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A note for CR AU applications
Ruby City does allow previous game history/CR to be brought over on a case by case basis. If you want to include this in your application please add additional sections for PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT and PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY beneath the Personality and Background/History sections.
In these additional sections we would like to see a brief outline of your character's previous game history and how it potentially impacted on and altered their canon personality.
[CANON] Ganondorf | Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time | No Reserve
Name: Raile
Age: 26
Personal Journal: N/A
E-mail: railerat [at] gmail [dot] com
AIM/MSN/etc: RAILERAT on AIM, RAILEHATESFUN on Plurk
CHARACTER
Name: Ganondorf Dragmire
Canon: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Age: Unknown (mid-30's)
Timeline: Before he breaks into the Sacred Realm
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: Ganondorf is a powerful and arrogant sorcerer, one known by many names: Mandrag Ganon, King of the Gerudo, King of Thieves, Guardian of the Desert. Eventually, he will be known as the Great King of Evil. His thirst for power and desire to rule are his most driving motivations, and as a result, he is known for his ruthlessness, his cunning, and his cruelty.
Evil and its origins play a crucial role in Ganondorf's makeup. But so do his people.
The fact that the Gerudo are all women isn’t even close to being an incidental detail. Of the races of Hyrule, the Gerudo alone operate independently of every other race (well, there’s the Kokiri, but they’re a bunch of children who are protected by a magic forest.) Ganondorf was raised by women, amongst women, in a culture of women. Ganondorf is not only respectful of how strong women are, he is steeped in it. It is his entire culture. Men are nothing. Women, however, are to be respected and reckoned with. Ganondorf is used to female superiority to the point where he power inequality favouring males is not just alien but downright BACKWARDS. Male-dominated power structures are, however, the norm for every other race on Hyrule (excluding--again--the Kokiri, who have no real power structure because they're all children parented by a giant tree.)
Ganondorf very clearly gives a lot more credence to the power and authority of women than he does men. He doesn’t care much about or for the King of Hyrule, for example--and regards Link as an inconsequential threat, even after Link possesses the Triforce of Courage. He is, however, concerned about Zelda and her power. Even when Zelda is a mere child, Ganondorf is all too aware of Zelda’s potential. In the future, when Zelda wants to escape Ganondorf’s radar, she becomes Sheik, a man. And it works. Arguments could be made that Sheik/Zelda is using her magic to shield herself from Ganondorf in general, but why would she need to be Sheik to do that? If you’re going by the game, two reasons. One, she can’t just disappear from him awareness like that, but Ganondorf has no real reason to be overly interested about some lyre-playing Sheikah man, last of his people or not. Two, who do you think Link is going to give more of his time to? The mysterious male figure claiming to be last of the Sheikah, or very feminine princess he thinks that he needs to be rescuing? And Ganondorf is implied in canon to have allowed Link to purify the temples, knowing that it will draw Zelda out into the open--Zelda, not Link, is Ganondorf's goal.
And yet still there is that question of evil. Ganondorf's initial ambitions, while ostensibly noble, quickly flower into cruelty and greed. Even once he has control of Hyrule, his unquenchable thirst for power drives him to seek greater dominion, to the detriment of all (and everything he has gained.) There are a number of reasons behind this, some as simple as Ganondorf's egotistical temperament and gross sense of entitlement--other, more complex reasons suggest that Ganondorf becomes corrupted by the Triforce of Power itself. These are not to be discounted. However, Ganondorf is also the bearer of an ancient curse, one he has no knowledge of, but which shapes the arc of his quest not only in this life but in his many futures. Long ago, the demon Demise placed a curse upon the bloodline of the goddess (in this case, Princess Zelda) and the spirit of the hero (Link), declaring his hatred would return to fight their descendants, an endless cycle of violence and woe.
Ganondorf is the incarnation of this curse, and his evil heart--though not exactly his fault--curses him as well as the land he is born in and the people who inhabit it. He is, ultimately, fuelled not by benevolence but by jealousy, greed, and hate--and when he touches the Triforce, wishing to rule the whole of Hyrule and all its lands, he consequently blights those lands and everything upon them. In a sense, Ganondorf's true monstrosity was shown only after Hyrule's prosperity was destroyed--not only by his refusal to relinquish his corrupting grip, but by his determination to ensure the land should never be anyone's but his. If he could not have it, no one could.
Despite this, he is not without honour; when a young Link draws his sword in an attempt to stop him from pursuing the Princess Zelda, he is not angered but amused and impressed with the boy's courage. He knocks him away effortlessly, but allows him to live and rides on. Even later, when Link challenges Ganondorf in his own castle, Ganondorf will wait for Link to rise if he falls before resuming his attack.
Background: Ganondorf Dragmire was born to a race of desert-dwelling warriors known as the Gerudo--a race made up entirely of women. A single male child is born into the tribe only once every hundred years, and destined by Gerudo law to become king. Ganondorf was such a child.
