oh boy, I actually have a lot of these. But I'll keep it brief:
Miles Edgeworth has a terrible memory. He forgets faces of business associates, names, general locations, details of previous trials he's handled--sometimes really obvious stuff. He organizes things so strictly mostly because he'll forget where things are if he doesn't. This is probably a combination of very little sleep and a longstanding case of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. He's never ruled out the fact that it might very well just be a result of brain damage due to that time he was kind of stuck in an elevator with no air. It is irritating.
Miles Edgeworth wears contacts. His vision is pretty damn bad. He'd wear glasses, except that'd make him look a little too much like his dad, and he's really not sure how he feels about that. But the world is pretty darn blurry to him on default. And he has a VERY SPECIFIC PLACE that he puts them each night (when he actually sleeps) because he'll...forget where the hell they are otherwise. When he starts sleeping with Phoenix this becomes a serious problem, as Phoenix's place pretty much follows no standard logic whatsoever as far as where things end up in the morning.
Miles Edgeworth's office shelves are all legal books, right up to the top. There is a total of one book in his collection that isn't. It is a battered copy of To Kill A Mockingbird, which he keeps in his desk, because his father is Gregory Peck used to read it to him. He feels it is a necessary text.
HAS IMMUNITY TO MOST POISONS. Basically because Orochimaru kept on slipping it into her tea and food until she built up a good healthy strength against most poisons generally known to man and a few especially synthesized by her teacher. The worst snake bite will probably just give her a really bad headache, and she can drink pretty much the whole of Konoha under the table. (Ibiki may be the only one who even comes close to matching her. And he gets giggly when he's drunk enough. This amuses her, so she's his favorite guy to hit the bars with. Plus I suspect she thinks the scarring's hot)
Is remarkably flexible. She is double jointed in just about every crook that she has, and a few that she shouldn't. You know that thing cats can do where they can wiggle through impossible small spaces? Anko slithers through them. It always made her extremely skilled at espionage missions, and in fact Orochimaru frequently used her as a spy prior to his departure.
The Anbu who subdued and retrieved Anko was in fact led by, Hatake Kakashi. It was a very nasty fight. The Curse Seal became involved. She mostly lost due to an over reliance on it in it's incomplete and undeveloped state, and her master left her for dead upon witnessing this particular failure. Out of spite, she gave away just about everything she knew about his movements. She doesn't hold a grudge against Kakashi though. She likes a guy who can make her bleed and vice versa. We won't go into how much timeline fuckery is involved to make taht fight even vaguely feasible.
The Cat's name is 'Pi', or, when The Cat has been naughty, gets Full Named to 'Come here, 3.14159265'. The Cat gets better treatment than the average grad student. Said grad students were generally assigned to take care of The Cat's needs when Rodney felt their usefulness had run out. This usually always happens.
Rodney and his sister used to solve local mysteries together, to avoid going home after school. They had enough adventures together to write a whole damn series of children's mystery novels. Math Usually Saved The Day, but sometimes Jeannie's ability to climb trees helped.
Rodney gets very antsy about letting John near his laptop. This is because John has installed REALLY FREAKING BIZARRE screensavers on his laptop before. Or change his wallpaper. Or make it play the theme from Top Gun when it boots up. Rodney has it under password, but John somehow always manages to figure it out. Current password: 3.14159265
SINCE THE OTHER TWO ARE BEING COVERED. I will go with RAMZA BEOULVE, bitches.
Ramza is REALLY REALLY TINY. The only one in the party shorter than him is Rafa, and possibly Ovelia in their brief time escorting her, and even then she might've had a hair's breadth on him. Alma comes to about the same height. By contrast, Delita has been over six feet since age fifteen and has never not ribbed both of them about it. The funny thing is, however, most people don't notice that Ramza's really short. This is partly because when he barks orders he does it from the highest point of the battle field. This is also partly because he holds himself in such a way that you easily forget. This is also maybe because he has a REALLY DEEP, REALLY STRONG VOICE that can carry very easily. He is a little lion, but he ROARS. This is why most of his special abilities are tied with his ability to scream his head off. Because Ramza enjoys screaming his head off when he fights.
Has a surprisingly high tolerence for the amazing amount of weirdness of his army. Beowulf seems to have a disturbingly intimate relationship with his dragon? Well, some men are allowed their eccentricities. Pretty much a whole lot of CRAZY can go down around him and he'll just sit calmly, paging through his maps. Cloud has seizures and speaks in tongues? ... well, he's Cloud. Mustadio's been chased up a tree? ... he can stay there for awhile and think aboutn what he's done. RAMZA JUST KEEPS TO BUSINESS.
He's allergic to ghosts. When there's one nearby he gets terribly queasy, watery-eyed, and pale. This is the result of an unfortunate childhood incident when he was locked in a room with one of the local Igros spirits for the better part of a day.
Is a total TECHNOPHOBE. He doesn't like any of this newfangled golden age technology. He has a curiousity for things he's never seen before, but when it comes down to it he won't touch a gun SO HELP HIM. Mustadio has to do some serious coaxing to get him to approach any form of strange machinery he's dug up. This coaxing generally involves sparking Ramza's boyish competitive side, which is very strong, and which Mustadio can appeal to more often than anyone else.
Speaks in a Gallionne accent. Very high-class, very cultured, but also comes with the reputation of some foppishness in other provinces. (LOOK AT LARG) Mustadio makes fun of this all the time.
