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Feb. 3rd, 2012 10:23 pmCHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Zidane Tribal
Canon: Final Fantasy IX
Original or Alternate Universe: OU
Canon Point: Post-game, pre-ending (he went back in for Kuja and then went MIA)
Number: 002 if it's not taken, otherwise RNG it.
Setting: It's more than you ever wanted to know about FFIX, I'm sure.
History:
Final Fantasy IX is the story of two worlds: Terra and Gaia. Terra was a world in decline, its only way of survival being syphoning the souls of different worlds and replacing them with Terra's own, thus essentially turning that world into Terra. Gaia was its latest target.
A man named Garland was in charge of this project, so to speak. In order to aid in his efforts, he created three so called Genome Angels of Death. The first was Kuja, who was to sow discord and start war so that the process of souls entering Gaia could be...expedited (and in turn be syphoned away and have Terra's souls be flooded into the void and pretty much make this process faster.) However, Kuja was created as an adult and thus would lack the emotional maturity necessary for him to enter Trance, and Garland deemed him a failure.
The second was Zidane. Unlike Kuja, Zidane was created to have a natural lifespan: he'd start as a child, grow to maturity, have the ability to enter Trance, and basically be a stronger and superior Genome and a general all around badass. The intent was to allow Zidane to age to maturity and replace Kuja when the time came. (The third Genome, Mikoto, wouldn't come into play until much later.)
However, Kuja foils these plans when he takes the baby Zidane and dumps him on Gaia, and basically unintentionally did Zidane a huge favor.
Zidane ended up in Lindblum and joined Tantalus, a group of thieves who sort of masquerades as a theater troupe...sort of in the sense that while they are thieves, they are genuinely good actors. They're also the closest thing he has to a family. He gains skills and friends, lives life, and aside from the memory of a strange blue light completely forgot about Terra. He left once to try to find his birthplace, but returned to them and got his ass kicked by Baku: as Zidane later told Dagger in a very roundabout way, he had a home (Lindblum, Tantalus) but wanted to find his birthplace. Time passes.
Shortly before the start of the game Tantalus is contracted by Regent Cid of Lindblum to kidnap Princess Garnet til Alexandros XVII of the Kingdom of Alexandria. As it turned out, Garnet (or as she ends up being called, Dagger) was a very willing co-conspirator to the kidnapping. They successfully pull off the kidnapping...of sorts...and escape Lindblum, acquiring additional traveling partners in the forms of Sir Steiner of Lindblum and Vivi the black mage. However, their ship is damaged in the grand escape, it crash lands in the Evil Forest, and in the ensuing dramatic escape the playable characters separate from the NPC Tantalus group and embark on their adventure.
Zidane's BFF, Blank, is also petrified, which isn't really relevant to a history of Zidane but still sucks. I liked Blank!
Anyway. They hit up the Ice Caverns and Zidane beats up Black Waltz no. 1, afterwards officially giving Garnet the nickname Dagger. They hit up the small town of Dali, discovering that they were manufacturing black mages for Alexandria, and end up liberating a cargo ship and flying to Lindblum that way. The ship, true to form, crashes mighty quickly.
...actually, at this point I'm going to sum up the major driving plot: Kuja is manipulating Queen Brahne to basically war against the world, kill off a bunch of people, and basically dump a bunch of souls into the cycle of souls to expedite the entire syphon-and-replace process. The reason why Cid wanted Dagger was that they could talk peace.
And of course things don't go smoothly and they pretty much have to hit up various locations in the traditional JRPG fashion.
Zidane participates in the Festival of the Hunt along with Vivi and his friend Freya, a Burmecian. After winning they all participate in a feast which Dagger drugged, and she and Steiner take off. After they come to, Zidane, Freya, and Vivi end up going...somewhere else. They run into Quina en route to Burmecia.
In Burmecia they encounter Queen Brahne, General Beatrix, and the aforementioned Kuja. They learn that the citizens of Burmecia had escaped to Cleyra and head over there, which gets destroyed when Brahne summons Odin. Zidane and company barely escape in time, and do so by using teleporters that take them aboard the Red Rose, Brahne's ship.
