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APPLICATION
PLAYER INFORMATION
Name: player name
Preferred pronoun(s):
Contact: plurk, discord, pm (default)
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: western order (firstname lastname)
Canon: wiki link appreciated if available!
Canon point: include any notable injuries/abnormal state of being
Age: both actual age and apparent age if there is a discrepancy
Personality: Please answer the following questions:
» What traits do your character admire in a person?
» What do they dislike most about themself?
» What discrepancies are there between their inner self (who they feel they are) and their outer self (how they present themselves to others)?
» Who are two influential people in their life (can be positive or negative)?
» What do they get excited about?
» What is something they are very bad at?
» What is one thing they would tell their younger self if they had the chance?
» How do they want to be remembered?
Powers/abilities: either link to a wiki page or write out as succinctly as possible. may include magical powers, species-specific abilities, mundane skills, etc as you see fit. please note that all characters will be nerfed upon arrival, but can regain powers through bonus activity.
Inventory: characters may arrive with the clothing and items (including weapons) on their immediate person, excluding anything alive. for characters with hammerspace, please choose up to five items. anything magical will be nerfed upon arrival, but can be regained through bonus activity.
Sentimental item: please choose one small (i.e. portable) item the character did not have on them at their canonpoint and which belongs to a different character from their canon. briefly explain the character's feelings towards the item and/or its owner.
Gemstone: please choose one primary color and one secondary color, and optionally describe the gemstone in terms of pattern, size, amount of polish, etc. it should be no larger than the palm of one's hand.
Lost memory #1: briefly describe a memory that the character will lose, which may be an event, a person, a concept, etc and does not have to be a major memory. explain the effect this loss will have on the character's beliefs, personality, etc.
Lost memory #2: same as above.
Altered memory: briefly describe a memory that will be altered, both the original memory and what's changed in it. explain the effect this alteration will have on the character's beliefs, personality, etc.
Sample: samples must be within the last 12 months, with a minimum of five comments from your character.
Please use the subject header "PLAYER | CHARACTER | CANON" and post the app in the comments below.
Also, for your copypasting convenience:
zazo / kuja / ff9
Name: Zazo
Preferred pronoun(s): he/him
Contact: matchre on plurk, zazozaliad on discord, DMs to this account because i log into this clown every day
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Kuja
Canon: Final Fantasy IX
Canon point: end of disk 3 :o)
Age:
2423 LMAO HE HASN'T HAD HIS BIRTHDAY YET THIS POINT IN THE TIMELINEPersonality: Please answer the following questions:
» What traits do your character admire in a person?
Answer: Tenacity. Ferocity. Power. Will. Beauty.
» What do they dislike most about themself?
Answer: his ignoble origins as a servant and tool.
» What discrepancies are there between their inner self (who they feel they are) and their outer self (how they present themselves to others)?
Answer: Kuja presents a perpetually larger-than-life persona -- he wants to BE larger-than-life, but what he really is, is a calculating and artificial creation made to insert himself among 'real' people. and kill them. Heeeee hates this! And no amount of gasoline he's poured on things can help him outright this. So: outside, delicious bravado, inside, neurotic ball of self-hatred and feelings of inferiority.
» Who are two influential people in their life (can be positive or negative)?
Answer:
1, his master and creator, Garland. V... very negative.
2, his brother, Zidane. It's Fuckin' Complicated
» What do they get excited about?
Answer: violence. shitty little power plays. stories. beautiful and novel experiences.
» What is something they are very bad at?
Answer: he literally doesn't know how to be close to people comfortably, whether emotionally or physically. like, he CAN be around people, and he can certainly be comfortable around people, but not when they actually UNDERSTAND him or he feels like they're anything approaching equal to him.
the illustrious lord king is really a social recluse who fakes extroversion to look glamorous...
» What is one thing they would tell their younger self if they had the chance?
