Character
ILUSA NAKHALEE
Race: Felis
Age: 40
Sex: Female
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship: Single
Height: 5’6’’
Build: Lean and flexible but with curves, mesmorph
Player
NADIA FALDEN
(nee SALKO)
Nationality: American
Age: 44
Sex: Female
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship: Widowed
Height: 5’6’’
Build: Lean and flexible but with curves, mesmorph
Personality
This felis is a kind, helpful and cheerful creature who shies from battles and focuses on healing and helping others.
That is the impression most people get after interacting with her and they would be right… In a way. What would surprise many who meet her, get to know her, get helped by her, is the fact that at her core Ilusa is a selfish, selfish girl. After all she enjoys the feeling she gets when she helps others, undoes the damage dealt by others, unravels their hard works and puts the opponent back on feet. She helps others for her own sake, they just reap the benefits of that.
It is not that she shies from battles because she is shy, but that that it takes a lot to make her contemplate fighting back. Frankly, she’s not interested in fights. It always has to be the other side that does the first, or second, or third step to have her fight them with the hammer of the holy spells.
She is curious about the world, but aside healing and interesting connotations one can make with reagents, her interest tends to jump from one onto another, all over the place, there was a time she had picked up a bow in the past, but then she picked up a sword, then a mace, then a shield, then tried her hand at constructing houses… And now she focuses on different magical tools, but who knows for how long..?
For all her cheerfulness, Ilusa doesn’t share the important things easily, making her actually a very secretive girl for all the openness she displays and while it is not easy to get inside her circle of friends, she becomes very possessive over them, perhaps even too much; not that there was anyone lately to experience that.
Ilusa is after all but an avatar crafted for the game. As for the person behind the avatar... Well, that’s not something one ought to know.
Positive: Charming, Helpful, Multi-leveled, Curious
Negative: Selfish, Secretive, Possessive, Capricious
Biography
Nadia Salko was born in 1982 on 4th April to a Russian immigrant and his American wife. Bi-lingual, she discovered the hard truth of who exactly her father was, even if she did not understand for few more years what that exactly meant. Her Father was part of Russian mafia sent early on to check the country and marry a woman to gain foothold there.
Smart and adorable, she was an apple in her father’s eye, but in few years he showed his true colours as an abusive and controlling bastard to her mother. That made her want power and strength to protect her mom. But because she was smart and an apple in his eyes, she ran interference when she could, but as more friends of her father came, what she could do was starting to become limited.
Aside that, she had a rather normal life, if she was bit obsessed with learning how to fight and secretly wanting to join the army. In the end, she did join the army, but the imagined career path had been barred to her due to her gender first (unofficially) and then the arrest and conviction of her father (excuse used to bar her from higher rank). Fed up with that and her education completed, she let herself become a reserve. Pondering what job to take next, she was readying herself to work as cashier in one of the shops…
Only for one of the former squadmates to one day ring her up and invite her to become part of a certain private military company. Of course she agreed. It allowed her to see the world, fight battles that had been denied to her in army, be a very good arm-candy-slash-bodyguard.
At one of such functions he met her future, rich, American husband. She became Nadia Falden. They ended up as a very happy couple and slowly she changed her work, going more often to the safer jobs and withdrawing from front fighting (in the meantime her father left the prison and died in mysterious way, his corpse found while she was on mission out of USA). After few years she got pregnant and decided to go on maternity leave; but still kept in contact with her group.
And so came to the world her son. While she continued training and keeping fit, and returned to work, it was more in support work and on the USA territory, thus non-deployable unless it was to go with her husband. For few years such idyllic, if bit unusual lifestyle continued, with the son being sent to good boarding school, when in one of the business trip with her husband ended… Badly. An attack had left her a widow, heavily hurt, fewer friends and more blood on her hands (though the last was of no importance compared to the three things before).
Brought back to USA, after waking up from the operations, she was informed of what she lost (husband, friends, beauty) and what she gained (company, savings, deeds and other assets). Suffice to say, she was angry. Also refused to touch the money to get herself plastic surgery, no matter the opinion of masses. There was funeral, crying son, sad parents-in-law, more legalises, new ownership of assets… It did take her more time after the funeral to really heal and get back to top possible shape. She parted with her PMC on amicable terms and even now was calling few of the left friends.
Her son was sent back to his school, the company worked well with her as almost figurehead and suddenly she found herself with lot of free time and nothing to do. Then, one of her contacts informed her of certain game and thus, she found herself wishing to start a new adventure. One without bloodshed caused by her hands and this new world seemed to have so many possibilities, she decided to give it a go.
Out of Character
Played by: @Qrin
Player tag: @Ilusa Nakhalee
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(FFXIV) Random Miqo’te fanart by momoko (momopoco)
