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Ushio Umemori
-Personal data-
Race: Originally Au Ra but changed to Viera Permanently. Mixed Veena Viera and Xaela Au Ra
Clan: Veena
Birthplace: Kugane
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Height: 172.72 cm (5'8")
Weight: between 150lbs (68kg)
Occupation: Warrior of light/ Adventurer/crafter
Birthday: May 17th
Relationship status:
Classes: BLM, DRK, RDM, DNC, DRG, RPR.Character Traits: Compassionate, Helpful, Skillful, Adventurous, Silly, Energetic, Conscientious, Passionate, Naturally Charming, Affectionate, Gentle, Indecisive, Naive, Restless, Impatient, Nosy, Very Escapist, Bottling Up the Negative.Character theme: At his core Ushio is a protector. Not because he seeks glory. But because he cannot bear watching others to suffer alone. His greatest strength is compassion. His greatest weakness is that he gives too much of himself.He is the tide. Gentle at the shore. Merciless in the storm.PersonalityVery quiet and reserved when he is by himself. He doesn’t let people in very easily and usually has his walls up pretty high. He is kind, thoughtful and caring. He won’t hesitate to lend someone a hand if they do need it. He will cross oceans when it comes to the people he loves and cares for.Likes: Dango, green tea, reading, honing his skills for battle, cooking, exploring and learning about knew places, his friends, loved one. Assuring that everyone is happy and having a good time.Dislikes: Cold weather, Spicy foods, bitter tasting foods. People that don't keep their word, cowards, those who bring harm to the people close to him. Ignorance, arrogance. People who undermine him.Quote: "Surrender not to anger or hatred, look beyond them, and there find true strength"
Appearance:
Short, purple black hair that barely touches his shoulders with long bangs in the front, two small braids with feathers. One sky blue eye and one crimson red eye. Fair skin, tall and slender but also toned. Has some masculinity and feminine mixed in with his looks.
Family and love
Lore
Ushio grew up in the orphanage with Thancred and Minfilia at a very young age, looking up to Thancred as his older brother having pretty much raised him. Alongside the two was his love and dear friend Aki who was a red haired miqote. Ushio never knew his parents, not their names, not even who they were, its like they didn't exist. The only thing left with him was a red pendant around his neck that he wears at all times. Someday he wanted to find out about them, another thing to drive him to become an adventurer as well as to help people and make the world a better place as much as he could. At the age of 20 years old he and Aki set off as fresh new Adventurers and through the events of a Realm Reborn, little did Ushio knew what would lie ahead of him as the warrior of light.Little did he know that his world would be torn away from him, his love, his best friend gone, just like that. They were out on some quests in the bitter cold of the coerthas. Two young sprouts trying to find their way, not knowing the dangers. They were naive.They were caught in a battle between a fiend that was way out of their level. Aki protected Ushio, leaped in front of him and took the blow.. and he didn’t survive. These events took place between the end of a Realm Reborn and the beginning parts of Heavensward.Soon after the death of his fiance Ushio felt a twinge of pain in his right eye to the point where it started to bleed, what was once blue now a deep crimson red.It's an ability that is found within members of a specific clan, Ushio's father and Ushio himself are the only two remaining that carry the bloodline. It allows the users to see movement faster than the naked eye and being able to predict ones movements before they happen. Being able to perceive everything and all those around them once the person reaches maturity. It can also sense someones aura and their intentions. But being that Ushio has only one red eye its not as strong as someone that has two.Though with great power it cannot be used for long periods and takes a lot of aether to recover, also messing with a persons vision if they use it too much.After Aki's death Ushio was not the same, he built up a wall around his heart and keeps almost everyone at an arms length, in fear of getting to close to someone and going through unbearable pain. He never wanted to love again, never let someone in. He put down his black mage staff and took up the role of a dark knight seeking strength, something he could protect others through, with his anger and resentment being his motivator.However little does he realise he will need to confronts his own inner darkness and the potential for corruption that comes with wielding such power.And being the warrior of light he would need to confront a lot and suffer through more than he would care to have.
