Post by Vincent Valentine on Mar 9, 2011 15:13:47 GMT -5
Vincent Valentine
"That was my sin, and this...this is my punishment."
Custom Title: {Crimson Chaos}[/b]
Age: 27 physically//60 chronologically
Gender: Male
Family: Grimoire Valentine//Deceased
Race: Human -with abilities to transform into beasts because of experimentation-
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Home World: Gaia
Alignment: Neutral//Good
Job: Former Turk
Items: Guns, Cell phone,
Accessories: golden Claw, red cloak
Appearance Vincent is a man physically 27 years old while he is really 60 years old. Vincent stands roughly six feet tall. He has crimson eyes and long black hair that streams about wildly at times. He wears a red band over his head with his fringe emerging over it. Vincent's most distinctive feature is his tattered red cape, held in place over his shoulders and lower face by several buckles. Underneath his cape, Vincent's attire is black with several straps and buckles. Vincent wears a holster for his gun against his right leg, and pointed metallic boots. He also wears a golden gauntlet on his left arm.
Personality: Dark and brooding over his past "sins", Vincent carries many burdens and secrets. Despite his cold personality, he is not uncaring: at a point where Cloud admits he thought Vincent was cold and did not care about the Planet, Vincent casually brushes off the remark. He also has a soft spot for Lucrecia, referring to her as a beautiful lady. He fiercely despises Hojo for his various immoral actions, and it is the promise of meeting him that stirs him to accompany the party in Final Fantasy VII. Vincent is reluctant to speak, although when he does, he typically has something very important to say and should be listened to. Vincent deeply objects to anything being tested on, especially humans and has a deep underlying conscious.
Vincent is naturally a loner, and had he not been a former ally of Cloud and his friends, he probably would not have joined them to fight Bahamut SIN in Advent Children. Vincent's few appearances had a profound impact each time they occur, and that Tifa's remark "they're our friends", after Vincent's arrival, shows his underlying warmth. We can see from this that though he is quiet and more withdrawn, he does have a soft spot for his friends and is close to them despite being cold. He was also noted to be similar to Cloud, only more mature and older, which influenced his character and voice work. Because of his quiet personality it can be noted that Vincent thinks a lot and usually puts more thought into difficult situations. Though he will fight and can rely on his strength and abilities to pull him through victorious, he is the kind to think about situations before facing them. He isn't the kind to charge in without knowing all the angles.
History: About twenty five to thirty years before Final Fantasy VII, Vincent was a member of the Turks, which was then known as Shinra's "Department of Administrative Research". When he was assigned to supervise the Jenova Project in Nibelheim, he fell in love with a scientist named Lucrecia Crescent, an assistant to Gast Faremis. When he discovered her link to his deceased father, Grimoire Valentine, Lucrecia distances herself from Vincent, ultimately entering a relationship with her associate, Professor Hojo, instead. Lucrecia became pregnant afterward, and Hojo planned to use the fetus as a test subject for the Jenova Project.
Vincent objected to the use of humans — especially Lucrecia — as test subjects. Even so, in the interest of science, Lucrecia proceeded with the treatment and became very sick as a result. Outraged, Vincent confronted Hojo in the Shinra Mansion's underground laboratory and a heated argument ensued. Hojo ended it with treachery, pulling a gun from his lab coat and shooting Vincent in the chest. He proceeded to use Vincent's half-dead body as the subject for experiments involving strengthening the endurance of the human body, and metamorphosis, enabling the body to transform into various monstrous forms. While Hojo did succeed in making Vincent's body stronger, the experiments were a failure because Vincent, though still living, remained in a death-like state.
As a last resort to rehabilitate him, Lucrecia infused the Chaos-tainted Mako into his broken-down body. The procedure worked, as Vincent's body, due to Hojo's previous experiments, was strong enough to become a vessel for Chaos; however, Chaos was completely uncontrollable and was only stopped when the Protomateria had a reaction to Chaos. The Protomateria, discovered by Grimoire alongside Chaos, was theorized by Lucrecia to have been created by the Planet "out of necessity as a means to control Chaos and prolong its own inevitable fate", and was put in Lucrecia's laboratory. She put it inside Vincent's chest, and thus Vincent was able to control Chaos to a degree. Vincent later awakened on the operating table and responded to his modified body with both anguish and rage.
Believing himself responsible for Lucrecia's illness after Sephiroth's birth, Vincent locked himself inside a coffin in the Shinra Mansion basement, where he slept mostly undisturbed for twenty-three years to atone for his "sins". He constantly relived his "nightmare" as a punishment for his inability to stop Lucrecia from submitting to Hojo's experiment on her unborn baby.
Many years later, Cloud and the party discover Vincent in a locked room in the basement of Shinra Manor in Nibelheim. After some careful coaxing, he is talked out of his sleep and speaks to Cloud. Cloud tells him about Sephiroth, and Vincent, knowing that he was the child Lucrecia had conceived, considers it another "sin" and returns to sleep. However, when Cloud tries to leave, Vincent follows and asks if they will meet Hojo. Cloud confirms, and Vincent agrees to accompany the party with thoughts of claiming revenge.
Later in the game, when the party finds Lucrecia in the Crystal Cave, Vincent's backstory is hinted at, with scenes depicting an argument between Vincent and Hojo over Lucrecia, and Hojo shooting Vincent and experimenting on him. However, the lack of dialogue in the scenes made their true significance ambiguous at best. When the party confronts Hojo at the controls of the Sister Ray, Vincent has a small scene where he claims that it was Hojo, not him, that was meant to sleep and atone for his crimes. Beyond these two segments, Vincent's character is fairly inconsequential.