Fran speaks to machines a little like she once spoke to the forest. She can hear them down to their core, she has the ears for it, and thus when she refers to the airship as its own entity she really MEANS it, as she sort of just gets the language of the way the parts work, and the general flow of Mist through its veins. As a result, the moogles pretty much follow her direction when it comes to zeroing in on problem bits when fixing the Strahl. She'll walk ahead with about five of things bobbing around them, running her claws over the walls until she finds a spot, taps it, and let's them have at.
Fran has a soft spot for Penelo. Some of this is due to residual feelings about her younger sister, Mjrn. Most of it is due to the fact that Penelo is one of the few party members (besides Balthier) who honestly does not hold her at some distance and awe due to the general problem of being an eight foot tall bunny woman. She thus is very protective of the girl, and will sometimes tell her viera bedtime stories, at least the ones she is allowed to tell to humans. The logic behind which ones are okay and which aren't is pretty much unknown to any but viera themselves.
Fran considers Balthier a true kindred spirit, but so very, very young. He probably reminds her a little bit of herself many years ago, when she'd just left her home. She's pretty much very patient with his Sky Pirate strutting, and has absolutely no problem cutting through it for the sake of immediate business. Also, has dragged him away from 'pleasing company' in the name of a quick gettaway.
Fran is never at full ease. This is especially true in cities. She is constantly tense, and her ears never, ever stop moving. She will swivel an ear in your general direction before she'll turn to look at you. It's just a viera thing.
...oh. Damn. I have way too many for Ichigo. Where to start.
Loves superhero comics, western superhero comics especially. His dad actually gave him the "IT'S OKAY IF YOU'RE GAY SON" speech primarily because of the clear preference to men in tights over naughty scantily clad women in the magazines he kept under his bed. Superman is his favorite. And can beat Son Goku. So there.
Can play the guitar, is actually pretty good at it. Chad taught him, and he turned out to be a natural at it. Prior to all this shinigami business when he wasn't studying, and when he wasn't hitting up arcades and beating up local thugs with his dudes, he'd be practicing some place nice and QUIET FOR A CHANGE THANKS DAD FOR MAKING THAT A CHALLENGE.
Moderately psychic. We all knew this, but the point is actually that he did a lot of freelance spirit work prior to the start of the series. Not entirely by choice. Ghosts paid him a lot of housecalls, is all. But if he heard about a spirit bound to a certain location that's unfinished business involved finding something beyond its boundaries? He'd gladly play intermediary. He's channeled ghosts before, but he's also strong enough spiritually he can BOOT THEM OUT if they try to get troublesome about it, and he makes this very clear from the get go. It gives him a total headache to do this, though. So he'll only resort it if he really, really has to.
Hates The Sixth Sense. Mostly because now he never hears the end of the 'So, you see dead people? All the time?" jokes. SCREW YOU SIXTH SENSE GUY. SCREW YOU. He feels he totally could've written that movie better ANYWAY.
Favorite recent movie? Merchant of Venice. The one with Al Pacino in it. Just 'cause.
Still has the absolutely best taste in shirts known to man. Will have to be forgiven for occasional skinny jeans, as he can sorta pull it off what with his BONY BONY ASS.
Doesn't get the comparisons with this Kaien guy. He looks NOTHING like him!
Mustadio is tall as a beanpole and nearly as thin. He's all leg. He swings his arms spectacularly when he walks. He's also fast as anything, and very good at climbing. He also has the fastest startle reaction of anyone in the party. If something loud goes off that has nothing to do with a gun or with a mechanical mishap, he will scramble for the nearest higher ground. Sometimes this is Agrias. He has leapt into her arms before. Agrias was not amused.
Has forever got grease stains smeared into his clothes, across his cheeks, through his hair. He's also very, very capable of bouncing back from horrible injury. This is in no small part due to the fact that, due to his father's war injuries, he's usually the one who has to scramble under the heavy machinery and check the circuit breakers for conductivity. He's been shocked, stepped on, snagged, and thrown into walls about a dozen times growing up. He still does it, mind. Old man can't exactly do it on his own, and he's just as eager to make things MOVE. There is nothing more terrifying than seeing both generation of Bunansa begin to GEEK THE HELL OUT. LOOK, TECHNOLOGY JUST GETS HIM HOT OKAY?
Mustadio's dad means the world to him. He really basically follows Ramza out of gratitude for helping him save the old man's life. Ramza's not a bad guy, despite being (in Mustadio's eyes) a total Gallionne noble FOP who really needs to just learn to cut all of the crap and just be a little more straight forward (Mustadio has no need for decorum or PROPER MANNERS). That doesn't mean Mustadio won't make it a daily pursuit to find some way to twit his boss. Or talk him into assisting him in some dumb antics. Those two things generally come hand and hand.
Mustadio once saw Agrias naked. He didn't talk straight for days.
When he's drunk enough he thinks Ramza makes one DAMN PRETTY GIRL.
Has a single white hankercheif that somehow manages to avoid all dirt, oil, and blood he gets on himself. It was given to him by his father when he joined up. He values it highly, seeing as it's been in the family for years.
Dreams of flying one day. Would basically totally whore out for a chance to learn more about how that worked, in the age of airships.
The tattoos are real, and she loves 'em. Penelo has a THING for tattoos, she'll probably eventually end up getting them all down her back. They have an exotic quality that's a very good thing for a dancer to have, even better for a Sky Pirate to have. They will probably always all be types of desert flowers and vines and things though.
