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❥ Name: Machina Kunagiri
❥ Canon: Final Fantasy: Type-0
❥ Canon Point: Just after the battle of Togoreth, Ven. XXII, 842 (aka April 22nd)
❥ History:
A wiki link! But also a few things to know:
◉◉◉ While the wiki-link gives a brief overview of the events of the game and covers both the novel, the supplemental manga, and the events of the game, these summaries only cover two revolutions of their world's "spiral" (the novel covers one, the game covers another). Type Zero's lore is rich, but the novel has only been fan-summarized (there is an actual fan translation, but only partially). For the purposes of this app and to provide context to the lore, I am using the fan summary found here and the partial translation found here.
◉◉◉ Machina's soul is one of the key loci within Orience's overarching prophecy, with his harboring the throne of fear. At one point in time during these spirals, the gods decided that his (along with the thrones of love, suffering, and age) were no longer necessary, so they "cast out" these four. Except, lo and behold, these loci would continue to stick around, whether directly within the spiral (fear+love), or observing adjacent to it as the spiral turned (suffering+age). Canon is not 100% clear on how they stuck around since they were cast out (or that they abandoned their thrones, in one translation), just that... the nameless tome says they were, yet they're still very present. We know this spiral has been going on for 600,104,972 revolutions; meaning that even though his soul had been abandoned by the divine, Machina has experienced these prior revolutions as well. He's just one of the lucky ones to be continuously reincarnated in a perpetually doomed world.
◉◉◉ Characters can experience deja vu in certain situations, some more than others. Machina specifically experiences the repercussions of the previous spirals in a subconscious way. In a previous cycle, the power-that-is in the novel tells him that although he may forget, his soul will remember in other ways: the scar and darkness in his soul carry over, and over, and over again. Machina carries with him the burdens, trauma, and sorrow of the previous cycles into the next. With each time the spiral resets, this compounds.
◉◉◉ Rem, Machina's childhood friend, is said to have a ~mysterious~, incurable illness. In canon, both Machina and Rem believe that she acquired this illness when a mutant marlboro attacked their village on the border town between Rubrum and Milites. While this may have contributed to her sickness, in reality, the gods of the world intentionally gave Rem a weaker constitution.
❥ Personality:
◉◉ According to his professors/peers, Machina has excellent grades, people like him for his support/talent. They call him kind. If taken from early canon, strong, knowledgeable, friendly, and understanding, helpful to those in need, and with the budding promise of becoming a leader. Coming from virtually nothing, he built himself into a soldier through hard work, study, and eventually qualifying to become an Agito Cadet.
◉◉ Dedicated to the cause of protecting Rubrum's people and those he cares for most, Machina quickly shoots up to be at the top of his class. He's studious, dedicated, excelling at both combat and magic. When war breaks and it comes to commanding in the field for sorties, he (like those of Class Zero) effectively executes his missions and leads others to victory.
◉◉ Machina sees these achievements as not something he had to obtain for mark, glory, or pride. Instead, he views these accomplishments as being merely incidental, after-thoughts to his desire to become strong enough to protect others. He needs to be good, stronger-- because he needs to be able to protect. Machina's prowess even puts him in Class Zero, a group of special students selected by the Archsorceress. Even without receiving any of the training Class Zero had, Machina stands equal.
◉◉ Machina's desire for power is tested early when he is sorely outmatched by a l'Cie. The l'Cie, named demigods in the canon, wield an immeasurable power. The people of Orience understand these immortals as being, frankly, on another level entirely, if not human any longer. Yet Machina will still make a comparison of his power as a human to that of an inhuman l'Cie, expressing both awe and fear of their might, as well as a want to be able to be on par with them himself. It doesn't matter if it's not only Machina that is defeated by a l'Cie-- for the rest of Class Zero make the same retreats. Machina's standard for weakness/power is a comparison for himself: he must somehow be equal to that power; if not, he is weak. He both wants and must be powerful. Having such power is the only way to protect those he cares about.
◉◉ This desire comes only second to his immense fear of losing those close to him. While the crystals of Orience bestow their blessing to forget those who have passed, this does not make Machina any less dedicated to seeing those he loves live. While this goal may seem noble at first, motivating him to be at the top of his class, strong in combat and magic, well-liked by classmates, and generally a star student, canon events push Machina towards a more desperate, darker, path. The goal to protect is eventually corrupted by fear, twisted by a desire for power. Eventually, Machina takes this want-to-protect (specifically, Rem) to the absolute extreme. He does what he believes is needed, even if that means trading his humanity.
