Silvaire needs to head back home.
Click here or Click here 8. SENDING A MESSAGE - PT 1. — CW (click on the spoiled area to see it):
Some messages cannot be left unanswered, and, after the previous night, Silvaire has a message of his own to send — if he manages to focus on the task at hand.
Click here or Click here 8. SENDING A MESSAGE - PT 2. — CW (click on the spoiled area to see it):
Some messages cannot be left unanswered, and, after the previous night, Silvaire has a message of his own to send — if he manages to focus on the task at hand.
Click here or Click here 9. FOOLISH CREATURE. — CW (click on the spoiled area to see it):
Wen sometimes jumps from one work straight to the other. That night is not different, since she is trying to bring her life back to normal after that eventful night. Bunbun, however, is on high alert and has stuff to get done — and she doesn't like to suffer delays.
Click here or Click here 10. BANTER AND WHIPPED CREAM PT. 1. — CW (click on the spoiled area to see it):
Silvaire finally hands whatever he had promised to give to his work partner. Now the assassin duo is back at his apartment to have a small chat.
(Let's not mention the crashing nightmare that was posing that, which made me forget to add the shaders, please. By the end I was nearly screaming)
Click here or Click here 10. BANTER AND WHIPPED CREAM PT. 2. — CW (click on the spoiled area to see it):
Silvaire finally hands whatever he had promised to give to his work partner. Now the assassin duo is back at his apartment to have a small chat.
Click here or Click here