The Gerudo valley and its surrounding desert can be reached only by crossing a single bridge that stretches over a high canyon and being granted passage through a large wooden gate. This bridge is guarded fiercely by the Gerudo themselves. Warriors and equestrians without peer, they are feared and respected for their martial prowess, and do not accept guests well. (In the future, they destroy the bridge and instead cross by leaping the canyon on horseback--a harrowing feat, to say the least.)
Just as the Gerudo do not welcome outsiders, those outsiders--in this case, the other races of Hyrule--do not trust the Gerudo, and view them with suspicion (at best) or outright hostility (at worst.) This is in part because of the Gerudo's reputation as thieves: they regularly set ambushes and stage raids outside of their territory for food, treasure, and other goods.
[CANON] Ganondorf | Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time | No Reserve
Far in Ganondorf's future, he tells a story. It goes like this: "My country lay within a vast desert. When the sun rose into the sky, a burning wind punished my lands, searing the world. And when the moon climbed into the dark of night, a frigid gale pierced our homes. No matter when it came, the wind carried the same thing... Death. But the winds that blew across the green fields of Hyrule brought something other than suffering and ruin. I coveted that wind, I suppose."
Hyrule is a land ruled by the Hylians. The Gorons and Zora pledge their allegiance to the Hylian king, as did the Sheikah, at least before their extinction. There is a river that runs through Hyrule--the very river that rushes below the canyon before Gerudo Valley. The Zora are tasked with purifying its waters as it reaches Lake Hylia and flows onward through Hyrule Field and towards the high walls of Hyrule Castle. Their jurisdiction, however, begins AFTER the water passes Gerudo Valley. The Gerudo of Hyrule are the only race denied access to the magically purified waters of Lake Hylia. The Gerudo, in their barren desert, freeze at night and swelter in the heat in the day, they suffer for want of clean water, they starve for want of pastures or arable land. And Ganondorf, the warrior, the sorcerer, the god-King, will change their fate.
And thus the game.
Abilities: Ganondorf is a mighty sorcerer, capable of great feats of magic even before he acquires the Triforce. (Note that he does not have the Triforce when I app him.) He can create destructive blasts of dark magic as well as lay powerful curses, plaguing the Greak Deku Tree and infesting Dodongo's Cavern, Lord Jabu-Jabu, and The Great Deku Tree with monsters. In keeping with his heritage, however, he is also a fierce opponent in physical combat, preferring to fight (as all Gerudo do) with curved swords rather than straight blades (the Hylian norm.) At 7'6", he is astonishingly strong and possesses immense stamina from years of harsh desert living, but he is also swift and very agile--he has no trouble keeping up with smaller combatants, despite his great size.
In addition to all this, Ganondorf is proven to be both intelligent and cunning. The Gorons are a massive, all-male race of rock-eating beings; rather than face them directly or wage a long war against them, he resurrects a monstrous dragon that once preyed upon them and feeds them to it one by one, simultaneously neutralising their threat and using their sacrifice as a means to cow the other races into submission. And when the Zora refuse to submit, he freezes over the Kingdom of the Zora, trapping the (and their king) under ice, where they can do him and his rule no harm. He's also skilled in deceit, pledging false allegiance to the King of Hyrule in order to infiltrate the Castle.
There are incidental skills too: he is depicted as capable of playing the organ, for example. And being Gerudo, Ganondorf can ride well and is presumably knowledgeable about the training and care of horses. That said, he also requires a horse that can actually carry him. Sadly, his terrifyingly huge steed will not be accompanying him to Ruby City.
First Person: Look at this test drive!
Third Person: The moon rose high over the desert. With it came the cold, deadly winds of night, the equally lethal opposite of the scorching heat of day. To the best of their ability, the Gerudo built with both in mind; thick clay walls helped insulate their winding structures at night and cooled the interior by a degree or so during the day. The wide windows, however, were a double-edged sword: they had no panes, allowing the wind to pass through--invaluable during the day, but at night, it exposed the Gerudo to the frigid drop in temperature that came with the sun's absence. It was easier to protect against the loss of body heat than it was to cool a heated body down, but all the blankets in the world could not protect the old, the sick, or the young from these deadly winds.
Hyrule, just across the divide, could not have been more different. Instead of hard baked earth, dry rock and shifting sands, the lush fields grew greenery in abundance, much of it untilled and fallow, inhabited only by Peahats and the nightly hordes of brittle Stalchildren. Their water, blessed by the Zora, ran quietly by the fields instead of in a deadly rush far below.
He coveted it, yes.
But he also hated it. A bitter tide of rage lapped at him, his desire to claim those prosperous lands for his people matched only by his desire to see its people suffer for their happiness. Their ignorance. Their fortune.
But with patience, it would be his. The people of Hyrule would see their King fall. They would know his power. They would bow before him, fear him, respect him. He'd heard it said that Hylians had pointed ears so as to better hear the voices of the gods.
If so, it seemed those gods had no interest in warning their favoured people of his coming.
Or perhaps they just weren't listening.
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