my name is naid - naid carville.
... or ms. carville, if y'nasty.
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♪♫❝THIS IS THE BJ QUEEN❞♫♪
Naid's history and behaviors are the result of years of parental emotional abuse and neglect, along with child sexual abuse and later partner and spousal abuse. Naid keeps most of this close to the chest - as such, more severe instances aren't going to be brought up, but for most of her life she saw her childhood abuse as typical and normal, and addresses it as such.
If I have my RP tag up, walk up/tell RP is a-okay!
No bigotry (racism, homophobia, transphobia, or ableism) or AI.
18+ only both IC and OOC.
I will not give codes to people I have not roleplayed with extensively.
I very rarely offer ERP.
OOC =/= IC, but I will not tolerate OOC bad faith interpretations of my character.
I would prefer to avoid F+, "trap," or "femboy" characters out of respect for my trans friends uncomfortable with the terms.
In line with no bigotry, I will not RP with snowbunny/QOS characters.
I am not particularly strict with lore, but prefer to avoid omnipotent/omniscent characters, expy characters from other media, and NPCs, but this isn't a hard rule and I'm willing to try anything once!
Please no metagaming or godmoding. Naid's kind of a mary-sue and I understand that, but if I'm not tossing things at you willy-nilly, I expect the same respect.
Our characters do not need to get along, but please communicate any issues about me with me.
if you enjoyed interacting with naid and would like to plot something out more extensively, i'm more than happy to chat out of game! send me a tell and we can work something out. i'm open to in-game and in-discord roleplay, but i may need a little more time for discord replies.
i'm selective with who i ship naid with! i'm always excited to see how characters mesh together, and it's not off the table, but i would prefer it come naturally rather than preemptively arranging characters together. if you are interacting with the sole purpose of shipping, i recommend seeking other like-minded individuals.
i tend to write naid's accent into her dialogue! if at any point this is difficult to parse for any reason, whether it's due to using a screen reader, having english as a second language, or you're just not feeling it, please let me know! i'm more than happy to adapt for the occasion. if there are other accommodations you need, please also connect with me and i'll do my best to match them.
hi! i go by Hana. i've been roleplaying for over 20 years now, primarily in forum-based or webpage-based settings, with an itty bitty amount of tabletop experience. FFXIV was the first MMO i got to seriously roleplay in, and i've been playing this game since 2021! when i'm not subjecting naid to some fresh new horror, i'm usually gposing, fooling around with housing, or on some rare occasion playing the damn game.
DOSSIER
❝forgive me, i must say everything twice: once to punish, once to entice.❞
FULL NAME. naid (nigh-duh) carville.
ALSO KNOWN AS. miss carville, cinnamon, red.
DATE OF BIRTH. either 8/26 or 11/11. it's a long story.
AGE. 36.
VOICE. accent is somewhere between derry and appalachian. Lower register, pitchy when upset.
ZODIAC. unsure. born under either rhalgr in the fourth umbrla moon or under nophica in sixth astral moon.
GENDER. she's a LADY.
PRONOUNS. she/her.
ORIENTATION. bisexual, monogamous... single.
OCCUPATION. former escort, singer, actress, proprietress of both the undergrowth and chanterelle ballroom. information broker.
TROPES.
BIRTHPLACE. mor dhona, aldenard.
CURRENT HOME. ul'dah & gridania, aldenard.
NATIONALITY. eorzean
RACE. viera. (rava mother, veena father)
LANGUAGE(S. eorzean, conversational hingan, shroud sign, nightwriting.
PARENTS. deceased.
SIBLINGS. none that she knows of.
OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS. better off dead.
COMPANION I. tuirne (tour-nyeh), a coyote missing her right front leg.
COMPANION II. pookah (pooh-kah), a scrungly nagxian shorthair. (in truth, a "gimme cat")
HAIR. wine red.
EYES. verdigris green.
SKIN. sand toned.
HEIGHT & BUILD. 6'3". Buxom, fat, pear/hourglass.
