OOC: Info Post!
- Yeul's full name, Paddra Nsu-Yeul, stands for Yeul of the Nsu Clan, from the city of Paddra
- is from Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII-2 (mostly the 2nd one)
- technically, she's a villain.
- even though she's basically the nicest villain ever (more on that under the cut)
- she has really green eyes and dark blue-silvery hair (it's really, really blue in the artwork and more blue-silvery in the game)
- walks with a bit of a limp; she was born with it and will tell you so if you ask about it. She doesn't need a cane and it doesn't hurt her, though it does slow her down. Yeul will not be winning any races. Ever.
- is 14. Sorta. (more on this also under the cut)
- is soft-spoken, but not shy
- is very gentle, very calm, and also fearless in the face of deadly danger
- is also very, very passive. Not 'doormat' passive, but 'non-reactive' passive when it comes to arguments, fights, danger, change… Yeul goes with the path of least resistance, preferring to let things fall out as they will, and in general is extremely fatalistic
- all of this is because she has the world's suckiest powers, which are elaborated on under the cut.
Note: I would advise people to read what's under the cut, but please be warned there's a lot of talk about repeated character death. (I promise that makes sense.)
Okay, so, Yeul is basically immortal in the worst way ever.
Once upon a time (we're talking, like, several thousand years in the past here) Yeul was a seer priestess of the goddess Etro, who was granted the divine gift of the Eyes of Etro.
This gift gave her the ability to see the future, with which Yeul could guide her people to the optimal future. Sounds good, right? Except… not so much. The ability to see the future cannot be trained, cannot be controlled, cannot be turned off, and every vision of the future Yeul has shortens her lifespan drastically.
Because the gift was goddess-given however, whenever Yeul dies, she's reborn. No Yeul in thousands of years has lived a single life past the age of twenty. Most of them do not even reach that age. Because of this, and because of where in canon she was taken from, Yeul will not make it alive to graduation, though she's got a few years left until canon takes this incarnation of herself out.
Yeul's fearlessness in the face of danger, in the face of death, has been brought about simply through repetition. She doesn't fear it because it doesn't 'stick' with her. Ever.
Yeul's passivity is learned. Twice in the past Yeul has tried to interfere with her own visions: once in an attempt to stop a civil war from occurring (but her attempts at explaining and preventing her vision turned out to cause the civil war) and once to stop a giant monster from ravaging her home. She stuck the monster outside of time, which caused a timewarp/paradox in the timeline and because of this people in her village suffered longer, which Yeul still feels crushingly guilty about.
There's also the significant fact that, each time the future is changed, a new vision is granted to her which shortens her already short life further. Yeul enjoys her lives and likes to avoid anything that would truncate them even more.
That being said, she's not above nudging the timeline a smidgen if it means the visions she'll get are happy ones instead of sad or bad or plain dreadful ones. She doesn't have a choice about seeing, but if she sees a way to have it turn out to be a good change for the future, she prefers to see that.
What she sees: if you're worried she'll see something about your character, or about a plot, don't be. Yeul's visions of the future don't concern themselves with day-to-day or even large-scale events unless they change the entire path of the timeline. Not just one person's timeline, the entire course of the future. So individual people are absolutely safe from her powers.
Anyway, due to the extreme nature of her power, Yeul's ability to see the future is reserved primarily for her canon catch-ups. If someone wants her to see something (but it must change the course of the future in their world), you can poke me and I'm totally willing to discuss it but unless there's a good reason for why she'd see it, I'm going to be super hesitant to say yes because of how reductive her visions are to her lifespan.
On being a villain: Yeul is the 'sidekick' villain from FFXIII-2. Her Guardian, Caius, is the main villain. He was originally a normal human being who died in the name of protecting Yeul and the goddess Etro saw his devotion and gave him the Heart of Chaos, which granted him powers and immortality. His immortality was of the undying type, rather than Yeul's constantly reborn type, and this eventually drove him mad because his devotion and affection for Yeul were constantly bombarded with the grief of each of her deaths (he views each Yeul as a separate entity, though Yeul herself is more ambivalent on differentiating between her lives) and his inability to do anything to prevent her from dying in an endless cycle because of her visions. Eventually he gets the idea to destroy time so that there are no futures for Yeul to see and therefore she cannot die.
Yeul goes along for the ride. She never openly supports what he does but neither does she argue with or condemn him and, indeed, she comforts him in the face of her deaths rather than the other way around. Her villainy is in her passivity. She has made her peace with the unending nature of her existence. When Caius decides to destroy everything for her sake, however, she makes no move to hold him back from doing so.
Notes: Yeul is completely and utterly an open book for any kind of mind power/reading. She has no shields against anything and if your character picks up anything about what I've written up here, it's fair game for conversation. If asked about it, Yeul will talk about it. If not, she generally won't bring it up.
