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[teifua]

Player Information

Name: Zen
Personal Journal: aresvallis
Age: 27
Contact Info: aresvallis or offduty
Other Characters Played: Reno (OU), Lucien, Marty

Character Information

Character Name: Tifa Lockhart
Character Series: Final Fantasy VII
Character Age: 20
Character Gender: Female
Alternate Universe
Canon Point: Just after infiltrating Shin-Ra tower and leaving Midgar
Background Link:
Wikipedia

AU Background:

Background link

Personality:

Underneath the tougher SOLDIER exterior, Tifa is still the young girl that cares and nurtures her friends on the inside. This lends to her strong sense of justice that urged her to initially leave Nibelheim to fulfill Cloud's dream. She cares for her friends, even ones that she just meets, and though she has become a bit more jaded over the years, still inclines to trust people unless they give her reason to doubt them. This is the side of Tifa that would see a sick friend through to recovery, carrying them on her back for miles at a time, or protect them with her life. This has always been a part of her and always will, as much as her adventurousness and tenacity.

As soon as she enrolled into the program, part of her training was on how to deal with people and communicate. So she can exude quite a sense of professionalism when she needs to, especially when negotiating or putting up a front to keep her real feelings from being known. When hurt, anger or feeling sore, she will throw up this air as a reflex action, especially when people are intentionally provoking her, although when angry she will be more curt and blunt than usual. She still has her buttons to push, though, and if angry enough will drop all pretense.

Due to her treatment going through SOLDIER and fighting off stereotypes, plus her sense of justice, Tifa is more inclined to react to a situation she sees as discriminatory, and places like Wall Market are hard to deal with for her. More extreme cases see her dumping the Don into the sewer and her tendency to punch men who talk down to her. Sometimes this gets her in trouble, but she doesn't mind since she can take care of herself.

Being a SOLDIER, she got to know and hang out with quite a few of the other SOLDIERS, including Zack Fair, and appreciated his dedication and wish to become a hero. As a result, she sort of adopted the same idea and while she was trained to fight, she believes it to be her duty to protect the innocents and people who could not fight for themselves. A sense of justice gave her new career more meaning for her than just fulfilling Cloud's dream, which was important in its own way, or becoming famous. Her strong will helps in standing up to those who would oppress others, and when she realized Shinra's true colors it seemed to add more insult to injury.

Something people might notice if speaking to her for a while is that she tends to use more forceful patterns of speech and turns of phrases, picked up from friends in Shinra and in more casual times in training. For people who knew her as a child this would be a marked difference from the way she spoke before, reflecting the inner changes she endured.

When a situation is bad and she sees no one else stepping up to the plate, she will take charge and try to calm the situation, issuing orders she feels necessary to avert disaster or save lives. She'll do it without a lot of internal waffling, and knows from experience how dangerous hesitating can be.
On the flip side, she's very good at throwing herself into a group effort and can take orders well, though if something seems extremely unwise to her, she'll ask or make a comment on that before following through. Usually her precautions are a good thing, avoiding disasters.

The Nibelheim incident left a lasting trauma imprinted on her psyche. While she is a strong girl with a strong will, if there was a time where it came close to breaking, it was during her imprisonment in the mako tanks. While inside the tanks, one of the things that ran through her mind was that she had never said "I'm sorry" to her father.

Even with a strong sense of justice, her hatred of Shinra and desire to see it die borders on more revenge seeking than wishing to see justice, and maybe a slice of that is she blames herself for not being able to stop Sephiroth and preventing the massacre. For her, it wasn't the town so much as the people. She knows it isn't good, that an eye for an eye never ends well, but she is past the point of caring. Without the need for revenge keeping her going, she may have given up far before reaching Midgar, falling to despair and the burden of being a survivor. She may have, too, if it hadn't been for the added fact of Cloud's suffering refueling her memory every day she was on the run, reminding her of what they had lost. She is quite incapable of forgiving Shinra or Sephiroth for their actions. Keeping more innocent people from being hurt by Shinra is incidental.

As a part of her life on the run, she has developed a strong feeling of responsibility for Cloud and his welfare, being often very protective and solicitous of him. It makes sense, as he is the last thing left that she has from her past life in Nibelheim, and the last thing she can lose. She fears to lose him and always feels that it can happen at any moment, so she stays on guard, trying to keep true to the promise made.

Even so, she suffers from nightmares and flashbacks, sometimes gazing off into the distance for long moments before shaking herself and pretending it hadn't happened, and sometimes she wakes up from a nap screaming, unable to do anything inside of her dreams. She claims it is nothing if someone mentions this behavior, trying to remain strong while dealing with the internal wounds.

Abilities:
Tifa is a SOLDIER. She has superior strength, eyesight, hearing, and stamina as a result of training, mako showers and Jenova augmentation she had undergone to become a SOLDIER. As a SOLDIER, what differentiates the classes is skill and experience, rather than the augmentation.

She is highly trained in the use of all types of swords, though she especially excels in hand to hand combat in which she had been training in since before leaving Nibelheim.

She can also operate many types of vehicles from motorcycles
to heavy trucks.

For magic use, she has a solid grasp of the basics and is a good spell caster, though her attacks lack the power someone who specialized in magic has.

She's also a fair judge at reading people, though this is for more general emotions and not a sure bet at telling whether people are lying.

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