Post by Vincent on Jan 23, 2008 19:51:47 GMT -5
-Name: Vincent Valentine
-Weapon Descriptions-
Cerberus: A Triple barrled revolver, with its name derived from the three Canine heads which adorn the three barrels and the charm which hangs from the Handle known as the 'Dirge'. It can be modified into different types of guns other than the revolver using component parts that will be collected upon his return from the Deep Dive.
Griffon: A modified Cerberus, using parts to turn it into a fully functional machine gun. Depending on the barrel-type used. . . it can have varying ranges of accuracy. But this will also heighten or dampen the rate of fire maintained by the gun. Not availible until discovering neccesary components after he leaves the Deep Dive.
Hydra: A modified Cerberus, using parts to turn it into a fully functional Rifle. Depending on the barrel-type and other variables used. . . it can have a varying amount of distance to be accurate over. Although, it will always have a slower rate of fire than the Griffon or Cerberus but always shooter farther than either one. Not availible until discovering neccesary components after he leaves the Deep Dive.
Death Penalty: A weapon of ultimate Chaotic power, once possessed by Vincent but lost after the initial battle with Sephiroth. However, in the form of Chaos it can be re-created magically by the Beast's memories to it's full potential. It fires black/ white 'Death Rays' which are usually fatal to most normal beings. Perhaps only Sephiroth, some Organization members, or whatever force caused the Heroes to vanish might be able to survive more than one shot. Due to being linked with Chaos, it only has limited appearances in battle, if any at all.
Age: 60 [Physically stopped aging at 27 due to expierimentation]
Hair: Black
Eyes: Crimson
Height: 5'10
Weight: 135lbs
Clothing: Vincent appears as a tall, thin, brooding man with long, unkempt black hair wearing a ragged red cloak over black clothes. His cloak covers the lower half of his face and is held closed by a series of buckles. His left arm below the elbow is covered by a metal claw. It has been previously suggested that this is an entirely mechanical prosthetic, but certain sources with intimate knowledge of the man argue there is a perfectly normal ableit gloved hand underneath.
Picture/Description: Coming Soon.
Personality:
Outer- A brooding young man with the heavy burden of a tragic past on his shoulders. He has a tendency to go alone & not seek help from the others unless there is no other way. The most admirable traits of his are bravery, determination, coping skills, and putting aside any past turmoil to complete a current objective. He often seems either cold or deteached from the current situation if it is not a battle. . . but is always listening. It can also be said he deals with problems in a wiser way than Cloud Strife.
Inner- Tortured by the loss of Lucrecia Crescent, whom he often blames himsef for even though it was her decision to go on with the SOLDIER expieriment. Constantly struggling with the inner Demons placed inside both by his past and Hojo's expieriments, although the Proto-materia helps him control the second. A very stubborn man who belives in self-punishment for past sins and mistakes. Secretly, it is a fear of causing the death of others which makes him act alone even more so than Cloud. Wise in the way of tactics, decisions, and other behavioural skills due to his comparatively old age.
Character's History:
Vincent was once a member of the Turks thirty years before the events of Final Fantasy VII. He was assigned to supervise The Jenova Project in Nibelheim, where he fell in love with a scientist named Lucrecia Crescent, an assistant to Professor Hojo.
At first unknown to Vincent, Lucrecia once was an assistant to his father Grimoire Valentine on the discovery of Chaos and Omega. Grimoire died in an accident concerning Chaos and Omega, pushing Lucrecia away when the tests of the experiment went wrong. Vincent later discovered her link with his father and asked Lucrecia why she never told him. When he questioned her, she fled from him. He found Lucrecia later and tried to express his feelings for her, but she didn’t want to be with him as she felt too guilty about his father’s death because, she told him, it was all her fault. Ultimately she entered a relationship with her associate Hojo instead.