Ushio and Aki (past) age 22Akio (Aki) Soleil age 20. Ushio's childhood best friend and his first love.Ushio and Aki’s relationship is a story shaped by shared beginnings, unwavering devotion, and heartbreaking loss.They first met as children in an orphanage in Ul'dah, where survival often meant leaning on one another. Growing up side by side, they became each other’s constant—more than friends, more than family. In a world that could feel harsh and uncertain, Aki was Ushio’s comfort, and Ushio was Aki’s reason to keep hoping.As they grew older, their bond deepened through every hardship they faced together. They trained, dreamed, and eventually left the orphanage with the shared goal of becoming adventurers. Their journey was built on trust: fighting back to back, protecting one another, and chasing a future they imagined together. Over time, that lifelong companionship blossomed naturally into love—quiet at first, then undeniable. Their romance was rooted in years of understanding, loyalty, and the kind of intimacy only two souls raised together could share.Aki became Ushio’s anchor, the person who knew every scar, every fear, and every hope hidden behind his strength. Ushio, in turn, gave Aki purpose and a home that was never tied to a place, but to a person.Their love story reaches its most tragic and defining moment in battle, when Aki gives his life to protect Ushio. In that final act, Aki’s love is made absolute: he chooses Ushio’s life over his own without hesitation. His death leaves Ushio forever changed, carrying both the pain of losing the one person who had been with him since childhood and the weight of surviving because of Aki’s sacrifice.Aki's love remains with Ushio long after his death, becoming a memory that both comforts and haunts him.
G’raha Tia and Ushio
In the main storyline G’raha and Ushio have feelings of love for one another. Ushio had met G’raha Tia previously during the Crystal tower quest but memories of him were suppressed for a long time after the loss of Ushio’s Fiancé Aki. The two reunite again in the first as G’raha takes on the role as Crystal Exarch, concealing his identity from everyone for the time. Their friendship blossoms during the journey to defeat and absorb the light wardens. Once the Crystal Exarch's face is revealed to Ushio atop of Mt Gulg the world stops for Ushio like his past was staring him dead in the eyes, the same expression, features, everything reminded him of the man he once loved and fought hard to forget. Looking at him it felt like the world was mocking him, it took him away and then seemingly put his face on someone else just to see if he would break.Through time and finally facing his past they both are able to move forward, sharing their own trials and pain together which only brings them closer.Ushio now see's the man behind the title, the exhaustion, the sacrifice, the loneliness.
G'raha isn't some distant leader anymore.
He is someone who loved Ushio enough to give up centuries of his life.
True devotion to the person he looks up to the most.
Ushio realizes how much G'raha suffered alone, much like himself.
The bond becomes deeply emotional, and something there begins to flourish.Ushio truly gets to know G'raha
not the leader
not the savior
just him.They both truly get to know each other for the first time without their titles. Just them. Ushio and G'rahaEndwalker is where their relationship reaches emotional maturity.
No longer the beginning of love.
But choosing each other.
The entire expansion carries the weight of the end of the world, and through it all G'raha remains one of Ushio's strongest emotional anchors.
He is no longer looking at Ushio from affar.
He walks beside him.
Equal.
Partner.
Beloved.
For Ushio, this matters deeply.
Shadowbringers gave him someone who believed in him.
Endwalker gives him someone who stay's.
G'raha see's Ushio at his strongest and most vulnerable and loves every part of him.
G'raha loves Ushio with unwavering devotion.
Ushio loves G'raha because he is the one person who see's both his light and darkness and never turns away.
Old Sharlayan Studium day's
During his earlier day's before being on the brink of becoming an adventurer he spent his day's at the studium in Old Sharlayan for a period of time diving into knowledge about Aetherology, Eorzean history, Occult studies, philosophy and of course combat magicks which prompted him to learn magic classes as an adveturer.
Ushio's Parents
Dei and Obi
Ushio's father Obi was born into a traditional Xaela clan on the Azim Stepp that was notorious for their violence and battles but also where lineage, bloodline and clan customs are often treated as sacred
For many Xaela tribes, identity is deeply tied to ancestry, clan loyalty, marriage customs and the continuation of the tribe.A union outside the clan can be seen as controversial.
But Obi's love for Dei (A male Viera) would have been considered far beyond what his tribe was willing to accept.
Not only was his partner a different species than he was, but their relationship defied expectations of clan tradition in every possible way.
to the tribe, such a union may have been viewed as
A betrayal of clan duty
an affront to tradition
something unnatural in their eyes
a threat to bloodline continuityThat alone could have made them outcasts.
The birth of Ushio only intensified the danger.
A child born of two fathers, and a mix of heritage, would likely have become the focus of fear, superstition, and cruelty from those within the tribe.For Obi, the danger was no longer abstract.It was now aimed at his son.Why Uldah?Unlike the insular structure of the Xaela clan, U'ldah is a city of strangers, merchants, refugees, and people reinventing themselves.For parents fleeing persecution, it would have seemed like the safest place to hide a child.Ushio's parents believed if they kept him with them, the clan or enemies they had made would eventually find them.It was an act of desperate protection for their son.They chose a path to give him a future, even if that meant they would never be a part of it.