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⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Amanda
Contact: lineandcolor
Age: Old enough
Current Characters: Cloud Strife ofthefall


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Hope Estheim
Age: 1014
Canon: Final Fantasy XIII trilogy
Canon Point: Just as he was going with the others to the new world

Background: Here

Personality: Hope is really your typical 14 year old teenager who was thrown into a situation that no one can really imagine. He was a very naive, sensitive, and insecure child, whose insecurities
tended to stem from relying on his mother for protection and confiding in her, but also being rather distant from his father, who tended to break his promises after Hope had idolized him a lot during his childhood. He can be emotional when his emotions get the best of him, although he tries his best to keep his feelings to himself. Hope is also your typical teenager that grew up in a place that lacked any sort of physical conflict like battles and fighting for one's life. He didn't really know how the world worked, given his age, and so he tended to either hide behind others, clinging to others for support (namely Vanille and Lightning) or he would rather run from a battle. He also tended to run from his problems as well, especially ones that he knew he couldn't change, like when his mother was killed during the Purge. He blamed Snow despite knowing that it really wasn't Snow's fault his mother died, although he did have a slight hand in it.

It was Vanille who provided the emotional support for Hope in the beginning, helping him try and deal with the horrors he was facing, such as being hunted down like an animal because he was unwillingly turned into a l'Cie, specifically by a Pulse fal'Cie. This meant he was an enemy of Cocoon and he was viewed by the Cocoon residents with horror and terror. But it was when he chose to follow Lightning, viewing her as a sort of surrogate older sibling/mother figure, that he began to grow as an individual. He matured and learned to deal with his emotions better and he also become an efficient fighter, able to take care of himself or hold off until his friends arrived. He opened up more, taking comfort in the new friends he has made in the other l'Cie despite how different they were from each other. All of them were older than him, all of them essentially adults. But he became just as essential as the rest of them. Going to Gran Pulse allowed him to learn to also ask for help when he needed it, as shown when his brand had grown a bit further and he collapsed, becoming distressed that he was a burden to the others, even when the others didn't want to leave him behind. His Eidolon, Alexander, showed up then and he learned to control it and he also learned that when they (the l'Cie) have reached their lowest point, the Eidolons reach out to bring them out of that slump, opening them up to change and growth.

Hope is also a smart individual, observant and insightful. He sees the situations as they happen and decides what to do for their next step, such as taking the plane to Pulse when the others weren't sure they should go down there or, again, figuring out just why the Eidolons appear at random times for each of them. It's also from this intuition that he realizes that he can't just rely on others, clinging to them like he had been or wanting to just go back to his old life. He realizes that he needs to think on his own, act on his own, make his own choices for his future, his fate, and no one else's. It's with this new found maturity that Hope finds it in him to reconcile with his father, allowing them to rekindle their distant relationship.

Hope ends up being one of the more positive people in the group by the end of the game, living up to his namesake as he gives hope to others, to push them to keep going and defy their fates as Pulse l'Cie.

In XIII-2 and Lightning Returns, as the majority of his development happened in the first game, his personality is only further shown to have grown as Hope becomes the director of the Academy at age 19, an intelligent and charismatic leader that eventually becomes the hope for humanity when the timeline collapses. His devotion and growing confidence in himself only aiding him in this way. His personality overall doesn't change much for when he is an adult aside from the added maturity as he reveals he still has his moments of doubts and vulnerability due to his time as a l'Cie and the actions he had taken during that time. He wants to atone for those sins and that is why he works so hard to bring humanity to their feet without the machinations of the fal'Cie. In Lightning Returns, he was kidnapped and tortured by Bhunivelze, forced to physically regress back to the age of 14, although his adult mind remained. He was also rendered unable to feel emotions, which he noted in the beginning of Lightning Returns as him being able to remember things, he had all his memories intact, but he felt like he was watching someone else's life instead and could not attach any emotion to even the most terrible of memories. Regardless of his lack of his emotion, his devotion to Lightning and saving the souls of what remained of humanity is obvious despite this disconnect his had up to and after Lightning inevitably saves his heart and soul from Bhunivelze, connecting him back to his former self.

Hope started out as your typical emotional teenager. But he grows and matures in all the right ways, learning that he can't just keep his emotions to himself, blaming others for things he can't control and, instead, that he needs to think for himself. That he has friends and family to count on, to ask for help, and to also know that he is his own person. l'Cie or not, Hope Estheim wasn't named Hope for no reason. He gives hope to his friends and ultimately helps end the fal'Cie rule on Cocoon, freeing the people and allowing them to live under their own control.

Abilities: Like any Final Fantasy game, each character is more or less assigned a "class". In FFXIII, Hope excels in healing magics, defensive buffs, and offensive magic. He's classified as a Medic, Synergist, and a Ravager, respectively. He is able to learn all spells in the Medic and Synergist roles along with all magic spells up to the -ga levels.

He is also able to control a boomerang, using the Antimatter Manipulation Principle. Essentially, he can use technology to manipulate the boomerang's trajectory and even allow it to hit multiple targets at once. It's said that this sort of thing was a sport, which is how Hope has the talent for this despite his lack of combat experience. However, given that his talents tend to lie with magic after becoming a l'Cie, he's essentially a better mage than physical fighter, although he will do the latter if he needs to and he is fairly proficient in it anyway.

He can summon his Eidolon, Alexander. His gestalt mode is essentially a giant fortress and if any of him need to be nerfed or he's just unable to be summoned, that's totally fine, just let me know!

Alignment: Peromei. It's in his name.

Other: N/A


⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉


General + Emotion Sample: Here

Questions: Nope!