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andrarrrgynous) wrote2012-09-25 01:47 pm
andrarrrgynous) wrote2012-09-25 01:47 pm
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Application for Tides of War
P L A Y E R
Name: Jessa
Journal:celesjessa is fine
Age: 25.
Characters Played: Celes Chere
C H A R A C T E R
Name: Faris Scherwiz
Fandom: Final Fantasy 5
Canon Point: Early game, after getting the first crystal
Age: 20
Species: Hume
Background: http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Faris_Scherwiz
Personality:
In the game, Faris is attributed with the element of fire, due to her courage. She’s fiercely loyal and protective of those she cares about and will jump to their aid, even when it’s reckless. When her sister Lenna is being accosted by hunters, Faris doesn’t hesitate to jump across a chasm to her aid. This courage earns her the respect of the pirates who raised her and she was made Pirate captain by the age of fifteen for her heroics in rescuing their ship from being sucked into a whirlpool.
But just because she is heroic doesn’t mean she’s exactly self-sacrificing. At the end of the game, instead of staying behind to take her place as the Queen of Tycoon, she opts to run off, and return to her life as a pirate, valuing her freedom more than any obligations she has.
To put it all simply, Faris lives by her own rules and her own moral code. While she prefers the nomadic life of a pirate, and doesn’t really like to get wrapped up in the day-to-day trivialities of the kingdoms around her, she isn’t so callous as to not care when the world is in danger. When she’s chosen as one of the destined warriors to save the Crystals and the world, she falls into her role quickly and without complaint.
Having lived most of her life disguising her gender, Faris doesn’t exactly subscribe to traditional gender roles, and she’s far from ladylike. She has a very “take it or leave it” sort of view on life and doesn’t waste a lot of energy on what she thinks is trivial. When the party discovers that she is a woman, her response is little more than “Deal with it”. (Galuf: Oh, my stars and comets! HE'S A SHE! Faris: Well- maybe I am! You got a problem with it!?)
While she’s pretty rough around the edges when you first meet her, Faris does have a softer side to her (deep, deep down inside), and she cares deeply for those close to her. In the beginning of the game, when she discovers Lenna has an identical pendant, she is determined to figure out if she finally found her birth family, and she grows quite attached to her sister and her father. The sea dragon, Syldra is Faris’ closest friend, and almost like a sister to her, and when she dies, Faris is heartbroken, and takes to quietly mourning her friend. The softer sides of her are few and far between, though, and she’s more likely to default to being more harsh, even when she’s trying to be supportive (when her friends try and leave her behind, she finds them stranded at the bottom of a pit and ends up dangling a rope just out of their reach until they promise not to leave her behind again) or is worried (when Galuf is dying “Get up, you old bat! Quit playing around, this isn’t funny!”)
AU History:
Notorious Sky Pirate, Faris takes the title more literally than some, attacking cargo ships and other sky pirates alike, plundering their goods for her own gain. Faris enjoys the freedom of the skies, that is, until her airship, Syldra, took major damage during a raid on a cargo ship with better defenses than she was expecting, and currently she’s grounded, and trying to scrape together enough money to get herself back up in the sky.
Thanks to her androgynous appearance, and her rough attitude, Faris is often confused for a man, and she rarely bothers to correct those that think she is. The ambiguity is part of her image (and she thinks it makes her seem tougher. A female sky pirate would be more likely to be considered “weak” and targeted by other sky pirates.) Not only that, but it’s easier to hide out as a woman if the local authorities are on the lookout for a man.
She’s neutral on the war, and pledges her allegiance to no country. Of course, everything has its price…
Alliance: Neutral
Licenses: Black Magic 1- Fire and Steal
S A M P L E
First Person Sample: http://exitvoid.dreamwidth.org/324323.html?thread=31747043#cmt31747043
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of the wind in your hair, the freedom to come and go wherever you please. So there’s a war and fighting going on, who cares when the sky is your home?
Which is precisely why Faris was in such a foul mood. She managed to avoid capture, but after an unfortunate run in with a well-defended cargo ship, Syldra was grounded, and her captain with it. With no funds to repair her ship, Faris was stuck in Rabinastre, where the wind was hot and stifling, and you could just feel the political tension between the Dalmascans and Archadians in the air. She couldn’t wait to get out of here.
Gil, she needed gil. Quite a good amount of it too, not only did she have to pay for its repairs, but she’d owe a pretty penny to the owner of the hanger where she convinced to let her keep her ship until it was fixed.
Faris looked with dismay at the hunts posted on the notice board in town. Most were older, and the ones that paid decently probably already had it’s fair share of hunters after the prize. Well, she might as well-
Reaching up to tear one of the papers off of the board, she noticed another paper posted below it, hidden by the more recent hunts:
Wanted! I finally got myself a ship, now all I need is a crew! Will be paid in adventure and riches beyond your wildest dreams!
Faris snorted. What kind of advertisement was that? They might as well have posted asking for free labor. Sure, it’d get her back up in the sky and out of this hot, stuffy city, but she needed money. Besides, what kind of sucker would post that kind of advertisement? It was practically begging some pirate to come and liberate the ship from him.
…
Faris approached the young man seated in the hanger bay, a familiar advertisement in hand, “So you were lookin’ for a crew?”
