Post by aqua on Mar 21, 2012 17:31:10 GMT -5
Rikku
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Name:Rikku
Age: 17
Affiliation: Light, Yuna, The Gullwings
Gender: Female
Canon or OC: Canon
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Rikku is completely loyal to Yuna – whom she affectionately calls "Yunie" – and the most vocal opponent against the ongoing pilgrimage that will eventually claim Yuna's life. Over the course of the game, she also forms a close bond with Tidus and looks up to him as a brother (and treats him rather better than her own), perhaps because of their similar personalities and devotion to Yuna; their friendship is so close that Tidus is the first one of Yuna's guardians to whom Rikku reveals she and Yuna are biologically related. She also turns to him for comfort, as seen in the Thunder Plains, when she collapses on the ground with fright, crawls towards him like a skiddish insect and grabs his leg.
Rikku is kindhearted, spirited and energetic, which sometimes clashes with the more stoic group members. She looks up to Lulu as something of a role model, being impressed with her calm levelheaded nature. Child-like and playful in many ways, Rikku tries to maintain a positive outlook and often refers to gloomy or annoying people as "big meanies". Her cheerful outlook often makes a stark contrast, however, when she is sad or upset, and despite her outwardly happy exterior, she seems to carry some insecurities, particularly when it comes to her own future and what she wants to be. When voicing these worries to Yuna, she is reassured that her own adventure would arrive one day.
Rikku is also known to be highly intelligent, being bilingual and skilled in chemistry. She also suffers from astraphobia, the fear of lightning, after a mishap involving Brother and a stray Thunder spell in her youth. She starts to deal with this fear during Yuna's pilgramage, and has overcome it by the time or shortly after the gullwings are formed, by camping out in the Thunder Plains for a week. Rikku also reveals a fear of snakes.
History-after Tidus gets trapped in the Underwater Ruins, he is "rescued" by a group of Al Bhed. Rikku, as the only member who can speak both Al Bhed and Spiran, objects when her fellows think Tidus is a fiend "in human disguise" and want to kill him. Rikku stops them, but knocks Tidus unconscious with a punch to the gut to stop his protesting.
On their salvage ship, Rikku enlists Tidus to help reactivate an underwater power plant - doing a much better job than her brother's rather-comical pantomiming - in which the Al Bhed then find a sunken airship and salvage it. Striking up a friendship with Tidus (although rather surprised by his claims of hailing from Zanarkand) she promises to take him to Luca so that he can try and find someone he knows. However, the two are separated when Tidus is washed overboard by a surprise encounter with Sin.
In Luca, Tidus tries to ask the Al Bhed Psyches Blitzball team about Rikku, but because of the language barrier - Tidus cannot speak Al Bhed and the Psyches cannot speak Spiran - he receives no answer. When the Psyches kidnap Yuna and hold her for ransom, Tidus initially suspects their ship, on which Yuna is being held, is the same as the one which rescued him, but it turns out that "it's not."
Rikku herself is later encountered when the group is crossing the Moonflow, piloting an underwater machina in hopes of kidnapping Yuna and stopping her pilgrimage. However, her machina is beaten by Tidus and Wakka, and she washes ashore.
Tidus finds her collapsed on the beach, and is happy to see her alive and well after Sin's attack. When the others come along, Tidus nearly lets slip that she is an Al Bhed, but stops himself because of Wakka's strong hatred towards them. Rikku asks to become Yuna's guardian and Auron forces her to look him in the eye, revealing herself to be an Al Bhed to him, but he, like everyone else, keeps it secret from Wakka.
At Guadosalam, Rikku assists Tidus with creating better weapons by fusing them with items. She spends time enjoying the Guado's hospitality until the group reaches the Farplane, where she stays outside with Auron, saying that she prefers to keep her memories inside, quoting an Al Bhed saying: "Memories are nice, but that's all they are." (It is suspected by fans that since the Al Bhed are considered heathens, there would be few Summoners willing to Send them when they die (with the exception of Lord Braska and his wife), and so they can't make their way to the Farplane.)
