wayward daughter

details

height: 145cm/4'9"

hair color: white

eye color: blue

va: rie murakawa

visual: turnaround

Alisaie is a small, delicate-looking girl who stands less than five feet tall and appears as if a stiff breeze would knock her over, which isn't too much of an exaggeration. She is an Elezen, a humanoid race directly analogous to Elves; at her adult height she will stand over six feet tall. She has fair skin, long, pointed ears, slender limbs and a slightly longer neck than might be considered proportional on a human teenager. Nothing if not androgynous, Alisaie is almost, but not quite the mirror image of her older twin Alphinaud; her hair falls to he left; and her right ear is pierced, and she wears a delta-shaped earring and silver cuff in it. Her hair is typically kept braided, and she wears a red ribbon at the end of her braid. There is an easy physicality about Alisaie: she is tomboyish and energetic, confident in her presence and movements, and occasionally extremely adolescent.

Perhaps as a consequence of spending much of her childhood dressed identically to her brother, Alisaie's style is determinedly individualistic. She favors reds and tans - warm colors - in contrast to the blacks and blues Alphinaud is usually seen in. Though her clothing is often utilitarian, designed to be moved and fought in and to offer her a measure of protection while so doing, their cuts discreetly but definitely suggest a growing ease and even a desire to be read at a glance as female, favoring shorts, skirts and long boots over pants and trousers. It's one area, at least, in which Alphinaud is unlikely to compete with her.

The guiding philosophy Alisaie abides by is one of compassion, justice and determination. She cares a whole lot, about everything, in a way that only a seventeen year old girl is capable of, and has yet to learn how to live with the contradictions and compromises of adult life. Her desire to travel was initially motivated by her love for her grandfather and desire to understand him better, then by her wish to live up to his legacy. Her anger about the inaction of politicians, her inability to walk away when she sees injustice done, her desire to fling herself into campaigns of liberation - it's all because she cares too much to walk away and pretend that she's seen nothing. The hypocrisies she perceives in the world infuriate her, and she ranks inaction in the face of oppression as almost unforgivable. It's a major reason for her rigidity of thought, her sharply critical views on lifestyles like piracy, and how difficult it is to change her mind once she's made it up. She simply doesn't understand how anybody could not care about how their actions affect others, and she isn't sure she wants to - and she won't pretend learning her friends and allies are also capable of such things won't change her mind about them. Loyal she may be, but not to the point of unreason.

There are only two things Alisaie claims she is better at than Alphinaud: swimming and fencing. Though she teases him mercilessly, joking that she only very occasionally considers him an older brother, it's obvious she cares deeply for her brother; it's also obvious that as much as she loves him she's also felt stifled by him in a way that's had a knock-on effect on her own confidence, and has desperately wanted to individualize herself from him for a while. She is a fiercely independent girl, however, and is very quick about stepping free of his shadow when it becomes obvious that his methods and hers are going to co-exist awkwardly at best. She sets out alone where Alphinaud throws himself into political machinations, intent on forging her own path, and she retains this streak of self-reliance after they are reunited. She is vocally skeptical about joining up with the Scions of the Seventh Dawn long after Alphinaud has established himself, initially wondering if by joining an established order instead of continuing to work alone she isn't making a mistake - and it's her fondness for the Warrior of Light that sees her staying.

At first glance, Alisaie seems more pragmatic than her higher-minded twin - but it's fairer to say that the Leveilleurs take it in turns to be the practical one than assume that she is entirely down to earth and he always has his head in the clouds. Alphinaud has a far better grasp on the intricacies of society, and understands that sometimes you simply have to learn to compromise your ideals and expectations to get the job done. Alisaie, however, has no time for such notions of subtlety, feeling that maybe the world isn't as simple as she likes it to be, but that's no reason to complicate herself; that she may be standing up to her ankles in muck, but that's no reason not to keep her own shoes clean. Her directness of approach, for all it often makes her a diplomat's worst nightmare, also makes her an extremely good person to have by your side when diplomacy fails and what you actually need is someone who'll cut the first person who gets in her way.

Though she is not easily shocked, Alisaie can be extremely adolescent in how she sees the world: for all she's seen and done, there remains something about her that hasn't quite been reality-tested. She's something of a rigid, black and white thinker and prone to jumping to conclusions even if she's well aware she doesn't quite have all the evidence yet. She is absolutely aware that reality doesn't work the way she thinks it ought to, and yet she firmly believes that's entirely the world's problem, and she is determined to keep flinging herself against it until it learns to shape up. Maturity and experience usually softens an attitude like hers at least a little, but even a well-read, well-traveled sixteen-year-old has their moments of being intensely sixteen.

