[info]
- PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: ELLE
AGE: 20
PRONOUN OF CHOICE: she/her
EMAIL ADDRESS: ellie.savell[at]googlemail.com
AIM SCREENNAME & MAIN PERSONAL LJ ACCOUNT: Got Materia, otilu
OTHER CHARACTERS: Temeraire, Tony Stark, Sasuke Uchiha, Cassie Lang, Harry Potter, Orihime Inoue.
- CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Yuffie Kisaragi
CODENAME: Skip
SERIES/SOURCE: Final Fantasy VII Clusterfuck, though her AU does not take into account any of the events of the game beyond her first encounter with the party.
AGE: 16
GENDER: female
ROLE: student / ex-Jailbait Sidekick for Wolverine
BACKGROUND: The WUTAI Corporation was originally a wealthy, thriving business based in Tokyo, Japan. Run by Godo Kisaragi, it specialised in weapons development and the replication or study of mystical artifacts. This unfortunately put it at a serious disadvantage in an americanised world market when compared with the larger companies overseas, and it began to struggle to keep up with the demands of the growing economy. To make matters worse during the height of this stressful situation, Godo’s wife died of a terminal illness, leaving him to look after their young daughter alone. Obviously, being a Japanese CEO, he had absolutely no idea how to look after a small child. Yuffie was already running wild by the time a rival corporation began luring WUTAI’s scientists and researchers away, and just before her eighth birthday, Godo capitulated and agreed to a humiliating merger. Even though she had no real interest in running the company, Yuffie was disgusted by this and resolved to ‘restore the honour of WUTAI’ on her own. This was in no way helped by her obsession with cheesy ninja films.
Of course, to her young mind this could be accomplished by stealing the inventions and patents of other companies, which she set about with a will. Such a will, in fact, that it is sometimes in doubt whether she's just using the company as an excuse. Regardless of motive, with the help of an oddly helpful civil servant, she was able to obtain the details of a large number of heroes and other crime-fighters. Sending out hundreds of fake distress e-mails, she eventually managed to attract the attention of Wolverine of the X-Men. Not that he wanted to help; he’d just rapidly gotten tired of her spamming his communicator. She followed him around as he did what he does best around the city, snatching up anything that looked promising when she thought he wasn't looking. A week or so later, he left Japan again. And refused to take her along. Outraged for approximately five days, Yuffie quickly returned to her self-appointed crusade and forgot all about it.
When she turned sixteen, she immediately applied for her own passport and visa - once again calling in some favours with the criminal element she had inevitably encountered over the past eight years - and flew to America. To her father's extreme relief, and the vague horror of everyone who'd ever met her. Fortunately for everyone but her, she arrived in New York and managed to target two ex-X-Men immediately. Must be some kind of Blessed With Suck sense, considering her track record. Anyway, these two - Cloud Strife and Tifa Lockhart - were decidedly more difficult to target, and after being brushed off, Yuffie resolved to follow them. And so she did: all the way to the Institute. Being Yuffie, she's entirely convinced that they have to have a vault full of amazing things, and she is determined to obtain it for herself. To this end, she has shamelessly enrolled as a student.
PERSONALITY: Obnoxious, brash, melodramatic, not to be trusted. Yuffie has been tricking people and committing minor crimes since she was eight; whilst she is undoubtedly childish and immature, she can and will lie, cheat and steal to get what she wants. And want she wants is generally your stuff. She is a serial kleptomaniac, and self-centred to boot. Her plots are more often than not ruined by her impatience or lack of anything resembling tact; although able to plan ahead to some degree, she thinks up elaborate plots and then promptly spoils them with an ill-timed outburst in the same breath. Luckily she’s also pretty darned inventive, so even if a plan is spoiled she can salvage the operation, even if that just means yelling abuse and stealing the target’s wallet instead of their entire fortune. She can settle.
