chihaya

Name: Chihaya Suzuki
Race/Clan: Raen Au Ra
Gender & pronouns: Female, she/her
Birthplace: Kugane
Age: Mid-20s
Height: ??? Will add later.
Physical attributes: Shoulder length brown hair, white skin, blue eyes, blue limbal rings
Primary jobs: AST, WHM
Current MSQ point: 7.5

Chihaya was something of an accident. I sometimes make placeholder characters for various reasons, mostly to store excess items. (Inventory management is a constant battle in FFXIV.) You can sometimes transfer characters from one world to another for free, so I took advantage of this and made Chihaya for that purpose, not intending to use her past that.

It completely backfired. I really should have known it would happen while I was still in the character creator, but it didn't take that much longer after that. Hey, it's not my fault Au Ra are so cute, okay.

In the months that followed, Chihaya turned into one of my most played alts. It was something of a slow burn, which meant that I totally wasted her three months of bonus EXP and didn't take full advantage of it. And yet I don't mind that much, because it means I get to spend more time playing her.

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure I'm going to level up every role on her. I'm already most of the way there, and I want her to be able to wear lots of nice clothes, so... Really, Chihaya is an outlet for fashion more than anything else.

I also did an entire Dawntrail relic on her. From start to finish. Even though I had already completed it on Cálei and Reis. So... yeah. I'm doomed.

backstory

Because I didn't set out to make a story for Chihaya when I made her, her character is pretty thin. The basic idea is that she's a Hingan astrologian, with more emphasis on geomancy than the astrology practiced by Sharlayan and Ishgard. She spent her early years in Kugane and eventually travelled to Sharlayan to expand her knowledge of astrology. Chihaya also practices divination in the form of cartomancy using the Deck of Sixty. She therefore spends most of her time traveling, working both as a combat astrologian and card reader.

That's about all I've got right now. I'm hoping that more comes to me in time, but even if it doesn't I'm not too worried.

minion

Around the time I made Chihaya, the minion drop from an expert dungeon was the Royal Hound. I picked it up for her and was immediately charmed. How she got it I have no idea, but it's her constant companion. I should probably think of a name for it...

favorite glamours

Since most of my drive in playing Chihaya is glamour, I've made a lot of outfits. Here are some of my favorites; you can view the rest on Eorzea Collection.

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