Ejika Tsunjika

Ejika Tsunjika is a non-playable character in Final Fantasy XIV. He is a fellow Student of Baldesion alongside Krile Maya Baldesion.
==History==
===Before Final Fantasy XIV===
Ejika Tsunjika was a Student of Baldesion, learning under Galuf Baldesion and studying alongside his granddaughter Krile in the Isle of Val. Ejika expressed distaste at what he perceived to be favoritism towards Krile due to both her status as a Baldesion, as well as her gift of the Echo, and spent tireless nights performing aetherological experiments alongside her. Despite this outward animosity, he and Krile formed something of a friendship, with the ever pleasant Krile believing in his experiments and Ejika requesting her aid in them. Ejika's cousin, Ojika Tsunjika, was also a member of the Students of Baldesion.
===Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood===
After the disappearance of the the Isle of Val and the emergence of a similar Island, dubbed by expeditioners as The Forbidden Land, Eureka after the Allagan legend, Ejika attempted to board an expedition to the island but was stopped by Gerolt Blackthorn, a master blacksmith roped into the expedition himself. Krile, who was participating in the expedition as part of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, allowed him to participate. Upon their arrival, both Ejika and Krile realized their fears were correct and identified the island as the Isle of Val, transported to the the other corner of the world, now ravaged by aetherological imbalances, filling it with violent wildlife.
Ejika joined the Eurekan expedition, determined to study the rediscovered island. He arrived accompanied by Krile and the Warrior of Light, but left the pair to do his own searching. While Krile and the Warrior of Light attempted to restore the region's Aethernet, Ejika searched for survivors and investigated the confluence in the region's aether stream, discovering magicite. When he reconvened with the Warrior of Light, he gave them the magicite to study. Ejika left the two, continuing his own investigation.
Within the snowy region of Pagos, after the Warrior of Light found all the magicite located in the area, Ejika suggested that the expedition's next objective should be to seek a proto-aetheryte to grant them greater insight into the state of Eureka's aether currents. After the Warrior of Light told everyone about their vision, Ejika wandered off on his own to ponder it and ran into a masked man, questioning who or what they were. It introduced itself as Eureka.
Throughout the expedition Ejika acted strange, and when Krile and the Warrior of Light inspected the proto-aetheryte they discovered, Ejika turned it off. Ejika was possessed by the primal, and given a blade of pure aether. When Krile called him out, he hesitated, but said he welcomed the primal into his being and would await Krile within the Tower. When Krile and the Warrior of Light made into the Baldesion headquarters, they removed the primal's restraints, and when they returned to the main hall, Ejika and the avatar of Eureka appeared. Eureka demanded Ejika remove them, and Krile called to Ejika to come to his senses. Ejika was only pretending to be under the primal's thrall, and gave the blade to the Warrior of Light to defeat its avatar. Eureka still remained, and Krile planned on resealing it, though Ejika wanted to sacrifice his being to destroy the primal, which Krile vehemently disagreed with. Unable to reconcile their viewpoints, Ejika and Krile turned to the Warrior of Light, letting them choose which path to take. 
If Ejika's option was taken, Ejika sacrificed himself, destroying the primal. However, Eureka's weapons still remained, which the Warrior of Light ventured into the Baldesion Arsenal. Following this, Ejika iwas rematerialized by Krile, with him having attempted to use teleportation magicks before the primal absorbed his essence completely, but was caught in the Lifestream due to Eureka's weapons. 
If Krile's option was chosen, the Warrior of Light still ventured into the Baldesion Arsenal to destroy Eureka's weapons, and afterwards Ejika performed his initially stated goal with the aid of Krile, destroying Eureka and teleporting before all of his essence.
Regardless of the decisions in dealing with Eureka, Ejika continued researching the island and taking care of matters with Rowena and Hancock Fitzgerald, the patrons of the expedition.
==Characteristics==
===Appearance===
Ejika is a Lalafell with long gray hair and pink eyes. He wears black oval shaped glasses, a Shire preceptor's coat dyed white, and black boots. He carries a Palladium thaumaturge rod on his back.
===Personality===
Ejika is intelligent and knowledgeable about aetherology, but is rude and difficult to work with. He dislikes Krile because of her gift in the Echo and others like her, as he believes those with natural born gifts have it easier than those who don't. He is still willing to work with her, understanding the value in well-read allies. Ejika is impatient, and always eager to see the results of a hypothesis or an experiment as soon as possible.
==Gameplay==
===Triple Triad===
==Behind the scenes==
Ejika Tsunjika shares his name with a Retainer from 1.0. Both are Lalafell and from the same clan, but Ejika's known past confirms they are different characters.
==Citations==
Category:Characters in Final Fantasy XIV
Category:Lalafell
Category:Black Mages