Lucrecia became pregnant by Hojo soon afterwards, and her unborn child was to be part of the Jenova Project, which was an investigation into the effect of Jenova cells on an unborn child. Vincent was strongly opposed to this and confronted Hojo to ask him if what he heard was true. As Lucrecia entered the encounter, Hojo told him it had nothing to do with him and that they were scientists; they knew what they were doing. Vincent then turned to Lucrecia if she was sure this was what she wanted, and she retorted that it concerned her and not him, so she was sure. In the interest of science, she decided to proceed with the treatment.
After a while, Lucrecia became very sick and started to see visions of what would become of her unborn son in the future, Sephiroth. Outraged, Vincent confronted Hojo in the Shinra Mansion's underground laboratory. Hojo, angered by Vincent’s approach, pulled out a gun from his lab coat and shot Vincent in the stomach.
Lucrecia tried to find a way to save him. Lucrecia started to look through her unfinished thesis on Chaos, Omega and the Lifestream. Hojo caught her looking at her files and mocked her, saying she just wanted to use Vincent to prove her thesis, as many of her colleagues thought it was “unrealistic”. Lucrecia didn’t want to believe she was doing it for that, so she continued to try to save him. Lucrecia injected him with stagnant Lifestream which revived Vincent and turned him into the beast Chaos. However, due to Chaos becoming violent and attacking anything in its way, Lucrecia put the materia called "Protomateria" inside him to keep Chaos and its feral nature under control.
Later, Hojo proceeded to use his body as the subject for experiments that resulted in Vincent's body becoming stronger and capable of transforming into beasts. Hojo's experiments on Vincent, however, ended up being only a partial success. This way, Vincent was able to be such a perfect host for Chaos because Hojo made his body so strong and in the end immortal.
Later Vincent awoke on the operating table. Due to Hojo's metamorphose experimentation, Vincent's anatomy was altered to the point where he could temporarily change his physical form into monstrous enities (this also is the reason Chaos bonded with Vincent so well). Vincent responded to his modified body with both anguish and rage.
He believed that this was his punishment for his “sin”, not being able to save Lucrecia from the Jenova Project. He punished himself further by putting himself in a coffin in the Shinra Manor basement, where Hojo locked the door with a key, which he locked inside a safe along with one of his experimental monsters that attacked anyone who opened it. Because of Hojo's experiments, Vincent's age remains physically at 27, not 60, which is his real age in Dirge of Cerberus. He is also briefly encountered in Before Crisis, the mobile phone game concerning the storyline of the Turks.
After sleeping for thirty years, Vincent is found by Cloud, who had managed to retrieve the key from the safe. Vincent is surprised to hear that Cloud knows Sephiroth, and demands an explanation.
Cloud tells him about everything that had happened with Sephiroth and the atrocities he had committed, but this only served to make Vincent feel even more guilt for his failure to stop the experiment, so he shuts himself back in the coffin. After some further coaxing from Cloud, he emerges from the coffin again and tells who he was and about Lucrecia and how she was Sephiroth's true mother, and then he shuts himself back in the coffin. But when Cloud leaves the room and begins to head back upstairs, Vincent catches up to him and joins Cloud after learning that his group may meet up with Hojo sooner or later.
The only other time that there is any focus on Vincent is when they use the submarine to travel through an underwater cave and surface in a small lake surrounded by mountains. They find a cave in one of the surrounding mountains, and inside the cave Vincent finds Lucrecia, who was now full of pain and regret for all that she had done. Lucrecia asks Vincent if Sephiroth is still alive, but he lies to her, telling her that he is dead in order to spare her the pain of learning about the atrocities that Sephiroth had committed.
In the battle with Hojo, Hojo informs Vincent that Hojo was Sephiroth's father, and Vincent reacts in disbelief. He then claims that it should be Hojo who was punished by sleeping in a coffin, not Vincent.
Vincent and Yuffie aided Reeve in the evacuation of Midgar just before Meteor was about to crash into Midgar, which would imply that they had left the Northern Crater for Midgar ahead of the rest of the group. While on the Sister Ray, Vincent realized that Hojo may still be alive. Apparently he had survived the earlier fight with Cloud's group and was able to make his way over a computer terminal that was on the control platform, and it is later revealed that he stored his mind into virtual memory and uploaded it onto the net. Hojo himself was just barely alive, not even seeming conscious. Vincent prepared to finish the man off, but Meteor had already begun to crash into Midgar before he could, so he was forced to flee and was rescued by Yuffie on a hovercraft and together they escaped from Midgar.