This coincidental convenience results in Zidane ending up in Alexandria just in time to save Dagger from being executed, her eidolons having already been stolen. While Beatrix, Steiner, and Freya hold off the Alexandrian soldiers, Zidane, Vivi, and Dagger escape. They briefly stop to pick up Ramuh, and then arrive in time to see Brahne attack Lindblum with the eidolon Atomos. They sneak in, briefly talk with Cid, and decide that they need to kick Kuja's ass.
They end up heading to the Outer Continent. Things that happen: they find the Black Mage Village, a village of...well, black mages. Zidane tells Dagger a bit about his past. They hear a rumor about Kuja possibly being at the Iifa Tree and decide to head over there, en route getting the summoner Eiko to join their party. Zidane and Dagger also share a moment.
They arrive at the Iifa Tree in time to see Kuja turn on Queen Brahne and kill her. They return to Alexandria and Dagger is crowned queen.
And Zidane mopes, but gets talked around. He heads off to hit up a Tetra Master tournament and returns to rescue Dagger when Kuja attacks Alexandria. The team reconvenes, with Amarant a new addition to their party, in Lindblum and head off to track down Kuja. This briefly backfires when they're blackmailed into helping Kuja, but turns out okay.
They cross over from Gaia to Terra and discover a city filled with genomes, blond humans with monkey tails similar to Zidane. Mikoto gives the party the basis of Zidane’s early history in Terra. Zidane resolves to meet his creator and learn the truth. Alone, he confronts Garland, who attempts to lure Zidane back to his side. After being rejected by Zidane, who then attempts to attack Garland, he strips Zidane of his Terran soul to reduce him to the level of a regular genome. Zidane manages to reclaim his self and his sense of purpose through the help of the rest of the party, his friends, in time to confront Garland one last time.
Kuja interrupts this confrontation, however, and kills Garland. However, he learns that he too would die, and die soon, and destroys Terra. Zidane and the others manage to evacuate Terra of the genomes in time, reappearing in Gaia. Surmising that Kuja would attempt to destroy Gaia next, they move to confront him.
They met him in Memoria, a space made up by memories from every age of Gaia and the people who live on it, cradled by the Iifa Tree. They defeated Kuja, then a being called Necron, an omniscient harbinger of despair who sought to prove that all entities existed to die. They defeated Necron, and a dying Kuja used his power to teleport the party out of harm’s way, off to safety.
Everything would’ve been well and good (the world was saved, the thief had his princess) except Zidane felt...he had to go back, he had to save Kuja. He was the villain throughout most of the story, but he was also Zidane’s brother. So, as the party sailed off from the increasingly berserk Iifa Tree, Zidane turns and heads back in, dodging roots and branches and things, and finds Kuja just as the tree consumed them both.
...except not really, as this was the point that Zidane found himself somewhere else.
Personality:
Before the game properly starts there's a series of still shots which are shown while the title music plays. They're an image of each of the significant characters with a short quote which references them somehow. Zidane's is, “Virtue – You don't need a reason to help people.” This is pretty much him in brief, thief profession aside: he helps people just because it's the right thing to do. He kidnaps Dagger first because he's hired to do so but then because she wants to escape (and is a cute girl, really, that helped), and he protects her and her freedom of choice for the same reasons. He looks out for Vivi because, well, it's the right thing to do, and ends up taking a big brother role with the black mage.
There's a few reasons for this. The first: he likes people. Simple enough.
The second: like other Final Fantasy characters, Zidane has a bit of a tragic history. He was abandoned, and had no memory of who his parents were or where he came from.
I say 'a bit' because his lack of answers genuinely bothered him and his history is rather tragic, but it wasn't until Disc 3 that it came back to bite him in the ass and his friends helped him get over it rather quickly. Up until that point, while his history or lack thereof bothered him and defined who he was, Zidane had no reason to expect the extreme form the truth would actually take. Basically, there's a difference between 'my parents died when I was born' or 'my parents abandoned me for some reason or another' and 'I'm a cloned infant destroyer of worlds made to shatter this world.'
