brave little spark

melili as she acts - while she initially comes off as polite and eager, she's also probably the first to tell you that she can also be pretty fickle at times, melancholic at others, and generally behest to whimsy at most. quick to offer a smile and light-hearted in nature.
you can usually find her around music and performance venues, catching the latest shows or generally just enjoying the atmosphere.

melili as she is - adventurer and card-carrying member of the weaver's guild, melili prides herself on being something of a self-styled jack-of-all-trades, wielding a blade as well as she can a sewing needle - in fact, her adventuring outfits are mostly designed and crafted entirely by her own hand, seeking to blend function with her own brand of flamboyant form, each style a reflection of whatever melili believes the "essence" of what a hero of that stripe is like.

melili as she does - taking up the mantle of adventurer half the time, and designer the other half, she works on commission for the Adventurer's and Weaver's Guilds, as well as occasional solo endeavors and assignments for the Grand Company of Eorzea.currently, she also co-owns The First Step, an adventuring necessities shop with her partner, Zigovali, where she designs outfits for the everyday adventurer.

magic - in terms of magical ability, she has little training in combat arts - but has the ability to "store" a spellcast in an aetheric bubble, which she activates at a location of her choosing. unique to her is the ability to "hide" the bubble, a phenomenon she comes to call "polarity shift," hard-swapping the "umbral" energies of the bubble to "astral" in activation. in practice, they end up more like invisible mines, although the polarity shift can be omitted for a more standard spellcasting effect.

additional - melili has been seen with any number of additional accoutrements over the course of her adventuring career, most notably a grappling hook she uses to traverse rough terrain or close the distance in combat. more than once, she's used it as a weapon itself, firing it off as a clawed projectile into someone's face.a recent development has her wielding a special sort of conductive auracite shards, spreading it among an enemy's ranks and using either her machinist's bolts or her magic to use their shared resonance to bounce the energies between auracite shards like mirrors, creating a sort of electrified net.recently, she's been seen studying up on sharlayan sages to see if she can incorporate similar ideas into her own style - specifically, if she can make modified nouliths for purely offensive purposes.

weapons - even among adventurers, melili's collection of adventuring gear can hardly be described as standard. alongside basic necessities as rations and navigational tools, everything changes according to mission requirement or, more often, her whims.her usual weaponry consists of one or two shortblades, which she uses with rogueish alacrity. for anything out of range of her strikes, she carries a machinist's sidearm, a handgonne which can fire either solid rounds or switched on to an aetherotransformer to fire lightning-aspected bolts.

protection - as the daughter of a sultansworn paladin and a former gladiator in ul'dah's free brigades, she's no stranger to wielding sword and shield with the intent of providing a bulwark for her allies. though it's not often she brings to bear her gladiator skills to battle, she's still more than competent at it.she's dabbled with the greatsword before - mostly out of necessity - but has shown to be a natural at dark knight swordplay.melili took to the gunblade pretty swiftly, her unique magical style complimenting well with the gunbreaker's art.

a warrior of light among us?

a little-known secret about melili, one she does not disclose readily, was that she was at the site of the calamity, as part of the free brigade that first assaulted castrum novum before heading to back up the grand companies on the fields of carteneau.even lesser-known is that she was one of those whisked away by the archon louisoix in his final act - in truth, she technically qualifies to be a warrior of light.perhaps when she emerged from the lifestream, had she taken a different turn or hitched a ride on a wagon with two sleeping elezen, her journey may have ended up different.perhaps there are tales written of this possible twist of fate. who knows?

an adventuring supplies venture co-owned and operated by melili meli and zigovali the red, operating out of the goblet.from your everyday adventuring supplies to more specialized equipment such as bespoke adventuring gear and zigovali's signature spell cards, it promises to fulfill all your needs, whether you be a novice taking their first steps, or a seasoned veteran blazing a new path.mateus, goblet, ward 8, plot 45The First Step profile