PLAYER Name: Raile Age: 25 (man why am I so old) Personal Journal: None E-mail: literatehyaena@yahoo.com AIM/MSN/etc:
CHARACTER Name: Vincent Valentine Canon: Final Fantasy VII Age: 60/27 Timeline: Post-Advent Children If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: Tall, dark, and serious, Vincent Valentine is a quiet man with a brooding--and sometimes mysterious--presence. The penultimate stoic, he shows (and often feels) very little in the way of emotion; he spends most of his time by himself and routinely returns even simple questions or overtures with complete silence. Part of this is simply that he is extremely private, and in being so keeps the bulk of his opinions entirely to himself. In person he is severe and often abrupt--not curt, as one might think, but he often condenses his communication into as few words as possible or demonstrates his meaning in silent gesture instead of speaking. Behind the no-nonsense, brooding exterior, however, he is in fact wracked with guilt, and holds himself deeply responsible for many things that are not conclusively or even reasonably his fault, and carries their burden as an immense weight on his soul. He views himself as a sinner, unworthy and incapable of penance or redemption, and bears this weight in silence, pushing himself to act in both accordance and exception to it as he struggles to locate a place for himself in a living, feeling world. This has taken a toll on his mind and his emotional involvement in the world, resulting in a numbed, cold response to much of the world around him, exacerbated by his inherently reserved personality and sharpened by his few years of waking experience.
When he does participate in social situations, he is slightly uncomfortable and decidedly cryptic, preferring to maintain a cold, professional distance from the situation and the people around him. Vincent often speaks in metaphor or vague reference, making him one of the more difficult AVALANCHE members to talk to. He is highly perceptive and naturally intelligent, however, and instinctively analyses new situations with a critical eye, weighing conditions and variables quickly to come up with the most rational (and effective) results. Given time, he prefers to disseminate things in detail--Vincent is a thinker as much as a doer, and many of his conclusions are intellectually, not emotionally, motivated. Guilt, however, is often his strongest motivator, and much of his action through Final Fantasy VII and Advent Children is driven through it. Unlike the other members of AVALANCHE and most of their supporting cast, Vincent is not necessarily a 'good guy'--he has his own agenda and supports it the entire way through, doing as he feels and sees fit for himself and his own causes. He is not, as he will tell you up front, a hero. Without the sugarcoating, the facts are these: Vincent is a dangerous and very self-motivated person with questionable (if extant) morals. He does what he feels he has to, but not out of any sense of self-sacrifice, save for Lucrecia is concerned. For her, he might quite possibly end the world.
Instead, he stopped it from ending.
He is still learning to find his place in a world that kept going without him.
As far as his own well-being goes, Vincent is utterly fearless. He is, however, definitively afraid of himself and the knowledge of things he has the potential to do. He is extremely dangerous and is immenintly aware of it, holding within himself four demons over which he exerts little to no control. This affects his decision to separate himself from other people as well as justifies it, and the distance he keeps grows over time as he becomes more and more familiar with the terrible possibilities of the things he cannot control. He is iminently afraid of failure--he has sinned enough in his life, and bears the guilt with stoic resignation and a sense of responsibility, but the prospect of failing further drives him to both action and isolation in equal turns. In this way, Vincent is as much a liability to himself as he is a powerful weapon. Unpredictable and dangerous, his limit breaks rule him as much as he rules them, if not more, and his inability to control them or their voices is a constant problem and source of agony to him. His unpredictability and hair-trigger reflexes can result in instincts and reactions that can hurt others, and his own psyche is effectively out to destroy what it can whenever he is unable to stop it from doing so. Outside of Chaos, Galian Beast, and the others, Vincent's sense of guilt and self-incrimination is his biggest weakness; he holds back a lot and communicates little, isolating himself from others and sequestering his fractured emotiuons away in a deep part of himself to prevent further damage to what is left of his fragile humanity. His reason and rationale are both affected by this, often in subtle ways, and he may irrationally blame himself for things simply because he was present. He is also extraordinarily stubborn and (among other things) will never ask for help, refusing to do so even for simple things, let alone what he may genuinely need help with.
