y'akeno lhea

NAME: Y'akeno Lhea
NICKNAMES: Adventurer, Yakie, Lieutenant Nyanbard
AGE: 18 Eorzean Years, 21 Earth Years
DATE OF BIRTH: 4th Sun of the 6th Astral Moon

MARITAL STATUS: Single
SEXUALITY: Pansexual

OCCUPATION: Adventurer, Scion of the Seventh Dawn, Serpent Private -> Serpent Lieutenant
HOMETOWN: Gridania
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Here
PARENTS: Y'lhea Tia, Pyha Jaab
SIBLINGS: Y'panha Lhea (sister) Y'rhoe'a Lhea (brother)

So far as beginnings go, Y'akeno's was a happy one, albeit first faced with the difficulties brought about by those who were sheltered beneath the forest bows and branches of the Black Shroud. For and adventurer, she was a kind and earnest soul who sought to help wherever she could despite how mediocre the task may be. She was happy to do it and smiled at the opportunity to help someone through a rough time. Yes, even those stubborn Wildwood Elezen who looked down on her for not being as tall or presence of a very long tail like her senior at the guild Silvairre. For as kind as she is, she is also a person devoted to the cause she picked up when becoming an adventurer - to see a need and fulfill it even if those she helps do not realize they need it due to pride. This is often shown through her actions towards the aforementioned guildmate: first to prove herself a skilled enough archer, and then later on as he pulled a dumbass move and tried to capture an infamous poacher on his own. One that he'd let escape once before.

Always one to keep a sunny disposition even as the going got tough, she works hard to support her friends as well - why, it's even the reason she became an archer and later a bard! She loves supporting her friends both off and on the battlefield whether it's trying to calm things down or cheer them up or simply putting an arrow between the eyes of someone (though most likely a monster) trying to kill them! Though the calming things down is more common then not in the archery club, helping the people she holds dear find their reason and resolve again is also something she enjoys doing. This she does first for her guildmate Miah, who'd lost sight of her reason for moving to Gridania after her litter were all massacred by Dalamud's fall, and later so many countless others from normal citizens to guildmates and guild leaders alike. To her, seeing their smiling faces return is enough payment (though a bit of coin or maybe a little better armor after a shopping trip is just as fine, too)!

Though that can be a bit of a problem for her as well. For as much as she loves helping others, she will do almost anything for a bit of coin. Most know her as a reliable and compassionate adventurer, much unlike many foreigners that they had met before. but all people need to eat and this kitten seeks power and fame. She wants to be famous for helping others, to be known for her strength and skill on the battlefield and off. This soon comes to bite her after being named Ifrit's Bane when representatives of each grand company of the Eorzean Alliance comes a knockin' on her doorstep, wanting her to join their respective armies. It's Minfilia's quick thinking that saves her from making a rash decision there of course, but later on in her story (later than when I'm taking her), she soon finds that her friends cannot save her from the negatives that power brings and the fame that comes with it. She is selfish this way, almost always shyly hiding behind her fellow Scions when too much fame at once, and it will soon come back to haunt her...

This is why when, after seeing her in action on the battlefield first in La Noscea and then in Western Thanalan, she began to slightly idolize a foreign warrior that she met on her excursions across the realm: a hyur named "Lightning." She seemed to handle her sudden fame after being thrust into a completely different world so well, and obviously she wanted to learn how to manage it too! Yet she was left questioning her motives when she realized that, despite how the Mothercrystal chose her as one of Her champions, she was still free to pick and choose when Lightning wasn't.

She is very much a young woman still finding her path, and how she is left pondering what her desire is worth is a prime example of it. Perhaps strength for strength's sake wasn't what she sought, but rather the willpower to fight under her own power for who and what she believed in...
Y'akeno was born the youngest of a litter of three to a Seeker (dinural) father and Keeper (nocturnal) mother. As such, she was the most babied of the three as they grew up - especially as she had mostly inherited her father's eyes and hair and he viewed her as his favorite. Thus, much of her childhood was spent watching her older brother and sister starting their training to hunt as she learned to sew and work with wood to make their weapons (her brother was a conjurer, and her sister a lancer).

Yet as she did, she realized just how much she wanted to be hunting by their side instead of simply mending their weapons. It was boring staying cooped up in their encampment! So after a while, she crafted herself her first bow and arrows, sneaking out, and started bringing back squirrels she proudly skinned and prepared to make snacks for her siblings when they were out - even used some of the skins for their armor! Though... she mostly left those for her mother to do, because what is tanning animal skins at six years old.

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