HEARTILLY, rinoa

[rinoa]

OOC/MISC CHARACTER NOTES

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^{Cbox Name:} HarleyQuinnLove
^Nicknames: Harley/Angel
^{Main Account:} Jinx
^{Who else do you play?:} Jinx, Harley Quinn, Dee Dee Twins
^{How did you find us?:} I... honestly don't remember...

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^Category: Final Fantasy VIII
^Ranking: Hero
^{Reason for being on AM:} To try and bring about peace. To find her knight Squall. To get a hold of her powers as a Sorceress.

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Rinoa Heartilly
The Rebel Princess/Unofficial 'Leader' of the Forest Owls

Basic Details

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^Age: Seventeen

^Species: Human/Sorceress

^Personality: Rinoa is a lively individual with the ability to touch people's hearts. Open and honest with her feelings, she speaks her mind without reservation. Driven by her ambitions, she can be difficult at times. She always seems to have more energy then needed and loves to try and cheer the people around her up. She believes that everyone around her has a place in the world. If they can't find it, they're looking to hard. Rinoa always has more then enough energy to go around. Although her personality is strong, she is often needed to be rescued from many different situations due to the fact that her strength isn't as tough as her mind. That won't stop her from getting things done though.

Rinoa's personality is everything that Squall's is not: feisty, compassionate, warm, and friendly, and these traits initially annoy Squall to no end. However, Rinoa slowly wins over the irritated Squall, and eventually he realizes he returns Rinoa's feelings and in the later part of the game the two become a couple.

Despite Rinoa's compassionate personality and her cute appearance, she is actually a brave person. Despite being born to a well-to-do rich family and her father being an important figure in Galbadia's military, she is not spoiled and is in fact greatly concerned by the world situation. Rinoa goes as far as joining a resistance movement that fought against Galbadia in order to achieve Timber's independence, and in doing so she abandons her privileged lifestyle, family, and everything she once knew. Rinoa's brave persona is also evidenced by the fact that she fought beside Squall and his group throughout the game despite being the only one without military training.

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Powers & Abilities

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• Sorceress Power-
  Due to her having just received her powers, and her own reservations about them, it is unknown whether Rinoa's sorceress powers manifest to full power. Rinoa's strength lies in primal magic with no known alignment, evidence of this is shown by the effects of her Angel Wing Limit Break. During the game Rinoa receives her Sorceress Power from Edea Kramer and Adel.
  
• Magick/GF's-
  She is good at using magick, due to her sorceress powers, and can use GF's
  
• Combine-
  Combine is Rinoa's primary Limit Break, in which Rinoa teams up with Angelo to perform a variety of attacks, as well as certain effects.
  
• Angel Wing-
  Angel Wing is Rinoa's second Limit Break in which two white angel wings appear on Rinoa's back and enable her to fly. While in the Angel Wing state Rinoa's magic damage is boosted five times more powerful than usual, and puts her into a Berserk spell-casting state in which she uses only magic.
  
• Flexibility
  
• Military experience[due to father]
  
• Intelligence
  

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Main/Important Equipment

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• Blaster Edge-
  Rinoa's weapon of choice is the Blaster Edge, a boomerang-like weapon that can be propelled from a device on the back of the wielder's wrist to cause injury to any opponent and return to its holster.
  
• Her dog, Angelo
  
• Squall's Ring

Weaknesses

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^{Psychological Flaws...}

She is suseptible to being taken over by the future sorceress, Ultimacia

^{Physical Flaws...}

She is still a human, even though she is a sorceress

^{Other Flaws...}

She isn't completely good with her powers of a sorceress
She has a weakness for her 'knight', Squall Leonhart. He seems to be the one person who really gets her. Not that people don't understand her. She just. She wants to be with him all the time. He makes her feel safe and, without him, she seems to question her safety.

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History....

