FFXIV: The Primary Agreement
Project Overview
This is a fandub project of Final Fantasy XIV quest titled "The Primary Agreement" just before and after the battle of Yotsuyu (or as her Primal name; Tsukuyomi). There are two tiny roles that I will not include on this project, them being a Lupin race character Hakuro and the Confederate Skipper since they only have like what, 1-2 lines? There are few rules you HAVE TO FOLLOW in order for me even to consider casting you into the project;
- You MUST own decent microphone with a pop-filter on it. I don't want to hear excess huffs and puffs on this project.
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NO BACKGROUND NOISES! Your audition HAS TO BE CLEAN AND CRISP and free from any noise that may effect on your audition. - No "one-ear-only" auditions. If at any way possible, make the audition in STEREO track and the audio centered.
- No emotionless auditions. This are instant reject from me audition wise. You HAVE to deliver proper emotion to the lines if you have any chance to get selected.
- If you for some reason can't deliver lines on agreed deadline, let me know in advance.
- NO half-assed, earrape, or even joke auditions. That is instant reject from me too no matter how funny you try to be.
Other than that, good luck!
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Hien harbors a deep sense of honor and duty to his country and initially feels great remorse for the fall of his kingdom, but believes if his people are content under Garlean rule, he would not force them into revolting just to put himself on the throne. He carries a friendly and competitive attitude among his peers, liking to make a contest out of tasks involving strength. He is a capable leader and puts the safety of his people above his own status.
Forgive my curiosity, Ambassador, but is there a purpose to these containers you bring with you?
[after seeing Yotsuyu at the Exchange back as her own self] Well, well. It would seem your shattered mind is mended. As per our agreement with the ambassador, you are free to return with him to the Empire. Your authority as acting viceroy, however, is no longer recognized here.
[after the Player told Hien that he/she takes care of Primal Yotsuyu (also known as Tsukuyomi)] Bah... Against such a foe, I would be more hindrance than help. The field is yours! We will withdraw... but not without our countrymen. I want every soul accounted for. Every soul!
Alisaie is strong-willed, cynical and, at times, emotional. She is compassionate, concerned for a traumatized koboldling that lost his parents, and leaving a bouquet of flowers in memory of her grandfather, Nael van Darnus, and Bahamut's children.
By her own admission, Alphinaud was always the more clever of the two while she is more direct. This distinction being most pronounced when she summons an aetherial blade to attack the Warriors of Darkness, rather than summoning a carbuncle like her brother.
Unlike her brother, Alisaie had little interest in the affairs of the city-state's politics, finding their petty political power struggles tiresome. She strikes out on her own while her brother becomes a part of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, but upon reuniting becomes more involved with the Scions, especially with the missions to liberate Doma and Ala Mhigo.
She has a humorous side, often teasing Alphinaud and make cynical comments on his actions. Although this seems like petty sibling rivalry, it shows that she knows and understands Alphinaud unlike anyone else. However, Alisaie resents being compared to her brother or being mistaken for a boy.
[Meeting the Confederates] No matter what Asahi throws at us, we cannot let that monster have his way.
[Finishing up the quest] With all of that out of the way, Doma should be able to look forward to a period of relative calm. As for us... well, we have an intriguing story to tell everyone back at the Rising Stones.
[Before the Kienkan] It will be far too quiet without Gosetsu around. I wonder if we'll ever see him again... Oh, speaking of reunions, have you spoken with Ihanashi? It turns out his father was among the returning conscripts.
Alphinaud is a self-assured young man, calm and mature for his age. He shows more interest in intervening in the events of Eorzea than his sister, who prefers to watch history unfold from the shadow. Charismatic and diplomatic, he finds it easy to gain the Eorzean Alliance leaders' trust, partly thanks to his grandfather's credit. Alphinaud has a big ego, and often clashes with other nations' leaders about their ideals.
[Meeting the Confederates] Would that we had some hint as to the ambassador's intentions... Had we not prepared for the worst, I should be wary of going through with this at all.
[After Asahi's vision ends] I am afraid I share Lord Hien's confusion. The man's death was confirmed and his remains interred. These are matters of public record.
Impostor or no, if Zenos was instructing Asahi on the finer points of ritual summoning, then experience tells us there is an Ascian waiting in the wings. Without our knowledge and expertise, our new friends will be hard-pressed to contend with a foe for whom death is but a minor inconvenience. They need our help.
Yugiri Mistwalker is quiet, honorable, humble yet decisive and determined, a pinnacle of what a ninja should be. Though she bears great sadness in the fall of her homeland, she remained true to her lord's command in safeguarding the refugees from occupied Doma. Though she found a second home in Eorzea, specifically the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, Yugiri longs to return to her homeland.
[Meeting the Confederates] My only concern is the safe return of our people. That is what my lord wishes, and that is what shall be done.
[Leaving the Castrum] I gather he left the same way he came: alone aboard a rowing boat. As for the conscripts, most made it to the sekibune before the battle began in earnest, but the vessel yet waits on the riverbank for those who did not flee in time.