Alisaie can be reckless, throwing herself into danger without really thinking too hard about the potential consequences - it isn't so much that she assumes nothing will go wrong as an assumption that whatever it is she'll be equal to it. Yes, she is going to fling herself screaming at a Garlean potentate, and she is going to stalk a group of suspicious strangers who are going round felling Primals, and she is absolutely going to find out what happened to her grandfather during the latest in a long line of Calamities. If that involves repeatedly breaking into an ancient Allagan facility full of kidnapped dragons and the ancient nightmare that is Bahamut, that's simply what she's going to have to do and there's no point lamenting overmuch about it. Should things really go wrong, however, she knows when to cut her losses and is more than prepared to do so - at least for a time. You can't save anybody if you're too dead to do it, and Alisaie intends on living for a good while yet.

combat

Though she starts out as an Arcanist like her brother, Alisaie moves away from strictly hands-off spellweaving and summoning to fight with an aetherial blade, then to study Red Magic. This school of magic involves the use of a rapier to inflict close-range damage, as well as both destructive and restorative magic. Though Red Mages are not as skilled in any one discipline as a specialist would be, they have the advantage of flexibility and increased physicality - both things that suit Alisaie far more than standing back and staying out of the fight. Though initially untutored in fencing, with no innate skill with a rapier, she both wants and needs to take a hands-on approach, and becomes far more confident in her own abilities once she definitively moves away from doing as Alphinaud does and starts playing to her own strengths.

family

louisoix

fourchenault

ameliance

alphinaud

» sharlayan

The younger child of Sharlayan dignitary and Forum member Fourchenault Leveilleur and his wife, Ameliance, Alisaie was born in the city-state's satellite colony in the Dravanian hinterlands. Yet, with war with the expansionist Garlean empire looming, the twins spent no more than their first year in Coerthas before the conflict-averse Sharlayan scholars voted to evacuate the city entirely rather than risk themselves in trying to defend it. Leaving a handful of holdouts to remain in Dravania, the Leveilleurs fled back to the Northern Empty, to the family estate in the city-state proper.

Too young to remember the exodus, Alisaie spent her childhood and adolescence in the Sharlayan motherland. She never quite fit in there, feeling herself very much in her brother's shadow, and her active, tomboyish nature was not always welcomed in the child of a prominent family from a city-state of scholars. Though her own intelligence is prodigious, she was never quite Alphinaud, and it told on her: though both were accepted to the prestigious Studium at a mere twelve summers, it took Alisaie six moons more than her brother, and she's never quite been able to forget that and see the feat for what it was. She believed herself unpopular at school, certainly compared to Alphinaud who was something of a Studium idol, and does not remember her time there with any particular fondness.

The one person Alisaie did not feel spent most of their time wishing she was more like her brother was her grandfather, Archon Louisoix Leveilleur, and she was devoted to him. He never tried to censure her candor, and she frequently accompanied him on trips. When he decided to travel to Eorzea, and it seemed that nothing she could say swayed him from his course, she was devastated. That he died on the fields of Cartenau during the Calamity that saw the lesser moon, Dalamud, fall from the sky and release the elder primal Bahamut, only made her feelings of abandonment all the keener. Years after his death, she still felt Louisoix's loss quite bitterly, and became determined to see for herself the place he had given up everything for. Perhaps, in that way, she could come to understand it.

» eorzea

If Eorzea was inevitable, that it was a disappointment was equally so. The discovery that the land her grandfather had died to save was even now a barely-cohesive mess, a cauldron of old resentments, petty grievances and endless division, was profoundly disillusioning. Though she had traveled there with Alphinaud, she soon grew deeply disenchanted with him, too, abandoning their shared journey to seek her own answers. Soon, she came to believe that she might have found them. Determined to learn the true fate of Bahamut, who vanished in the Calamity's wake, she convinced her brother's steadfast ally, the Warrior of Light, to join her in her investigation of a mysterious facility beneath the Garlean garrison at Castrum Occidens.

It was there, some thousands of yalms beneath the surface, Alisaie learned the truth about the Calamity, and the role Louisoix had played in averting it. Transcending into the form of the Primal Phoenix, Louisoix had fought and apparently killed Bahamut at Cartenau - only to fall victim to Bahamut's corrupting influence even at the brink of death. Living on as Bahamut's thrall, it takes the forces of both Alisaie and Alphinaud, along with the Warrior of Light, to break Bahamut's hold on Louisoix and banish the Elder Primal once and for all. Finally coming not only to understand what Louisoix had strived for, and to hold that dream as her own, Alisaie decides that she will continue her travels alone for a time longer. While on the road, she learns that Alphinaud and the Warrior of Light were in grave trouble of their own: though there was nothing she could do to prevent it, she was at least able to aid them in their escape.