Got her licenses for axes before Vaan did. The result was Basch showing her how to really, really properly swing it. Basch shows her a lot of the details of how to hit things real good. During their adventures, random beasts on the road was a little bit like a family picnic with those two. Penelo's really, really missed having big brothers (she used to have three) so Basch is very much a nice subsitute, even if she teases him about being kinda old, about totally always carrying Ashe's stuff, and sometimes about his hair. At the final battle when she left Larsa to tend to Gabranth, she kinda touched Basch's arm to ask him if HE was okay, too. Penelo's concerned for the people she cares about.
Penelo, however, is a sky pirate through and through. She loves the adventure. She also has a good head on her shoulders, which is a necessary thing when her partner's got a tendency to sort of just rush in. She is also very, very bendy. She uses this often to her advantage. She's an expert at martial arts, she collects knowledge of dances from all parts of the world. From ball room to basic Dalmascan belly dance, she's pretty varied as far as it goes. She can fake it pretty well if she has to.
Is very bird-like. The way she moves, the way she cocks her head, the way she eats too. She also really does like shiny things. She'll end up wearing a lot of bracelet and rings later in her sky pirate days, I'm pretty sure. She also enjoys weaving things between her fingers. She walks on her toes a lot of the time, and will never, ever be able to stay grounded for too long. Her place is in the sky, and with Vaan, and with adventure, and she's loathe to let that go.
She will never, ever feel completely at ease calling royalty by name, though.
Had a bit of a fangirly attitude about Ashe for the LONGEST TIME, because most young Dalmascan girls went through a phase where they wanted to be just like the little princess Ashe.
There was once an incident where Larsa's was kidnapped when he happened to give his escorts the slip in a market while visiting one of the provinces, having lobbied to Drace to bring him along. He was held by a worker's rebellion that was seeking to gain a voice for negotiations with the Archadian governance in regards to what they believed to be unfair tariffs. Larsa was sympathetic to their ideas, however he strongly suggested they might be better off letting them go. It would not be a very good idea to hold him hostage. The men didn't listen to him. Drace ended up tearing down half of their base and taking out all of their military body nearly single-handedly in order to retrieve the boy. ...Larsa had warned them about that.
When he gets older, he will probably end up flocked by a great number of lady friends and aquaintences, who frequently accompany on the occasional trips abroad and locally. They are all probably perfectly platonic aquaintences, and he is so gentlemanly and adament to his friendships with them that no one has the heart to dare speculate whether or not he is in fact, actually a total ladies man. (the answer is...no, not really so much. But when he does have a less than platonic female companion he is pretty much so discreet about it they just assume she's just another friend)
His mother was one of the doctors who'd treated Gramis during the earlier stages of his sickness. The fact that she was also the Emperor's mistress was just a very convenient cover for this fact, as Gramis had kept his declining health out of public health for as long as he can manage. Larsa doesn't remember much of her. She probably later died of a fever she'd caught while tending the Emperor. But he takes after her a great deal in at least the fact that he probably won't inherit the Solidor Nose.
Totally shipped Gabranth and Drace. They were simply two of his favorite people, and he would have preferred to see that they get along and were happy. :3 He likes to play matchmaking games. It is like playing politics, but a lot less tiresome and with much better results!
Totally has his brothers gift for pretty words, that's for sure.
Always wears white gloves. They become one of his signatures, as Emperor. Most people take it as a symbol that he rules with unbloodied hands, but in actuality Larsa just has a preference for them. He's not adverse to the other meanings that people choose to place in them, however.
Basch isn't so startled by some aspects of Archadian custom. This is primarily because Landis was a nation that bordered Archades closely enough that there was a lot of intermarriage, shared languages--if different dialect. It's the reason the accents share some similiarities. Landis bears closer resembalance to Archadia's older traditions, however, as in the last century Archadia's undergone such rapid technological advances that Landis failed to keep up with. Compared to most other nations Landis was fairly backwards. Basch has never, ever not stumbled a little at that first lurch of an city airshuttle, even after over ten years of living in Rabanastre, where such modes of transportation aren't uncommon.
...to that end, Basch generally amazed most of his comrades and commanding officers with his tendency to utterly dawdle in returning from a patrol. He had a tendency to avoid most swift and efficient modes of transportation, preferring to take long detours on foot through the winding roots on the ground levels of the city. At first this was just part of getting acclimated to the place, but Basch never really fell out of his general wonder of Rabanastre and its people. Even at the lofty rank of Captain he'd sometimes have to be tracked down by subordinates when he failed to report in in a timely fashion. They'd find him in the streets, playing kick ball with a gaggle of children, having completely lost track of the time. Captain Basch's love of his adopted nation was no secret to anyone.
Basch a very good cook. Does most of the cooking for the party. He's also the one who carries most of Ashe's gear and supplies. She never asked him to do this, and he never complained, it is just something that was done. Vaan at one point complained that Basch never carries his stuff. ...Basch immediately began to heft up his rucksack. Vaan immediately said HE DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT CRAP I WAS KIDDING. Basch gave him a rather amused look and Vaan felt like the guy'd put one over him.
Basch actually has a really mischeivous sense of humor. People never catch on to this, mostly because he has such a straight face. They think he's completely serious. A cadet once asked him what he could do to get on Captain Azelas' good side. Basch made a light mention of rose scented bath oils. ... Vossler's next name day was a very interesting affair.
Everything that Basch is at present: dutiful, devoted, determined, brave. Is all the culmination of the agonizing effort to bring himself just a little bit farther from that frightened boy who abandoned his family in a dying nation over a decade ago.
