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» NAME: Lloyd Irving
» FANDOM: Tales of Symphonia
» CANON POINT: Right after the events of the first game.
» AGE: 17
» GENDER: Male
» ORIENTATION: Where do babies come from?
» PAIRING PREFERENCES:
» APPEARANCE:
Lloyd is quite average looking and, while attractive, doesn’t put a lot of thought into his everyday physical appearance. He sports short brown hair that spikes up away from his face, save for a few strands that seem to cowlick down toward his ear. For brown eyes, they sure are bright, and one could say they almost have a reddish tint to them. As he’s trained with swords nearly his whole life, Lloyd is somewhat toned, though his attraction to sweets keeps him from being a complete muscleman.
» PERSONALITY:
Lloyd has been accurately described as an idealist for his ever-present desire to make things right, even if it might seem too large scale for him at first. The way that Lloyd is not an idealist is the fact that he does not stop at mere ideas - he puts action to his words and it is through his unbreakable will and determination, as well as his trust in his friends, that makes his ideas become a reality.
Lloyd is quite naïve in the beginning, something he admits to feeling himself. He matures quite a bit throughout the course of the game, understanding that not only is he capable of making mistakes, but that he must learn from them and continue walking on despite the humiliation or the consequences of his actions. He has a compassion that is near unrivaled and trusts people instantly on face value. This makes him very susceptible to betrayal, but even his betrayers are recipients of his lasting faith, considering he went so far as to tell one of them that he still trusted him during the betrayal itself.
The betrayal and the suffering does not come without anger, though. While some call him a gentle idealist, others would describe him as a warmonger. Lloyd is quick to anger, prevailing the most during the first half of his adventure thanks mostly in part to the work of the Desians. The leading villain of the game would think of Lloyd as nothing more than a bloodthirsty ogre, accusing him of much more slaughter than he himself has committed. Untrue, Lloyd’s path is undeterred by the slander, but his swords remain ever ready nonetheless.
Besides a possible warmonger and a budding idealist, Lloyd is also what some might call a dunce. (: Although he excels in arts and crafts and physical work, Lloyd is not one for math, history, science… or anything else, really. Perhaps he would be if he applied himself, but the other downfall to Lloyd’s grades is his terrible attention span and liability to fall asleep in class. This persists through his journey, seeing as Lloyd enters each and every new location with burning enthusiasm but exits having long since burnt out, and looking forward to the next location all the more.
All in all, even while his aggressiveness can be a damper at times, Lloyd’s the sort of person that people can rely on when they need a close friend, or even a stranger who would lend them a hand free of charge. Just give him a toy to play with occasionally, and you’re all set.
» HISTORY:
Lloyd was found nearby his dying mother by a dwarven man named Dirk, who, feeling a sense of pity and guilt for the woman, took up the task of raising the human child as his own. Lloyd grew up close to but apart from a small village named Iselia, learning valuable and numerous Dwarven Vows, befriending the Chosen of Regeneration, Colette Brunel, and copying the homework of young Genis Sage (and quite naturally befriending him, too).
At first, a lot of the things that happen to Lloyd in the beginning are not brought on by his own actions. He merely tags along the day Colette is to start her journey as the Chosen and believes the attackers at the temple to be Desians, along with meeting the less-than-pleasant mercenary Kratos, and likewise follows Genis to a Desian owned ranch filled with human prisoners. Despite it being forbidden by law and despite the risk of consequence, Lloyd and Genis approach the ranch to speak with an elderly woman named Marble, who’s looking worse for wear.
By getting involved with the prisoner, whom needed proper protection for a (normally) enhancing jewel called an Exsphere, Lloyd learns of the reason behind his mother’s demise: that Desians killed her in hopes of retrieving the very Exsphere she left in Lloyd’s care. Fueled with a (brief) desire for vengeance, it is no surprise that Lloyd held no remorse for fighting back against the Desians when they attacked Iselia, searching for Lloyd himself for being caught near the human ranch. Although Lloyd and Genis both manage to break through to the leader of the Desian raid, they do not engage in combat, for the leader instead sends out a horrific looking monster to fight in his place.
It is here that Lloyd first learns that there is the possibility of consequences for every action, for the monster attacking Genis and him turns out to be Marble from the ranch, mutated because of her defective Exsphere. Not only does she perish due to the transformation, but the town of Iselia itself suffered immeasurable damage and suffered casualties, and Lloyd understood that it was his actions at the ranch, although packed with good intentions, were the cause of all of it. Exiled from the town, along with Genis, Lloyd instead decides to travel with Colette on her journey of regeneration.
Through most of the first half of Lloyd’s adventure, his concern rests mostly with Colette’s safety and wellbeing, which seems to be quickly deteriorating. It is during this time also that he learns of Exspheres’ true origin: they are made up of the essence of human lives, the very humans that Desians cultivate in their ranches. Lloyd’s mother’s life is therefore within his Exsphere, and Marble’s life within Genis’. Lloyd and the group also learn of a world opposite of their own Sylvarant, and that through saving their world, they put the other, Tethe’alla, in danger.
At the end of Colette’s journey as the Chosen, it is revealed that in order to save Sylvarant by regenerating the world and complete her transformation into an angel, she must give up her human life. It is also revealed that there is a much more sinister operation going on, for rather than the Chosen’s sacrifice actually having anything to do with the regenerating of the world, the regeneration is merely a bonus - the body of the Chosen is instead used for something highly irrelevant, and thus Lloyd would have non of it. Taking Colette’s soulless body, Lloyd and the rest of the group escape to the parallel world of Tethe’alla to see what can be done to reverse the effects of the Chosen’s ritual.
In Tethe’alla, Lloyd is introduced to a myriad of problems. Although Exsphere production takes place in Sylvarant, it is within Tethe’alla that they are used for running machines, experiments, and for sinister trading between sinister individuals, each of which things that the essence of a human life trapped in a gemstone, undying, should not have to suffer through. Through a minor disaster involving the capture of Genis and his sister Raine on the lone basis that they are half-elves, Lloyd is made aware that discrimination is prominent throughout this new world. Not to mention the issue with the parallel worlds that survive off of the decline of the other. Upon not being able to properly separate the worlds, the only option left is to reunite them, and a very persistent individual stands in Lloyd’s way of completing that goal…
Thus, it is Lloyd’s aim to once and for all save Colette (who also goes through her own multitude of problems), put an end to Exsphere misuse and find a way to keep the souls inside from suffering any longer, to disallow discrimination to enter his heart, even though it was Desian half-elves who caused his mother’s death and the work of one lone half-elf who has brought upon the majority of the worlds’ suffering, and finally, to reunite the two worlds of Sylvarant and Tethe’alla to cease the endless race for mana and the sacrifice of the Chosen for the sake of either world.
Truly, what Lloyd desires, is a world without meaningless suffering.
» OTHER:
There is a jewel attached to the back of his left hand called an Exsphere, which brings out hidden potential in anybody who uses one, and Lloyd is no exception. Lloyd’s Exsphere is particularly special, evolving and growing stronger just as much as Lloyd himself is. At the end of the game, he is able to use his Exsphere to bring forth wings, but whether or not he is still able to do this is unknown. It is likely that his Exsphere evolved into a higher power gem known as a Cruxis Crystal, which holds the power to turn half-elves - or humans, in Lloyd’s and a few others’ cases - into angels.
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[if any of this sounds familiar, it's because I used to be never-sacrifice ♥ so I'm only plagiarizing myself.]