At the start of ARR, I think I place her at about...18 or 19? I sometimes go back and forth on this, but the youngest I've considered is 17.

Mint's my usual psued nowadays, and Nainyene was a word from an old conlang of mine. It was months ago, but I think it translated to something about stars???

Food. Legitimately, I think this is the best shot

I feel like forget-me-nots or hydrangeas are probably it. Mint had a hydrangea bunch in their hair for the longest time so theres a good chance.

Their lost past. They're more than the person they were before they lost their memories, but even still, they cant go of their quest to find everything out.

Mint is definitely like.... fem leaning non-binary? They start off wearing mostly skirts and dresses since they were fostered in a fairly well off merchants home, but while they lean fem...they start feeling less comfortable with the idea of being Perceived as fem and only fem around Shadowbringers as more of their memories start to surface.
Thankfully, Feo Ul is there to help and after that point, Mint starts dressing more androgynously and using Fae made half-fantasias to change their physical presentation on the fly. They still wear dresses sometimes, and feel more comfy now that they Know they arent stuck with just that.

...its complicated! Like everything else with their identity hahaha!

(Speaking of) I have an on going thing in fic where in private they like presenting more feminine, but when they consider Actually doing that in front of other people (IE not their partner) they freeze up.
Gender folks! Its scarier than the end of days!

She has a ton of psueds, and at least one is for Ardbert. Mint herself probably has only one really long weirdly heartfelt slow burn.

Mint keeps a somewhat messy journal. Her actual notes are fairly neat, but its mostly a place where she draws anything that catches her interest. Vistas, dogs, people... all sorts of things. Sometimes she has to leave it behind, so often she'll place a bunch of loose leaf paper in the journal to fill in for those times.

Everything is written in scalan rather than common though, so no one can understand her notes for better or worse.

Mint has posted a bunch of 'missing person' posters that literally correspond to no one on the planet, probably.

I dont think communication is their highpoint, so G'raha's gonna wear something like, a gaelicat hoodie or a 'WOL' costume, and then Mint's gonna pull up in an extra looking 'masquerade' outfit...

In their time in Eorzia, Mint has called roughly four places home. In order:

• Her foster fathers place in Outer Shroud. Mint doesnt go there much anymore, though, since she left to become an adventurer. She visits, I guess?
• Mint had an apartment above the Rising Stones for the Longest time. Its basically in an attic, but she spent most of MSQ living there! She's thinking about moving out post Endwalker though. She'd feel bad messing up the vanishing of the scions. (For images, I have the build in my housing page!)
• Over the course of her adventurers, Mint saved up for an apartment in Kugane! Its small, but sometime she wants to be on another continent from all her problems.
• Lastly, after she helped out with the Firmament, they held onto a bit of land for her! Mint has a small little house there, and its probably where she mostly lives post Endwalker.

Hmm, I kinda headcanon that Meteor is the WOL that died in the calamity and made the deal with Mint for her to be reborn? But its a bit of backstory I've left loose to this day...

I often describe Azem's soul as "summer blue skies, golden edged sunsets." It's a good compromise between the in MSQ reference's to the WOL's soul being blue, and my desire for Azem gold associations.

I don't know what Mint's soul looks like at the moment though. Her last reincarnation went kinda funky and I kinda suspect it looks a bit different now... If its anything like Azem's though, it doesn't match her color scheme at all, haha! Mint is All green, All the time.

Mint's Azem turned away from the Convocation and Venat, and tried to find the source herself.

If she died pre sundering, what I imagine is that she tracked down a blasphemy, which caused a cave in, mid fight.... After all, they said the sound seemed to come from deep beneath the earth, and so, thats where she tracked a blasphemy to, hoping it was the source...

Believes, but if you directly asked her, she'd say wants to punch destiny in the face. Its sort of like.... shes certain that it exists. Its one of those things that she doesnt realize she shouldnt be so certain of, and can't explain if you ask. (*⋆*hashtag just amnesia things*⋆*)

But at the same time, its because shes so confident in it, that she doesnt agree with it. My wol wants to make her own fate, no matter what.

That said, soulmates dont exist though. Mint definitely laughs those off. "Wow, soulmates?? That's way too positive a thing to come from fate," or something hahaha.

Mint has lots and lots of nightmares!

From early on, she's had nightmares of getting memories back, but those memories feel all wrong. As the dream goes on, it feels like more and more of herself is replaced by someone Other.
Post 5.0, these dreams evolve to be ardbert or Azem's memories that she's replaced by. Alternatively, sometimes Mint dreams she is them, and doesn't realize anything's wrong until is far too late. On those nights, sometimes its hard for her to remember her own name when she wakes. Its getting better around 6.0, but well.......

Rarely, she dreams of a clocktower, whose ticking reverberates through her whole body. She's running to catch up to someone, but the clock chimes before she can make it. Half the time, she wakes up to her chest aching like someone stabbed her.

