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Player's Name: Sapphire (Sapph)
Player LJ: greyangel
AIM or Email: stubborn healer ; sapphiregirl124@hotmail.com
Timezone: EST
Other Characters Played: None.
Character: "Raine Sage"
Series/Fandom: Tales of Symphonia
Original or Template version: Template
Age: Appears 23ish, in actuality is only a few months old
Gender: Female
Species: Half-elf, replica
Sexuality: She doesn't quite understand how this works yet \o/ developmental wise, most likely straight.
Appearance:
A young woman that stands out in a crowd due to her coloring, Raine has shining silver hair that doesn't go past her shoulders, some of it framing her face, the rest spiking out in a somewhat controlled disarray. She is very pretty, and her face has sharp, defining features. Her blue eyes are quite striking, though often have a lost or confused expression in them.
She only stands to about 5'5 in height, and she has a slender frame, which isn't helped much by poor eating habits. She just can't seem to find the right clothes on her own.
Personality:
Being a replica, without much experience in the world, "Raine" has a natural curiosity towards everything around her, especially since there is so much that she doesn't understand. She is a bit shy, however--being introduced to new people and new environments too soon can cause her to get rather skittish, and she's prone to observing first before warming up to anyone, if she has any interest in them at all. While she seems to have a distrusting nature initially, she's also quite naive, and fairly gullible when it comes down to it.
Once someone reaches past her barriers, they will find that she is very sweet and only wants to do her best to please people. Raine often searches for praise when she's done something correctly, like any child would; she is very childlike, after all, there's no getting around that. She wants to be helpful, and imitates those around her as best as she can. She learns best when she's focusing on one thing at a time; too much information at once will just completely confuse and overwhelm her, which isn't a good thing. It's often very frustrating when she wants to describe something and just can't find the words for it.
While she is not as drifting and helpless as she was initially, it is quite clear that she simply cannot function on her own just yet.
Abilities/Strengths:
"Raine" is an excellent healer, by virtue of whom she is a replica of. Unfortunately, she has no idea, nor even an idea of where to begin, when it comes to understanding her arts and powers. If utilized, one would find that her abilities nearly match Raine's; the question of course remains if whether or not there is a difference at all in their abilities.
Drawing is one of her favorite hobbies; give her a pen or a crayon and she'll be busy for hours, attempting to come to an understanding of the world by recording it in ways that she would understand. Granted, she forgets from time to time that she's only supposed to draw on paper.
She also seems to have an innate ability to putting together puzzles. Nothing complicated at this stage, obviously, but if given an ordinary puzzle to fit pieces into, it won't take her too long to work it out. (You know, those actual... puzzles, nothing with words, just shapes that go into one thing or another). She's actually quite fond of fitting things together, almost as much as she enjoys drawing.
Weaknesses:
Being a replica, there is still a lot that she doesn't know. While she has been learning things at an alarming rate, due to the guidance of others, there are some things that she forgets as well on occasion. While she can speak and communicate, it's hard to say whether she is simply repeating something she heard earlier, or whether she truly understands what she is trying to convey. There are things she wishes that she could convey, but she simply doesn't have the words for.
She has a tendency to have a slow reaction time to certain things, depending on the situation. If it's something that is immediately registered as "scary", she will often attempt to flee. However if it's something more ... say, a stove catching on fire, she might not register the immediate danger of said event. Only after she understands the situation is a bad one will she react properly; otherwise most things are new to her still.
She's also fairly dependent and needy, as she is still developing.
History:
It was an experiment that began this; a meeting between minds, and one conniving Dist the Rose, who would go well out of his way to revive his beloved Professor Nebilim. Believing that Raine Sage was an incarnation of her, he manipulated the Original Raine into allowing him to take her replica data, without informing the professor of the side effects. The process didn't take very long, and soon the replica was created.
Dist did not have very long to continue with his experiments. While the replica seemed to be learning things quickly for those first few days, something that Dist was quite proud of, his plans were soon put to a halt, as there was united effort in the rescue of the original Raine, and a battle which involved the destruction of one of his Kaiser Dists.
