Post by Laguna Loire on May 9, 2011 7:03:33 GMT -5
PRESIDENT LOIRE
Inside of the sudden light I awaken
In the middle of the night
No matter what the time
FULL NAME:
Laguna Loire
NICKNAME(S):
President Loire, Uncle Laguna
AGE:
Forty-Four
REVIVAL:
1 Year and 2 Months
HOME WORLD:
Archipelago - FFVIII
ALIGNMENT:
Good
CLASS:
Harmony Magic
SCHOOL RANK:
'Sophomore' Tier 7
DISTRICT:
Soprano
APARTMENT NUMBER:
39
I`m just alone
APPEARANCE:Laguna is a somewhat average looking middle-aged man. He has long dark brown hair that slips past his shoulders and very pronounced green eyes. He is about 5'9" with a surprisingly fit and lean figure. As for attire, Laguna used to be seen in either his Galbadian uniform, but now he wears a button-up blue shirt with plain slacks. Due to being a president he tries to look more mature (this doesn't work exactly as planned usually) and has traded out his old fighter-style for it. The man does however look younger than he actually is, something he blames on his young soul.
PERSONALITY:Seen as a cheerful, generous, and talented man, Laguna does everything with a righteous and pure purpose. Though he doesn't like fighting, Laguna is the type of person who will defend his friends to the death. He is clearly courageous when he is defending his friends, but if Laguna gives himself time to think about the situations he gets himself into his attitude changes and a hesitation comes to the surface. Though in the end, Laguna will always choose saving his friends, never letting his nerves get the best of him.
Once in his younger life, Laguna struggled with how he acted towards beautiful women; every time that Laguna used to encounter a lady he would clam up and his leg would spasm and cramp. This shy attitude of Laguna's was only seen with women and he seems to have gotten over it in his older age, but a bit of his shyness remains. Laguna is also very open about emotion and proclaims that it's the heart that matters, not always the logical side of things.
Among his friends, Kiros and Ward, Laguna was often teased for being too impulsive, but in the end it was always Laguna who was leading the team in every situation. Though the two friends would never admit it directly to Laguna, they relied on him for guidance because of what a great leader he really made.
BIOGRAPHY:Laguna was born in Delling City in January, but Laguna's early childhood is, for the most part, a complete mystery beyond that fact. Only once Laguna joins the Galbadian Army in his twenties does his story really begin to be told. It was his dream to become a traveling journalist that inspired the otherwise peaceful Laguna to join the army. After being assigned to a platoon, Laguna meets the two people who will become his life-long best friends, Kiros Seagill and Ward Zabac. The peculiar three misfits swiftly bonded and soon shared everything with each other.
As time wore on, Laguna found his first love interest. When not away on duties for the Galbadian Army, Laguna and his friends tended to spend time in the lounge under the Galbadian Hotel, and that was where he first met Julia Heartilly. She was a brilliant songstress who spent her nights there at the piano in the lounge, and while she did have a few encounters with Laguna, his nerves made it too awkward to have a full conversation with her. One night, after Laguna was urged into speaking with Julia by his friends, the woman boldly invited Laguna up to her room in the hotel so they could talk. After accepting the invitation, Laguna staggered off with his nervously cramped leg to make him look silly.
That night, after Julia finished playing in the lounge, was a romantic turning point for Laguna. At first it was clear how nervous Laguna really was, but as he and Julia began to really talk, everything changed. The hours passed in what seemed like the blink of an eye and Laguna reluctantly parted with Julia. It became clear that the two held very strong feelings for each other, but those feelings were never allowed to be acted upon due to the sudden reassignment of Laguna in the name of the Galbadian Army.
Laguna and his friends, Kiros and Ward, become lost on their way to their original mission and find themselves somewhere in Centra. The extremely territorial Esthar soldiers soon surround Laguna's party and force them to desperate measures: Jumping off of a cliff to escape into the ocean. Laguna in particular doesn't make a clean-break and finally lands in the water unconscious. In the swirling waves of the ocean, Laguna Kiros and Ward are separated. When Laguna finally comes to, he finds himself in the small town of Winhill where a woman named Raine and her adopted daughter Ellone had been taking care of him. For the following six-months Laguna is forced to remain in bed to recover and it is during that time that he forges a bond with Raine and Ellone.
Upon recovering, Laguna decides to take it upon himself to become Winhill's "Monster Hunter" because all of the men of the town are away to help fight in the war. Another six months pass in peace, but Laguna is caught off gaurd when his old friend Kiros strolls into town looking for him. The two go on a monster patrol of the town and speak of what has happened in the twelve months since they've seen each other. Kiros explains that Ward lost his voice and began to work in a prison, which Laguna doesn't seem to understand. Kiros and Laguna bond over lost time and Kiros notes that Laguna has changed a lot.
As a few more months pass, Laguna realizes that he has fallen in love with Raine, so he decides one day to propose to her and they were married not too long after. Finding peace in his new family, Laguna feels inspired to achieve his life-long dream of becoming a writer for a magazine, so Kiros insists that the two head to Timber in order to get his first article published. During this time however, Sorceress Adel's minions invade Winhill to kidnap Ellone. Arriving home only to learn that Ellone was gone, Laguna made a promise to Raine that he would bring Ellone back, to which Kiros immediately decided it was best to work in numbers. Soon Laguna left his unknowingly pregnant wife to recruit Ward before chasing after Ellone.