He'll never, ever, ever say this, but Vaan reminds him a lot of Noah. At least the Noah that he remembers. Clever, headstrong, and amazingly passionate, something he realizes has died in the brother he knows now. ... it gladdens him to see it still living in someone else.
A great deal of his initial months as Judge Magister was spent with Larsa learning about how Gabranth lived. It wasn't for the purpose of playing the role: he just felt he owed it to his brother to know how he lived, where he'd been, what he'd seen, the people he'd known, things he'd done--the bad and the good. He was relieved to learn it wasn't all suffering. ...Larsa was very much evidence of that, having been in part raised by him. It brought Basch a measure of peace.
Delita has a gift for accents. His default accent was essentially the Gallionne high accent, as he was educated at Igros, with the occasional lilt of the common accent slipping in now and again. By the time he joined up with Goltana he'd pretty much eliminated all traces of his regional dialect. He can slip on a manner of speech a little like some people can slip on a glove. This drives Olan completely up the wall, as he's constantly wondering where the hell this guy came from.
Lay for about nine hours in the wreckage of Zeakdon before a wild chocobo found him lying there when things had begun to cool. He'd hooked his arms around its neck and it'd carried him to where he'd eventually been found by members of the Church. He'd actually been swallowed completely by the blast, but Teta had cast mbarrier on him just in time. So he regenerated, inch by agonizing inch. It was painful as fuck and he nearly froze to death afterwards anyway. He remembers very clearly staring up at the snow as it fell. It sort of left him a little bit not right in the head, in addition to having a very strong aversion to snow. He refers to this as his 'first death', and will sometimes make black humored jokes about his ability to cheat it with every day he lives past Zeakden. (He thinks Teta should've cast it on herself)
He may be a Holy Knight, but he's actually a very, very sardonic atheist. He puts little faith in higher powers anymore (not that he did to start with. Him and Ramza used to play marbles during mass), and thinks less of people who claim to (see: The Church). Although that said, for all that he totally mocks the hell out of Ovelia for her faith, he actually respects how devoted she is to it, even if he's genuinely disgusted by how he feels it limits her potential. He doesn't observe a lot of the decorum expected of a Holy Knight, but abuses the perks a helluva lot. Holy Knights are one of the few orders of knight allowed to bear arms in a chapel, for one thing... on the flip side however he had to work with Izlude a few times early in his career and while he was all smiles and charm about it, he wanted to punch the smiley homeschooled fundie dragoon in the face.
If there's a non-jaded bone left in it's body it's where Ovelia's concerned. He completely, utterly, head over the heels for her. Pretty honestly too. Oh, he'll use the fuck out of her to get what he wants, but his feelings for her are quite earnest. In short: he thinks she is hot, has since the first time he gutpunched her, and will say so, and will smirk a lot to watch her reaction to THAT. ...he thinks she's hottest when she's good and pissed though. Much to her annoyance when she's chewing him out for a particularly asshole-y thing he's done. He generally brings her flowers to make up for it though! ... that last time it just didn't work so well.
Delita's very good with chocobo. This is mainly because his primary job when he came to Igros was stable boy.
Likes it when the woman tops.
In general likes woman a lot, actually. It comes from having been such a huge fan of his sister. He's actually downright progressive as far as his attitudes towards them go, considering the era, and one of his things as King was probably a lot of little stuff om favor this. Giving women who'd become knights the rights to inherit and hold property, appointing the occasional female minister, giving Agrias a helluva cushy job post-war even though she hated his guts...
Delita would've killed Olan had Ovelia not made him promise not to harm him. He quickly amended his plans after that.
Had Zalbag survived the events of the war, Delita would've had him executed and would have probably considered it justice done.
Had four sons by Ovelia, and one daughter. The daughter was his favorite. He died many years after The Lion War, when Ovelia stabbed him. He'd grown older and more paranoid about maintaining his power, she'd been unable to look the other way anymore. He truly hadn't seen it coming, as he thought he'd done it largely for her. (he did it for himself)
In another life, would've probably made a fabulous actor. Or he would've been Wiglaf.
Ashe used to be a delicate and sweet picture of feminity. She was the spoiled youngest princess, and her gentle demeanor was something she was known for. She knew about the basics of swordsmanship mainly because, having eight older brothers you sort of picked these things up. She wasn't a born warrior. She wasn't even a very hard person, once. In another life she would've married Rasler and been his cool, calm queen and would've never ever thought of taking a sword to battle. Losing her whole family and husband kinda changed that, though. She's lost a taste for needlepoint and card games. She still has a fondness for very elaborate dresses though, and as Queen she makes use of her ability to procure them. She also still enjoys hunting and riding. She will always enjoy a good long chocobo ride.
Raminas had three wives. Ashe's mother, being a foreigner, a daughter of the Ondore family, had been much maligned by the elder two wives. Except then she gave them the daughter they'd all really, really been hoping for. As a result, Ashe had three loving, doting mothers that all absolutely adored her and showered her with gifts.
...by contrast, Ashe's Bhujerban cousins kind of hate her guts.
'Amalia' was Ashe's pet name among the royal wives (her mother's name being Amala). She chose this childhood monniker as the name of the leader of the resistance partly as a code. Only those who had been closest to the royal family would know the significance of the name. Hence why Basch was able to recognize who she was the instant he heard it.
