Greer

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Residence(s):
Yanxia:
Greer lives on the outskirts of Namai in a shanty cabin previously owned by her mother. The residence is small and hidden within a bamboo thicket with the insides overgrowing with various exotic plants.
(Shirogane ward 17, plot 25), Balmung
The Goblet, Ul'dah:
Becoming more aquainted with city life, Greer was cooerced by the Exo tribe to purchase an apartment in The Goblet. Her apartment is decorated with Far Eastern items to remind her of home while she is away.
(The Goblet ward 13, Sultana's Breath Apartments: Room 50)
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History

Trigger Warning: Sexual and physical abuse is mentioned in Greer's history. Proceed with caution if these subjects are sensitive to you!

Greer was born to a lupin mother in the outskirts of Namai – a small village community nestled within The Gensui Chain in Yanxia. Like most of the residents in Yanxia, her mother suffered though intense oppression during the Garlean rule and overtake of Doma. Despite having the help of her village, the weight of taxation and grueling physical labor had taken an immense tole on her. For the years – even prior to her birth - her mother had struggled to make quota by supplying the Garlean’s strictly enforced taxes by selling whatever she could to make ends meet.

Yuki, The Caring:
Yuki is Greer’s birthmother: A widowed lupin with an auburn and cream-colored coat and a heart of gold. Prior to Greer’s birth, she had worked as a lowly rice farmer on the outskirts of Namai. Though her burdens were great, she never failed to keep a smile on her face. And thus, her caring demeanor was known to all the residents of Namai. Thought, on one unfortunate summer’s eve, a monsoon had swept through Namai; destroying man rice plantations and houses in its wake. With a partially destroyed crop, Yuki could not supply the heavy taxation quota requested from Garlean soldiers once they had come to collect dues. A brutish and masked Xaelan soldier had approached Yuki’s small, shanty cabin and knocked aggressively upon her door to demand payment. With nothing to bargain, and no money, the Xealan had took matters into his own hands and forced himself upon Yuki as punishment. Thus, a wonderous misfortune occurred, and she became pregnant with Greer. While burdened with pregnancy, thoughtful local villagers had assisted Yuki with future taxation dues and tending to her home and crop. As the many months had passed, Yuki gave birth to Greer in solitude; Bearing a sickly, pale, halfbreed child into the world. With the help of fellow villagers, Greer was kept a secret from others outside her village for fear of taboo or racist genocide. Her and her mother stayed in that cabin on the outskirts of Namai as small rice farmers – so hiding her was not a large issue at hand. When routine visits from outsiders had happened, Greer was ordered to hide her ears under a worker’s conical straw hat and portray herself as an abandoned Auri child orphaned due to the war itself.

Adolescence:
As time passed, Greer turned into a teenager full of worry and lack of social skills. Fellow lupin, Hyur, and Au Ra her age teased her about her appearance and her fatherless upbringing – thus, making her develop an attitude of bitterness, jealousy, and loneliness. Despite her grueling torment of her peers, her mother became her best and only friend, to which Greer held her as the most important person in her life. She grew to help her mother as best she could, despite her halfbreed self being so frail and weak. Greer would tire easily but pushed herself to her limits, and would labor herself for hours on end for her mother’s sake. She strived to learn how to fix broken things, hunt small game, fix clothing, and become a proper arborist for their rice crop. Though she grew to despise others, she loved and appreciated her mother.
Despite the burdens of the war, Greer watched the landscape of Yanxia and its people change as she aged in her adolescence. The people of Yanxia had learned to adapt to the oppression, and most had become acquainted with the idea of war-torn lands, soldiers, rebellions, and bandits. Some days where horrid, but most where full of happiness as Greer grew alongside her mother.

The End / The Beginning:
On a quiet summer’s eve, A 13-summer’s old Greer was seen walking steadily to her and her mother’s home late from tending to the rice fields. The jovial teenager took the working day just as any other, and she casually strolled up the rolling Yanxian hills as the dusk settled over the horizon. Upon getting closer to the shanty cabin that she had called home, her eyes widened at the sight of a broken front door, completely split off the hinges and splintered in half. With the sounds of snarls and fighting happening within, Greer’s calm demeanor had flushed away within moments as she rushed inside to the sight of her mother attempting to defend herself against a Garlean soldier. The traumatized, wide-eyed teenage Greer stood still as she saw the kind face of her mother she loved turn feral. Teeth and claws bared, Yuki tried to defend herself to the best of her ability. However, the Xaelan soldier brandished a large dagger, slicing her mother's throat brutally and ending her life. Blood splattered across the cabin, splashing against the emotionally paralyzed Greer who watched from the doorway. Upon seeing Greer, the Garlean quickly marched over to her and pinned her down, restraining her arms behind her back with a binding Magitek device. The emotionally scarred child could not fight back, as the realization this was happening her seemed too surreal. All she could do was scream and cry.

Unknown to her at the time, Greer had been taken as a slave of war and forcefully lead by this unknown soldier to the edge of Yanxia on foot. Tired and emotionally distraught, Greer slogged behind the soldier with bound arms without question or resistance to the edge of her homeland.

Hours had passed and the ocean was coming into view as the sun began to rise. At this, Greer grew hostile and mustered the confidence to speak violently towards the Soldier once they had arrived at the southern end of The Glittering Basin. She questioned who he was, what he wanted, why he had killed her mother, where he was taking her and what he planned on doing to her; simultaneously. A typical child’s outburst paired with emotional tears The soldier stopped in his tracks, turning around slowly to stare down Greer. The Garlean removed his mask, revealing himself as a Xaela, and brandished the same blade used to murder her mother onto Greer – unsheathing it and pointing it at her. This mysterious AuRa confessed to Greer about her, quote-on-quote, ‘disgusting’ origins and cause of her birth. He claimed that her mother had hid her very well, but “secrets where meant to be unraveled”. Rumors had spread amongst lowly, young Namai male workers who had sold themselves as soldiers for the Garlean war. He revealed that once he heard of rumors about a crossbreed Xaelic child born to a lupin mother - the soldier had specifically marched himself alone to Namai to slaughter her mother for giving birth to such a “disgusting creature that would disgrace the lineage of the Dawn Father and the Dusk Mother”.

This information alone was enough for Greer to realize this soldier was, indeed, her birthfather. A crazed man who believed in his own tribal nonsense yet had affiliated himself to the Garlean’s cause.
He let it be known as well his plans were to sell Greer as an exotic slave in the lands of the far West – Overseas in the city-state of Ul’dah. For the remainder of their journey, Greer was silently led to a boat on the southern edge of Yanxia, which she traveled overseas in magitek chains. Her “father” did not join her on her journey, and instead she was given to the slave traders for payment as he remained in Yanxia. On her time overseas, Greer was fed meager amounts of food and cried herself to sleep every night amongst a crowd of others of various age and gender. Upon her ultimate arrival in Ul’dah via the slave vessel, Greer’s bindings had mysteriously become loose as the days of travel had worn on. Uncertain of the cause, though she speculated the magitek’s innermost magics had become weak, she didn’t hesitate to escape amongst the dense crowds in this foreign land and away from the slave-trader’s grasp – running as fast as she could, out of the city, and finding solitude in Thanalan...

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