Yesuntei. She now refuses to travel back to the Steppe, as the only memory that now replays is of the hunt party that she and Amintha saved, and the realisation that it included the family she had cut contact with.

BdMt but it's far more developed in BloodMint.) Though claiming to miss her, her mother showed no attempt to reconnect, and her sisters were just as harsh and mean as in their youth. They favoured Amintha more for her strength as WoL, which turned her cold just as they were cold towards-

slowly believed no one would listen to her and 'exiled herself' (ran away). She was right to think, though, that her family would accept it far too quickly and carry on as if they had one less daughter.

Even after maturing, she still feared returning to the Steppe during MSQ. (Both in TSS and-

a complicated relationship with her parents, family, and tribe as a whole. They claimed to care for her, a public mask, but her Mother was cold, Father distant, and sisters bullies. So she tried to prove her worth as Khatun in training. But dead set in tradition as a scared, closeted kid, she-

told her in the Aetherial Sea, that while just as worried as Parah, they were proud of what she'd become.

that day legally adopted her a few weeks later, where to this day they have a great relationship, even if the reality of the frontline can strain it. (see: Parah fearing Ari pushing herself too far anytime she returns from combat injured)

Her bio parents still watch over her, noted by what they-

I get Void Ark on Ari and Mhach on Amintha for the first weekly mogtomes, which I'm fine with the content, just not with the fact that it takes like 40 mins to queue because people are too busy farming Omega for optimal tome per minute

update it's been 45mins and I've had enough

to her, it was the best thing she could feel at that time.

She promptly got herself together in 3.2 (see: Thancred and Emmanellain cutscene) and while development was slow, she'd become the Lalafell she is today sometime at the start of Stormblood.

die. Someone had to avenge Haurchefant, and only Ari had the martial prowess to do so. She was still angry, but the closer they got to Azys Lla, the more she manifested that anger onto Thordan, and that trial was sheer catharsis.

She felt nothing, but it came with a burden off her shoulders, and-

anger manifested elsewhere.

The self-deemed failure summoned a knife and shot it right through her wrist.

Why her wrist? So many other places could have been quick and painless, but maybe she missed her mark with how she shook from anger and fear and hunger, or maybe she didn't actually want to-

struggle to process fuelling her self neglect. But then the depression swallowed her, wanting to sleep forever to get rid of those thoughts. She was angry at herself, knowing that she could have done something to save him. She deemed her premonition a curse. She didn't deserve such sacrifice. That-

her); though, with no one in Ishgard knowing what happened at the Banquet, she had never talked about it, so that trauma festered for a pretty long time, no matter how many dragons she tried killing to sate that feeling. Then the Vault happened. She was catatonic for a good couple days, the-