AETHER. a wine-dark sea. oddly dense.
DOMINANT HAND. left.
SCARS. severe burn scars along the left side of her body from an accident in kugane.
TATTOO(S) & PIERCINGS. nada.
OTHER REMARKABLE FEATURES. dense freckles all over her body. her left eye is starting to droop a little. very sharp canines and has claws more than she has nails. an odd reflection in her eyes.
SIREN SONG. Can manipulate and influence some individuals within hearing range using her voice.
HEDGEWITCH. Received minor teaching in Golmorran spellcasting. She's always looking to further her education, though...
AURAL ACUITY. If you think she can’t hear you, you should probably think again.
PRESTIDIGITATION. Minor illusions that sum up to glamour prisms and parlor tricks, mostly.
SPELLBROKEN. The same entity that marked her aether kept her safe from anyone else doing the same. Spells meant to enchant or charm are less likely to work on her.
DEATHLESS. She drowned once. She got better. She tends to get better, but it'll hurt the whole time.
POSITIVE TRAITS. loyal, funny, enthusiastic, social, protective, vibrant, trickster.
NEGATIVE TRAITS. obsessive, eccentric, a smoker (she's working on it), very flappable, overly superstitious, desperate.
LIKES. performing arts, reading, math puzzles, coffee, citrus, crafts, animals, sweets.
DISLIKES. cops, tea, eating in public, braggarts, nepo babies, firearms.
FEARS & PHOBIAS. gunshots, firearms, being alone, being controlled.
WISHES & DREAMS. security, stability, love, family.
HISTORY
❝the trouble with elegy is that it asks the dead to live, it calls them back. & who am i to say rise?❞
After a life of not-insignificant strife and tragedy, Naid is finally getting to something sort of like normal - even if the company she keeps is anything but. While she's still prone to moving every so often (something something kinetic motion), she's managed to maintain a routine. When she's not singing at the Still & Strings, Naid can mostly be found at places like Trionfi, the Crooked Man, House of Ren, and other bordellos, fight clubs, and lounges. She's also a fresh business owner and curator of her own little theater, and though her love life leaves much to be desired, she might be - kind of - sort of - just possibly - happy.But Naid could never leave well enough alone, and it's only a matter of time until she gets herself into trouble again - or lets someone else get her into it.
There was never any part of Naid’s childhood that wasn’t running. She had been born near the shores of Silvertear Lake to a pair of runaways – her mother was a Rava mage who had fled her life in Golmore, and her father was a Veena gleaner who had fled his life in Sharlayan – and theirs was a life spent on the road. The family roamed from place to place on the continent of Aldenard, only ever occasionally braving ships to Vylbrand. Most of Naid’s youth was spent either within her mother’s peripheral vision or locked in an old wagon, her parents' paranoia and desire to keep her (safe or otherwise) from strangers leading her to live a lonely, isolated life.While there was one outsider when Naid was younger who had managed to make a positive influence on her life, her parents’ disdain for the Roegadyn woman and distrust for the world would remain Naid's crutch through an early start in the oldest profession, multiple partners, a marriage of convenience felled by aetherspurn, more than one attempt to sell her off, and choices that a better socialized child would not have made.Eventually, she ended up stranded on Hingashi after an ex-boyfriend promised "work opportunities," only to find she was the opportunity. This lead her to meeting her second husband, her soulmate, and love of her life. But for as much as her family favored Nymeia, the favor was rarely ever returned.Dalamud fell as Naid was on her way back to Limsa from Hingashi, after his murder, a stillbirth, and a fire born of her heartbreak that left her permanently scarred and increasingly pained.
