Overview

Appearance

A tall, lanky Elezen man with collarbone-length, wavy, dark purple hair that gets lighter towards the ends. His eyes are a light yellow, with his rightmost eye being paler and luminescent. His skin is pale with a tinge of blue from his mother, and yellowish-white cracks line the right side of his body, noticeably around his eye and the back of his hand where the skin is the thinnest. He has a handful of scars covering his body, although most of them have faded with the exception of his large back scar.

He wears a golden mask that covers his right eye and doubles as a monocle. Before the end of Endwalker, it contained a glamour in the purple gem that kept his appearance the same as Heavensward, but it has since been left at the edge of the universe.

He tends to wear darker clothing with frills and lace. He usually wears a long skirt, but will wear pants if they click with him. His clothes cover most of his skin, and he feels uncomfortable in more revealing clothing, with the exception of swimming attire. He wears black nail polish on his naturally claw-like nails. He enjoys gold-toned jewelry, but will mix metals on occasion.

Personality

Main Traits

Aurlaux was raised to sound eloquent and rational, at least to the outside. He comes off as proper at best, and stuck-up at worst. He knows when to hold his tongue and observe, and prefers when others play diplomat for him.

At his core, he is a lot more sensitive than he lets on to, mostly as a means of self-protection. He cares a lot about people, yet he has difficulties expressing or coping with this. Enough affection (or attention at all, really) will win him over like a stray cat, however.

Loss

Aurlaux is driven by a fear of loss.

He is afraid of losing others, in both a literal and metaphorical sense. He fights to protect others, but at the same time, the ones he is closest with die because of him. He struggles with processing grief, instead being weighed down by each death. As much as he craves connection and affection, he struggles to become attached to people because he sees himself as cursed by fate. He refuses to outright call anyone a “friend” (with one notable exception), as he deems it a death sentence.

He worries that the people he is connected with will eventually leave him. That they will view him as monstrous or pathetic if they learned more about him. He does not see himself as morally good anymore, especially after the light remained fused with his soul.

He fears losing himself. His ability to feel was impacted after being in The First, his body still full of light even with the reduction after defeating Hades. It is not enough to fully transform him yet, but it is enough to mentally affect him. He has had moments of weakness, but tries his best to hide it from others.

Hobbies

He enjoys creating specialized tea blends in his off-time. He always creates a blend from local plants when he visits a new region as a way of remembering. He also offers tea as a form of mediation, although this is rarely accepted.

One of his rituals is sitting at the highest point he can find and speaking to the stars late at night. To him, he sees the night sky as a mirror to the aetherial sea, and uses this time to share his thoughts with the dead.

Story

!!quick preface!! I will write all of this out eventually, that's just work and I do not want to.

Pre-ARR

Born as a bastard child to a lord of House Dzemael & a Brume weaver, Aurlaux was handed off to his adoptive father on the border of the Shroud when his mother was accused of heresy. His father saw potential in raising an heir to live vicariously through, and attempted to raise him as a proper, intellectual astrologian. This left little time for emotional or social education in his life, however. Magic was also not Aurlaux’s strongest suit, instead he dreamed of wielding a weapon like the dragoons he heard stories of from his trips to the Observatorium.

His father saw his lack of expected progress as a failure, and began to pay less attention to him when he saw little reason to. This left Aurlaux with a lot of free time, most of which was spent exploring the Shroud. He met his first childhood friend, Zunha, late one night while exploring an abandoned cottage. The two of them became inseparable from that point on.

After a long argument, his father deemed him a failure and demanded that he move out. Desperately, he tried to crunch a decade’s worth of magic education in the span of a week in an attempt to win him back. Unfortunately, the calamity had other plans for him.

Attempting to escape imminent destruction, he and Zunha fled upwards into Coerthas. A fragment of Dalamud hit Zunha as they ran, and the two had to stop in a small alcove. Seeing no other option, Aurlaux attempted to cast a healing spell far above his skill level. This backfired horrendously as searing, crackling pain spread across his hand and eye, damaging his soul permanently. He blacked out shortly afterwards.

He woke up in an infirmary, his mind muttering nonsense (which he would later learn was a part of the echo) and his vision blurred. With nowhere else to go, he lied his way into Ishgard and stayed in the Brume for a bit. He saw an opportunity in the newly snowy region, and taught himself how to make warm clothes for gil.

Eventually, he grew tired of weaving and wished to do something more fulfilling with his life. He thought back to the lancers and dragoons he saw and decided that if he could not heal the ones he loved, he could at least protect them. He taught himself to use a spear, hunting for his own supplies in the process.

He used the gil he earned to move to Ul’dah, buying a small apartment and joining the adventurer’s guild as a freelancer.

A Realm Reborn

Heavensward

Stormblood

Shadowbringers

Endwalker

Dawntrail

Evercold

Relationships

Zenos viator Galvus

Friend, Enemy, Starcrossed Lover

Details

It'll get written properly eventually lmao. basically, these two very homoerotic, zenos sees him for who he is and is more appreciative of it, the mutual desire of death is reassuring, yadda yadda.

Zunha Karme

Childhood BFFs

Details

Scions

Urianger Augurelt

:)

Details

Hi!

Y'shtola Rhul

:3

Details

Hi!

Gallery

help i don't know how to make modals, just open in new tab for now

Trivia

• He has an incredibly weak stomach and cannot handle spicy food.
• He is a lightweight and cannot handle his drink to save his life.
• He regularly writes letters to those he is close to and has kept every single letter he’s received.
• He exclusively refers to people by their last name unless they are close.
• He has read every available fanfiction about him and enjoyed it.
• He sleeps in a C shape and hugs anything he can get his hands on in his sleep.
• His hair is actually a pale mauve, he just dyes it.
• His bodily fluids are pearlescent.
• He tries to avoid meat whenever possible. It makes him feel weird.
• He is not a true dragoon or reaper, instead he combines parts of both to create his own art. He does dragoon-like dives with his scythe.
• His teeth are slightly sharp from his Ishgardian heritage.
• Many of the common clothes currently worn in Ishgard took inspiration from his designs.

Misc

Playlist

As The Fog Engulfs It All - Sebastian Kingsley

Still Here - Digital Daggers

Iris - Goo Goo Dolls

Bernadette - IAMX

The Ghost Has No Home - Cocteau Twins

Lifetime - Three Days Grace

Gone Angels - Mili

Void Hallow - James Roach

Moodboard