Mina Ohasakou

Nonbinary / Pansexual / Panromantic
They / Them / Theirs

(cw: blood, canon-typical violence, body horror.)
(content wrt Passenger has a warning for ideation)

A mercenary alongside the Tenebrus Logistics Company, once a lab rat for the Garlean legions.

Childhood

Mina was born in Doma, to a pair of Raen Au Ra whose names and faces they have now forgotten. Their life was made hellish early after the Garlean invasion forced their family on the run. Their early life was spent in this way, hiding with a small group of Doman loyalist rebels, until eventually, that group was found by a rogue legion of the Garlean empire, then imprisoned. Many of them were executed, but Mina does not know which ones were executed and which ones were made to go through the same torment that they were made to.

Teen Years

They found themselves shortly thereafter shipped to a facility near Carteneau. Mina's particular aetherial affinities proved to be too tempting a prize for Garlean scientists to ignore. They were put through their paces and made to work, test, and drill under Garlean machinations, and they soon after learned to fear needles, ceruleum injections, and the whir of complex machinery and their implements of experimentation. Somehow, remarkably, they survived all the tests given. This torment continued for many years, the work done on them the basis for work later continued by a different legion. Eventually, one day, it stopped, and the meteor at Dalamud hit. Trapped in stasis at the time, Mina simply watched as everything broke and burned around the Garleans. They surivived the incident, and took their time waiting for something new to occur, subsiding off of the rations and such remaining in the base.Eventually, following the Seventh Umbral Calamity, an expeditionary force from the Free Company Tenebrus ventured into the wastelands rent asunder in Bahamut's wake. There they found the ruined facility, and in it, one Mina, sitting at a table and eating an MRE. Seeing no reason not to return with the Eorzean adventurers, they fell in with the Free Company, an odd group controlled by a benevolent Mi'qote named Sakhi (though circumstances regarding her have changed, at this point). After consideration, they decided that they should put their talents to use in more productive manners, and joined the Immortal Flames. A natural attunement for astrology allowed Mina a relatively quick pathway towards the battlefield, and Mina now works as a mercenary for their Grand Company, offering their services as a battlefield chirurgeon. Their studies of Astrology led them to practicing in Hingan for some five years. During the same time that they practiced their Astrology, they also worked on mastering the culinary arts, and they took a trip of the Far East while doing so.

Adulthood

Mina was deployed by contract on the Bozjan Southern Front, but that since fell through after a series of rather unfortunate events. Mina owns and operates the Bleak Academy Teahouse, and was briefly in disguise as a Miqo'te. Following a series of events, Mina is now safe from the sins of their past and lives their life again as an Au Ra, regaining their proper visage after a trip to Doma.New developments took place during the events of the Final Days. Mina and their company took steps towards helping the Scions of the Seventh Dawn avert worldwide disaster, and Mina found their astrology wasn't quite holding up the same as it was anymore-- the shortcuts they had taken in the past now coming up more properly. Now, during peacetime, they have fallen in with Centurio Hunts, finding the group to be the most able to satisfy their overwhelming need to hunt-- and to sate their quite literal need for blood.

Likes

Nightlife, study, good working relationships, the Immortal Flames, Sultana Nanamo Ul Namo (long may she reign), mixology, red, musculature (purely aesthetically, promise), punk music, fortune telling, Centurio clan, the taste of blood for some reason???, astrological theory, melons (the fruit), matcha

Dislikes

Inclement weather, their own alcohol tolerance, waking up before noon, wartime lodgings, large crowds, being the center of attention (they swear they hate it, honest), losing their control

  • Mina's eyes occasionally flash red with some form of runic sigil-- those in the know would recognize it as telltale signs of Resonance.

  • The scent of an open wound is irritating for Mina, and they often have a hard time controlling themself around such things.

  • For those particularly sensitive to aether, Mina has a surfeit of Umbrally aspected aether-- almost to the point of seeming Tempered.

You've found the person behind the curtain! Hello, I'm Maswoon. I'm also NB, and my hobbies include savage raiding, art, and Pokemon. I'm fairly experienced with RP at this point. If you'll allow me, I'd like to establish some boundaries vis-a-vis RP. There are a few topics I don't really want to see.Struggles in my past mean that I can't deal well with elements of dubious consent, or elements of suicide or ideation thereof. If you know me well and you still want to do plots like that, shoot me a tell and make sure to let me know so I can either remove myself from the situation or see if I feel comfortable staying.(Yes, I realize I wrote a piece regarding suicidal ideation with one of my characters. There is a difference between me writing a story that I have complete control of the ending in and having to deal with the uncertainty of RP.)Similarly, if there is anything I'm doing that's messing you up, please tell me! I'll stop my behavior immediately with no questions asked. I don't want to make people uncomfortable through my RP since I know many use it as an escape from reality.