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OOC Information
Player Name: Gorse
Player Age: 21
Player Contact: It's all over the mod contact page
Player/Character HMD: Here
Other characters in game: [au1] Xion (whereibelong)
IC Information
Character Name: Yuna
Character Canon: Final Fantasy X/X-2
Character Age/Gender: 19/Female
Canon Point: Shortly before Eternal Calm/joining the Gullwings
Character Canon History: And unlike the KH wiki the FF wiki does a good job of covering everything important.
Character Personality: One of the first things that's clear about Yuna is how much of a caring person she is. She cares about Spira and people in it, to the point that she was willing to sacrifice herself in the Final Summoning throughout most of Final Fantasy X. When asked at one point near the end of the game what her motivation is, she replies "I fight for Spira." Yuna loves the world, and the people in it. She would do anything she could to help them. Or at least almost anything, but that will be discussed later.
It's shown that Yuna can be very empathetic, trying to understand other people and comfort them. Even in Eternal Calm, it's shown that people often come to Besaid to see Yuna and to ask her for advice. For this to continue for the nearly two years between X and X-2 implies that Yuna is generally considered a good person to go to for advice. The fact that she tends to speak very formally and politely to virtually all people helps. She does speak more informally with those who are particularly close to her, and of course in X-2 as she relaxes a little, but she still has a tendency to retreat into that same formality when defensive or when she wishes to distance herself from a topic.
Some of this formality, and the aforementioned empathy, likely comes from how she is expected to behave first as a summoner and High Summoner Braska's daughter, and then later as the High Summoner herself. Seymour points out to her after Operation Mi'ihen that as a summoner, she is Spira's hope. It's likely not the first time she's heard something like that, given how Yuna tells Tidus in Luca how she practices smiling, even (especially) when she doesn't feel like it.
Most of Yuna's flaws stem from this huge factor of her personality: her selflessness. She is selfless to a fault.
It affects her sense of self-worth in the larger world. Not to say that she believes she's worthless; more that she believes that everyone else's happiness and well-being is of a higher priority than her own. This means that she very rarely considers her own happiness and well-being when making decisions, or is content to accept a not- or not-quite-satisfactory situation if it makes others happy. While she is better about this, about expressing her own desires and hopes for the future at the end of Final Fantasy, during the period between X and X-2, she relapses a little bit without anyone to more actively encourage her to pursue them. Rikku herself comments in Eternal Calm that while everyone else is off chasing their dreams and building the new world, Yuna's are "on hold," because she feels a massive obligation to the people who wish to see her or ask her advice.
In addition, Yuna has almost a complete inability to refuse a call for help or request for aid (even if there is little she can do, she has the wrong skillset for the job, or it is of great inconvenience to her), nor can she truly stop herself from helping those who need it. This is particularly evident in X-2, where even though some of her surface personality has changed, her desire to help people when there's danger has not.
This is not to say she is weak-willed. Indeed, Yuna's resolve can be harder than steel when she makes what she believes to be the right choice. Indeed, once she's decided on what she believes the "right" thing to do (such as making people happy or give them hope), she will do whatever it takes to achieve that goal. For example, in order to give people hope, she continues on her pilgrimage despite Tidus and Rikku's urging, and even being declared a traitor to Yevon. She even scolds Tidus at one point early on in the pilgrimage for suggesting that the temporary nature of the Calm made the summoners' pilgrimages pointless. The only time she can be swayed from such decisions is by changing what she perceives to be the right choice to be. It's only when confronting Yunalesca and discovering that the Final Summoning was merely a method of perpetuating false hope, and had no real chance of defeating Sin for good, that she realizes that it is not the right path, and decides to not go through the Final Summoning.
And even though she may have relapsed a little regarding pursuing her own hopes and desires over others, she is not content to let herself be pushed along by the tides of fate. As a result of the things she learned on her pilgrimage, not to mention the profound effect many of her guardians (especially Tidus) have had on her, she's learned to not simply accept things as they appear to be, to learn the truth and chart her own course based on it. Just as Tidus had his own story, she now has hers, and it's up to her to decide what she wishes to do with it, even if that decision means staying at home, answering the questions of visitors and practicing holding her breath on her time off.
Another decision in which she is resolved is her decision to not be used by others again. Particularly after Seymour attempted to try to use her to grab for power - and to a certain extent after finding out that the Church of Yevon was essentially using summoners to perpetuate false hope - Yuna has inwardly little patience for anyone who might attempt to use her or her status for their own ends. This goes to the point of her adamantly refusing to join any political faction in the wake of Sin's defeat, or any marriages suggested to her.
Yuna's fears are fairly straightforward - she fears disappointing people, but more than anything she fears losing people she cares about. She lost both of her parents at a relatively young age, recently lost the person she'd fallen in love with, and has seen firsthand how easily and often people die, part of why she left on her pilgrimage to help others.