Answer: insert speedrunning of him explaining eidolons and how to capture them actually isn't gonna do the trick for killing dad you need to ACHIEVE SUPERPOWERS to SURPASS YOUR LIMITS
» How do they want to be remembered?
Answer: fuck being remembered he wants to live
Powers/abilities:
- stupid OP endboss wizard with destructive and holy magic and a glowy red supermode.
- freaky psychic monkey powers like telepathy
- literally made to be a jar for other people's souls
- let's nerf the hell out of him i'm so excited. i'll probably make him regain canon powers spell by painstaking spell.
Inventory: enough makeup to keep his signature look for a while. canon clothes. that's it.
Sentimental item: a withered rose from queen brahne's funeral.
Gemstone: a sphere of blue alexandrite with hairline cracks outlining several discrete pieces, and a chunk missing, revealing a vibrant red core. the colors reverse at night.
Lost memory #1: forgot that he was given an explicit expiration date by his creator. womp womp
Lost memory #2: forgot that the main purpose of a Genome is to be vessels for the souls of the dead Terrans. in the absence of that info, he just thinks they were created to be servants or something...
Altered memory: His memory has been altered to think he Won, Forever, and his Eternal Kingdom ensued for ( years, many ) so he THINKS he's mentally older than canon. moment of silence for the surprises he has comining
Sample: from the TDM but like if you want to see something absolutely deranged to prove i have endless thoughts about how this dipshit ticks here is 500 comments of Dive Into The Heart ~ Destati
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Garland is Kuja's creator, and could technically be called his father-- but in truth he styles himself as a distant and untouchable master to Kuja, his most unruly servant, and the product of a promising, yet flawed design process.
There is no hatred from Garland towards him. Only ruthless pragmatism; any and all cruelties born from the fact that Kuja is just an experimental tool to him, the Genome's strong sense of individuality an endless inconvenience.
What Kuja feels --or, hee, hee, FELT! he's fuckin' dead now!-- about him back, is all fire, to match the sheer volume of Garland's ice. Kuja hates his Master, down to his bones, but perhaps greater than that hate is a need to prove himself to the man. While he found the mission Garland gave him, to usher in the end of an entire world, an intolerable prospect-- he nonetheless made it, uh, pretty much his whole identity. He labored to prove he COULD end the world, but that he also had the much greater power to keep it as his cherished treasure forever and ever and rule with an iron fist, and no one would ever doubt HIS reign of terror was anything less than passionate, personal, and meaningful--
Ahem.
Basically, the entirety of Kuja's identity hinges on proving it doesn't MATTER his shitty dad doesn't (didn't!) care about him and never will, because he himself is sooooo cool and beautiful and amazing and hey what a great time to start talking about
ZIDANE TRIBAL
Zidane is his (not by blood, but in essence) little brother, and in every way was made to succeed and replace Kuja when he was, like, chronologically 8. We have very little canon info about how this time period played out, no matter how many headcanons I may have, but Kuja had enough access to him to kidnap him and drop him off on another planet where he couldn't be found, before promptly getting caught and b& from his homeworld.
Zidane is his failures. Zidane is the creeping dread he will one day be disposed. Zidane is the measuring stick for "how well am I doing" in life, and he was also once this weird tiny vulnerable thing sharing the same horrifying, emotionally hollowing origin he'd had, but slower and longer this time, and maybe that's why he turned him into a statue that's technically still alive in there to watch him rule the world forever in the seat of power in his castle* instead of obliterating him completely with a wave of his hand when he achieved Ultimate Power.
*this did not happen in reality but he will sure now remember it as having had happened.
So like. Lots of jealousy and envy. But where he has resolved to rid himself of Garland, Zidane also serves a critical purpose to him-- because his existence is a crucial piece, to appreciate just how great a height he's climbed, to be the formidable, untouchable lord he is today.
And maybe it's power, to decide the fate of something that is pathetic, and lowly, in the ways he hates in himself. Maybe he can't let go having that, because then he is all alone in it.
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