Syrin Kisaragi
Built for endings. Still writing.
Out of Character
Hey, thanks for dropping in!
If you like what you see and feel compelled to add Syrin to your story, shoot a message my way; I'm sure we could come up with something exciting to tell!〖 Quick Notes About Me 〗
▹ BLUESKY
▹ I am 25+
▹ Discord & In-game. Know how I RP in Discord vs In-game are somewhat different.
▹ EST zone.
RP Highlights
| ✔ | ✘ |
|---|---|
| Story & Plot Driven | Unnecessary Godmodding |
| ERP [21+] | *Strictly ERP Driven |
| Grim Dark, Horror, Mature Themes | - |
| Longterm & Oneshots | - |
| Action, Adventure, Romance | - |
| Violence; blood, gore, injury | - |
| Lore bending/expanding | - |
*About ERP...
Is your character a flirt and looking for a good time? Great! I enjoy ERPing, though I prefer character dynamics to lead into it.
OC and OOC Boundaries.
I am not my character. Romancing Syrin the Explorer does not mean you are romancing Syrin the Guy Who Works Morning Shifts! Keep it separate.RP is a fun means to explore character drama and resolve through their stories. There shouldn't be a reason where what happens in story should be taken personally if we took precaution in our expectations going in. If there is an issue be sure there is communication.
Overview
【AGE】 25+
【RACE】 Lominsa-Hingan Keeper / Xaela
【OCCUPATION】Lone Adventurer || Frontlines Competitor || Veiled Omen
【ALIGNMENT】 True Neutral || Chaotic Evil【HEIGHT】 5'8
【SCALE COLOR】Obsidian Black
【EYES】 Silver (R), Golden (L)
【HAIR】 Short, light peachy-pink
【MARKS】Scattered body cuts, deep back scar
【BUILD】 Svelte & fit physique, toned muscle definition
Fixations
Libraries & Archives ◆ Forbidden Texts & Grimoires ◆ Cartographic Oddities ◆ Philosophy ◆ Aether Theory ◆ Beast Hunting ◆ Competitive Spars ◆ Cuisine Sampling ◆ Triple Triad ◆ Ketenramm
Disruptions
Cooking ◆ Saints’ Wake ◆ Deep Water ◆ Children in danger ◆ Abandoned Books ◆ Cult-like Rhetoric ◆ His Own Anger ◆ Personal Questions ◆ Guilt Triggers ◆ Unsolicited Praise
Personality
Syrin is a man who survived what should have ended him, and now disciplines every thought, strike, and word to keep from becoming the thing that did.Not all are born with gifts. Some are born with a purpose not their own. A body borrowed by prophecy. A soul turned vessel. They call it power. Syrin calls it control.To survive what was written for him, one must be cunning; clever enough to bend fate, ruthless enough to keep bending it. He has learned how to hold the line. How to walk the dark with grace when grace is all that’s left.He has glimpsed joy and its softness. He keeps his distance from it not from disdain, but reverence.A hunted man does not reach for what he cannot protect. A cursed man does not ask to be loved.
Disposition
【 Sagacious Hunter 】
“The greatest man would not accomplish much if he lacked concentration and effort.”
Syrin mastered his mind before his blade. Every motion is calculated, every silence intentional. Whether facing beast, blade, or book, he reads the field with clarity. What happens next is rarely chance.【 Grey Logos 】
Syrin walks the knife’s edge of morality, adapting principle to circumstance.Mercy is not absent, only measured. His blend of self-interest and reluctant empathy leads him to unorthodox solutions. He does what others won’t, so that others won’t have to.He believes in balance, not innocence. A fair end is not always clean.【 Eager and Daring Ethos 】
Curiosity pulls him toward the dangerous and the obscure. Answers cost blood, but he pursues them anyway.Knowledge often knocks disguised as death. Still, he answers, because what he learns may one day save someone. Or at least make sense of the damage.【 The Heat of Battle 】
Whether competitive or not, combat is his clarity.
