Hemlocke Reines

"Eternal bliss is something I can show you.
Spread out your arms and let my wings enfold you, my love."
-London After Midnight

General Information

  • Name: Hemlocke Reines

  • Age: 24

  • Pronouns: He/Him - Cis male

  • Orientation: Pansexual (Male lean)

  • Race: Vampiric Duskwight Elezen

  • Nameday: 13th Sun of the 5th Umbral Moon

  • Birthplace: Ishgard

  • Guardian: Halone, The Fury

  • Eye Color: Blood red

  • Hair Color: Black with dark red ombre

  • Main Job: Black Mage

  • Current home: Arrzaneth Ossuary in Ul'dah

  • Relatives - Ange B'londe - Father, Olivia Le Malheur - Mother(deceased), Gloucent Desmarais - Guardian father(deceased)

  • Pets - Bruce the bat.

Hemlocke Facts

  • Goes by several nicknames - Hemi, Hem or Hems.

  • Personality - Workaholic, confident, kind, playful teasing, empathetic, occasionally a flirt, easy to get along with but difficult to really know. Also, naive, prone to anger at injustice, clumsy, reckless and struggles with being vulnerable.

  • Likes - Singing, gardening, dancing, hanging out with friends, traveling, drinking(a bit of a lush) and bartending. He has a soft spot for the tribes particularly the Vath.

  • Dislikes - Ishgard(Always hesitate to go there), injustice, bloodlust, meaningless death/violence, seeing others cry.

  • Favorite Drink/Food - Doman tea and Blood Currant Tart

  • Unusual/Vampiric traits - Eyes glow and sharp fangs elongate under a strong emotion, body does not scar. He does not burn but feels weaker in strong sunlight. Unusually warm.

  • Occupation - Aide to the Arrzaneth Ossuary, bartender, former scion

  • Hooks- Ties with cults/black mage cults, voidsent, the occult, vampires, Pandaemonium, other supernaturals, the scions, Arrzaneth Ossuary, Ishgard (though not limited to these alone.)