On his journey, Laguna found himself in deep need of cash, so he acted in a movie that would later inspire Squall's mortal enemy, Seifer, to become a 'Sorceress' Knight'. Getting to Esthar proved more difficult than anyone could have anticipated and in yet another accident, Laguna Kiros and Ward are separated. Laguna awakens in a place known as the Shumi Village to find that they had been kind enough to care for him. Repaying their kindness, Laguna also met the small creatures known as Moomba in the village and tried to teach the furry little things how to speak.
After a short time Laguna finally reassembles his party and they finally find a way into Esthar, but things quickly grow more complicated as Laguna Kiros and Ward are captured and put to work in the Lunatic Pandora Labratory. Laguna does the work he is assigned obediently for the most part, until he sees a Moomba being abused and initiates a sudden jailbreak out of fury. After recovering his friends, Laguna is suddenly recruited into the Adel Resistance the instant he steps out of the laboratory. With the assistance of his new resistance comrades, Laguna finds that Ellone was being held by Dr. Odine in attempts to protect her from Adel, though his purposes seemed foul upon first meeting him. Finally reunited with Ellone, Laguna is faced with the new problem of defeating the evil sorceress Adel.
With the help of Dr. Odine and the rest of the Adel Resistance, Laguna comes up with a plan to seal Adel so there is no chance she can hurt anyone ever again. After creating a specific cryogenic device, the group projects an image of Ellone where they need Adel to stand in order to seal her, and in her mad desperation to achieve her dark goals, Adel walks right into their trap. After that event the people of Esthar saw how valiant and brilliant Laguna was, so they proclaimed him president to replace the rule that Adel once held. Laguna is forced to send Ellone back to Winhill where she returns to Raine. Ellone stayed with Raine until she died from complications in giving birth to Squall. Edea takes in the poor children and Squall is raised in Edea's Orphanage where he meets all of his friends.
Years later, Laguna's son Squall is forced to face trials much like the ones that Laguna himself went through. Squall arrived in Esthar with a mysteriously ill Rinoa thinking that the technology there would have a chance at curing her, but he soon found himself in an all out sorceress war led by Ultimecia. After Adel is set free, Laguna helps his son come up with a plan to take her down while still somehow defeating Ultimecia, who was based in the far future. After Squall successfully defeated the cruel sorceress, Laguna decided it was time to go back to Winhill to visit Raine's grave. Laguna fondly remembers Raine as he looks down on her grave and is soon joined by his adoptive daughter Ellone. With a pleasant smile, Laguna thought to himself how nice it was to have his family, even if Squall still didn't know who his father was.
But Laguna wasn't meant for a peaceful life. The man managed to live only months after the the world was set to rights, meeting an unfortunate end whilst in the city he ruled over. Laguna didn't die of old age, or in the final fight like he thought he would. The president was assassinated by a group of sorceress supporters. The group killed the man because they thought Adel was a good ruler (as distorted as their view was) and had been plotting their revenge for a long while. Laguna could only be thankful that his end was painless and that he could die with thoughts of his family in his mind.
Being reborn was a peculiar experience. At first Laguna was skeptical, as any normal person would be, but then he started to accept he was getting a second chance at life, in a different manner. It didn't take long for the man to start asking if perhaps Raine had also been revived as he had. No one seemed to hold any answers for him. By the off chance of hope that he might see Raine again, Laguna enrolled in the Sanctuary school and took up learning music magic.
The only real hard part about learning music magic was the part where he had to pick and learn an instrument. It took Laguna a good five months before he actually had his instrument, a guitar, down pat. The only thing that seemed to keep him going was the particularly lovely muse Enya, who would be his first teacher. Every time Laguna got too frustrated the woman would help him in any way she knew how. The young beauty had so reminded him of Raine, being of similar age at the time she passed.
More time began to pass and magic was coming easier with his improvement at handling a guitar. The instrument brought Laguna a joy he hadn't really ever expected, music being a new guilty pleasure. Soon Laguna took his first Etude with Enya and through her excellent teaching he passed, finally able to command harmony magic. Feeling only all the more inspired to someday reunite with Raine, Laguna took his new freedoms and moved to the Soprano district. There he took up the craft of the bard in his free time, feeling at ease whenever he could play for anyone.
It wasn't much later that Laguna heard news of the Recital Clan's arrival and Enya's cruel murder. The former president felt full of rage and undeniable loss, almost akin to feeling like he had lost Raine all over again. As if perhaps he had failed Raine again. From that day on Laguna took his magic and historical studies at the Sanctuary far more seriously. Laguna also tried to gather information about Enya, wondering if she had family. The man discovered she had a daughter who would be taking her place as a muse and he vowed he would keep an eye on her. Even if it was just quietly.
(What's this? Another bit of Enya the saint? Yes. That's right. Her.)
Destiny forgotten,
SKILL(S):Shootin' shit up!Weapon expert
POWER(S):
Just the Harmony magic that he's learned.
WEAPON(S):
Machine Gun, Grenades, Rocket Launcher, Ragnarok Canon
Even though I kept going.
CHARACTER THEME SONG(S):
Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down
FACE CLAIM:
Final Fantasy VIII - [s]Laguna Loire[/s]
OoC NAME:
Seion
HOW'D YOU FIND US?
I DON'T KNOW. I'M LOST.
PASSWORDS:
Rules are for pansies
ROLEPLAY SAMPLE:
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