[ooc] asgardeventide application
OOC Information;
Name; Simone
Personal Journal; ration
Contact; Email: simmichan@gmail.com | AIM: BluePeterLadyboy | Plurk: FiremanSam
Other Characters; N/A
IC Information;
Character Name; Reno
Canon; Final Fantasy VII
Canon Point; shortly after the whole Sector 7 debacle
Age; late-20s, as a rough guess
House; Loki
Power; Telekinesis
Personality; Reno seems, at first glance, to be fairly simple to gauge. Just some hired thug, dense as a brick. This impression could well be bolstered by his... liberal take on the uniform and the fact that when he's not on the clock, he doesn't give a single fuck about his job. It can be hard to imagine the guy you saw lazing around the bar yesterday is the same guy who's going to work you over tomorrow, after all.
He's no slouch though. When he's on the job, he takes it seriously - evidenced by the fact that he and Rude have the highest success rate in their department. There's very little that phases him, the only thing he's taken exception to in his career having been kidnapping survivors survivors from Nibelheim for Hojo to experiment on, (Apparently committing mass murder in order to stitch up a terrorist cell or tracking Cloud and Zack to bring them back in aren't as bad - or maybe his perception just changed in those five years,) which has blessed him with an incredibly laid-back nature, taking his time to go about things in a more controlled manner.
That said, he doesn't appreciate being taken for a fool when there are serious matters at hand and one shouldn't mistake his temperament for a long fuse. He's also not willing to stick his neck out more than he has to, however. His job cuts his life expectancy pretty dramatically and he's not keen to get recycled into the planet any sooner than he has to, so he's not afraid to ditch a losing battle. Dying doesn't exactly do anyone any favours. Similarly, Reno doesn't much believe in doing things unnecessarily. Every fight with him after Sector 7 - where he's trying to stall the group long enough for the plate release to go through - is optional, and the onus is on Cloud to start them. Maybe if he was on his own, he'd go for it more readily, but it seems more likely that he's not willing to throw himself into a fight he can't win if he can avoid it, much as he really hates Cloud.
Reno's an intensely loyal character, which could be hard to picture from a guy like him, but there you have it. The Turks are his primary concern and he'll not stand for seeing their safety or integrity threatened. Any more than it is as standard anyway. And whilst not really having anything in the way of empathy, he's fairly intuitive. One has to be to work closely with a guy who speaks mostly in ellipses. It's not a bad quality to have, dealing... Data handling. And recruitment.
His biggest downfall as a person is probably his pride. He takes a lot of pride, both in his work and in himself. It doesn't seem to be a huge detriment - he seems to get over things fairly quickly, in fact - but it comes across that he really doesn't appreciate being talked down to or losing. He likes a modicum of control in his affairs and wants things to happen on his terms. Cloud'n co. messing him up enough that they had to bring in Elena is an obvious sore spot, Rude tells of him testing out a "new weapon" for the next time they see eachother. Plus, he's really not a nice person. Knows that sometimes you just have to shut up and deal, even if you're working with someone you can't stand, and he'd probably be alright for a chat in a bar if you engaged him, but his overall demeanour is cold and dismissive. Not really too interested in other people. Rude's the socialite out of the group, not him.
Samples;
Network Sample; I've got a few threads for this, if that's cool?
Log Sample; Ah-- this was... Not good.
He couldn't remember the last time he'd come out this bad in a fight, must've been years. Everything hurt-- well, that was an exaggeration, but it was still painful as all fuck. His ribs, more than anything. Felt like being punched by 30 obscenely strong children every time any time he tried for anything more than shallow breathing - they especially didn't agree when he checked the inside pockets of his jacket for a potion, or maybe a restore materia he'd forgotten about.
Not as exciting as a restore, Reno found a potion after some digging. A hi-potion, in fact. Which was all just as well, he doubted he had the energy for anything bigger than a low-level cure anyway. It wasn't a complete solution, but it took care of the big things; ribs and the like. Everything after that was cuts and bruises that could wait until they got back to HQ.
Confident enough in his ability to move without making any noises that were... unbecoming, he climbed into the cockpit - not really interested in making the trip with Tseng and the ancient for company - and sat in the free seat. Contemplated saying something to Rude about what a shit day this had been, but he decided against it. Quietly rubbed a bruise on his side as he watched the explosions down below. Couldn't believe this, couldn't fucking believe they'd put a hurt on him like this. Tseng had blathered something about a new recruit and time off; Reno had only gotten about half of it and this wasn't exactly the place to have that conversation anyway, but it was enough to piss him off.
He looked at Rude again, about to say something about how embarrassing it was. About how next time he saw them he'd show them what it meant when you fucked with the Turks-- when you fucked with him. 'Cause yeah, sure, the department used to be bigger than this and they were stretched a bit thin, but they could handle it. He'd handled it just fine back there. Come out a little worse for wear, sure, but it wasn't as if he'd messed up the job. Did what he'd gone in to do without too many complications.
Kept his mouth shut about it, though. Noting they were already back, landing on the helipad. That was a conversation for another time anyway, when they'd ditched their precious cargo in the labs.
Maybe with a drink in his hand too. He certainly felt he'd earned it.
