Kuroki | Gucci
Bozja Farmer | Omnicraft | Double Saint | Investor
Dreamer
Contact: Kuroki Honoo@Jenova | Gucci Reborn @Adamantoise | Emma- Selch@Siren
psn: kuroki_kageFounder & Owner of Memory's End
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Name: Kuroki Honoo
Alliases: Kuro, Kage, Shadow
Age: 24
Race: Midlander Hyur (originally Vii)
Gender: FemaleCharacter Song:
ALESTI - Take The Pain Away (feat. Rory Rodriguez)Key Lyrics:
"If sleep is for the weak, you know where I'll be. There is nothing that takes the pain away. Just darkness that covers everything. I'm losing my grip on reality, and you never loved me anyway. I can not live here in yesterday."
Kuroki was born in the Rak’tika Greatwoods as a Vii, spending most of her childhood exploring the forest and reading old scriptures. One day while out exploring with her parents, they were attacked by a black wolf emerging from a rift of purple dancing mist. Knocked out of one of her parent’s grips during a tackle from the wolf, she was left to watch as one of her parents lost their life to the onslaught afterward. Her other parent that remained, noticing the wolf stepped in their direction and not Kuroki’s, would run away toward the village, leading the wolf from the child in the hopes that it forgot Kuroki’s presence and they could return later. Traumatized by the experience, Kuroki laid cowering near the tree she was flung into. A short time period later, a woman would appear lifting her up in her arms in an embrace noticing her lack of awareness. Kuroki’s eyes remained closed still as the woman introduced herself as Emma, saying that she’d protect Kuroki, but that her village was no longer safe and that she shouldn’t return. Several moments later, Kuroki’s eyes would open to a bright blue setting among dark buildings of glistening lights. When asked her name by Emma, Kuroki shook her head, unable to answer. Emma comforted her, realizing the trauma of the attack had caused a blockage of her memory. Emma would give her a new name, Kuroki Kage, as a remembrance to the black shadows that covered them that night. “A life ended and began in the shadows.” Raising Kuroki and feeding her material to learn from, Emma would keep Kuroki in isolation until Kuroki was old enough to go out beyond the immediate realm. Emma allowed so under the condition that she was allowed to share Kuroki’s body in order to stay by her side at all times to protect her, but remaining unknown to others. Eventually finding her way to New Gridania where she felt at home in the trees, Kuroki entered the society, her desire to learn resparked as she quickly mastered all the arts of crafting and gathering until she was noticed by a member of the Order of the Twin Adder, requesting that she joined to explore new lands on adventures. She’d accept, allowing Emma to fully possess her temporarily for combat, bypassing the trauma that might re-emerge from her younger years. After a short time, she’d meet Gucci Reborn who noticed her natural gifts and began to study her, at one point offering to cover her study and travels of any field she desired if she proved worthy. As she went on adventures, Gucci noticed the small shifts in combat and knew Kuroki shared a presence inside similar to hers. Called out and at risk of being exposed, Kuroki informed Gucci of Emma’s presence in private. Shortly after, Emma would also pull Gucci to the side to mention the trauma she would have to deal with after separating from Kuroki’s body due to unforeseen aetherial complications, said complications also resulting in Kuroki having to adopt another body. Seeing potential in Kuroki nonetheless, Gucci became obsessed with finding a solution, eventually landing on music. While a melody played in her mind, its sound would distract and comfort her originally, but grew to also allow her to eventually find strength she didn’t before. Her closeness to Gucci and Emma during therapy grew her trust in both of them and made the foundation of her interest in bonding with others after releasing suppressed or strong emotions. As she worked for Gucci afterward, her mistakes would often cost Gucci financial sacrifices that she knew negatively affected others. Initially torn between Emma’s optimism and Gucci’s pessimism, Kuroki would find her escape in performing bards and decorating taking her to another world without responsibility if only for a moment. Gucci would observe in silence wondering if Kuroki would cave like she had under the weight of the suffering of others or if she could find her own path and become the partner she needed to do what she could not find within herself any longer.
Name: Emma- Selch
Alias: Emma
Age: N/A
Race: Midlander Hyur
Gender: FemaleCharacter Song:
Bury the Light - Casey Edwards (DMC5)Key Lyrics:
"Immortal temptation takes over my mind. Condemned. Falling weak on my knees, summon the strength of mayhem. I am the storm that is approaching, provoking, black clouds in isolation. I am reclaimer of my name. Born in flames, I have been blessed, my family crest is a demon of death."
