Dec. 17th, 2017

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PLAYER INFORMATION

Name: Walker
Contact: [plurk.com profile] WorldwalkerPure

CANON CHARACTER INFORMATION

Character Name: Terra Branford
Canon: Final Fantasy 6
Backstory: http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Terra_Branford
Personality: Terra is a emphatic young woman with unusual powers, uncertain of her place in the world. When we first meet her, she's an amnesiac with no knowledge of why she can wield magic, only that doing so feels natural.

As she seeks to understand her own power, her personality establishes itself - she can be rather passive at time, content to let Locke guide her to Figaro. In Figaro itself, she meets the notorious womanizer King Edgar and muses to herself that a normal girl would have found him dashing before admitting that she personally doesn't. Upon meeting Sabin, she jokes that she thought he was a bear at first, and when she arrives in the Returner's Hideout we see her fear of confronting her own powers and, potentially, another brief glimpse at her sense of humor as she giggles to herself at Banon cleaning up stray papers. Upon her return to Narshe, she asks Celes if she's ever been in love, a question that reveals her own deep uncertainty about her emotional facility.

When meeting with Ramuh in Zozo, he reveals that Terra's fear of her powers, combined with her being forced to assume her Esper form, have left her in a catatonic state, unable to face the world. After reuniting with Terra upon their return from the southern continent, the resonance between Terra and Maduin's magicite restore her memories to her and we start to see her full personality - her mixed blood is both a source of pride and uncertainty. She is confident that she can act as a bridge between two different worlds, but later, on the boat to Thamasa, she confesses her fear that her inhuman nature might prevent her from understanding emotions.

While fighting Ultros in the Esper Caves, she scolds him for being rude to Relm and goes to comfort the young girl, revealing a motherly instinct that comes full bloom in the World of Ruin, where she takes care of the orphaned children of Mobliz. As she grapples with a new, strange emotion, her uncertainty slowly saps away her fighting spirit. Eventually, defeated by Phunbaba, she blazes into her Esper form and fights with all her strength to defeat him; in the aftermath, she assumes that the children she's looked after will run from her in fear. After they recognize and run to her, however, she realizes that the strange emotion she's been grappling with is love, the very emotion she was afraid she couldn't feel. Filled with determination, she resolves to fight for the future of the world and the children she loves.

AU INFORMATION

AU Character Name: Terra Branford
AU Backstory: Terra Branford is the granddaughter of Gideon Branford, a religious fanatic that believed Christians must spend their lives preparing for the Day of Reckoning, when the army of God's faithful will rise up and cast down all forms of evil. After Terra's mother, Madonna, died in a car crash, he raised Terra according to this belief, harshly drilling her in his personal religious philosophy and military tactics.

On the surface, all society saw was a shy young woman being homeschooled by her devout and overprotective grandfather. In private, however, Gideon was a firm believer in 'spare the rod and spoil the child', especially after Madonna rejected his beliefs and ran off to have a child out of wedlock. Believing that Madonna's death was her punishment for her sins, he raised Terra strictly in an effort to expunge the evil inherited from her mother and redeem his own failure as a father.

Terra quickly learned that to act against her grandfather was to invite pain - not just physical, but emotional, as she was raised to believe that any deviation from Gideon's plan was a sign of her inherently sinful nature. One day, however, the rod was applied a little too firmly and for the first time Terra was unable to hide the bruises from public scrutiny. Her shock that nobody seemed to care enough about her as a person to find out why she was covered in highly visible bruises soon boiled over into anger, leading to awakening her Persona and inducing a change of heart in her grandfather.

Following his change of heart, Gideon has set Terra up in a small apartment, far away from her former home. Currently, Terra is attending classes online and slowly learning about a world formerly unknown to her as she slowly tries to discover who she is as a person.

AU Personality Deviation: Compared to her canon self, Terra has a better handle on what emotions are - the main change is lifetime of conditioning that tells her that she is wrong for feeling them. Rather than grappling with the question of 'can someone not fully human experience human emotions', she is instead troubled over whether her emotions are allowed. Her rebellion is not against a corrupt Empire, but social corruption - the edifices that build up around communities that lead them to become wilfully blind to the suffering of others.

Species: Human
Class: Infiltrator
Arcana: The Fool

Persona: Maduin: Maduin is a muscular horned figure with brown skin, digigrade legs with long talons on his toes, clawed fingers, and tufts of violet hair on his shoulders. Maduin is a well-balanced Persona that has access to spells like Agi, Maragi, Dia, and Media, as well as single target Physical attacks like Bash. Maduin also has a single Almighty spell, Life Drain, that allows Terra to heal her own wounds by absorbing energy from Shadows. It is strong against Agi and weak to Garu. Maduin's strongest attack, Riot Blade, can only be used when Terra has taken a lot of damage.

Trance Terra (Final Form): a feminine figure covered in pale lilac fur that glows from within that represents Terra's own happiness. This Persona uses stronger Agi spells as well as Almighty spells such as Megidola.

Social Link Persona:
C: Legion
B: Bugs
A: Orpheus Picaro

Weapon Type: Sabre, Carbine
Codename: Trance
Form of Rebellion: Terra's phantom thief outfit is a sleeveless red dress with a purple sash tied around the waist, red boots, and a long cape. Her mask is styled like a leaping flame.

RP Sample: Testdrive thread with Relm, Sinbad, and Sonia

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