Application - MS Elegante
(A great deal of this is going to be made up, as there is not a lot of canon to go by. I’m using the back-story that venefica_aura and I have pretty much relied on for all of our fanfic and RPs.)
Verudo's first memories are from Wutai. He doesn't recall how he got to the island and never truly looked into where his biological parents could have been from. There was a lot of civil unrest at the time and his obviously adopted parents only said that that they found him. They were kind hearted people and raised the boy as their own in a small fishing village.
A combination of teenage boredom and a longing to belong lead Verudo to lie about his age to join the army at 16. He was worried about his parents monetarily and was also tired of feeling much like an outcast. If he became a respected member of the army, Verudo reasoned, people would stop referring to him as a Gaijin.
Verudo was on the way to accomplishing his goals, but the ShinRa’s forces were more than his country expected and his company was taken in as POWs. Despite his lack of ability to speak common, there was a mix up at the prison and Verudo managed to sneak away. He ended up falling in with a Wutain street gang, but it was brief and he was more of a package boy than an actual member. During a run he ended up making a mistake and fell onto the hood of a car that belonged to a woman who was the leader of an elite ShinRa company called the Turks.
She took Verudo in and became the first person that he actually considered a maternal figure. Because of her tutelage, Verudo joined the Turks and ran up the ranks at an amazing speed. He also adopted the name “Veld” as he found that his given name was very difficult for Midgar people to pronounce.
(From here on out, back-story is from canon, courtesy of Gunshot Romance)
Verudo and President ShinRa never exactly saw eye to eye. The two clashed in dangerous ways more often than not, but the Turks were an extremely important security unit and Verudo's performances were consistently beyond reproach. This meant that typically, the Turks were left alone and operated nearly as a separate entity. As a unit the Turks were extremely close and viewed each other as family.
However, the President wanted to have power over every aspect of ShinRa and set up a suicide mission that involved avalanche. Verudo used all of his pull and his influence to get the mission waved. The bargain for that, however, was that Verudo used up all of his “favors”. ShinRa had been very firm in stating that Verudo’s life was forfeit if he crossed the line again.
Verudo was never afraid of death. Protecting the Turks was his only true goal and responsibility. It stemmed from more than just a working closeness. Years before, Verudo had ordered an attack on Kalm during a terrorist bombing. The resulting crossfire ended up burning down the town and his wife was killed in the blaze. Verudo did not find his daughter and presumed her dead as well. This left him viciously protective of the family he had left and rather emotionally reserved and distant.
Felicia, Verudo's daughter, was not in fact dead. Instead she had been taken by the terrorists to Cosmo Canyon and was raised there. Verudo himself didn't realize who she was until after she had been revealed to have materia poisoning her system. Verudo and his Turks nearly abandoned ShinRa in an effort to safe Felicia's life. The President demanded Verudo be killed in retaliation.
After the Zirconiaide incident Verudo is presumed dead. Tseng reported that he had assassinated the former Turk leader. This, however, was very far from the truth. Verudo took his ailing daughter back to a small university city outside of Costa Del Sol. He assists the Turks mostly through research and advice, though he could be called back to action if the need was extreme enough.
Spoken / written languages: Wutain, Cetrain, Soli, and Common (only Common would be understood by someone who isn't from the canon, I would assume.
Abilities: Verudo is an extremely gifted materia user. He lost his arm when he was younger at a job and has been using a prosthetic with materia implants for well over a decade. Even though he is older, Verudo has been a fighter in some aspect all of his life. He is not above cheating to win, and will do so if it benefits him. Verudo is also fond of explosive devices. Above all else, Verudo is extremely clever and he has mastered the skill called “fake it till you make it”. He is brutally honest with his people and would never do anything to deliberately put them in danger.
Items: A satchel bag that has a few folklore books and a notepad of his own work on the Cetra culture. There were a few pencils, two erasers and a used granola bar wrapper in there as well. His wallet.