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[nick / name]: Alisa
[personal LJ name]: alisamakora
[other characters currently played]: N/A
[e-mail]: Alisa_makora@yahoo.com
[AIM / messenger]: Alisamakora
[series]: Suikoden IV
[character]: Aldo
[character history / background]: http://gensopedia.duefiumi.com/index.php?title=Aldo
[character abilities]: Aldo is an archer, and as such is not much suited for melee but effective from a distance using his bow and arrows.
He traveled a lot pre-game and managed to survive for a good long while stranded on an island, so he has some survival skills, most likely including hunting and a good sense of direction. When it comes to stats, Aldo’s a little odd: He has the fourth highest speed stat in the game, out of a good several dozen characters who can participate in combat. He also has the highest magic defense, oddly enough, despite not being a mage. All his other stats are fairly average.
As for magic, he carries a common water rune, which is the series’ brand of magic. Water runes are mainly healing magic.
[character personality]:
Aldo has been described in many ways: Obsessive, Compassionate, Creepy, Stubborn, Kind, and Rash.
He was a traveler, which is how he ended up joining the crew in the first place: he’d been ditched on Hermitage Island and was stranded. When Lazlo found him, he was eager to both pay Lazlo back for rescuing him, and just to get off the island at last. He swears his gratitude and promises to work for the army to pay him back. He believes in properly paying people back for their help, and is rather vocal about it. His introduction is also a bit dramatic: He quite literally cheers and yells farewell to the “birds and beasts” of the island.
Once he got on the ship, we see another character trait: After so long traveling alone, he’d become unused to being around a large amount of people, and even comments on it to Lazlo. He’s social, but he’s not a fan of big crowds of people.
We really get to see more of his personality once Ted showed up. Dragged out of the fog ship, Ted, a fellow archer, seemed like a terribly lonely guy to Aldo, who took it upon himself to try and be friends with him. Ted did not like this and pretty much point blank told him. Angrily. Many times.
Not that it mattered to Aldo. He was persistent and determined to become a friend and confidant of this guy who seemed so standoffish yet painfully lonely. This stubbornness is fairly obvious in most of his actions around Ted.
To an outsider, it might seem like Aldo’s being obsessive and just a little creepy, but in reality he has a deep sense of compassion that is a personality trait shared by most of those who share the “Tenei star” in the Suikoden series, like Gremio and Lyon.
He brushed off all of Ted’s annoyance, anger, and later actual warnings about the Soul Eater’s nature. Obviously, helping Ted came first compared to worries about “what if” ’s. He’s not the type to worry about the chances of things going wrong, or the future. This is probably why he got stranded on that island in the first place.
During his time on the ship we see he can be fairly oblivious in social situations: He actually thanks Ted for helping him upon happening on him in the bath, saying it was sweet of him to retrieve a misfired arrow for him. This is terribly awkward and makes Ted leave while Aldo has no clue why.
The whole stubbornness and cheerful determination shows itself even more at the end of the war: Ted books it out of there as fast as he can to prevent the Soul Eater from devouring any of the souls of the people he‘d fought beside, and Aldo actually follows. Later on, when the fates of the game characters are listed with the credits, it’s listed that he later dies in a “mysterious accident” that is pretty much confirmed to be attributed to Ted’s Soul Eater. He was stubborn to the very end, in spite of all the warnings and knowing he could die.
He’s kind to a fault, in that manner. He was warned about it, but he chose to follow anyway, because he wanted to help him.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: Post ending, pre-death
[journal post]:
Wow, these things are amazing! [There might be some random gibberish entered over the keypad of the cell phone like device in excitement, sorry about that.] So tiny yet they can communicate with everyone here..![There is an up close shot of an eyeball as he turns on the video function. Feel free to ignore it.]
U-um, Actually, now that I think of it... can anyone suggest a good job for someone who hasn’t really had one? Not a real one, anyway.
[third person / log sample]:
Aldo frowned as he shoved his few belongings into a bag in a rush, dropping a pair of socks which he quickly retrieved. He had to hurry, or else he’d be left behind. He’d seen Ted sneak off to his room with a bag of supplies. He didn’t like to think of it, But the chances of him leaving soon were there, now that the war was over and Mr. Lazlo.. Had…
If so, Aldo wasn’t going to let him go alone. He couldn’t. Ted shouldn’t have to live like he did, never making friends, never connecting with people. Aldo wouldn’t let him live like that anymore. He felt a kinship with Ted, somehow. It was the first time in a long time he’d wanted to stick by someone’s side, and he’d do it.
Even after hearing about the power of the Soul Eater, the rune of life and death, he wasn’t afraid. It wasn’t a certainty, and he wasn’t going to let it scare him. He wanted to do this, and so he would.
There was no point worrying about it. He didn’t like living with regrets, anyway. And he’d certainly regret it if he let his friend just go on like he did based on the risk of some rune killing him.
Slinging the pack over his shoulder and grabbing his bow, he left a note on his bunk for whoever came by to find it. It would at least give the people they’d worked with the past 5 years some satisfaction to know they were fine.