Lacking any kind of raw physical strength and being fairly clumsy, neither Yuffie nor anyone else is entirely sure why she trained as a ninja. She’s actually good at it, when she’s concentrating or she’s not standing on high things making absurd proclamations. She collects odd gadgetry, and although she’s the heir to her father’s corporation she has very little interest in actually learning how to run a business or make her own technology, more than content to just take the ones other people have invented. DESPITE THIS LONG LIST OF CHARACTER DEFECTS! Yuffie can grow attached to people she spends a lot of time around, and even shows affection in her own odd little ways. Generally this is offset by her demanding too much of a relationship in the early stages and alienating the friend in question. She can be incredibly enthusiastic and cheerful, and gestures and dances around enough that standing at least a metre away at all times is just common sense. As she makes friends easily and twists and manipulates situations in a fairly eccentric manner, she thus adapts best to new situations by making them work for her. If you’ve gained her respect - or have something she wants - she is a strong and lively ally.
And finally, she suffers from intense travel-sickness and avoids transport whenever physically possible.
APPEARANCE: Yuffie is, firstly, very short. She's only five-foot-two despite being sixteen, and scrawny besides. Her hair is the typical Japanese black, short and slightly layered. Her sense of fashion is somewhat eclectic in that she doesn't seem to have any kind of system; rather she looks like she crashed into a clothing shop and fell out the other side wearing whatever she'd been able to grab whilst flailing wildly. Also short shorts. Since that's not exactly appropriate for school, she'll have switched to slightly longer shorts. Slightly.
POWERS: SPONTANEOUS SAVE-POINT CREATION She has Marvel-brand NINJA TRAINING, so obviously she can run up walls and perform ridiculous acrobatics, because learning to fight in Japan means you have no spine and a dexterity rating a cat would envy. She is pretty darned good at stealth, as long as there's no one around she wants to show off to, because in that case she is louder than a dinosaur exploding in a kitchen. Her actual mutant power is short-range teleportation - basically 'shunpo' or 'flash steps' - allowing her to reach anywhere else within her sight without having to actually move. (With a range of about five metres, though she's been known to reach up to fifteen during an adrenaline rush) So basically she can reach anywhere she can see, but she's stopped by, say, walls. Or locked doors, which is why she's working on her lockpicking. She is able to use her ability in mid-air to extend the range of a normal jump, but cannot use the ability if restrained by ropes or the grip of another person. Basically she can 'skip' actually taking the steps or making the movement, hence her codename.
ANYTHING ELSE?: NOT REALLY
- RP SAMPLES
First-person sample: to all@thenetwork.com
I found a really cool place it sells all kind of neat stuff! if you want to invest just send me money and I will buy whatever you want. pretty sweet deal huh?
don’t worry this is a legitimate email and this isn’t the same person as that last one anyway so stop thinking that >:|||
love
a friend
Third-person sample: Thunk.
Thunk.
Thunk.
Yuffie scowled at the gap behind the bed, into which her rubber and only source of entertainment had just vanished, and swivelled her chair back to the desk. She read the paragraph again. ... There are also sources of a more directly religious nature, such as the much-quoted letters of Alcuin, and Wulfstan's famous 'Sermo- No, even an hour of procrastination hadn't made history any more interesting. With an air of complete defeat, she pushed the handout as far from her as possible and, after a surreptitious check that the room was still otherwise empty, pulled out a small notebook with :) PLANS :) scribbled onto the front with what was probably Tippex on a very bad day. Opening the pad to a dog-eared page, she stuck her tongue between her teeth for a concentration boost, and began to add the day's notes to the growing map of the mansion. And in a moment of brilliance, the word SOON! underlined six times.
Maybe if she stepped up her plans, she could get out before they set some kind of test and she had to drop her pretence at total illiteracy. Stalling in remedial English wouldn't last forever, especially since Yuffie was pretty sure the teacher could read minds. With a determined snap, she closed the book again and sealed it shut with elastic bands. She could do it! No way a school was tougher to break in and out of than a multi-corporation skyscraper. Right?