Will never remarry, and will rule Dalmasca as sole monarch. It will become part of her image as Queen, actually. She continues to wear her wedding ring, though it's less as a sign of being bound to the past and more, in her own official words, to honor her alliance with the fallen Nabradia--the country to which she would have been Queen, had things fallen differently. Another reason is to continue to maintain balance between the Empires: Al-Cid and Larsa will both propose to her on principle. She will turn them both down on principle. Dalmasca refuses to favor one empire over the other. Ministers will probably spend the rest of their lives begging her to marry someone, and there will be endless speculations about possibly prospects, but she won't cede her power over to anyone and the matter of producing an heir will probably end up delightfully scandalous or just plain confusing.
As Dalmascan Queen, she often ends up holding summits between the world leaders in regards to border disputes. She'll become notorious for her short patience and her occasional extreme methods of getting certain parties to come to terms. Sometimes these methods involve her throwing a sword into the table between the two arguing figures.
No longer holds regular one-sided conversations with ghosts (which she did with alarming frequency, usually in private, usually when she thought the rest of the party was asleep, and not just that once) though in a rare exasperated moment she sometimes is known to breath "Oh my sweet prince, what would you have done?" as an oath, of sorts.
Jumped Rasler's bones the first chance she got. She's no maiden. She was also the initiator for most of it, as Rasler was too shy and misguidedly chivalrous to even touch her at first.
Disliked resorting to mark hunts, feeling it beneath her to be a common mercenary, but she quit snotting about this the first time her bracers wore through and they were too broke to pay for repairs.
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Date: 2007-05-16 07:39 am (UTC)Yeah I'm a broken record. :D
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Date: 2007-05-16 08:03 am (UTC)Miles Edgeworth has a terrible memory. He forgets faces of business associates, names, general locations, details of previous trials he's handled--sometimes really obvious stuff. He organizes things so strictly mostly because he'll forget where things are if he doesn't. This is probably a combination of very little sleep and a longstanding case of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. He's never ruled out the fact that it might very well just be a result of brain damage due to that time he was kind of stuck in an elevator with no air. It is irritating.
Miles Edgeworth wears contacts. His vision is pretty damn bad. He'd wear glasses, except that'd make him look a little too much like his dad, and he's really not sure how he feels about that. But the world is pretty darn blurry to him on default. And he has a VERY SPECIFIC PLACE that he puts them each night (when he actually sleeps) because he'll...forget where the hell they are otherwise. When he starts sleeping with Phoenix this becomes a serious problem, as Phoenix's place pretty much follows no standard logic whatsoever as far as where things end up in the morning.
Miles Edgeworth's office shelves are all legal books, right up to the top. There is a total of one book in his collection that isn't. It is a battered copy of To Kill A Mockingbird, which he keeps in his desk, because his father
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Date: 2007-05-16 07:46 am (UTC)god damnit Kishimoto what the HELL
Date: 2007-05-16 08:18 am (UTC)Is remarkably flexible. She is double jointed in just about every crook that she has, and a few that she shouldn't. You know that thing cats can do where they can wiggle through impossible small spaces? Anko slithers through them. It always made her extremely skilled at espionage missions, and in fact Orochimaru frequently used her as a spy prior to his departure.
The Anbu who subdued and retrieved Anko was in fact led by, Hatake Kakashi. It was a very nasty fight. The Curse Seal became involved. She mostly lost due to an over reliance on it in it's incomplete and undeveloped state, and her master left her for dead upon witnessing this particular failure. Out of spite, she gave away just about everything she knew about his movements. She doesn't hold a grudge against Kakashi though. She likes a guy who can make her bleed and vice versa. We won't go into how much timeline fuckery is involved to make taht fight even vaguely feasible.
Sleeps in the nude.
Judges people by taste.
SRSLY
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Date: 2007-05-16 07:51 am (UTC)(going to bed now, for real this time.)
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Date: 2007-05-16 07:56 pm (UTC)Rodney and his sister used to solve local mysteries together, to avoid going home after school. They had enough adventures together to write a whole damn series of children's mystery novels. Math Usually Saved The Day, but sometimes Jeannie's ability to climb trees helped.
Rodney gets very antsy about letting John near his laptop. This is because John has installed REALLY FREAKING BIZARRE screensavers on his laptop before. Or change his wallpaper. Or make it play the theme from Top Gun when it boots up. Rodney has it under password, but John somehow always manages to figure it out. Current password: 3.14159265
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Date: 2007-05-16 07:59 am (UTC)spoilers galore
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Date: 2007-05-16 06:16 pm (UTC)Ramza is REALLY REALLY TINY. The only one in the party shorter than him is Rafa, and possibly Ovelia in their brief time escorting her, and even then she might've had a hair's breadth on him. Alma comes to about the same height. By contrast, Delita has been over six feet since age fifteen and has never not ribbed both of them about it. The funny thing is, however, most people don't notice that Ramza's really short. This is partly because when he barks orders he does it from the highest point of the battle field. This is also partly because he holds himself in such a way that you easily forget. This is also maybe because he has a REALLY DEEP, REALLY STRONG VOICE that can carry very easily. He is a little lion, but he ROARS. This is why most of his special abilities are tied with his ability to scream his head off. Because Ramza enjoys screaming his head off when he fights.
Has a surprisingly high tolerence for the amazing amount of weirdness of his army. Beowulf seems to have a disturbingly intimate relationship with his dragon? Well, some men are allowed their eccentricities. Pretty much a whole lot of CRAZY can go down around him and he'll just sit calmly, paging through his maps. Cloud has seizures and speaks in tongues? ... well, he's Cloud. Mustadio's been chased up a tree? ... he can stay there for awhile and think aboutn what he's done. RAMZA JUST KEEPS TO BUSINESS.