After Meteorfall, Vincent reappeared two years later at the Forgotten City to rescue Cloud from Kadaj and his gang by transforming into an intangible monster evocative of his cloak. He revealed to Cloud what he knew about Kadaj's intentions and that he rescued two of the Turks, Tseng and Elena, from them. He later showed up to help his friends defeat Bahamut SIN. It was Vincent who told his friends not to help Cloud and let him face his own personal battle against Sephiroth. He was seen in the end with all of his friends celebrating the defeat of Sephiroth and Geostigma. Even appearing in a picture all of them took together.
Other: Beastial Transformations
Galian Beast- A bipedial version of Behemoth, that was mutated into looking much more like a Werewolf type creature later on. It has the ability to shoot homing fireballs and unleash seismic shockwaves. The only other advantage of this form is that it takes less damage than 'normal' Vincent does, even though this too has been affected by the Deep Dive.
Crimson Spectre- An intangible monster evocative of his cloak, looking much like a bloodstained ghoul. It has the ability to fly, allows Vincent to fire bullets from inside, & is also able to pull other people inside itself. However, he cannot reload Cerberus or any other weapon while in this form. This was all proven during the rescue of Cloud Strife from the hands of Kadaj's gang at the Forgotten City.
Chaos- A force of the Planet itself, birthed from stagnant lifestream & using Vincent Valentine as a host body. See Character History. It resembles Vincent with demonic features such as pale skin, yellow eyes, spiked-black hair, monster fangs, and frayed bat-like wings. Chaos has many powers such as a red/black beam that causes high damage; able to magically recreate his Death Penalty weapon; a melee attack that releases a red aura wherever he struck and ended the combo with a strange ball of energy; and 'Wing smash'. An attack where he charges red or purple energy around him that he uses to charge 'Inpenetrable Defenses' thereby creating actual chaos.
-Weapon Descriptions-
Cerberus: A Triple barrled revolver, with its name derived from the three Canine heads which adorn the three barrels and the charm which hangs from the Handle known as the 'Dirge'. It can be modified into different types of guns other than the revolver using component parts that will be collected upon his return from the Deep Dive.
Griffon: A modified Cerberus, using parts to turn it into a fully functional machine gun. Depending on the barrel-type used. . . it can have varying ranges of accuracy. But this will also heighten or dampen the rate of fire maintained by the gun. Not availible until discovering neccesary components after he leaves the Deep Dive.
Hydra: A modified Cerberus, using parts to turn it into a fully functional Rifle. Depending on the barrel-type and other variables used. . . it can have a varying amount of distance to be accurate over. Although, it will always have a slower rate of fire than the Griffon or Cerberus but always shooter farther than either one. Not availible until discovering neccesary components after he leaves the Deep Dive.
Death Penalty: A weapon of ultimate Chaotic power, once possessed by Vincent but lost after the initial battle with Sephiroth. However, in the form of Chaos it can be re-created magically by the Beast's memories to it's full potential. It fires black/ white 'Death Rays' which are usually fatal to most normal beings. Perhaps only Sephiroth, some Organization members, or whatever force caused the Heroes to vanish might be able to survive more than one shot. Due to being linked with Chaos, it only has limited appearances in battle, if any at all.
Age: 60 [Physically stopped aging at 27 due to expierimentation]
Hair: Black
Eyes: Crimson
Height: 5'10
Weight: 135lbs
Clothing: Vincent appears as a tall, thin, brooding man with long, unkempt black hair wearing a ragged red cloak over black clothes. His cloak covers the lower half of his face and is held closed by a series of buckles. His left arm below the elbow is covered by a metal claw. It has been previously suggested that this is an entirely mechanical prosthetic, but certain sources with intimate knowledge of the man argue there is a perfectly normal ableit gloved hand underneath.
Picture/Description: Coming Soon.