NAME: ELLE
AGE: 20
PRONOUN OF CHOICE: she/her
EMAIL ADDRESS: ellie.savell[at]googlemail.com
AIM SCREENNAME & MAIN PERSONAL LJ ACCOUNT: Got Materia, otilu
OTHER CHARACTERS: Temeraire, Tony Stark, Sasuke Uchiha, Cassie Lang, Harry Potter, Orihime Inoue.
- CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Yuffie Kisaragi
CODENAME: Skip
SERIES/SOURCE: Final Fantasy VII Clusterfuck, though her AU does not take into account any of the events of the game beyond her first encounter with the party.
AGE: 16
GENDER: female
ROLE: student / ex-Jailbait Sidekick for Wolverine
BACKGROUND: The WUTAI Corporation was originally a wealthy, thriving business based in Tokyo, Japan. Run by Godo Kisaragi, it specialised in weapons development and the replication or study of mystical artifacts. This unfortunately put it at a serious disadvantage in an americanised world market when compared with the larger companies overseas, and it began to struggle to keep up with the demands of the growing economy. To make matters worse during the height of this stressful situation, Godo’s wife died of a terminal illness, leaving him to look after their young daughter alone. Obviously, being a Japanese CEO, he had absolutely no idea how to look after a small child. Yuffie was already running wild by the time a rival corporation began luring WUTAI’s scientists and researchers away, and just before her eighth birthday, Godo capitulated and agreed to a humiliating merger. Even though she had no real interest in running the company, Yuffie was disgusted by this and resolved to ‘restore the honour of WUTAI’ on her own. This was in no way helped by her obsession with cheesy ninja films.
Of course, to her young mind this could be accomplished by stealing the inventions and patents of other companies, which she set about with a will. Such a will, in fact, that it is sometimes in doubt whether she's just using the company as an excuse. Regardless of motive, with the help of an oddly helpful civil servant, she was able to obtain the details of a large number of heroes and other crime-fighters. Sending out hundreds of fake distress e-mails, she eventually managed to attract the attention of Wolverine of the X-Men. Not that he wanted to help; he’d just rapidly gotten tired of her spamming his communicator. She followed him around as he did what he does best around the city, snatching up anything that looked promising when she thought he wasn't looking. A week or so later, he left Japan again. And refused to take her along. Outraged for approximately five days, Yuffie quickly returned to her self-appointed crusade and forgot all about it.
When she turned sixteen, she immediately applied for her own passport and visa - once again calling in some favours with the criminal element she had inevitably encountered over the past eight years - and flew to America. To her father's extreme relief, and the vague horror of everyone who'd ever met her. Fortunately for everyone but her, she arrived in New York and managed to target two ex-X-Men immediately. Must be some kind of Blessed With Suck sense, considering her track record. Anyway, these two - Cloud Strife and Tifa Lockhart - were decidedly more difficult to target, and after being brushed off, Yuffie resolved to follow them. And so she did: all the way to the Institute. Being Yuffie, she's entirely convinced that they have to have a vault full of amazing things, and she is determined to obtain it for herself. To this end, she has shamelessly enrolled as a student.
PERSONALITY: Obnoxious, brash, melodramatic, not to be trusted. Yuffie has been tricking people and committing minor crimes since she was eight; whilst she is undoubtedly childish and immature, she can and will lie, cheat and steal to get what she wants. And want she wants is generally your stuff. She is a serial kleptomaniac, and self-centred to boot. Her plots are more often than not ruined by her impatience or lack of anything resembling tact; although able to plan ahead to some degree, she thinks up elaborate plots and then promptly spoils them with an ill-timed outburst in the same breath. Luckily she’s also pretty darned inventive, so even if a plan is spoiled she can salvage the operation, even if that just means yelling abuse and stealing the target’s wallet instead of their entire fortune. She can settle.