He's allergic to ghosts. When there's one nearby he gets terribly queasy, watery-eyed, and pale. This is the result of an unfortunate childhood incident when he was locked in a room with one of the local Igros spirits for the better part of a day.
Is a total TECHNOPHOBE. He doesn't like any of this newfangled golden age technology. He has a curiousity for things he's never seen before, but when it comes down to it he won't touch a gun SO HELP HIM. Mustadio has to do some serious coaxing to get him to approach any form of strange machinery he's dug up. This coaxing generally involves sparking Ramza's boyish competitive side, which is very strong, and which Mustadio can appeal to more often than anyone else.
Speaks in a Gallionne accent. Very high-class, very cultured, but also comes with the reputation of some foppishness in other provinces. (LOOK AT LARG) Mustadio makes fun of this all the time.
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Date: 2007-05-16 08:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-16 08:35 am (UTC)Fran has a soft spot for Penelo. Some of this is due to residual feelings about her younger sister, Mjrn. Most of it is due to the fact that Penelo is one of the few party members (besides Balthier) who honestly does not hold her at some distance and awe due to the general problem of being an eight foot tall bunny woman. She thus is very protective of the girl, and will sometimes tell her viera bedtime stories, at least the ones she is allowed to tell to humans. The logic behind which ones are okay and which aren't is pretty much unknown to any but viera themselves.
Fran considers Balthier a true kindred spirit, but so very, very young. He probably reminds her a little bit of herself many years ago, when she'd just left her home. She's pretty much very patient with his Sky Pirate strutting, and has absolutely no problem cutting through it for the sake of immediate business. Also, has dragged him away from 'pleasing company' in the name of a quick gettaway.
Fran is never at full ease. This is especially true in cities. She is constantly tense, and her ears never, ever stop moving. She will swivel an ear in your general direction before she'll turn to look at you. It's just a viera thing.
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Date: 2007-05-16 11:34 pm (UTC)Loves superhero comics, western superhero comics especially. His dad actually gave him the "IT'S OKAY IF YOU'RE GAY SON" speech primarily because of the clear preference to men in tights over naughty scantily clad women in the magazines he kept under his bed. Superman is his favorite. And can beat Son Goku. So there.
Can play the guitar, is actually pretty good at it. Chad taught him, and he turned out to be a natural at it. Prior to all this shinigami business when he wasn't studying, and when he wasn't hitting up arcades and beating up local thugs with his dudes, he'd be practicing some place nice and QUIET FOR A CHANGE THANKS DAD FOR MAKING THAT A CHALLENGE.
Moderately psychic. We all knew this, but the point is actually that he did a lot of freelance spirit work prior to the start of the series. Not entirely by choice. Ghosts paid him a lot of housecalls, is all. But if he heard about a spirit bound to a certain location that's unfinished business involved finding something beyond its boundaries? He'd gladly play intermediary. He's channeled ghosts before, but he's also strong enough spiritually he can BOOT THEM OUT if they try to get troublesome about it, and he makes this very clear from the get go. It gives him a total headache to do this, though. So he'll only resort it if he really, really has to.
Hates The Sixth Sense. Mostly because now he never hears the end of the 'So, you see dead people? All the time?" jokes. SCREW YOU SIXTH SENSE GUY. SCREW YOU. He feels he totally could've written that movie better ANYWAY.
Favorite recent movie? Merchant of Venice. The one with Al Pacino in it. Just 'cause.
Still has the absolutely best taste in shirts known to man. Will have to be forgiven for occasional skinny jeans, as he can sorta pull it off what with his BONY BONY ASS.
Doesn't get the comparisons with this Kaien guy. He looks NOTHING like him!
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Date: 2007-05-16 09:33 am (UTC)1) Ahiru
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Date: 2007-05-16 08:29 pm (UTC)Has forever got grease stains smeared into his clothes, across his cheeks, through his hair. He's also very, very capable of bouncing back from horrible injury. This is in no small part due to the fact that, due to his father's war injuries, he's usually the one who has to scramble under the heavy machinery and check the circuit breakers for conductivity. He's been shocked, stepped on, snagged, and thrown into walls about a dozen times growing up. He still does it, mind. Old man can't exactly do it on his own, and he's just as eager to make things MOVE. There is nothing more terrifying than seeing both generation of Bunansa begin to GEEK THE HELL OUT. LOOK, TECHNOLOGY JUST GETS HIM HOT OKAY?
Mustadio's dad means the world to him. He really basically follows Ramza out of gratitude for helping him save the old man's life. Ramza's not a bad guy, despite being (in Mustadio's eyes) a total Gallionne noble FOP who really needs to just learn to cut all of the crap and just be a little more straight forward (Mustadio has no need for decorum or PROPER MANNERS). That doesn't mean Mustadio won't make it a daily pursuit to find some way to twit his boss. Or talk him into assisting him in some dumb antics. Those two things generally come hand and hand.
Mustadio once saw Agrias naked. He didn't talk straight for days.
When he's drunk enough he thinks Ramza makes one DAMN PRETTY GIRL.
Has a single white hankercheif that somehow manages to avoid all dirt, oil, and blood he gets on himself. It was given to him by his father when he joined up. He values it highly, seeing as it's been in the family for years.