Act fast. Think faster. The blade is only as sharp as the mind behind it.
Syrin finds purpose in the pressure, and where tactics are needed, his name comes as recommendation or warning.【 Arms Length 】
Alliances formed out of duty. Friendships forged through fire. But love?
Love is not safe. Not for them. Not for him.
He does not push people away to hurt them. He does it to protect them. But the reckoning still comes.【Guarded Heart】
Emotion, ungoverned, becomes a weapon. He’s learned that lesson more than once.
What he loves, he loses. What he loses, he remembers. And what he remembers still bleeds.
If he is to suffer, let it be alone.
If only the darkness weren’t so clever.【Scholar of Suffering】
Power, precision, and paranoia are his inheritance.
His scars are not for show. His intelligence not for pride. Syrin turned grief into weaponry and memory into leverage; conditioning his thoughts the way soldiers condition muscle.He did not choose his burdens, but he chooses what to make of them.【The Poison of Misremembered Ideals】
Once, he believed in salvation.
Now, he plays the game of gods and tyrants with one goal: survive long enough to rewrite the ending.
Motivation
He won’t rest until he finds her. His sister is still out there. Alive. This belief is the last light he clings to, because without it everything he’s done was for nothing.But time is not his ally. Not with what stalks him.
Will he reach her before he becomes the thing she fled from?
And if he doesn’t... What then?In the meantime, he writes. Not to be read, but to be remembered. Each journal entry is part confession, part calculation; a way to keep his mind sharper than the darkness.
Entrusted to one reader alone.
RP Connections
Alastor S.
Lain S.
Tehro'to T.
Vye.
Special Abilities
Harbinger.
His main weapon, a crystal bladed lance, soulbound. It absorbs aetheric residue in combat and stores it for reactive use. Doubles as a power source for ability amplification.Locked In.
Once committed, Syrin fights with brutal clarity. Precision strikes, exceptional endurance, and obsessive analysis. He will outlast you unless you catch him.Blood Grip.
Through Void-tinged blood and Dragoon conditioning, Syrin manipulates aether within his own body and channeling others. Ideal for soulbound strikes, power siphoning, and aether disruption.The Echo.
Reads aetheric patterns on contact. Can detect voidsent, copied techniques, or weak points using his body as a canvas. Enhances replication and counters.
Echo backfires if he's emotionally compromised.
Tactical Abilities
【 HARBINGER】 Amplification
Soulblade overclocks for increased attack potency. Resonates with previous combat data.
Boosts weapon skill strength. Visually: Crystal blade pulses white inbetween glowing colors.【 THEORY IN MOTION 】 Analysis
Tracks movement, mimics skill. Requires observation.
OOC roll optional: If skill is seen twice, Syrin mimics it at 60-80% efficiency.【VICIOUS PATHOSISM】 Soft enrage.
Crystals explode in localized zones. Aggressive power-surge while control slips.
Adds “Scorned” status. Aether backlash if crystals aren’t cleared or stabilized.【 DRAGON'S MINSTREL 】 Enrage.
Triggered by full aether reservoir or emotional collapse. Arena-wide burst.
Shardstorm, corrupted form shift, environmental hazards.【 ELDRITCH INTERFERENCE】 Ego Shift.
◇ Phantasma. Arena Phase Shift
◇ Cataclysm. Hard Enrage
Thought having unique "hotbar/cooldowns" to reference in battle instances was a fun concept. Might develop this further with "raid boss" in mind.
Fun Facts & Detail
【Hell's Kitchen】 Syrin seems to sap flavor from food simply by touching it. Despite his precise nature, cooking escapes him completely. Exceptionally bad and somehow getting worse!【Lightweight】 A body honed for battle, but not for wine. One glass in and the mask begins to crack.【A Tongue for Taste】He tries everything. Spice, salt, sour, sweet. It's his quiet rebellion against control and a game of risk with no consequences. Usually.【Thalassophobia】 The ocean is beautiful! He'll admire it from the shallow end, thanks!【Pet Sitter】 Sometimes people ask him to watch their animals. He never says no and he always remembers their names!【Ketenramm Fanboy】His favorite explorer. He’ll never admit it aloud, but he’s read every book. Twice. Annotated.【Voidsent Scares】Voidsent raise the hair on his arms. Saints’ Wake is a waking nightmare.
