IDENTIFICATION —

“ The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of them all. “

Full Name: Sayuri Yuzuka

Pronunciation: Saa-Yew-Ree You-Zoo-Ka

Pseudonym: N/A

Nicknames: Give her some?

Age: Twenty Four

Name Day: 18th Sun of the 5th Astral Moon

Birthplace: Unknown, found as a babe in Gridania

Guardian: Thaliak, The Scholar

REFERENCES —

“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”

Motto:

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”― J.K. Rowling

Theme Song: “Here” by JUNNA

Face Claim: (Candice Swanepoel, Amber Heard)

STATS —

“I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.”

Gender: Female

Race: Au’Ra | Raen

Height: 4 Fulm, 9 Ilm

Weight: 110 Ponze

Eyes: Colorless, Bright White

Hair: Blonde

Skin:  Porcelain

Build: Lithe, Toned.

Scars: Various scars marring her hands from carving arrows.

Tattoos/Marks: None.

At First Glance (+5)

❁ Bathed in sunlight

❁ Eyes that have no color, are kind

❁ Her dress is very short, no pants beneath

❁ On the shorter side, toned physique

❁ Carries a bow on her back

FACTS —

“I don’t know when we’ll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.”

Occupation: Wood Wailer, Adventurer

Specialties: Soup, Flirting Harmlessly

Skills: Archery, Tracking, Gardening and is learning Herbology, Singing, Dancing

PROFICIENCY —

“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”

Education: Basic, learned from merchants and adventurers that wandered through Gridania.

Favored Weapon(s): Dual bladed bow

Secondary Weapon(s): Teeth and Nails.

Magic Abilities: Has none that she’s aware of.

Magic Strengths: ???

RELATIONS —

“He was like a song I’d heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”

Sexual Preference: Pansexual

Romantic Identification: Monogamous

Relationship Status: Single

Sweet on: —

Alignment: Neutral Good

Allies: Give her some.

Enemies: Any who threaten herself or those she loves.

FAMILY —

“None of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.”

Maternal: Unknown

Patrental: Unknown

Mentor: Mother Miounne

Associates: Wood Wailers

MENTALITY —

“If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.”

Social Level: Moderate. Is polite and tries to be considerate of the other party. A bit timid, has not had much world experience.

Optimistic View(s): Believes everything happens for a reason.

Pessimistic View(s): Family does not always love you unconditionally.

One Positive Personality Trait: Loyal.

One Negative Personality Trait: Naive.

One Personality Warning: Obsessive. Due to growing up without a lot, when she wants something she wants it, and will think of nothing else unless it is within her grasp.

Random Quirk: Will zone out at random intervals, mostly when she’s thinking too hard.

Hobbies: People watching, reading, picking flowers, shooting her bow.

Addictions: Applying lavender oil to her body.

Habits: Taking extremely long baths, twisting fingers when nervous, brushing the hair from her features.

Pleasures: Scratching behind her horns, simple touches, gestures of kindness, sweets.

Appreciates (List 5+)

❁ A Good Book

❁ Pillows (literally all the pillows)

❁ Sincere Words

❁ Stargazing

❁ Hitting Her Mark

❁ Cinnamon Buns

Dislikes (List 5+)

❁ Feeling Cold

❁ Evenings (for it means the end of another day)

❁ Bullies

❁ Spicy Food

❁ Vomit

Strengths (List 5+)

❁ Knowledgeable in Medicinal Herbs

❁ Gentle outside of battle, viscous in.

❁ Loyal to those who earn it

❁ Childish

❁ Looks to see the good in the world

Weaknesses (List 5+)

❁ Takes Unnecessary Risks

❁ Childish

❁ Does not always think decisions through

❁ Inexperienced in many aspects

❁ Was abandoned and knows little of where she’s from

Fears (List 5+)

❁ Spiders and Scorpions (she’s terrified of them, don’t even mention them)

❁ Being Abandoned

❁ Drowning

❁ Having a broken heart

❁ Dying Alone

FAVORITES ––

“Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.”

Favorite Food(s): Grilled Salmon

Favorite Drink(s): Water.

Favorite Scent(s): Lavender and Rose.

Favorite Colors: Yellow, a soft pastel pink, baby blue.

TRIVIA -

- She’ll chase animals across fields just so that she can pet them.