However, where other characters might brood or work out their issues through a bout of existential doubt, Zidane compensated by being optimistic, friendly, and outgoing. This is partially to conceal the fact he was lonely and his insecurities about his past, but only partially. (Again, it bothered him, but didn't define him in the same way other characters' tragedies came to define them. If anything, it made him value friendships more than others might. More on that later.)
Zidane has a flair for the theatric and the dramatic, though he's more playful than Kuja in how he expresses it. In a different life he would've made for an excellent actor hamming up the spotlight, or a swashbuckling pirate gleefully pillaging the high seas. He has fun. He's off on an adventure to save the world, like many people in fiction do, but he kidnaps a princess and crashes airships and all sorts of things. His motivations can be summed up as, “Save the world? Which way! And are there any cute girls involved?”
...he has problems expressing his actual feelings. He flirts shamelessly with Dagger throughout the entire game, but by the time he properly falls for her he has problems actually just saying how he feels. He's good at making friends and helping friends, but when it comes time for him to just open up and rely on them Zidane has problems. When Zidane tells Dagger about his past he doesn't say, “This is my past,” he frames it like a story that happened to someone else.
Zidane's emotional. Not in the weepy sort of way, but rather in the sense that when Zidane feels something he really feels it. When he has his moment of depression he's so upset that it's only through the stubborn combined efforts of the rest of his team that he gets through it. When he mopes about the growing distance between him and Dagger, he gets drunk and Baku had to point blank refuse to let him back into Tantalus and tell him to go after her before he snaps out of it. When he worries, he broods. Zidane just feels things strongly.
And when he gets angry, he gets really angry. (His Trance ability is activated, canonically, by him getting angry. The first time he uses it in-game? When Dagger is imprisoned by a boss.) He values his friendships, perhaps because he knows what it's like to feel utterly alone, and will protect his friends no matter what it takes. Zidane gets really angry when things go wrong and people, both his friends and others, get hurt.
But overall? Zidane's casual. He's laid-back. He's optimistic and hopeful and cheerful and hits on anyone with an XX chromosome. It's just who he is.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
Zidane is a thief. He’s deft of hand and skilled at picking pockets, climbing walls, picking locks, and other such thief-like activities. His weapon of choice are paired daggers which he uses to attack with lightning quick strikes. He’s fast, he’s quick, he’s agile. His fighting style in Dissidia is basically the flying mosquito: he can dish out a lot of hits but can't take them so well. (Admittedly it's a different game, technically, but it's made by the same company and offers, I think, a more accurate portrayal of how he'd actually fight compared to the traditional JRPG 'everyone stands in a line and takes their turn hitting the enemy' deal.)
Like all characters of Final Fantasy IX, Zidane has the ability to enter Trance mode. Trance is triggered by a character getting angry (or with in-game mechanics, a character getting smacked around enough to fill the meter) and when it is activated Zidane grows a lot of fur and turns pink. In this mode he can throw around large gobs of energy and blast things.
(Truthfully, I don’t see myself using Trance that often, if at all, but it’s mostly included here for the sake of completeness. It'll probably be saved for Big Dramatic Moments in which people are going, "...crap, we need a deus ex machina to kick ass otherwise they'll all di- oh wait.")
Inventory: Two daggers (Mage Mashers, just because of how they're everywhere, to be precise) and accompanying belts and sheathes, and a pair of boots. And some miscellaneous spare gil change.
Appearance: A picture is worth a few words.
Contrary to FFIX's in game art style, Zidane is lithe and lanky, and while he's short he's not excessively so. (Pretty much everyone in FFIX is short, really, when it comes down to it.) He's blonde, like every single Genome except for Kuja is. Zidane's most notable feature is his tail, which is long and fully functional as monkey tails go.
Age: 16
AU Clarification: n/a
SAMPLES
Log Sample:
(Sample from a parallel universe Ataraxion log already in progress.)
It had seemed like a good idea at the time, though Zidane supposed that a lot of his ideas really seemed like good ideas at their respective times when they really, well, weren't. But just as fairly, a lot of those ideas turned out well enough...he ended up getting along with Rusty and Amarant, after all so it wasn't like his plans turned out badly that often.
