<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Cosmos</strong></span></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Rydia of Mist</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Name:</strong> Rydia<br/><strong>Gender:</strong> Female<br/><strong>Age:</strong>  24<br/><strong>Race:</strong> Summoner<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong> Bi<br/><strong>Appearance:</strong> <br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/3/39/RydiaDS.jpg)</div></div><strong>Canon or non-canonical:</strong> Canon<br/><strong>Side:</strong> Cosmos<br/><strong>Game you came from/most prefer for your character:</strong> Final Fantasy IV<br/><strong>Home World:</strong> Earth/the Blue Planet<br/><strong>Home Town:</strong> Mist, a town in the mountains where a tribe of Summoners until it was obliterated by the Kingdom of Baron.<br/><strong>Class:</strong> Summoner, obviously. Rydia can summon a variety of beasts to temporarily aid her in battle, though this requires a terrible amount of magic energy to do, so she is also highly skilled in black magic and will use that as her primary means of attacking.<br/><strong>Fighting Style:</strong> See above. Though she is not as skilled in black magic as some, she can perform a great variety of spells if she's willing to put the mana into it, even up to the devastating Meteor ability, the strongest spell in her world.<br/><strong>Weapon(s) Preference:</strong> Mystic Whip - A magical whip with a golden handle and a gleaming white tail. While she rarely uses it in combat, this whip provides Rydia with a bit of extra defense against Holy magic, as well as buffing her own magic-casting ability. Having found this weapon in the Lunar Ruins, she is unsure of what material it is made and cannot duplicate it.<br/><strong>Theme Song:</strong> Final Fantasy IV DS Music - Rydia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIs6F-E8P3o#)<br/><strong>Personality:</strong> For all she has gone through, with the loss of her mother, her village, and nearly her Eidolons, Rydia has shown herself to have an incredible strength of spirit and ability to persevere that only the best of Cosmos can match. She is also quite kind and caring, especially toward her own Eidolons, and will not hold back from giving her friends a good shove if they start to fall into despair. <br/><strong>Background Information:</strong> The story of how Rydia met her future friend and king, Cecil Harvey, is not a happy one like some would expect. The two first met when Cecil and his friend Kain Highwind were tricked into delivering a Carnelian Signet to Mist, a Summoner village and Rydia's hometown. The Signet released Bombs into the city, burning it to the ground and killing almost every inhabitant, though one had already been dead before they had arrived. On their way through the cave that led to Mist, Cecil and Kain had killed a Mist Dragon, which had turned out to be the Eidolon of Rydia's own mother. As a rule, when the Eidolon dies, the Summoner dies, so Rydia was already suffering her grief when her town was suddenly burned in hellfire around her.<br/><br/>Naturally, when a guilt-ridden Cecil tried to offer to help Rydia, not having known what the King of Baron was leading him to do, Rydia tried to flee and summoned Titan, though the landslide she induced ended up injuring her. Rydia finally started to trust in Cecil when he took her to a nearby town to recover and even fought off Baron soldiers who sought to eliminate all Summoners, eventually becoming a great help in his party, up until a ship they were traveling on was attacked by the vicious sea monster Leviathan and Rydia was swallowed and carried away.<br/><br/>Leviathan did not kill her, though. Instead, the sea beast carried her to Feymarch, the mystical realm of the Eidolons, and revealed himself to be none other than the great King of the Eidolons! Seeing her plight, Leviathan had taken it upon himself to teach the young Summoner (one of the very few remaining) to summon even greater of his kind, as well as to become better at black magic. Rydia spent years learning under Leviathan and his wife, Asura, going from age 7 to her current age before Cecil's party finally came to Feymarch and were reunited with her. She discovered that what had been many years to her had been nothing more than a few weeks to those living on Earth, so all of her friends were the same age while she had grown into a beautiful young woman. Convinced by Leviathan and Asura (who had become like foster parents to her) that she had to return to the human world and help against the threat developing there, Rydia returned with Cecil and his allies, now a much stronger and more mature ally.<br/><br/>Once the threat to the world was finally vanquished, Rydia returned to where Mist had once stood and dedicated herself to rebuilding the city, but before it's completion, she found herself whisked away to the realm of the gods, where the goddess of light, Cosmos, pleaded with her to help in an eons-long battle against the forces of darkness. Remembering how her Eidolon mother had insisted she fight the forces of evil before, Rydia agreed to provide whatever help she could, and took her place in the army of light alongside many new friends.</div></div><br/>---<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Balance</strong></span></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Zack Fair</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Name:</strong> Zack Fair<br/><strong>Gender:</strong> Male<br/><strong>Age:</strong> 23<br/><strong>Race:</strong> Human<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong> Straight<br/><strong>Appearance:</strong> <div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/d/df/Crisis_core_FF7_Zack_with_buster_sword.jpg)</div></div><strong>Canon or non-canonical:</strong> Canon<br/><strong>Side:</strong> Balance<br/><strong>Game you came from/most prefer for your character:</strong> FFVII<br/><strong>Home World:</strong> Gaia<br/><strong>Home Town:</strong> Gongaga Village<br/><strong>Class:</strong> Materia Mixer<br/><strong>Fighting Style:</strong> No longer having a blade to call his own, Zack has switched his style to involve mainly his fists and his skilled use of Materia Fusion, which allows him to combine materia to craft a whole variety of new skills and spells that can be tweaked for any situation. He also makes the use of the Digital Mind Wave, which allows him to mimic Limit Breaks from people he's had prolonged interaction with.<br/><strong>Weapon(s) Preference:</strong> Various materia.