Lacking any kind of raw physical strength and being fairly clumsy, neither Yuffie nor anyone else is entirely sure why she trained as a ninja. She’s actually good at it, when she’s concentrating or she’s not standing on high things making absurd proclamations. She collects odd gadgetry, and although she’s the heir to her father’s corporation she has very little interest in actually learning how to run a business or make her own technology, more than content to just take the ones other people have invented. DESPITE THIS LONG LIST OF CHARACTER DEFECTS! Yuffie can grow attached to people she spends a lot of time around, and even shows affection in her own odd little ways. Generally this is offset by her demanding too much of a relationship in the early stages and alienating the friend in question. She can be incredibly enthusiastic and cheerful, and gestures and dances around enough that standing at least a metre away at all times is just common sense. As she makes friends easily and twists and manipulates situations in a fairly eccentric manner, she thus adapts best to new situations by making them work for her. If you’ve gained her respect - or have something she wants - she is a strong and lively ally.
And finally, she suffers from intense travel-sickness and avoids transport whenever physically possible.
APPEARANCE: Yuffie is, firstly, very short. She's only five-foot-two despite being sixteen, and scrawny besides. Her hair is the typical Japanese black, short and slightly layered. Her sense of fashion is somewhat eclectic in that she doesn't seem to have any kind of system; rather she looks like she crashed into a clothing shop and fell out the other side wearing whatever she'd been able to grab whilst flailing wildly. Also short shorts. Since that's not exactly appropriate for school, she'll have switched to slightly longer shorts. Slightly.
POWERS: SPONTANEOUS SAVE-POINT CREATION She has Marvel-brand NINJA TRAINING, so obviously she can run up walls and perform ridiculous acrobatics, because learning to fight in Japan means you have no spine and a dexterity rating a cat would envy. She is pretty darned good at stealth, as long as there's no one around she wants to show off to, because in that case she is louder than a dinosaur exploding in a kitchen. Her actual mutant power is short-range teleportation - basically 'shunpo' or 'flash steps' - allowing her to reach anywhere else within her sight without having to actually move. (With a range of about five metres, though she's been known to reach up to fifteen during an adrenaline rush) So basically she can reach anywhere she can see, but she's stopped by, say, walls. Or locked doors, which is why she's working on her lockpicking. She is able to use her ability in mid-air to extend the range of a normal jump, but cannot use the ability if restrained by ropes or the grip of another person. Basically she can 'skip' actually taking the steps or making the movement, hence her codename.
ANYTHING ELSE?: NOT REALLY
- RP SAMPLES
First-person sample: to all@thenetwork.com
I found a really cool place it sells all kind of neat stuff! if you want to invest just send me money and I will buy whatever you want. pretty sweet deal huh?
don’t worry this is a legitimate email and this isn’t the same person as that last one anyway so stop thinking that >:|||
love
a friend
Third-person sample: Thunk.
Thunk.
Thunk.
Yuffie scowled at the gap behind the bed, into which her rubber and only source of entertainment had just vanished, and swivelled her chair back to the desk. She read the paragraph again. ... There are also sources of a more directly religious nature, such as the much-quoted letters of Alcuin, and Wulfstan's famous 'Sermo- No, even an hour of procrastination hadn't made history any more interesting. With an air of complete defeat, she pushed the handout as far from her as possible and, after a surreptitious check that the room was still otherwise empty, pulled out a small notebook with :) PLANS :) scribbled onto the front with what was probably Tippex on a very bad day. Opening the pad to a dog-eared page, she stuck her tongue between her teeth for a concentration boost, and began to add the day's notes to the growing map of the mansion. And in a moment of brilliance, the word SOON! underlined six times.
Maybe if she stepped up her plans, she could get out before they set some kind of test and she had to drop her pretence at total illiteracy. Stalling in remedial English wouldn't last forever, especially since Yuffie was pretty sure the teacher could read minds. With a determined snap, she closed the book again and sealed it shut with elastic bands. She could do it! No way a school was tougher to break in and out of than a multi-corporation skyscraper. Right?