【Forbidden Occult】He has a sharp eye for grimoires, relics, and forbidden texts. Especially those that shouldn’t be found. Or read. Or remembered.【Merchant's Son】 Years managing goods taught him to spot a fake. He can sniff out a counterfeit, or a lie, by weight alone.【Shady Family Business】 His father left behind more questions than coins. The past still haunts.【Bentbranch Hand & Wailer】 He grew up among chocobos and scouts. Gridania gave him structure, the lance gave him purpose.【Chronological Diary】There are daily entries meticulously kept and never shared. A sacred text that is part confession, part autopsy, part mental training ground. Only one person is allowed to read them.【Name and Appearance】 What you see isn’t always what you get. His name isn’t his first. His face isn’t original. His truth is somewhere underneath.
〖 Additionally... 〗
▹ Possesses the Echo.
▹ Unhealthy coping habits. (rage)
▹ Drug & sex vice.
▹ Has perfect vision, obscures it anyway.
Music Inspiration
〖 Honorable Mentions 〗
Chimera - ATOLS & Miku Hatsune
Fortune My Foe - Anonymous
Hunt or Be Hunted - Witcher 3
Sell Your Soul - Hollywood Undead
Voices - Motionless in White
Hooks
Open World Presence
Those attuned to aether may feel it: a thin static hum clinging to Syrin’s presence like smoke...
Quest Giver: Is your OC in need of coin or odd knowledge? Syrin might have a task that pays. If you’re up for a mini-quest, begin your message with (! ! !) as a signal to me.
【The Striking Polymath】 Need a relic tracked or a creature hunted? Or maybe a puzzle that needs decoding? Syrin is your man: equal parts tactician, scholar, and survivor.
His abilities range from research & investigations to battles & hunts.【Occult Forces】 There’s a cult that moves like shadow: The Vows of Morbid. Their goals are hidden, their methods ruthless. Syrin knows them better than most. He’d rather not.
One wrong question, one wrong book, and you might find yourself on their list.
Have you encountered them? Been marked? Or simply curious enough to be in danger?【Consequences of ?̸̭̘̺̅͘?̸̧͕̤̑?̵̠̦̓͐͒】 The ritual wasn’t completed. What was left behind… is still inside.
When Syrin breaks, something darker wakes. He forgets. The aftermath remembers.
Have you seen him lose control? Do you remember what he doesn’t?【Familiar Face】 There’s a chance you’ve seen him before: on the Frontlines, in a Scion camp, or back in Gridania’s forests. A relic hunter, a mercenary, an adventurer with pink hair.ORDINARY Frontlines competitor, wandering scholar, treasure hunter
ELEVATED Scion associate, primal tracker, relic agent
CRIMINAL Occult-touched, cult survivor, potential Void-born
RARE Early Gridania years, pre-party collapse, real name
... And more! Let's chat about what we can make happen.
Arc hook
A cryptic record surfaces: black parchment, sealed in sigil ash, containing fragments of a prophecy. The name on it is...The Cult has re-emerged. Quietly. Sharper than before. Their intentions are unclear, but their symbols are spreading. Aetheric patterns ripple across regions. Missing people. Wrong memories.Syrin must follow the trail, city to ruin, contact to corpse, hunting for:
◇ The first branch of the Cult
◇ The original tenet
◇ The next chosen vessel
“You’ve heard of the Vows. Maybe you’ve seen their mark.”
“You’re an academic. A linguist. A spy. You want to help?”
“You’re a bounty hunter. He’s a lead. Do you follow?”
“You’re no one. But you were in the wrong place. And now they’re after you, too.”
This questline explores relic recovery, moral dilemma, betrayal, identity distortion, and cryptic rituals.