<br/><strong>Theme Song:</strong> FFVII Crisis Core Soundtrack: The Price of Freedom (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOJ91H4mraU#)<br/><strong>Personality:</strong> Zack is a highly energetic and friendly person, a trait that made him a bit unusual amongst the members of SOLDIER. He is known for having ambitious dreams and a strong desire to keep his SOLDIER honor, even after he left, as well as for remaining highly optimistic in even the more horrid of circumstances. He's also a bit of a flirt, though it's mainly just in a friendly way, as he shows himself to be highly committed once he falls for someone for real.<br/><strong>Background Information:</strong> It was a complicated series of events that led from Zack joining SOLDIER, to watching his mentor die, to rising to First-Class, to facing Sephiroth at Nibelheim, and finally to turning on Shinra and getting killed in battle on the cliffs outside of Midgar. Once Zack entered the Lifestream, he found himself quickly getting tired of having nothing to do but sit back and watch as the actions of men he used to work alongside placed the entire world in danger. Eventually, he found a purpose in death as he was reunited with his love in life, Aerith Gainsborough, and helped her stop Meteor from destroying the planet, as well as helping her provide encouragement to Cloud Strife a few years later, when all was threatened again.<br/><br/>After all this, Zack was ready to let himself fade back into the Lifestream and become a part of the Planet's cycle once again, but instead found himself plucked back into the world of the living by a strange deity with red skin. This god, apparently not one averse to recalling the recently diseased when in need of warriors, offered Zack a chance to reclaim his dreams and honor by fighting for him. While Zack was a little skeptical of the old man's purposes, he decided getting to stick around in life a little bit longer wasn't such a bad deal, and chose to stay and see what this war Shang-qing spoke of had in store.</div></div><br/>---<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Chaos</strong></span></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Evrae</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Name:</strong> Evrae<br/><strong>Gender:</strong> Male<br/><strong>Age:</strong> Deceased<br/><strong>Race:</strong> Unsent (formerly Al Bhed)<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong> Omni<br/><strong>Appearance:</strong> <div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt7/Sara_Shadow/Fantasy/BlondeAnimeBoy-1.jpg)<br/>(http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120109163109/finalfantasy/images/thumb/a/a3/Evrae.jpg/490px-Evrae.jpg)</div></div><strong>Canon or non-canonical:</strong> Non-canon (kiiiiinda)<br/><strong>Side:</strong> Chaos<br/><strong>Game you came from/most prefer for your character:</strong> Final Fantasy X<br/><strong>Home World:</strong> Spira<br/><strong>Home Town:</strong> Bevelle<br/><strong>Class:</strong> Poisonous Fiend<br/><strong>Fighting Style:</strong> In his human form, Evrae is something of a rogue, attacking mainly through quick, vicious melee attacks, though he backs his physical combat up by using a variety of status effects on his opponents. Being a former Al Bhed, he crafts and uses a variety of grenades that induce these effects, including blinding bombs, poison bombs, and even petrification bombs. Of course, once he goes into his wyrm form, he becomes quite a bit more dangerous...<br/><strong>Weapon(s) Preference:</strong> Twin claws and status effect-inducing bombs of all kinds.<br/><strong>Theme Song:</strong> [Yakuza 3 OST] Hear this in the game (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjBgtFwVXPA#)<br/><strong>Personality:</strong> Having spent the last millennium as an unintelligent, murderous beast, Evrae's social skills are understandably out-of-whack. Unless he's in combat with them, he doesn't seem to want anything to do with anyone, and will go off to find another fight rather than talk to any nearby allies for more than five seconds. He's also a bit on the bipolar side, and will go from a grinning maniac to an angry mess when it makes the least sense to do so.<br/><strong>Background Information:</strong> During the great Bevelle-Zanarkard war of over 1,000 years ago, which ended in the destruction of Zanarkand and creation of Sin by the summoner Yu Yevon, Evrae was nothing more than a humble Al Bhed machine-builder living in Bevelle. Evrae saw little value in the war and thought the two technologically advanced city-states should be working together to advance all of Spira into a brighter future, but there was no hope for this aspiration. During the first attack of Sin on Bevelle, which led to the creation of the Yevonite faith, Evrae was killed for no more reason than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the city's panic, the majority of those killed by Sin were left unsent, but few became as bitter and hateful in death as Evrae.<br/><br/>Wanting revenge on the ones who had induced such an attack, and having little sentience left other than his hatred, Evrae gathered enough pyreflies to form himself the body of a monstrous red dragon and attacked Bevelle. Though he managed to do a catastrophic amount of damage to the city, he was ultimately defeated by the summoners living there and brought to the ground. Rather than kill him, however, the priests of Yevon imprisoned the dragon and tamed his mind with magic, repurposing him as the guardian of Bevelle instead. Brainwashed and unable to vent his anger except in defense of his city, Evrae spent the next thousand years in combat against anyone utterly foolish enough to attack the city. He was an unstoppable force, obliterating all attackers without mercy, until one well-equipped and very determined group on an airship managed to take him down...<br/><br/>Killed, but once again without a summoner present to send him to the Farplane, Evrae struggled to regather his form and seek to continue his campaign of hatred and destruction, but before he could gather enough pyreflies to rebuild himself, he was summoned before a mighty demon, and in his intelligent human form to boot! The demon called Chaos gave Evrae little choice in the matter: in exchange for being given back a human form (though he was still nothing more than an Unsent, like Seymour or Mika), Evrae would help Chaos in his war to bring about the destruction of all living things, over and over again. Evrae needed little convincing.</div></div>