And to also be fair (though he wasn't sure if this was a mark in the good idea or bad idea column) it wasn't entirely his idea. It was Rose who had insisted, in her own way, that this was the best plan, that this would lead to 'the road of victory for all' and that by going through with this plan they would be optimally placed to rescue their kidnapped Puzzle Club (he really didn't want to know) comrades and safely make it back to the Tranquility before Ward had a chance to discover that they had borrowed the shuttle. In theory, at least.
She was also pretty cute, if kind of young for his tastes, so it was hard for him to say no when Rose asked for his assistance. She also kind of reminded him of Mikoto, which...didn't help in saying no at all.
This? This was how Zidane ended up in the basement of a...what was the term that guy used? Oh, right, a pre-spacefairing civilization. Fortunately, kind of, he wasn't alone. He was, like everyone else there, wearing a gown of periwinkle that Kanaya had assured him made him look very nice and feeling his manhood trikle away by the second. (It was hard to resent her, though, as an actor Zidane could tell that she was one hell of a costumer. They all looked...convincing. If they ever found themselves back on Gaia he was going to introduce her to Tantalus.)
"Geez, I don't know how Dagger manages wearing her dresses," he muttered. Fortunately no one bothered with a reply. More fortunately, at that point they got the signal from the other team in the form of flares visible from the small basement window, and, wishing he was wearing pants, Zidane pulled out his picks and started working on the large locked door.
If anyone called him Miss Zidane he was going to die of embarassment. If anyone took pictures...
Comms Sample:
Hey! Has anyone found a copy of 'I Want to be Your Canary'... [There is a bit of a pause here as something occurs to Zidane.] ...or even knows what I'm talking about? Thinking about it, I'm pretty sure I'm the only guy from Gaia here.
I was having an argument with this one guy about plays, and...you know. [At this point he makes a generic handwave so emotive you can practically hear it.]
...oh yeah! Uh, sorry about breaking your phone. [And at the last he sounds mildly embarrassed. You know who you are, 'you'.]
Name: Zidane Tribal
Canon: Final Fantasy IX
Original or Alternate Universe: OU
Canon Point: Post-game, pre-ending (he went back in for Kuja and then went MIA)
Number: 002 if it's not taken, otherwise RNG it.
Setting: It's more than you ever wanted to know about FFIX, I'm sure.
History:
Final Fantasy IX is the story of two worlds: Terra and Gaia. Terra was a world in decline, its only way of survival being syphoning the souls of different worlds and replacing them with Terra's own, thus essentially turning that world into Terra. Gaia was its latest target.
A man named Garland was in charge of this project, so to speak. In order to aid in his efforts, he created three so called Genome Angels of Death. The first was Kuja, who was to sow discord and start war so that the process of souls entering Gaia could be...expedited (and in turn be syphoned away and have Terra's souls be flooded into the void and pretty much make this process faster.) However, Kuja was created as an adult and thus would lack the emotional maturity necessary for him to enter Trance, and Garland deemed him a failure.
The second was Zidane. Unlike Kuja, Zidane was created to have a natural lifespan: he'd start as a child, grow to maturity, have the ability to enter Trance, and basically be a stronger and superior Genome and a general all around badass. The intent was to allow Zidane to age to maturity and replace Kuja when the time came. (The third Genome, Mikoto, wouldn't come into play until much later.)
However, Kuja foils these plans when he takes the baby Zidane and dumps him on Gaia, and basically unintentionally did Zidane a huge favor.
Zidane ended up in Lindblum and joined Tantalus, a group of thieves who sort of masquerades as a theater troupe...sort of in the sense that while they are thieves, they are genuinely good actors. They're also the closest thing he has to a family. He gains skills and friends, lives life, and aside from the memory of a strange blue light completely forgot about Terra. He left once to try to find his birthplace, but returned to them and got his ass kicked by Baku: as Zidane later told Dagger in a very roundabout way, he had a home (Lindblum, Tantalus) but wanted to find his birthplace. Time passes.
