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Seifer Almasy | Final Fantasy VIII (CRAU)
Player name: Sic (or Jessica)
Contact: Plurk: SicTheWolf, DMs, ask me for my Discord.
Referral: Ty, Rae, Churby
Current characters: None
THEM
Character Name: Seifer Almasy
Character Age: 19
Canon: Final Fantasy VIII
Canon Point: Post game, with 6th Iteration added on after
History/World:
Game history
6th Iteration history:
-Becomes a Smithern for Tony Stark, learns basic blacksmithing technique and wire pulling. Also makes friends with Rhodey, Bruce Banner, Thor, and Brigitte Lindholm.
-Also joins Stitch and Bitch. It becomes a personal challenge to learn how to knit. He's not great, but damn it he tries.
-Learning how to person and eventually brother at Nida. Birthdays are awkward, Seifer takes over feeding the household. And counter brothering at Nida.
-New Years Eve is a strangely stressful evening, small fight with Rinoa ensues. Later they end up in a much better place because of it. It's hard learning how to face your problems when you can't just hit them with a sword.
-Forgefamily dinners become a thing, Tony Stark is absolutely a father figure even if Seifer won't admit it. He grows very attached to the guy.
-TERRIBLE MEMORIES shared with Anne Weying, Reyes Vidal, and Oerba Dia Vanille result in a surprising new group of found family. Aunty, kind of distant uncle, and sister respectively. The trip down the mountain was a nightmare. Eventually they all made it home physically in one piece, if not entirely mentally.
-Anne is drug out to go on an adventure to find a crocdog, and allow them both to disconnect from the stress of their situation for a little while. Seifer uses this time to teach her some basic survival skills. Crocdog obtained! He named it Eos, after Nida already got attached to "Dog".
-He meets the devil, Lucifer seems like a pretty cool guy for a faerie. Also really, really weird.
-Nida introduces him to the new brother of the group, Jason. They bond over shared terrible death experiences and awful childhoods. Best bonding or best bonding?
-Eventually people start dropping. Tony in particular hits Seifer extremely hard. With aggressions mounting from strange dopplegangers he obtains a sword from the new blacksmith in town for protection and defense.
-Fighting breaks out. Seifer joins the effort to help protect and rescue kidnapees during that time. Eventually culminating in a final conflict with the dopplegangers before "measures" are taken by the Overseers.
-With the Iteration over, they're given an opportunity to go wherever they want. Where they ended up, however, wasn't what they expected.
Personality: A Hot Mess (tm).
Confident to a fault, Seifer wears his arrogance like it's going out of style. His fondness of fire suits him well, as he is easily described as hot-headed and reckless, and more than a little impatient. Seifer is not the type to stand around and wait for things to happen, if he sees an opportunity he will run for it regardless of consequence, which has landed him in trouble more often than not. That isn't to say Seifer isn't aware of the consequences, just that the end is more important than the means. If you have to step over a few bodies to get to your goals, well, that's just how things are sometimes. Though he is not evil, he is not especially nice, either. In fact it is very safe to say that Seifer is a huge jerk.
He doesn't trust easily, only keeping a couple very close friends. For the most part everyone else is treated with a degree of suspicion and indifference, if not outright hostility. There have been those very few, such as Squall Leonhart, that he viewed with a skewed version of respect, though his method of displaying it are often confusing for anyone who doesn't understand him. And understanding Seifer is damn near impossible, given that he makes a point to be as unpredictable as he can. While he does believe in honor, Seifer's particular honor code is again as unpredictable as he is, though it focuses more on displays of strength and victories, rather than methods of arriving at those victories.
For all his aggression, and at times being a complete and utter jerk, Seifer is not completely heartless. He desires to protect those he cares about, which he proved by breaking out of detention to try to go help Squall and his team when they possibly faced the entire Galbadian army alone. Though he conceals it well, Seifer acknowledges his past actions were wrong and was glad, in a way, to have failed in his romantic dream. Destroying everyone and everything isn't what it means to be a knight, after all.
Some of his harsher qualities, in particular the aggressive distrust of damn near everyone with a heavy leaning toward adults, has tempered and dulled some following his time in the Iteration. Between the family he's made and the strange support he found there he's beginning to come around to being a little more open to the possibility that not everyone is terrible. Those who can earn it, do earn his trust, and with it his fierce loyalty. Where nothing but bitterness and endless wells of guilt and self-loathing were, some degree of hope and acceptance is beginning to form. Perhaps in time that'll grow.