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((Compliments of Wikipedia))
Rinoa Heartilly is the daughter of Fury Caraway and Julia Heartilly. When Rinoa was five, Julia died in a car accident, and her relationship with her father grew rocky over time. She is a member of the resistance faction Forest Owls, based in Timber. Her father has full knowledge of her activities.

A year before the game's events Rinoa began a romantic relationship with a SeeD cadet named Seifer Almasy. It is from Seifer that she learned of the mercenary-for-hire service SeeD provided. Rinoa first met Squall during the SeeD inauguration party at Balamb Garden, where she got him to dance, much to Quistis's shock. Rinoa was on an errand on behalf of the Timber Owls to convince Headmaster Cid Kramer to employ SeeD mercenaries to aid her cause. With Seifer's help she was introduced to Cid. Hearing her plight, Cid relented, allowing her the use of a group of three SeeDs despite the meager payment she offered in return and the complaints of the Garden Faculty.

The three SeeD chosen were Zell Dincht, Selphie Tilmitt, and perhaps by fate, Squall Leonhart. While disappointed that Seifer was not part of the squad, she was nonetheless elated that SeeD had come. The SeeD at first willingly assisted in Rinoa's plans to kidnap Vinzer Deling, the President of Galbadia, by hijacking his train. Although the plan was successfully deployed, the President aboard was a fake. Rendering the operation a failure, the SeeDs' confidence in the Timber group began to wane.

They learn that the real President was going to be in the Timber TV Station to make an announcement. The Forest Owls attempt to hatch a new plan, with their SeeD mercenaries watching skeptically from a distance. Squall requests to see the contract that bound the SeeD group to the Timber Owls, only to discover they were under Rinoa's command as long as Timber remained under Galbadian oppression. While on their way to infiltrate the TV Station, new intelligence indicated that, due to the large numbers of Galbadian soldiers, the agreed plan would have to be ditched. Squall expresses the SeeD group's misgivings about being part of such a casual organization and questions Rinoa's commitment to her goals. The argument ends with her leaving. Later, having seen the whole incident on the Timber TV Station screen, and discovering the Forest Owls' base destroyed, she returns and enters the station in pursuit of Seifer.

Arriving too late to find Seifer, she orders the SeeDs to help her lie low while the Galbadian forces search the town. Contemplating Seifer's fate leads Squall and Rinoa into another argument over their views on life before they are given word that it is clear to leave town. On their way to Galbadia Garden, the two argue again, this time about Squall's cold attitude towards his teammates. The group makes it to the Garden and after some reminiscing about Seifer, who they presume dead from execution, Rinoa ends up revealing her past relationship with him, and they receive new orders. Rinoa pretends to be a SeeD to avoid conflict and joins Squall's group in heading to Deling City to meet their contact, Rinoa's father, General Caraway. After meeting with the SeeDs, General Caraway locks Rinoa away in another room and then turns to inform the SeeDs of his plan to assassinate the Sorceress, Edea Kramer.

After the briefing Rinoa finally manages to escape the room, rushing to Quistis to tell her of another plan to stop the Sorceress by getting her to wear the Odine Bangle. Quistis, however, berated her; thinking that Rinoa's plan was only contrived to oppose her father, Quistis walks off. Left to her own devices, Rinoa proceeds to carry out her plan, infiltrating the Presidential Residence, and offers the bangle to Edea as a gift. Edea casts a spell that renders Rinoa under her control and like a puppet, Rinoa placidly follows Edea out onto the pedestal where she is designated as a sacrifice for the ceremony. Edea summons two Iguion statues and they attack Rinoa.

Squall and Irvine manage to infiltrate the Presidential Residence in time to save her and in return she stays and fights beside Squall when he attacks Edea. However, the attack proves unsuccessful and the group is captured and imprisoned in the D-District Prison. They were barred by Irvine who managed to escape. Irvine would eventually return, acting on orders from presumably Rinoa's father, to retrieve Rinoa from imprisonment and, with tenacious convincing from Rinoa, the pair would assist the rest of the group's escape from the compound.

