Post by Vincent Valentine on Jun 16, 2010 13:18:14 GMT -5
Character's Name
"Cool? Hmm... I guess that's just the way I am, sorry"
Custom Title: pray for M E R C Y
Age: 27 (physically)-60 (Dirge of Cerberus)
Gender: Male.
Family: None.
Race: Human with transformation as well as inhuman abilities.
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Home World: Gaia-FFVII
Alignment: Neutral-Good
Job: Former Turk.
Items:The Materia within him that keeps Chaos in control as well as hidden.
also a key chain attached to it that bears a Cerberus-shaped charm, which is referenced as the aforementioned "Dirge".
Accessories: The Triple Barreled gun, Cerberus.
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 when meeting Cloud's allies. 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.
Nojima has noted that 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. His voice actor Shogo Suzuki noted that 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. He was also noted to be very similar to Cloud, only more mature and older, which influenced his character and voice work.
History:
Vincent was once 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, Lucrecia fled 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, which had been 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 it's 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, he locked himself inside a coffin in the basement of Nibelheim's Shinra Mansion, where he slept mostly undisturbed for 28 years to atone for his "sins". He constantly relived his "nightmare" for these years as a punishment for his inability to stop Lucrecia from submitting to Hojo's experiment on her unborn baby.
Vincent was discovered by Cloud and the party in a locked room in the basement of Shinra Manor in Nibelheim. After some careful coaxing, he was talked out of his sleep and spoke to Cloud. Cloud told him about Sephiroth, and Vincent, knowing that he was the child Lucrecia had conceived, considered it another "sin" and returned to sleep. However, when Cloud tried to leave, Vincent followed and asked if they would meet Hojo. Cloud confirmed this, and Vincent agreed to accompany him with thoughts of claiming revenge.
Later in the game, when the party found Lucrecia in the Crystal Cave, Vincent's backstory was 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 confronted Hojo at the controls of the Sister Ray, Vincent had a small scene where he claimed 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 in the game, he, along with Yuffie, was 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. In Nibelheim, the player must get the Mansion Key from the safe upstairs in the Shinra Mansion. The combination is RIGHT TO 36, LEFT TO 10, RIGHT TO 59, RIGHT TO 97. Following the opening of the safe a tough boss called Lost Number will appear. The key can be picked up from the safe after the battle and used to open the locked cellar in the basement. Inside, the player will find coffins, and one of them contains Vincent. The player must talk about Sephiroth when Vincent asks the party a question. When the coffin closes, the player must touch the coffin again and ask his name when Vincent poses another question. As the party leaves the cavern Vincent will join.
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 0009, he eventually followed 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 began to fight Cloud in the Forgotten City, Vincent rushed in and opened fire at Kadaj while picking up Cloud and carrying him to safety. Resting in a remote part of the forest, Vincent relayed information about the Geostigma to Cloud, and the impending rebirth of Sephiroth. Cloud, still tormented over his guilt at being unable to prevent the deaths of Aerith and Zack, asked Vincent if sins were 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 showed up with the rest of AVALANCHE for the battle against Bahamut SIN, asking as to where he could buy a cell phone to Tifa (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 a "larva form" of Sephiroth and would most likely become him, while Cloud dueled him atop the remains of Shinra Headquarters. Although the party members were eager to help, Vincent told them that Cloud could handle him alone.
During the bonus feature Reminiscence of Final Fantasy VII, Vincent made a call to Cloud. At some point after Advent Children, Vincent purchased a cell phone, 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, in 2010, Vincent was called into duty once again. When the mysterious group Deepground began attacking people around the world, Vincent Valentine and the World Regenesis Organization started 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 powerful Protomateria needed to control Omega. Vincent was forced to fight off the constant attacks while trying to solve the mystery of his own dark past. Eventually, he got his answers with the help of a young Tsviet named Shelke.
