Aerstrael Ahldbharwyn

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Born to a Elezen father and a Roegadyn mother, Aer grew up on the docks of Limsa, learning about the sea from her very first steps. The odd pairing of her parents was something often mentioned, though whispered behind hands and bent heads. She found her parents story to be quite romantic, Ahldbhar used to be a scion of one of the four high houses of Ishgard and fell in love with Dyrstwyda after the large Roegadyn sailor rescued the Elezen from drowning. His family disowned him, tossing him out of the city and Dyrstwyda often joked that she didn't just rescue the Elezen from the water, but also his 'arsefilled' family. Dyrstwyda gave her husband a new name, and a new home in Limsa.Aer loved her parents and being a bold, blunt child got into much trouble protesting the snide comments. Time (and her parents) taught her better ways of dealing with a mocking insult, or an issued threat. She grew up in a tough area, and the last thing her parents wanted was Aer getting in over her head because a thoughtless word. She grew up fast, starting to work with her father as soon as she could safely lift a crate. Life for the longest time was the familiar day to day of unloading and loading ships for the various merchants.Aer believed that she would be simply a dockworker for the rest of her life. Until the unthinkable happened. Her father took a bad deal to keep the family porter business from going belly up. It put the business under the thumb of some not so savory characters. Aer needed someone or several someone's to help her buy or bully her father out of a mountain of debt.Much to her surprise, it wasn't another gang or yet another shifty loan shark that ended up saving Aer and her father rather it was a long time friend Theta Esmeray.Theta was always on the chaotic side of things, coming up with grand, mad plans that Aer never believed would work only to hear later that some hairbrained idea actually worked in her favor. It turned out, Theta wasn't just a Viera mercenary with the typical connections to the underworld, no she was also an extremely powerful synthetic being. With enough power to walk into the very same loan shark her father first visited and kill every single underling, mid rank and over boss. Working her way, ruthlessly, through the organization until Theta mounted the loan sharks head on a pike.Aer didn't even know of the sudden take down until three days later when Theta popped into Aer's office with several large bags of gil and more then a bit of dried blood on her armor. A few deadpan answers and a pat on Aer's head, Theta had rescued Aer, her father and their porter business. With more then enough gil to upgrade the business and to encourage her father to mostly retire, Aer has found herself having some freedom for the first time in her life.Though like most people Aer has struggled with this change. Most of her time running the porting business had been a balancing act, always seemingly two bad shipments away from bankruptcy. Even though this was no longer the case, she continued to work like it was and as such still accepted smuggling gigs. The Sea Wolf had been aware of the risks and had been lucky with the various mysterious packages she had shipped over the years. But her luck ran run out.Having no talent with wielding, seeing or protecting herself from aetheric influence, Aer became the victim of some sort of corruption. She didn't really know when or which 'less than legal' container held the item that had injured her. All she knew was something is wrong. Mostly it was pain, nerve pain and a pervading weakness that she was completely unused to. Suddenly for the first time in her life she found herself being clumsy, prone to loosing her balance and unable to lift or handle items with much dexterity at all. At first the symptoms were mild, easily dismissed but as time passed, days easing into a month, the pain became constant and the occurrences of weakness more pronounced. Worried about what her friends and lovers might think, the usually social woman started isolating herself and spending her evenings alone.Despite her newly adopted isolation Aer stubbornly continued to work, though rather then on the dock as usual, she handled much of the paperwork. She'd never thought she would find herself relegated to sitting at a desk all day, but her second in command had put his foot down at first but then Aer found herself agreeing with his demand as the days passed.Eventually the deterioration became somewhat dangerous as Aer almost took a very bad fall going down what was a very familiar set of stairs in her own home. Luck, or providence was with her though as the next day when attempting to do a bit of cleaning at her bathhouse, her one and only synth dropped by in her usual 'no warning' style. Theta was immediately all business and the next hour was filled with questions, problem solving and Theta promising to get to the bottom of the mystery of what and possibly who had done this to her.Theta also had a solution for ... whatever was wrong. While she was frustratingly vague on -what- was happening, the synth was confident that it could be contained and Aer's physical health restored. Aer only knows that Theta crafted a 'cage' of sorts, a network of what looks to be silver lines resting on her skin. It is more then that, Aer knows but... any further details, she is mostly in the dark as to... anything extra Theta have decided to include with the 'cage'.Now she is in the process of relearning herself. Her close lover and friend, Yves stayed with her for that first week of learning. Aer was grateful and amazed that the young half viera was willing to spend the time and effort to help. Much of her musculature and nervous system had to be 'remade' in the process of containment, restoring what Aer had lost and had been in the process of loosing. While she hasn't broken more then a few water glasses and a lone plate, Aer feels she is on her way to knowing and feeling like herself again.

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