Dreams of flying one day. Would basically totally whore out for a chance to learn more about how that worked, in the age of airships.
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Date: 2007-05-16 01:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-17 05:43 pm (UTC)Got her licenses for axes before Vaan did. The result was Basch showing her how to really, really properly swing it. Basch shows her a lot of the details of how to hit things real good. During their adventures, random beasts on the road was a little bit like a family picnic with those two. Penelo's really, really missed having big brothers (she used to have three) so Basch is very much a nice subsitute, even if she teases him about being kinda old, about totally always carrying Ashe's stuff, and sometimes about his hair. At the final battle when she left Larsa to tend to Gabranth, she kinda touched Basch's arm to ask him if HE was okay, too. Penelo's concerned for the people she cares about.
Penelo, however, is a sky pirate through and through. She loves the adventure. She also has a good head on her shoulders, which is a necessary thing when her partner's got a tendency to sort of just rush in. She is also very, very bendy. She uses this often to her advantage. She's an expert at martial arts, she collects knowledge of dances from all parts of the world. From ball room to basic Dalmascan belly dance, she's pretty varied as far as it goes. She can fake it pretty well if she has to.
Is very bird-like. The way she moves, the way she cocks her head, the way she eats too. She also really does like shiny things. She'll end up wearing a lot of bracelet and rings later in her sky pirate days, I'm pretty sure. She also enjoys weaving things between her fingers. She walks on her toes a lot of the time, and will never, ever be able to stay grounded for too long. Her place is in the sky, and with Vaan, and with adventure, and she's loathe to let that go.
She will never, ever feel completely at ease calling royalty by name, though.
Had a bit of a fangirly attitude about Ashe for the LONGEST TIME, because most young Dalmascan girls went through a phase where they wanted to be just like the little princess Ashe.
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Date: 2007-05-16 11:53 pm (UTC)When he gets older, he will probably end up flocked by a great number of lady friends and aquaintences, who frequently accompany on the occasional trips abroad and locally. They are all probably perfectly platonic aquaintences, and he is so gentlemanly and adament to his friendships with them that no one has the heart to dare speculate whether or not he is in fact, actually a total ladies man. (the answer is...no, not really so much. But when he does have a less than platonic female companion he is pretty much so discreet about it they just assume she's just another friend)
His mother was one of the doctors who'd treated Gramis during the earlier stages of his sickness. The fact that she was also the Emperor's mistress was just a very convenient cover for this fact, as Gramis had kept his declining health out of public health for as long as he can manage. Larsa doesn't remember much of her. She probably later died of a fever she'd caught while tending the Emperor. But he takes after her a great deal in at least the fact that he probably won't inherit the Solidor Nose.
Totally shipped Gabranth and Drace. They were simply two of his favorite people, and he would have preferred to see that they get along and were happy. :3 He likes to play matchmaking games. It is like playing politics, but a lot less tiresome and with much better results!
Totally has his brothers gift for pretty words, that's for sure.
Always wears white gloves. They become one of his signatures, as Emperor. Most people take it as a symbol that he rules with unbloodied hands, but in actuality Larsa just has a preference for them. He's not adverse to the other meanings that people choose to place in them, however.
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Date: 2007-05-16 08:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-21 07:25 am (UTC)...to that end, Basch generally amazed most of his comrades and commanding officers with his tendency to utterly dawdle in returning from a patrol. He had a tendency to avoid most swift and efficient modes of transportation, preferring to take long detours on foot through the winding roots on the ground levels of the city. At first this was just part of getting acclimated to the place, but Basch never really fell out of his general wonder of Rabanastre and its people. Even at the lofty rank of Captain he'd sometimes have to be tracked down by subordinates when he failed to report in in a timely fashion. They'd find him in the streets, playing kick ball with a gaggle of children, having completely lost track of the time. Captain Basch's love of his adopted nation was no secret to anyone.
Basch a very good cook. Does most of the cooking for the party. He's also the one who carries most of Ashe's gear and supplies. She never asked him to do this, and he never complained, it is just something that was done. Vaan at one point complained that Basch never carries his stuff. ...Basch immediately began to heft up his rucksack. Vaan immediately said HE DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT CRAP I WAS KIDDING. Basch gave him a rather amused look and Vaan felt like the guy'd put one over him.
Basch actually has a really mischeivous sense of humor. People never catch on to this, mostly because he has such a straight face. They think he's completely serious. A cadet once asked him what he could do to get on Captain Azelas' good side. Basch made a light mention of rose scented bath oils. ... Vossler's next name day was a very interesting affair.
Everything that Basch is at present: dutiful, devoted, determined, brave. Is all the culmination of the agonizing effort to bring himself just a little bit farther from that frightened boy who abandoned his family in a dying nation over a decade ago.
He'll never, ever, ever say this, but Vaan reminds him a lot of Noah. At least the Noah that he remembers. Clever, headstrong, and amazingly passionate, something he realizes has died in the brother he knows now. ... it gladdens him to see it still living in someone else.
A great deal of his initial months as Judge Magister was spent with Larsa learning about how Gabranth lived. It wasn't for the purpose of playing the role: he just felt he owed it to his brother to know how he lived, where he'd been, what he'd seen, the people he'd known, things he'd done--the bad and the good. He was relieved to learn it wasn't all suffering. ...Larsa was very much evidence of that, having been in part raised by him. It brought Basch a measure of peace.
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Date: 2007-05-16 11:03 pm (UTC)Not that I already know what you're going to say about them anyway, but they're hot.
