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Liyukekkwi Tahpetto
Foreign Gunslinger•
Traveling
No Badges
Race
Miqo'te
Clan
Other
Free Company
None
Introduction
A foul-mouthed, tomboyish hhetsarro gunslinger from Shaaloani; she's a walking spaghetti western caricature. Almost always carries a pair of engraved revolvers on her hips. Smells of tobacco and campfires.
Player's notes
Please /t me in-game before approaching! I'm often tabbed out if I'm hanging around somewhere with my tag on and not actively posting.
Character Information
Basic details about Liyukekkwi Tahpetto
Nickname
Liyu
Age
Mid 20's
Race
Hhetsarro
Gender
Female
Occupation
Mercenary / wanderer
Body Type
Athletic
Birthplace
Shaaloani
Orientation
Bisexual
Background
The story of the character's origins
The Gunslinger Girl
Born to a half-blooded father and an orphaned Hhetsarro woman, Liyukkekwi is technically one-quarter hyur/tonawawta. Her mother gave birth to her and her older sister before latent health issues rendered it a risk to her life to bear another child, and so the newlywed couple stopped there. Liyu's father was much like her: bold, brash, and remarkably quick with a gun. He roamed the wildlands in those years before they were truly developed, making a fortune off of blood and ceruleum while his wife leveraged her skills from her tribal upbringing to fend for their children and keep the hearth warm. The man was so good, in fact, that those he had stepped on for his riches prior resorted to poisoning his drink to get rid of him. At the awkward and confusing age of thirteen, the youngest Tahpetto child was without a father, and her mother widowed. There is a long and dramatic story about the mother's successful quest for revenged that ended with the gang behind bars for life, but this is not that story.
A small, tight-knit community and a loving sister and mother provided the poor young hhetsarro woman with the proper support system to handle her grief in a healthy manner, but she had always idolized the romanticized and over-blown tales her father spun her when she got to see him, aspiring to be just like him one day. His death did little to quell that urge. Going from her teens to her early twenties, the fledgling gunslinger got into all sorts of trouble, good and bad, proving that she indeed was her father's daughter with how damned quick she was on the trigger and how good her aim was. Between that and the still booming railroad business in Shaaloani, coin was never scarce for her and her family.
As of the events of Dawntrail, Liyu's family was put under even more duress than one might expect. Her older sister had been visiting their grandmother on the paternal side of the family, running the family ranch while said elderly woman went to visit her dear daughter farther south. That's when the dome came, along with the Alexandrians. In the blink of an eye, Liyu's current lover and her older sister passed by three decades, estranging the still young woman from them. Not only that, the land that was to be hers one day was caught inside and rendered part of the levin-dome and part of the Alexandrian outskirts. It left her deeply conflicted and angry, cursing her circumstance and her bad luck, cursing that the people she cared about were ripped away from her and estranged so senselessly. She was never a selfless enough soul to make amends and let bygones be just that, so she made the decision to leave her family home and sail across the salt, to Eorzea.
Now, it's time for her to find fame and fortune in a strange new land or die trying.