As Vincent was an optional character, he, along with Yuffie, is not shown in the ending FMV. Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII- retcons that the two of them returned to Midgar early to help evacuate the city before Meteor hit, saving many lives, including a heavily-injured Rufus Shinra. This occurs following Sephiroth's defeat, while the other characters watch the events from above in the Highwind. However in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, both are seen with the rest of the group fighting Sephiroth during the last battle.
During the year following Final Fantasy VII, Vincent traveled the world, mysteriously popping in and out, retrieving information and helping those in need, keeping even looser connection with his friends than the rest of the party. In 2009, he eventually follows rumors to the Forgotten Capital, where the Remnants of Sephiroth were stationed. After Tseng and Elena were struck down and tortured by the trio at the Northern Crater, Vincent rescued them and helped them recover, while getting as much information about the remnants as he could.
When Kadaj begins to fight Cloud in the Forgotten City, Vincent rushes in and open fires at Kadaj while picking up Cloud and carrying him to safety. Resting in a remote part of the forest, Vincent tells Cloud about the Geostigma, and Sephiroth's impending rebirth. Cloud, still tormented over his guilt at being unable to prevent Aerith's and Zack's deaths, asks Vincent if sins are ever forgiven. Vincent simply replies with "I've never tried". After a few minutes of thought, Cloud decides that he will try, and tells Vincent that he would "phone in the verdict".
Vincent shows up with the rest of AVALANCHE for the battle against Bahamut SIN, asking Tifa where he could buy a cell phone (a joke in the film; he apparently is the only member of AVALANCHE without one). Aboard the Shera, Vincent tells the party that Kadaj is Sephiroth's "larva form" and would most likely become him, while Cloud dueled him atop the Shinra Headquarters remains. Although the party were eager to help, Vincent says that Cloud can handle him alone.
During the bonus feature, Reminiscence of Final Fantasy VII, Vincent makes a call to Cloud. At some point after Advent Children, Vincent purchased a cellphone, and made a point to relay a message to Yuffie that she had no right to call it.
A year following the events of Advent Children, Vincent is called into duty once again. When the mysterious group Deepground began attacking people around the world, Vincent Valentine and the World Regenesis Organization start investigating. Deepground, they found, was a group based from secret experiments underground in the Shinra Building that were trying to awaken the final Weapon, Omega. To do this, they were hunting down Vincent Valentine, who housed the Protomateria needed to control it. Vincent is forced to fight off the constant attacks while trying to solve the mystery of his own dark past. Eventually, he gets his answers with the help of a young Tsviet named Shelke.
Deepground is able to steal the Protomateria from Vincent's body, and Chaos becomes increasingly unstable within him throughout the game. At the end, it is revealed that a digitized version of Hojo was the plot's mastermind. Chaos is finally unleashed and defeats Hojo, Deepground, and Omega. When Vincent concludes his mission, he disappears within the Crystal Cave where Lucrecia lay for quite some time. Cloud's party eventually sends a befriended Shelke to retrieve Vincent, who has made his amends and forgiven himself for his "sin."
Credit where due (c) Final Fantasy Wiki
Abilities:
- Galian Beast - Vincent uses Beast Flare and Berserk Dance, both with fire elemental attacks.
- Death Gigas - Uses Gigadunk and Livewire, attacks with lightening element and is strong against enemies with physical damage attacks.
- Hellmasker - Splatter Combo and Nightmare, and is strong attacks enemies with magic attacks.
- Chaos - Where Vincent can use the summon within him to transform into the beast Chaos. By entering this form, Vincent receives the Death Penalty, the ultimate weapon that deals devastating damage to his opponents should the bullet hit them. This is Vincent’s
Summons: Chaos
Magic:
- Fire, Fira, Firagra
- Thunder, Thundaga
- Flare
- Dark matter
Strengths:
- Magics
- Physical attacks
- Immortality
- Intelligence
- Chaos
Weaknesses:
- Lucrecia
- Hojo (as he hates him so much)
- Chaos
Weapon Guns
- Cerberus - Three barreled revolver
- Hydra - High powered bolt action rifle
- Griffon - high action machine gun
Crushes: Lucrecia Crescent
How did you find us? pure awesome (And Zack's advertising ;P)
Role Play Sample:
A bloody red phantom raced between the trees, avoiding them and sometimes jumping above the branches as it speeded towards it’s goal.
That bloody red thing was none other then Vincent Valentine, the crimson demon, making his way to the Forgotten city as fast as he could, always vigilante so if something happened he would be ready.
After rescuing two members of his former unit, the Turks, Vincent made it his business to learn more about the Remnants of Sephiroth. The two were pretty beaten up and had been submitted to violent torture, but Vincent was able to save them and now he needed to rescue another of his friends, Cloud. Vincent could feel that his friend was in trouble.
Vincent had been keeping tracks of the Remnants’ various bases and the most recent one was located within the heart of the Forgotten City.
After a while, Vincent made it, arriving just in time. Cloud had been knocked out and the Remnants were already closing in on him. Vincent sprung into action and assuming that phantom like form again, he dove in, shielding Cloud from attacks while swirling around him and firing Cerberus at the three Remnants. Every time Vincent shot with Cerberus, three bullets flew against the Remnants though they protected themselves.
After seeing if Cloud was ok, Vincent grabbed him and they made they’re escape, once again running through the forest.
When the two finally found a safe place to stop, Vincent let Cloud go, leaving him leaning against a rock as he looked around to see if they were followed.
Password: Removed once approved
Note: Tai is the best person in the universe and I am really grateful to her for doing my app =) Luv ya! ^^ but unfortunately this means I sold my soul to the devil ; D
Note: >.> felt like putting a note in here as well. - Repa :3
