Rydia | Final Fantasy IV
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Characters currently in-game: None
CHARACTER
Character Name: Rydia of Mist
Character Age: unknown
Canon: Final Fantasy IV
Canon Point: After defeating Zeromus and returning to the Feymarch, before Interlude
History: Rydia's page in the Wiki
Personality:
Strongly driven by the need to protect and assist others, Rydia is a strong willed and kind woman who will not hesitate to travel across the World to protect it, nor to step in and help those in need. She enjoys to be between other people, enjoying company and finding her own strenght in those she keeps around. Her affections is shown in words and physical contact, more than once she clings to Cecil in the 3D version and it's easy to see her equally affectionate with other people too (The After Years completely removes this aspect of her personality as it gets rid of her different way to walk -shorter and faster steps than the others and a slightly more defensive resting stance- but that can easily be blamed on the fact that all ladies in the game who aren't dwarves have the same moveset and even cutscenes only use those basic ones.)
Rydia is known between her friends for her ability to forgive basically everyone's actions (even if it may take some time, as she admits herself that in the DS version of the game) and for her motherly attitude toward most of her friends. She's also incredibly honest, lying only when she doesn't want others to worry and when she thinks it's necessary to protect someone else.
Raised by the creatures of the Feymarch, monsters of all shapes and size, Rydia tends to dismiss a person's look instead focusing on someone's actions instead. She has very limited understanding of race base racism since undeground she was raised knowing that everyone had a place and had its importance (And even if Mist was originally created to keep summoners and humans apart since mixing bloods would translate in weaker summoners- she was seven when the village was destroyed and she never really assimilated that.).
As her description in World of Final Fantasy implies, she is slightly a "fish out of water" between humans, not always understanding their motivations or ideals and sometimes clashing with them in terms of believes, it's not uncommon from her to take a joke literally or attempt to use Feymarchian humor... usually only to get confused looks from those she's talking with. She'll also not appreciate fancy events where things are too formal, prefering celebrations where she can dance and sing with others. Rydia had been raised in a drastically different community in a world where time didn't seem to pass, seasons didn't exist and the sun didn't shine, considering at her canon point she only spent a few months in the surface while fighting 'the big bad' and then returned underground to her people her concept of time may be a bit messed up (Not to mention she has no idea how old she actually is).
The summoner is still afraid of fire: she's known to be able to overcome her fear in time of need but she'll avoid it if possible, barely using it to cook and warm herself when really needed.
Headcanon wise, I also see her still afraid of large pools of water considering the traumatic way Leviathan kidnapped her when she was a child: the boat Rydia, Yang and Cecil were traveling with was sunk, she was swallowed by what she thought to be a monster and then spent her whole life without getting close to sea once more.
Another headcanon: she is a picky eater when it comes to vegetables but will eat bugs and mushrooms without many questions. Again, raised deep underground in a city with no visible farms or lands it's safe to assume most of their food comes from hunting more feral monsters while fresh greens were probably a rare delicacy.
Inventory: Her clothes and jewels, a magically enhanced whip and a bag with a clean set of clothes and food supplies/a day worth of food.
Abilities:
- Rydia is specialized in offensive black magic, wielding destructive powers with ease and summoning creatures on the battlefield who'll fight at her side. Considering how her eidolons are independent characters with personalities and their small stories in certain cases I'd just handwave this skill assuming she is unable to call them at her side. It's worth mentioning she seems unable to use white/healing spells for unknown reasons: during her personal trial she is forced back in a child's body and she can use healing skills once more, hinting she never really forgot those,
- Navigating underground tunnels is her specialty considering she was raised in an underground city. She'd never be able to find her way on her own on the surface, not even with the help of a starry sky or large landmarks but give her a cave to map and she'll find her way.
Flaws:
CR AU
Previous Game and Time: Hadriel, during 2017
Previous Development: She had been inside the city before and will remember the people she previously met inside of it. Not too thrilled by the idea of being toyed by the Gods, she was still able to accept it since it was needed to keep everyone safe, and she started to focus most of her efforts toward the library, trying to recover all white books and trying to write down some of the stories she remembered from her childhood and asking other people to help her with their own tales. She made some friends in there, especially doting on kids like Frisk and Asriel (Undertale), admiring the local guard and supporting those who helped each other as she could.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: On the TDM X ; X
Player name: Fey
Contact:
Characters currently in-game: None
CHARACTER
Character Name: Rydia of Mist
Character Age: unknown
Canon: Final Fantasy IV
Canon Point: After defeating Zeromus and returning to the Feymarch, before Interlude
History: Rydia's page in the Wiki
Personality:
Strongly driven by the need to protect and assist others, Rydia is a strong willed and kind woman who will not hesitate to travel across the World to protect it, nor to step in and help those in need. She enjoys to be between other people, enjoying company and finding her own strenght in those she keeps around. Her affections is shown in words and physical contact, more than once she clings to Cecil in the 3D version and it's easy to see her equally affectionate with other people too (The After Years completely removes this aspect of her personality as it gets rid of her different way to walk -shorter and faster steps than the others and a slightly more defensive resting stance- but that can easily be blamed on the fact that all ladies in the game who aren't dwarves have the same moveset and even cutscenes only use those basic ones.)
