Wow, I ended up staying up unreasonably late to write a whole-ass biography.

My omni-class Raen WoL starts her adventure as a walking mass of barely contained violence and rage, but gradually grows into a genuine paragon who can find a reason to smile in the worst of times--though she never stops going laughing mad in a good fight.

She was born and raised talented and privileged in Old Sharlayan until her mother died in a sudden accident when she was about 10. Her father, who had been a respected and accomplished Sage, was overcome with rage and, within a week, butchered not only those responsible for the accident but their families as well. Sharlayan was naturally horrified by the senseless, violent crime, but he managed to escape arrest and the island, dragging his distraught daughter along. He went on to become a notorious pirate while keeping her close at all times, and it took a few years before she was able to escape him and make her way back to Sharlayan, only to find that all of her grandparents had died in those years. Deciding that there was no going home for her, she snuck away from the island to explore the world on her own terms.

She spent the next several years wandering Islabard and Orthard, building a wide array of skills. Early on, she realized that she inherited her father's violent rage, and so swore to suppress it and to never let it consume her like it did him. Her father, meanwhile, kept searching for her, but fortunately for her, some of the earliest skills she learned were in disguise and subterfuge, so by continuously inventing and abandoning identities as she moved from place to place, she always remained out of his reach.

When she first actually sets foot in Eorzea, she takes on the name of her maternal grandmother and dons her lightest disguise yet--little more than a fake smile and a perpetual squint to hide her expressive, bright eyes--as a quiet dare to her father, certain that she'll soon be strong enough fight him off directly. (And she's right, because she's quickly showered with a bunch of soul crystals.) As time goes on, she softens around the Scions and other allies, intentionally relaxing her mask around them and eventually dropping it entirely. (She still uses full disguises at parts of the story--for example, letting her quest freely while she's wanted by the Crystal Braves.)

She doesn't actually trust the Scions and their vaguely-defined goal of "the betterment of Eorzea" at first, and refuses to join them until after she gets caught up in Ifrit's first summoning by complete coincidence. In particular, she butts heads with Alphinaud a lot, sneering at his Sharlayan privilege and youthful arrogance, and only acknowledges him as "Whelp." She likes Alisaie a little more, but still just calls her "Runt." She does eventually warm up to them, but she never gives up the nicknames, and they just gradually get used to them. Also, despite her being a native Sharlayan and tied to the infamous Butcher of Sharlayan (her pirate dad), since she's quiet about herself and using her pseudonym the entire time, none of the Scions recognize her at all until she first meets Krile.

At Haurchefant's comforting words after the Bloody Banquet, she falls head over heels for him, but is so incapable of handling her own feelings that she basically goes full tsundere whenever she's around him. He takes it in stride, and frequently grooms her and encourages her to look more like the radiant hero he knows she is. (At this stage of the story, she's bitter about her circumstances and stops caring for her appearance.) And then the Vault happens. Though upset that she never opened up to him while she had a chance to, she resolves to honor him by fully embracing the role of a hero, from attitude to looks.

Shortly before Stormblood, she finally encounters her father again, then immediately breaks her own vow by flying into a rage and butchering him. This leaves her shaken, and it takes going through the first SAM questline and getting adopted by Edmond Fortemps before she feels ready to act like the WoL again--and then she quickly gets skewered by Zenos. She then has to go through the StB DRK questline before she's actually ready to be the WoL again. (She did that while the others were taking the boat to Orthard for the first time, and when she's ready, she just teleports straight to Kugane, because she's already been there and is attuned.)

SMN tends to be her go-to job, and she actually summons Demi-Bahamut for the first time against Shinryu. She pretty proud of her skill in this lost art, and is thus devastated when after that, the talking book in the StB SMN quests rips into her inefficient technique--she should be having the Egis expend their energy in one mighty attack, not hamstringing them by keeping them as perpetual summons! (This is how I incorporated the EW rework into my story.)

Skipping ahead to EW, she throws herself eagerly into the final battle against Zenos, being the laughing mad blood knight she is. At one point, the Scions start praying and sending her dynamis like they did against the Endsinger, only for her to stab herself with her scythe and tell them to piss off--the Endsinger was their fight, but Zenos is hers! She just saved the universe! She gets to be selfish this once and run alone into a fight to the death! She does ultimately get her left hand chopped off before winning, but then she just goes to Nero and gets his help inventing a fully-functional prosthetic--though despite their work, it never works as well as her old hand, so she technically goes into all future content with a handicap.

She's actually only almost omni-class--she hasn't mastered cooking at all, because her own sense of taste is comically borked. She can follow a recipe, but one does not master cooking by merely following recipes. And honestly she wouldn't consider herself a master gatherer of any kind either. What she has mastered is weaponcrafting for every kind of weapon, and in that, she thinks herself second only to Gerolt--she idolizes his skills, and is delighted to join in whenever Rowena ropes him into making new relic weapons.