[personal LJ name]: alisamakora
[other characters currently played]: N/A
[e-mail]: Alisa_makora@yahoo.com
[AIM / messenger]: Alisamakora
[series]: Suikoden IV
[character]: Aldo
[character history / background]: http://gensopedia.duefiumi.com/index.php?title=Aldo
[character abilities]: Aldo is an archer, and as such is not much suited for melee but effective from a distance using his bow and arrows.
He traveled a lot pre-game and managed to survive for a good long while stranded on an island, so he has some survival skills, most likely including hunting and a good sense of direction. When it comes to stats, Aldo’s a little odd: He has the fourth highest speed stat in the game, out of a good several dozen characters who can participate in combat. He also has the highest magic defense, oddly enough, despite not being a mage. All his other stats are fairly average.
As for magic, he carries a common water rune, which is the series’ brand of magic. Water runes are mainly healing magic.
[character personality]:
Aldo has been described in many ways: Obsessive, Compassionate, Creepy, Stubborn, Kind, and Rash.
He was a traveler, which is how he ended up joining the crew in the first place: he’d been ditched on Hermitage Island and was stranded. When Lazlo found him, he was eager to both pay Lazlo back for rescuing him, and just to get off the island at last. He swears his gratitude and promises to work for the army to pay him back. He believes in properly paying people back for their help, and is rather vocal about it. His introduction is also a bit dramatic: He quite literally cheers and yells farewell to the “birds and beasts” of the island.
Once he got on the ship, we see another character trait: After so long traveling alone, he’d become unused to being around a large amount of people, and even comments on it to Lazlo. He’s social, but he’s not a fan of big crowds of people.
We really get to see more of his personality once Ted showed up. Dragged out of the fog ship, Ted, a fellow archer, seemed like a terribly lonely guy to Aldo, who took it upon himself to try and be friends with him. Ted did not like this and pretty much point blank told him. Angrily. Many times.
Not that it mattered to Aldo. He was persistent and determined to become a friend and confidant of this guy who seemed so standoffish yet painfully lonely. This stubbornness is fairly obvious in most of his actions around Ted.
To an outsider, it might seem like Aldo’s being obsessive and just a little creepy, but in reality he has a deep sense of compassion that is a personality trait shared by most of those who share the “Tenei star” in the Suikoden series, like Gremio and Lyon.
He brushed off all of Ted’s annoyance, anger, and later actual warnings about the Soul Eater’s nature. Obviously, helping Ted came first compared to worries about “what if” ’s. He’s not the type to worry about the chances of things going wrong, or the future. This is probably why he got stranded on that island in the first place.
During his time on the ship we see he can be fairly oblivious in social situations: He actually thanks Ted for helping him upon happening on him in the bath, saying it was sweet of him to retrieve a misfired arrow for him. This is terribly awkward and makes Ted leave while Aldo has no clue why.
The whole stubbornness and cheerful determination shows itself even more at the end of the war: Ted books it out of there as fast as he can to prevent the Soul Eater from devouring any of the souls of the people he‘d fought beside, and Aldo actually follows. Later on, when the fates of the game characters are listed with the credits, it’s listed that he later dies in a “mysterious accident” that is pretty much confirmed to be attributed to Ted’s Soul Eater. He was stubborn to the very end, in spite of all the warnings and knowing he could die.
He’s kind to a fault, in that manner. He was warned about it, but he chose to follow anyway, because he wanted to help him.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: Post ending, pre-death
[journal post]:
Wow, these things are amazing! [There might be some random gibberish entered over the keypad of the cell phone like device in excitement, sorry about that.] So tiny yet they can communicate with everyone here..![There is an up close shot of an eyeball as he turns on the video function. Feel free to ignore it.]
U-um, Actually, now that I think of it... can anyone suggest a good job for someone who hasn’t really had one? Not a real one, anyway.
[third person / log sample]:
Aldo frowned as he shoved his few belongings into a bag in a rush, dropping a pair of socks which he quickly retrieved. He had to hurry, or else he’d be left behind. He’d seen Ted sneak off to his room with a bag of supplies. He didn’t like to think of it, But the chances of him leaving soon were there, now that the war was over and Mr. Lazlo.. Had…
If so, Aldo wasn’t going to let him go alone. He couldn’t. Ted shouldn’t have to live like he did, never making friends, never connecting with people. Aldo wouldn’t let him live like that anymore. He felt a kinship with Ted, somehow. It was the first time in a long time he’d wanted to stick by someone’s side, and he’d do it.
Even after hearing about the power of the Soul Eater, the rune of life and death, he wasn’t afraid. It wasn’t a certainty, and he wasn’t going to let it scare him. He wanted to do this, and so he would.
There was no point worrying about it. He didn’t like living with regrets, anyway. And he’d certainly regret it if he let his friend just go on like he did based on the risk of some rune killing him.
Slinging the pack over his shoulder and grabbing his bow, he left a note on his bunk for whoever came by to find it. It would at least give the people they’d worked with the past 5 years some satisfaction to know they were fine.