Background:Here is a wiki. Please disregard all information attributed to the game Dirge of Cerberus, as it is prone to inconsistency with the original canon (as well as sometimes itself) and I will not be including it in my characterisation.
Abilities: Vincent is gifted with rapid regeneration and inhuman speed as well as increased strength--incredible strength, actually, as he is quite capable of crushing a man's skull with his clawed hand. His reflexes take the term "lightning fast" to a new level, and he moves with an alacrity far beyond the realm of normal human possiblity. His senses, too, are unnaturally enhanced, and as a marksman, he is nigh-unsurprised. His uncanny accuracy and precision have been augmented with vision and hearing far superior to human comprehension. All of these make him a formidable weapon, and he uses them as seamlessly as most people seem to breathe; when he puts his mind to it, Vincent is a killing machine. He is not, however, mindless--just the opposite, in fact, Vincent is very intelligent and quite creative with the use of his skills. He is not afraid of getting hurt and for reasons both personal and obvious he is unafraid of death, on whose side he decidedly stands. His limit breaks, obviously, are overwhelmingly powerful, but they are as much a weakness a strength, for he frequently has no control over where they go and what they do--they take over him completely, and destroy everything in their path. When he is in control, however, he has the benefit of extraordinary discipline--even before his transformation, he was a Turk, and though he is capable of going great stretches without sleep, food, or water as a result of it, he can now ignore both hunger and exhaustion or shut out distractions with a single-minded ability that is almost frightening in its depth.
As far as his limit breaks go, there are four: four transformations, that is, demonstrated here. While he can choose to undergo a transformation at any time, his control over these forms is limited at best when it's voluntary, and utterly nonexistent when it's not. It's not a pleasant process, and is absolutely hell on his clothes.
[CANON] Vincent Valentine | Final Fantasy VII | No Reserve | 1/2
Name: Raile
Age: 25 (man why am I so old)
Personal Journal: None
E-mail: literatehyaena@yahoo.com
AIM/MSN/etc:
CHARACTER
Name: Vincent Valentine
Canon: Final Fantasy VII
Age: 60/27
Timeline: Post-Advent Children
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: Tall, dark, and serious, Vincent Valentine is a quiet man with a brooding--and sometimes mysterious--presence. The penultimate stoic, he shows (and often feels) very little in the way of emotion; he spends most of his time by himself and routinely returns even simple questions or overtures with complete silence. Part of this is simply that he is extremely private, and in being so keeps the bulk of his opinions entirely to himself. In person he is severe and often abrupt--not curt, as one might think, but he often condenses his communication into as few words as possible or demonstrates his meaning in silent gesture instead of speaking. Behind the no-nonsense, brooding exterior, however, he is in fact wracked with guilt, and holds himself deeply responsible for many things that are not conclusively or even reasonably his fault, and carries their burden as an immense weight on his soul. He views himself as a sinner, unworthy and incapable of penance or redemption, and bears this weight in silence, pushing himself to act in both accordance and exception to it as he struggles to locate a place for himself in a living, feeling world. This has taken a toll on his mind and his emotional involvement in the world, resulting in a numbed, cold response to much of the world around him, exacerbated by his inherently reserved personality and sharpened by his few years of waking experience.