Shortly before the start of the game Tantalus is contracted by Regent Cid of Lindblum to kidnap Princess Garnet til Alexandros XVII of the Kingdom of Alexandria. As it turned out, Garnet (or as she ends up being called, Dagger) was a very willing co-conspirator to the kidnapping. They successfully pull off the kidnapping...of sorts...and escape Lindblum, acquiring additional traveling partners in the forms of Sir Steiner of Lindblum and Vivi the black mage. However, their ship is damaged in the grand escape, it crash lands in the Evil Forest, and in the ensuing dramatic escape the playable characters separate from the NPC Tantalus group and embark on their adventure.
Zidane's BFF, Blank, is also petrified, which isn't really relevant to a history of Zidane but still sucks. I liked Blank!
Anyway. They hit up the Ice Caverns and Zidane beats up Black Waltz no. 1, afterwards officially giving Garnet the nickname Dagger. They hit up the small town of Dali, discovering that they were manufacturing black mages for Alexandria, and end up liberating a cargo ship and flying to Lindblum that way. The ship, true to form, crashes mighty quickly.
...actually, at this point I'm going to sum up the major driving plot: Kuja is manipulating Queen Brahne to basically war against the world, kill off a bunch of people, and basically dump a bunch of souls into the cycle of souls to expedite the entire syphon-and-replace process. The reason why Cid wanted Dagger was that they could talk peace.
And of course things don't go smoothly and they pretty much have to hit up various locations in the traditional JRPG fashion.
Zidane participates in the Festival of the Hunt along with Vivi and his friend Freya, a Burmecian. After winning they all participate in a feast which Dagger drugged, and she and Steiner take off. After they come to, Zidane, Freya, and Vivi end up going...somewhere else. They run into Quina en route to Burmecia.
In Burmecia they encounter Queen Brahne, General Beatrix, and the aforementioned Kuja. They learn that the citizens of Burmecia had escaped to Cleyra and head over there, which gets destroyed when Brahne summons Odin. Zidane and company barely escape in time, and do so by using teleporters that take them aboard the Red Rose, Brahne's ship.
This coincidental convenience results in Zidane ending up in Alexandria just in time to save Dagger from being executed, her eidolons having already been stolen. While Beatrix, Steiner, and Freya hold off the Alexandrian soldiers, Zidane, Vivi, and Dagger escape. They briefly stop to pick up Ramuh, and then arrive in time to see Brahne attack Lindblum with the eidolon Atomos. They sneak in, briefly talk with Cid, and decide that they need to kick Kuja's ass.
They end up heading to the Outer Continent. Things that happen: they find the Black Mage Village, a village of...well, black mages. Zidane tells Dagger a bit about his past. They hear a rumor about Kuja possibly being at the Iifa Tree and decide to head over there, en route getting the summoner Eiko to join their party. Zidane and Dagger also share a moment.
They arrive at the Iifa Tree in time to see Kuja turn on Queen Brahne and kill her. They return to Alexandria and Dagger is crowned queen.
And Zidane mopes, but gets talked around. He heads off to hit up a Tetra Master tournament and returns to rescue Dagger when Kuja attacks Alexandria. The team reconvenes, with Amarant a new addition to their party, in Lindblum and head off to track down Kuja. This briefly backfires when they're blackmailed into helping Kuja, but turns out okay.
They cross over from Gaia to Terra and discover a city filled with genomes, blond humans with monkey tails similar to Zidane. Mikoto gives the party the basis of Zidane’s early history in Terra. Zidane resolves to meet his creator and learn the truth. Alone, he confronts Garland, who attempts to lure Zidane back to his side. After being rejected by Zidane, who then attempts to attack Garland, he strips Zidane of his Terran soul to reduce him to the level of a regular genome. Zidane manages to reclaim his self and his sense of purpose through the help of the rest of the party, his friends, in time to confront Garland one last time.
Kuja interrupts this confrontation, however, and kills Garland. However, he learns that he too would die, and die soon, and destroys Terra. Zidane and the others manage to evacuate Terra of the genomes in time, reappearing in Gaia. Surmising that Kuja would attempt to destroy Gaia next, they move to confront him.
