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Oerba Dia Vanille | Final Fantasy XIII | Reserved (sort-of)
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Character
Name: Oerba Dia Vanille
Series: Final Fantasy XIII
Timeline: After being taken onto the Palamecia/the end of Chapter 8.
Canon Resource Links: Here's a wiki!
Personality:
Oerba Dia Vanille, 19+500 years old, is more complicated then she may look at first appearances. For a bit of a history lession, Vanille comes from Gran Pulse - hated by all of Cocoon. Gran Pulse - or just Pulse - is a land below Cocoon, which is a floating sort of orb in the sky - and the two had a massive war, ending 500 years ago. (Vanille and Fang, actually, were part of this war!) Ever since then, Cocoon-kind have been, quite frankly, terrified of what Pulsians could do - and pretty much hate them. The same, however, goes with Pulsians to Cocoon-kind. A bit before the start of the game, the god (the gods are called fal'Cie, by the way.) Anima started all this by branding a certain Serah Farron who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Not only that, but Vanille is a l'Cie - people marked with forced destinies (which they call Focuses) by the gods of the world (if they don't fufill these marks, these destinies, they become monsters, basically. Pretty scary stuff. If they do fulfill them, they turn to crystal). There are l'Cie of both Pulse and Cocoon origin - it all depends on which god turned you into one of these things.
Vanille's Focus - along with Fang, who I'll get to later - was to destroy Cocoon. But seeing as Cocoon is the setting of quite a bit of the game, that clearly failed. That little fact is pretty important to her history - so remember it.
Vanille, at first, appears to be the stereotypical cheerful girl - you know the sort. Nothing seems to hurt them, they just keep on going with a smile and a laugh. Vanille does fit into this when you first meet her - even after Hope loses his mother in the Purge, Vanille encourages him to go to Snow, even though she really... doesn't know them. She barges into their relationship, and tries to make at least a little difference. Vanille is also quite excitable - she tends to make a lot of excited grunts, she pushes Sazh around quite a bit, she loves the land! Especially nature.
And, for a bit, yes. This is Vanille. She's kooky and silly, and doesn't understand the gravity of what's going on...
...At least, that's the cover. Vanille is cheerful, yes. But she's a lot deeper then that. Oerba Dia Vanille is a liar, simply put. She keeps saying what people like hearing, and tries to lie about her own past. This even begins at the beginning of her waking up - she fakes amnesia to Fang, in order to try and make everything better for them.
Vanille, truthfully, is a lot different then the facade she puts up. Though she can put up a smile, she is quite scared of who she is. She doesn't want to be the monster everybody portrays her as - no, she wants to help as many people as she can before becoming a monster. She understands that if she continues trying to hide who she is, eventually it'll bite her in the ass. In fact, that just happened - at her current canon point, she just confessed her misdeeds to Sazh. Well, not all of them.
Vanille is also pretty cowardly. As I mentioned in her strengths/weaknesses, Vanille would rather flee from her fate then take it head-on. She also hesitated in her past, 500 years ago - and for that, was turned to crystal alongside Fang. She wants people to like her, yes. She wants a family once more...
Not only is Vanille a liar - but Vanille has trouble telling the truth, after creating her webs of lies. She couldn't just tell Serah that she thinks she was the cause for turning her l'Cie (in fact, Serah never understood Vanille's sort-of sorry - though Serah is actually quite an inspiration to Vanille, one of the reasons she decided she wanted to protect Cocoon instead of just running back home and failing her Focux), it takes too long for Vanille to even try and tell Sazh the misdeed she did in turning his son (so long, in fact, that it ended up being Jihl who told Sazh and it turned out... messy...) - in fact, her lying pretty much set off a lot of the events of Final Fantasy XIII. If she'd told Fang the truth about their 'lost' memories, perhaps things would have gone a lot differently. She also tells Hope, in a future canon point, that she sometimes forgets what are the lies, and what's the truth.
Now, let's get onto that Fang person, okay? Because... well, Fang is pretty much the most important person in the world to Vanille. Coming from different clans, but both being orphaned - they both awoke to being in Cocoon. Vanille and Fang have a very odd - but clearly close - relationship. Vanille would do anything to protect Fang - in fact, that's why she pretended to have forgotten her Focus. Because she didn't want Fang to go though that again, becoming Ragnarok and all. If it meant returning to Fang, Vanille would pretty much do anything. Because both her and Fang are Pulse l'Cie, they both can really only trust each other at the beginning of their journey - which makes Vanille quite a bit more scared when Fang shoves her away.
However, Fang protects Vanille most of the time - Fang knocked Vanille away from some guards, starting Vanille's wanderings before the game took place. Vanille misses her so much - and she wishes to meet with her again, no matter what.
Fang is like family to Vanille - which leads me to something else important to Vanille. Oerba, the clan, was a clan who saw every member in it like family - and that extends to Vanille and Fang. Though they haven't seen the ruins of their home yet, Vanille is still seeking a family - a group who accepts her, a group where she feels she belongs. She's actually longing for that, but is - once again - hiding this desire under her cheerfulness.
