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OOC Information;
Name; Carmen
Personal Journal; rikachai
Contact; AIM: Penguininator | MSN: tenkouisland@hotmail.com | Plurk: rikachai
Other Characters; N/A
IC Information;
Character Name; Ramirez
Canon; Skies of Arcadia Legends
Canon Point; Directly prior to the start of the game i.e. Fina has not been taken captive by Alfonso yet.
Age; 24
House; Hel; Ramirez himself is pretty much the symbol of death in this game, further serving as a counterpart to Fina. Whereas Fina represents the side of her patron moon that cultivates life and creating something from nothing, as seen by her special attacks, Ramirez deals in the side that cultivates death, darkness, void. He was raised to be a warrior, a person who knows that one day he may be called upon to enable his elders to rain death upon the entirety of Arcadia. Furthermore, since siding with Galcian, Ramirez's psyche has taken a beating. He's lived years on Arcadia only seeing the worst of people; the greed and corruption of aristocrats, the callous way the Valuans treat each other. Ramirez has no hope for Arcadia to ever get better. In his eyes, the only way save the world he comes from is to cleanse it completely and start over with Galcian as its all-encompassing ruler.
Power; Body Control
Personality;
At first glance, Ramirez seems like an easy character to place- the stereotypical quiet and handsome subordinate to the Big Bad of the game. He stays in the background for a good half of the game, and even after Nasrad's destruction and when Fina reveals her connection to him, he does not play a particularly big role until near the end. At his core, Ramirez is more than your generic "pretty JRPG antagonist"- if anything, he turns out to be one of the most complex and dynamic characters you come across.
Wrath is described as "love of justice perverted to revenge and spite". It proves to be an apt description for Ramirez and his metamorphosis from a genuinely kind young man to the hard-hearted Admiral you come across in the game. Fina and Doc both take pains to describe how entirely unlike his former self he is; Fina remembers him as a sort of big brother figure to her in her youth, and Doc refers to him as being one of the only people he trusted enough to call a friend. Once upon a time, you see, Ramirez was a man eerily similar in disposition to Fina, with a boyish idealism to match Vyse. He was gentle-natured sort of man that seemed to just genuinely care about people and what he could do to help them. However, once his father figure betrays his trust and has him arrested (most likely to be sent to an executioner's block), Ramirez's faith in humanity seems to shatter. After defecting to Galcian, this view only seems to get worse. By the time you hear his motive rant from his own mouth, Ramirez is thoroughly and deeply rooted in the view that man is evil and needs an iron fist to guide them, otherwise they would only once again give into their nature to HATE and CORRUPT.
Ramirez plays on the darker side of the morality spectrum, so his morals as a whole are questionable at best and downright horrific at worst. He has some degree of honor (offering to spare Vyse and his crew’s lives if they surrender to him…and following through with it should you choose that option), but if the situation seems to call for more drastic measures in order to get the results he desires, then Ramirez absolutely will not hesitate to follow through (shooting down life boats and burning down Nasr’s capital city for example, neither of which were necessary actions but most certainly created the impression he wished to impart to the masses). However, Ramirez is not an inherently evil character, and he certainly does not see himself as the villain by any means. There is a genuine belief, under all that anger and bitterness, that what he does is simply for the betterment of all mankind. His methods may be extreme, but in Ramirez's view, the end ALWAYS justifies the means. He does not gleefully run about slaughtering people left and right (though people mostly remember him as being very quick to issue out threats- which he was, I won't argue that). He is, however, extremely apathetic about the idea of murder. The main goal is always at the forefront of his mind and he will take the quickest and most effective way to prove his point. If that involves arson or death, then. Well. Them's the breaks.