◉◉ In late canon, Machina is excessively unstable. He will often justify his methods/actions by means of saying that it's necessary, even if that means contradicting himself. E.g., he will say that he wishes to stay with Rem, that only he can protect her, yet he abandons her (+ the rest of Class Zero) in the name of doing what he must (i.e. he needs to be apart from her to do his own thing in order to protect her, which actually makes him lose more touch with her as she suffers alone). Nevermind that Rem never asks for Machina to do anything for her, Machina takes it upon himself to decide that this is something he must do and what is best for her. There are ample opportunities in canon in which Rem (and a few others) attempt to reach out to Machina to tell him that he can speak with them or that they can share his burden. Each time where it seems that Machina may, at last, be reached by their words, fear, want for power, and some deep-seated belief that he must do things alone, overtakes him. He doubles down, withdraws, or becomes irritated and leaves, brushing off those who genuinely care for him.
◉◉ Machina's fear of losing others makes him rather gullible and easily manipulated. All one has to know are his fears and weaknesses, that is his want to protect Rem. The Consortium uses this knowledge against Machina to manipulate him into spying on Class Zero at one point, for if he did not do it, they threaten that they would make Rem do it. In order to protect her, he concedes to do as they bid (albeit, doing the bare minimum).
◉◉ On a grander scale, the powers-that-be also realize that his want to protect Rem is so great, to the point that at the conclusion of a previous cycle, they believe they must give her a weakened body upon reincarnation. This is so that for the next revolution of the spiral (that is, the current one), Machina will be even more preoccupied and concerned with Rem, thus playing more into fate.
◉◉ Machina can be ruthless. E.g.: he point-blank executes a l'Cie on his own, even when the l'Cie posed no imminent threat to him. In late canon, as a l'Cie himself, he expresses no concern as he slaughters his own Akademiea classmates and other soldiers of Rubrum.
◉◉ Machina also has a self-sacrificing nature. In the manga, he will willingly put himself in danger to protect others of Class Zero. Novel: when captured, he lies to Milites soldiers in order to protect Rem, even if that dooms him and Trey to being tortured.
◉◉ Machina is actually an emotional mess of a person, and deep deep down, he has a very empathetic heart. He cries for his friends and Rem, he feels bad for Class Zero that all they know is war, and he wants a world in which there is peace. Getting to that point, though, is the complicated part.
❥ Abilities:
◉◉◉ Combat. Machina wields twin rapiers, and he has a few different abilities to supplement his combat. Here is a list. Machina's rapiers are stored in crystal hammerspace.
◉◉◉ Magic. Oh geez, well, in Type 0, all of the playable characters can wield magic, although their capacity tends to vary depending on prowess and amount of MP they have. Machina has a decent amount of magic power (excelling in both fire- and lightning-type magics), as well as a reserve to use spells as needed, provided he doesn't rely on them. A full list of the magic can be found here. At this point in canon, Machina's magic only includes the basic Fire/Blizzard/Lightening/Healing. The unique spells (e.g. ultima, reraise) listed at the bottom aren't something he'd know just yet.
◉◉◉ Summoning. Summoning is very unique in Type 0 that it requires an actual sacrifice, either by giving a TON of life-powered magic, or literally death. Machina can summon Eidolons by sacrificing himself for the cause. Canonically, those of Class Zero who summon Eidolons are brought back by Al-Arecia each time because they're ~special~, but this privilege is not afforded to anyone else, and it's equally not boasted by the class for secrecy (because why tell the rest of the soldiers why have been sacrificing themselves for Eidolons this entire time). Anyway, Machina is not going to sacrifice himself to summon an Eidolon in another world, especially when he believes he should be able to defeat an enemy without help.
◉◉◉ Phantoma gathering. Phantoma = soul/life-essence. Machina extends his hand out towards a (deceased) person or fiend, and he can extract their phantoma from their corpses within a given time frame. He can use this to replenish his magic if he needs it, and he simply just carries this life essence with him before turning them in to enhance spells at the Altocrystarium. Naturally, the harvesting of the dead's phantoma isn't exactly boasted as an ability-- it literally involves taking a creature or human's soul before it passes on. Yikes.
❥ Extras: Would you like your characters abilities nerfed? What would you like them to lose or how will it be cut down?
Did your character bring anything along (limit 3 items) with them?
His clothes, his swords, a potion.
Which god will they choose to support? Or do you wish to be randomized?
