Kreja Lesjasch

Overview

Before she was swept up in the fight against Garlemald, Kreja was born to Bozja's underclass. Her destitute family cut her loose at an early age, leaving her to struggle alone as little more than a thief. Necessity demanded she become a skilled one. Her uncanny intuition, developed after stealing a traveling Sharlayan's soul crystal, made her an even better one.That same intuition proved valuable to the partisan fighters who eventually recruited her. However, after Garlemald's fall, she fell back into old, painful patterns. They extracted a steep toll.She's never known safety, and has been unable to trust nearly anyone. Soft spoken and skittish, it's not hard to tell she's suffered immensely during her life. Somehow, it hasn't killed her heart.

Description

Physical

Grey fur, grey eyes, relatively small.

Kreja is short for a hrothgar, with grey fur and an atypically slim frame. While lithe, she lacks the muscle of most of her people and it isn't hard to tell her life has been hard. The faint smile she wears doesn’t always touch her grey eyes, and they're often evasive. But for people suffering, their gaze is warm with genuine care.She typically dresses in dark indigo, black, and silver. Her outfits nearly always have space somewhere to hide objects.

Personality

Quiet, skittish, mistrustful, compassionate.

Kreja is downtrodden. It’s hard to miss and she simply cannot hide it. She is melancholic and expects to be treated poorly. After all, that’s the only way she was ever treated for most of her life. It's made her skittish and she has a difficult time trusting others. Her trust has been violated too many times.She’s quiet and rarely speaks much above a whisper. She’s quiet in other ways, too. Kreja can easily pass through places unseen and unheard. She also is adept at hiding objects on her person—something she does out of habit and as a personal challenge.Despite everything, Kreja shows little inclination toward anger or violence. If anything, she comes across as a fairly gentle soul—at least, if you ignore that she’s hiding a knife on her somewhere.

Hooks

A thief and former criminal

Kreja never decided she wanted to be a thief. She never had the luxury of agency. If she wanted to live, she needed food, shelter, and coin. Destitute, alone, and scorned, she had few alternatives. She's done what she's needed to survive, but that life has been hard to escape. Now, she does her best to avoid her past and use her skills for good ends.

An odd way to astromancy

Thieves live and die on their luck and intuition. Nothing improves their chances like the ability to bend fate itself. Kreja was once hired to steal an Astrologian soul crystal from a Sharlayan scholar. She kept it instead. In the quiet solitude of star-filled nights, she gleaned much from its whispers. It made her a better thief, but also offered new potentiality.

Now a proper student

After arriving in Ishgard, where Kreja currently resides, she was finally able to gain real instruction in Astromancy. For some moons now, she's been refining her skills at the Athenaeum Astrologicus. Despite Sharlayan openings its borders again, she's refused to visit the city state. However, her study in Ishgard has caught the attention of a former mark.

Former Resistance operative

Though she joined late in the war, Kreja fought for the liberation of Bozja while part of an independent group of partisans known as the Thunderers. Both her divinatory and thieving skills proved valuable, particularly for information retrieval. She continued operating with them post-liberation, until Garlemald fell.

Always willing to listen

Life can be brutal for many, and Kreja's seen that first hand. A lot. She struggles with casual conversation, often appears timid, and adamantly refuses to open up for others. Still, she always has an ear for hurt people, and will do what she can to help, even if it is just listening.

Withering from addiction

Outside of partisans, the people Kreja has worked for were rarely kind. Quite a few coerced her into working for them. Many betrayed her. The absolute worst of them, not long ago, forced her into a somnus addiction. It kept her on a tight leash. Now it's slowly killing her.

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Out of character

I'm Qrreia, an internet lioness, and a hobbyist writer and worldbuilder with a sci-fi focus. I've roleplayed since the early 2000s in forums, chats, TTRPGs, MU*s, and MMOs. I started FFXIV in 2017, but earnestly in late 2018. I seem to be a melee main.

Server

Mateus, Crystal Data Center, but I'll visit others.

Availability

My best times are evenings (PT) except on Thursdays. If my RP tag is on, I'm IC. If not, feel free to ask if I'm available.

Roleplay style

I'm largely a paragraph roleplayer, but my posts vary in length. Sometimes what I want to convey takes up to a few paragraphs, sometimes it takes a single word of dialogue.

Content flags

This character touches on topics of systemic oppression, isolation, trauma, bigotry, colonialism, and substance abuse. These themes are explored through the lens of healing and moving forward. Their effects on Kreja are impossible to ignore as her entire personality is built from them, but I try to take extra care with them in public scenes.

Real-world politics

I'm trans, a lesbian, an abuse survivor, and openly subscribe to anarchist political theory. I hold strong views against fascism, authoritarianism, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, racism, misogyny, queer-bigotry, "natural" hierarchies, generative AI, and genocide. I've no interest in "apolitical" spaces and people. They protect the status quo, harming folks like myself and others. So, ACAB, Free Palestine, Trans Rights, and all. These inform my RP and who I’ll hang around here.

Romance and adult themes

Kreja, while poly, is not actively looking to expand her relationship, and her partner is played by my IRL one. I've also had some bad experiences with RP relationships so, this is probably not on the table. Adult themes, in general, are possible, but they need to be story and character driven. Consent and mutual understanding is required. Also, 18+ only for, I hope, obvious reasons.

Lore

I prefer close lore adherence. Things that fit known lore and the setting's themes are also fine.