ZUMIN

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ABOUT

“I am the living will to dominate.”

= Contains Minor Spoilers For Various Expansions =

Name: Zumin Mirabeau Aurloix Neuvoux
Before he was wed, his name was Zumin Skarphedinn.
Pronounciation: Zum-ee-in Meer-ah-bo (Scar-feh-din)
Titles: Warrior of Light/Darkness, Blood Dragoon, Lord Protector, Omicron Nu Epsilon (The One)
Home State: Dravania
Primary Discipline: Dragoon / Paladin / Reaper
Secondary Discipline: Blue Mage, Arcanist
DoL/DoH: Leatherworker, Weaver, ForagerRace: Ishgardian Elezen + Dragon
Gender: Male (He/Him)
Sexuality: Homosexual
Age: 28 (as of Endwalker)
Nameday: 17th Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon (Aug 17)

Hair: Parted in the front, brown but fades into red. Longer in the back, but always in a rat-tail/ponytail.
Eyes: Dragon's eyes (slit shaped). Left crimson red, right blind. Often covers his eyes with a blindfold.
- Post-SHB: He's completely blind, but his eyes don't change colour.
Height: 6'4" (194cm)
Build: Smaller than most Elezen, but makes up for it in his strong, sleek build.
Distinguishing Features: Large scar on the left of his face, distinct freckles all over his face and body, red ear clasps that match his left eye on both ears. Left ear is notched. Has fangs. Red dragon scales line the nape of his neck and fade down his spine, then they become prominent again at the small of his back. Two large matching scars upon each of his shoulder blades.

Personality: Unlike most Elezen men, Zumin is not mild-mannered, willing to speak out about how he feels in the moment. He does not abide by much etiquette, and does not like to stay professional. He doesn't think before he speaks, letting his emotions guide him before logic. Quite mischievous and goofy, he tends to be sly and a bit of a prankster at times. However, he is also very caring and kind, with a heart of gold. When with his husband, he wears his heart upon his sleeve, loving and caring. At heart, he is fairly romantic.However, as his name implies, Zumin is also a very angry man deep down in his soul. When in combat especially, he lets himself go completely, succumbing to his raw, primal, feral emotions. Deep down, he is a war machine, a feral alpha dragon. Being quite animalistic, he lives off the thrill of battle, enjoying it to the point of where it is considered terrifying.

Unique Weapons
PLD
Excalibur Zeta
Honorbound Recollection
DRG
Gae Bolg Nexus
Blade's Glory
RPR
Empyrean War Talon
War Scythe of Divine Light
Tropaios Scythe
BLU
Predatrice
ACN
Draconomicon

Relationships
Xavrien Mirabeau: Husband; married by the end of ShB. Zumin utterly adores and loves him more than anything else in the world.
Floriane Mirabeau: Xavrien's mom. His mother-in-law, but she might as well be his real mother with how close they are.
Skarphedinn: His chosen father, raised him for 8 years and taught him how to survive on his own. He loves him more than anything.
Merlin: Xavrien's familiar, a grumpy jet black raven. While usually quite the grump, Merlin is very affectionate around Zumin.
Ardbert: The friend Zumin could confide in most, especially when he could not control himself; they became oddly close during his journey in the First.
Thancred: Like an older brother and his dearest friend. They are inseparable.
Estinien/Aymeric/Haurchefant: Best friends and most trusted allies.
Alphinaud/Alisaie: Like his younger siblings, he loves them to bits. Thinks Alisaie is really, really cool— and they get into plenty of mischief together.
G'raha Tia: Dearest companion and friend. They're each other's emotional support.
Other Scions: His best allies, family and friends, he couldn't ask for a better team by his side.
Martyn: ~~Friend...?~~ Blue Mage mentor.
Drusilla: Like an older sister to him and reaper mentor.
Hraesvelgr: His grandfather. He loves him to bits. Hraesvelgr regards him highly for uniting dragon and man once more, and loves Zumin with all his heart, as he did Shiva.
Vrtra: His great uncle. Zumin adores him. While only having first met during the events of the Final Days, they quickly grew close due to their commonalities.