(SPOILER WARNING)Upon Emet-Selch's final days, in the darkest corners of Akadaemia Anyder, he paced back and forth, taking notes in a book of what he considered to be his final parting creation of this world: a creation magic infused with his knowledge, his longing for the understanding of others, his sorrow, his regrets, and his passions. Weaker in form, and yet, a born-again form of himself. And here, in this book, lied his final hope should the worst come to pass. A younger sister to his previous creation. And so this idea laid written in his book past the time of his final day until it was picked up by Elidibus. After reading the notes, Elidibus took it upon himself to add to the concept, delving his own contributions and finally bringing it to life as the name of Emma- Selch. Upon her creation, while she had the majority of what was written in the book, a noticeable amount was missing due to Elidibus's lack of focus in the moment mourning Emet's passing. And it was as those tears left his face, that Emma reached up to wipe away his worries for she was there to learn. And learn she did as Elidibus took her through everything he had to offer before the fateful day that he passed as well. Having lost both of her fatherly figures, Emma would remain in the darkest corners of Amaurot, going over both of their faults, their mistakes, and those of every Ascian that had fallen before them. And it was in that sorrow that she realized, to create the event to bring back her creators and those before, she'd need to make another type of rejoining happen. A uniting of the known world, to gather the resources of every stretch of land, every nation, every tribe. That she would not settle like her predecessors. She would combine everything in the world, to watch it burn itself asunder in one beautiful flame of pathetic ignorance. But to bridge such a gap, to lead such a nation, would require someone to bridge the gap between tribes and mankind, someone vulnerable and easy to influence, someone that every person could aspire and believe in. Someone with those qualities wouldn't naturally exist in the world, she'd have to help create them. And with that thought, she'd zip across the various domains of the world, eventually settling on a tribe of Vii. And on one faithful day, she'd observe a young Vii being carried about to explore by her parents. She'd follow her, noting her studies and remembering their routine until the fateful day came. Under the presence of a black rift, she would appear in the form of a black wolf, attacking both parents holding the young Vii and knocking the child out of their grasp. Turning to slaughter one of the parents as a message, Emma would turn to the other, placing herself between them and the child as she paced toward them. Seeing them run toward the village, she followed briefly increasing in pace until they were far from the child before vanishing into nothingness, reappearing in front of the child in her human form. Taking the child in her arms, comforting it and confirming its trauma, she'd zip away back to her home in the runes of Amaurot naming the child Kuroki Kage from the shadows that adorned them. She'd raise Kuroki up until the age of where she could part from the city. However, Emma had noticed Kuroki's trauma when it came to combat anytime she had to save her from nearby creatures. Feeding on Kuroki's awareness of it, she'd offer to exist as a duality inside of her body to possess and take over her in those moments of need. And so, over time, Kuroki would explore and learn, growing into a leader among those around her before meeting Gucci and eventually serving under her. However, due to the lasting presence of Emma's aether inside of her body, Kuroki's original form grew tainted, forcing Kuroki's essence out of it one night, leaving Emma to rush to preserve it in a new body before it was lost. Realizing the consequences of her short-term plan, she found no choice but to remain unbound to Kuroki's form, leaving her vulnerable to those moments in combat. Noting Gucci's observation skills to deduce her existence, she assumed she also possessed problem-solving skills that might also surpass her own, eventually pulling her to the side and mentioning Kuroki's past. To her wishes, Gucci was eventually able find a solution, quelling her worries for the moment at least. However, Gucci ended up being more of a nuisance than intended. While Kuroki expanding, learning, and networking on Gucci's behalf was advantageous to Emma's goal, at every mistake was a setback. Gucci's pessimistic attitude would look to mitigate costs and mistakes, often leading to distrust and suspicion of others. Qualities that were not ideal for the social position Emma needed Kuroki to be in, let alone the contradiction to the past of her fathers. Her kind had known too well not to underestimate people, that no matter how likely the doubt one could impose was, the consequences of not believing would you cost you something far more dear in the long term. And so her optimism and faith would spill over and lift up Kuroki out of the crushing depressions that Gucci's lectures would bring her to. While Gucci cared more about financials and constructions, the projects themselves, Emma vastly found importance in the people within, wanting their support, their trust, and eventually their faith. And so with a smile she would walk around the various lands with or in Kuroki's stead, doing business on Gucci's behalf as she encountered friendly smiles every turn that she took, including that of her older sister, A'dole.