Depending on the number of Affection Points Rikku has accumulated with Tidus, Rikku follows Tidus to the ledge overlooking Guadosalam's plaza and strikes up a conversation. She asks Tidus if Yuna will be getting married, and when he replies no, gives him a playful elbowing and points out that this could be his big chance at a relationship with Yuna. The player can either deny or confirm Tidus's feelings for Yuna, in which case Rikku will either reprimand Tidus for being cruel, or encourage him to run away and live a quiet life with Yuna. The conversation will end the same way in either case.
However, if the player chooses the third option "I'd rather have you, Rikku", Rikku will recoil in surprise and ask if he is serious, then giggle and hit Tidus several times before jumping down to the lower ledge and say in Al Bhed: "Maybe someday!" If the player pursues Rikku, she will reveal that people get married as early as fifteen to seventeen in Spira, due to the threat of fiends and Sin. Furthermore, Rikku reveals how her mother was killed, and that she has an older brother. If the player speaks to Rikku a third time, she expresses a wish to have lots of children due to her not having any younger brothers or sisters.
Rikku starts to panic when the group reaches the Thunder Plains. It turns out she has severe astraphobia - a fear of thunderstorms - left over from a mishap in the past when Brother aimed a Thunder spell at an attacking fiend, except "it missed and hit me instead!" She is left in near-hysterics over most of the journey across the plains. She becomes so frightened that halfway across, a thunderstrike scares her so much that she collapses and seizes Tidus by the leg. She pleads for the group to stay longer at one of Rin's Travel Agencies. Irritated by her fear, Auron decides to leave her at the Travel Agency, as "she's worse than the storm." She decides to go outside to prove to Auron (and the storm) that "I'm not scared! I'm not scared, you hear?!" She only calms down and brightens up once the group reaches the Macalania forest.
Wakka discovers Rikku is an Al Bhed when Brother and a group of Al Bhed try to kidnap Yuna again using a tank-like machina. Wakka is deeply disgusted and blames the Al Bhed's use of forbidden machina for the reason of Sin's birth. Afterward, Tidus either rides with Rikku, Lulu, Auron, or Kimahri to Macalania Temple. If Tidus rides with Rikku, she reveals she is Yuna's cousin and articulates in a roundabout way that Yuna will die if she continues her pilgrimage, but Tidus does not realize this fact. At Macalania Temple, a guard, disbelieving that an Al Bhed could be a guardian to a summoner, nearly turns Rikku away from the entrance until Auron comes to her defense, telling him that wanting to be Yuna's guardian by choice should be enough to enable her to enter the temple, regardless of her race. The guard relents and allows her entry.
Rikku does not play a major role again until the party is on Bikanel Island, where she reluctantly leads the party to Home, only to find it has been attacked by the Guado, and that many of her friends have been killed. Rikku helps the group reach her father Cid, and they escape on the Fahrenheit, which they had managed to restore from their salvage operation. She also reveals to Tidus that Yuna is going to die if she performs the Final Summoning, which triggers an emotional breakdown for both. She is saddened by the senseless destruction of Home over the course of the trip to Bevelle. Wakka - deeply upset by the Guado attack, but also moved by the Al Bhed's well-intentioned motives for kidnapping Summoners - tries to cheer her up, saying, "Boom! Like happy festival fireworks, ya?", though she tearfully reprimands him to "cram your happy festival, you big meanie!"
At Bevelle, Rikku helps rescue Yuna by tossing a flash bomb to blind Seymour and the warrior monks, so that the group can retreat into Bevelle Temple, where she shows little surprise that the Yevon clergy is ignoring its own teachings regarding machina. After Kinoc holds them up, Rikku tries to warn Tidus not to leave the Chamber of the Fayth, but it is too late, and they are arrested.
