Arthur is a red-haired hyur with a missing eye. Retired from combat and adventuring, he is considered a non-combatant, and works for the Wyld in their administrative department.
➤ ARTHUR BLAYLOCK
✦ Hyur ⬩ ARC, GLD
| ▸ Age: | 27 |
| ▸ DoB: | Jan 12th |
| ▸ Height: | 5'0"/1.5m |
| ▸ Sexuality: | Bisexual |
| ▸ Status: | Taken, polyamorous |
| ▸ Occupation: | Administration, |
| ▸ Pronouns: | He/they/it |
| ▸ Ethnicity: | Coerthan |
| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +3 | 0 | +3 | +3 | -4 | -1 |
Arthur Blaylock is a wallflower with a penchant for people-watching. Despite being poor at striking up conversation, he is more than willing to hold one, if one can get around his somewhat jumpy disposition. While still shy, he's working on coming out of his bubble and reaching out first.Having settled into a routine that suits him well, he tends to spend his days performing tasks, helping to boost morale or otherwise getting dragged into misadventures. He's keen on assisting as many people as he can, although he has slowly been building up boundaries for things beyond his skill set, comfort or interest.
Having found his rhythm and making headway in accepting his worth, he has put down his sword and pursues arcanima as a hobby. War necessitated becoming a ward to a minor noble house where he learned swordplay, but with the Dragonsong War over and a space to exist found, he's content with letting his skill with the blade diminish. His interests have narrowed in on arcanima, of which he is a novice now slowly self-learning.Arthur fights defensively and with the intent to survive. He has no interest in combat unless it cannot be helped, or if he falls into a spiral.
❝I'm a thief, I'm a coward, I'm a fool, it hurts
Thinking this was real❞
➤ FACE of the SUN
Arthur is meant for lower stakes roleplaying. I am, at the moment, not open to putting him in very high stress situations. Treat him as a non-combatant character. At current, Arthur works best as an NPC to other characters, so I would prefer to have him used as a springboard.I am disinterested in roleplaying with the following: primals, auspices, great wyrms, aliens or extraterrestrials, Ascians, Garlean royals, deities, Ancients, lightwardens, voidsent outside of reaper pacts, archfey or entelechies. Things that fall into these categories at lower stakes are welcome, though.
THE WYLD
Knowledge of the free company.
Arthur works for the Wyld, a free company. He isn't a main face, but he can be seen at odd hours doing a variety of generalised tasks, as needed. He doesn't seem to have a specific function outside of helping out, but he is dutiful with whatever task he is given.
On all accounts, he's painfully average. The only real notable thing about him are the facial scars and missing eye, which could be a point of interest — but he's fairly tame for someone who frequents, and works at, a free company as chaotic as the Wyld. He doesn't seem to be the type that really fits.
ADVENTURING
Dungeon-diving experience.
Arthur is a former (novice) adventurer. Before settling down permanently in Isghard, (between the events of Endwalker and Dawntrail) he made some of his income by adventuring. He was a swordsman at the time, with some training in arcanima. He helped with the odd job or plumbed dungeons for a pittance. If you're an adventurer, maybe you've run into each other before.
➤ CINDERS on the BATTLEFIELD
Born as a bastard child to a lowborn mother, Arthur started life in the dredges of Ishgardian society. When war ravaged everything he knew and struck his mother ill, he was taken in by a man who claimed charitability. Such olive branches tend to come with thorns in Ishgardian society, and for Arthur, it meant servitude: in exchange for becoming a ward - the property - of the lesser noble House, a cure for his mother would be found.His youth was spent in a lifestyle built around the sword and only the sword, a soldier helping in the culling of dragons and insurgents. By his mid-twenties, he was as efficient as obedient. But a high grade performance could not ensure his mother's health. When she flagged, so, too, did his devotion. A particularly bad night led to overindulgence in both vice and impulsivity. His chosen poison was dragonsblood.A heretic to be branded, and with no purpose left in Ishgard, he fled the city proper to lands unknown. The next handful of years were spent as a sellsword across Eorzea; a soldier with no other skill set found it difficult to work under other conditions, but if the odd job presented itself, he took it. He kept his head down and did not ask questions.In what free time he was spared, he became a fan of a fight club, the Wyld. It led him to following it all the way to Ishgard. Though begrudging the city, those he cared for centered themselves in the cold city-state. It led to finding love, and a desire to stay where that love to could found — and though staying in the city puts him in the crosshairs of those he wishes to avoid, the risk, he finds, is worth the gamble. All he craves is for that love to heal old wounds... and to put the sword down for good.
➤ AURVANDIL the ERRANT STAR
Dragon ⬩ Formerly of the Horde
... The truth has been cut out of Arthur's tale to keep his existence as a dragon as secret as possible.The quality of Arthur's dragonsblood was rich enough for him to become a full dragon, beyond the bounds of an aevis. The dragon that appeared from his imbibing appeared in the middle of Ishgard on the day of a solar eclipse, and burned like a star. He was given the name Aurvandil.After a short-lived fight, Aurvandil fled the city. In his wake, a few dozen citizens and knights had been killed.
Unable to continue his existence as a man, Aurvandil found his way into the horde, where he became a faceless member among dragonkind. When the horde was rally, so, too, did he take wing to raze Coerthan settlements.
Aurvandil's fame was short-lived. Greater threats than he existed in the horde, though he could not deny the clarion call of subjugation wrought upon him by the great wyrms that sung their chorus of war. To him, it was the dirge of an individuality he had, and so, he found himself falling back into line — and smiting former countrymen.Several generations later, and Aurvandil has fallen out of notoriety completely. He exists as little more than a footnote in the annals of Ishgardian history at most, with very few who can tell the story of the dread dragon that suddenly appeared one fateful day. Aurvandil has been all but forgotten by history, and he intends to keep it that way.
❖ Drake King
➤ Project Theophage ⬩ DRK, GNB
Friend...?; adventuring partner
♥♥♥♥♥
Arthur was the target of a discontinued bounty Drake had taken on. What should have ended with Arthur's death, instead somehow turned into a blossoming friendship that runs deep enough for Drake to almost consider him a friend proper.Drake's candid bluntness and head-on approach to life is a grounding experienc efor Arthur, even if Drake pushes his buttons a little too much. They're friends with benefits.The two operate as a sort of adventuring duo from time to time as time and energy allows.➤ Into the Jaws
❝All the arrows that you've stolen
Split in half, now bum and broken
Like your heart that was so eager to be hid
You can't keep them all caged❞
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→ Kay ♦ DID System ♦ Furry ♦ Artist
➤ Any prns ♦ Genderfluid
Hello! I'm Kay, and I write Arthur and some other oc's, although it's probably safe to say Arthur is my go-to for rp purposes. I am a queer artist in his early 30's. Been playing FFXIV since the summer of 2022. My day job is as a bookstore employee and freelance artist.If you'd like to roleplay, feel free to ask for my Discord. :) If you have it, feel free to barge into my DMs! I am much more flexible with Discord rp, as I can access it all day as opposed to the game.
If you have a history of abuse, bigotry or fascist apologia then I will drop you. I don't care how good the rp is. If things like ACAB, Free Palestine, BLM or Land Back upsets you, you are not the writer for me.
I am happy to put Arthur in dynamics that are to his detriment as that provides him grounds for development, however I will never let that dynamic fall into domestic or sexual abuse territory. It will not happen to him. I will not hang out with people who write this.
Arthur tackles themes of death, grief, autonomy, identity, war, mental health, being palettable vs. accountable and familial and religious abuse. If these are themes you'd like to explore, let me know!