Questions? Comments? Strudel?
- is from Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII-2 (mostly the 2nd one)
- technically, she's a villain.
- even though she's basically the nicest villain ever (more on that under the cut)
- she has really green eyes and dark blue-silvery hair (it's really, really blue in the artwork and more blue-silvery in the game)
- walks with a bit of a limp; she was born with it and will tell you so if you ask about it. She doesn't need a cane and it doesn't hurt her, though it does slow her down. Yeul will not be winning any races. Ever.
- is 14. Sorta. (more on this also under the cut)
- is soft-spoken, but not shy
- is very gentle, very calm, and also fearless in the face of deadly danger
- is also very, very passive. Not 'doormat' passive, but 'non-reactive' passive when it comes to arguments, fights, danger, change… Yeul goes with the path of least resistance, preferring to let things fall out as they will, and in general is extremely fatalistic
- all of this is because she has the world's suckiest powers, which are elaborated on under the cut.
Note: I would advise people to read what's under the cut, but please be warned there's a lot of talk about repeated character death. (I promise that makes sense.)
Okay, so, Yeul is basically immortal in the worst way ever.
Once upon a time (we're talking, like, several thousand years in the past here) Yeul was a seer priestess of the goddess Etro, who was granted the divine gift of the Eyes of Etro.
This gift gave her the ability to see the future, with which Yeul could guide her people to the optimal future. Sounds good, right? Except… not so much. The ability to see the future cannot be trained, cannot be controlled, cannot be turned off, and every vision of the future Yeul has shortens her lifespan drastically.
Because the gift was goddess-given however, whenever Yeul dies, she's reborn. No Yeul in thousands of years has lived a single life past the age of twenty. Most of them do not even reach that age. Because of this, and because of where in canon she was taken from, Yeul will not make it alive to graduation, though she's got a few years left until canon takes this incarnation of herself out.
Yeul's fearlessness in the face of danger, in the face of death, has been brought about simply through repetition. She doesn't fear it because it doesn't 'stick' with her. Ever.
Yeul's passivity is learned. Twice in the past Yeul has tried to interfere with her own visions: once in an attempt to stop a civil war from occurring (but her attempts at explaining and preventing her vision turned out to cause the civil war) and once to stop a giant monster from ravaging her home. She stuck the monster outside of time, which caused a timewarp/paradox in the timeline and because of this people in her village suffered longer, which Yeul still feels crushingly guilty about.
There's also the significant fact that, each time the future is changed, a new vision is granted to her which shortens her already short life further. Yeul enjoys her lives and likes to avoid anything that would truncate them even more.
That being said, she's not above nudging the timeline a smidgen if it means the visions she'll get are happy ones instead of sad or bad or plain dreadful ones. She doesn't have a choice about seeing, but if she sees a way to have it turn out to be a good change for the future, she prefers to see that.
What she sees: if you're worried she'll see something about your character, or about a plot, don't be. Yeul's visions of the future don't concern themselves with day-to-day or even large-scale events unless they change the entire path of the timeline. Not just one person's timeline, the entire course of the future. So individual people are absolutely safe from her powers.
Anyway, due to the extreme nature of her power, Yeul's ability to see the future is reserved primarily for her canon catch-ups. If someone wants her to see something (but it must change the course of the future in their world), you can poke me and I'm totally willing to discuss it but unless there's a good reason for why she'd see it, I'm going to be super hesitant to say yes because of how reductive her visions are to her lifespan.
On being a villain: Yeul is the 'sidekick' villain from FFXIII-2. Her Guardian, Caius, is the main villain. He was originally a normal human being who died in the name of protecting Yeul and the goddess Etro saw his devotion and gave him the Heart of Chaos, which granted him powers and immortality. His immortality was of the undying type, rather than Yeul's constantly reborn type, and this eventually drove him mad because his devotion and affection for Yeul were constantly bombarded with the grief of each of her deaths (he views each Yeul as a separate entity, though Yeul herself is more ambivalent on differentiating between her lives) and his inability to do anything to prevent her from dying in an endless cycle because of her visions. Eventually he gets the idea to destroy time so that there are no futures for Yeul to see and therefore she cannot die.
Yeul goes along for the ride. She never openly supports what he does but neither does she argue with or condemn him and, indeed, she comforts him in the face of her deaths rather than the other way around. Her villainy is in her passivity. She has made her peace with the unending nature of her existence. When Caius decides to destroy everything for her sake, however, she makes no move to hold him back from doing so.
Notes: Yeul is completely and utterly an open book for any kind of mind power/reading. She has no shields against anything and if your character picks up anything about what I've written up here, it's fair game for conversation. If asked about it, Yeul will talk about it. If not, she generally won't bring it up.
Questions? Comments? Strudel?