Character Scars - What's Your Story?

Getting the TLDR out of the way up front: If your character has a scar, how did they get it?

While attending some Eternal Bonding ceremonies lately, I noticed that quite a few players have opted to give their characters visible scars. This surprised me a little, and I can't help but wondering how their characters got the scars. All scars tell a story, and I'm curious to know what it is.

In games that allow character creation, I generally avoid scars because I feel like the interesting aspects of a character's life lies ahead them in the game, not in their past. There are, of course, good reasons why someone could have a scar but still be a low-skilled fledgling at the start of their in-game story.

Since I am not a legacy character, I had to decide what my character was doing when the Calamity struck. The scar my character bears upon his left cheek comes from that day when Bahamut wrought destruction upon the land. An explosion near Percimont knocked him from his feet, and he landed face down upon the ground, gashing his cheek in the process. The wound healed, but a scar remained.

The correct answer: I don't know but it makes me look badass.

wrote it down on my lodestone character page

Gralna Kelgor

tl;dr she got it when her teleportation gem exploded and a fragment sliced open her cheek and scratched her eye.

Cat got feisty

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Originally Posted by Jynx

The correct answer: I don't know but it makes me look badass.

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"Maybe you should stop picking your nose!"

hehe :p

The story behind my choice of scars is that he was an unwanted child. His tribe never accepted him, and sometime in his childhood (this is just a light rp thingy I made up so no dates or anything) his father "branded" him by scaring him on each side on his face. This kind of branding was a sign that the individual was banished from the tribe, never to return.

Kitty has a single, thin scar on her cheek because, as it just so turns out, rabbits DO have claws, and WILL use them when cornered. Talk about learning that prey will fight back the hard way!

I made a back story for my char back in beta, must be posted somewhere, well my char got the scar when he was knocked right at the start of the Battle of Carteneau by a garlean soldier, yes... he did a great job.

Tripped on a rock.

It was a very immersed experience.

I always headcanon'd that my character was living the rough life before coming to Eorzea.

On some Island that was regularly accosted by pirates and monsters. Got the scar across his eye from one monster raiding the village, and the ones on his cheek from general clashing with ne'erdowells.

The scar on his eye left it discolored but functional. (I lined up the scar and colored the eye for that effect, rather than wanting some sort of heterochromia nonsense).


Joke was on me though, eyepatches can ONLY go on the side with his good eye! Alas, he will always be looking at people with his bad eye as well.

Had a run-in with a Coeurl when BP was a kid. Got him right across the face, but he was rescued by a wandering adventurer. That event caused him to look into wanting to help people by fighting those who would do them harm. Without that event, BP would never have joined the Immortal Flames and he never would have been the adventurer he is today. Instead, he'd likely be a Ceruleum technician like his parents.

C'mell is a tank, who doesn't like wearing a helmet... it restricts her view, keeps her from being able to protect everyone in the party as efficiently as she'd like. So she came into the game with the scar across her eye, which she got on her squire quest long ago. When she was fighting Ultima Weapon, she got the scar on her cheek. (There was this bottle of Fantasia sitting around doing nothing, and I wanted to commemorate finishing the main quest line).

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Originally Posted by Jynx

The correct answer: I don't know but it makes me look badass.

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You nailed it. They come from the same country as hipsterglasses withouth prescription and fedora hats.

A one on one match with 13 Magitek Vanguards during the Calamity war. I was distracted by the moon hatching and one of em got me right across the face. I retaliated with a swift blow to all of the main systems at once, totally destroying them and saving a bunch of orphans, kittens, puppies and a baby behemoth who where all just there.

...okay. I just fell head first into a pile of sword at 5.
Behemoth part's true though. Mostly.

As my character is named after the protagonist of my book, I'd say his scars come from the same source.(Although can't give scars anywhere aside from the face :< ). so let's say a Black Dragon.

My only scar is in my heart. ;_;

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Originally Posted by Cyrus-Wallace

My only scar is in my heart. ;_;

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So deep. /tissue.

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Originally Posted by Cyrus-Wallace

My only scar is in my heart. ;_;

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Well no RP reason but im a highlander. Meaning I have no eyebrows. So I have a scar on one eye and an eye patch on the other so the lack of eye brows is less noticeable.

I main the Tank-Classes since Beta and those are Battle Scars. One is for beating Ultima,one for Titan HM and the third for T5.

I got the Eyepatch from beating T9,and the White Hair is due to all the Battles fought and the Stress of beeing a Tank :p . They were black at the Beginning...

I always thought "If you main Tank,it has to Show on your Body/Face"

I got shot by an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle...I mean......an icicle

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Originally Posted by Velox

I got shot by an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle...I mean......an icicle

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You're lucky it didn't cut your eye! Those icicles have been known to kill people.

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Originally Posted by Evergrey

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Someone who loved you died and cannot pass on therefore must cling to u and slowly hug u into submission.
Right in the kokoro as the saying goes XD

But yea i think a lot of miqote got it from itching their eyes ;)

There once was a Tia who wanted to be a Nunh, sadly he couldn't beat his tribe's Nunh, so he left to start his own. However, no females wished to follow him, so he did the only thing he could...he kidnapped many a young miqo'te to begin his own tribe. Some punishment had to be dealt to put her and the others into line. Many years passed before the young adventurer, J'esshica would be freed and then make her way to Ul'dah to start her journey as an adventurer to become a Warrior of Light possessor of The Echo!

Got it when I selected it from the character creation screen and logged in for the first time :O

I wanted to look cool and tough so I cut my face with a knife and picked at the scabs so that I'll form these baddass scars

My scar I put some thought into (after the initial 'cool! lets add scars!') xD

The silver eye, with a scar through it, gives an ability to see aether without glasses that Scions use. Scar is from a zealous bird that decided to attack that eye. Often wears sunglasses, since a lot of areas are filled with magic users and it gets overwhelming.

He claims he got it in a training accident.
He doesn't like to talk about it.

Fell off the stairs but i always told everyone that i got it from solo S rank monster.

My scar was added between 1.0 and 2.0, I rolled it into the life of my character.

Holy Dragoon earned her scar during the Fall of Dalamud, in the tense battles defending the people of Eorzea. When the red moon fell, a Dalamud fragment nearly took her head clean off. She was lucky to escape with merely a scar. The eye was spared during the incident, but sometimes Holy swears she can see the mother crystal.

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Got it when I selected it from the character creation screen and logged in for the first time :O

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I was going to say this very same response until I saw yours. Anyway, got mine when I logged in for the first time and made a character.

Arcturius had a scarless face as he trampled the evils of eorzea. There was only one enemy that gave him a challenge. And that was Nael Dues Darnus. Right before she fell to Arc and his comrades Nael gave Arc a gift he could never get rid of. He carries these scars so all will know what he had accomplished. And he still fights to protect eorzea, the land he loves so dearly.

These are awesome replies so far. Thanks for the interesting backstories and humorous replies as well.

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If your character has a scar, how did they get it?

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Kill 5 rats to save the world #noobdays

L'rydia's village was mostly destroyed in the Calamity, and she was injured while trying to rescue family in the chaos. The scars across her cheeks are the only lasting (physical) signs of the injuries she sustained. They're mostly hidden by the way she wears her hair.