After learning the art of Red Magic, and enduring the loss of a new friend, Alisaie heard tell of the adventures of a group calling themselves the Warriors of Darkness. Discovered by the group, she was struck by a poisoned arrow and brought to Ishgard by Thancred Waters for treatment. Once she was back on her feet, she announced her intentions to at last join the Scions. She, Alphinaud and the Warrior of Light are sent to La Noscea to investigate a spate of crystal thefts, where they run into the Kobold child Ga Bu. Desperate to stop the summoning of the primal Titan after his parents are taken away to serve as sacrifices to the god, Ga Bu has turned to the soldiers of the Maelstrom for help. With the group arriving too late to prevent the sacrifices, a despairing Ga Bu inadvertently summons Titan, becoming tempered in the process. Guilt-stricken by her failure to save the child and his family, Alisaie convinced the Maelstrom to spare Ga Bu's life and take him in, in hope that a way could be found to save him.

» scion

From this point onward, Alisaie took an active role in the Scions of the Seventh Dawn's activites, assisting in the campaigns to liberate Doma and Ala Mhigo. Wounded by Imperial officer Fordola rem Lupis in the battle for Castrum Abania, Alisaie was forced to sit the climax of the campaign out. She was recovered enough to travel back to Doma with the Warrior of Light in the wake of their victory, where Alphinaud decided to accompany a Garlean diplomatic contingent back to the Empire. Much to Alisaie's alarm, all contact with him was lost shortly after his departure, and the Scions begun to fall prey to a mysterious illness that left its victims catatonic. Soon, Alisaie was the only one left unaffected: even Alphinaud fell victim before they could be reunited, and was brought back to them unconscious. As the only Scion standing, she represented the group in parlay with Garlemald and fought with the Warrior of Light at the Battle of the Ghimlyt Dark - but, at battle's end, she too fell prey to the affliction, leaving the Warrior of Light alone.

Alisaie awakened to find herself in a strange parallel world, that of the First, having been summoned there by a mysterious man known only as the Crystal Exarch. Her soul, like that of the other Scions, now existed on the First as a sort of corporeal ghost. Though Calamity loomed again on her own world, the First was in no better shape: bedeviled by a flood of primal light, what little land remained untouched by the flood was harried by monsters called Sin Eaters and had not seen night in a hundred years. Vowing to help in whatever way she could, Alisaie left the Crystarium and traveled to a sanitarium known as the Inn at Journey's Head, where she served as a guard. During the year she spent there, she became close to the young caregiver Tesleen, whose mother had been attacked by a Sin Eater but had chosen euthanasia at the Inn over transformation and living death.

When Tesleen was attacked and turned by a Sin Eater shortly after the arrival of the Warrior of Light, Alisaie returned to the Crystarium, hoping that along with the other Scions they would be able to find a true solution to the First's problems. After Sin Eaters, with the transformed Tesleen among them, attacked the village of Holminster Switch, Alisaie went after them to put Tesleen to rest. Learning that the Warrior of Light has the power to restore night to the world, and that staving off calamity on the First would avert it on the Source, the group travelled the land as the Warriors of Darkness. There, they discovered the cause of the Flood, and the secrets of the Ascians, a group whose motives had until then been largely hypothesized. It was here, on the First, that Alisaie discovered what she hoped would prove to be a cure to tempering, and she returned home with high hopes - hopes which paid off when the Kobold child Ga Bu was the first of many to be freed from primal influence and restored to himself.

» sharlayan

The discovery of a cure for tempering came just in time. After the deaths of his compatriots, the Ascian Fandaniel went rogue, setting in motion the Final Days - the same events that had doomed the Ascians' civilization millennia before. The nation-states of Eorzea banded together to face this new threat, but an appeal to Sharlayan for aid was turned down by none other than Alphinaud and Alisaie's father, Fourchenault. When the twins try to convince him of the need to take action, he disowns them. Though the Eorzean Alliance and the Scions attempted to press on alone, it soon became apparent that there was no way to combat the threat of the Final Days without the knowledge that was held in Sharlayan. Knowing that a frosty reception awaited them on arrival, the Scions and the Warrior of Light nonetheless determine to travel there, in the hope that some way can be found to quiet the coming storm...

[Spoilers for Endwalker from this point onward. Continue at the Final Fantasy Wiki.]

✶ Final Fantasy XIV: A Primer
✶ Alisaie Leveilleur at the Final Fantasy Wiki

✶ Side Story: In Louisoix’s Wake
✶ Side Story: A Malm in Her Shoes
✶ Side Story: A Calm After the Storm

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