Deepground was able to steal the Protomateria straight from Vincent's body, and Chaos became increasingly unstable within Vincent throughout the game. At the end, it was revealed that a digitized version of Hojo was the mastermind of the plot. Chaos was finally completely unleashed and defeated Hojo, Deepground, and Omega. When Vincent concluded his mission, he disappeared within the Crystal Cave where Lucrecia lay for some good time. Cloud's party eventually sent a befriended Shelke to retrieve Vincent, who had made his amends and forgiven himself for his "sin". In addition, he claimed that Chaos and Omega had "Returned to the Planet" meaning he might have lost the powers of Chaos after the fight with Omega.
Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII- revealed that when Vincent confronted Hojo he was shot, and turned into a sample for Hojo's metamorphosis experiment. The experiment left Vincent with three demonic transformations, but he was left in a death-like state. Upon discovering this, Lucrecia took his body and attempted to save him by implanting the Chaos gene within him. While Vincent was revived by this process, he became Chaos itself and had no control over the form. The Protomateria then appeared and Lucrecia used the materia to suppress Chaos and allow Vincent to have some control over the transformation. In a flashback, Vincent woke up on a table in a lab, and looked down to find himself in his Galian Beast form.
It is ambiguous precisely what happened between Vincent's awakening in the laboratory and the beginning of his extended slumber. In a note written by Hojo - the first clue provided for uncovering Vincent - he claimed to have put Vincent to sleep in the basement himself. While there was originally much conjecture as to whether Vincent's sleep was fully voluntary versus induced because of his own attitude toward it and the mystery of his in-game attire and long hair, a flashback scene in Dirge of Cerberus clearly illustrates Vincent was experimented on and then immediately put to sleep in his current appearance as a Turk. His change of appearance to his current design is unexplained.
Abilities: Limit Breaks cause him to shapeshift as a result of the experiments Hojo performed on him.
Summons: N/A
Magic: N/A
Strengths: Vincent is a talented guns man, able to shoot at great distances and never miss the target. His willpower is just as strong, giving him the ability to never stop once he's begun. His stamina is high, making him able to run great distances for long periods of time. Vincent is not afraid of death, and is never one to back down on a worthy fight. Always charging into battle first thing. All in all, he can prove to be a top class warrior.
Weaknesses:
Lucrecia.
If his friends were to ever be harmed.
Crushes:
Lucrecia Crescent
Role Play Sample:
The wind was strong. It was cool. Raven locks danced before the ruby red eyes of the thought filled Vincent Valentine. He stood out in Midgar. Perhaps it was his colors...? Or the chance that he had a gun on his side? No matter, he did not care. Everyone was going to be ignored, as they mostly have been almost his entire life. His face mostly covered by his hair and cloak made him almost feared by some, if not most. His metal claw on his left hand was also a sign that he was not to be messed with. As he walked with a straight line before him, others moved out of his way, how many there were or how little. He was moving to head a bit out of the city, just to get some good fresh air. No need for simple as well as trivial conflicts that most humans seemed to what every where the lone Vincent went.
As he continued, his thoughts traveled to the past. Not something new... A sigh then left his lips as he remembered Lucrecia. "Tch.." He huffed and turned his head, shaking the thoughts from his mind for the time being. He should really focus on the now, but his mind... his thoughts... They always bright him back... Back when things were more simple.. Back when.. when Lucrecia was still.. "Why... Why now?" He asked himself, holding his right hand to his head, feeling as if a migraine or some sort of headache was about to pulse through his body. He had not thought of her in a while. A few days or possibly a week. Still... It always pained him to think of her...her fate and how he was practically responsible for her state. How he was able to do little to nothing to truly protect her. Like someone who would really love her...
Another sigh left him as his hand grew into a fist and swung to his side, letting himself look out before him, his hair continued to dance about before him. Long and entangled. His thoughts were almost at that craze. It was...stressful..but only to the normal..average human. Vincent Valentine, however..was far from normal. His eyes arched down before closing them as his thoughts continued to rattle.
"Lucrecia.." His voice deep and gilt ridden.
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I gained a great deal of help though- finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Vincent
