diatuooc | April Intro Log

Name: Muffin
Contact:

tinymuffin84 and Discord on request!
Timezone: CST
About yourself: Me? I'm an idjit. I'm down for snuggles any time and I have a weakness for kittens. RP wise, I have only one other character active in anything, though a friend is threatening to wake a third muse of mine up. So! This isn't my first rodeo with RP, though it is my first rodeo with this game in particular. I have high hopes for it, since what it seems to do lines up a good bit with what I had hoped to accomplish with Kuja, namely giving him a place to settle down and try to sort himself out after the events of Final Fantasy 9 and then Dissidia, now that he has his full array of memories back. He never really got that chance after FF9 and before the crap in Dissidia.

Anyway! I'm almost always around. I do have a Discord and I'll be happy to nudge that at people if you want. Too many spam bots for me to put it out there at random though. Looking forward to it all here!

Character:Kuja
House: Ka
About: Kuja is a high class priss who was created as a "perfect being" with unimaginable power who thought he could never die. He was sent from his home world to speed the process of death on another to revive his own world by funneling souls to it. As you can imagine, he wasn't particularly loved, but he didn't really care. He was created as a fully functional adult, so he never had that critical stage of emotional development children go through. He doesn't understand some social concepts because of this, and even after everything that happened to him in the events of FF9 and Dissidia, he still struggles. These things aren't easy for him to learn, and so he's prone to going back to things that are comfortable to him, like isolation and pride and anger. Still, he can be quite polite and charming in the right circumstances. He was very wealthy back home and learned to behave like a spoiled adult at best

That said, while he is likely going to be extremely difficult to like, he was forced to come to terms with his mortality within a very sort time, uprooting his world completely. Add onto that the fact that even at his prime, he was beaten down by someone he considered far weaker than he was and, well... Let's just say it was an eye opener for him. He's a changed person, and none of this has been easy for him, but he didn't have long to consider it.

For headcanon purposes, after the end of FF9, where Zidane curls over Kuja to protect him from the Iifa Tree's assault, they were trapped there until Kuja used the last of his strength to throw one more Flare Star and destroy the roots, thus freeing Zidane and allowing him to escape. He has no memory of his death beyond this.

Then comes the events of Dissidia, where he was yanked with others into another world and forced to fight without end, without rest. While each battle slowly brought back his memories, he had to contend with the warriors brought into the world like him (the "bad" guys from various Final Fantasy games, summoned by the god Chaos) - none of them were friendly toward each other and really, among this group, it was more of a begrudging alliance. As the battles waged on and he remembered more and more, Kuja became less and less willing to fight, until at last he actively sought out Zidane to try and help him end the war by turning on the god who brought the warriors of Chaos over.

Welp. tl;dr, that didn't work out. One of the warriors of Chaos got wind of what he was doing and forced him to betray Zidane. A little while later, this same punk killed him and shoved false memories in his head, turning Kuja back into a jerk until he was defeated again and started to remember what he'd lost. All the while, he was teased and bullied among the warriors of Chaos for being young and relatively new to the evil bad guy nasty plottery game. I mean, who needs that, right?

Fast forward to the next world over, after Cosmos (good guys' summoning goddess) is killed, and now Kuja finds himself dealing with a similar situation, where he and Zidane and the people they knew from the first Dissidia or two are forced to fight again. This time, Kuja remembers everything, and he strikes out on his own to help Zidane out. He's a little aloof though, and claims not to care about this whole hero business. Why should he need others if he's strong enough to stand on his own? In the end, it turns out, he and everyone else are forced to work together to save that world AND themselves, and once they defeat the cause of the world's destruction, they're finally, FINALLY sent home.

... And this is where Kuja's story in Diatu begins. tl;dr FOR REAL, he's a reformed bad guy who's struggling with the concepts of friendship and needing others, he's hella prideful and he's hella good looking and he is/was hella powerful and good at what he did. But now he has no powers and he's gonna struggle to come to terms with that.

CR Goals: If you got through his About section, or even if you're just familiar with Final Fantasy 9 and Dissidia, you know Kuja is going to have a lot of work ahead of him, but he's very resistant to it all. He has spent all 24 years of his life relying on himself, working for his own goals in secret, looking after himself. While he wasn't the most nurturing in many ways, he survived. He grew stronger.

What this means is that he's going to be hard to befriend, even if he is a gentleman and charismatic, but this is what I hope he'll find here. He wants to know what it was that overpowered him in the end, what Zidane has that he doesn't, and he wants to understand it even if he's been quick to give up or turn away from it. He never has had an opportunity to have to rely on someone else, short of the final battle in Dissidia NT, and Diatu can offer him that. He'll be made to start over again, to work from the ground up, and I'm hoping, with the right nudging and the right circumstances, he'll come to learn what he was denied and have that second chance he doesn't believe he deserves.

Notes: Don't touch his tail. No, seriously. Please don't. He will be angry. He's very sensitive about it.

Anything Else?:

Oh! Hey! Hi! I am the Agatha/Kaylin player from Wake! Looking forward to my kids here getting to meet your character too!

Oh nooo... I didn't know about Xion until I read your app. ;3; She and Kuja have a lot in common if we can get them to talk about it. We'll have to see what happens, but I hope we get to play them off each other some time!

Edited 2019-04-02 06:10 (UTC)

Well they're both Nomura kids, right? Poor dears.

I hope so too! She is slowly attempting to be more social.

I also have Sho from TWEWY under the username grim_heaper and V from OOTS at Gender_neutral. Because I am a dork with user names. Over at Wake, most of my kids have their actual names. Here... bad jokes, apparently.

Yeah. ;3; Always with the tragedy, those. But that's why we're here, to give them a second chance at a better life.

Aaa that thread with Agatha over at Wake! Not sure yet how Kuja's going to take to her, but he's still figuring everything out where he is now. I'm enjoying it though! She seems like a good ;3;

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