'Nai Mihata' The (Former) Butcher of Doma Nai is a strange woman to most who come across her. Softspoken and somewhat stonefaced even on a good day, the Au'Ra tends to not express much and tends to let her actions do the speaking for her. Even so, she rarely hesitates to assist; she's the sort of person who looks for work and looks to complete it as well as she can, and her hunting abilities are especially keen for someone as small as she is. She's quiet about her origins and her thoughts, but most likely wouldn't think much of her.
It's a good cover for the fact that she's a former soldier of the Empire, if nothing else. Originally from a poor Doman territory claimed by the Empire, Nai grew up in a large family that suffered daily under their rule. Nai watched daily as her parents sacrificed everything of themselves for their children, as the children themselves did everything they could to help their family. Nai felt it a hopeless situation; they deserved better. And loathe as she was to swear her fealty to the Empire that had them under their thumb, Nai saw no other options other than joining the Garlean Army and becoming a terrifying soldier in her own right.
What started as simply dirty work to ensure that her parents could put money aside for an eventual escape evolved into a realization; Nai was good at killing. Damn good, at that. And perhaps more to the point, despite the mockery and jeers she received from her supposed fellows, she enjoyed killing. The thrill it brought was akin to her already rather fervent interest in hunting, but what started as an attempt to feign enough fealty and enthusiasm so her true motives wouldn't be ascertained evolved into a frankly frightening bloodlust that earned the woman her title; the Butcher of Doma. A title stated mostly in mockery, but one that Nai, at the time, wore with pride.
But it didn't last; before arriving to Limsa Lominsa, her parents made the fatal mistake of drawing the ire of a few soldiers, and once Nai found out that they murdered her family, she attempted to turn her blade on one of her superiors involved in their slaying. She lost her eye that day; she should have lost her life, and she knows it. But fate works in mysterious ways, and Nai elected to don an eyepatch and discard her old name, becoming the Nai of today. Awakening to the Echo has changed the course of her life almost as dramatically, and she pledges her services to the Scions of the Seventh Dawn with a similar fervor, as she tries to reconcile who she is, what she's done, and the person she wants to be at the end of her road.
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'NAI MIHATA' - WoL - Samurai/Dark Knight
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The (Former) Butcher of Doma
Nai is a strange woman to most who come across her. Softspoken and somewhat stonefaced even on a good day, the Au'Ra tends to not express much and tends to let her actions do the speaking for her. Even so, she rarely hesitates to assist; she's the sort of person who looks for work and looks to complete it as well as she can, and her hunting abilities are especially keen for someone as small as she is. She's quiet about her origins and her thoughts, but most likely wouldn't think much of her.
It's a good cover for the fact that she's a former soldier of the Empire, if nothing else. Originally from a poor Doman territory claimed by the Empire, Nai grew up in a large family that suffered daily under their rule. Nai watched daily as her parents sacrificed everything of themselves for their children, as the children themselves did everything they could to help their family. Nai felt it a hopeless situation; they deserved better. And loathe as she was to swear her fealty to the Empire that had them under their thumb, Nai saw no other options other than joining the Garlean Army and becoming a terrifying soldier in her own right.
What started as simply dirty work to ensure that her parents could put money aside for an eventual escape evolved into a realization; Nai was good at killing. Damn good, at that. And perhaps more to the point, despite the mockery and jeers she received from her supposed fellows, she enjoyed killing. The thrill it brought was akin to her already rather fervent interest in hunting, but what started as an attempt to feign enough fealty and enthusiasm so her true motives wouldn't be ascertained evolved into a frankly frightening bloodlust that earned the woman her title; the Butcher of Doma. A title stated mostly in mockery, but one that Nai, at the time, wore with pride.
But it didn't last; before arriving to Limsa Lominsa, her parents made the fatal mistake of drawing the ire of a few soldiers, and once Nai found out that they murdered her family, she attempted to turn her blade on one of her superiors involved in their slaying. She lost her eye that day; she should have lost her life, and she knows it. But fate works in mysterious ways, and Nai elected to don an eyepatch and discard her old name, becoming the Nai of today. Awakening to the Echo has changed the course of her life almost as dramatically, and she pledges her services to the Scions of the Seventh Dawn with a similar fervor, as she tries to reconcile who she is, what she's done, and the person she wants to be at the end of her road.