Rikku is thrown into the Via Purifico with Tidus and Wakka, and they escape from the dungeon's monster. As they hide in the Macalania Woods, Rikku hopes Yuna would give up her pilgrimage now that they knew the truth about Yevon and its corruption. Rikku feels she can't stop her cousin since the pilgrimage is so important to her, so she convinces Tidus to go talk her out of it. After coming back from the spring, Tidus has not been able to convince her to quit.
When arriving in the Calm Lands, Rikku and Tidus desperately try coming up with a plan on how to save Yuna from being killed, but cannot think of anything. During the group's ascent to the Zanarkand Ruins, she becomes increasingly distraught over Yuna's fate and argues repeatedly with Tidus over other possible courses of action. Rikku is overjoyed when Yuna decides to decline the Final Summoning and put a permanent end to Sin.
After this, Rikku does not play a great role in the story. However, she does argue with Mika over the identity of Yu Yevon, and tells Shelinda to spread word of the plan to pacify Sin using the "Hymn of the Fayth", and makes peace with Wakka before the final confrontation with Sin.
After Sin's defeat, Tidus starts to fade away and says goodbye to everyone. Rikku, however, would not accept any goodbyes from him, saying that they will meet again.
wo years have passed since the end of Yuna's pilgrimage and Sin's destruction. Rikku and Brother had a falling out with Cid in that time, and have since founded the Gullwings, a Sphere Hunting group, with the help of Brother's friends Buddy and Shinra. They are soon joined by a young woman named Paine, who has a mysterious past known only to her. During one of their hunts, Kimahri tells them of a sphere he found on Mt. Gagazet, which shows a man bearing a strong resemblance to Tidus. Rikku rushes to Besaid and shows the sphere to Yuna who immediately leaves her island home and joins the motley crew on their airship, the Celsius.
The group travels throughout Spira and encounters many old and new friends, including the three most influential Spirans: Nooj, Baralai and Gippal. Gippal, a ladies' man and Rikku's old friend, calls her "Cid's girl", and embarrasses her with a crack about the two of them having "made quite the couple". The Gullwings also get into many scuffles with rival Sphere Hunter Group the LeBlanc Syndicate. Headed by leader LeBlanc and crewed by her band of goons, including her two chief henchmen Ormi and Logos, LeBlanc and her team frequently seek the same treasure the Gullwings do. Ultimately as the plot advances the two groups end up putting aside their differences and start to work together to defeat Vegnagun.
The three girls utilize Garment Grids and Dresspheres in battle to gain strength and hone their abilities. Continuing her style from Final Fantasy X, Rikku takes the Thief Dressphere as her preferred default job. Also, the Alchemist Dressphere, which can be obtained by helping Clasko set up his Chocobo Ranch in the Calm Lands, has the Mix ability, which was Rikku's Overdrive in the previous game.
As more is learned about Shuyin and Lenne from Maechen, Rikku expresses her pity for Shuyin, as two years ago she too went to great lengths to try and save somebody she cared about, Yuna, from a tragic fate. There is a cutscene where Rikku feels that people are always leaving her behind. Yuna eventually thanks her for "kidnapping" her and letting her join the Gullwings. Concerned about her future, Rikku asks Yuna if she can have her own story. Yuna comes up with a story for her and is asked if she will get a hunky boy in her story (referencing Tidus). Yuna says if anyone could come up with a story, Rikku can.
Three months after the events involving shuyin and vegnagun, the Gullwings are called back together, to Yadonoki Tower. They travel to the top of the tower, where they find a broken machina. Paine reveals she was the one who brought them back together, to show them that even though they are technically going their separate ways, they shall always be together.
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Your Name/Alias: Runa, User Rikku
Roleplaying experience: I got two years under ma belt! and have been on The Kingdom Hearts RP (No joke that's really the name lmao) Final Fantasy Eternal Darkness... And.. A few others, but I can't remember the name to them right now XD
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