They met him in Memoria, a space made up by memories from every age of Gaia and the people who live on it, cradled by the Iifa Tree. They defeated Kuja, then a being called Necron, an omniscient harbinger of despair who sought to prove that all entities existed to die. They defeated Necron, and a dying Kuja used his power to teleport the party out of harm’s way, off to safety.
Everything would’ve been well and good (the world was saved, the thief had his princess) except Zidane felt...he had to go back, he had to save Kuja. He was the villain throughout most of the story, but he was also Zidane’s brother. So, as the party sailed off from the increasingly berserk Iifa Tree, Zidane turns and heads back in, dodging roots and branches and things, and finds Kuja just as the tree consumed them both.
...except not really, as this was the point that Zidane found himself somewhere else.
Personality:
Before the game properly starts there's a series of still shots which are shown while the title music plays. They're an image of each of the significant characters with a short quote which references them somehow. Zidane's is, “Virtue – You don't need a reason to help people.” This is pretty much him in brief, thief profession aside: he helps people just because it's the right thing to do. He kidnaps Dagger first because he's hired to do so but then because she wants to escape (and is a cute girl, really, that helped), and he protects her and her freedom of choice for the same reasons. He looks out for Vivi because, well, it's the right thing to do, and ends up taking a big brother role with the black mage.
There's a few reasons for this. The first: he likes people. Simple enough.
The second: like other Final Fantasy characters, Zidane has a bit of a tragic history. He was abandoned, and had no memory of who his parents were or where he came from.
I say 'a bit' because his lack of answers genuinely bothered him and his history is rather tragic, but it wasn't until Disc 3 that it came back to bite him in the ass and his friends helped him get over it rather quickly. Up until that point, while his history or lack thereof bothered him and defined who he was, Zidane had no reason to expect the extreme form the truth would actually take. Basically, there's a difference between 'my parents died when I was born' or 'my parents abandoned me for some reason or another' and 'I'm a cloned infant destroyer of worlds made to shatter this world.'
However, where other characters might brood or work out their issues through a bout of existential doubt, Zidane compensated by being optimistic, friendly, and outgoing. This is partially to conceal the fact he was lonely and his insecurities about his past, but only partially. (Again, it bothered him, but didn't define him in the same way other characters' tragedies came to define them. If anything, it made him value friendships more than others might. More on that later.)
Zidane has a flair for the theatric and the dramatic, though he's more playful than Kuja in how he expresses it. In a different life he would've made for an excellent actor hamming up the spotlight, or a swashbuckling pirate gleefully pillaging the high seas. He has fun. He's off on an adventure to save the world, like many people in fiction do, but he kidnaps a princess and crashes airships and all sorts of things. His motivations can be summed up as, “Save the world? Which way! And are there any cute girls involved?”
...he has problems expressing his actual feelings. He flirts shamelessly with Dagger throughout the entire game, but by the time he properly falls for her he has problems actually just saying how he feels. He's good at making friends and helping friends, but when it comes time for him to just open up and rely on them Zidane has problems. When Zidane tells Dagger about his past he doesn't say, “This is my past,” he frames it like a story that happened to someone else.
Zidane's emotional. Not in the weepy sort of way, but rather in the sense that when Zidane feels something he really feels it. When he has his moment of depression he's so upset that it's only through the stubborn combined efforts of the rest of his team that he gets through it. When he mopes about the growing distance between him and Dagger, he gets drunk and Baku had to point blank refuse to let him back into Tantalus and tell him to go after her before he snaps out of it. When he worries, he broods. Zidane just feels things strongly.
And when he gets angry, he gets really angry. (His Trance ability is activated, canonically, by him getting angry. The first time he uses it in-game? When Dagger is imprisoned by a boss.) He values his friendships, perhaps because he knows what it's like to feel utterly alone, and will protect his friends no matter what it takes. Zidane gets really angry when things go wrong and people, both his friends and others, get hurt.
