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[zodiac_brave]

Player

Name: demonrubberduck

Age: 26

Personal Journal: http://demonrubberduck.dreamwidth.org/

Contact: aim awkwardtonberry email enola_tsol@yahoo.com plurk www.plurk.com/demonrubberducky

Other In-Game Characters: none

 

Character (Original Universe)

Name: Ramza Beoulve (although he also sometimes goes by Ramza Lugria)

Age: around 18 by this canon point

Gender: Male

Canon: Final Fantasy Tactics/Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions

Canon Point: End of Game (but without knowledge of the post-credit events)

History: finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Ramza_Beoulve

Personality:

“Tolerate no injustice. Stray not from the true path.” Ramza’s father, a Knight Gallant respected by all, issued this mandate to his son on his death bed. Ramza took it to heart. Unfortunately, in a world filled more with gray than with blacks and whites, the true path is not always so easy to find.

Although Ramza has always been a compassionate and noble person, his motivations evolve throughout the game, and he ends up more jaded than when he was a fresh-faced squire at the Akademy. At the beginning, he was very concerned with upholding the family name (a very sensitive point for him, being a bastard son with two older, more successful half-brothers). However, as he navigates a war-torn, corrupt world, he realizes that names and nobility have no real value if the people that hide behind them take advantage of others for their own gain. To that end, Ramza forsook his noble last name, adopting his commoner mother’s surname instead.

A medieval-knight version of a boy scout, Ramza has never encountered a person in distress without coming to their aid, no matter how busy fighting demons and saving the world he might be. Despite his sheltered, upper-class upbringing, Ramza feels no different toward commoners than he does nobility. He has friends ranging from royalty to grungy machinists, with a few dragons and automatons tossed in liberally. He expresses empathy for the (non-demonic) enemies he faces, and always regrets when he has to kill someone when a less violent solution could have been used. Despite being a little socially awkward (his modus operandi for making friends is rescuing someone from mortal peril, he blows on blades of grass when conversations get too deep, and he’s the kind of doofus to walk into bars and ask for milk), he inspires intense loyalty in his friends, to the point where one was literally burned at the stake for trying to convince the world Ramza wasn’t a heretic.

Because yes, despite (or because of) his striving to always do what is right, Ramza ends up branded a heretic and completely written out of history. Walking the straight and narrow doesn’t endear you to false churches and murderous nobles, it seems. Endgame Ramza is not afraid of defying authority (and will make an honest attempt at being jaded toward most institutions); however, he still adheres to a strict moral code. For example, when trying to rescue his sister from the corrupt Knights Templar, he walks into what he knows is a trap and attempts to negotiate for his sister’s release, not because he thinks his enemy can be trusted, but because striking out and killing his enemy without at least making the attempt would bring him down to their level. He doesn’t hesitate to vanquish his eldest brother, who is pretty thoroughly corrupt; however, he resists striking a blow to kill his second brother, despite the fact that he has been transformed into a vampire and is actively attempting to drain his blood, because he knows Zalbaag (Brother #2) doesn’t have control over his own actions anymore. In the end, he is only able to finish the battle because Zalbaag begs him to kill him.

For someone who knows how Ramza ticks (coughDELITAcough), Ramza can be frightfully easy to manipulate. Luckily, though, despite his guileless nature, he is pretty tough and talented enough with both his blade and with commanding his army that he survives betrayal after betrayal. In the face of danger (and sometimes people literally transforming into demons), Ramza keeps his composure. Catch him off-guard in a non-combat setting, though (as his friend Mustadio does getting knocked out by Construct 8 in a side cut scene), though, and all that grace under fire is lost and much panicked flailing occurs.

Ramza’s driving motivations are to protect those he cares about (especially his sister, Alma), and to do what is right. The people he despises most are those who manipulate others, even if they are doing so ‘for the greater good’. For Ramza, the ends do not justify the means.

In the game, the main character’s default class are personalized, and they reflect the character’s true strengths. Ramza’s modified squire class has a four unique moves. Two of them focus on encouraging allies (a skill that reflects Ramza’s role as the commander to his rag-tag little group), one boosts his own stats (so doing the same thing, but internally), and the final is the Ultima spell (because Final Fantasy). Being a cheerleader for the team is an innate ability Ramza has; he only learns to do the same for himself later in the game (the skill becomes available after Chapter 2), and Ultima is only learned after taking a hit from the spell in Chapter 4. It is a pretty good summary of Ramza’s character growth. He innately looks after others and puts them before himself. It is only through his struggles that he really looks inwards and discovers his own strength, and he uses these hardships to learn and grow.

 

Third-Person Sample: From the Test Drive Meme: melodiesofcrack.dreamwidth.org/570.html

Mognet Sample:

To the brave and true Heroes of Light, Ramza Lugria Beoulve sends greetings.

I pray this letter finds you in good health and spirits.

Since my arrival here, I have endeavored to unlock the true nature of the crystals we comrades bear. The crystals of my homeland afforded great power to those who used them, but not without enacting a terrible cost. To put rest to my unease, I wish to confirm that these crystals bear only passing resemblance to the Zodiac Stones I speak of.

I offer my most sincere gratitude to anyone who would be kind enough to share with me their experiences with the Stone they now bear. Any physical changes wrought by the Stone are of particular interest, as well as any abilities you now possess that others of your job class do not.

I thank you for any assistance you offer in this quest.

Written in Aqures Ixen in the year… in my own hand.

Yours in the bonds of friendship,

Ramza Beoulve

 

Crystallis

Moogle Name: Simon

Moogle Gender:  Male

First Job: Freelancer (because it is basically Squire, and because Ramza may or may not have trust issues when it comes to powers drawn from crystal sources)

Second Job:  n/a for now

Limit Break: Shout- not the flashiest of moves, but Ramza lets out a battle cry that raises his stats. Physical and magical attack power go up, his speed increases, and he gets a temporary spike in bravery as well.

If he levels up enough, another option would be Ultima- a powerful, non-elemental spell that the Final Fantasy series is ever so fond of.