[Profile Meme]
[Character Name] Garnet Til Alexandros XVII or Dagger
[Canon] Final Fantasy 9
[Point Taken from Canon] End Game, After Zidane Returns
[Age] 17
[Gender] Female
[Sexual Orientation] Hetero
[Eye Color] Brown
[Hair Color] Black/Dark Brown
[Height] Not tall, like... 5' 1"
[Other] If you poke far under her hair there is the SLIGHTEST remains of a horn.
[Clothing] This is her normal attire. This is her queen's gown.
[Background] Here!
[Personality]
Garnet’s personality can’t be summed up easily by any stretch of the imagination. She grows a lot throughout the course of the game, and definitely becomes a much stronger woman.
When we first meet Garnet, it is apparent that she’s very intelligent, regal, and loyal to her country, but she also tends to be very naïve and not really understand how people and the world around her can tend to act. This doesn’t mean she doesn’t try to learn though; Garnet isn’t the typical stuck up and snotty princess we see in other stories. She’s very interested in people and quite willing to take advice and learn from those who understand the situation better than her. For example, she knows her name and way of speaking are going to make her stick out in regular little towns and villages, so she adopts the name Dagger, after Zidane’s weapon, and asks him to teach her how to speak like a regular peasant.
Garnet is very responsible and takes her role as princess, and pretty much everything she does, very seriously. She loves her kingdom and in a lot of ways feels unworthy of being queen one day. She wants to be a strong leader. After Queen Brahne takes her eidolons, Garnet feels useless. Even though she admits that she was always scared of her summoning power, when she sees how her mother is using her summons to destroy other kingdoms, Garnet resolves herself to getting her eidolons back. It takes a while, as she has to learn them slowly from jewels, but Garnet is a patient girl. The problem is, she tends to try and deal with things on her own, she doesn’t realize how her friends want to help her and take care of her. Instead, she keeps things on the inside and hopes to not worry people, and in a lot of ways this is a huge weakness.
Life isn’t always kind to Garnet, she witnesses a lot of tragedies within a short span of time. She loses her mother not too long into the story, and even though she finally returns to her home of Alexandria, soon after her coronation Kuja comes in and wreaks havoc, destroying a good chunk of the kingdom. Despite Garnet and Eiko summoning Alexander to defend the city, it doesn’t do much good in the end. As a result of all these things, Garnet loses her voice, a mental response to the exhaustion and sadness. It takes her a long time to realize that she doesn’t have to deal with her pain on her own, and when she finally does, Garnet finally regains her voice. She goes through many challenges with the help of her friends, and they show her that they are by her side. Even when she can’t concentrate fully in battle and fails to summon or heal, no one leaves her behind. She later makes a vow to save everyone and cuts her hair to show that she’s going to be a stronger individual.
Despite some more helpless moments, like passing out after seeing the Invincible in Bran Bal, Garnet has now become a much stronger woman. When Zidane is questioning his existence and all the things that Garland tells him about his birth, Garnet is the one who really wakes him up in the end. She tells him to stop being selfish and understand that his friends want to be there for him. One of the reasons she’s able to tell him this is because she once did the very same thing. She also, at this point, has developed feelings for Zidane and wishes to help him as much as possible.
As the game draws to a close, Garnet knows the reconstruction of her home is going well, she has her power of summoning back, and that she has loving people in her life to back her up. She goes into the last battle with strength and grace much befitting a queen. Even though Zidane leaves the group after the final fight to go and look for Kuja, Garnet lets him go, despite how much it hurts to watch him leave.
Garnet really goes from a simple princess to a much more well rounded human. She starts off only thinking of her duty to her kingdom and her mother, letting Tantalus kidnap her because she wants to save Alexandria. While her love for her country, her people, and her title remain, she really also learns to love herself and the things about her. She finds out about her summoner’s heritage, and learns to accept that part of herself. She learns to accept friends, as well as the assistance of others. Where once she used to read about romance and adventure in “I Want to be Your Canaray”, now she actually gets to experience the world and fall in love for herself (though for a long time she vehemently denies it. I think a lot of ways she still is uncomfortable with showing true affection for Zidane). Her formal way of carrying herself never really goes away, as she has to be regal in front of her people, but she can let herself be much more free when it’s just her and her friends, something she never would have done at the start of her journey.
[Specialties/Abilities] She’s an adept summoner and white mage, with very strong offensive Eidolons and good status boosting magic. She swings a rod and racket like no one’s business, and has pretty good stamina for princess. She says herself she trained to leave the castle, and it shows.
[Affection] Garnet is not someone who touches people a lot. She doesn't mind small hugs from friends and things like that, but she really needs warning before you go grabbing her or something. Talk to me first. x3
[Fighting] I'd refrain from doing this. But talk to me about anything in advance. :D
[Other Permissions] I'm not picky. Anything goes as long as you ask.
