PLAYER Name:Dan Personal Journal:N/A E-mail:Strawhatgamer@gmail.com AIM/MSN/etc:LuffyDan
CHARACTER Name: Tifa Lockhart Canon: Final Fantasy 7 Timeline: Inbetween the game and the Advent Children film. If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality:
While deceptively strong, Tifa usually acts with empahty and is quite an emotionally shy character in her series. While being able to identify and responding to the feelings of others close to her, Tifa does not express her personal feelings very often, and in the rare cases where she does, she does it rather poorly. During a moment she shares with her love interest Cloud Strife in a gondola ride, Tifa is unable to properly tell Cloud her true feelings while offering euphemisms and vague feelings. It is this inability that keeps her from also helping Cloud to make sense of his past, being unable to bare the responsibility of what transpired when their hometown was destroyed many years ago.
Tifa is a very modern woman. She isn't one to be clingy or "soft" by definition. She isn't one to hold on to feelings, and she serves as an emotional backbone to many of the people around her. During the many accounts in the game where the cast is faced with a difficult problem, Tifa is the first character to stand up and push against the challenge that face them. Often, she is even jumping into the fray before Cloud or their ally Barret. When faced with trying to uncover more about the corrupt government of their city, Tifa willingly puts herself in the line of danger in order to help her friends by infiltrating a brothel. She is fearless when it comes to anything physical, fighting for those she loves by sacrificing her own safety, even when the odds are against her.
Tifa is also a diligent and hard working woman. She spends her time caring for everyone but herself, as already stated. On the inside, she keeps the feelings of uneasiness towards the man she loves locked up, while on the outside she plays an independent and quiet persona. She has a motherly streak and tends to give sanctuary to those who need it, often becoming a shoulder to lean on. She is able to find similar spirits in her friends, being some one whom many can relate back and forth with. She has known great pain but is able to live her life and move forward, something which many of her friends are unable to do. She is a voice of reason, and does also spend a deal of time breaking up quarrels between members of her faction. For the few times that Barret and Cloud have an altercation, Tifa has been able to step in without a second thought and cease their stubborn arguing with intelligent and fair solutions.
But for as sensible as Tifa can be, she is driven by large sense of revenge, which is what initially puts her in with the terrorist group known as AVALANCHE. Only with the addition of Cloud in their party does this sense of revenge grow to its full strength as it is played out in game. For the destruction of her home town, Tifa harbors an ever burning hatred for the ShinRa corporation and all those associated with them. For as forgiving as Tifa can be, she is unable to put her past behind her. It is this revenge that pushes her to travel with Cloud, as they journey across the world in hopes of putting an end to ShinRa's tyranny, and also the wrong doings of their past encounter with Sephiroth.
First Person:
[Her eyes began to open slowly. Her eyes tried to focus as the usual blur of a long rest clouded her sight. Bringing her hands to rub the slumber from her eyes, she adjusted and finally looked about the train car she was seated in. Though it seemed nostalgic of the train she rode in Midgar, it was in fact, a train she had never rode before. Her thoughts couldn't quite process how she arrived here, or for that matter why she was alone. Her heart and brain were now feeling the weight of uneasiness, and try as she might to lift the weight from her thoughts, she could not.
The speed of the train was now coming down to a stand still. The minute the car had ceased, the young girl was on her feet and running towards the doors of the vehicle. She didn't care for the consequences, she would rather jump into the thick of things if it meant trying to find some answers. As she passed the double doors, she saw the spread of the city before her, caught with her mouth agape and her face now painted with a look of pure shock.
This was not Midgar. She wasn't even sure if it was on Terra anymore. She was a stranger in a strange land, and for as many times as she looked back and forth, there were no familiar faces. The only thing she could do at a time like this was to put her hands on her hips, lower her head, and wonder if perhaps she was stuck inside another stream.]
".. What have you gotten yourself into this time, Tifa?"
Third Person:
[Having just now noticed the time on her pocket watch, Tifa made her way out from behind the bar to the front door of the Neo Seventh Heaven. Clearing her throat, she turned over the sign posted on the front door, and clicked the switch for the humming neon lights above the bar. Raising her voice, like that of a farmer crying out to a pig in the distance, Tifa began her usual routine for "Closing Time".]
"ALL RIGHT, FELLAS! I THANK YOU FOR YOUR BUSINESS BUT IT'S TIME TO SHUFFLE OUT FOR THE NIGHT! YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO HOME AND YOU CAN'T STAY HERE!"
[As she held the door open, Tifa checked on her usual customers to make sure they were in good shape to make the walk home, bidding them a good night and in some cases a "good luck". Once the saloon was clear, Tifa turned the lock on the door and turned back to the left over chores for her to do.
Once behind the bar, Tifa poured herself a shot glass. It wasn't her usual drink, because tonight wasn't any normal night. Even with being away from home, the calendar held the same dates. It had been six years to the day that her home town had been destroyed in the fire, and her usual drinking partner was not in attendance. Holding the glass up to the vacant audience in the bar, she made her toast aloud with a look of emptiness on her face.]
"To the finest member of SOLDIER I've ever known.. And to the man who holds my.. Well.. Here's to you.."
[With the lift of her glass and the jerk of her head, Tifa downed the shot in one go. Wiping the left over booze on her forearm, she set the bottle down and let out a gasping sigh.]
