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dontgetintherobot) wrote2022-02-03 07:46 am
dontgetintherobot) wrote2022-02-03 07:46 am
Personality/History [WIP- read CW]
[CW death, torture, physical abuse, emotional abuse (children and adults), body horror, I possibly missed something in there, read with caution]
History:
• Earlier in the game, Gaius van Baelsar creates an anti-primal weapon in an attempt to conquer Eorzea, believing it to be for the nation’s own good. Comes to find out he was used, and his plan backfires horribly causing untold amounts of devastation.
•Gaius vows vengeance against those who tricked him as well as working to prevent any such mistake from being repeated.
•much later in the game it is found out that SURPRISE! Someone else is making super powerful anti-primal weapons… with the intent to use them more on people than primals.
•one such weapon is released onto the battlefield, the Ruby Weapon (its a giant mech). It is engaged, and upon reaching its limit the pilot attempts to loosen safety measures to push it further. It malfunctions and an “oversoul” protocol is activated.
•pilot can be heard screaming as the oversoul takes over, twisting part of the machine (and possibly pilot) into the primal form of a former Garlean legatus (that had been encountered and dispatched far earlier in game). This too is defeated.
•Alfonse and his siblings arrive to collect/inspect the weapon, to meet Gaius. It’s revealed that they are Gaius’ adopted children. Allie tries to immediately blab their plan to Gaius, but Alfonse stops her. Says that next time they meet they will be enemies (this is called it to be something as a bluff by Allie later, she tells Gaius that Alfonse still loves him deeply). It’s admitted that the pilot was one of their siblings, Milisandia.
•after studying the Weapon it’s discovered that in activating oversoul, the machine fused the pilot to the core of the weapon, which would have been painful as it drained the pilot of her aether. While the Oversoul did malfunction, the self-activation and summoning of the facsimile primal legatus was not intended.
•using information gained, Gaius and the main force discovered where the rest of the weapons were being held. Upon arriving Gaius and the gathered force face the Sapphire weapon. Being another prototype like the Ruby Weapon, but even less finished, the least skilled sibling, Ricon, chose to pilot it to buy the others time to flee. He activated oversoul almost immediately to compensate for his lack of skill. Sapphire weapon is defeated all the same.
•The Sapphire weapon bought enough time for the third weapon, the emerald weapon, to flee to another Garlean base in Eorzea. Before the main character and Gaius arrive to attempt to stop it, Rex and Alfonse have a discussion with Alli, as she has just learned the truth about how Oversoul works. Being the most innocent of the group, they want her to live to see the world their sacrifices make.
•With the soldiers tasked with watching them sent away, and Allie being uncooperative by trying to convince her two remaining brothers to escape, they lock her in a cell in the building. Win or lose their plan is to hand the base over to their father, and thus freeing Allie from Imperial grasp. This is the last time she sees her brothers alive.
•Rex and Alfonse have a brief conversation together, where Alfonse tells Rex (again) not to use Oversoul in the fight. Rex reminds him that not only will he be unable to win without it, but they need the combat data to perfect the final weapon. Alfonse relents, and Rex tries to cheer him up before going their separate ways.
•The emerald weapon is engaged by the player character and after a time, Oversoul is activated, killing Rex as the data for Gaius, his own adoptive father, overrides him. Gaius himself views this. The weapon is ultimately defeated.
•Allie is rescued from the cell, and returned to the base of operations so she could recover from her ordeal. But not before seeing the remains of the Emerald weapon post-fight, and crying over the loss of her brother.
[CW for torture + child abuse]
•Having lost his sister who was to be the final weapon's pilot, Valens tortures Alfonse by burning his back with hot irons as punishment. Velens also forced his own adoptive children to take part in the torture as well.
•Once Alfonse collapses Velens leaves him to check on the final weapon project, taking the children with him. He attemps to use oversoul, programmed to emulate one of the game’s main antagonists, on a poor individual that volunteered to save his family. The activated personality is uncontrollable, and Velens deems it not worth the risk of disobedience. He then turns to use the victim’s family for following experiments despite promising to spare them.
