APPLICATION TO dissideo
THE PLAYER
Name: Setine
LJ: parcus
Contacts: the shinra co on AIM
Current characters at Dissideo: Applied for Snow Villiers
THE CHARACTER
Name: Rufus ShinRa
Series: Final Fantasy VII
Age: 26
Timeline: Post DoC
History:
Rufus ShinRa [@] FF WIKI
Personality:
Rufus' personality differs with the people he meets. Overall, it could be said that Rufus is a horrible person. He's manipulative, he lies and he's very sarcastic. Very rarely would he actually be sincere, unless he's talking to the Turks. He's sharp and cunning, and even if he says that he doesn't notice insignificant things, he does and he makes a note of it. He's driven by the desire to excel and be superior than those who surround him.
A person that did not know him that well would note that he was tersely polite and very haughty. Conversely, he would ask a lot of questions and try to get to know the person. Behind their back, he would be plotting on how he would use them to his advantage without their knowledge and try to gain an advantage over them using the information that they provided him. It wouldn't be surprising if Rufus insulted someone in order to make them enraged even more to reveal more about themselves.
If you were someone of interest (i.e Kadaj, Sephiroth etc...) he would remain calm, even light hearted around them. He's deadly serious about his interactions with them - down to every calculated move until he found a weak spot and then crushed them with it.
There are very few people that he does trust, and those are the Turks. It would be extremely hard for an individual to gain that much trust from him in a short amount of time. The Turks are basically his family. Realistically, President ShinRa was too busy with the company or committing adultery to pay attention to his son. Therefore, since he was the President's son, the Turks would look after him. This also could be a reason why Rufus is the way he is when it comes to his world view, the Turks basically raised him. In Before Crisis, he had betrayed them to the point that he told a member of AVALANCHE to kill them, but they still stayed loyal to him. In Advent Children, he throws JENOVA's head over the side of a building and then leaps off of it. He doesn't even consider what he's going to do because he knows that Tseng and Elena will catch him.
A long time ago, Rufus would be very immoral when it came to people's lives and the people around him. That immorality spawned from being a ShinRa: he's never been around those with a sense of right and wrong, but rather do or do not. It isn't a question of the road traveled or how he got his power, is that he got it without becoming inferior in the process. With that immortality came with an incredibly cruel person. It could have been bitterness of his father ruining his inheritance or the fact that he failed to kill his own father the first time around, Rufus utilizes cruelty to get what he wants. After all, the planet, the people of Midgar, everyone were just pawns for his new era.
After the explosion on the top of the ShinRa building, Rufus reformed and started to care for the planet and those who lived on it. He had been given a rather large dose of reality: he couldn't rule people with fear because ShinRa wasn't the planet - compared to it, it's just another organization that would disappear with time. He couldn't rule a world with fear if the world wouldn't fear him, so he had to learn to use another route. Though his intentions might be good, rebuilding the world didn't happen with heroics and idealism, Rufus employed something to make him more human. For the sake of furthering his own means, Rufus would lend his skills, though not without a price. He'll hide the fact that he's become a more compassionate person, he still needs to portray that he is a hard man without remorse. It is what makes him so efficient; being detached from someone means that you don't have to be held back. Of course, thanks to the planet not killing him, he's starting to see the error of his ways.
Abilities:
Apart from being an excellent shot, Rufus knows the basics about military tactics and business/economics, but he's not a genius when it comes to other areas that don't generate revenue and prestige (i.e science, psychology). However, he understands motivations and why people fight for something. He knows how to coordinate large scale efforts and operations and is a brilliant economist when it comes to this. When it comes to combat, Rufus is not physical at all. He is a ranged fighter, preferring to use a shotgun because melee combat just lacks finesse. He does not cast magic, however to compensate, he does have a deadly accurate aim.
Weapon: Just his trusty shotgun.
Preferred faction: Cosmos
Sample:
voice ;
[The voice on the other side is rather dry and there's a hint of sarcasm as he speaks.]
War is an odd concept isn't it? Though, I wonder what motivates someone to act outside of self interest and start fighting for the so-called "greater good" - from what I hear, I was never one for idealism. It might a little fun, I must say that being considered a protagonist might be rather amusing.
Now, what is we do on the side of the "Cosmos"? I fail to see how it is supposed to benefit anyone and I am not one prone for philanthropy.
[If there was a shift in tone, it would be impossible to tell. It's no longer a joke to him, there's no one left to mock.]
Some of us have more important things to attend to than the idle conflicts of forces that have nothing to do with us.
[The tone shifts to one that is distinctly authoritative- extremely authoritative. He doesn't bother saying who he is, everyone in ShinRa knows Rufus ShinRa's voice]
If there are other ShinRa personnel using this or listening in on these frequencies, I want your statuses immediately. Just because we've been rudely interrupted from our work doesn't mean we're going to dwell.
THE WORLD
Name of Stage: Machiavelli's Tower
Image:
Effect(s): Randomized effects: sometimes it would inflict Sap on one person, but an opposing person would get Regen, Protect on one - deprotect on another ETC.