NAME    awashima sumire  NICKNAME/ALIAS    'the spectral maiden', sumi  AGE    30 (as of Dawntrail)  DATE OF BIRTH    ???  GENDER & PRONOUNS    .. maiden? it's complex. (she/they)  ORIENTATION    bisexual  POSITIVE TRAITS   
devoted
patient
soft-spoken
creative  NEGATIVE TRAITS   
obsessive
secretive
detached
blunt  HEIGHT    5'2  HAIR    straw blonde  EYES    green, appearing black and hazy.  MARKS & SCARS    a deep scar from the back of her armpit to the top of her hip bone on the right side. a scar under her hair on the back of her neck. a burn around her left knee, and a litter of scars across her ribs.  PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION  
petite and ghostly pale. straw blonde hair that sometimes washes her out. dark, intense eyes with dark eyebags and full lips. various moles on her face and body. pinkish red stripes, like a feline.  PARENTS   
Anko (Mother)
Kenjiro (Father)  LANGUAGES    mainland doman, eorzean (conversational, mostly)

AWASHIMA SUMIRE.

A young devout woman with little to say. Devout and prone to disappearing, she can be found wandering the deepest depths of the woods in search of comfort.

  VERSE      —  Canon. A kami-blessed maiden born on the banks of Yanxia in a village that no longer stands. Chosen from birth by the gods to act as their bridge between the material and heavenly plane, she was raised with love and adoration for the brief few years she was able to live somewhat freely. Once upon a time, before the Garlean occupation, the child would play on the banks of the river and chase the birds that sang the songs of the Kami whom she loved and was loved by.Forced into hiding by the invasion carried out by Garlemald, Sumire became wracked with what seemed like madness to onlookers - to even her parents, who eventually saw fit to keep her within the confines of their small village and lock her within her room at night. The Kami cried out with every step the soldiers of the foreign nation took to harm the land and the people living within it, and the only one who could hear them had barely turned six the year before. Frightened and overwhelmed, and feeling the physical effect of the land suffering, Sumire became a different child - no longer afforded freedom or unfettered joy, they became lethargic and quiet.Withdrawing from the people in order to better focus on bettering the land, they did their utmost to continue carrying out their duty - prayer, dance, prayer, dance, beg for freedom, prayer. Nothing worked. Nothing changed. With further Garlean intervention, religious rites, services or performances Sumire was previously performing or training to perform had to be done in secret or not at all. There would be no more newborn babies held while her small hand blessed their health - there would be no more merriment. There would be nothing, nothing at all, but the tears of the people around her as more and more of their people disappeared, or lay bleeding. Or became part of the land, their souls squirming for weeks, for months, trapped there. With her.Sumire would be orphaned at 12 years old. When her parents caught wind that Garlean soldiers would be coming to the area, her parents panicked, not wanting their child to be discovered and punished for continued cultural practice. Or worse, taken from them or killed.They sent her up to the mountain shrine to pray and practice her kagura, in the hopes that the Kami might be emboldened by her belief, by her fervor, by her begging. Already weighed down by the distress and fury of the kami that the land was being destroyed and occupied by a force that sought to control and suppress it, they took the opportunity to beg the gods within their head to silence their voices, if even for a moment, to afford the child a moment of respite.But she had not been afforded the life of a child for very long. She had not been a child for a long, long time. They never would be again.When finally they returned home the village had gone empty - doors hanging open, belongings strewn through the dirt and trailing towards foreign barracks. their grandmother’s sandal, their mother’s ribbon - all dirtied. all gone.TBF !! apologies i am bad at organising carrds. you can ask me for her doc :)