But overall? Zidane's casual. He's laid-back. He's optimistic and hopeful and cheerful and hits on anyone with an XX chromosome. It's just who he is.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
Zidane is a thief. He’s deft of hand and skilled at picking pockets, climbing walls, picking locks, and other such thief-like activities. His weapon of choice are paired daggers which he uses to attack with lightning quick strikes. He’s fast, he’s quick, he’s agile. His fighting style in Dissidia is basically the flying mosquito: he can dish out a lot of hits but can't take them so well. (Admittedly it's a different game, technically, but it's made by the same company and offers, I think, a more accurate portrayal of how he'd actually fight compared to the traditional JRPG 'everyone stands in a line and takes their turn hitting the enemy' deal.)
Like all characters of Final Fantasy IX, Zidane has the ability to enter Trance mode. Trance is triggered by a character getting angry (or with in-game mechanics, a character getting smacked around enough to fill the meter) and when it is activated Zidane grows a lot of fur and turns pink. In this mode he can throw around large gobs of energy and blast things.
(Truthfully, I don’t see myself using Trance that often, if at all, but it’s mostly included here for the sake of completeness. It'll probably be saved for Big Dramatic Moments in which people are going, "...crap, we need a deus ex machina to kick ass otherwise they'll all di- oh wait.")
Inventory: Two daggers (Mage Mashers, just because of how they're everywhere, to be precise) and accompanying belts and sheathes, and a pair of boots. And some miscellaneous spare gil change.
Appearance: A picture is worth a few words.
Contrary to FFIX's in game art style, Zidane is lithe and lanky, and while he's short he's not excessively so. (Pretty much everyone in FFIX is short, really, when it comes down to it.) He's blonde, like every single Genome except for Kuja is. Zidane's most notable feature is his tail, which is long and fully functional as monkey tails go.
Age: 16
AU Clarification: n/a
SAMPLES
Log Sample:
(Sample from a parallel universe Ataraxion log already in progress.)
It had seemed like a good idea at the time, though Zidane supposed that a lot of his ideas really seemed like good ideas at their respective times when they really, well, weren't. But just as fairly, a lot of those ideas turned out well enough...he ended up getting along with Rusty and Amarant, after all so it wasn't like his plans turned out badly that often.
And to also be fair (though he wasn't sure if this was a mark in the good idea or bad idea column) it wasn't entirely his idea. It was Rose who had insisted, in her own way, that this was the best plan, that this would lead to 'the road of victory for all' and that by going through with this plan they would be optimally placed to rescue their kidnapped Puzzle Club (he really didn't want to know) comrades and safely make it back to the Tranquility before Ward had a chance to discover that they had borrowed the shuttle. In theory, at least.
She was also pretty cute, if kind of young for his tastes, so it was hard for him to say no when Rose asked for his assistance. She also kind of reminded him of Mikoto, which...didn't help in saying no at all.
This? This was how Zidane ended up in the basement of a...what was the term that guy used? Oh, right, a pre-spacefairing civilization. Fortunately, kind of, he wasn't alone. He was, like everyone else there, wearing a gown of periwinkle that Kanaya had assured him made him look very nice and feeling his manhood trikle away by the second. (It was hard to resent her, though, as an actor Zidane could tell that she was one hell of a costumer. They all looked...convincing. If they ever found themselves back on Gaia he was going to introduce her to Tantalus.)
"Geez, I don't know how Dagger manages wearing her dresses," he muttered. Fortunately no one bothered with a reply. More fortunately, at that point they got the signal from the other team in the form of flares visible from the small basement window, and, wishing he was wearing pants, Zidane pulled out his picks and started working on the large locked door.
If anyone called him Miss Zidane he was going to die of embarassment. If anyone took pictures...
Comms Sample:
Hey! Has anyone found a copy of 'I Want to be Your Canary'... [There is a bit of a pause here as something occurs to Zidane.] ...or even knows what I'm talking about? Thinking about it, I'm pretty sure I'm the only guy from Gaia here.
I was having an argument with this one guy about plays, and...you know. [At this point he makes a generic handwave so emotive you can practically hear it.]
...oh yeah! Uh, sorry about breaking your phone. [And at the last he sounds mildly embarrassed. You know who you are, 'you'.]