During their capture, the group collectively learns that in retaliation for the attack on Sorceress Edea, Galbadia has targeted Balamb and Trabia Gardens in a missile attack. Splitting into two groups the party attempts to prevent the attack. Selphie's plan was to sabotage the missiles aimed at Trabia, and Squall proceeded to warn Balamb of the missiles. It is up to the player's decision to place Rinoa in either group. The party is once again reunited in Fisherman's Horizon where the unharmed but now mobile Balamb Garden crashes. Squall is ordered to act as an ambassador and enact a formal apology, but Mayor Dobe, the leader of the pacifist city, tells them to leave immediately, as their presence can only cause destruction. Galbadian soldiers eventually invade the town, and Dobe heads off to discuss peacefully with the soldiers. However, the soldiers do not listen, and he is eventually rescued by Squall. Grudgingly, the mayor accepts their apology, and orders the city's technicians to restore Balamb Garden to full functionality. During this the participants of Selphie's group reunite with Squall and for a moment Squall is seen to be almost elated. Of course, this does not go unnoticed by Rinoa.

With the mobile Balamb Garden Squall was appointed Commander of the Garden and SeeD, and to celebrate his friends held a concert for the sole purpose of lightening the load on Squall's shoulders, with Rinoa personally informing him of this. As his first command Squall liberated Balamb from Galbadian occupation. The next order was to head to Trabia Garden, Selphie's home Garden, and the first target for the missile attacks. He offered the Trabia students Balamb Garden's support. While waiting for Selphie to regroup with them, Rinoa begins voicing her worries about being a burden within the group and what would happen in the future. This causes the rest of the group to recollect their pasts and discover they all were raised at the same time in an orphanage. Decisions were made and the Garden embarked to the old orphanage, but is intercepted by a similarly mobile Galbadia Garden. The Battle of the Gardens ensues, which resulted in Sorceress Edea's defeat and Rinoa mysteriously becoming comatose.

Rinoa's condition is of great concern to Squall, driving him to great lengths to find a reason behind the coma and how to wake her from it. Eventually being lead to Esthar, Squall is sent to space with Rinoa, where onboard the Lunar Base she awakens under the control of the sorceress who had been possessing Edea, Ultimecia. After being defeated twice, Ultimecia had left Edea's body to enter Rinoa's. Sorceress Ultimecia uses Rinoa as a means to unlock Adel's Tomb. The evil sorceress leaves Rinoa to die in space. However, Squall had ditched his escape pod from the exploding Lunar Base, and was able to intercept her and the two board the derelict Ragnarok.

On board of the Ragnarok, Squall communicates their current situation to Esthar, and then enables the ship's autopilot to return to the planet. During the trip, Rinoa and Squall embrace and share a tender conversation, with Squall confessing many things to Rinoa about himself and Rinoa telling him that now he is the one to give her the most comfort and happiness. The land base tells the two that Rinoa will be seized by the Esthar government upon landing.

Upon landing back in Esthar Rinoa is taken by Esthar officials to contain her sorceress powers in a new tomb on Sorceress Memorial. Squall intervenes after being pushed into action by his friends, especially Quistis, breaking the seal of the Tomb and taking Rinoa away with him to Edea's orphanage where Rinoa voices her concerns about being possessed again and turning evil. Squall makes a silent vow to become Rinoa's Sorceress Knight. Rinoa asks Squall to kill her should her worst fear of becoming evil come to reality, but Squall reassures her that his enemy is Ultimecia alone and asks Rinoa to stay close to him. Rinoa then tells Squall about a nightmare she had in which she wanted to see him, but could not find him. The couple make a promise to meet at the flower field in Edea's orphanage should they be separated. This is a defining moment in the couple's relationship.