•Allie, meanwhile, sneaks away from the base with the Sapphire and Emerald Weapon data, and offers it to Velens in exchange for the safety of her brother. He accepts, and next we see her is in the cockpit of the diamond weapon.
•upon activating the weapon, however, she attends to use it to kill Velens. He predicted this, and had the mech turned off remotely. While dispatching a team to retrieve her, the weapon self-activates under a new program “Overmind”. The weapon goes haywire and destroys the Castrum before flying off towards Garlemald.
•players engage the weapon, which speaks in Alfonse’s voice. Upon defeat it crashes down, and the player heads towards it with Gaius. They find Allie, stumbling out of the weapon, unable to properly speak before collapsing. The player character takes her back to the base for treatment while Gaius stays behind.
•Velens, apparently having survived the weapons initial onslaught in the castrum, reveals himself to Gaius. After some questioning Velens delights in telling Gaius that Alfonse had been turned into a living core for the weapon. With Oversoul, the data forced on pilots was either incomplete or unstable, however a living core, and one as smart as Alfonse, solved that problem- up until the part where he went on a rampage to protect his sister.
•After a brief scuffle between Velens and Gaius, the Diamond weapon activates once more and grabs Velens. Alfonse reveals himself in a projection and watches as the mech crushes Velens to death.
•after speaking with his father as the weapon he says he doesn't wish to continue living like this, and asks Gaius to give his memories to Allie. His final words to his father are to tell him he is proud to be his son. Gaius respects his wishes and destroys the core of the weapon and takes the memories to Allie.
•Allie at that point does not speak, and barely seems aware of her surroundings. After the memories start projecting for her however, she gets to see her siblings one final time. Their final wish being for her to live in their now freed homeland that they had given their lives for. It gives her the motivation to continue living.
It ends with a whimper, not a bang. We watch a father struggle with either directly or indirectly participating in the death of four out of five of his children. We see these children brutalized and willingly sacrifice themselves, but ultimately fall short of their goal to bring salvation to those like them in the Garlean Empire, and we know it was avoidable. That in the end both were on the same side, but that is ultimately the point. You don’t always get the happy ending, sometimes things go the worst way possible and it’s all one can do to crawl out with whatever scrap of happiness they can.
Personality:
•Tends to keep information to himself if he thinks it will cause someone distress.
•Generally quiet and soft spoken. May be considered the “leader” of his siblings, and while they follow his overarching plan, they decline to his face(multiple times) any requests regarding the soul override system and their safety. Though part of this is also tired to his sense of duty.
•strong sense of duty. Instilled in him by Gaius, he cannot bring himself to flee a bad situation, because he knows that would merely mean that others would take his place. His siblings feel similarly, hence him not pushing aside the matter of their well being when they go off to battle. If they are strong enough to withstand it then it is their duty to do so.
•self sacrificing. Tied to his sense of duty, and value of strength, if he can endure something so that another does not have to, then he will. He’s seen being punished for his siblings’ failures, without retaliating. Also arranged it so he’s absorbed into the diamond weapon to protect his sister.
•Good self control. he tends to be very controlled with his feelings, hiding them if he needs to, such as seeing his father after the Ruby weapon incident. Despite their goals allying, he knew they couldn’t leave others to suffer as he and his siblings were + had to ensure the weapons weren’t used for their original intent. The only time he does seem to go haywire is after his soul is in command of the diamond weapon, at which point he is a giant robot and impervious to most forms of attack. If one is to let loose, that seems as good of a time as any.
•A bit stiff. unsurprising given who raised him. He’s serious, curt, disciplined , and doesn’t seem one for jokes. The terrible state of his life may play a part in that, but even as a child he seemed to gravitate towards being rather serious and thoughtful.
•Idolizes his father- He has wholeheartedly adopted Gaius' outlook from early in the game, and doesn't see it as flawed. Part of his end goal remains the subjugation of Eorzea, with the idea that he can better the lives of those who are conquered after.
•Nurturing- He's the eldest of five siblings, and it's said he took the role very very seriously. Between protecting them growing up, as well as helping them grow more confident, he helped the shyer ones come out of their shells.
•He's 21- He's at that ripe age where he thinks he knows a lot more than he actually does. No doubting that he's smart, but still young and stubborn. The tragedy of this questline is that it did not have to end like it did, both parties had the same goals in the end. But Alfonse and his siblings thought their way was the only way, and thus refused help, leading to their demise.