Naid's third marriage immediately followed the 7th Umbral Calamity, and the bond was no choice of her own. Her captor and would-be murderer was dealt with after a year of torment by a Halonic nun who had originally joined Robert Tranter's crew as a healer. Presumably driven to fury by the man's actions, a version of Pharos Sirius's siren was summoned, and Naid spent the next six years convinced of and acting on an enthrallment that never took place.Six times a spectre made her shed another man's blood, six times she fled, six times the Spinner unwound the fibers of each noose she'd made to punish herself, six times she promised never again and six times she lied, and many more times did she seek ways to call back the patron goddess of her madness. A married woman of her age would have spent fortunes on cut crystal, glassware, and adornments - but her efforts required something more potent. The end result was a life spent in crippling debt, her body her only marketable skill. Every time she would come close to paying off her debt, she would be called back to the isles, and when she wasn't, a dozen more fees were piled onto what she owed.When the Warrior of Light's assistance at Pharos Sirius rendered Naid's return impossible, she found herself haunted by a nigh endless ringing in her ears. She was afforded no relief - not from the spectre, not from the siren, and not from the debt.Eventually, a mysterious stranger released her from her deluded enthrallment and a since-former paramour helped release her from the debt. It took many more friends to release her from the spectre - an Ascian who'd called herself Circe and the orchestrator of Naid's more recent miseries in an attempt to further isolate her from others. The paragon had nigh threatened to drag Naid into their order, even if everything that Naid was ended up lost in the process.But in the end, Circe was struck down and locked away, left as secluded as she'd tried to make Naid.
HOOKS
❝i'm familiar with the consequences of happiness.❞
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available for any applicable parties.
❝i'll make you sing for me, i'll make you scream.❞
In recent years, Naid has turned a childhood love of theater and the performing arts into a flourishing career as both a singer and an actress. Someone might've seen her debut at the since-defunct Ameya Hall, singing at the now-closed Bel Canto's Standing Room Only and the long-enduring Still & Strings concerts, or up on stage with Firebird Theater. If not there, she takes up gigs for weddings, divorces, parties, and funerals between organizing her own theater, carefully sampling life in the director's seat. Fan, critic, fellow auteur, or just someone looking to step onto the stage, there's plenty opportunities to meet her under the limelight.
❝nothing bad can touch this life i haven't already imagined.❞
With experience helping other people manage their businesses tucked safe into her pockets, and a fortune bestowed whose origin she's kept hush-hush, Naid eventually opened a business of her own - a host club and lounge she's called The Undergrowth. It's a little more than that - not that she'll tell anyone outright - but she's a bleeding heart for anyone down on their luck and looking for work, having lived through her own financial misfortunes. Naturally, even if someone's not looking for work, she's more than eager to invite them to swing by anyway for a plate of hot food, a drink, and some conversation.
❝i am not leaving you forever. i am going to get better, and then i'll come home.❞
Both of her parents left their homes before troubles with Garlemald began, moving to Aldenard, meeting, and eventually falling in love. As such, Naid was born and raised in Eorzea, with sparse knowledge of her father's family in Sharlayan, and even less about her mother's village and Golmorran culture as a whole.Naid knows Eorzea like the back of her hand and is more than happy to welcome newcomers to the region, but her isolated upbringing and unique circumstances leaves her feeling like an outsider. She'd be more than happy to meet people who might've known her as a youth, or Viera who were similarly raised in Eorzea.
❝i was brave, i resisted,
i set myself on fire.❞
Just before the Calamity, news ran amuck in Kugane about a woman who had set a food stall and two Garlean soldiers on fire in a drunken stupor. The stall was destroyed and the woman had half her body burned, but both the soldiers succumbed to their injuries.While the fall of Dalamud was a much more interesting news day, odds are that the incident didn't escape all notice, especially for anyone who may have run into Naid and her late husband during the three years she'd lived on the continent of Hingashi.
❝because you were born into disastrous circumstances, fate was all that counted...❞
When Naid's mother, Shara, immigrated to Aldenard, she immediately clung to Nymeia, and urged the same faith in her daughter. Naid grew up surrounded by worship of the Spinner in increasingly erratic ways, occasionally spending time amongst an insulated group that determined all misfortune as part of the Spinner's plan.Her family did eventually left that group behind, but Naid remains noticeably devout to Nymeia. Naid still tries to embody the Nymeian saints by virtue of charity, weaving, and music, even when she should focus on literally anything else.