Extra
Zumin's mount of choice is his Bennu named Oscillian, which he discovered wounded in Coerthas whilst travelling to Ishgard with Alphinaud and Tataru, promptly taking him into his care and nursing the creature back to health, continuing his journey with him. Oscillian is his most beloved companion and friend.He doesn't know how to cook, and in fact, is terrible at it. He much prefers eating meat, and most foods raw, as it is how he ate for many years, being raised by Skarphedinn.He can speak Dravanian (dragonspeak), but only does so around Xavrien and Skarphedinn. He swears exclusively in Dravanian tongue.Zumin has an odd excess of dragon's blood in his veins, causing more draconic features than your average Elezen.He has a carbuncle named Onyx, who is summoned by Xavrien. Onyx is larger than most carbuncles, is gray with a little red stripe, and has 9 tails. Zumin also has a Prince Lunatender named Apollo, which he ~~stole~~ borrowed from the Loporrits, who takes care of the elezen's plants when they're not home.Zumin has a strong reaction to the dynamis of animals and other creatures, using his aethervision he can sense an aura around them that dictates their emotions. With some creatures, he can also slightly understand their speech, as if it were telepathy.Zumin is by no means feminine, even if he enjoys wearing traditionally "feminine" clothing. He's comfortable in his own masculinity, while also enjoying being cute and pretty. He doesn't have a particular preference towards clothing, wearing simply what he likes and thinks he looks good in. However, he's often drawn to clothing consisting of less fabric. He also despises anything stuffy or suffocating.Post-SHB Light Sickness:
He is completely blind due to the corrupted light aether he took in. He sees in the same way Y'shtola does. Even if it does drain his aether— his lifespan growing shorter by small amounts every time he uses it.He cannot perform most magicks, unable to manipulate his own aether in most ways other than sight. He no longer practices the art of arcanima and had to give up on becoming a summoner.—More on Aetheric VisionDue to his permanent blindness from the light corruption, Zumin employs a version of vision called "aetheric vision". Aetheric vision drains on his own aether in very small amounts for an ability to see the aether of things around him. Everything emits at least a small amount of aether, in different colours, and intensities. Zumin is able to see most things with this method, however there are some exceptions.Ink, Paint, ETC: Due to the nature of ink and other things similar, they bleed and blend into the material they are written upon, and therefore become one with the material. To Zumin, the material is simply blank. The way to prevent this is to enhance ink and other things similar with aether itself, preventing the blending and "fusion" of the ink with the material it is written upon. When aetheric ink is used, Zumin has no problem sensing the aether, allowing him to see words upon pages, paintings, and more.Light: Light does not emit aether. Therefore, Zumin cannot see light. The world is not shrouded in darkness however, as aether vision does not require light. The problem with this is as new technology arises, using screens that emit light, Zumin cannot see them. There is no solution to this, and he simply uses accessibility features upon such devices.

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Backstory

“You are the new messiah, born a wolf of humankind. Son of a wolf, you'll be the final light.”