As for her guardians, more aptly considered her family, she's willing to do almost anything for them. She stops trying to Send Seymour and plays along with his wedding when Mika threatens their lives, and learning that she must sacrifice one of them to become the Final Aeon is one of the bigger reasons - second only to believing that the Final Summoning's method of perpetuating false hope to be abhorrent - that she opted to not go through the Final Summoning. She loves and appreciates them all very much, noticing even the small sentimental things about them, as evidenced by some of the things she talks about in the sphere that Tidus finds.
Character Abilities: Link
Note that I am roleplaying her under the assumption that she kept all of her endgame FFX abilities until she first started using sphere grids. Also note that given that the fayth is gone as of her canonpoint, she has lost the ability to summon.
She can also hold her breath for over 2 minutes. Yes this is important. :T
Character Inventory: Her Summoner's outfit and... yeah that's it. She's not journeying so...
Samples:
Introspective Sample:
It was a mixed kettle of feelings, being in Saeng Seong. There was something about it that didn't entirely sit right with her, being brought here so involuntarily, especially so many of them besides herself. While they weren't as pressing as defeating Sin had been two years ago, there were still the people who wished to see her and expected her to be there, though the city's natives had said that wasn't a problem. She could only imagine what pressing things so many others might be facing though, and how little comfort the locals' assurance would give.
She wasn't quite sure she liked being trapped like this. Almost used, though not the same way Seymour and the Church of Yevon had tried, certainly. But still...
The city seemed to truly need help, though. She couldn't pretend she understood it - so much of this city and its machina were very different from what could be found on Spira. But she could see the tightness in the faces of many of the city's locals. The hope with which many looked at the newcomers. It was a familiar expression. Just so had the people of Spira looked at her and the other summoners while she'd been on her pilgrimage.
Helping seemed to be the only way they might get home, at this rate. She just wished that the residents of the city were more open about what they could do. Sure, they'd discussed keeping in contact with others but... that couldn't be it, could it? It seemed far too strange and simple a solution. And what had even happened that caused them to need this help anyway.
Still... if it was really that difficult to discuss, they might very well have their reasons...
She would do what she could. If not for the city, than for the other people here who more than likely needed it. Needed hope. She could only hope that what she was doing was enough.
Interaction Sample: Some Test Drive threads I apologize for them (while technically fitting the requirements) being a little short. Life has been hectic for me lately.
Player Name: Gorse
Player Age: 21
Player Contact: It's all over the mod contact page
Player/Character HMD: Here
Other characters in game: [au1] Xion (
whereibelong) IC Information
Character Name: Yuna
Character Canon: Final Fantasy X/X-2
Character Age/Gender: 19/Female
Canon Point: Shortly before Eternal Calm/joining the Gullwings
Character Canon History: And unlike the KH wiki the FF wiki does a good job of covering everything important.
Character Personality: One of the first things that's clear about Yuna is how much of a caring person she is. She cares about Spira and people in it, to the point that she was willing to sacrifice herself in the Final Summoning throughout most of Final Fantasy X. When asked at one point near the end of the game what her motivation is, she replies "I fight for Spira." Yuna loves the world, and the people in it. She would do anything she could to help them. Or at least almost anything, but that will be discussed later.
It's shown that Yuna can be very empathetic, trying to understand other people and comfort them. Even in Eternal Calm, it's shown that people often come to Besaid to see Yuna and to ask her for advice. For this to continue for the nearly two years between X and X-2 implies that Yuna is generally considered a good person to go to for advice. The fact that she tends to speak very formally and politely to virtually all people helps. She does speak more informally with those who are particularly close to her, and of course in X-2 as she relaxes a little, but she still has a tendency to retreat into that same formality when defensive or when she wishes to distance herself from a topic.
Some of this formality, and the aforementioned empathy, likely comes from how she is expected to behave first as a summoner and High Summoner Braska's daughter, and then later as the High Summoner herself. Seymour points out to her after Operation Mi'ihen that as a summoner, she is Spira's hope. It's likely not the first time she's heard something like that, given how Yuna tells Tidus in Luca how she practices smiling, even (especially) when she doesn't feel like it.
Most of Yuna's flaws stem from this huge factor of her personality: her selflessness. She is selfless to a fault.
It affects her sense of self-worth in the larger world. Not to say that she believes she's worthless; more that she believes that everyone else's happiness and well-being is of a higher priority than her own. This means that she very rarely considers her own happiness and well-being when making decisions, or is content to accept a not- or not-quite-satisfactory situation if it makes others happy. While she is better about this, about expressing her own desires and hopes for the future at the end of Final Fantasy, during the period between X and X-2, she relapses a little bit without anyone to more actively encourage her to pursue them. Rikku herself comments in Eternal Calm that while everyone else is off chasing their dreams and building the new world, Yuna's are "on hold," because she feels a massive obligation to the people who wish to see her or ask her advice.
