Thread:Shadow1176/@comment-28132878-20160309234030

Hey Shadow! I’m super excited for The Story of Aria, but I realize that the story of mortem is quite unknown, so let me give you the complete characterization thus far for Mortem.

You can use as much or as little of this info as you need.

Simplified Background: it was a hard night on the sea when the limsa lominsan pirates pulled a soak hyur wrapped in Black Cloth out of the restless sea. He was cold as ice to the touch, shaking like a garlean engine and coughing up half the ocean. On all accounts she should have been dead, but he was on his feet the next morning. He was an amnesiac, and the only things he could remember were his name, Mortem Angeli, and several names he couldn’t place; Ifrit, Titan, Garuda, Shiva, Odin, Ramuh, leviathan, Ravana, Bismarck, and Bahamut. When the ship docked in limsa lominsa, he made it his task to find out everything he could about himself and the world around him. That task proved to be near impossible at first, due to his inability to read. He got into an agreement with an old scholar and was taught to read in exchange for hard labor and private adventuring. Mortem picked up being a marauder to assist on the adventurer tasks and soon became an associate to the adventurers, after some hard work he began to pour himself into reading books and tomes, looking for something, anything that would tell him something about himself. Though he did not find the answer to his name and his history, he did find the answer to the other names that floated in his head. The names belonged to creatures called primals, powerful demon creatures worshiped as gods by beast tribes. Mortem believed the only way to find out who he was and the past he held, was to seek out and defeat the primals. Thus he continued to amount strength and prestige in his quest to one day slay the primals. He half heartedly joined a free company full of men looking to get rich, and then joined the Grand company of the immortal flames holding a low rank to earn him access to their resources. Though he felt he was strong enough to compete with the primals, he never earned the chance to fight them. Several times the primals Titan and Ifrit rose, brought forth by their beast tribes worship, he’d pack up his stuff and head out to where they were located, but he was always too late, they would be defeated by another, more known group of adventurers. However he would have his chance to face a Primal one somber night in the Black Shroud. While walking through the forest he came up a lone rider, clad in dark decorative armor. Almost ignoring him at first, mortem soon realized he was staring down the Primal known as odin. Mortem Challenged the Primal and after a battle with him on the defensive, Mortem was defeated and left blooded in the north shroud. Awaiting inevitable Death from the primal, they instead were left there, given a few words from the primal “You’re not worthy yet, Mortem.” This left him with even more questions, and completely battered. Mortem withdrew from the FC and took some time to relax, recover, and do some soul searching. He questions what his connection with the primals was, how did Odin know his name? what happened in his past? Who was he?

After a year of being isolated from Eorzea, Mortem jumped back into the fray. He still needed answers to who he was, and he still aimed to defeat the primals. But he realized that it was a quest that would consume his life. He looked at his associates who had settled into lives with Family, Friends, and relationships. Mortem Couldn’t fix the family or relationship problem, but decided long ago that he would need strong and loyal friends in his life. so he decided henceforth to find people he could call friends. Though not losing his focus on the primals, Mortem decided to slow down and just enjoy life for what he could. It was then he began to look for another Free company he could be a part of, and he happened to find one he fit perfectly.

Personality: mortem can be cold and formal to strangers, offering them the occasional pleasantries such as “sir” and “m’am” and more likely a silent treatment. however, when it comes to people he considers his friends, he is vibrant in his conversations and does everything in his power to help them. he's not the very best with social interaction and several times has to ask whether something he says or does is ok or creepy. he has a deep love for his friends and enjoys adventures with them. Though his fighting style is a brutal one, he has an elegant side with the taste for finer things and the intelligence of a mid level scholar.

Important interactions with people:

Dritz: (doubtful this matters to you, but it's part of the story) mortems first friend, disappeared right before mortem did for undisclosed reasons. Mortem confirms that “Dritz has a small Wenis” No one is sure whether that was a slip up or not.

Y’citus Tia: (still on the fence about whether to include my strifes with kilel within Mortem’s characterization)  originally they hated each other due to a series of misunderstandings, but slowly they lost that hatred and became close friends despite the age difference. mortem spends the most amount of time talking to Y’citus. mortem tends to rely on Y’citus when it comes to whether he comes off as creepy or not.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mortem refers to him as Tia instead of Cit like everyone else, it is unknown why he does this exactly.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lazuli rose: the first member of Aria of fantasy that mortem met. mortem thinks highly of lazuli and finds a powerful ally in him and a good friend. though he isn’t sure of Lazuli sometimes, Mortem thinks he can rely on Lazuli for information on a variety of things. Though he never does it to his face, and it's all done as jokes,  Mortem has a tendency to make fun about Lazuli’s looks, specifically his height.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Tara Celica: From the moment Mortem met Tara, he had decided he would be her friend no matter what. What sparked such a decision could hardly be decided, mortem choose her subconsciously and through a conscious effort sought her friendship. Upon asking him for a reason why he said it was how she was so nice in such a mean world. “like a bright dawn breaking the hardships of night” he said once. On numerous occasions he has bought her little gifts to celebrate holidays of Eorzea (he didn’t even know what a holiday was until after his 1 year solitude.) For a while there was a rumor that mortem had a romantic attraction to Tara, however He was quick to disprove this notion.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ygrette Arrowny: Mortem has spent the least amount of time with Ygrette out of anyone in the FC. Mortem isn’t completely sure about Ygrette, however they hope to become good friends with her. They once fought alongside in an attempt to face Garuda, it was not successful. Aside that, they have little to no interaction.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lapis Rose: Mortem still isn’t sure how Lapis is Lazuli’s kid and isn’t going to ask. He thinks lapis is cute in a child-like way but ventures no father. He doesn’t see her as someone who could help him with his primal hunting, but that could be attributed to him never seeing her in battle.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Hopefully that wasn’t too much information...I could write an entire book on Mortem’s back story. If you need to know anything else (doubtful)  just ask, I decided to leave out some parts so this didn’t because an endless wall of info.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Go ahead and change anything to you fitting, just tell me. :D

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Cheers and I Wish you a wonderful day.

p.s. I wrote this at 2 a.m. so have pity on my grammar.

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