Samira Tamlin
HOT MESS
A Series of Coping Mechanisms in
Catgirl Form, Each Worse Than the Last
Appearance
Samira's not exactly shy about how proud she is of her looks. She's downright vain, frankly. And as full of shit as she often is, on this point, she's not a lunatic. Flowing crimson locks, bright blue eyes, fair (mostly) unblemished skin, a dancer's build and curves in all the right places. Beneath soft skin lies more than a hint of muscle, especially on her legs. Samira does not skip leg day. Looking good takes hard work, and this woman works hard and plays harder.Samira takes fastidious care of herself, applying make-up daily, cleaning thoroughly, wearing light perfume every day, the works. Her outfits tend to be flowing and not uncommonly revealing. Without exception, they all include a hat, each larger than the last. She just likes them, alright?Her outfits also all include a large firearm slung across her back or barely concealed in the large satchel she's always carrying around.For Those With Aethervision: Samira has a sort of pale green aether, and not a lot of it. It's not worryingly weak, but she's still very lacking. Many children are more aether-dense than her.
Mannerisms
When she's at work, Samira does her level-headed best to be a diligent, conscientious, level-headed, and above all-else, polite individual. Outside of work, she's constantly laughing, giggling, bouncing about, a massive grin on her face when she finds something that interests her. She's decidedly feminine in the way she moves, the way she giggles and the way she spins about. One could almost forget just how much firepower she's packing! It's a lot of firepower. You have no idea how many grenades this woman has at all times.
Quick Info
Name: Samira Tamlin (formerly Samira Eshana, and Jahin Sauerkraut, apparently?)
Age: 31
Origin: Thavnairian Keeper of the Moon Offshoot
Gender: Ciswoman
Orientation: Indiscriminate
Relationship Status: Married to Lillina Halicot, Open Relationship
Occupation: Envoy Plenipotentiary for the Thavnairian Embassy to the Holy See of Ishgard for Economics and Trade Affairs
Distinguishing Marks: Constant Big Hats, No Keeper of the Moon Fangs
Languages: Common, Hannish, Gobbiespeak, Bozjan, Ishgardian, Garlean (poorly), Doman (poorly), Hingashi (VERY poorly), Various Others (trade necessities only)
Biography
Samira Tamlin does not like to talk about herself very much. Her past is a vague, distant country, one whose grip on her remains so strong that it could tear her heart from her chest. And so, it's a topic best ignored and suppressed as MUCH as possible! Healthy suppression, obviously.Samira attempts to live in the present. She's lived in Eorzea for several years now adopting many odd jobs. Primarily she worked in shipping and delivery as a customer service agent and saleswoman, but she's also been a small-time mercenary, a professional announcer, blitzball athlete, fake judge, and MORE.However her recent work has taken her to the Thavnairian Embassy in Ishgard, where she works as an Economics and Trade liaison between Ishgard and Thavnair. If you ask how she's possibly qualified for this position, she'll be quite frank: Nepotism~!Despite getting the job as a result of being friends with the right people, or rather, BECAUSE she got the job from her friends, Samira takes it dead-seriously and regularly works her butt off harder than she has ever worked in her life, propelled by a dread fear of failure and a worse terror of disappointing anyone who put the slightest scintilla of trust in her. She is always scared.Anyways, most of Samira's life outside work is spent in a wide variety of vices in an attempt to de-stress. Drinking! Gambling! Mahjong! Drugs! Sex! More drinking! Partying! Fighting! Fighting for a crowd! Generally making poor decisions in the hopes that they'll fill a gaping void in her life! Sometimes they do.Despite failing to fix her problems by getting drunk until four past midnight, Samira has slowly begun to gain a wide variety of skills in her various stress relievers. She can hold her liquor like crazy, she's actually a shockingly good fighter with her firearm, and she wins far more at Triple Triad than she loses. Experience has made her a not-awful business woman. She has a wide and eclectic knowledge base, although a lot of it is wrong!Ultimately, Samira acts like a boisterous, bloodthirsty sorority girl on spring break, partying like she's trying to outrace death itself. Samira likes most people and doesn't have a lot of venom in her. All of her loathing is directed solely towards the person she holds most responsible for her train-wreck of a life.