Rydia is known between her friends for her ability to forgive basically everyone's actions (even if it may take some time, as she admits herself that in the DS version of the game) and for her motherly attitude toward most of her friends. She's also incredibly honest, lying only when she doesn't want others to worry and when she thinks it's necessary to protect someone else.
Raised by the creatures of the Feymarch, monsters of all shapes and size, Rydia tends to dismiss a person's look instead focusing on someone's actions instead. She has very limited understanding of race base racism since undeground she was raised knowing that everyone had a place and had its importance (And even if Mist was originally created to keep summoners and humans apart since mixing bloods would translate in weaker summoners- she was seven when the village was destroyed and she never really assimilated that.).
As her description in World of Final Fantasy implies, she is slightly a "fish out of water" between humans, not always understanding their motivations or ideals and sometimes clashing with them in terms of believes, it's not uncommon from her to take a joke literally or attempt to use Feymarchian humor... usually only to get confused looks from those she's talking with. She'll also not appreciate fancy events where things are too formal, prefering celebrations where she can dance and sing with others. Rydia had been raised in a drastically different community in a world where time didn't seem to pass, seasons didn't exist and the sun didn't shine, considering at her canon point she only spent a few months in the surface while fighting 'the big bad' and then returned underground to her people her concept of time may be a bit messed up (Not to mention she has no idea how old she actually is).
The summoner is still afraid of fire: she's known to be able to overcome her fear in time of need but she'll avoid it if possible, barely using it to cook and warm herself when really needed.
Headcanon wise, I also see her still afraid of large pools of water considering the traumatic way Leviathan kidnapped her when she was a child: the boat Rydia, Yang and Cecil were traveling with was sunk, she was swallowed by what she thought to be a monster and then spent her whole life without getting close to sea once more.
Another headcanon: she is a picky eater when it comes to vegetables but will eat bugs and mushrooms without many questions. Again, raised deep underground in a city with no visible farms or lands it's safe to assume most of their food comes from hunting more feral monsters while fresh greens were probably a rare delicacy.
Inventory: Her clothes and jewels, a magically enhanced whip and a bag with a clean set of clothes and food supplies/a day worth of food.
Abilities:
- Rydia is specialized in offensive black magic, wielding destructive powers with ease and summoning creatures on the battlefield who'll fight at her side. Considering how her eidolons are independent characters with personalities and their small stories in certain cases I'd just handwave this skill assuming she is unable to call them at her side. It's worth mentioning she seems unable to use white/healing spells for unknown reasons: during her personal trial she is forced back in a child's body and she can use healing skills once more, hinting she never really forgot those,
- Navigating underground tunnels is her specialty considering she was raised in an underground city. She'd never be able to find her way on her own on the surface, not even with the help of a starry sky or large landmarks but give her a cave to map and she'll find her way.
Flaws:
- Too trusting and forgiving to a fault... and trying to push her everyone deserves a second chance on those around her as well. She's by no means a super patient saint, she has her bursts of rage (That can be quite violent, too) and she will take her time to forgive certain behaviours but- it's not always for the best. And trying to convince others to do the same isn't always a good thing.
- She definitely gets overly sentimental over family bonds. That villain who almost killed everyone and seeked redeption only in the last five minutes? Cecil, come on, that's your only brother!
- Rydia is still afraid of fire and explosions, even if she'll use her spells when needed, and she'll gladly leave her duties to other people if they involve dealing with large fires. While she usually offers her help to anyone... in those cases she'll easily say "Yeah, you can do it."
- She can get pretty sassy when people do things she consider stupid.
CR AU
Previous Game and Time: Hadriel, during 2017
Previous Development: She had been inside the city before and will remember the people she previously met inside of it. Not too thrilled by the idea of being toyed by the Gods, she was still able to accept it since it was needed to keep everyone safe, and she started to focus most of her efforts toward the library, trying to recover all white books and trying to write down some of the stories she remembered from her childhood and asking other people to help her with their own tales. She made some friends in there, especially doting on kids like Frisk and Asriel (Undertale), admiring the local guard and supporting those who helped each other as she could.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: On the TDM X ; X