Personality:
Outer- A brooding young man with the heavy burden of a tragic past on his shoulders. He has a tendency to go alone & not seek help from the others unless there is no other way. The most admirable traits of his are bravery, determination, coping skills, and putting aside any past turmoil to complete a current objective. He often seems either cold or deteached from the current situation if it is not a battle. . . but is always listening. It can also be said he deals with problems in a wiser way than Cloud Strife.
Inner- Tortured by the loss of Lucrecia Crescent, whom he often blames himsef for even though it was her decision to go on with the SOLDIER expieriment. Constantly struggling with the inner Demons placed inside both by his past and Hojo's expieriments, although the Proto-materia helps him control the second. A very stubborn man who belives in self-punishment for past sins and mistakes. Secretly, it is a fear of causing the death of others which makes him act alone even more so than Cloud. Wise in the way of tactics, decisions, and other behavioural skills due to his comparatively old age.
Character's History:
Vincent was once a member of the Turks thirty years before the events of Final Fantasy VII. He was assigned to supervise The Jenova Project in Nibelheim, where he fell in love with a scientist named Lucrecia Crescent, an assistant to Professor Hojo.
At first unknown to Vincent, Lucrecia once was an assistant to his father Grimoire Valentine on the discovery of Chaos and Omega. Grimoire died in an accident concerning Chaos and Omega, pushing Lucrecia away when the tests of the experiment went wrong. Vincent later discovered her link with his father and asked Lucrecia why she never told him. When he questioned her, she fled from him. He found Lucrecia later and tried to express his feelings for her, but she didn’t want to be with him as she felt too guilty about his father’s death because, she told him, it was all her fault. Ultimately she entered a relationship with her associate Hojo instead.
Lucrecia became pregnant by Hojo soon afterwards, and her unborn child was to be part of the Jenova Project, which was an investigation into the effect of Jenova cells on an unborn child. Vincent was strongly opposed to this and confronted Hojo to ask him if what he heard was true. As Lucrecia entered the encounter, Hojo told him it had nothing to do with him and that they were scientists; they knew what they were doing. Vincent then turned to Lucrecia if she was sure this was what she wanted, and she retorted that it concerned her and not him, so she was sure. In the interest of science, she decided to proceed with the treatment.
After a while, Lucrecia became very sick and started to see visions of what would become of her unborn son in the future, Sephiroth. Outraged, Vincent confronted Hojo in the Shinra Mansion's underground laboratory. Hojo, angered by Vincent’s approach, pulled out a gun from his lab coat and shot Vincent in the stomach.
Lucrecia tried to find a way to save him. Lucrecia started to look through her unfinished thesis on Chaos, Omega and the Lifestream. Hojo caught her looking at her files and mocked her, saying she just wanted to use Vincent to prove her thesis, as many of her colleagues thought it was “unrealistic”. Lucrecia didn’t want to believe she was doing it for that, so she continued to try to save him. Lucrecia injected him with stagnant Lifestream which revived Vincent and turned him into the beast Chaos. However, due to Chaos becoming violent and attacking anything in its way, Lucrecia put the materia called "Protomateria" inside him to keep Chaos and its feral nature under control.
Later, Hojo proceeded to use his body as the subject for experiments that resulted in Vincent's body becoming stronger and capable of transforming into beasts. Hojo's experiments on Vincent, however, ended up being only a partial success. This way, Vincent was able to be such a perfect host for Chaos because Hojo made his body so strong and in the end immortal.
Later Vincent awoke on the operating table. Due to Hojo's metamorphose experimentation, Vincent's anatomy was altered to the point where he could temporarily change his physical form into monstrous enities (this also is the reason Chaos bonded with Vincent so well). Vincent responded to his modified body with both anguish and rage.
He believed that this was his punishment for his “sin”, not being able to save Lucrecia from the Jenova Project. He punished himself further by putting himself in a coffin in the Shinra Manor basement, where Hojo locked the door with a key, which he locked inside a safe along with one of his experimental monsters that attacked anyone who opened it. Because of Hojo's experiments, Vincent's age remains physically at 27, not 60, which is his real age in Dirge of Cerberus. He is also briefly encountered in Before Crisis, the mobile phone game concerning the storyline of the Turks.