- Occasionally you’ll find her running into walls or doors - she just does not pay attention sometimes, caught up in her thoughts.

- As a child, someone told her she smelled and ever since, she constantly applies floral scents to her being.

- She’s a sucker for breath taking views; cliffs, fields, near bodies of water. All are places she’s most likely to be found.

OOC -

Server: Mateus

Timezone: EST

Mun: etherealkikwi.tumblr.com

Experience: I’ve been roleplaying for nearly 14 years. I am terrible at MMO’s and fighting, but I play for the story; I’ve been a part of the FFXIV community for a year. Been on multiple forums and platforms.

Type of RP: Anything that is previously discussed and both parties consent to.

Looking for: Friends, maybe a lover? Ha. GIMME DEM INTERACTIONS.

In the Oceans, the Volume Is Rising as Never Before Although clown fish are conceived on coral reefs, they spend the first part of their lives as larvae drifting in the open ocean. The fish are not yet orange, striped or even capable of swimming. They are still plankton, a term that comes from the Greek word for “wanderer,” and wander they do, drifting at the mercy of the currents in an oceanic rumspringa. When the baby clown fish grow big enough to swim against the tide, they high-tail it home. The fish can’t see the reef, but they can hear its snapping, grunting, gurgling, popping and croaking. These noises make up the soundscape of a healthy reef, and larval fish rely on these soundscapes to find their way back to the reefs, where they will spend the rest of their lives — that is, if they can hear them. But humans — and their ships, seismic surveys, air guns, pile drivers, dynamite fishing, drilling platforms, speedboats and even surfing — have made the ocean an unbearably noisy place for marine life, according to a sweeping review of the prevalence and intensity of the impacts of anthropogenic ocean noise published on Thursday in the journal Science. The paper, a collaboration among 25 authors from across the globe and various fields of marine acoustics, is the largest synthesis of evidence on the effects of oceanic noise pollution. “They hit the nail on the head,” said Kerri Seger, a senior scientist at Applied Ocean Sciences who was not involved with the research. “By the third page, I was like, ‘I’m going to send this to my students.’” Anthropogenic noise often drowns out the natural soundscapes, putting marine life under immense stress. In the case of baby clown fish, the noise can even doom them to wander the seas without direction, unable to find their way home. “The cycle is broken,” said Carlos Duarte, a marine ecologist at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia and the lead author on the paper. “The soundtrack of home is now hard to hear, and in many cases has disappeared.” Drowning out the signals In the ocean, visual cues disappear after tens of yards, and chemical cues dissipate after hundreds of yards. But sound can travel thousands of miles and link animals across oceanic basins and in darkness, Dr. Duarte said. As a result, many marine species are impeccably adapted to detect and communicate with sound. Dolphins call one another by unique names. Toadfish hum. Bearded seals trill. Whales sing. Scientists have been aware of underwater anthropogenic noise, and how far it propagates, for around a century, according to Christine Erbe, the director of the Center for Marine Science and Technology at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, and an author on the paper. But early research on how noise might affect marine life focused on how individual large animals responded to temporary noise sources, such as a whale taking a detour around oil rigs during its migration. The new study maps out how underwater noise affects countless groups of marine life, including zooplankton and jellyfish. “The extent of the problem of noise pollution has only recently dawned on us,” Dr. Erbe wrote in an email. The idea for the paper came to Dr. Duarte seven years ago. He had been aware of the importance of ocean sound for much of his long career as an ecologist, but he felt that the issue was not recognized on a global scale. Dr. Duarte found that the scientific community that focused on ocean soundscapes was relatively small and siloed, with marine mammal vocalizations in one corner, and underwater seismic activity, acoustic tomography and policymakers in other, distant corners. “We’ve all been on our little gold rushes,” said Steve Simpson, a marine biologist at the University of Exeter in England and an author on the paper. Dr. Duarte wanted to bring together the various corners to synthesize all the evidence they had gathered into a single conversation; maybe something this grand would finally result in policy changes. The authors screened more than 10,000 papers to ensure they captured every tendril of marine acoustics research from the past few decades, according to Dr. Simpson. Patterns quickly emerged demonstrating the detrimental effects that noise has on almost all marine life. “With all that research, you realize you know more than you