In addition, Yuna has almost a complete inability to refuse a call for help or request for aid (even if there is little she can do, she has the wrong skillset for the job, or it is of great inconvenience to her), nor can she truly stop herself from helping those who need it. This is particularly evident in X-2, where even though some of her surface personality has changed, her desire to help people when there's danger has not.
This is not to say she is weak-willed. Indeed, Yuna's resolve can be harder than steel when she makes what she believes to be the right choice. Indeed, once she's decided on what she believes the "right" thing to do (such as making people happy or give them hope), she will do whatever it takes to achieve that goal. For example, in order to give people hope, she continues on her pilgrimage despite Tidus and Rikku's urging, and even being declared a traitor to Yevon. She even scolds Tidus at one point early on in the pilgrimage for suggesting that the temporary nature of the Calm made the summoners' pilgrimages pointless. The only time she can be swayed from such decisions is by changing what she perceives to be the right choice to be. It's only when confronting Yunalesca and discovering that the Final Summoning was merely a method of perpetuating false hope, and had no real chance of defeating Sin for good, that she realizes that it is not the right path, and decides to not go through the Final Summoning.
And even though she may have relapsed a little regarding pursuing her own hopes and desires over others, she is not content to let herself be pushed along by the tides of fate. As a result of the things she learned on her pilgrimage, not to mention the profound effect many of her guardians (especially Tidus) have had on her, she's learned to not simply accept things as they appear to be, to learn the truth and chart her own course based on it. Just as Tidus had his own story, she now has hers, and it's up to her to decide what she wishes to do with it, even if that decision means staying at home, answering the questions of visitors and practicing holding her breath on her time off.
Another decision in which she is resolved is her decision to not be used by others again. Particularly after Seymour attempted to try to use her to grab for power - and to a certain extent after finding out that the Church of Yevon was essentially using summoners to perpetuate false hope - Yuna has inwardly little patience for anyone who might attempt to use her or her status for their own ends. This goes to the point of her adamantly refusing to join any political faction in the wake of Sin's defeat, or any marriages suggested to her.
Yuna's fears are fairly straightforward - she fears disappointing people, but more than anything she fears losing people she cares about. She lost both of her parents at a relatively young age, recently lost the person she'd fallen in love with, and has seen firsthand how easily and often people die, part of why she left on her pilgrimage to help others.
As for her guardians, more aptly considered her family, she's willing to do almost anything for them. She stops trying to Send Seymour and plays along with his wedding when Mika threatens their lives, and learning that she must sacrifice one of them to become the Final Aeon is one of the bigger reasons - second only to believing that the Final Summoning's method of perpetuating false hope to be abhorrent - that she opted to not go through the Final Summoning. She loves and appreciates them all very much, noticing even the small sentimental things about them, as evidenced by some of the things she talks about in the sphere that Tidus finds.
Character Abilities: Link
Note that I am roleplaying her under the assumption that she kept all of her endgame FFX abilities until she first started using sphere grids. Also note that given that the fayth is gone as of her canonpoint, she has lost the ability to summon.
She can also hold her breath for over 2 minutes. Yes this is important. :T
Character Inventory: Her Summoner's outfit and... yeah that's it. She's not journeying so...
Samples:
Introspective Sample:
It was a mixed kettle of feelings, being in Saeng Seong. There was something about it that didn't entirely sit right with her, being brought here so involuntarily, especially so many of them besides herself. While they weren't as pressing as defeating Sin had been two years ago, there were still the people who wished to see her and expected her to be there, though the city's natives had said that wasn't a problem. She could only imagine what pressing things so many others might be facing though, and how little comfort the locals' assurance would give.
She wasn't quite sure she liked being trapped like this. Almost used, though not the same way Seymour and the Church of Yevon had tried, certainly. But still...
The city seemed to truly need help, though. She couldn't pretend she understood it - so much of this city and its machina were very different from what could be found on Spira. But she could see the tightness in the faces of many of the city's locals. The hope with which many looked at the newcomers. It was a familiar expression. Just so had the people of Spira looked at her and the other summoners while she'd been on her pilgrimage.
Helping seemed to be the only way they might get home, at this rate. She just wished that the residents of the city were more open about what they could do. Sure, they'd discussed keeping in contact with others but... that couldn't be it, could it? It seemed far too strange and simple a solution. And what had even happened that caused them to need this help anyway.
Still... if it was really that difficult to discuss, they might very well have their reasons...
She would do what she could. If not for the city, than for the other people here who more than likely needed it. Needed hope. She could only hope that what she was doing was enough.
Interaction Sample: Some Test Drive threads I apologize for them (while technically fitting the requirements) being a little short. Life has been hectic for me lately.