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Tifa Lockhart || FFVII

[demonicangel67]

Player
Name: Nana
Personal Journal: demonicangel67
E-mail: vides.nana@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: Vnanachan
Timezone: -5:00 GMT
Current Characters in Route: Haruka Nanami [heartandsong] and Amu Hinamori [guardianjoker4]

Character
Name: Tifa Lockhart
Series: Final Fantasy VII
Timeline: Original Game: The day before the fight against Sephiroth, after everyone has gone their separate ways.
Canon Resource Links: [Loveless] and a Wikia

Personality: A motherly woman, who cares about everyone around her. Mama bear is a good way to describe her, really. Warm and kind one minute but if you hurt her loved ones, watch out! She can be a tad bit overprotective. She's very giving and will easily sacrifice everything she has to make others happy. Tifa's trust isn't something given, it's earned. But when you have it, she trusts you with her life. When one become important enough to her that she legitimately trusts them, she's willing to give her soul and mind for that person. Which is actually saying a lot considering she's very willing to help strangers out as well. It's just a bigger step when one becomes someone she can call a friend. She's very self-sacrificing and will put herself in danger's way in order to protect her loved ones. She's not one to back down from a fight and this is especially true if she's defending someone. She's also very stubborn, when she believes her way is the right way, don't expect her to just back down. If you're not going to see it her way, then she's better off without you. Or she'll at least try to make you see it her way. Unless of course, you're a very close friend. Then she becomes a lot more open minded. She has a horrible habit of taking care of everyone but herself.

The girl has quite a lot of patience, even for (some) of her enemies. She'll sit and listen to someone's life story for however long they need her for because she believes people deserve at least that, a lending ear. A shoulder to cry, a lap to sleep on. Well...ok maybe not her lap. But she'll help however she can. It comes with working as a bartender in the slums of Midgar for three years. When you're on the receiving end of life stories from people hoping to drink their worries away into oblivion, you realize you can sit through just about anything. Just about. Sure she's patient, but even Tifa Lockhart has a stopping point and when it hits, don't expect her to just sit and take it. She'll try to politely work through the issue at first, but when the doesn't work, Tifa isn't about being rude and blunt if she needs to. She's never really had any problem with telling someone to get out of her face before, and she doesn't now. Tifa also isn't beyond getting physical if need be. Though, usually for issues like this, it's her last resort.

The glue that keeps her ragtag group together, Tifa likes to joke around and keep the atmosphere light around her friends. She'll easily sit down and have a beer or play a game of cards with her friends. Despite being a fairly quiet young lady, Tifa can be rather crude when need be and hell, impulsive too. In one instance she jumped at the chance to be able to squeeze any information from Don Corneo, so desperate was she that, without a second thought, she dressed herself up and off she went to try to seduce the information out of the creep.

Although Tifa is a little rough around the edges and not the most dainty of girls, she's actually pretty shy and will clam up when it comes to her personal...romantic feelings on people. She's also not one to divulge information about herself and her past so readily. When Tifa is nervous or thinking she usually pushes a strand of her long her away from her face and behind her ear. She almost always has a smile on her face which seems to be mysteriously contagious. She tends to stand up straight, leading with her chest as she gives off an air of pride in herself. When talking to small children or animals, Tifa lowers her self to be at the same level as them as she likes to give respect to just about anyone she meets. While Tifa takes great pride in who she is, she never thinks of other people as 'lower' than herself. She prefers to think of everyone on the same level, albeit that changes if one gets on her bad side, though that takes effort.

Throughout the years, young miss Lockhart never lost her touch with her martial arts. She'd constantly train, getting ready in case she was needed for some sort of mission or to protect her home and loved ones. Lo and behold, the time came and she's jumped in, fists a-blazin'. She's a technical pacifist and would rather resolve a problem with her words, but will quickly get into a fighting position when that doesn't work. Unless your name is ShinRa, in which case you better have a helmet and a weapon because she's pissed and wants to punch you in the face. Or Sephiroth, in which case....if looks could kill...

Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths
• Excellent martial artist as she's able to save the planet....thrice. (Although she hasn't saved it yet in her timeline)
• High stamina
• Quite an wonderful cook. Well, you learn how to do that pretty quickly when your mother dies when you're 8.
• Some medical/first aid knowledge. Particularly sicknesses. Comes in handy when you take care of a 4 year old.
• Physically strong, seeing as she can knock out a guy three times her size.
• She's a very good navigator as she can remember places and how to get there, she'd probably be able to draw maps if need be

Weaknesses
• A bit hotheaded
• Stubborn
• Headstrong
• Tends to get into difficult situations via forgetting to worry/take care of herself because she's too busy thinking about everyone else.
• Curious (this can sometimes be a weaknesses, sometimes a strength. It really just depends)
• Cloud. She has a very soft spot for her childhood...neighbor.
• Children. Another soft spot. She's a mom by nature, she can't help it.
• Nightmares dealing with Nibelheim and anything to do with her hometown and parents, really. It's a sore spot for her.

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Cubone! Tifa's own devolutionized Cubone. Seeing as he was a Marowak when she left.
Password: Ginger Snaps

Samples
First Person Sample:
[Hello Routians! There's a pretty, young Tifa looking at the 'gear.]

You know, as much as I like pokémon, I don't really think I need two of them following me wherever I go. [She turns the camera towards a Caterpie and Weedle who suddenly stop and stare at the 'gear.]

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to capture them or just let them follow me around. At first I thought we were just headed in the same direction but it's been 8 hours. Though they don't get any closer than this. [They're about eight feet away.] Hello! [The little bug pokémon just stare and Tifa sighs before turning the 'gear to her again. She shrugs.]

I guess I'll just let them do whatever they wa--Johnny! [Suddenly the feed is shaky and one can kinda see a Cubone running towards the bug duo with his bone at the ready.]

Johnny be nice, Johnny! [Scolding mommy tone is a-go!]

Third Person Sample:
Truth be told, this was the last place she expected to turn up in. It'd been...how many years? Five? Yeah, it was five. She was only fifteen when she first arrived at the strange pokéworld. Well, five years for her at least. She remember how time moved in a strange manner here. She remembered how every single time Cloud reappeared, he never remembered his time here before. But somehow...she did. Looking down at the pokéball in her hand, she wondered how long it'd been for everyone else. If anyone else was even still around? Suddenly panic filled Tifa, what if everyone was gone? They were slowly disappearing last she remembered. It'd been a long time and Tifa dismissed it as some strange dream, but she remembered having friends. She remembered Cissnei and America and Cecil and she remembered Cloud and Zack and---

Oh gods, Aerith. She'd been friends with Aerith. That gave a small pang in heart. She'd befriended the flower girl when they were young. Tifa blinked back the tears filling her eyes at the thought of the older girl's lifeless body in the Forgotten City. Maybe...maybe she came back? Maybe she'd be given another chance to befriend Aerith in a much more pleasant setting where they could travel around this fun place and play with pokémon. The young martial artist let out a breath she didn't even she was holding as she looked up at some fluffy clouds floating lazily in the sky. It was a nice day. She didn't realize just how much she'd missed this place. It was calm and hardly anything bad happened. There was no need to worry about Sephiroth or ShinRa or Meteor.

Turning her attention back to the pokéball in her hand, Tifa released whatever was waiting for her inside. To her surprise it was a little Cubone who looked up at her with large watery eyes. Two seconds later, said Cubone was clinging onto her leg, crying his eyes out.

"Oh my." Tifa bent down, picking up the little animal as she stood back up, "Hello there, Johnny. It's good to see you, too!" The Cubone continued it's crying and Tifa chuckled a bit, holding her partner close. She missed him too, the little crybaby.

"I'm back. Lets go back to exploring, shall we?" She kissed the top of Johnny's head and then grinned when the Cubone stopped it's crying. "Time to make up for the time I've been gone, eh?" She winked and determinedly started walking forward. A sudden thought crossed her mind, and Tifa began digging around for her PokéGear. She might as well see if anyone was still around.

ACCEPTED!

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