On the rarest nights, sometimes she dreams of a desert littered with blades. Post 4.5, it bleeds with her memories of the Ghimlyt Dark.

Mint's lightwarden form is called Philautia.
Shes named this for the vast number of masks that adorn her many wings. Her entire body is made of wings, replacing even her legs because Mint can't take another step, Ardbert. She's sorry.

Each mask represents a person who's memories Mint carries instead of her own, and each speaks with that voice. (You never hear her own voice.)

In the bad end I wrote for this, Philautia ends up warping their form further by connecting to an even greater source of light, leading to the second image.

Philautia, named after the masks she carries. She ironically has identity issues,

Which is, of course, a joke on the fact that philautia means 'self love!'

And as for a more standard sin eater name, maybe Forgiven Longing?

This song!

I have a few different bad ends, though now I want to add more LMAO

The main pre planned one is my Lightwarden AU, where after being turned into a Lightwarden, Mint is suseptible to Xehanort's call to his other selves. (This technically isn't canon anymore, but can you imagine?)
When she gets there, the Lightwarden through sheer force of aether, makes things even worse by claiming the X-blade for herself.

From there, its a fight between Emet-Selch (unfortunately realizing hes destroying Azem down to the soul is forced to help) and allies (grudging) versus Lightwarden Mint.

First phase would be fairly straight forward beam aoes. (In the bg, Emet and everyone else are arguing about what to do haha.)

Phase two (75% health), the Lightwarden starts taking them seriously. This is an add phase, and Mint splits off each of their wings into seperate sin eaters, for a total of six. One of them is Azem and yes, this sucks for Emet.

In the background, Mint is charging a cast called "Paradise's Return", and you need to save LB3 for it (even if its very tempting to LB3 the adds instead.). Here she says, "Enough. We... have to go back. Theres something missing." When it finally goes off, if any of the adds are still around they get powered up and you wipe.

Anyway. That cast is the start of phase three. When she casts it, the world warps around the party, and when the screen returns to normal, the battlefield has been reshaped to be the plaza of her hometown. (Daybreak Town :) ) It looks peaceful and perfect, but above, the sky is warped by the sheer light. I dont really know what kind of mechanics we got in here. They're annoying I guess. Probably something along the lines of buildings getting thrown at you as circle aoes with knockback. You need to line up the knockbacks to avoid a donut aoe plus cone attack she does. Just, y'know high end raid things.

At 25% we hit the final phase. This opens up with a quicktime as Emet, Ephemera, and Sora finally (and grudgingly) work together. Using their powers combined, they try to reach out to Mint's heart, which opens up a memory phase ala Tsukiyomi.

If all goes well... maybe you save her? But more likely, they manage to drive off the light just enough to let her die as herself, and her defeat line is "I'm so sorry." as a fun cinimatic parallel LMAO

Maybe they can do something about the primordial light, IDK what happens with all that. Maybe Sora's a Lightwarden now, IDK not my problem

Mint would bail, full stop. This whole time shes been delayed by this or that, but as a blasphemy she'd just. Leave.

She knows where her past is, its not Etheirys, and she is Going. (Does this mean that Meteion is led to another world that is now going to fall to despair? Maybe.)

A weird collab (with KHUX canon) event where shes travelled to this world under mysterious circumstances.

You probably get a Chirithy minion as the collab reward.

Mint would probably come back a good three years ahead of the WOL, and probably would spend most of her time travelling. Mostly, she stares at the Empty, feeling very frustrated she cant explore past there. She probably tries to go there at least once and is driven back by hoards of sin eaters

There's something about Hildibrand thats very soothing to my WOL. Perhaps its the way everything around him is pure nonsense and she can turn her brain off? No responcibilities here... only chaos.

It'd be mostly the same, but imagine if feral cat Subject X was here. Just. Imagine.

if holding a keyblade: mint does a cute little pose holding it up!

if holding dnc chakrams: tosses them around skillfully, but then one hits her on the back of the head

Mint has a variety of little pastimes. Like triple triad.

But Mint also loves to travel for its own sake. Aetheryte travel isn't that taxing for her, so when she has time, she likes to go back and poke through different spots and maybe draw a little. They've practically got a travelogue in that sketchbook of theirs, not that anyone beyond their close friends and family will ever get to see it.

Beyond that..... I think at this point, Mint's turned into a bit of foodie. She can't cook beyond fairly simple fair, but well. Being Warrior of Light pays good enough to eat out. (Said travelogue, is what's probably the best collection of international/interworld eateries.)

A travel guide on eating across the three continents (and beyond!)

Mint does so much random nonsense thats gets her enough money that she is.... very much fine. She picks materials up between adventures, does odd jobs, hunt marks....

