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melodiesofcrack2016-09-09 08:32 pm
melodiesmods) wrote in melodiesofcrack2016-09-09 08:32 pm
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CR Meme
The purpose of this meme is simple: to expand your characters' CR, plot for current & future events and make your characters' lives unnecessarily complicated. Post information regarding your characters using the form below, so you may meet and speak with other players in the game and plot for more CR opportunities!
2. Comment around and plot with your fellow players.
3. Profit!
Sephiroth
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Timezone: BST (that's GMT+1, due daylight savings, but we do have the clock-switch coming next month)
Character: [OU] Sephiroth
Canon: Final Fantasy VII
Info: Will be the main antagonist later in his canon, for now he's that legendary SOLDIER that everyone looked up to on his homeworld.
And at least one person on Crystallis still does!Yet while he might be an expert in melee combat, military tactics and still somehow has managed to keep up with the maintenance of his appearance, he can be blunt and difficult to get much of a conversation out of. He's very much a solider-type, through and through because that's all he's ever been but at the same time is fiercely defensive of his own independence.Try to figure out that paradox at your risk.Job(s): S-Type SOLDIER (Custom Job) and Warrior; both maxed. He has 8 -refer to my Info post- in reserve, all Maxed except for Ghostbuster and Paladin. Currently sitting on last months exp, contained in his exp orb, for lack of motivation on where to put it. Unless someone gives a good reason, Sephiroth will likely stay with those two jobs equipped right until the end -even if he does get Onion Knight maxed soon.
Housing: He's registered at B-09, though-
Other Housing: -given the recent log I wrote in which Sephiroth essentially trashed his/Terra's old room in a fit of frustration/loss, after those events he'll be shipping out to Esdham on a more full-time basis, at least until something (Downapolis/Calamity/something else) comes up to push him back. He has his own private quarters and offices there and it's suitably detached from things-which-hurt currently. Eventually I hope he'll come around to moving in with someone else in Aqures, maybe Jade, but currently I'm chewing over this because moving from living with one scientist, to another-?
Moogle: Spencer, with his glasses and slightly too-large pom, is the nerdiest moogle of them all. He's a bookworm, matter-of-factly spoken and often ends up being the opposite (logical and/or moral support) in a kind of see-saw relationship with his Hero. This has varying results. Often he's left to help out Sephiroth's interests elsewhere in the world when he's tied down with work at Esdham because having a moogle around when being a Colonel hardly breeds cohesion or respect with the troops.
Status: In case you might somehow have missed it, Terra is now in crystal stasis and has been for a month already. Not that anyone could have known for sure because of the trek-through-all-the-worlds of last month but needless to say, as Sephiroth's SO, to say it's devastating (he tried for that first week to swallow it) might be a tiny understatement -but not to go on; see the log.
As a result, Palitutu things were certainly not at the front of his mind when the last portal back to Crystallis opened up, but despite the initial response -she's done 'ALL OF THIS' and so deserves to be killed- Sephiroth ended up sitting on the fence a lot more about the issue than he cares to ponder on. Surely death would be the quick way out? He's not sure he likes the part of him where that final thought might have come from. At the same time he's always seen Kalki, and later, Palitutu as just distractions from where their focus needs to be - on beating the Calamity and saving Crystallis. Not that our silver-haired SOLDIER has his mind very much on that, given recent events.
To say it's -yet again- pulled a rug out from under him, is probably the best way to describe how Sephiroth is currently in game. Yet there is also that edge of anger-at-himself, not only for having opened up like that in the first place, but at his various outbursts in front of people and how that reflects his failing self-discipline. Time to retreat back into that cave for a bit!
Employment: As mentioned in the Housing part, Sephiroth works for the military at Esdham and is still holding Colonel rank. Recently Varaha has fed-back to him about the concern over Downapolis, given the circumstances around how that city has come to be saved by the machine at the Mysidian Tower despite there being troops on the ground there specifically to prevent any such sabotage. It stinks of that Narashima-guy, but it's the larger issue of security -and the fact that he's been advised of the concern by a superior officer/the Queen(President)- that will drive Sephiroth's attention in that direction.
Plans: Aside from the fallout-log and getting involved with Downapolis-associated things-to-be-done, after the fallout events Sephiroth will sink back into something of a lower profile in terms of being around Aqures Ixen. As usual when he needs to cope/get over a sting, he'll retreat back into his work where it feels comfortable/like he's contributing/things can be forgotten. He'll therefore shift more back towards Esdham on a full-time basis, living there mostly, except that because of his duties concerning Mograma/the police force it'll bring him back to Aqures every now and again. I'm not planning for him to attend the meeting with the Sage later this month unless it's somehow clearly communicated to him that it might have anything to do with the Downapolis problem; he'd very much like to punch the a-hole that scared Terra half to death about his own potential death-which-didn't-happen-but-then-Zelda-died-instead!
Desired CR: He needs to connect with more people in order to fill a huge gaping void that's been left behind by losing Terra, otherwise I can easily see him vanishing under a rock for the rest of the game. Sparring partners, moreso if he can be a show-off/bad-ass with them, give me all of them! Need a hero for him to be in some way, come talk to me! People who can present a viable direction for him to put his attention in to help save the world -rather than just being directed by the military too easily- yes please!
Undesired Things: I'm just about done with Sephiroth's sanity bordering dangerous-breaks so I'd like to try and avoid heavy CR that's just going to introvert/depress him any further because otherwise I'll have to canon update. I'm trying to build him up to actually be a hero rather than break him down into the villain; that said, there are issues still that he needs to mentally get over. (Calamity, real!Mother/not, self-independence issues vs no self-control over his direction.)
Shipping: I'd like to say sure, but really it's much too soon after Terra for him to respond to any attempt at flirting and in fact he might get insulted at this point. Terra!ship was nearly 18 months in the building so it'd need a serious commitment to get to that level of a relationship again, but I'm willing to discuss passing/casual interests should anyone be inclined.
Additional Comment: I'm in London. It makes it hard sometimes to fast-tag back between timezones/my job not having internet access and sometimes I like to take my time with replies to get them right. I'm not very good at small posts, either so I'm sorry if my prose-y style might intimidate anyone at any point.
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It's quite hard to pin down as we're all well aware already of how complicated he is when it comes to 'getting passed first base' in terms of acquaintances becoming friendships. Sephiroth has a hard shell of a sort that he curls himself deeper into when he gets hurt from being more 'out there' - if that makes any sense.
That said, there are people....like Jade, Sheena and Lydia (though there are others) that have managed to get in there without him ever acknowledging that they are friends. This is the key in some respects I think. When a relationship get to be acknowledged as a friendship, Sephiroth's opinion of them shakes a bit? He's been burned by friendship and might therefore up the caution around that person a little.
For Yuna, I think having had him come to her World as a kind-of guardian has been a good first-step, actually. Sephiroth feels best comfortable when he's in his element after all and protecting innocent people was as much a part of SOLDIER as was fighting ShinRa's wars for them.
In essence, tips are play to his strengths for a bit, make him feel like he's not only being useful but is doing a great job. That he is really that big-damn Hero he often gets played up as. The soul-searching questions must come later.
Re: Sephiroth
If not, she's more than happy to just focus on their duties and work on military matters together. They'll be the same rank next month, too!
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Sometimes the only way to get over things is to work through them.
That said, as with the whole reason he signed on in the first place- 'this is what I've always done so it's comfortable'.