When he does participate in social situations, he is slightly uncomfortable and decidedly cryptic, preferring to maintain a cold, professional distance from the situation and the people around him. Vincent often speaks in metaphor or vague reference, making him one of the more difficult AVALANCHE members to talk to. He is highly perceptive and naturally intelligent, however, and instinctively analyses new situations with a critical eye, weighing conditions and variables quickly to come up with the most rational (and effective) results. Given time, he prefers to disseminate things in detail--Vincent is a thinker as much as a doer, and many of his conclusions are intellectually, not emotionally, motivated. Guilt, however, is often his strongest motivator, and much of his action through Final Fantasy VII and Advent Children is driven through it. Unlike the other members of AVALANCHE and most of their supporting cast, Vincent is not necessarily a 'good guy'--he has his own agenda and supports it the entire way through, doing as he feels and sees fit for himself and his own causes. He is not, as he will tell you up front, a hero. Without the sugarcoating, the facts are these: Vincent is a dangerous and very self-motivated person with questionable (if extant) morals. He does what he feels he has to, but not out of any sense of self-sacrifice, save for Lucrecia is concerned. For her, he might quite possibly end the world.
Instead, he stopped it from ending.
He is still learning to find his place in a world that kept going without him.
As far as his own well-being goes, Vincent is utterly fearless. He is, however, definitively afraid of himself and the knowledge of things he has the potential to do. He is extremely dangerous and is immenintly aware of it, holding within himself four demons over which he exerts little to no control. This affects his decision to separate himself from other people as well as justifies it, and the distance he keeps grows over time as he becomes more and more familiar with the terrible possibilities of the things he cannot control. He is iminently afraid of failure--he has sinned enough in his life, and bears the guilt with stoic resignation and a sense of responsibility, but the prospect of failing further drives him to both action and isolation in equal turns. In this way, Vincent is as much a liability to himself as he is a powerful weapon. Unpredictable and dangerous, his limit breaks rule him as much as he rules them, if not more, and his inability to control them or their voices is a constant problem and source of agony to him. His unpredictability and hair-trigger reflexes can result in instincts and reactions that can hurt others, and his own psyche is effectively out to destroy what it can whenever he is unable to stop it from doing so. Outside of Chaos, Galian Beast, and the others, Vincent's sense of guilt and self-incrimination is his biggest weakness; he holds back a lot and communicates little, isolating himself from others and sequestering his fractured emotiuons away in a deep part of himself to prevent further damage to what is left of his fragile humanity. His reason and rationale are both affected by this, often in subtle ways, and he may irrationally blame himself for things simply because he was present. He is also extraordinarily stubborn and (among other things) will never ask for help, refusing to do so even for simple things, let alone what he may genuinely need help with.
Background: Here is a wiki. Please disregard all information attributed to the game Dirge of Cerberus, as it is prone to inconsistency with the original canon (as well as sometimes itself) and I will not be including it in my characterisation.
Abilities: Vincent is gifted with rapid regeneration and inhuman speed as well as increased strength--incredible strength, actually, as he is quite capable of crushing a man's skull with his clawed hand. His reflexes take the term "lightning fast" to a new level, and he moves with an alacrity far beyond the realm of normal human possiblity. His senses, too, are unnaturally enhanced, and as a marksman, he is nigh-unsurprised. His uncanny accuracy and precision have been augmented with vision and hearing far superior to human comprehension. All of these make him a formidable weapon, and he uses them as seamlessly as most people seem to breathe; when he puts his mind to it, Vincent is a killing machine. He is not, however, mindless--just the opposite, in fact, Vincent is very intelligent and quite creative with the use of his skills. He is not afraid of getting hurt and for reasons both personal and obvious he is unafraid of death, on whose side he decidedly stands. His limit breaks, obviously, are overwhelmingly powerful, but they are as much a weakness a strength, for he frequently has no control over where they go and what they do--they take over him completely, and destroy everything in their path. When he is in control, however, he has the benefit of extraordinary discipline--even before his transformation, he was a Turk, and though he is capable of going great stretches without sleep, food, or water as a result of it, he can now ignore both hunger and exhaustion or shut out distractions with a single-minded ability that is almost frightening in its depth.
As far as his limit breaks go, there are four: four transformations, that is, demonstrated here. While he can choose to undergo a transformation at any time, his control over these forms is limited at best when it's voluntary, and utterly nonexistent when it's not. It's not a pleasant process, and is absolutely hell on his clothes.