Last Updated: May 3rd 2011 Added a bunch of details to Kaolla’s background that I was saving to reveal IC, but decided to post now to get it out for the LS to read.
Name: Kaolla Ronpotteh Gender: Female Race: Mithra Job: Black Mage / Scholar Height: 4'2" Weight: 90 lbs. Apparent age: 13-15 Actual age: 19 Eye color: Blue Hair color: White Sexual Orientation: Lesbian Measurements: 26-20-24 B cup Blood Type: AB Birth Sign: Shiva Place of Birth: Mhaura
Appearance: (Mithra 6-A) Her growth stunted due to extreme Mana exposure; Kaolla, at first glance appears to be a small kitten between the age of 13 and 15. On closer inspection however one will notice that while petite her body has the curves of a grown woman. Kaolla’s upper body is covered with tattoos (like the ones in the Igqira Weskit) and she has burn scars on both of her hands which are almost always covered by gloves.
Demeanor: Kaolla is a tease. Quite willing to use her child like appearance to her advantage Kaolla switches between a child like, hyper, bubbly persona and a put-on air of confidence and maturity.
Kaolla thrives on physical contact often hugging complete strangers if they happen to say or do the right thing, though at other times she will project a prickly or even hostile aura in order to not appear needy.
Beneath her outward confidence and cheer; however, Kaolla has a troubled past and is actually quite insane. While Kaolla likes to act either happy or in charge she is quick to panic and will often end up casting powerful spells on anything that moves if frightened or quoting nonsensical phrases in a half-sane singsong manner if merely nervous.
Kaolla is also addicted to magic and craves ethers the way an alcoholic craves liquor.
Above all this however Kaolla’s defining trait is that she is naive and inexperienced no mater how quick she is to act like she knows everything.
Background Timeline:
End of the Crystal war; CW+0: Kaolla’s mother (Amalla Ronpotteh) retires from being a Dark Knight and becomes a Fisherwoman in Mhaura. Local gossip lingers that when Amalla arrived at Mhaura she had several large locked chests with her assumed to be spoils from the war.
CW +2: Amalla has her encounter with Kaolla’s father. Kaolla’s mother never spoke about Kaolla’s father. Rumors vary as to what happened. Some say that Amalla was raped, others that Kaolla was the result of a one night stand involving nothing more than drink and sexual need. Others say that Amalla exchanged favors in order to pay off a loan she used to buy her fishing boat. All Kaolla knows with any certainty is that he mother refused to speak of the incident and that her demeanor whenever asked about Kaolla’s father indicates that not only did she not love him she probably hated him for one reason or another. Other than this Kaolla does not even know if her father is still alive.
CW+3: Kaolla Ronpotteh is born. Over the next several years Amalla would leave Kaolla with various mithra living in Mhaura while out fishing. As Kaolla grew her mother would attempt to teach her to hunt and fish but other than that had very little meaningful contact with her daughter. Amalla also returned to drinking heavily soon after Kaolla was born a habit she acquired right after encountering Kaolla’s father and which she paused only during her pregnancy once she learned she was pregnant.
CW+13: A now 10 year old Kaolla, tired of her mother never answering any of her questions, goes looking for her own answers. It is at this time that Kaolla discovers the hiding place of the locked chests that Amalla had brought with her to Mhaura. These chests contained the personal effects of the late Bikho Ronpotteh. It is unclear how Amalla came into possession of these chests and even less clear when the enclosed items left the possession of Bikho Ronpotteh.
The chests contained a variety of personal items, alchemical ingredients, a broken fishing rod, several spell scrolls, a battered old witch’s hat, and Bikho’s Grimoire/Diary. The books were of special interest to Kaolla who delved into them like a starving child at a buffet. Finding that she had a natural affinity for Black Magic Kaolla taught herself spell after spell quickly during the days she was left alone attempting to fill the void she felt inside with magical power.
CW+15: Not long after Kaolla’s 12th birthday Amalla came home early from a fishing trip completely drunk. Finding Kaolla studying Bikho’s Grimoire and the pile of Black Magic Scrolls Amalla fell into a rage screaming at Kaolla scolding her for being where she shouldn’t be and for studying magic.
Amalla’s scolding however soon degraded into raving. Her mood swinging between rage and fear Amalla called her daughter a curse and a chain around her neck one last bane left by that foul sorcerer (a reference to Kaolla’s father.) between her cursing however Amalla also sobbed saying that Kaolla would leave her just like Bikho left her mother. That all she wanted was for her daughter to grow up right and to not live under that shadow of the family name.
Towards the end of her ranting Amalla grabbed Kaolla by the scruff of her neck and began to shake her violently screaming at her saying that she would bring the Sin Hunters down upon them. Amalla then began to beat her daughter, while not the first beating Kaolla had gotten it was by far the worst. Terrified and hurt and angry something snapped inside Kaolla and she unleashed her magic setting the house on fire and burning her mothers face along with her own hands. As the house burned Kaolla grabbed what she could from the chests containing Bikho Ronpotteh’s things and fled from Mhaura.
Kaolla spent the next several days wandering around Buburimu Peninsula. Though a truly terrible healer Kaolla did know some basic White Magic which she had learned from the same source as her other magic. She used her amateurish skills to heal the burns on her hands though faint scars remain to this day. Kaolla then slowly made her way to Windurst too scared to return home after setting fire to all she had ever known or loved.