After sleeping for thirty years, Vincent is found by Cloud, who had managed to retrieve the key from the safe. Vincent is surprised to hear that Cloud knows Sephiroth, and demands an explanation.
Cloud tells him about everything that had happened with Sephiroth and the atrocities he had committed, but this only served to make Vincent feel even more guilt for his failure to stop the experiment, so he shuts himself back in the coffin. After some further coaxing from Cloud, he emerges from the coffin again and tells who he was and about Lucrecia and how she was Sephiroth's true mother, and then he shuts himself back in the coffin. But when Cloud leaves the room and begins to head back upstairs, Vincent catches up to him and joins Cloud after learning that his group may meet up with Hojo sooner or later.
The only other time that there is any focus on Vincent is when they use the submarine to travel through an underwater cave and surface in a small lake surrounded by mountains. They find a cave in one of the surrounding mountains, and inside the cave Vincent finds Lucrecia, who was now full of pain and regret for all that she had done. Lucrecia asks Vincent if Sephiroth is still alive, but he lies to her, telling her that he is dead in order to spare her the pain of learning about the atrocities that Sephiroth had committed.
In the battle with Hojo, Hojo informs Vincent that Hojo was Sephiroth's father, and Vincent reacts in disbelief. He then claims that it should be Hojo who was punished by sleeping in a coffin, not Vincent.
Vincent and Yuffie aided Reeve in the evacuation of Midgar just before Meteor was about to crash into Midgar, which would imply that they had left the Northern Crater for Midgar ahead of the rest of the group. While on the Sister Ray, Vincent realized that Hojo may still be alive. Apparently he had survived the earlier fight with Cloud's group and was able to make his way over a computer terminal that was on the control platform, and it is later revealed that he stored his mind into virtual memory and uploaded it onto the net. Hojo himself was just barely alive, not even seeming conscious. Vincent prepared to finish the man off, but Meteor had already begun to crash into Midgar before he could, so he was forced to flee and was rescued by Yuffie on a hovercraft and together they escaped from Midgar.
After Meteorfall, Vincent reappeared two years later at the Forgotten City to rescue Cloud from Kadaj and his gang by transforming into an intangible monster evocative of his cloak. He revealed to Cloud what he knew about Kadaj's intentions and that he rescued two of the Turks, Tseng and Elena, from them. He later showed up to help his friends defeat Bahamut SIN. It was Vincent who told his friends not to help Cloud and let him face his own personal battle against Sephiroth. He was seen in the end with all of his friends celebrating the defeat of Sephiroth and Geostigma. Even appearing in a picture all of them took together.
Other: Beastial Transformations
Galian Beast- A bipedial version of Behemoth, that was mutated into looking much more like a Werewolf type creature later on. It has the ability to shoot homing fireballs and unleash seismic shockwaves. The only other advantage of this form is that it takes less damage than 'normal' Vincent does, even though this too has been affected by the Deep Dive.
Crimson Spectre- An intangible monster evocative of his cloak, looking much like a bloodstained ghoul. It has the ability to fly, allows Vincent to fire bullets from inside, & is also able to pull other people inside itself. However, he cannot reload Cerberus or any other weapon while in this form. This was all proven during the rescue of Cloud Strife from the hands of Kadaj's gang at the Forgotten City.
Chaos- A force of the Planet itself, birthed from stagnant lifestream & using Vincent Valentine as a host body. See Character History. It resembles Vincent with demonic features such as pale skin, yellow eyes, spiked-black hair, monster fangs, and frayed bat-like wings. Chaos has many powers such as a red/black beam that causes high damage; able to magically recreate his Death Penalty weapon; a melee attack that releases a red aura wherever he struck and ended the combo with a strange ball of energy; and 'Wing smash'. An attack where he charges red or purple energy around him that he uses to charge 'Inpenetrable Defenses' thereby creating actual chaos.