Rawna.... dragon god...❥ Canon: Final Fantasy: Type-0
❥ Canon Point: Just after the battle of Togoreth, Ven. XXII, 842 (aka April 22nd)
❥ History:
A wiki link! But also a few things to know:
◉◉◉ While the wiki-link gives a brief overview of the events of the game and covers both the novel, the supplemental manga, and the events of the game, these summaries only cover two revolutions of their world's "spiral" (the novel covers one, the game covers another). Type Zero's lore is rich, but the novel has only been fan-summarized (there is an actual fan translation, but only partially). For the purposes of this app and to provide context to the lore, I am using the fan summary found here and the partial translation found here.
◉◉◉ Machina's soul is one of the key loci within Orience's overarching prophecy, with his harboring the throne of fear. At one point in time during these spirals, the gods decided that his (along with the thrones of love, suffering, and age) were no longer necessary, so they "cast out" these four. Except, lo and behold, these loci would continue to stick around, whether directly within the spiral (fear+love), or observing adjacent to it as the spiral turned (suffering+age). Canon is not 100% clear on how they stuck around since they were cast out (or that they abandoned their thrones, in one translation), just that... the nameless tome says they were, yet they're still very present. We know this spiral has been going on for 600,104,972 revolutions; meaning that even though his soul had been abandoned by the divine, Machina has experienced these prior revolutions as well. He's just one of the lucky ones to be continuously reincarnated in a perpetually doomed world.
◉◉◉ Characters can experience deja vu in certain situations, some more than others. Machina specifically experiences the repercussions of the previous spirals in a subconscious way. In a previous cycle, the power-that-is in the novel tells him that although he may forget, his soul will remember in other ways: the scar and darkness in his soul carry over, and over, and over again. Machina carries with him the burdens, trauma, and sorrow of the previous cycles into the next. With each time the spiral resets, this compounds.
◉◉◉ Rem, Machina's childhood friend, is said to have a ~mysterious~, incurable illness. In canon, both Machina and Rem believe that she acquired this illness when a mutant marlboro attacked their village on the border town between Rubrum and Milites. While this may have contributed to her sickness, in reality, the gods of the world intentionally gave Rem a weaker constitution.
❥ Personality:
◉◉ According to his professors/peers, Machina has excellent grades, people like him for his support/talent. They call him kind. If taken from early canon, strong, knowledgeable, friendly, and understanding, helpful to those in need, and with the budding promise of becoming a leader. Coming from virtually nothing, he built himself into a soldier through hard work, study, and eventually qualifying to become an Agito Cadet.
◉◉ Dedicated to the cause of protecting Rubrum's people and those he cares for most, Machina quickly shoots up to be at the top of his class. He's studious, dedicated, excelling at both combat and magic. When war breaks and it comes to commanding in the field for sorties, he (like those of Class Zero) effectively executes his missions and leads others to victory.
◉◉ Machina sees these achievements as not something he had to obtain for mark, glory, or pride. Instead, he views these accomplishments as being merely incidental, after-thoughts to his desire to become strong enough to protect others. He needs to be good, stronger-- because he needs to be able to protect. Machina's prowess even puts him in Class Zero, a group of special students selected by the Archsorceress. Even without receiving any of the training Class Zero had, Machina stands equal.
◉◉ Machina's desire for power is tested early when he is sorely outmatched by a l'Cie. The l'Cie, named demigods in the canon, wield an immeasurable power. The people of Orience understand these immortals as being, frankly, on another level entirely, if not human any longer. Yet Machina will still make a comparison of his power as a human to that of an inhuman l'Cie, expressing both awe and fear of their might, as well as a want to be able to be on par with them himself. It doesn't matter if it's not only Machina that is defeated by a l'Cie-- for the rest of Class Zero make the same retreats. Machina's standard for weakness/power is a comparison for himself: he must somehow be equal to that power; if not, he is weak. He both wants and must be powerful. Having such power is the only way to protect those he cares about.
◉◉ This desire comes only second to his immense fear of losing those close to him. While the crystals of Orience bestow their blessing to forget those who have passed, this does not make Machina any less dedicated to seeing those he loves live. While this goal may seem noble at first, motivating him to be at the top of his class, strong in combat and magic, well-liked by classmates, and generally a star student, canon events push Machina towards a more desperate, darker, path. The goal to protect is eventually corrupted by fear, twisted by a desire for power. Eventually, Machina takes this want-to-protect (specifically, Rem) to the absolute extreme. He does what he believes is needed, even if that means trading his humanity.