Naturally traumatized by all of the noise and excitement, the replica fled the scene, not really understanding why she was running or where she was even going -- but just wanted to run away from all of the noise. Unfortunately, she has just barely learned to walk, and running was simply -- a joke, to be fair. She did not get very far; in fact, she stumbled and hit her head.
When she woke up, she wasn't where she had been at all.
She woke up in a bed, surrounded by a sea of faces, each of them unfamiliar, not that there was anything familiar to her at all. There was very little that she could distinguish. She couldn't speak, couldn't communicate, and their words to her (not that she understood what words were) were loud and well -- scary. There was one familiar word "Professor", that she knew was familiar but not what it meant.
(It was Dist; Dist had used that word constantly around her)
The faces seemed to be alarmed when she couldn't speak to them, couldn't respond, instead to flinch away from them.
(Her POV aside, basically, she was sent to another template, this one being a Symphonia universe, during the part of the journey where Raine had obtained an illness that eventually led to her collapsing in Altessa's house with a high fever. -- the Replica woke up in her place, before Genis and Mithos returned from the mountain with the flower that would heal her. After she is brought back to the real city, I suppose /that/ Raine returns to her rightful place smoothly enough. DX)
Adaption was necessary. The small one, the one she had saw first, out of all of those faces, clung to her and called her sister, called her "Raine", another odd familiarity, though it was from some far-off place. Genis was torn between helping his sister recuperate from her "illness", not to mention being shocked and horrified that she had apparently lost all of her memories -- it was a lot for one little boy to handle. If it were not for the support of his friends, Lloyd and Mithos, he may not have been able to have the strength to deal with such an event.
Mithos was particularly interested in her condition, and spent the most time with her, aside from Genis and Tabatha, while the others continued to work on their various quests, always sure to stop in from time to time, enough so that she could put sounds to their faces. It was a blow for the group, not having Raine's intelligence, but her development progressed rather well, with a few minor setbacks, from time to time.
Talking was the easy part; learning to make those words, those sounds, and attaching them to meanings, people, and things; understanding just what people and things were, and why it was important to have someone. She could see that Genis was tense and upset, even though he tried to hide it around her, and she felt terribly guilty, and only wanted to understand, wanted to help him, wanted to learn more from him.
Learning to write was somewhat more difficult; it was a matter of applying sounds to "letters", and then putting the letters together. Genis would sit with her for hours, sometimes in despair, just waiting for his sister to show some sign of recognition, some essence of her former self ... and she tried so hard, but she did not understand what he meant when he wanted her to "remember". There would be days, when he, and his other friends; the boy in the red shirt. His name was hard to say, sometimes, especially after it was written; it just seemed so confusing, with those two Ls. Lloyd. And Colette, Colette was always just so kind, always smiling and encouraging, even when Raine knew that she had done something wrong, that she had upset Genis, that she had failed to remember something important, once again.
There were also others. Zelos, who often attempted to cheer her up with jokes she could not understand. Sheena. Regal. Presea. All of them, each acknowledging her in their own ways; wanting her to "recover", and becoming continuingly awkward in the fact that she was in this state to begin with. They all said that she was Raine, the Professor, so it had to be true. It wasn't as if she knew any better, after all.
They hardly spoke of what they were doing to Raine. They would talk about it, yes, about healing Colette, and saving the worlds, in front of her, though they didn't stop to explain, not in the midst of their conversations, though she was hardly included. There were times when she'd overhear them say "if only the Professor could do this", but when she asked, they only shook their heads, and then would come that overwhelming crushing feeling that she got whenever she knew someone was disappointed with her.
And so for the two months that passed, she began to feel safe, and -- somewhat happy, even. She had made so much progress on her vocabulary; wasn't everyone so pleased? Her walking was better; she could eat -- slowly--, if the meals were simple and uncomplicated. She was getting somewhat better at dressing herself, but not quite. And --
There came a day when the group was to travel together, including Genis as well. Being quite upset and somewhat panicky at being left behind, Raine decided to take a walk. As she was unsupervised, her wandering took her out of the clearing where Altessa's house was, though the path was uneven.
She tripped, and hit her head.
When she woke up, she wasn't where she had been at all.