Ramirez has a reputation in the game for being unsettlingly cold and taciturn in his dealings with most people. His long-standing bitterness against most of mankind plays a hand in that, and he does not seem to need or even want any sort of companionship from them. There is an exception to this rule however- Lord Galcian. Galcian is perhaps the only person that Ramirez allows himself to be close to, and even seems to view him with a sort of wide-eyed admiration a small child might hold for a parent. This may be because of his apparent deep-seated parental issues, especially in accordance to father figures. Although rather than attempting to rebel from them, Ramirez responds by desperately seeking attention and positive reinforcement from anyone he views as a father. He is almost laughably devoted to Galcian, him being the only person in the entire game for which he shows and open affection and respect. Distraught doesn't even cover how thoroughly Galcian's death come endgame destroys him. The Moonfish sidequest shows him equally attached and devoted to Mendosa, and the Silvite Elders comment on his former loyalty to the Great Silver Shrine, showing obvious surprise at hearing his decision to defect to the Valuans. While he shows considerable cynicism and distrust for the rest of the people in the world, there is something almost childishly innocent about the way he manages to throw the entirety of his passion into the goals of his leaders. He is very emotionally dependent on his superiors, to the point where he tends to completely fall apart if left on his own (see: endgame). To Ramirez, his leaders are always in the right, and those who oppose them are completely irredeemable.
Indeed, one of Ramirez's key defining traits is his fanatic, dog-like loyalty to anyone that manages to earn his respect. It’s such an overbearing part of his personality that it’s even been theorized that a “loyalty gene” had been sewn into him at birth. At his core, he is an extreme follower that doesn’t seem to have any real motivation or personal agenda of his own. His morals and ideals are dictated solely by the person to which he has devoted himself and unfortunately, Ramirez is a horrible judge of character; every person he becomes thoroughly devoted to has a tendency to use him simply as a tool to reach their goal, and these goals are generally not benign in nature.
Ramirez operates on varying degrees of extremes. On the surface, Ramirez is cold and unflappable. The truth of the matter is he is in fact very passionate and emotional, pursuing causes he feels are just in their ideals with a single-minded determination to see them through to the end. If he loves someone, he adores them utterly and unconditionally, mentally placing them on a pedestal of near-worship. If he hates someone, then they are the bane of everything he stands for and he will never forgive, forget, or let go. Ramirez does not do things halfway- when he does something, he puts his whole being into it, throwing himself fully into the cause with which he has aligned himself. To him, the world is always black and white and Ramirez very rarely has the time or the patience to compromise.
As expected of his antagonistic role, Ramirez is viciously ruthless if provoked. He doesn’t think twice about burning down a capital city, or shooting life boats out of the sky, and it doesn’t seem to be particularly bothered by it later on. He threatens to kill a man for insulting Galcian and subtly threatens soldiers on his own side earlier in the game as some weird form of motivating his troops. In addition, he’s entirely willing to kill a girl he’s grown up with and does kill a man that might have been the closest thing he had to a father while growing up, all in the name of furthering Galcian’s goals. Even on the Great Silver Shrine, Ramirez was raised to be a warrior, someone to send to Arcadia in order to annihilate it completely; the idea of death and destruction does not faze him in the slightest. If playing Bad Cop: Extreme Edition would cause a more desired result, then he most certainly does so without batting an eye. Being Galcian's lapdog for several years has also caused Ramirez to adopt many of his views. Cold and hard-hearted, Ramirez is entirely unforgiving of anything he perceives as weakness in another person. With a strong belief in "survival of the fittest", Ramirez has no pity for the weak and defenseless, nor will he make any attempt to preserve the life of those inferior enough to have their lives put at risk in the first place. This is in part what makes Ramirez such a dangerous fighter; hardened by Galcian's philosophy, he has lost any concept of mercy. Ramirez's battle strategy is based solely in tactics, and he cares not a whit about any life lost in the process. He is demanding and unforgiving of faults, extravagantly expressing his disgust in unreasonable resentment against others. He does, however, make an excellent companion if befriended- one that is willing to fight to the death for the protection and honor of his loved ones.
At the end of the day, Ramirez doesn't do what he does out of hatred, but rather the idea that Arcadia could be so much better than what it has become. Galcian is nothing short of the messiah that will save this world from itself, and Ramirez? Well, he's simply a disciple, putting the parts into play for his ascension.