Items: The clothes on his back, most notably a version of his coat that wasn't torn up and destroyed from battle. Standard boots, dark gray jeans, plain T-shirt. A pair of dog tags that individually read "If found return to Nida Nomura" and "If found return to Jason Todd". He also has a small pocket knife styled to look like a gunblade made for him by Tony Stark, and a fairly standard Triple Triad deck from Nida. Nothing too fancy, but workable for a game or two.
Powers/skills: Stabbin' stuff and failing socially!
More seriously Seifer has been trained from childhood to be a combat specialist for Garden's mercenary military forces. His weapon specialization was with the gunblade, as the name would suggest it's a large, gun-like sword. However, unlike the name might suggest the ballistic capabilities are nonexistent, instead the triggering mechanism causes a vibration reaction within the blade that when timed just right with a precise strike results in a heavier (critical) blow. Seifer's fighting style is one of fast, graceful strikes much like dancing. While it can leave him with fewer defensive options the high paced combat style can help him keep an opponent on their back foot, in turn preventing them from easily laying a blow on him.
In addition to the basic combat training he was also trained in a system called Junctioning. A method by which after affixing a powerful being called a Guardian Force into one's mind, he could then further enhance his abilities by appropriately "Junctioning" magic to certain qualities. This could allow for greater speed, durability, strength, etc. What could be Junctioned depended entirely on the GF in question and the magic used. Here's a breakdown of Junction values, and a list of the currently known Guardian Forces. Of course he does not come with one, nor any of his magic so if he were to figure out how to Junction again he'd have to obtain a GF as well as find sources to Draw his magic from. In addition to the magical properties junctioned GF could allow certain increased stats passively. Sometimes things like strength, heightened awareness, or even the ability to drive away monster attacks!
Speaking of magic; in conjunction with the junction (hah!) he is trained in Paramagic. Paramagic is, effectively, SCIENCEmagic in his world. Naturally occurring energy sources, either within living beings (and some non-living) or located in specific "springs" called Draw Points within the world. Some humans have managed to learn how to use paramagic, (perhaps their own?) without junction, but that appears to be restricted to a handful of lower level spells. With Junctioning SeeDs and SeeD trainees could acquire and junction even greater spells for even greater effects. Seifer himself displays the ability to use Fira, Firaga, and Flare (at higher levels) without Junctions. He's also one of very few places to Draw Aura in the wild, in addition to Fire, Thunder, and Blizzard variants dependent on level.
A final, last ditch tactic employed by Garden students is the Crisis Attack, or Limit Break. An ability only capable of being employed in the most dire of situations. The more dire, the more potent. Seifer's particular brand of Crisis Attack is called Fire Cross. It comes in three flavors, well technically four but the fourth was specific to countering Odin. The other three all begin with him channeling his chi into a fire spell used to stun his target, then following up with a devastating attack.
-No Mercy begins with the stun, followed by flinging whirling blades of energy at all enemies.
-Demon Slice stuns only one enemy, he then spins himself into a tornado (it makes total sense okay), moving to slice his target multiple times until finally knocking them into the air, then knocking them back down again. Very rude.
-Bloodfest is another multi target stun, he then leaps into the air carving a cross pattern before himself which then tears open the ground beneath their feet. It will explode open, causing them to fall... and then somehow fall back onto the ground above it because it's actually some kind of short range portal I guess? In the end taking massive damage from both the fall, as well as probably experiencing a temporary rift in reality. Also it just looks really cool.
-Zantetsuken Reverse was specific to Odin and therefore not relevant unless Odin comes to try to slice him in half again. He can counter you bro, don't do it.
Seifer has experience with multiple field operations, as well as directly leading an army into war. He's strong enough to stand against three of Garden's top SeeDs, even if he did ultimately lose he still managed to hold his own. He even destroyed one of the more powerful Guardian Forces at one point, Odin, replacing him with Gilgamesh. You're welcome for that, Squall and team, enjoy the bad RNG GF. Given his military training it's likely he's had ample courses in wilderness survival, basic field medicine, and hand-to-hand defensive combat. The hand to hand he further practiced and improved with Nida during his time in the Iteration. While a master by no means, once again it's a skill he can certainly hold his own in.
His more basic skills involve cooking, fishing poorly, knitting that he learned from Anne Weying, and blacksmithing he learned from Tony Stark. He was also beginning to learn some animal husbandry alongside Vanille.
This guy makes great pancakes. Come enjoy morning pancakes with him.
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Seifer and Vanille discuss his past.
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