Backstory

Hailing from a rather influential family in Sharlayan, Vares had his life set in stone since he was born. Alchemy and aether study was all he could recall from his childhood, along with his little brother Claude. The intensive study however, was proven to be too much for him, and he began to fail on his teenage years, something that would bring conflict with his father in the following years. He found solace in befriending a lalafell named Anana Nana (who was rumored to be related to a member of the Syndicate), who has been his childhood friend and classmate in Studium.

He yearned to break free from his life, but found himself unable to do so as being in academia was something he only know, and reluctantly climbed his career up as a Studium's Aetherology professor.

While his career was doing fine on the surface, he would often experience breakdown on his time alone. Isolation and mountain of works drove him mad, and as a way to relieve himself, he would often make an imaginary scenario to kill someone, especially his own father.

At 50, Vares decided he had enough of his academia life and stormed off from Sharlayan. With Nana's help, he managed to land an illegal job as a body disposer in a assassination agency called Chronos. He worked flawlessly using his Alchemy skill (and ironically, his culinary skill). With the secretive nature of his job, Vares had to stay indoor all day and had grown paler. Still, it was a job he would take any day than his Studium' job

It was during this time he met Rigel, who was also Nana's associate. It didn't take long for them to eloped. But those who know them knew that there was something unusual between them...

As he used his knowledge in aether manipulation and alchemy to work, he soon found himself able to replicate the rumored potion 'Fantasia', which properties can permanently change one's aether composition, or to put it simply, body. His research was still imperfect however, and it would be a long, arduous journey.When he was testing his potion, he would often assume the form of a young xaela woman. He often used this opportunity to act spoiled (and clingy) around Rigel.

Vares sometime helped in the club run by Chronos as a mixologist on the weekend, a skill he didn't know he had thanks to all that brewing and mixing potions in the lab. To make sure that nobody recognized him, he either drank his own potion, or dressed up as a woman.

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