History:
• Earlier in the game, Gaius van Baelsar creates an anti-primal weapon in an attempt to conquer Eorzea, believing it to be for the nation’s own good. Comes to find out he was used, and his plan backfires horribly causing untold amounts of devastation.
•Gaius vows vengeance against those who tricked him as well as working to prevent any such mistake from being repeated.
•much later in the game it is found out that SURPRISE! Someone else is making super powerful anti-primal weapons… with the intent to use them more on people than primals.
•one such weapon is released onto the battlefield, the Ruby Weapon (its a giant mech). It is engaged, and upon reaching its limit the pilot attempts to loosen safety measures to push it further. It malfunctions and an “oversoul” protocol is activated.
•pilot can be heard screaming as the oversoul takes over, twisting part of the machine (and possibly pilot) into the primal form of a former Garlean legatus (that had been encountered and dispatched far earlier in game). This too is defeated.
•Alfonse and his siblings arrive to collect/inspect the weapon, to meet Gaius. It’s revealed that they are Gaius’ adopted children. Allie tries to immediately blab their plan to Gaius, but Alfonse stops her. Says that next time they meet they will be enemies (this is called it to be something as a bluff by Allie later, she tells Gaius that Alfonse still loves him deeply). It’s admitted that the pilot was one of their siblings, Milisandia.
•after studying the Weapon it’s discovered that in activating oversoul, the machine fused the pilot to the core of the weapon, which would have been painful as it drained the pilot of her aether. While the Oversoul did malfunction, the self-activation and summoning of the facsimile primal legatus was not intended.
•using information gained, Gaius and the main force discovered where the rest of the weapons were being held. Upon arriving Gaius and the gathered force face the Sapphire weapon. Being another prototype like the Ruby Weapon, but even less finished, the least skilled sibling, Ricon, chose to pilot it to buy the others time to flee. He activated oversoul almost immediately to compensate for his lack of skill. Sapphire weapon is defeated all the same.
•The Sapphire weapon bought enough time for the third weapon, the emerald weapon, to flee to another Garlean base in Eorzea. Before the main character and Gaius arrive to attempt to stop it, Rex and Alfonse have a discussion with Alli, as she has just learned the truth about how Oversoul works. Being the most innocent of the group, they want her to live to see the world their sacrifices make.
•With the soldiers tasked with watching them sent away, and Allie being uncooperative by trying to convince her two remaining brothers to escape, they lock her in a cell in the building. Win or lose their plan is to hand the base over to their father, and thus freeing Allie from Imperial grasp. This is the last time she sees her brothers alive.
•Rex and Alfonse have a brief conversation together, where Alfonse tells Rex (again) not to use Oversoul in the fight. Rex reminds him that not only will he be unable to win without it, but they need the combat data to perfect the final weapon. Alfonse relents, and Rex tries to cheer him up before going their separate ways.
•The emerald weapon is engaged by the player character and after a time, Oversoul is activated, killing Rex as the data for Gaius, his own adoptive father, overrides him. Gaius himself views this. The weapon is ultimately defeated.
•Allie is rescued from the cell, and returned to the base of operations so she could recover from her ordeal. But not before seeing the remains of the Emerald weapon post-fight, and crying over the loss of her brother.
[CW for torture + child abuse]
•Having lost his sister who was to be the final weapon's pilot, Valens tortures Alfonse by burning his back with hot irons as punishment. Velens also forced his own adoptive children to take part in the torture as well.
•Once Alfonse collapses Velens leaves him to check on the final weapon project, taking the children with him. He attemps to use oversoul, programmed to emulate one of the game’s main antagonists, on a poor individual that volunteered to save his family. The activated personality is uncontrollable, and Velens deems it not worth the risk of disobedience. He then turns to use the victim’s family for following experiments despite promising to spare them.
•Allie, meanwhile, sneaks away from the base with the Sapphire and Emerald Weapon data, and offers it to Velens in exchange for the safety of her brother. He accepts, and next we see her is in the cockpit of the diamond weapon.