think you know,” he said. Dr. Simpson has studied underwater bioacoustics — how fish and marine invertebrates perceive their environment and communicate through sound — for 20 years. Out in the field, he became accustomed to waiting for a passing ship to rumble by before going back to work studying the fish. “I realized, ‘Oh wait, these fish experience ships coming by every day,’” he said. Marine life can adapt to noise pollution by swimming, crawling or oozing away from it, which means some animals are more successful than others. Whales can learn to skirt busy shipping lanes and fish can dodge the thrum of an approaching fishing vessel, but benthic creatures like slow-moving sea cucumbers have little recourse. If the noise settles in more permanently, some animals simply leave for good. When acoustic harassment devices were installed to deter seals from preying on salmon farms in the Broughton Archipelago in British Columbia, killer whale populations declined significantly until the devices were removed, according to a 2002 study. These forced evacuations reduce population sizes as more animals give up territory and compete for the same pools of resources. And certain species that are bound to limited biogeographic ranges, such as the endangered Maui dolphin, have nowhere else to go. “Animals can’t avoid the sound because it’s everywhere,” Dr. Duarte said. Even temporary sounds can cause chronic hearing damage in the sea creatures unlucky enough to be caught in the acoustic wake. Both fish and marine mammals have hair cells, sensory receptors for hearing. Fish can regrow these cells, but marine mammals probably cannot. Luckily, unlike greenhouse gases or chemicals, sound is a relatively controllable pollutant. “Noise is about the easiest problem to solve in the ocean,” Dr. Simpson said. “We know exactly what causes noise, we know where it is, and we know how to stop it.” In search of quiet Many solutions to anthropogenic noise pollution already exist, and are even quite simple. “Slow down, move the shipping lane, avoid sensitive areas, change propellers,” Dr. Simpson said. Many ships rely on propellers that cause a great deal of cavitation: Tiny bubbles form around the propeller blade and produce a horrible screeching noise. But quieter designs exist, or are in the works. “Propeller design is a very fast-moving technological space,” Dr. Simpson said. Other innovations include bubble curtains, which can wrap around a pile driver and insulate the sound. The researchers also flagged deep-sea mining as an emergent industry that could become a major source of underwater noise, and suggested that new technologies could be designed to minimize sound before commercial mining starts. The authors hope the review connects with policymakers, who have historically ignored noise as a significant anthropogenic stressor on marine life. The United Nations Law of the Sea B.B.N.J. agreement, a document that manages biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction, does not mention noise among its list of cumulative impacts. The U.N.’s 14th sustainable development goal, which focuses on underwater life, does not explicitly mention noise, according to Dr. Seger of Applied Ocean Sciences. “The U.N. had an ocean noise week where they sat down and listened to it and then went on to another topic,” she said. The paper in Science went through three rounds of editing, the last of which occurred after Covid-19 had created many unplanned experiments: Shipping activity slowed down, the oceans fell relatively silent, and marine mammals and sharks returned to previously noisy waterways where they were rarely seen. “Recovery can be almost immediate,” Dr. Duarte said. Alive with sound A healthy ocean is not a silent ocean — hail crackling into white-crested waves, glaciers thudding into water, gases burbling from hydrothermal vents, and countless creatures chittering, rasping and singing are all signs of a normal environment. One of the 20 authors on the paper is the multimedia artist Jana Winderen, who created a six-minute audio track that shifts from a healthy ocean — the calls of bearded seals, snapping crustaceans and rain — to a disturbed ocean, with motorboats and pile driving. A year ago, while studying invasive species in sea grass meadows in waters near Greece, Dr. Duarte was just about to come up for air when he heard a horrendous rumble above him: “a huge warship on top of me, going at full speed.” He stayed glued to the seafloor until the navy vessel passed, careful to slow down his breathing and not deplete his tank. Around 10 minutes later, the sound ebbed and Dr. Duarte was able to come up safely for air. “I have sympathy for these creatures,” he said. When warships and other anthropogenic noises cease, sea grass meadows have a soundscape entirely their own. In the daytime, the photosynthesizing meadows generate tiny bubbles of oxygen that wobble up the water column, growing until they burst. All together, the bubble blasts make a scintillating sound like many little bells, beckoning larval fish to come home. Source link Orbem News #Oceans #rising #Volume