Austrex Van-argus
Age: 37
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 190 Ibs
Homeland: Gyr Abania
Sexuality: sapiosexual
"war is an inevitability, that's what ala mhigo taught me, so why indulge our enemy you ask...? Because we must forever march forward unto the front to fight for what we believe in!"~austrex upon the bozjan reclamation front.
Before the fall of ala mhigo
"I remember my days with alixian, days happier than they became, and now all I can wonder... would he understand what I had to do...?"~ Austrex in his memoirs
Before the fall of ala mhigo austrex was born to parents in ala ghiri, his mother was a warm hearted and kind woman. If only too forgiving. His father was a wood processor, and he was a monster, he hated the idea of having a child, he never wanted austrex and deemed austrex incapable of being a "real man" as he put it. And always he would beat Austrex until his mother stepped in and took the blows for Him. It was around this time when Austrex had recieved the scar upon his cheek, when he watched this father beat his mother he finally snapped and tried to attack his father who struck him with a powerful backhand, sending the teenager flying with a huge scar on his cheek. One that never left his cheek or his mind as it was left by his Father's family crest ring. Which he claimed he would never get and these days went on like this until austrex learned of his soon to be sibling. For his mother had fallen pregnant once more. And his father had only become more violent. Austrex swore no matter what he would protect his sibling.
After the birth of his younger sibling, austrex had taken to being the father figure for alixian despite being only 8 years apart in age. Often, he would take alixian to the woods and explore, showing him the beauty that nature behold. The preservation of it being important and the love of his homeland being important but more importantly the love of family. Every day, he would be beaten by his father while alixian hid. And each day, he felt more and more broken, and one day, even alixian stood up to protect austrex. And whether through a sense of guilt of the fact of alixians age and his tears, their father ignored him and walked off. From that day on, the brothers would protect and love each other. But these golden days of love and family... would not last.
The taking of Ala Mhigo
"The skies had glowed red with fire and smoke, the whole world had felt slow as I tried to find alixian... and only horror and tragedy did I find"~Austrex in his memoirs
The day was normal at first, a day where austrex and alixian, now 14 and 6 respectively, had decided to leave the house to avoid their fathers drunken stupor austrex chose to take his brother to the big city, to ala mhigo. This was always such a good time to them both. Austrex loved seeing alixians smile when they went, and when they arrived, alixian asked if he could go to a nearby toy shop with some gil he had saved, and of course, austrex agreed. They pair had split up. If only they had known.
With a thundering boom, the walls of ala mhigo had came down and in stormed the garleans. Magitek armor and all in toe, the ala mhigans hadn't even seen it coming. As masses of people ran for their lives austrex fought against the flow, trying to find alixian, and as he did eventually his head was hit as he got knocked over. As he lay amid the rubble and stampeding people he saw a small figure lying on the ground and in desperation he crawled over to them, he tried to get closer and closer to the body, multiple people crushing his hands and fingers under foot as they broke him. Soon though he got to the crumbled form of alixian, his eyes empty and void and blood upon his head a toy in his hand. Austrex felt his world shatter he lost everything, he broke and lost track of what happened. Afterwards. Everything went blank.
A prisoner of war
"I felt nothing, I felt empty, like part of who I was was ripped from my very being, they stole my culture, my family, even my name last name, I will forever hate them... but at the time I had to blend and survive"~austrex in his memoirs
After the fall of ala mhigo, austrex had blacked out in a blind rage. He attacked many garlean soldiers with his farming tools, killed a few in what equates to civilian clothing and impressed gaius van baelsar. While he was impressed, he realized that this boy needed to be punished for his crimes against the garleans, so he handed him over too Vitus quo messala, and this choice would forever alter austrex's life further. In his blacked out state He had Austrex grafted with magitek devices to track him at all times. Branding them directly into his flesh around his neck, his wrist, and his fingers. So that he could never rip them out or have them removed. He was punished by being beaten, branded, and broken, a branding permanently planted upon his forhead as he was indoctrinated into the alaudae.
Among his prison austrex came upon a fundamental truth, life became meaningless, that the strong survive and the weak fall. He knew he would do whatever it took to survive and something broke within him.
Stripped of his birth name, his homeland, and his family austrex began to commit atrocities in the name of garlemald and in the hopes he would be freed under Vitus. He was taught the skills of a mechanist from the garleans. and worked his way to the ranks. Proving especially effective at manipulating magitek engines and tech. Creating his very own motorbike to travel on.
He became cold, distant, even heartless at times all in the name of his safety and hope for freedom but he never forgot alixian. Never forgot the brother who had laid dead in his arms. And he wondered each day... had he made the right decision?
Time and time again, he brought his blade down upon the innocents of Eorzea. And each time tore him to pieces. He felt like he was only serving to soil alixians memory and he could not bear the agony. So he hoped and waited for a way out.
But months later there would come a time where Vitus quo mesalla made a GRAVE error.
As luck would have it, during an attack upon a small city he was sent to simply subjugate, Vitus committed atrocities that shocked even his fellow garleans, costing him a rank later on. But in the ensuing chaos as vitss had lost himself in the moment. Austrex saw an opening. And ran as fast as he could.
On the run
"and so I ran, I ran and ran and ran until my lungs burned and my bones ached. But I ran into the lands of the alliance a place I'd never been in my life... and here I found salvation and home" ~Austrex's memoirs
Austrex had spent ages on the run, being chased down by garleans and escaping only to run again, spilling blood and getting caught again then running. And everyday he kept this up until finally reaching the forests of gridania, where he met two men who would change his life. The first was cid. The genius magitek developer from garlean who deserted, after he heard about austrex's story he agreed to help with the trackers and he deactivated them, though he could never remove them as according to him, his trackers were part of his flesh and if he removed them he would bleed out too quickly. But austrex did not grieve this as it was a reminder of the mistakes he had made. After so much suffering he has sown though what now? He can do little to make up for his actions. That is he thought until he met radovan.
Path of the Gunbreaker
After meeting the bozjan gunbreaker radovan he learned a truth about rhe blade, that it is a tool that can be used to protect in place of kill. He went under radovans tutelage and inevitably became a master gunbreaker.
Autrex swore upon alixians memory, he would forever protect and serve the innocent, to use his blade not to kill but to defend. And he has stuck to it. Though he has not yet found the one he is meant to love he is far to busy with life to seek it. However he knows one day he will find it. Now a 30 year old man he forever keeps the memory of Alixian in his heart and protects those he meets
"Even if it seems all but hopeless I shall fight to prorect the people of this land! Until the very moment my face hits the ground! I will fight!!!"
"My dearest little brother, would you be proud of me? Would you be proud of what I have become?"
