<div class="floatright">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/1/1b/Ren_Zelphyr.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Irene “Ren” Zelphyr<br/><br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong>18<br/><br/><strong>Race:</strong>Female<br/><br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Straight<br/><br/><strong>Appearance:</strong><br/><br/><strong>Canon or non-canonical:</strong>Non-canonical<br/><br/><strong>Side:</strong>Balance<br/><br/><strong>Game you came from/most prefer for your character:</strong>Final Fantasy 8<br/><br/><strong>Home World:</strong><br/><br/><strong>Home Town:</strong>Balamb Garden<br/><br/><strong>Class: </strong>SeeD<br/><br/><strong>Fighting Style:</strong>Rin is a master (or mistress) of the spear, her skill in this art would rival those of the forgotten Dragoons of the past. She is also capable of Drawing and using magic and items taken from her foes and places of power. But her greatest strength is making pacts with and Junctioning Guardian Forces that are willing to fight alongside her. She is quick and agile, her speed and unconventional fighting style lending her additional strength she wouldn’t normally have.<br/><br/><strong>Weapon(s) Preference:</strong>Spear<br/><br/><strong>Theme Song:</strong>Cascada -Because the night - lyrics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btYTd4cXfv4#)<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Very few know the true nature of Rin which is the way she prefers it, but if given only one word to best describe her it would be ‘mercurial’. She is always full of  shifting emotions, going from one extreme to the other but she generally displays a laid-back and carefree demeanor and can be quiet amicable under normal circumstance. She also never lets an opportunity pass her by to engage in a good challenge if she can. Under the facade she shows others is a driven young woman who is utterly and totally dedicated to any cause she takes up and loyal unto death to those that earn her trust.<br/><br/><strong>Background Information:</strong>Back in her original world Ren had been a war orphan raised and trained to become a proud member of Balamb Garden’s SeeD mercenary force. She eventually underwent an important mission with several of members of her unit to prevent the Sorceress Ultimecia from compressing time and destroying everything in existence within their world. During the time Ren and her friends were chasing the time manipulating witch from place to place Ren found herself inevitably attracted to their group’s leader, a certain taciturn gunblade wielder, but she never got a chance to tell him her feeling before they managed to corner Ultimecia in her castle. After defeating several of her forms they weakened her enough to finish her off and as the final strike were aimed a blinding flash of light surrounded them. When the light cleared and Ren could finally see, she was standing within the majestic halls of a temple being greeted by a person calling themselves Equilibrium.<br/><br/>Equilibrium entreats her to stay and listen a while he tells her the story of Cosmos and Chaos and their never ending battles, how each time both factions have clashed a little bit more of the Universe is weakened or destroyed, leaving it vulnerable to attacks from outside forces. In a bid to protect itself the Universe created Equilibrium as the new God of Balance to reign in the bickering siblings and to guard it against the unnatural forces that seek to take it over. When asked why she was brought here Equilibrium informed her that she was one of the several individuals that he/she had chosen who had possessed the strength and fortitude of heart to prevail in restoring the balance and to halt any further destruction and ensure that the scales are never tipped to drastically to either side again.<br/><br/>Knowing the only way she would be able to get home was to accomplish the goals set before her she quickly agreed and set out to see what needed to be done to achieve this feat. As she journeyed through the various destroyed or ruin worlds fighting the agents of Chaos, particularly Ultimecia herself and even some of the warriors from the side of Cosmos she  began to forget certain things and the more she focused on this war the more her memories of her home world faded away. Now she fights not only to bring an end to this war but keep what memories she has left from fading completely.<br/>__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br/><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Aphie Aurion<br/><br/><div class="floatright">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/a/aa/Copy_of_AphieAurion.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong>23<br/><br/><strong>Race:</strong>Cetra/Ancient<br/><br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Straight<br/><br/><strong>Appearance:</strong><br/><strong>Canon or non-canonical:</strong>Non-canonical<br/><br/><strong>Side:</strong>Cosmos<br/><br/><strong>Game you came from/most prefer for your character:</strong>Final Fantasy 7 based<br/><br/><strong>Home World:</strong>The Planet/Gaia<br/><br/><strong>Home Town:</strong>Ancient City<br/><br/><strong>Class:</strong>SOLDIER 1st Class<br/><br/><strong>Fighting Style:</strong>Katana and Materia and isn’t above using dirty (not dishonorable) tactics to get the job done. Though she has chosen the path of a warrior Aphie isn’t lax in the offensive capabilities of Materia or her Cetran healing. Quite the opposite really; what spells she has she has learned to utilize fully to compliment and augment her style.<br/><br/><strong>Weapon(s):</strong>Murasame (can cast Barrier) Materia.<br/><br/><strong>Theme Song:</strong>Combat<br/>Xenoblade Chronicles Music - Prologue B (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hnpPXJsN3E#ws) - overall<br/><br/><strong>Theme Song:</strong>Personal<br/>Kingdom Hearts 2 Theme song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs47tUW-e_o#)<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Aphie is a young woman of strong convictions [and somewhat askwed morals], who isn’t afraid to stand and fight for what she believes in. In battle she aggressive and relentless, but will still look out for her comrades should they be there. Outside of battle she is something of a loner, preferring the company of very few [if any] to the many and is aloof and wary of newcomers at first until their intent is proven. Normally she is calm and laid back with a wicked and sardonic sense of humor and can be rather blunt at times but under such a gruff exterior there is an amazing core of compassion and empathy she tries to keep hidden. Ironically enough Aphie is seen as the big sister to many of the younger warriors of their group much to her chagrin and the others amusement.<br/><br/><strong>Background Information:</strong>Although being one of the more recent additions to Cosmos forces, there isn’t much of her past that Aphie is willing to share; outside of having been an enhanced specialized soldier for the majority of her adolescent and adult life. Everything else she holds close to her vest as she sees it as not necessary for anyone else to know.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Before she was brought to Cosmos’s realm Aphie had lived on the planet known as Gaia where she had been one of the few last remaining Cetra alive. She had joined Shinra as a SOLDIER to keep an eye on the organization from within, managing to hide her Cetra heritage to prevent being discovered. She steadily worked her way up through the ranks, making friends in the oddest of places, the Turks being included in that - but never once in her wildest imaging’s did she expect to get romantically entangled with Sephiroth himself, but it happened. In the General the Cetra had found a kindred spirit and much more. She fully intended to discourse the truth about herself but he had already been sent on that ill fated mission to Nibelheim. <br/><br/>After what transpired there, Aphie left Shinra and went to her back nomadic lifestyle, becoming a mercenary under an assumed alias so she could continue to monitor Shinra. Several years later she was back in Midgard working for a group known as AVALANCHE who went around destroying the reactors sucking up all the Mako to prevent them from further killing the Planet but turned into a race to save Gaia from the demented and megalomaniac machination of her former lover, Sephiroth. In the end while the others in her party were distracted with getting away from the Northern Crater, Aphie – having so long denied her Cetran heritage, decided to atone by merging with the Life-stream to give it the strength it needed to fight the impending fall of Meteor. But as she dived for the luminous sea of green a brilliant light surrounded her and transported her away.<br/><br/>Upon awakening, Aphie found herself within Cosmos’s realm. The goddess explained her plight informing her that he opposite, Chaos, has likely summoned Sephiroth to his aside as he seemed to have a strange quirk about choosing particular enemies to every warrior under her banner. Hearing this, Aphie agreed seeing there was little else she could do at the time. Now she spends her time either in the gardens, the lists observing the other warrior or in her room awaiting the call to go into battle.<br/></div></div>___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br/><br/>Chaos Character is WIP