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Ryu || Breath of Fire IV || Not Reserved
Nickname: Matt
Age: 22
Personal LJ/DW:
Method of Contact: E-mail: artemiswolfang [at] gmail [dot] com / AIM: demony0uko / Plurk: atrypical
Characters Played: 0
Character Info:
Name: Ryu
Age: Appears to be in his late teens/early 20s, actually both less than a year old and about 600 years old, as well as ageless.
Canon: Breath of Fire IV
Pull Point: The end of Chapter II
Background Info:
History:
To understand Ryu, one must understand first a bit of the history of Fou-Lu. Fou-Lu was an emperor, the first of the Fou Empire, and he ruled with strength and an iron fist. It is said that before he died and was laid to rest in his tomb hundreds of years ago, he predicted his own resurrection.
Ryu was “born” when an empire called the “Muuru” found a way to summon dragons, though it was imperfect. One such dragon was the Yorae Dragon, and Ryu was one half of this great dragon, sent through time separate from his other half. The other half was Fou-Lu, still sleeping.
Ryu attacked a sandflier in the desert by accident, and then was found by Nina, one of the people riding the sandflier. Nina and Cray (the other person on the sandflier) were searching for Nina's sister Elina. Ryu had no memory of who he was or where he came from, and didn't even have any clothes on at first. He joined Nina (after finding some clothes) in finding parts for her sandflier while Cray stayed with the craft so it wasn't stolen.
Nina and Ryu headed to the city of Sarai, where they were told where they could find the parts. However, Nina was harassed by a member of the Imperial Army, and Ryu attacked them in order to get them to leave her alone. They escaped Sarai, picked up parts in Sandflier Valley (but not the right ones), and went to a town called Chamba, where they were escorted through the poisoned city by a mysterious person in armor named Ershin. Around this time Ryu gained his ability to shift into dragon form.
The three reunited with Cray, and after a strange shared dream from Ryu, they went off to search for Elina more. They ended up in the town of Synesta. During this time Fou-Lu had awakened and was searching for Ryu. The party left Synesta and went to the border town of Kyojin, where they were captured by the Imperials and were returned to Windia, where they were guarded by a mercenary named Scias, and had an audience with the king, Nina's father. They were told to seek the Wind Dragon, and after they freed Cray from where he was being held, they found the dragon. The Wind Dragon told them of Ryu's dragon heritage and warned them that there would be grave danger if he and Fou-Lu were to meet.
The group then traveled to the village of Chek, where the Abbess confirmed that Ryu was indeed a dragon, and explained a little more about what that meant. They were informed that Ershin was also a dragon, and the incomplete summoning had trapped her in the armor. Ershin's spirit was transferred to a medium, and the group sought the advice of the dragons, who told Ryu to find their human forms around the world and they would give him power to help him stand a chance against Fou-Lu if the two should meet. They moved to an Imperial town on the western border, and were captured. Ryu fought against the Imperial forces, lost control of himself, and transformed into the Kaiser Dragon, his most powerful dragon form. He obliterated the soldiers standing against them, and then fell asleep.
Personality:
Ryu has a generally pleasant personality. He doesn't talk a lot, unless you start talking to him first, and does have a fun-loving side, as demonstrated by his love of fishing. All this cheerfulness does hide another side of himself. If he's in one of his dragon forms, he's more likely to go berserk and attack things indiscriminately, and the stronger the dragon form the more likely this is. He's still very unsure of his purpose, and mentioning “purpose” to his face might get him to stop and think for a moment, and maybe wonder what he's intended for.
While wandering around during the course of the game, he doesn't have any memories at all, and so doesn't know very much of the world outside of what he's seen directly. His main motivation is more clearly stated in the manga, where he speaks more, and his dreams are shown where he is chasing after an unknown figure (which he later learns is Fou-Lu). He's even asked who this person is and what kind of person it is, and even where this person is, but he just doesn't know. All he knows is that he has to meet this person, because he's “always felt him calling”. Since he doesn't really know who or where this person is, he travels with Nina and Cray to help them find Nina's sister. Nina is a very close friend to Ryu, able to calm him down from even a blind frenzy, but he holds no romantic feelings for her. She likes Cray, and Ryu wouldn't ever want to do something that makes his friends upset.
Emotionally and mentally, he's like a child. He knows the difference between right and wrong in a vague sort of sense – basically, killing people is wrong unless absolutely needed – but doesn't completely understand concepts of appropriateness like “don't peek around the rock when the girls are bathing”, “watch where you put your arm when you fling it out”, and “people get embarrassed/frustrated/flustered/angry when you don't put clothes on”. He rushes into things, even going so far as to jump off a cliff to try to save Nina (and landing face first) because he didn't realize she had wings that she could float down on. Most of his expression is in his body language, so even if he doesn't say that he's, for example, upset or angry or something like that, it's fairly obvious from how he stands, because he doesn't really bother to hide his feelings. He doesn't really see a need to, since lying isn't something the really occurs to him. Tact is also not his strong point, for the same reasons.
Game Specific:
Arcana: The Fool
Justification: Ryu, in his canon, starts at the beginning of a journey, knowing nothing. His quest involves, in part, learning about himself and why he is how he is. He's innocent and upbeat, optimistic and more or less carefree… but at the same time, as per the Fool's reversed meaning, he is impulsive and doesn't always follow the rules laid out by society.
Samples:
First Person Sample:
[There's a blue-haired boy staring into the camera, a huge grin on his face.]
There we go! It's working now! Okay. Hey there. Um… my name's Ryu. I'm still not really sure where I am…
[He fiddles with the buttons and then suddenly the screen goes upside-down. Ryu frowns.]
I've never seen anything like this before, either. Does this work on magic? It's really strange.
I might just be talking to myself again…
Oh. Uh… if anyone's seen someone named Fou-Lu, let me know please? I… can't tell you what he looks like because I don't know… but I really need to find him.
Third Person Sample:
It was so weird here. He didn't know anyone, and even things like the… cars?… on the road were startling. He had stopped overreacting after the fifth one, but they all made him wary. And this phone… it was so strange. People could talk to each other over so far a distance!
There were also things he didn't like about this place. He couldn't transform into his dragon form. He couldn't feel Fou-Lu pulling him (which was a good thing in some way but it had become familiar). And most of all, he missed his friends. The people here were nice, but there was something to be said about having a friend whom you could trust to have your back in a fight. It wasn't that he didn't trust them… but he still expected Imperial soldiers to come charging after him at a moment's notice.
Sighing, he turned over and looked at the window again, trying to figure out how the music was coming out of the box on the ledge again.
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