Post by Rikku on Jan 10, 2010 13:18:16 GMT -6
Rikku
Franchise: Final Fantasy
Custom Title: The Upbeat Thief
Alignment: Hero
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Special Abilities: Rikku is an expert thief, wielding duel knives and having the ability to steal from both enemies and when need be other people. Rikku also has the ability to alchemicly fuse two different item's together to either make better or worse item's of the same kind. As an Al-Bhed she is one of the race that can speak the native language, and throw a grenade specifically for their kind, the 'Al-Bhed Grenade'. Rikku is also an expert with machines.
Franchise: Final Fantasy
Custom Title: The Upbeat Thief
Alignment: Hero
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Special Abilities: Rikku is an expert thief, wielding duel knives and having the ability to steal from both enemies and when need be other people. Rikku also has the ability to alchemicly fuse two different item's together to either make better or worse item's of the same kind. As an Al-Bhed she is one of the race that can speak the native language, and throw a grenade specifically for their kind, the 'Al-Bhed Grenade'. Rikku is also an expert with machines.
History: ((Used FF wikia))
Early in the game, 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 English, objects when her fellows think Tidus is a fiend in human disguise and wanted to kill him. Rikku stops them but knocks Tidus unconscious with a punch to the gut to stop his protesting. This is the budding of their feelings for one another which grow throughout the game.
She then enlists Tidus to help reactivate a 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 can't speak Al Bhed and the Psyches can't speak English – 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 wasn't.
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 is washed 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 almost lets slip that she's an Al Bhed, but stops himself because of Wakka's strong hatred towards them. She then asks to become Yuna's guardian so she can continue to defend her cousin (although she doesn't reveal this at the time). 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, she then teaches Tidus about creating better weapons by fusing them with items. She then 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's suspected by fans that since the Al Bhed are considered heathens, there would be few Summoners willing to send them when they die, and so she would have no one to see there.
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' 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 ask if he's serious, then giggle and hit Tidus several times before jumping down to the lower ledge and saying 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. This ongoing conversation is yet another hint of their possible feelings for one another; though at this point, it seems she is slowly beginning to forgo these feelings, as she cares more for her cousin: Yuna.
Rikku starts to panic when the group reaches the Thunder Plains. It turns out she has severe astraphobia – or fear of thunderstorms – left over from a mishap in the past when Brother aimed a thunder spell at an attacking fiend, only to miss and hit Rikku instead. She is left in near-hysterics over most of the journey across the plains. She becomes so frightened that she collapses and seizes Tidus by the leg, and 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. She decides to go outside to prove to Auron that she's not scared. She only calms down and brightens up once the group reaches Macalania.
Wakka then discovers that she is an Al Bhed (when the rest of the group already knew) 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. Afterwords, Tidus either rides with Rikku, Lulu, Auron, or Kimahri to Macalania Temple. If Tidus rides with Rikku, she reveals that she is Yuna's cousin and articulates in a roundabout way that Yuna will die if she continues her pilgrimage, but Tidus doesn't realize this fact.
She doesn't play a major role again until the party is on Bikanel Island, where she reluctantly leads the party to Home, only to find that it has been attacked by the Guado, and that many of her friends have been killed. She then helps the group reach her father Cid, and they escape on the airship she helped salvage earlier. She also reveals to Tidus that Yuna is going to die if she goes ahead with the Final Summoning, which triggers an emotional breakdown. She is saddened by the destruction of Home over the course of the trip to Bevelle, although Wakka – deeply upset by the Guados' attack but also moved by the Al Bhed's well-intentioned motives for kidnapping Summoners – tries to cheer her up.
At Bevelle, she helps rescue Yuna by releasing a flash bomb to blind Seymour, so that the group can retreat into Bevelle Temple. There 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 and Yuna not to leave the Chamber of the Fayth, but they don't listen and the church captures them.
She is then thrown into Via Purifico with Tidus and Wakka and helps them escape from Bevelle. As they hid in the Macalania Woods, she was hoping that Yuna would give up her pilgrimage now that they knew the truth about Yevon and its corruption. She felt like she couldn't stop her cousin since the pilgrimage was so important to her, so she convinces Tidus to go talk her out of it. After coming back from the spring, Tidus couldn't convince her to quit. When arriving in the Calm Lands, she and Tidus desperately try coming up with a plan on how to save Yuna from being killed but can't 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. She is then overjoyed when Yuna decides to decline the Final Summoning and put a permanent end to Sin.
After this she doesn't 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 started to fade away and say goodbye to everyone. Rikku, however, would not accept any goodbyes from him and says that they'll meet again
Two years have passed since the end of Yuna's pilgrimage and the destruction of Sin. 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 encounter many old and new friends, including the three most influential Spirans: Nooj, Baralai and Gippal. Gippal, a ladies' man and an old friend of Rikku, embarrassed her with a crack about the two of them having "made quite the couple"
They 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 working together.
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, she asks Yuna if she can have her own story. Yuna comes up with a story for her and is asked if she'll get a hunky boy in her story (pretty much referencing Tidus). Yuna says if anyone could come up with a story, Rikku can.
Three months after the events of Final Fantasy X-2, the Gullwings are called back together, to Yadonoki Tower. Here, 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.
Sample Role Play Post: Standing aboard the Celsius as Buddy piloted towards and area that Rikku was unsure of, the young Al-Bhed girl rocked back and forth boredly on her feet. "Are we there yet?" She moaned stretching as she stared out of the cockpit's windshield from the area where the teleporter was located. "Rikku! STOP ASKING!" Brother shouted and Rikku groaned. "Stop being a big meanie.. You... You big meanie!" Brother groaned out of annoyance and began to ignore his younger sister. Rikku stuck her tongue out at her brother.
And finally... They landed. Rikku grinned and made her way towards the elevator and then toward's the exit bay. Sighing contently when she reached outside she quickly turned her head to survey her surroundings. It was Besaid! Rikku grinned happily and began to run towards the village, which wasn't far off.
How did you find us?: I live here.
What about you? Anything else?:Still Branden..... I also roleplay Garnet Til Alexandros XVII, Nina Williams, and Ultima Rose. I decided to snatch up Rikku ahead of time because she seemed pretty popular when I was asking people in the CBox who I should rp as next. Kent and Crimson mainly come to mind with their shouting of 'RIKKU!' xD
What about you? Anything else?:Still Branden..... I also roleplay Garnet Til Alexandros XVII, Nina Williams, and Ultima Rose. I decided to snatch up Rikku ahead of time because she seemed pretty popular when I was asking people in the CBox who I should rp as next. Kent and Crimson mainly come to mind with their shouting of 'RIKKU!' xD