Name: Jessa
Journal:
celesjessa is fineAge: 25.
Characters Played: Celes Chere
C H A R A C T E R
Name: Faris Scherwiz
Fandom: Final Fantasy 5
Canon Point: Early game, after getting the first crystal
Age: 20
Species: Hume
Background: http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Faris_Scherwiz
Personality:
In the game, Faris is attributed with the element of fire, due to her courage. She’s fiercely loyal and protective of those she cares about and will jump to their aid, even when it’s reckless. When her sister Lenna is being accosted by hunters, Faris doesn’t hesitate to jump across a chasm to her aid. This courage earns her the respect of the pirates who raised her and she was made Pirate captain by the age of fifteen for her heroics in rescuing their ship from being sucked into a whirlpool.
But just because she is heroic doesn’t mean she’s exactly self-sacrificing. At the end of the game, instead of staying behind to take her place as the Queen of Tycoon, she opts to run off, and return to her life as a pirate, valuing her freedom more than any obligations she has.
To put it all simply, Faris lives by her own rules and her own moral code. While she prefers the nomadic life of a pirate, and doesn’t really like to get wrapped up in the day-to-day trivialities of the kingdoms around her, she isn’t so callous as to not care when the world is in danger. When she’s chosen as one of the destined warriors to save the Crystals and the world, she falls into her role quickly and without complaint.
Having lived most of her life disguising her gender, Faris doesn’t exactly subscribe to traditional gender roles, and she’s far from ladylike. She has a very “take it or leave it” sort of view on life and doesn’t waste a lot of energy on what she thinks is trivial. When the party discovers that she is a woman, her response is little more than “Deal with it”. (Galuf: Oh, my stars and comets! HE'S A SHE! Faris: Well- maybe I am! You got a problem with it!?)
While she’s pretty rough around the edges when you first meet her, Faris does have a softer side to her (deep, deep down inside), and she cares deeply for those close to her. In the beginning of the game, when she discovers Lenna has an identical pendant, she is determined to figure out if she finally found her birth family, and she grows quite attached to her sister and her father. The sea dragon, Syldra is Faris’ closest friend, and almost like a sister to her, and when she dies, Faris is heartbroken, and takes to quietly mourning her friend. The softer sides of her are few and far between, though, and she’s more likely to default to being more harsh, even when she’s trying to be supportive (when her friends try and leave her behind, she finds them stranded at the bottom of a pit and ends up dangling a rope just out of their reach until they promise not to leave her behind again) or is worried (when Galuf is dying “Get up, you old bat! Quit playing around, this isn’t funny!”)
AU History:
Notorious Sky Pirate, Faris takes the title more literally than some, attacking cargo ships and other sky pirates alike, plundering their goods for her own gain. Faris enjoys the freedom of the skies, that is, until her airship, Syldra, took major damage during a raid on a cargo ship with better defenses than she was expecting, and currently she’s grounded, and trying to scrape together enough money to get herself back up in the sky.
Thanks to her androgynous appearance, and her rough attitude, Faris is often confused for a man, and she rarely bothers to correct those that think she is. The ambiguity is part of her image (and she thinks it makes her seem tougher. A female sky pirate would be more likely to be considered “weak” and targeted by other sky pirates.) Not only that, but it’s easier to hide out as a woman if the local authorities are on the lookout for a man.
She’s neutral on the war, and pledges her allegiance to no country. Of course, everything has its price…
Alliance: Neutral
Licenses: Black Magic 1- Fire and Steal
S A M P L E
First Person Sample: http://exitvoid.dreamwidth.org/324323.html?thread=31747043#cmt31747043
http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/69313.html?thread=50144705#cmt50144705
Third Person Sample:There’s nothing quite like the feeling of the wind in your hair, the freedom to come and go wherever you please. So there’s a war and fighting going on, who cares when the sky is your home?
Which is precisely why Faris was in such a foul mood. She managed to avoid capture, but after an unfortunate run in with a well-defended cargo ship, Syldra was grounded, and her captain with it. With no funds to repair her ship, Faris was stuck in Rabinastre, where the wind was hot and stifling, and you could just feel the political tension between the Dalmascans and Archadians in the air. She couldn’t wait to get out of here.
Gil, she needed gil. Quite a good amount of it too, not only did she have to pay for its repairs, but she’d owe a pretty penny to the owner of the hanger where she convinced to let her keep her ship until it was fixed.
Faris looked with dismay at the hunts posted on the notice board in town. Most were older, and the ones that paid decently probably already had it’s fair share of hunters after the prize. Well, she might as well-
Reaching up to tear one of the papers off of the board, she noticed another paper posted below it, hidden by the more recent hunts:
Wanted! I finally got myself a ship, now all I need is a crew! Will be paid in adventure and riches beyond your wildest dreams!
Faris snorted. What kind of advertisement was that? They might as well have posted asking for free labor. Sure, it’d get her back up in the sky and out of this hot, stuffy city, but she needed money. Besides, what kind of sucker would post that kind of advertisement? It was practically begging some pirate to come and liberate the ship from him.
…
Faris approached the young man seated in the hanger bay, a familiar advertisement in hand, “So you were lookin’ for a crew?”