•upon activating the weapon, however, she attends to use it to kill Velens. He predicted this, and had the mech turned off remotely. While dispatching a team to retrieve her, the weapon self-activates under a new program “Overmind”. The weapon goes haywire and destroys the Castrum before flying off towards Garlemald.
•players engage the weapon, which speaks in Alfonse’s voice. Upon defeat it crashes down, and the player heads towards it with Gaius. They find Allie, stumbling out of the weapon, unable to properly speak before collapsing. The player character takes her back to the base for treatment while Gaius stays behind.
•Velens, apparently having survived the weapons initial onslaught in the castrum, reveals himself to Gaius. After some questioning Velens delights in telling Gaius that Alfonse had been turned into a living core for the weapon. With Oversoul, the data forced on pilots was either incomplete or unstable, however a living core, and one as smart as Alfonse, solved that problem- up until the part where he went on a rampage to protect his sister.
•After a brief scuffle between Velens and Gaius, the Diamond weapon activates once more and grabs Velens. Alfonse reveals himself in a projection and watches as the mech crushes Velens to death.
•after speaking with his father as the weapon he says he doesn't wish to continue living like this, and asks Gaius to give his memories to Allie. His final words to his father are to tell him he is proud to be his son. Gaius respects his wishes and destroys the core of the weapon and takes the memories to Allie.
•Allie at that point does not speak, and barely seems aware of her surroundings. After the memories start projecting for her however, she gets to see her siblings one final time. Their final wish being for her to live in their now freed homeland that they had given their lives for. It gives her the motivation to continue living.
It ends with a whimper, not a bang. We watch a father struggle with either directly or indirectly participating in the death of four out of five of his children. We see these children brutalized and willingly sacrifice themselves, but ultimately fall short of their goal to bring salvation to those like them in the Garlean Empire, and we know it was avoidable. That in the end both were on the same side, but that is ultimately the point. You don’t always get the happy ending, sometimes things go the worst way possible and it’s all one can do to crawl out with whatever scrap of happiness they can.
Personality:
•Tends to keep information to himself if he thinks it will cause someone distress.
•Generally quiet and soft spoken. May be considered the “leader” of his siblings, and while they follow his overarching plan, they decline to his face(multiple times) any requests regarding the soul override system and their safety. Though part of this is also tired to his sense of duty.
•strong sense of duty. Instilled in him by Gaius, he cannot bring himself to flee a bad situation, because he knows that would merely mean that others would take his place. His siblings feel similarly, hence him not pushing aside the matter of their well being when they go off to battle. If they are strong enough to withstand it then it is their duty to do so.
•self sacrificing. Tied to his sense of duty, and value of strength, if he can endure something so that another does not have to, then he will. He’s seen being punished for his siblings’ failures, without retaliating. Also arranged it so he’s absorbed into the diamond weapon to protect his sister.
•Good self control. he tends to be very controlled with his feelings, hiding them if he needs to, such as seeing his father after the Ruby weapon incident. Despite their goals allying, he knew they couldn’t leave others to suffer as he and his siblings were + had to ensure the weapons weren’t used for their original intent. The only time he does seem to go haywire is after his soul is in command of the diamond weapon, at which point he is a giant robot and impervious to most forms of attack. If one is to let loose, that seems as good of a time as any.
•A bit stiff. unsurprising given who raised him. He’s serious, curt, disciplined , and doesn’t seem one for jokes. The terrible state of his life may play a part in that, but even as a child he seemed to gravitate towards being rather serious and thoughtful.
•Idolizes his father- He has wholeheartedly adopted Gaius' outlook from early in the game, and doesn't see it as flawed. Part of his end goal remains the subjugation of Eorzea, with the idea that he can better the lives of those who are conquered after.
•Nurturing- He's the eldest of five siblings, and it's said he took the role very very seriously. Between protecting them growing up, as well as helping them grow more confident, he helped the shyer ones come out of their shells.
•He's 21- He's at that ripe age where he thinks he knows a lot more than he actually does. No doubting that he's smart, but still young and stubborn. The tragedy of this questline is that it did not have to end like it did, both parties had the same goals in the end. But Alfonse and his siblings thought their way was the only way, and thus refused help, leading to their demise.