Biography

**Trigger warning for mentions of death, abuse, and suicide--Seraphine was born to Olivia Le Malheur in Ishgard, a Duskwight high-born of a minor house, who has connections with House Caulignout. Olivia, a talented songstress and bard, often snuck out from her home in disguise to entertain at The Forgotten Knight or on the streets. Unfortunately, her family caught onto her 'wild' behavior and sought to marry her off quickly.
She was married off to an Ishgardian noble of a minor house Gloucent Desmarais, an older elezen with a violent temper with connections to House Dzemael. He was well known for his habits of drinking, gambling, and rampant womanizing much to Olivia’s chagrin. One night, Olivia returns to The Forgotten Knight in secret and reacquaints herself with a charming, yet mysterious Duskwight male known for his eerie glowing crimson stare and long pale white hair - Ange B'londe. They have a passionate affair that results in Olivia becoming pregnant.
Ange continues to write Olivia to convince her to join his black magic cult, Mundus, to whisk her away from her current situation. Despite her love for him, she refuses in fear her unborn child’s safety with the cult and tells Ange nothing of her pregnancy. She passes Seraphine off as Gloucent's heir. The series of tragic events that occurred after could only make one wonder if they were all mere puppets in a play to some unknown force.
In his youth, Olivia taught Seraphine how to sing, play the piano and garden in their time together. These few fond memories of the past he treasures. Otherwise, Gloucent is extremely strict, wanting an heir fit for his title. He hires tutors to teach him etiquette, dancing, swordsmanship, and academic subjects with hardly any rest. He is often left isolated in the study to master these things to perfection and barred from leaving the manor.
Seraphine is far from such – rebelliously sneaking out, prone to clumsiness and jinxed with bad luck. He could see spirits and voidsent attracted to him, believing them to be his friends in his naiveté. They nearly convinced him to burn down the manor once before Olivia stopped him.
When Seraphine got older, Gloucent became impatient with his less than perfect antics and punished him often despite Olivia’s attempts to stop him. Seraphine was eight years old when his mother died. A servant found Olivia’s journal that gave away the evidence that Seraphine isn’t Gloucent’s real son. Olivia guided her son to hide underneath a bed while she was found and choked to death by the man. Seraphine stares at her corpse for hours being unable to cry lest he give himself away to the man in a drunken rage and forgot the terrible incident altogether at the time. He hasn’t been able to cry since.Gloucent decides to use Seraphine to gain more wealth and power while keeping the secret that he isn’t truly his son to himself. He’s punished for any mishap in his conduct, unable to leave the manor without supervision and begins to mask his real emotions with a charming demeanor. He doesn’t trust in many aside from his old tutor from Sharlayan, Pierre Beaufort, who acts like a father figure to him.
On Seraphine’s 18th birthday, he receives a parcel from Olivia. This contained information of his true parentage of Ange B’londe, a voidsentian vampire elezen, along with details of his cult with their obsession for eternal life and devotion to Diabolos. He’s given a sharp ornate silver dagger that was imbued with a holy power to protect him from Ange and other void creatures. He thought this was a cruel prank from the servants and ignored such initially.
With his handsome looks and charming mask, Seraphine gains notice in Ishgardian noble society and many suitors being spurred on to marry to a high house to leave his situation. He eventually becomes engaged to Cosette Durendaire. Taking further adventure, Gloucent secretly lends out Seraphine in the name of ‘duty’ to people of nobility and the church who wished to bed him for a fee or to pay off his gambling debts.
Seraphine endured such a lifestyle until he was twenty when he began to feel himself crumbling under the weight of memories and shame. In a heated argument, Gloucent tries to kill Seraphine much in the same way he had Oliva. Finally recalling the death of his mother in the past, he snaps into a blind rage and stabs Gloucent to death with Olivia’s dagger. Powerful black magic that he hadn’t known he possessed suddenly burst out of him causing the entire manor to be set aflame and burn down to ash with all inside aside from Pierre who had been dismissed years earlier.
Seraphine contemplated ending his life in having nothing left but bad memories, but takes the path of vengeance. In his mind, Seraphine thought it was all Ange’s fault for seducing Olivia and sought to end his life to avenge his mother’s death. He runs away from the burning manor without rest through the now frost wasteland of Coerthas to Dravania with only the clothes on his back.
Soon hunger began to grip Seraphine to such a point to take in any sustenance he could find. Little did he know he was eating poisonous Hemlock plants. He was found and nursed back to health by the Vath, barely clinging to life with a dangerous fever. After his recovery and a chance meeting with his new friend Seiro, he made the decision to let ‘Seraphine’ die. He adopts a new one along with a new life as 'Hemlocke' to remind himself of all he has survived.
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Hemlocke travels first to Ul’dah to join the Arrzaneth Ossuary Thaumaturge guild who he sought help from with his strong natural inclination for black magic. In exchange for a room to stay in, Cocobuki sends Hemlocke out to procure many ingredients for their rituals and do many chores. Shortly after meeting Thancred, he becomes involved in Eorzean struggles and joins the scions.
He researches the whereabouts of Ange B’londe and the breadcrumb trail leads him to find other vampires connected to him. Hemlocke typically ends up seducing and ending their lives one by one with the holy dagger in his possession. With clues from the lost city of Amdapor and the Void Ark quest, he learns of the Mhach ruins and sneaks his way inside one fateful night. Unfortunately, he arrives during an important ritual between Ange, possessed by Diabolos at the time, and the cultists. Ange easily cuts down Hemlocke, but when he regains his senses, the vampire cried bloody tears to find out this was his son. He gives him his blood to survive and transform completely into a vampire. Having no memory of the night, Hemlocke now struggles to control his ever-increasing strength and newfound lust for blood.

A past hidden in darkness
A present cloaked in secrets
The future holds the only truth that cannot be escaped..

Mythic Creation Seraphim "The burning one"