The group heads back to Esthar, and using the Ragnarok, invade the Lunatic Pandora and fight through Seifer and Sorceress Adel (now Ultimecia's vessel). Ultimecia orders Seifer to capture Rinoa, who is junctioned to the physical body of Adel through Ultimecia's powers. Squall and the others must fight Adel/Ultimecia without harming Rinoa. They are successful in defeating Adel, who is forced to pass on her Sorceress Power to Rinoa before she can die in peace.

Because of Adel's demise, Ultimecia enters Rinoa once again, just as Ellone uses her powers to send Ultimecia and Rinoa back in time so that Ultimecia can cast Time Compression, which is a magic only possible to cast if the Sorceress' consciousness exists in the past, present, and future. The process of Time Compression is long however, and the allotted time allows for Squall, Rinoa, Zell, Quistis, Irvine, and Selphie to enter Ultimecia Castle in the future, where Ultimecia awaits. Upon Ultimecia's demise the Time Compression unravels back to normal, leaving the combatants stranded in time. Each member managed to get back by remembering who they were and where they wanted to be. Rinoa reappeared in the flower field, where she and Squall had made their promise, but Squall was nowhere to be found.

Using her Sorceress powers, she managed to locate Squall at the end of time. He was near death but because of her arrival and her belief that he would survive, Squall was saved from non-existence. The two were sent back to the flower field, alive and well.

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In Character RP Sample

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Rinoa was a smart girl, and could be pretty quick when learning new things. It was a skill necessary for being the leader of a resistance faction. And along with being a quick learner and a good fighter, you had to be a bit flexible. Not everything would fall into place and you would have to be ready for any sort of mess up. Even being the daughter of a ranking government and military official had it's necessities. And after finding out she was the Sorceress, she had thought nothing more could change her life. Well, the black haired 'princess' hadn't been anticipating what she would see when she awoke the next evening.

The last thing she had remembered before falling asleep earlier that day was the members of her faction, Zell, and a few other friends she had made when the girl had SeeD's working for her. Surrounded by friends was always the best thing for her because, honestly, being alone wasn't something she liked too much. She had fallen asleep with Angelo curled up beside her. But the next time she opened her eyes, she wasn't in Timber any more. She didn't know where she was. She felt alone and confused. The only one she saw was her precious Angelo. She could at least be thankful for that.

The question she had was how did this happen? Was this just another obstacle she would have to overcome because of what she was? A sorceress? She knew that she could teleport, but this place... it didn't even look like her home planet!

It was fairly late, so she decided that it couldn't hurt to explore a little. Her dog followed close by her side. The dog was a bit protective of her and she wasn't some feeble little thing, so she wasn't really nervous about getting hurt. She was nervous about being in this new world alone. Rinoa didn't think that she could be able to even do that.

Her thoughts kept going towards him. She hadn't seen him for a rather long time, and that upset her slightly. What had happened to him? She kind of hoped that she would run into him, that way, she wouldn't be alone anymore.

After roaming the streets and hearing others talk as she did so, she came along a park. A smile formed on her lips as she glimpsed the peaceful looking place. With such a big and bustling city, the park in front of her seemed very warm and inviting. So, they walked into it and started to explore.

Angelo must have caught someones scent, because the dog was sniffing and following a trail only an animal could sense. Eager to find out what it was, she followed. To her joy, a very familiar looking man sitting but a few feet in front of her. His back was towards her, which made it all the better. Angelo stopped, as if waiting for his owner's command. But Rinoa's smile just brightened.

Sneaking up behind him, she slowly inched her way into his peripheral vision. "So, I'm not here by myself after all," she whispered.

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^{Theme Songs...?} Eyes on Me

[rinoa]

This app is finished! ^.^ I hope it's alright

[Regina Mills]

So uh I was gonna wait for an admin who knows a bit more about Final Fantasy to look this over but this has been sitting here for a couple of days so...Awesome app! Rinoa looks like a fun character, can't wait to see her in action! ^^

Accepted.