The Embassy
The city of Radz-at-Han, in the search of new and exciting opportunities to make mountains of money, have established an official government outpost in the Holy See of Ishgard. If it seems like these two countries wouldn't have a lot in common: Yes!However, that hasn't negated the need for some official representation from the government of Thavnair at the behest of his lord the Satrap, and so there's a small embassy established in an old Haillenarte building. Their space is shared with the embassies of other nations distant to Ishgard, but who nevertheless feel the need for some official presence. Hingashi, Nagxia, Doma, Werlyt, and a few others. It is not a prestigious posting.The Thavnairian embassy mostly exists for the sake of facilitating trade and exposing the culture and goods of Thavnair to the people of Ishgard! So far creating demand for Hannish products hasn't gone well, but that doesn't stop them! Well, it hasn't stopped Samira at least. She's constantly running herself ragged trying to do her job as a mid-level bureaucrat.At this point she has just enough rank to be responsible when things go wrong, and not enough power to prevent absolutely anything at all from going wrong. It's a bad position to be in, but this's also the first time anyone has seriously trusted her with responsibility like this and she doesn't want to let them down.
Hooks
Honestly, I'm pretty down to do most forms of RP, but if you need some ideas, try these out!
So You Want To Throw Down: Samira's a pretty well-known figure in the local amateur pit-fighting community for being as bloodthirsty in the ring with her rifle as she is with her cheers in the stands. She's often down for a quick spar for fun or wagers.
Money Can Be Exchanged for Goods and Services: Samira's entire JOB is to facilitate the expansion of trading enterprises in either Thavnair or Ishgard, but that won't prevent her from helping with other trade business. She's also always on the lookout for people to help HER with the more dangerous bits of embassy life. Sometimes business is best done at the point of a blade.
I Want To Talk To Your Manager: Yeah, so, stuff between Ishgard and Thavnair is kinda fucky-wucky most of the time. If you want to assume you and your business has had something go horribly wrong and it's Samira's fault, feel free to declare it's her problem to solve! Make her life worse.
I Attack Your Life Points Directly: Samira is pretty much always down for a game. She loves triple triad, mahjong, and more esoteric games. Invite her for one, with a wager or not, she'll probably agree.
What Time is it, Party Cat? Yeah, Samira loves drinking, she loves drugs, she loves ill-advised shenanigans. She's basically ALWAYS down for some nonsense.
Thavnairian Nights: Samira loves Thavnair the way that only a second-generation refugee can love a nation: whole-heartily and unreservedly. She loves talking about Thavnair and loves other people FROM Thavnair! Just expect her to be cagey when the topic turns to her.
Horse Divorce: Goro tribesmen! Your horse just lazing about, sitting on the couch drinking beer and ignoring your horse-kids? Is the spark you felt the first time you got in the saddle entirely gone? Do YOU wish you could reclaim your life? Samira has like a couple years worth of legal education, she definitely knows what she's doing! Theoretically she can also handle non-horse related legal matters. Kinda.
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OOC
Thank you for taking a look at my character! Your interest is appreciated, I hope you enjoy this mess as much as I do. I'm pretty new to FF14 roleplay (and roleplay in general) so please bear with me if I make any mistakes!18+ players only please!I usually default to paragraph RP, but I can swap to single-line rapid-fire dialogue RP as well quite happily.I'm down for pretty much any sort of roleplay, I'm pretty flexible in terms of the sort of plots I'm willing to handle. From more elaborate political intrigue, classic adventure stories, goofy shenanigans, steamy romance, casual sex, to character-study works, I think they're all interesting in their own way!Let's all remember the separation between IC and OOC! If Samira is mean to you IC, the player behind her probably thinks you're neat! If I make an actual human feel bad, that was not my intent, I want everyone to have a good time. If I make your catboy feel bad, GOOD.Pacific Timezone. I'm available most of the time, but due to a bad sleep schedule I'm often up pretty late at night.