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Date: 2007-05-19 07:34 pm (UTC)Lay for about nine hours in the wreckage of Zeakdon before a wild chocobo found him lying there when things had begun to cool. He'd hooked his arms around its neck and it'd carried him to where he'd eventually been found by members of the Church. He'd actually been swallowed completely by the blast, but Teta had cast mbarrier on him just in time. So he regenerated, inch by agonizing inch. It was painful as fuck and he nearly froze to death afterwards anyway. He remembers very clearly staring up at the snow as it fell. It sort of left him a little bit not right in the head, in addition to having a very strong aversion to snow. He refers to this as his 'first death', and will sometimes make black humored jokes about his ability to cheat it with every day he lives past Zeakden. (He thinks Teta should've cast it on herself)
He may be a Holy Knight, but he's actually a very, very sardonic atheist. He puts little faith in higher powers anymore (not that he did to start with. Him and Ramza used to play marbles during mass), and thinks less of people who claim to (see: The Church). Although that said, for all that he totally mocks the hell out of Ovelia for her faith, he actually respects how devoted she is to it, even if he's genuinely disgusted by how he feels it limits her potential. He doesn't observe a lot of the decorum expected of a Holy Knight, but abuses the perks a helluva lot. Holy Knights are one of the few orders of knight allowed to bear arms in a chapel, for one thing... on the flip side however he had to work with Izlude a few times early in his career and while he was all smiles and charm about it, he wanted to punch the smiley homeschooled fundie dragoon in the face.
If there's a non-jaded bone left in it's body it's where Ovelia's concerned. He completely, utterly, head over the heels for her. Pretty honestly too. Oh, he'll use the fuck out of her to get what he wants, but his feelings for her are quite earnest. In short: he thinks she is hot, has since the first time he gutpunched her, and will say so, and will smirk a lot to watch her reaction to THAT. ...he thinks she's hottest when she's good and pissed though. Much to her annoyance when she's chewing him out for a particularly asshole-y thing he's done. He generally brings her flowers to make up for it though! ... that last time it just didn't work so well.
Delita's very good with chocobo. This is mainly because his primary job when he came to Igros was stable boy.
Likes it when the woman tops.
In general likes woman a lot, actually. It comes from having been such a huge fan of his sister. He's actually downright progressive as far as his attitudes towards them go, considering the era, and one of his things as King was probably a lot of little stuff om favor this. Giving women who'd become knights the rights to inherit and hold property, appointing the occasional female minister, giving Agrias a helluva cushy job post-war even though she hated his guts...
Delita would've killed Olan had Ovelia not made him promise not to harm him. He quickly amended his plans after that.
Had Zalbag survived the events of the war, Delita would've had him executed and would have probably considered it justice done.
Had four sons by Ovelia, and one daughter. The daughter was his favorite. He died many years after The Lion War, when Ovelia stabbed him. He'd grown older and more paranoid about maintaining his power, she'd been unable to look the other way anymore. He truly hadn't seen it coming, as he thought he'd done it largely for her. (he did it for himself)
In another life, would've probably made a fabulous actor. Or he would've been Wiglaf.
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Date: 2007-05-17 12:14 am (UTC)EEEEEEE
Date: 2007-05-17 02:45 am (UTC)Re: EEEEEEE
Date: 2007-05-21 06:38 am (UTC)Raminas had three wives. Ashe's mother, being a foreigner, a daughter of the Ondore family, had been much maligned by the elder two wives. Except then she gave them the daughter they'd all really, really been hoping for. As a result, Ashe had three loving, doting mothers that all absolutely adored her and showered her with gifts.
...by contrast, Ashe's Bhujerban cousins kind of hate her guts.
'Amalia' was Ashe's pet name among the royal wives (her mother's name being Amala). She chose this childhood monniker as the name of the leader of the resistance partly as a code. Only those who had been closest to the royal family would know the significance of the name. Hence why Basch was able to recognize who she was the instant he heard it.
Will never remarry, and will rule Dalmasca as sole monarch. It will become part of her image as Queen, actually. She continues to wear her wedding ring, though it's less as a sign of being bound to the past and more, in her own official words, to honor her alliance with the fallen Nabradia--the country to which she would have been Queen, had things fallen differently. Another reason is to continue to maintain balance between the Empires: Al-Cid and Larsa will both propose to her on principle. She will turn them both down on principle. Dalmasca refuses to favor one empire over the other. Ministers will probably spend the rest of their lives begging her to marry someone, and there will be endless speculations about possibly prospects, but she won't cede her power over to anyone and the matter of producing an heir will probably end up delightfully scandalous or just plain confusing.
As Dalmascan Queen, she often ends up holding summits between the world leaders in regards to border disputes. She'll become notorious for her short patience and her occasional extreme methods of getting certain parties to come to terms. Sometimes these methods involve her throwing a sword into the table between the two arguing figures.
No longer holds regular one-sided conversations with ghosts (which she did with alarming frequency, usually in private, usually when she thought the rest of the party was asleep, and not just that once) though in a rare exasperated moment she sometimes is known to breath "Oh my sweet prince, what would you have done?" as an oath, of sorts.
Jumped Rasler's bones the first chance she got. She's no maiden. She was also the initiator for most of it, as Rasler was too shy and misguidedly chivalrous to even touch her at first.
Disliked resorting to mark hunts, feeling it beneath her to be a common mercenary, but she quit snotting about this the first time her bracers wore through and they were too broke to pay for repairs.
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