CW+17: At the age of 14 Kaolla had spent the last 2 years living alone in Windurst doing odd jobs and saving as much money as she could while still studying magic on her own. Now that she had some gil saved up Kaolla decided to enter the Magic School to further her knowledge of magic.
Kaolla’s stay at the magic school however was short lived. Not only did she find the beginning classes she was forced to take at first extremely boring she found that she couldn’t stand most of her classmates. The last straw was when a taru boy in her class decided it would be fun to pull her tail. Kaolla proceeded to set the unfortunate student’s hair on fire which got her quickly expelled from the school.
Upset and not knowing what to do Kaolla decided that she was homesick and missed her mother. No mater how awful their parting had been Kaolla wanted to see her. But, when Kaolla returned to Mhaura she found that her mother had left for the mithran homeland almost a week after the fire. Stories were still told in the tavern in Mhaura of the mithran woman with the burn scars on her face, how she had gotten drunk one night and set her house on fire. Some of the more outlandish stories were told by regulars at the tavern who adamantly insisted that the reason for the fire was to hide the fact that the crazy fisherwoman had killed her daughter.
CW+18: Kaolla returned to Windurst and again began to study magic on her own while doing odd jobs. She began to seriously study Alchemy and made a large sum of gil selling potions and remedies. She also began to take odd jobs from Nanaa Mihgo, mostly collecting bounties on Yagudo Necklaces. It was while celebrating her 15th birthday that Nanaa Mihgo introduced Kaolla to Yagudo Drinks. The fermented grape and cherry beverage offered Kaolla a double pleasure that of alcohol and of artificially supplementing her mana.
After drinking more Yagudo Drinks than was good for her especially considering that she was only 15, Kaolla decided to go looking for the Full Moon Fountain. Somehow Kaolla had gotten it into her head that if she were to drink from the Full Moon Fountain that it would greatly increase her magical capabilities, or at least make her feel really good. Somehow Kaolla managed to make it too the Full Moon Fountain but instead of finding magical water Kaolla found herself in the company of the Bearer of Darkness. Weather it was seeking help or simply angry at Kaolla’s presence at the Full Moon Fountain is unclear, but almost as soon as she arrived at the Full Moon Fountain Kaolla found her mind invaded by the Bearer of Darkness.
If she had been prepared Kaolla might have even welcomed acquiring the knowledge she did in those torturous moments, but as millennia old memories of Fenrir and the Kuluu and Zilart flashed before her eyes Kaolla’s mind protected itself the only way it could, it retreated into her subconscious as the rest of her mind fragmented into madness.
Sometime Later Kaolla awoke back inside the Horutoto Ruins. In those first weeks in the ruins all Kaolla would remember was flashes of the visions that had raped her mind and the screaming cursing voice of her mother’s last tirade before the fire. It was in those first weeks of madness that Kaolla gave herself the tattoos that cover her upper body. A mark for every curse, a curse for every mark. And as Kaolla slowly carved the magic sigils into her skin she buried her memories deeper still until she could no longer hear her mother’s voice or even remember her name.
CW+20: The age of Adventure. It is at this time that the RP gets going :3 The party slowly comes together. A half mad 17 year old Kaolla is lured out of the ruins after having lived there for two years by Avina and the taste of fish. The Shadow Lord Rises and is brought low again, Ancient wonders are revealed and the Archduke Of Jeuno attempts to open the gates of paradise. As Kaolla travels her hunger for Magic grows as does her ability to recall the secrets locked away in her mind, as well as her own suppressed memories. Kaolla turns 18 and yet due to her encounter with the Bearer of Darkness she appears to have stopped visibly aging and looks the same as she did when she first went to the Full Moon Fountain.
CW+21~22: I’m a little vague on the timeline here, but important events for Kaolla are that after freeing Fenrir at the Full Moon Fountain Kaolla’s suppressed memories are remembered though not all at once and not all clearly. The party has moved on to San d’Oria and is facing many challenges there.
Psychological Profile:
Kaolla has a number of deep-seated emotional problems. Chief among these are abandonment issues. Kaolla never knew her father, and while she was initially curious about him her mother’s behavior whenever he was mentioned soon caused Kaolla to view him as an person to be either feared or hated. Kaolla’s own mother neglectful at best abusive at worst seemed to blame everything on Kaolla’s father. Therefore the emotional trauma caused by her mother was deflected away from her mother and towards her unknown father. Everything was his fault because it was his fault that Kaolla was even alive. Over the years Kaolla has extended this view of her father towards all males and is extremely reluctant to spend time alone with any male.
This has also caused Kaolla to feel a great empty void causing her to both seek and fear affection. This accounts for her eratic mood swings where she will at times seem to want to hug anyone who is even remotely nice to her and at other times attack someone for even brushing up against her.
Kaolla also has an extremely low sense of self worth, her mother’s words on their last day together wounded her deeply. Kaolla in response seeks to prove her own worth with power and focuses almost exclusively on increasing her magical abilities, this is both an attempt to prove her mother wrong and in some twisted way a desperate attempt to have her approval.
Kaolla also tends to be reckless with her magic, the combination of the physical rush she feels when channeling large amounts of mana accompanied with an almost suicidal nature causes Kaolla to expend large amounts of energy quickly casting masive spells which often draws the attention of the opponents the party may be facing.
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