Name; Carmen
Personal Journal; rikachai
Contact; AIM: Penguininator | MSN: tenkouisland@hotmail.com | Plurk: rikachai
Other Characters; N/A
IC Information;
Character Name; Ramirez
Canon; Skies of Arcadia Legends
Canon Point; Directly prior to the start of the game i.e. Fina has not been taken captive by Alfonso yet.
Age; 24
House; Hel; Ramirez himself is pretty much the symbol of death in this game, further serving as a counterpart to Fina. Whereas Fina represents the side of her patron moon that cultivates life and creating something from nothing, as seen by her special attacks, Ramirez deals in the side that cultivates death, darkness, void. He was raised to be a warrior, a person who knows that one day he may be called upon to enable his elders to rain death upon the entirety of Arcadia. Furthermore, since siding with Galcian, Ramirez's psyche has taken a beating. He's lived years on Arcadia only seeing the worst of people; the greed and corruption of aristocrats, the callous way the Valuans treat each other. Ramirez has no hope for Arcadia to ever get better. In his eyes, the only way save the world he comes from is to cleanse it completely and start over with Galcian as its all-encompassing ruler.
Power; Body Control
Personality;
At first glance, Ramirez seems like an easy character to place- the stereotypical quiet and handsome subordinate to the Big Bad of the game. He stays in the background for a good half of the game, and even after Nasrad's destruction and when Fina reveals her connection to him, he does not play a particularly big role until near the end. At his core, Ramirez is more than your generic "pretty JRPG antagonist"- if anything, he turns out to be one of the most complex and dynamic characters you come across.
Wrath is described as "love of justice perverted to revenge and spite". It proves to be an apt description for Ramirez and his metamorphosis from a genuinely kind young man to the hard-hearted Admiral you come across in the game. Fina and Doc both take pains to describe how entirely unlike his former self he is; Fina remembers him as a sort of big brother figure to her in her youth, and Doc refers to him as being one of the only people he trusted enough to call a friend. Once upon a time, you see, Ramirez was a man eerily similar in disposition to Fina, with a boyish idealism to match Vyse. He was gentle-natured sort of man that seemed to just genuinely care about people and what he could do to help them. However, once his father figure betrays his trust and has him arrested (most likely to be sent to an executioner's block), Ramirez's faith in humanity seems to shatter. After defecting to Galcian, this view only seems to get worse. By the time you hear his motive rant from his own mouth, Ramirez is thoroughly and deeply rooted in the view that man is evil and needs an iron fist to guide them, otherwise they would only once again give into their nature to HATE and CORRUPT.
Ramirez plays on the darker side of the morality spectrum, so his morals as a whole are questionable at best and downright horrific at worst. He has some degree of honor (offering to spare Vyse and his crew’s lives if they surrender to him…and following through with it should you choose that option), but if the situation seems to call for more drastic measures in order to get the results he desires, then Ramirez absolutely will not hesitate to follow through (shooting down life boats and burning down Nasr’s capital city for example, neither of which were necessary actions but most certainly created the impression he wished to impart to the masses). However, Ramirez is not an inherently evil character, and he certainly does not see himself as the villain by any means. There is a genuine belief, under all that anger and bitterness, that what he does is simply for the betterment of all mankind. His methods may be extreme, but in Ramirez's view, the end ALWAYS justifies the means. He does not gleefully run about slaughtering people left and right (though people mostly remember him as being very quick to issue out threats- which he was, I won't argue that). He is, however, extremely apathetic about the idea of murder. The main goal is always at the forefront of his mind and he will take the quickest and most effective way to prove his point. If that involves arson or death, then. Well. Them's the breaks.
