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rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
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APPLICATIONS
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✗ Please title your application as { [CANON/CANON OC/OC]CHARACTER NAME || Series Title || reserve/no reserve || X of X } in the subect header
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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] Cloud Strife || Final Fantasy 7 || Reserve || 2 of 4
Cloud has a rather complicated personality at the very beginning of Final Fantasy 7, due to the combined effects of Mako poisoning and the influence of Jenova's cells in his body. Cloud unknowingly holds a false persona created by Jenova cells mixing with the memories of Zack's personality and alongside the over-confident and selfish attitude that Cloud believes a SOLDIER 1st Class would have. As the story progresses however, and the point he is being taken from, Cloud has eventually begun to show genuine concern for the fate of Gaia, his friends and the others they run into, opening up to them more as he interacts and spends close time with them. It is a very sharp contrast to his personality at the very beginning of the game, where he claims he does not care and only agreed to help AVALANCHE for the right price, shown in his interactions with Barret and Tifa at the Seventh Heaven bar when they prepare for their raid on the Sector 5 reactor.
At the beginning, Cloud is very egotistical, thinking himself better than others and not bothering to get himself close to anyone. Even the new player training is done with him giving dismissive and know-it-all responses to the people in the room, showing off the things he knows. This goes back to when he was a kid, when he held a very strong crush on Tifa, but loathed and hated the other children she was close with. This was partly due to jealousy, but also because of him thinking that he was a far better person to be around. This leada to him picking many fights with the other children, and becoming a bit of a lone wolf.
Later in the game Tifa explains that her and Cloud were never actually that close as children, while Cloud's descriptions and flashback in Kalm that the two were close childhood friends. She knew him as her neighbor, but their actual most major interaction was the night he said he was going off to become a SOLDIER, shortly after the incident in the mountains where she got herself hurt and he got blamed. He never forgave himself for being unable to protect her, and promised her that one day he'd come back and rescue her if she was in danger. His current recollection of the past is that he failed to save her during the Nibelheim incident, and while this is not true, Tifa was unconscious and Zack was the only witness.
Even though he seems cool and confident, there is a bit of levity to Cloud's attitude. Willingly crossdressing in order to save Tifa from the hands of a brothel, Cloud displays not only concern for his friends but
begrudgingself-sacrifice, it also shows that Cloud can roll with the punches (and still be able to crack a joke or two at his own expense). He also shows a sense of humor at the ribbing and jabbing he makes between other members of his party, teasing Barret about keeping his sailor uniform as pajamas once they arrive at Costa del Sol ("You look like a teddybear wearing a marshmallow")Though most of his actions are influenced to a certain degree by Sephiroth and the mixture of cells and memories clouding his personality, Cloud seldom shows fear or doubt, running into fights or doing his best to save lives when he can. Even though he may at first he show hesitation, Cloud still performs heroic deeds, such as performing CPR on a young girl after being instructed on how to do so. This further shows Cloud's true selflessness, as well as an ability to perform calmly and collected in a dire situation.
He also has an expansive knowledge of things in their world, as there are a few points throughout the game where Cloud is asked to explain the use of an an item or a term or even a game command. Though these scenes are done as tutorials, it is Cloud who is instructing, showing his broad swath of knowledge. Even though he attributes this to his knowledge from his time in SOLDIER, it more likely comes as a mix of his time as a military grunt and as Zack's best friend. He's also adaptable and a quick learner, able to pilot a submarine without previous training, though as his original personality begins to surface his former symptoms of motion sickness (though not a personality trait) begin to show. It does, however, affect his feelings upon riding vehicles, but in the end he still plows through the pain and carries on.
His relationship with Tifa is a large plot point in the game, and there are several instances where Cloud, hopelessly clueless to Tifa's feelings, doesn't quite catch a phrase or euphemism that Tifa utters. During their gondola ride (if the player is able to achieve the outcome through flirting and correct menu choices), Tifa explains to Cloud that she wants to tell him something, saying that "Aerith would be able to tell you, probably. So I should, too." This alludes to the budding feelings that Tifa has for Cloud, but with Cloud's reply of nothing but a "?", Cloud seems oblivious to her feelings. The bravado he is showing through his SOLDIER persona has him constantly trying to play it cool, but he is overshooting his mark and misses those cues that he shouldn't be. It's not until their conversation at the airship the night before they go to Northern Crater that anything is resolved, though Tifa's reaction and level of embarrassment to everyone listening in depends on how the player has treated her over the course of the game.
When Cloud confronts Sephiroth during their numerous encounters, Cloud doesn't seem to harbor a malice for the terrible things that Sephiroth has done. Rather, Cloud seems to ask a string of questions before bothering to initiate an attack. His concern does lie with trying to stop Sephiroth, but not necessarily trying to kill him. Whether this has anything to do with being controlled by Sephiroth or not, it shows that even with his mortal enemy, the man who killed his Mother and destroyed his home town is a force to be stopped, not one to be snuffed out. Most outwardly, Cloud's driving force seems to be to want to understand, questioning why Sephiroth is doing this, and how he survived the battle in the reactor in Nibelheim. It isn't until later in the game that Cloud's resolve to destroy Sephiroth shows, as the only way to save Gaia is by fighting him to the death, a task that he believes he must handle himself and on his own to prove his self worth and identity.
[Canon] Cloud Strife || Final Fantasy 7 || Reserve || 3 of 4
Abilities:
Cloud is stronger and more durable than an average human, on par with a high ranking SOLDIER, and has memories and knowledge of military procedures, particularly those of ShinRa. However, this is actually tied to his unwitting involvement in the Sephiroth Clone project and not the SOLDIER initiation program as he believes and states. He has very weak mental defenses because his own sense of self is not what he pretends it is, and because of the JENOVA cells in his blood. Sephiroth in particular can use these cells as a way to manipulate Cloud's body and mind.
Despite how true or not Cloud’s claims of being a member of SOLDIER are, his sword skills are top notch and at least help support his claim. I’ll leave it to the mods to select which limit breaks he has available if it’s an issue, but at the least he should have Braver and Cross Slash.
[Canon] Cloud Strife || Final Fantasy 7 || Reserve || 4 of 4
Third Person:
Cloud's boots pounded on the pavement as he chased the shadow through the streets. Each glimpse was just a moment too late, only seeing trailing white hair or the fluttering of the black cape before it disappeared around a corner. Cloud grimaced as he kept chase. He was doing this on purpose! Keeping just out of reach, leading him along, but he couldn't just let that man go!
None of this made any sense. The things that he had said, the questions he was asking, talking about their meeting in Nibelheim as if it was something that happened recently and not five years ago. And what did he mean about the Temple of the Ancients. Puppet? What was he talking about?! He had to catch him and get some answers.
Another corner and....gone....damnit! Cloud punched the wall next to him, gritting his teeth as he looked around. No sign of him on the streets but his eyes drifted upward, looking at the clocktower up ahead. Sephiroth must have gone up there, or at least he'd be able to get a better view of the city.
Even here, far from Gaia, the chase was continuing; the man in the black cape, always a few steps ahead. He gripped the handle of the buster sword, prepared to unsling it from his back. Tifa had begged him to stay at the bar, but something had drawn him out to the ruins of that hotel.
{You should have stayed you know. She wanted you by her side but you ran away again.}
No, he didn't run away. He didn't know how, but he knew Sephiroth was here even before he saw him. He had to follow him. He had to know the truth. He ran on and into the tower, ready for whatever he found inside.
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