Reydiah has a fairly close relationship with M'naago that came about when I was developing backstory for Reydiah's family. She's from the Peering Stones in Ala Mhigo, and when I was figuring out the ages for Reydiah's sisters I realized one of them was the same age as
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Reydiah has a niche expertise that few people would suspect. She's extremely knowledgeable when it comes to archery. Based on her personality and general disposition most people would think she'd be next to useless in a battle, but she's insanely accurate with an arrow.
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Reydiah literally had to go her separate ways from her first love, a young Highlander named Wiegraf (because Ivalice), when the two were attempting to escape from Ala Mhigo during the occupation. She and a few others made it out, but he had to double back to draw away Garlean
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Reydiah's my WoL's retainer, and as such received visits in her dreams from Feo Ul while Jake was in ShB. Feo Ul ended up acting as a bit of a therapist while she dealt with a crush on Guydelot and subsequent realization that he was with Sanson.
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The only reason Reydiah got upgraded from my WoL Jake's retainer to full-fledged character was because I decided to recreate her during the cloud server test, and she won me over. Any lore other than her basic personality and background grew from there.
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This is such a question for Reydiah. She gets attached to people right away, but it's in kind of a superficial way. If you're nice to her, she probably considers you a friend immediately. You're getting a lot of hugs whether you're comfortable with that or not (she's not
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Reydiah doesn't mind having her ears touched any more than anywhere else, but she doesn't especially like it either. Scratches are a no go; she hated people ruffling her hair when she was little, and it's too similar a sensation.
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Here's Reydiah. She's from the Peering Stones, but managed to sneak out of Ala Mhigo shortly before the revolution began, causing her family a lot of concern. After Ala Mhigo was liberated, her sister's childhood friend M'naago got her a steady job as the WoL's retainer in
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Going to be honest. It's a lot more than I thought it would be.
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Reydiah's the youngest of three sisters, and her older sisters are both unnamed NPCs. Her oldest sister (who I haven't decided on a name for yet) can be seen practicing archery in the Peering Stones. The middle sister (pictured on the left) I've named M'Rellah. She's the
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Jake: he has one to jot down things he wants to remember, but doesn't use it extensively.
Reydiah: always in her journal, writing about her day. There's also a lot of song lyrics, doodles, her name plus the last name of whomever she thinks she's in love with atm, etc.
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Reydiah's the youngest of three girls. I haven't settled on a name for her oldest sister (on the right), but she can be found in-game at the Peering Stones. She's more serious than the other two, and there's enough of an age gap that she sometimes acted like a third parent to
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What little Reydiah knows of Hilda's family is by reputation. She's not a fan. Hilda hasn't introduced them, in part because she doesn't have much interaction with her family herself and partly because she's afraid there'd be an "incident." Reydiah doesn't really hide her emotions.
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I should answer this for my alt, too. Reydiah is a retainer, and met Hilda while in Ishgard on a venture. Reydiah was in a bar loudly complaining about how cold it was and how snobbish the people were, and Hilda bought her a drink. The two got to talking and
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Jake was born into one of the few Raen tribes in the Azim Steppe, & the entire tribe has his same red hair. He never met his birth parents.
Reydiah is the only one of her sisters that looks more like her dad than her mom. She has his eyes but her mom's freckles.
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Reydiah likes chocobos a perfectly normal amount. Perfectly normal. Always has, ever since she was a little kid.
Her personal chocobo is named Beau.
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Reydiah went from retainer to cloud server test character to full-fledged alt. At first, she only had a vague personality, but the more she grew on me, the more her character fleshed out. She had an entire arc with the bard quests that ended with her being in the Ilsabard
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Reydiah, definitely. She hugs people she just met, so in a relationship, Hilda never stood a chance. But that's just who she is. Hilda shows affection less often, but when she does, she MEANS it, even if she's not entirely comfortable admitting that to herself.
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Jake and Lyse still train together, sparring ever morning when his responsibilities as the WoL don't keep them apart.
Reydiah is Jake's retainer and met Hilda while in Ishgard on a venture.
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I never gave it any thought before, but yeah, she does. The more I've fleshed out Reydiah's character and personality, the more certain cat-like traits make sense for her. This. Bunting. That kneading thing with her hands, which she does as an automatic stress/excitement response.
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For Reydiah:
ARR-HW: leaves Ala Mhigo. I don't have the hows and when's figured out yet.
StB: roped into being the WoL's retainer by M'naago
ShB: Bard quests, crushing on Guydelot, dream visitations from Feo Ul
EW: Joins Bards in Ilsabard.
DT: Comes to Tural after meeting Wuk Lamat
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Jake was born in the Azim Steppe and was briefly raised in a village on the Ruby Sea before Garlemald's initial invasion of the Far East led to him being smuggled to La Noscea, where he grew up outside of Moraby.
Reydiah was born and raised in the Peering Stones.
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Reydiah definitely steals Hilda's clothing. She just thinks Hilda is a badass and wants to copy her style.
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A simple portrait of Reydiah
5 Facts: Reydiah
1) Not the WoL, but his retainer
2) I made her an alt for the cloud server test & kept her ever since
3) Her older sister was M'naago's best friend growing up
4) She's scarily accurate with a bow and arrow
5) She's a really into chocobos and named hers Beau.
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Reydiah tends to develop crushes on unobtainable people (Noctis, Clive, Guydelot). She has something going on with Hilda, but it's casual, more about her thinking Hilda's cool than legitimate feelings. It may be becoming less casual on Hilda's end, despite her best efforts.
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Reydiah's friends & sisters call her Rey, inspired by a surprising number of players calling her that during roulettes. Guydelot calls her kitten (she at first read too much into it but he just does that), & Hilda calls her Stray because she seemed lost when they met in Ishgard.
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I've made it a running gag that Reydiah immediately develops a one-sided crush on any FF crossover character that comes her way. And even though raids aren't canon for her (my other character Jake is the WoL), she'd immediately want to be besties with Prishe if they were to meet.
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Reydiah is the only "canon" retainer Jake has. I've since made her an alt with her own growing story, but in-lore she's still employed as a retainer. Her sister's friend M'naago asked Jake to hire her hoping steady employment would keep her out of trouble.
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Reydiah would basically steal Honey B Lovely's whole persona, but with chocobos instead of bees. Her attacks would alternate between sending chocobos stampeding through the arena and firing arrows. As for music, it would probably be some kind of pop/punk version of the chocobo theme
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Reydiah and Hilda is more of a casual thing than a "relationship" relationship, but Hilda's thoughts at all times are "This girl is so clingy, loud, and annoying. Why am I finding that more charming than irritating?"
It's basically Ysayle and the moogles.
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