Name: Gucci Reborn
Aliases: Gucci, Gucci the Repressed King, Lady Lolorito
Age: 38
Gender: Female (originally Male)
Race: Xaela Au'RaCharacter Song:
Cult to Follow - Leave It All BehindKey Lyrics:
“Remember love, remember hate, remember everything they said just to break you again. Remember all, all of your enemies. Forever and ever, they
suffocate everything. They complicate everything. They steal your fate everyday but you can't believe it. Take yourself far away from nothingness, a million miles from emptiness and leave it all behind you.”
Gucci’s birth is a loss to her and her parents. She was found as a baby Au’Ra male, wrapped in minimal cloth in an alleyway of the Jeweled Crozier in Ishgard with nothing more than a note tucked inside reading, “I have faith.” Taken in by a guard as a father and an entrepreneurial mother, Gucci’s early years went without a definitive name, their family changing names frequently as they travelled for security. From active participation with others to preferring to read and think alone, she grew to find a lasting peace in solitude, where despite her growing sorrow from the rejection of others, a faint warmth existed in her heart from the sight of others in happiness, a nagging urge in her chest anytime she saw someone in pain inflicted from another. As she reached adulthood, this fueled her interest in studies of law and psychology where she made friends with growing prodigies in those fields but upon finding a rival, she found a glaring weakness she had. Despite the pain in her heart, she was filled with mercy and empathy. The people she wished to punish for hurting others were in positions of power, her words and emotions and the people she spoke for meaning nothing to the empires they had built. This would serve as a reason for her to summon a voidsent, letting it reside inside of her with excess desires of revenge and justice resonated in her mind as well as its. In moments of extreme conflict or suffering, it would take over, manifesting a coldness unmatched as it approached confrontations without mercy, without caring for its own life even. Challenging every foe, it would take on a never ending smile with a chuckle in a sadistic and masochistic blend, loving to pit will against will regardless of the consequences. The unhinged nature of its personality caused the defeat of anyone who challenged it, and to Gucci’s shock one day, friends included. After the near loss of life of someone close to her at the time, she realized the mistake she had made bonding to it, the majority of her time going forward spent in new-found restraint of its thoughts and emotions pressing her. Over years of it weighing on her, she grew more detached from others, going so far as to avoid making relationships out of precaution of any mistake they may make only feeding the condition of the voidsent’s release. Eventually finding the counter-measure of pessimism, she would predict and avoid potential harm to avoid spiking the voices in her head, allowing her to resume her initial mission of building her own empire to challenge those of the one’s she really wanted to reach. She moved to Ul’Dah and applied her knowledge to business, learning to invest in smaller communities to serve as a foothold to learn trades of that area. As she grew in influence and power, she was given a definitive name from her closest friends from her constant reading of past text: Gucci, a reference to a similar sounding word ‘Gushi’, meaning old poetry. She would add Reborn afterward, accepting the reference but would develop another moniker for her passion: Gucci the Repressed King, given for her leadership of those rising to create a new life of their own vision. One day, one of her projects bore fruit that she hadn’t expected, someone undercover working for Lord Lolorito who offered a meeting between the two. Noting her shared concern and care for Ul’Dah and an unnatural desire to learn, he would take Gucci under him, showing the hidden works of what he had built. Trained to succeed Lolorito in the event of his passing, Gucci took her lessons learned, applying them to multiple cities and running into Kuroki Kage in the process. Whispering promises of knowledge, she would convince Kuroki to serve under her interests, eventually growing to meet Emma-Selch at one point. Despite similar goals, Gucci and Emma had hugely contrasting viewpoints on nearly every matter and Emma grew to see Gucci’s voidsent presence as a liability to her plans. After she learned aetheric separation, Gucci volunteered her body to Emma, letting her separate Gucci’s essence from her old male body and into that of a new one, leaving only the voidsent presence to fully take over her old form. While imprisoned in Emma’s home, the voidsent’s smile still echoes in Gucci’s mind daily as a reminder. Despite no longer having immediate access to its strength, Gucci would take the separation as necessary to growing her individual will, letting its smile be a symbol that sometimes she needed to sacrifice all that she had to manifest what she wanted, that death is welcomed before submission no matter the case if that’s what it takes to pave the way forward. With Emma and Kuroki performing the regular operations of one of her projects, she spends most of her days in reflection, thought, and reading, often visiting places that remind her of the earliest memories of joy she had. On rare occasions, she can be seen slowly walking up and down the Jeweled Crozier, her chin to the sky and eyes closed as her mind wanders. “Who had faith, and what did they have faith in?” Maybe she’d find out after she passed her teacher, but she was at step one of a long road. And so she walked, one will, one step at a time.