*SPOILER WARNING - This profile contains details concerning story spoilers up to patch 6.48 Pandaemonium raids.Bio: Seraphim is a fire-aspected creation and living weapon born in Akadaemia Anyder by Hephaistos aka Lahabrea of the Convocation. They were created not long after Phoinix whom they consider like a sibling. Early on, they began to show unusual signs of individuality with naturally protective and gentle mannerisms. These traits were mirrored by a frightening power that could easily reduce other creations to ash if threatened. The creation grew a close familial bond to their master Hephaistos and young Erichthonios whom they protected without question.Unfortunately, a dangerous curiosity began to fester in Hephaistos' wife Athena to see how spark of life manifested in such an imperfect creation. She imprisoned Seraphim with the intent to experiment to find out the truth and used this as an opportunity to test out the black auracite (Heart of Sabik). Hephaistos believed Seraphim had gone missing entirely, worried for their safety. The painful experiments- both physical and aetherical -heightened the creation's aggression with the growth of claws, fangs and a multitude of black feathered wings grew in their evolution. Seeing how Athena attempted to do similarly to young Erich, Seraphim's hatred for her grew to a seething rage.In their compassion, one of Athena's associates allowed Seraphim to escape to which they attacked all who blocked their pathway out. A taste of ancient blood for the first time withered their already frayed sanity, feeling an insatiable bloodlust. Poor Hephaistos came upon the Seraphim's slaughter having drained many of his associates and seeing their change to something unknowable and untamable. Unable to bring himself to kill his creation, Hephaistos placed the Seraphim in Pandaemonium in their own gilded cage in Asphodelos for Hesperos to watch over personally. Hesperos treated Seraphim with kindness trying to ease their bloodlust when he could. He felt empathy for the pain of their hunger, wanting to understand the burden.The confinement wore on Seraphim with the want for escape- the opportunity came in the form of Hesperos changed now with a hunger not so unlike their own. They slaughtered many Keywards together with the newly changed vampiric ancient keeping his promise to protect Seraphim. Yet, Seraphim understood in time that Hesperos, the altered Keywards and the other Hephaistos were 'Her' puppets. Sensing the now grown Erichthonios close, Hesperos bid Seraphim to flee to find the freedom they sought while he stayed behind to keep them busy. Seraphim, having no desire to leave without the Phoinix, made the mistake returning back to free them. They only found the bird to be recaptured once more and news of Hesperos death soon spread across Pandaemonium. This loss crippled their will and allowed them to be captured once more.Time passed until the final days were upon them. With the weakening hold, Seraphim broke out of their cell with the intention of leaving but came across Erichthonios guarding Pandaemonium alone. Recalling when they used to watch over the kind boy in his youth, Seraphim felt the desire to protect return to them and staved off painful bloodlust they felt. They would stay at the Keyward's side, keeping the dangerous creations in Pandaemonium at bay and fighting off blasphemies from making their way in from one bloodied battle to the next. The both of them had nearly come to the end of their strength until eventually sundered by Hydaelyn.

  • Ancient Seraphim is only partially sundered - 5 shards on different stars and 2 rejoined with source.

  • All shards possess black hair and red eyes aside from the First shard who's part Sin Eater/Hemi's partially red hair due to his voidsent nature.

  • Hemlocke looks the most like Seraphim being he's the shard of the source and attuned to fire more than any other element due to their connection.

  • Seraphim haunts all of their shards, lingering like a ghost in the background and persuading them in a variety of ways.

  • There is no shard on the Thirteenth due to plot reasons.

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RP Guidelines and About Me-

  • 21+ Only, LGBTIQA+ welcome!

  • Respect - No hate speech. Be this transphobia, bigotry, racism, ect. You'll be blocked.

  • Keep IC and OOC separate.

  • Prefer RP in game . If there's an ongoing plot and conflicting schedules, I'll consider discord RP (I'm slow to reply though).

  • Respect boundaries and time - IRL/health is important and understandable if anything comes up. The RP can be rescheduled.

  • No OOC drama - please reach with any concerns or issues. I don't mind IC drama if plotted/communicated about first.

  • Lore- Although I respect FFXIV lore, I do bend the rules to a degree and am open to that creativity. I'm still learning myself and down to chat about it.

  • RP- SFW (definitely!) / NSFW (plot and/or high chemistry first).

  • Story Genres- Adventure/fantasy/connections/dungeon trekking/sparring. Open to ideas! I don't mind dark themes but give me a head's up on the topic.

  • Ship rules- Communication is key. Shipping is not out of the question if the chemistry is there. For most of them, I prefer to plot and build up to that point.

  • I'm open to single or multi ships depending on the characters, the plot and how close they are. They still should be allowed to have ICly friendships outside of this-so no OOC possessiveness or insecurity when it comes to this.

  • I also run content on FF - I'm down for that as well if you're interested.

About me- I go by Pharos! Chill, non-binary (any pronouns), pan and goth. Love video games, RPG and horror the best, writing, RP, anime, artistic expression, goth fashion, rock and EBM-darkwave music.Please know that I tend to be quiet, kinda anxious and shy person at times. I'm stating this in case it comes across as rude. My apologies if it does!
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