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❝i know i've said this already, but i mean it:
once, i was good.❞
requirement: yellowjacket involvement or resources & repeat access to aleport.From a year after the calamity up until the Warrior of Light's intervention at Pharos Sirius, several individuals vanished near or around the city of Aleport. But when the siren was taken care of, most officials presumed the men had fallen prey to misadventure. Naid knows better.But with Circe's defeat, Naid has moved on from that part of her life. Unfortunately for her, there's no guarantee everyone else has.
❝i hear the witch's cry break in the moonlight through a sheet of sugar.❞
requirement: ascians, ascian-hunters, voidsent, aethersight.Once upon a time, there were two sisters of great magical prowess. Unfortunately, talent and skill can't save one from the end of the world. Despair and heartbreak lead Circe to cling to Naid's soul like a leech, and she left claw marks when she was inevitably separated from her.The marks Circe left in her aether run deep. It might prevent other entities from trying the same, but it can also attract unwanted attention - and Naid might not have been as ready to let go as she should've been.
❝[i am asking [not] to endure it.]❞
❝scio, sweetheart.❞
requirement: echo-havers, oracles, mad scientists, the previously enthralled.Whether it's a blessing or a curse, Naid has been run afoul of good intentions on more than one occasion, leaving her with the talent to exert influence using her voice and an uncanny string of luck when it comes to near-death experiences.Of course, these things rarely come without cost. While Naid hasn't yet abused these so-called gifts, the right - or wrong - individuals may have a vested interest in them.
connections
❝but if love is not the cure, it can certainly act as a very strong medicine.❞
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One of Naid's best friends and fellow joker. While they'd largely been ships passing in the night for some time, Mephi and Naid's friendship bloomed after he'd been good to her during a tumultuous time in her life. As a result, she is unfortunately probably deeply in love with him. Whoops. As close as the pair are, though, there's still a lot that Naid doesn't know about the duskwight and it weighs on her more than she'd like.
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The other of Naid's best friends, and a long-standing sufferer of her shenanigans. In contrast, there's very little the pair DON'T know about each other, as much as Mimi's myriad of lovers wish elsewise. It's unclear whether Naid genuinely has the disdain for them that she expresses, or if she's just worried about her place in the pecking order.
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As much as Naid adores the shroudling, she maintains a healthy fear of them. But don't worry! That still won't stop her from running errands with or for them, or enabling them at every opportunity. Martin is the primary reason Naid started learning sign, and she can always count on Martin to keep her honest.
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Naid's boss at The Still & Strings, she's ended up as his unintentional secret keeper. What secret, you might ask? Well, if she told you, it wouldn't be secret!! But all jests aside, while she hasn't gotten to spend as much time with him outside of the shows, she's had way shittier bosses and has a pretty solid level of trust in him.
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Naid and the padjali don't spend all that much time together these days outside of The Undergrowth, but Naid holds a healthy reverence of Tab-I after she effectively helped save Naid's life when she was being threatened by a paragon. As a result, there's little Naid won't do for the woman. Cross her at your peril.
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It's unclear whether Naid likes Meridian or just likes bothering him, but the feeling is probably not mutual. The fact that he hasn't dropkicked her yet for her antics is likely a good indicator that he's not as terrible as some others make him out to be. Or it's divine intervention. To be determined.
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Naid doesn't actually know anything about the Nameless, and they may've not exchanged more than a paragraph of words between each other, but that doesn't seem to stop her from greeting him with chipper familiarity every time they bump into each other.
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A since-contained Ascian that obsessed over Naid from the night her third husband was killed until about a year ago. Circe held the steadfast belief that Naid was her long, long deceased sister and would have stopped at nothing to bring her back. Naid is more conflicted over her loss than she feels she should be.
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❝a burnt offering is the only one that love has pity for.❞