[Canon] Tifa Lockhart || Final Fantasy 7 || No Reserve || 1 of 1
Name:Dan
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CHARACTER
Name: Tifa Lockhart
Canon: Final Fantasy 7
Timeline: Inbetween the game and the Advent Children film.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality:
While deceptively strong, Tifa usually acts with empahty and is quite an emotionally shy character in her series. While being able to identify and responding to the feelings of others close to her, Tifa does not express her personal feelings very often, and in the rare cases where she does, she does it rather poorly. During a moment she shares with her love interest Cloud Strife in a gondola ride, Tifa is unable to properly tell Cloud her true feelings while offering euphemisms and vague feelings. It is this inability that keeps her from also helping Cloud to make sense of his past, being unable to bare the responsibility of what transpired when their hometown was destroyed many years ago.
Tifa is a very modern woman. She isn't one to be clingy or "soft" by definition. She isn't one to hold on to feelings, and she serves as an emotional backbone to many of the people around her. During the many accounts in the game where the cast is faced with a difficult problem, Tifa is the first character to stand up and push against the challenge that face them. Often, she is even jumping into the fray before Cloud or their ally Barret. When faced with trying to uncover more about the corrupt government of their city, Tifa willingly puts herself in the line of danger in order to help her friends by infiltrating a brothel. She is fearless when it comes to anything physical, fighting for those she loves by sacrificing her own safety, even when the odds are against her.
Tifa is also a diligent and hard working woman. She spends her time caring for everyone but herself, as already stated. On the inside, she keeps the feelings of uneasiness towards the man she loves locked up, while on the outside she plays an independent and quiet persona. She has a motherly streak and tends to give sanctuary to those who need it, often becoming a shoulder to lean on. She is able to find similar spirits in her friends, being some one whom many can relate back and forth with. She has known great pain but is able to live her life and move forward, something which many of her friends are unable to do. She is a voice of reason, and does also spend a deal of time breaking up quarrels between members of her faction. For the few times that Barret and Cloud have an altercation, Tifa has been able to step in without a second thought and cease their stubborn arguing with intelligent and fair solutions.
But for as sensible as Tifa can be, she is driven by large sense of revenge, which is what initially puts her in with the terrorist group known as AVALANCHE. Only with the addition of Cloud in their party does this sense of revenge grow to its full strength as it is played out in game. For the destruction of her home town, Tifa harbors an ever burning hatred for the ShinRa corporation and all those associated with them. For as forgiving as Tifa can be, she is unable to put her past behind her. It is this revenge that pushes her to travel with Cloud, as they journey across the world in hopes of putting an end to ShinRa's tyranny, and also the wrong doings of their past encounter with Sephiroth.
First Person:
[Her eyes began to open slowly. Her eyes tried to focus as the usual blur of a long rest clouded her sight. Bringing her hands to rub the slumber from her eyes, she adjusted and finally looked about the train car she was seated in. Though it seemed nostalgic of the train she rode in Midgar, it was in fact, a train she had never rode before. Her thoughts couldn't quite process how she arrived here, or for that matter why she was alone. Her heart and brain were now feeling the weight of uneasiness, and try as she might to lift the weight from her thoughts, she could not.
The speed of the train was now coming down to a stand still. The minute the car had ceased, the young girl was on her feet and running towards the doors of the vehicle. She didn't care for the consequences, she would rather jump into the thick of things if it meant trying to find some answers. As she passed the double doors, she saw the spread of the city before her, caught with her mouth agape and her face now painted with a look of pure shock.
This was not Midgar. She wasn't even sure if it was on Terra anymore. She was a stranger in a strange land, and for as many times as she looked back and forth, there were no familiar faces. The only thing she could do at a time like this was to put her hands on her hips, lower her head, and wonder if perhaps she was stuck inside another stream.]
".. What have you gotten yourself into this time, Tifa?"
Third Person:
[Having just now noticed the time on her pocket watch, Tifa made her way out from behind the bar to the front door of the Neo Seventh Heaven. Clearing her throat, she turned over the sign posted on the front door, and clicked the switch for the humming neon lights above the bar. Raising her voice, like that of a farmer crying out to a pig in the distance, Tifa began her usual routine for "Closing Time".]
"ALL RIGHT, FELLAS! I THANK YOU FOR YOUR BUSINESS BUT IT'S TIME TO SHUFFLE OUT FOR THE NIGHT! YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO HOME AND YOU CAN'T STAY HERE!"
[As she held the door open, Tifa checked on her usual customers to make sure they were in good shape to make the walk home, bidding them a good night and in some cases a "good luck". Once the saloon was clear, Tifa turned the lock on the door and turned back to the left over chores for her to do.
Once behind the bar, Tifa poured herself a shot glass. It wasn't her usual drink, because tonight wasn't any normal night. Even with being away from home, the calendar held the same dates. It had been six years to the day that her home town had been destroyed in the fire, and her usual drinking partner was not in attendance. Holding the glass up to the vacant audience in the bar, she made her toast aloud with a look of emptiness on her face.]
"To the finest member of SOLDIER I've ever known.. And to the man who holds my.. Well.. Here's to you.."
[With the lift of her glass and the jerk of her head, Tifa downed the shot in one go. Wiping the left over booze on her forearm, she set the bottle down and let out a gasping sigh.]
"Guess this bar isn't gonna' clean itself, huh?"