(On the other hand, she doesn't know what to spend it on, so most of it goes to food and.. nothing else. Her funds are always getting larger and...not really going anywhere. There's a reason she was able to buy an apartment.)

Honestly, I think my WOL honestly did manage to heal all their wounds (maybe theres a handful of new scars across the arms, and maybe they also had some bloodloss but it got healed-ish), but blew their reserves of aether so bad. That is why they were on bedrest.

Unfortunately, even if you can source a lot of magic cost off of dynamis, there is only so much physical material (ie aether) to go around!

Elidibus.

When they had the confrontation in 5.3, and she realized that he'd lost all his sense of identity in the pursuit of duty, she felt a kinship with him.

After all, she's never gotten her memories back. What if she simply threw herself into her duties further? Allowed the ghosts of azem creep into her own sense of self...

Canon implies that Zenos is your WoL's mirror. Is this true for your WoL/OC? If not, who would be your WoL's mirror? Or perhaps their feared self made manifest? If Zenos is your WoL's mirror, why/how so? (from @StoryxSummoner!)

Setting Zenos aside, I think the most interesting mirror Mint has is Elidibus.

Elidibus has lost his memories, and now only lives for his duty. His responsibilities. Most importantly though, he doesnt want these memories back, he freely discards them as the risk of forgetting again means that Elidibus thinks its better this way.

Mint on the other hand, has lost her memories, and desperately, desperately, wants them back. But why does she want them? Though she has no memory of it, at heart, it is her fear for those she protected. She needs to know if they are okay. It's responsibility, once again.

But, the important part: as a result, Mint doesnt ever reflect on who she is now. Elidibus is focused on the present duty and far future goals he works towards. While Mint's trapped between being the Warrior of Light and her past, making no progress towards either...

I feel like Mint swears a good bit, but mostly when shes around people she's comfortable and not stressed in the wrong way? Sometimes, stress makes her quiet, so swearing is usually a good sign.

Also, the type of swearing can be a good sign of her headspace in other ways! It depends on the circumstance, but prior to 5.3 on, swearing by 'the Light' was generally a sign she was starting to disassociate into her lost memories a bit too much. I think Ardbert's ememries leaking in might cause similar, at least in that his headspace is less likely to shut her down speaking wise?

I dunno, but who-ever's leaking in at a given moment influences how Mint talks.

Okay, comically? I had already mentally thought ice, fire, and wind. When I checked the elemental chart for those, that's the astral elements only? (In gameplay, I always forget my Thunder III in my BLM rotation as well, so.)

I've always characterized her as finding these three particularly intuitive, to a level unseen on Eorzia. They're almost casual, its something she had to be trained out of when she became a thaumaturge.

That said, Thunder isn't quite casual, but around a standard casters level. Water and earth, on the other hand, are difficult at best.

Mint tea, with a side of shortbread cookies. The cookies are decorated with the Azem symbol in chocolate and gold dust.

Mint's languages: She gets away with a lot with the echo in hand, tbh... (I also HC that the keyblade Also grants the same kind of buff, so in Heavensward she never lost the ability to communicate.) -Common eorzian. Its a little rough around the edges. Sometimes, she just doesnt know a word and subsitutes it in. The only way you can tell is the accent changes just a bit. (She always sounds oddly american.)
-Something I nickname old Scalan. (Its a kh thing, hahaha.)
-norvrandt common (from ardbert. fun bonus of getting memories leaking in like a sieve! its a bit rougher than even eorzean since its reliant on memory leakage and that can depend on the day.)
-Weenwoon. Its the exact same situation as the Ardbert one, but even more scattershot. More funny is the fact that whenever she learns the name of a concept that she doesnt already know back on Elpis, that is the word she uses for it later. In weenwoon. Forever.
-Writing wise, she can read Eorzean common, but her handwriting is awful even after all these years. She still writes in old Scalan, and no, there isn't anyone alive who can read it.

Your OC has just been spotted by the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, and you’re on the verge of recruitment… except, almost overnight, the threat of primals and Ascians alike has all but vanished. The final days have already been averted. Garlemald has entered into a new era of peace. The First is safe, and G’raha never entered the tower. There is no longer a need for a Warrior of Light. There is no refusal of the call; there was no call to begin with.
What is your OC up to, and what have they been up to since A Realm Reborn? (from Rigby!)

Mint probably wanders off into the wilderness, exploring. There's no guiding throwline to keep her from trying to learn more about her past, so she ends up wandering further and further. I'm not entirely sure if she'd ever get her memories back in this timeline, but I think she'd actually come to peace with it a lot more.

She'd end up helping people, and drawing vistas, and, in general, becomes more of a cryptid overall.

Its green bc shes Mint. I wanted it to look like mint leaves haha

Though, I do HC that her hair was shorter when she was younger, and that its pretty messy for a while bc her self care drops a bit from Stormblood to Endwalker.