Fate is a major theme of Final Fantasy XIII - shown what they must do, will these people fight their fates, or just accept it? And Vanille, at her canon point, is at a pretty major turning point. Until now, she's been willing to accept what will happen to her for turning her back on her fate - waiting for a miracle to save her, or just waiting for it to happen. However - Vanille has also just been yelled at by Sazh for this, and taken to get executed, after seeing Fang once more on the fancy screens. So, right now, Vanille is on the cusp of changing her mind, and working towards saving herself and her new friends. She's not quite there, mind.
Another minor/major point: Vanille will probably be rather happy in Johto, because her brand - the timer before she becomes a monster - will have stopped. This will affect her quite a bit, yes - so, when she arrives, she will be a bit happier then her normal happiness. Though she'll also be terrified... ah, the joys of canon points.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Vanille, surprisingly, can defend herself - though she is more of a mage in-game, she is still a main character. Plus, you know, the whole 'going with Fang to be Ragnarok but chickening out thing'.
+ Liar or not, Vanille is pretty good at motivating people.
+ And helping others, too! More then herself. She wishes to help as many people as she can before turning to a monster.
+ Actually, Vanille seems to believe in fate a lot - though, she wants to change others fates... she's also the sort to make a family around her, and defend that family until the bitter end.
+/- Vanille is a freaking good liar - she says every thing, true or not, in the same tone and look. This is both a plus and minus, seeing as it helps her in her own goals - but, as she puts it, she sometimes forget what lies she's told somebody. Yeah. Her lies actually set a lot of Final Fantasy XIII in motion...
- Vanille tends to flee from her problems instead of talking about them or anything like that - she doesn't like her past, she doesn't like the things she's done. She also doesn't like having to fight - that's why she joined Sazh in running from dying.
- Vanille is also, well, a mage. She's not good at striking people, her attack style is magic. This won't count too much in Route - it just means that she'll be weaker then somebody who was a fighter before-hand.
- Also, right now, Vanille is in a sensitive place - she was just caught to get exucuted. She'll be fragile - though, how is this a weakness? Because, Vanille will try to mask that, of course. She'll just want to work on helping others, instead of working with her own problems. Because, whelp, her lying. Her guilt also did just get shown RE: Dajh, and she still is blaming herself - no Sazh forgiving her yet.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder
Starter: Her old Vanillite, Scoops - leveled down, of course.
Password: Pumpkin Seeds.
Samples
First Person Sample:
[Vanille had been spending quite a few weeks working in Goldenrod - she'd been there for a few weeks! And she hadn't been chased out or anything - nobody here was scared of Pulsians! The Pokegear flicks on as Vanille is holding a small stone - a Moon Stone.]
And there we go! A full set of Evolution Stones!
[But, Vanille, why did you collect those? She gives a bit of a happy... sound, before digging around her pocket - and getting out a necklace. Of evolution stones.]
Don't they just look so nice like this? I tried to fit an Upgrade on, but it made it too heavy.
[Pout. Vanille then stood, the Pokegear coming with her.]
So, when I finish this shift, I'll be back at the National Park. It's a pretty nice place - but what's your favorite place? I haven't looked around this land too much - I've been busy working!
[A slight pause, as her Vanillite floated into screen.]
Oh! Right! I think Scoops close to evolving - she's been training a lot on her own. I wonder if she'll stop frowning so much? I can't stand it! She just never looks happy!
[Vanille does sound a little grumpy - but she's kidding. Really. If Scoop wants to be grumpy, Scoop can be grumpy. A slight um came from Vanille, as she turned off the feed.]
Third Person Sample:
It had been a few days since Oerba Dia Vanille had awakened. It had also been a few days since Oerba Dia Vanille had started chasing that silly monkey-like creature who had stolen her PokeGear. She was just looking it over and - yoink! How very naughty!
But, today, Vanille had stopped to check something. Something rather important... something that had been on her mind this whole time. Sure, she'd checked when she first arrived - maybe it had gone away - but it had still been there.
Her Brand, the mark which showed she was a L'Cie. She could hide it under her clothes, but if it was still progressing - well, that would be rather bad here. She hadn't seen a single soldier, nobody seemed to be looking for her. She had her Scoop, but Scoop wouldn't be able to topple her if she... well. Vanille bit her lip a little, as she dropped to the ground and pulled up her skirt, so very nervously.
Her nervous expression, however, turned to a huge smile not a second later.
Her Brand was exactly as she had seen it when she was with 'mother'. Oh, that mother! She acted like Vanille's own, and Vanille liked her! After all, family is family, even if they're but new. Plus, it had been a while since she'd gotten such a nice, homecooked meal before heading out to a place which smelled so natural. She would have stayed in New Bark for longer, but. Well. Monkeys with hands on their tails are sneakier then you might think.
Vanille let out such a happy sigh, though. Maybe this meant she could finally rest - if only until it started again. This couldn't be that free of a trip.
But... Vanille's thoughts were turning to her friends. Sazh had still been locked up - what happened to him? And what about the others - were they safe?
What about Fang?
"Well! Let's get going, Scoop! That monkey's not going to wait for us!" Vanille soon said, getting to her feet and putting a hand to her Vanillite. Scoop let out a small sigh, as Vanille hugged the ice cream a little - before starting to skip off.
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