Depends on the AU, but #CaLudo has a bit of EVERYTHING.
WoL CaLudo: love through mutual support & care
Modern: middle-age workaholics bonding through their losses
Outlaw: former childhood sweethearts to enemies with benefits
Mafia: possessive freaks in a love-hate situationship
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Calathea: she/her
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Calathea is already basically the Dominant of Midgardsormr. He is her patron, the two of them connected so intrinsically at this point that their souls cannot be separated in their current state.
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"I Love It" by Icona Pop & Charli XCX. It's bitchy, vicious electropop at its finest, with some arrogance and a bit of self-destructive tendencies thrown in.
The vibes are perfect. #DuMarrLore
I can barely keep up with Calathea, let alone any other alt. It's just easier to shove her into an AU. 😅
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Fuck yeah she does. She *is* Lominsan, after all.
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Calathea's perfume has a distinctive sweet, floral scent, grounded by some fragrant woods. It almost (but not completely) masks the faint scent of woodsmoke that follows her everywhere.
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Cal desperately needs it. Still wrestling with the deaths of her parents, generational trauma, coping with the dragon in her head... The girl needs help.
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Calathea would put on "Veridis Quo" when she's working.
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Calathea likes the smell of plants, of flowers and trees. She's definitely a fruit/floral/aromatic woods kind of person.
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Calathea is quite skilled with a firearm. She should not be trusted with it in any AU. (Well, maybe in her WoL canon you can, but typically you shouldn't.)
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Cal is pretty dismissive of the idea of nobility. People who act all high and mighty tend to get the cold shoulder from her. She's always been one to reject authority and the idea of "superior" classes, even in Limsa.
Overall, she's okay, but there's always some minor hostility...
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Calathea has a team of vicious, rage-filled dragon babies. Don't piss her off.
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Calathea's is Haxorus.
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Calathea is so goddamn Lominsan that you'd swear she's got Rhotano saltwater in her veins.
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I have been informed that Calathea has Big Sheltie Energy.
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Lilja is Calathea's fun girl bestie. They hang out and gossip all the time.
But Cal's ride or die is Estinien. Their connection as Dravanian Champions is an unbreakable bond. No one gets each other like they do.
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Eos. "Shepherd to the stars in the dark." That line made me think of the coming of the dawn, that idea of hope, of a bringer of Light. Eos, the herald of the Sun, the Dawn herself.
(Also she was INCREDIBLY horny, which is a fun correlation to Cal and her Ancient counterpart!)
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Denial. Can't be lovesick if you're not in love!
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Tough, obvs. >:3
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Calathea would get a Litten. Mostly because Incineroar is perfect for her. Violent and selfish, but with a bit of a kind side as well.
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Calathea: 🌊 usually, though 💔🌊 would be the most accurate.
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Cal's nameday is February 20, so she's technically a Pisces.
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I think Calathea would get fed up with Eos' extreme cheerfulness after a while. It feels too people-pleasy (though she's a hypocrite for thinking that because Cal is 100% a people pleaser). They're both quite similar in interests & morals, but Cal doesn't mince words like Eos did.
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Oh yeah, for SURE. Calathea isn't shy about her body, so most of the Scions have seen her naked at some point. (And that's not even discussing her MANY hookups with NPCs.)
Estinien freaked out the most, despite hooking up with Cal once. He always gets mad when she isn't clothed enough 😂
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Wind-Up Calathea would draw her rapier in the battle stance emote, but she'd swing the sword with a flourish and it would turn into a flower that she would then offer up to the person.
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Cal ain't shy. She's been skinny dipping her whole life, she's not afraid to go without clothes.
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Cal refers to them as "Mum and Dad." That's just who they were. Her tone of voice always goes a little soft when she refers to them, though. She just misses em lots, that's all.
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Calathea knows common Eorzean and Dragonspeak, and can speak both fluently. She could probably do an okay job learning a new language, if she sat down and tried, but she just... Hasn't.
She does write her drafting notes in shorthand, though. That's fun.
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