[Finishing the quest] Would that the kami had been so minded. Even now, I labor to discern any meaning in Yotsuyu's fate. To deliver her from certain death, with no memory of her sins, only to leave her at the mercy of her stepbrother? Can that truly have been their will?
Formerly a man of Doma, Rasho cast his life aside when the Garlean Empire took both his homeland and the lives of his parents and brothers twenty-five summers past. He eventually joined the Confederacy, and currently serves as their captain and overall leader. He is often seen in the company of Tansui, his close friend, second-in-command, and trusted advisor.
[At the Confederates] Do not worry about the ship. It will be where it needs to be. And with Tansui at the helm.
Your ship awaits you at the castrum's loading docks. She will see you safely home.
Upon his initial introduction, Asahi presents himself as kind-hearted and understanding, wishing to broker peace between Garlemald and Doma as the Empire's voice. Being of Doman blood, he is appalled at the destruction left in his stepsister's wake when he sees the ruins and disarray his home village was left in under her rule. During a battle with the Red Kojin, he shields Isse and Azami from their attacks
When left alone with the Warrior of Light however, he reveals his true colors as a hate-filled man who wants vengeance for Zenos' defeat. Asahi's admiration of Zenos crosses into love, proclaiming none alive loves him more. This fueled his jealousy towards his sister who was given more power over him. He is conniving and scheming, not above using his own parents to get what he wants, even if it means their deaths. Despite being an influential voice in the Populares, he believes in none of their ideals, using his position as Ambassador to antagonize the adventurer into attacking him, knowing that harm brought to him would violate the treaty between Garlemald and Doma.
During his childhood Asahi was apathetic towards his stepsister's struggle. His jealousy and hatred towards her on the "unfairness" between them shows Asahi is spoiled and ungrateful. His parents gave him everything he needed and wanted for a life of privilege and power, but he was more loyal to Zenos. He feels entitled and deserving of Yotsuyu's rank and power.
[At the Exchange, to Hien] Oh, the supply crates? They are filled with materials we hoped might be of use in Doma's restoration. I meant to gift them to you at our last meeting, but we had so much else to discuss...
[After the battle with Tsukuyomi, starting to show a signs of becoming crazy and hostile towards player] My, my, such hostility! These beings are the sworn enemies of the Empire -- I merely did my duty as an imperial officer. Will you surrender to anger, then? Slay an anointed emissary to avenge a fallen foe? You cannot, of course. To do so would burn the bridges we have labored so hard to build!
[continue the hostile and crazed attitude towards Player] Ah, but I'm forgetting: they're already ash! This Doman woman has seen to that! The Empire cannot ally itself with any nation that refuses to renounce summoning. I believe I was most clear on that point! It should have been mine. The power he bestowed upon her... I should have been the one to govern Doma! I would have repaid his faith! No one alive loves him more than I! Instead, this harlot betrayed his trust! Useless... piece of... filth!
Tsukuyomi: https://imgur.com/a/mINOFee
Yotsuyu's grace and beauty belie a heart of stone and a will to survive by any means. A cruel, sadistic ruler, she scorns Domans due to her painful childhood and marriage to an abusive noble. Under the pretext of purging radical elements, and satisfying her personal arousal from seeing such inhumane acts on Domans carried out, Yotsuyu perpetrated numerous atrocities against her own people. Yotsuyu herself stated that her hatred for Doma was like an abyss, bottomless and insatiable.
Her rage and sadism is centered on Domans specifically, for Yotsuyu herself stated after having her brute Grynewaht beat a group of Red Kojin that she felt little to no satisfaction compared to a Doman getting beaten. She recounts to Lord Hien that she felt true bliss and satisfaction when she found a beaten and agonizing Doman vagrant.
Though loyal to the Garlean Empire, specifically Zenos yae Galvus, Yotsuyu tends to be verbally abusive to her subordinates, Grynewaht especially, mainly to get them to obey her. However, she is extremely fearful of the Garlean prince, for she knows that he does not tolerate failure and thus is desperate to stay upon his good graces.
Yotsuys wasn't always hateful but instead she was depressed and lonely, especially during her early childhood and young adult life. Her former master, when she was a courtesan, described her when her father sold her as "more doll than women" and having "eyes that had given up on life." Her rage and hate only surfaced when she was given the chance by the Garleans.
Following her memory loss as "Tsuyu", she becomes more child-like and vulnerable, always at Gosetsu's side for safety. Lord Hien observed her change of behavior towards Gosetsu as "a hound at his throat to a pup at his feet." Her genuine care for him is such that she ran off to Namai alone just to purchase a persimmon for him. When confronted by the people whose lives she made miserable, she fell to her knees crying, apologizing for what she had done, despite having forgotten her past transgressions. Yugiri shadowed her when she was alone, confirming that her emotions were genuine rather than part of a ruse as she initially suspected. Gosetsu's presence had a profound effect on her as even when she regained her memories, she attempted to take her own life, feeling undeserved of his kindness after all she had done to him. This manifested greatly when a ghost of him appeared during her battle as a primal to defend her from a specter of Zenos that tried to cut her down to feed her suffering.
Apparently, Yotsuyu's true goal was to make her family pay for the torment they made her endure, for she accepts that it was they who made her the monster Doma fears and hates.