Ramirez has a reputation in the game for being unsettlingly cold and taciturn in his dealings with most people. His long-standing bitterness against most of mankind plays a hand in that, and he does not seem to need or even want any sort of companionship from them. There is an exception to this rule however- Lord Galcian. Galcian is perhaps the only person that Ramirez allows himself to be close to, and even seems to view him with a sort of wide-eyed admiration a small child might hold for a parent. This may be because of his apparent deep-seated parental issues, especially in accordance to father figures. Although rather than attempting to rebel from them, Ramirez responds by desperately seeking attention and positive reinforcement from anyone he views as a father. He is almost laughably devoted to Galcian, him being the only person in the entire game for which he shows and open affection and respect. Distraught doesn't even cover how thoroughly Galcian's death come endgame destroys him. The Moonfish sidequest shows him equally attached and devoted to Mendosa, and the Silvite Elders comment on his former loyalty to the Great Silver Shrine, showing obvious surprise at hearing his decision to defect to the Valuans. While he shows considerable cynicism and distrust for the rest of the people in the world, there is something almost childishly innocent about the way he manages to throw the entirety of his passion into the goals of his leaders. He is very emotionally dependent on his superiors, to the point where he tends to completely fall apart if left on his own (see: endgame). To Ramirez, his leaders are always in the right, and those who oppose them are completely irredeemable.
Indeed, one of Ramirez's key defining traits is his fanatic, dog-like loyalty to anyone that manages to earn his respect. It’s such an overbearing part of his personality that it’s even been theorized that a “loyalty gene” had been sewn into him at birth. At his core, he is an extreme follower that doesn’t seem to have any real motivation or personal agenda of his own. His morals and ideals are dictated solely by the person to which he has devoted himself and unfortunately, Ramirez is a horrible judge of character; every person he becomes thoroughly devoted to has a tendency to use him simply as a tool to reach their goal, and these goals are generally not benign in nature.
Ramirez operates on varying degrees of extremes. On the surface, Ramirez is cold and unflappable. The truth of the matter is he is in fact very passionate and emotional, pursuing causes he feels are just in their ideals with a single-minded determination to see them through to the end. If he loves someone, he adores them utterly and unconditionally, mentally placing them on a pedestal of near-worship. If he hates someone, then they are the bane of everything he stands for and he will never forgive, forget, or let go. Ramirez does not do things halfway- when he does something, he puts his whole being into it, throwing himself fully into the cause with which he has aligned himself. To him, the world is always black and white and Ramirez very rarely has the time or the patience to compromise.
As expected of his antagonistic role, Ramirez is viciously ruthless if provoked. He doesn’t think twice about burning down a capital city, or shooting life boats out of the sky, and it doesn’t seem to be particularly bothered by it later on. He threatens to kill a man for insulting Galcian and subtly threatens soldiers on his own side earlier in the game as some weird form of motivating his troops. In addition, he’s entirely willing to kill a girl he’s grown up with and does kill a man that might have been the closest thing he had to a father while growing up, all in the name of furthering Galcian’s goals. Even on the Great Silver Shrine, Ramirez was raised to be a warrior, someone to send to Arcadia in order to annihilate it completely; the idea of death and destruction does not faze him in the slightest. If playing Bad Cop: Extreme Edition would cause a more desired result, then he most certainly does so without batting an eye. Being Galcian's lapdog for several years has also caused Ramirez to adopt many of his views. Cold and hard-hearted, Ramirez is entirely unforgiving of anything he perceives as weakness in another person. With a strong belief in "survival of the fittest", Ramirez has no pity for the weak and defenseless, nor will he make any attempt to preserve the life of those inferior enough to have their lives put at risk in the first place. This is in part what makes Ramirez such a dangerous fighter; hardened by Galcian's philosophy, he has lost any concept of mercy. Ramirez's battle strategy is based solely in tactics, and he cares not a whit about any life lost in the process. He is demanding and unforgiving of faults, extravagantly expressing his disgust in unreasonable resentment against others. He does, however, make an excellent companion if befriended- one that is willing to fight to the death for the protection and honor of his loved ones.
At the end of the day, Ramirez doesn't do what he does out of hatred, but rather the idea that Arcadia could be so much better than what it has become. Galcian is nothing short of the messiah that will save this world from itself, and Ramirez? Well, he's simply a disciple, putting the parts into play for his ascension.