Izaya Yuukimura

Former Sky Pirate and Freelance Investigator

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Izaya was born in the beautiful nation of Doma, his early childhood devastated by the Garlean invasion and the loss of both of his parents from their magitek monstrosities. After barely escaping with his life and washed up on the shores of Shishu, he was found and adopted by the somewhat distinguished Yuukimura family and continued to reside in the small port town of Kugane. His adoptive father, Isao Yuukimura, a Sekiseigumi troop officer, gave Izaya his first lance and katana and began training him at the age of nine, instilling a sense of discipline and duty in the young Auri boy. Living in Kugane, most of his formative years was spent training and attending temple school with his cousin and childhood rival, Tetsuko Yuukimura, the two forming a strong bond during their youth. Izaya would lead a somewhat comfortable life playing cards and drinking tea and sake with pirates and traveling bards, often hearing of stories of far off lands and wondrous tales of adventure, stirring his curiosity of what lies beyond Hingashi and the Far East. It was not long after his nineteenth nameday, he stowed himself away on a ship and set sail west to Eorzea, doing odd jobs to get by. After meeting a few talented individuals while working as a traveling sell-sword, he and his newfound group formed a sky pirate crew and took off on their newly stolen airship.

Life as a sky pirate was almost a dream for Izaya, he roamed wildly through the skies with his newly formed Scarlet Sparrows, and despite being the only Hingan in his group, he managed to get along well with his new crew mates. He would soon enjoy the days drinking at the bars and taverns, continuing to play cards with the most unruly and rowdy patrons along with many nights raiding and engaging in airship combat with the Empire and even other pirates. Preferring to use his newly acquired gunblade over any firearms, Izaya quickly earned the respect and fear from his allies and enemies respectively as he perfected his own unique style of combat, a wild blend of deft samurai swordsmanship and brash pirate swashbuckling.

After a handful of years of flying and raiding, Izaya and his crew ended up being captured by the Eorzean Alliance for their crimes. Seeing potential within the crew and especially their Auri captain, the Alliance gave Izaya a choice to either rot in a gaol cell or to fight alongside Eorzea in their war against the Garlean Empire. Seeing another opportunity, Izaya accepted the offer and was immediately drafted into the Maelstrom Grand Company. As a melee weapon specialist, Izaya showed adept proficiency and an acute dedication with the gunblade, throwing himself into the front lines without hesitation, much to his superiors' chagrin. He actively engaged Imperial forces while enlisted, even taking part in liberating his homeland from Garlean occupation, carrying a deep seated hatred towards the Empire for their transgressions.

Izaya is mostly aloof, even sardonic at times but is usually amiable and respectful to anyone he meets, often helping those in need wherever he goes. He has a keen eye for reading people's microexpressions and speech patterns, often finding small bits of deceptive behavior in faces and body language, a skill he later honed to a razer edged ability, paired an equally sharp and silver tongue. After the Empire fell to it knees from its own hand, Izaya was mostly left without an enemy to fight. For the first time in his life, the Auri warrior felt somewhat unfulfilled and unsatisfied, venturing back home to Kugane to reconnect with his roots for a while. Using his connections with former pirates, bounty hunters, and other members of the criminal underworld, Izaya soon became a freelance investigator, once again taking various odd jobs from the mundane to the arcane to fund his wayward lifestyle, making good use of his skills he's perfected over the years. While he enjoys the shores of Limsa as a reminder of his sky pirate days along with his time with the Maelstrom and as a home for his small teahouse, Izaya occasionally travels back to his homeland to visit his adoptive Hyur family, sharing his tales of adventure.

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