= This is sort of just rambles and bullet points at the moment == Contains minor and major spoilers for some expansions, read at your own discretion == Content Warning for Abuse =- Born Aurloix Neuvoux in Ishgard to one of the high, wealthy families. He was a bastard child, unwanted by his parents. Not only a bastard, but born with an excess of dragons blood in his veins, causing numerous draconic features which his parents despised. As a child he was abused by both his mother and father, but his father more so; causing him to gain a number of scars littering his body. The most prominent ones being on his left cheek, and two large matching scars upon his shoulder blades where his father cut out his wings when they began to grow. On his thirteenth birthday, his father threw him to the Brume, having had enough of the boy. Zumin was a timid child, being taken in by some of the older residents of the Brume until he was 15, when he ran away from Ishgard into Dravania, wishing to die via a wyrm to end his torment. He was soon found by a wyrm called Skarphedinn of Hraesvelgr's brood. Skar, who had a sympathy for the boy trembling before him, took him in and gave him the name of "Zumin", meaning "of great rage". He also took Skarphedinn's name as his last, a symbol of their bond. He was raised by the wyrm for nearly 8 years until members of the Heavens Ward had come across them, promptly assuming Zumin was a heretic, and attempted to murder him. Skar, filled with fury of the accusation, and the threat to his beloved son, killed the men. At that point it was clear it was no longer safe for Zumin to stay, and he bid farewell to the great wyrm and made his journey to Eorzea.A Realm Reborn:
- Zumin was taught in the way of the lance when he arrived in Gridania and promptly trained to become the greatest Dragoon alive, not to kill dragons, but to spite those who did. Upon meeting Estinien, he swore a vow to murder him. But as they grew closer through their bond as Azure Dragoons, Zumin soon realized that the man was not who he thought he was. He promptly became friends with Estinien, despite their rivalry, continuing to be of each other's aid throughout the Dragonsong War.Heavensward:
- Before the Vault, Zumin killed his father, after being forced to negotiate with him on terms of the Ishgardian council. Full of rage, he did this in cold blood, whilst Haurchefant attempted to hold him back to no avail. After this event, dark aether from his rage manifested into... another being. Which subsequently resides inside of Zumin. He resents this being, giving it the name of [WIP]. This being can control him, take over his conscious and body whenever it pleases. It does not show itself much in HW, nor SB, but after the events of SHB, it had grown stronger due to the influx of light, and had more control over him than ever before.- Zumin met Xavrien in Idyllshire after the events of Haurchefant's death.- After the Dragonsong War had ended, Zumin swore an oath to protect those he loved, torn by the death of his dear friend, becoming a paladin, as well as a dragoon. Training in both arts to the levels only a Warrior of Light could.Stormblood:
- Zumin and Xavrien explored the lands of Eureka together, discovering the secrets of the ascians and the Baldesion Arsenal.- After the failed negotiations with Garlemald, and the Scions beginning to be picked off one by one into soulless slumber— Zumin is the first to fall into such slumber.Shadowbringers:
- Being the first one summoned to the First, Zumin found himself alone in the strange land. Ignoring the Crystal Exarch's pleas, out of the anger of being possibly forever separated from Xavrien, his home, family and Oscillian, he fled to The Rak'tika Greatwood. Making himself a small home in a cave, he lived once more in the wild.In the beginning, he sought out practitioners of magicks, desperate to find a way home, yet nothing he did worked. He sought users of all the magicks, old forgotten magicks, void magicks, the most unspeakable black magicks. None of it brought him home, none of it made Xavrien in his arms once more.The years passed, Zumin often trading goods he'd sew and weave with the locals to make a bit of coin, gathering up a fair amount for emergency's sake. Often, he'd find himself slaying odd creatures of light, wondering what the happenings were in this strange begotten land.- After 6 full years of being alone, he had finally come to bear the truth he might simply never see Xavrien again— and such loss, as painful to the very soul as it was— should not stop him from saving the land that had nourished him and kept him alive for the past years. Should not make him blind to the pleas of the very land, and the creatures living on it.Making his journey to Lakeland, he set his sights upon the Crystarium, head hung heavy, sword by his side, barely willing to fight yet his soul would not let him give up. However, upon his entry into the city, his eyes laid upon the only person he had been thinking about for the past 6 years— his boyfriend Xavrien— distraught and dishevelled as he, himself was.After learning what had happened, with the Exarch's summonings and wishes, Zumin begrudgingly agreed to help save the First alongside Xavrien, the Warriors of Light finally together once more. However the toll of the many years did not escape him, his joy had left him, naught left but dread and misery. Especially after learning it had only been a mere week in the Source, yet he had spent more than half a decade in this land. Slowly, he would regain that joy throughout the journey, but he would never truly be the same man he once was, overcome with more anger and grief than ever before.- With the advent of meeting Emet-Selch, the two WoLs slowly learn that they were in fact, one soul in the beginning— Azem. And Emet-Selch's purpose was rejoin the shards to bring his home back, his friends, but most importantly his lover, Azem. Zumin could simply only... feel remorse, understanding the feeling of losing someone dear to you for so long, yet... he could not let Emet-Selch destroy their worlds for his own. Their time had passed. But it pained him in a way, being able to see the sorrow in the ascian's eyes when he'd look at the two of them.- Zumin and Xavrien marry shortly after the defeat of The Warrior of Light and their return to The Source, in their one chance of reprieve before further events.Endwalker:
- During a midnight stroll through Ul'dah, Zumin was confronted by Drusilla— leader of the Lemures, due to her sensing the dark aether manifesting inside of him. Promptly taken into the Lemure headquarters, he's told that his aether manifesting could lead to voidsent being summoned left and right in hopes of feasting off of his malevolence. He's offered a deal— learn the art of the reaper and fend off voidsent, so that his dark aether may be culled.Zumin, knowing the dark aether inside of him had manifested before and caused him to nearly take the life of Xavrien, agreed without hesitation. He then trained in the art of the reaper, his skills immediately impressive, training in the art to the level only a Warrior of Light could.After the defeat of Orcus, Zumin's dark aether only manifested further, causing more concern among the Lemures. It was decided that the only solution was for Zumin to gain his own avatar, and his avatar to consume his dark aether. Back at the headquarters, Zumin made a pact with a voidsent from The Thirteenth, whose name was Skaodaastir.Skaodaastir was different, however. The two immediately made their bond on the basis that Skaodaastir was a dragon before the Contramemoria. One of Hraesvelgr's kin, as a dragonet he was sent to The Thirteenth via a summoning spell gone awry in The Thirteenth, causing a very small part of The Source to be transported to The Thirteenth. It so happened that Skaodaastir was in this small sliver of space, and was permanently transported to the other shard. He'd found solace alone, growing up on his own before the Contramemoria— then being turned into a voidsent himself once the Flood of Darkness consumed the shard. However, due to the strength of a dragon's aether, he still had control over himself, much like Zero.Immediately soulbonding with Zumin, Skaodaastir promptly consumed his dark aether, and due to his own stable draconic aether, Skaodaastir was not affected negatively, rather... empowered by Zumin's sorrow and rage manifest. The dark aether changed the very form of Skaodaastir, becoming amalgamation of all of Zumin's pain, and his own. An eldritch being, he takes on the appearance of a dragon-like humanoid with broken, torn wings, and no face. He has a multitude of horns, and all of them are broken. His "hands" are just the claws of a dragon. He has a tail that's partially just dark aether. When Zumin goes into his enshroud form, he takes on the appearance of his Skaodaastir. Albeit, with his own face replacing the faceless mien of Skaodaastir's. His hair is also longer and his rat tail acts as sort of a secondary tail. His eyes are irisless, with only his striking slitted pupils in a sea of red sclera. Due to their soulbond, Zumin can stay in enshroud for as long as he likes without any... detrimental damage to his own body and soul. Skaodaastir merely seeps his aether, sorrow and hatred. And together, they make each other stronger... and their desires become one, an equitable covenant.