Name; Simone
Personal Journal; ration
Contact; Email: simmichan@gmail.com | AIM: BluePeterLadyboy | Plurk: FiremanSam
Other Characters; N/A
IC Information;
Character Name; Reno
Canon; Final Fantasy VII
Canon Point; shortly after the whole Sector 7 debacle
Age; late-20s, as a rough guess
House; Loki
Power; Telekinesis
Personality; Reno seems, at first glance, to be fairly simple to gauge. Just some hired thug, dense as a brick. This impression could well be bolstered by his... liberal take on the uniform and the fact that when he's not on the clock, he doesn't give a single fuck about his job. It can be hard to imagine the guy you saw lazing around the bar yesterday is the same guy who's going to work you over tomorrow, after all.
He's no slouch though. When he's on the job, he takes it seriously - evidenced by the fact that he and Rude have the highest success rate in their department. There's very little that phases him, the only thing he's taken exception to in his career having been kidnapping survivors survivors from Nibelheim for Hojo to experiment on, (Apparently committing mass murder in order to stitch up a terrorist cell or tracking Cloud and Zack to bring them back in aren't as bad - or maybe his perception just changed in those five years,) which has blessed him with an incredibly laid-back nature, taking his time to go about things in a more controlled manner.
That said, he doesn't appreciate being taken for a fool when there are serious matters at hand and one shouldn't mistake his temperament for a long fuse. He's also not willing to stick his neck out more than he has to, however. His job cuts his life expectancy pretty dramatically and he's not keen to get recycled into the planet any sooner than he has to, so he's not afraid to ditch a losing battle. Dying doesn't exactly do anyone any favours. Similarly, Reno doesn't much believe in doing things unnecessarily. Every fight with him after Sector 7 - where he's trying to stall the group long enough for the plate release to go through - is optional, and the onus is on Cloud to start them. Maybe if he was on his own, he'd go for it more readily, but it seems more likely that he's not willing to throw himself into a fight he can't win if he can avoid it, much as he really hates Cloud.
Reno's an intensely loyal character, which could be hard to picture from a guy like him, but there you have it. The Turks are his primary concern and he'll not stand for seeing their safety or integrity threatened. Any more than it is as standard anyway. And whilst not really having anything in the way of empathy, he's fairly intuitive. One has to be to work closely with a guy who speaks mostly in ellipses. It's not a bad quality to have, dealing... Data handling. And recruitment.
His biggest downfall as a person is probably his pride. He takes a lot of pride, both in his work and in himself. It doesn't seem to be a huge detriment - he seems to get over things fairly quickly, in fact - but it comes across that he really doesn't appreciate being talked down to or losing. He likes a modicum of control in his affairs and wants things to happen on his terms. Cloud'n co. messing him up enough that they had to bring in Elena is an obvious sore spot, Rude tells of him testing out a "new weapon" for the next time they see eachother. Plus, he's really not a nice person. Knows that sometimes you just have to shut up and deal, even if you're working with someone you can't stand, and he'd probably be alright for a chat in a bar if you engaged him, but his overall demeanour is cold and dismissive. Not really too interested in other people. Rude's the socialite out of the group, not him.
Samples;
Network Sample; I've got a few threads for this, if that's cool?
Log Sample; Ah-- this was... Not good.
He couldn't remember the last time he'd come out this bad in a fight, must've been years. Everything hurt-- well, that was an exaggeration, but it was still painful as all fuck. His ribs, more than anything. Felt like being punched by 30 obscenely strong children every time any time he tried for anything more than shallow breathing - they especially didn't agree when he checked the inside pockets of his jacket for a potion, or maybe a restore materia he'd forgotten about.
Not as exciting as a restore, Reno found a potion after some digging. A hi-potion, in fact. Which was all just as well, he doubted he had the energy for anything bigger than a low-level cure anyway. It wasn't a complete solution, but it took care of the big things; ribs and the like. Everything after that was cuts and bruises that could wait until they got back to HQ.
Confident enough in his ability to move without making any noises that were... unbecoming, he climbed into the cockpit - not really interested in making the trip with Tseng and the ancient for company - and sat in the free seat. Contemplated saying something to Rude about what a shit day this had been, but he decided against it. Quietly rubbed a bruise on his side as he watched the explosions down below. Couldn't believe this, couldn't fucking believe they'd put a hurt on him like this. Tseng had blathered something about a new recruit and time off; Reno had only gotten about half of it and this wasn't exactly the place to have that conversation anyway, but it was enough to piss him off.
He looked at Rude again, about to say something about how embarrassing it was. About how next time he saw them he'd show them what it meant when you fucked with the Turks-- when you fucked with him. 'Cause yeah, sure, the department used to be bigger than this and they were stretched a bit thin, but they could handle it. He'd handled it just fine back there. Come out a little worse for wear, sure, but it wasn't as if he'd messed up the job. Did what he'd gone in to do without too many complications.
Kept his mouth shut about it, though. Noting they were already back, landing on the helipad. That was a conversation for another time anyway, when they'd ditched their precious cargo in the labs.
Maybe with a drink in his hand too. He certainly felt he'd earned it.