Tsukuyomi shares the same minds and personality with her human self. She also smokes with a pipe.
[At the Exchange, to Hien] Orphan of the Naeuri, widow of Sashihai... ...And acting viceroy of Doma! You and your people are mine to govern; mine to punish!
[As a reply to Hien after saying she being as acting viceroy is no longer regognized] My position is not for you to decide, little lordling. All who resist the rule of the Empire must be purged. Such was the order given to me by Lord Zenos himself! I will reign here in this putrid, pestilent swamp until the last of you has been broken! This land shall know no dawn. I will spew forth darkness and drown all in eternal night. And high above you I shall shine uncaring, cold and distant as the moon!
[To Player, after she transformed into Primal Tsukuyomi, make her sound slight demonic] I knew you would not flee. I see now the strength which flows from that baleful light of yours. But I am become Tsukuyomi, goddess of the moon and divinity of night. What power can compare to such celestial majesty!? I shall plunge all I despise into darkness! And within that black abyss, even your light shall flicker and fail. Come, let us cast the stalks and look upon the fate of Doma. I see a future in which the sun sets on this wretched land once and for all!
Maxima the Neoteric is a Non-player character from Final Fantasy XIV, a second in command of Asahi sas Brutus's group tasked to make peace with Doma.
[At the Exchange, to Hien after the battle] I entertain thoughts of escape even now. But our negotiations have yet to reach a satisfying conclusion. The ambassador insisted that the summoning spelled an end to our mission here, but it seemed to me there was more to the tale...
[to a Player] I have heard tell of this power you wield. And in your vision, you witnessed Lord Zenos giving these orders?
[To Hien when he said he witnessed Zenos' death his own eyes] Forgive me, but Lord Zenos is very much alive -- he granted our party an audience prior to our departure. That he was gravely wounded is certain, but his recovery appeared to be proceeding apace.
Zenos is arrogant, selfish and evil. Having been raised to be the next emperor in line for the throne, he disregards the importance of human life. Drunk on power as the crown prince and viceroy of both Ala Mhigo and Doma, Zenos cares little for his job of governing the provinces.
Since Zenos never found challenge in battle, he treats his conquered subjects not as people but as prey to hunt and partakes in battles for the thrill of the kill. His purpose in war is to collect swords. Alphinaud admits Zenos is a peerless warrior and accomplished general, the crushing of the Doman rebellion standing as proof of that. What Zenos loathes most is an opponent not providing enough "sport" in battle or cowards who flee.
Though Zenos views enemy and ally alike with contempt, he acknowledges the uses and strengths of his servants and allies. This includes Yotsuyu's hatred for her people to break the natives of Doma, Aulus mal Asina's scientific theory that would give Garleans the means to wield magicks, Fordola rem Lupis's desire to uplift her people to be accepted by the Garleans and to achieve the power to make all those who mocked her pay, and Asahi sas Brutus's zealous devotion to him. Nonetheless, despite most of them being loyal, they are expendable to Zenos.
[He appears in Asahi's vision (flashback), so following lines is him talking to Asahi] You are hereby appointed ambassador plenipotentiary, and empowered to speak with the voice of the Emperor. Return to your native land of Doma, and announce your intention to sue for peace.
When you have found her, you will initiate a ritual to call forth an eikon. I will instruct you in the necessary steps. Yotsuyu's faith is unreliable. But as a child raised to believe in the kami, she will serve as a vessel for one of the Kojin's gods. She need only wish it to be so.
The eikon is merely a message. The pacifist teachings of the Populares spread through this city like a plague, and I would remind the people of the threat we face. You will be my chosen agent -- the hand which tolls the warning bell. The salvation of this world will not be won through the signing of treaties.
Gosetsu is boisterous in his words and actions. Alisaie once commented that his voice was so striking it could "fell a Gigas". Despite this Gosetsu carries wisdom that he shares to those who feel lost, becoming a welcomed adviser to his young lord, Hien.
Gosetsu is proud of his nation to the point of refusing to acknowledge starvation in the face of imminent duty to his homeland. Behind this steadfast duty and loyalty to his nation Gosetsu feels guilty for the failed previous rebellion that killed Lord Kaien.
When the prospect of fighting for his nation is brought up, or simply fighting the Garlean Empire, hesitation turns into joyous agreement. Gosetsu is confident in his combat abilities, standing directly in front of the Warrior of Light when faced against a squadron of Garlean soldiers. Gosetsu is loyal to his friends, lord and comrades, willing to sacrifice himself to ensure their safety.
[After the Battle, after Yotsuyu is dead, mournful] She is gone. Wherefore did the kami spare us only to inflict this pain...?
[At the Enclave when he has trimmed his head] An old man who cannot raise his blade has no place in the service of a young lord. Thus did I decide to devote my remaining days to pilgrimage. I will walk this land, offering prayers of repose for all the souls who left this life in suffering.
[To Hien, briefly before his departure] I have faith that you will find the best path for Doma without me, my lord. Pray forgive me this last act of selfishness, and grant me your blessing. There is no better way to honor those who went before... And with that I take my leave!
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