◉◉ In late canon, Machina is excessively unstable. He will often justify his methods/actions by means of saying that it's necessary, even if that means contradicting himself. E.g., he will say that he wishes to stay with Rem, that only he can protect her, yet he abandons her (+ the rest of Class Zero) in the name of doing what he must (i.e. he needs to be apart from her to do his own thing in order to protect her, which actually makes him lose more touch with her as she suffers alone). Nevermind that Rem never asks for Machina to do anything for her, Machina takes it upon himself to decide that this is something he must do and what is best for her. There are ample opportunities in canon in which Rem (and a few others) attempt to reach out to Machina to tell him that he can speak with them or that they can share his burden. Each time where it seems that Machina may, at last, be reached by their words, fear, want for power, and some deep-seated belief that he must do things alone, overtakes him. He doubles down, withdraws, or becomes irritated and leaves, brushing off those who genuinely care for him.
◉◉ Machina's fear of losing others makes him rather gullible and easily manipulated. All one has to know are his fears and weaknesses, that is his want to protect Rem. The Consortium uses this knowledge against Machina to manipulate him into spying on Class Zero at one point, for if he did not do it, they threaten that they would make Rem do it. In order to protect her, he concedes to do as they bid (albeit, doing the bare minimum).
◉◉ On a grander scale, the powers-that-be also realize that his want to protect Rem is so great, to the point that at the conclusion of a previous cycle, they believe they must give her a weakened body upon reincarnation. This is so that for the next revolution of the spiral (that is, the current one), Machina will be even more preoccupied and concerned with Rem, thus playing more into fate.
◉◉ Machina can be ruthless. E.g.: he point-blank executes a l'Cie on his own, even when the l'Cie posed no imminent threat to him. In late canon, as a l'Cie himself, he expresses no concern as he slaughters his own Akademiea classmates and other soldiers of Rubrum.
◉◉ Machina also has a self-sacrificing nature. In the manga, he will willingly put himself in danger to protect others of Class Zero. Novel: when captured, he lies to Milites soldiers in order to protect Rem, even if that dooms him and Trey to being tortured.
◉◉ Machina is actually an emotional mess of a person, and deep deep down, he has a very empathetic heart. He cries for his friends and Rem, he feels bad for Class Zero that all they know is war, and he wants a world in which there is peace. Getting to that point, though, is the complicated part.
❥ Abilities:
◉◉◉ Combat. Machina wields twin rapiers, and he has a few different abilities to supplement his combat. Here is a list. Machina's rapiers are stored in crystal hammerspace.
◉◉◉ Magic. Oh geez, well, in Type 0, all of the playable characters can wield magic, although their capacity tends to vary depending on prowess and amount of MP they have. Machina has a decent amount of magic power (excelling in both fire- and lightning-type magics), as well as a reserve to use spells as needed, provided he doesn't rely on them. A full list of the magic can be found here. At this point in canon, Machina's magic only includes the basic Fire/Blizzard/Lightening/Healing. The unique spells (e.g. ultima, reraise) listed at the bottom aren't something he'd know just yet.
◉◉◉ Summoning. Summoning is very unique in Type 0 that it requires an actual sacrifice, either by giving a TON of life-powered magic, or literally death. Machina can summon Eidolons by sacrificing himself for the cause. Canonically, those of Class Zero who summon Eidolons are brought back by Al-Arecia each time because they're ~special~, but this privilege is not afforded to anyone else, and it's equally not boasted by the class for secrecy (because why tell the rest of the soldiers why have been sacrificing themselves for Eidolons this entire time). Anyway, Machina is not going to sacrifice himself to summon an Eidolon in another world, especially when he believes he should be able to defeat an enemy without help.
◉◉◉ Phantoma gathering. Phantoma = soul/life-essence. Machina extends his hand out towards a (deceased) person or fiend, and he can extract their phantoma from their corpses within a given time frame. He can use this to replenish his magic if he needs it, and he simply just carries this life essence with him before turning them in to enhance spells at the Altocrystarium. Naturally, the harvesting of the dead's phantoma isn't exactly boasted as an ability-- it literally involves taking a creature or human's soul before it passes on. Yikes.
❥ Extras: Would you like your characters abilities nerfed? What would you like them to lose or how will it be cut down?
Did your character bring anything along (limit 3 items) with them?
His clothes, his swords, a potion.
Which god will they choose to support? Or do you wish to be randomized?
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