[Other Facts] 8| BOO
[Canon] Final Fantasy 9
[Point Taken from Canon] End Game, After Zidane Returns
[Age] 17
[Gender] Female
[Sexual Orientation] Hetero
[Eye Color] Brown
[Hair Color] Black/Dark Brown
[Height] Not tall, like... 5' 1"
[Other] If you poke far under her hair there is the SLIGHTEST remains of a horn.
[Clothing] This is her normal attire. This is her queen's gown.
[Background] Here!
[Personality]
Garnet’s personality can’t be summed up easily by any stretch of the imagination. She grows a lot throughout the course of the game, and definitely becomes a much stronger woman.
When we first meet Garnet, it is apparent that she’s very intelligent, regal, and loyal to her country, but she also tends to be very naïve and not really understand how people and the world around her can tend to act. This doesn’t mean she doesn’t try to learn though; Garnet isn’t the typical stuck up and snotty princess we see in other stories. She’s very interested in people and quite willing to take advice and learn from those who understand the situation better than her. For example, she knows her name and way of speaking are going to make her stick out in regular little towns and villages, so she adopts the name Dagger, after Zidane’s weapon, and asks him to teach her how to speak like a regular peasant.
Garnet is very responsible and takes her role as princess, and pretty much everything she does, very seriously. She loves her kingdom and in a lot of ways feels unworthy of being queen one day. She wants to be a strong leader. After Queen Brahne takes her eidolons, Garnet feels useless. Even though she admits that she was always scared of her summoning power, when she sees how her mother is using her summons to destroy other kingdoms, Garnet resolves herself to getting her eidolons back. It takes a while, as she has to learn them slowly from jewels, but Garnet is a patient girl. The problem is, she tends to try and deal with things on her own, she doesn’t realize how her friends want to help her and take care of her. Instead, she keeps things on the inside and hopes to not worry people, and in a lot of ways this is a huge weakness.
Life isn’t always kind to Garnet, she witnesses a lot of tragedies within a short span of time. She loses her mother not too long into the story, and even though she finally returns to her home of Alexandria, soon after her coronation Kuja comes in and wreaks havoc, destroying a good chunk of the kingdom. Despite Garnet and Eiko summoning Alexander to defend the city, it doesn’t do much good in the end. As a result of all these things, Garnet loses her voice, a mental response to the exhaustion and sadness. It takes her a long time to realize that she doesn’t have to deal with her pain on her own, and when she finally does, Garnet finally regains her voice. She goes through many challenges with the help of her friends, and they show her that they are by her side. Even when she can’t concentrate fully in battle and fails to summon or heal, no one leaves her behind. She later makes a vow to save everyone and cuts her hair to show that she’s going to be a stronger individual.
Despite some more helpless moments, like passing out after seeing the Invincible in Bran Bal, Garnet has now become a much stronger woman. When Zidane is questioning his existence and all the things that Garland tells him about his birth, Garnet is the one who really wakes him up in the end. She tells him to stop being selfish and understand that his friends want to be there for him. One of the reasons she’s able to tell him this is because she once did the very same thing. She also, at this point, has developed feelings for Zidane and wishes to help him as much as possible.
As the game draws to a close, Garnet knows the reconstruction of her home is going well, she has her power of summoning back, and that she has loving people in her life to back her up. She goes into the last battle with strength and grace much befitting a queen. Even though Zidane leaves the group after the final fight to go and look for Kuja, Garnet lets him go, despite how much it hurts to watch him leave.
Garnet really goes from a simple princess to a much more well rounded human. She starts off only thinking of her duty to her kingdom and her mother, letting Tantalus kidnap her because she wants to save Alexandria. While her love for her country, her people, and her title remain, she really also learns to love herself and the things about her. She finds out about her summoner’s heritage, and learns to accept that part of herself. She learns to accept friends, as well as the assistance of others. Where once she used to read about romance and adventure in “I Want to be Your Canaray”, now she actually gets to experience the world and fall in love for herself (though for a long time she vehemently denies it. I think a lot of ways she still is uncomfortable with showing true affection for Zidane). Her formal way of carrying herself never really goes away, as she has to be regal in front of her people, but she can let herself be much more free when it’s just her and her friends, something she never would have done at the start of her journey.
[Specialties/Abilities] She’s an adept summoner and white mage, with very strong offensive Eidolons and good status boosting magic. She swings a rod and racket like no one’s business, and has pretty good stamina for princess. She says herself she trained to leave the castle, and it shows.
[Affection] Garnet is not someone who touches people a lot. She doesn't mind small hugs from friends and things like that, but she really needs warning before you go grabbing her or something. Talk to me first. x3
[Fighting] I'd refrain from doing this. But talk to me about anything in advance. :D
[Other Permissions] I'm not picky. Anything goes as long as you ask.
[Other Facts] 8| BOO