Vincent Valentine

I am certain we have all followed Cloud's posts regarding his new, fancy, shiny movie which gives him cool scenes and icons and what have you. Most of you have probably enjoyed it. Perhaps even erroneously begun to believe that Square-Enix actually cares about you, it's fans.

I have taken it upon myself to poop that party, appropriately enough for this journal of woeful means and stark, dark sorrow. I have come to remind you that the Compilation is not just shiny, glitzy gay love.

I have come to remind you of Dirge of Cerberus... in the form of a ( Let's Play. )

Age: Kind of tricky. Official sources say that he was 27 years when the whole experimentation shit went down, but his actual age has not been made clear yet. The assumption is that he's around 60 years, more or less.

Height: 6 foot tall, 184 cm.

Weight: "Unknown", but estimated to be about twigweight. Skinny bastard is SKINNY.

Medical Info: Ahaha. Ehem.  Unaging. Has had severe alterations done to him, including being infused with the Lifestream, the great sea of souls that all dead return to and is thus connected directly to it. He has something called the Protomateria in his chest, which is a big... glow orb that lets him control the biggest monster of all: Chaos. Chaos is... basically the alarm bell for the planet's psychopomp, OMEGA Weapon. When the planet is dying from something, OMEGA Weapon will awaken, take the Lifestream and fly away into outer space in search of a new world, and Chaos is apparently both the creature with the ability to wake up Omega AND put it to sleep again if it is required. That's pretty much the story of Dirge of Cerberus in a nutshell: someone wants OMEGA to wake up before it's time and Vincent must stop it.

Eyes: Red.

Hair: Black and so tangly it looks like it's shaped like DAGGERS.

Physical traits: Tall, gaunt, doesn't look like the sun has kissed his face in forever. The fact that he cannot get a tan and has red eyes does not help people disbelieve he is a vampire. Doesn't actually have anything else wrong with him. But the foremost trait here is that he is DEAD and we... don't really know how that works. Does his heart still beat? I have no idea. Is his body still warm. No clue. I wish I had something more to say, but I have no idea what the answer to these questions are. If you can sense people who are dead, I think that he probably SHOULD ping you in some way.

What's Okay To Mention Around Him/Her: Do keep all references to him being fictional, Lucrecia and his personal history to a minimum. He doesn't need another crisis. Talking about stuff like how he fought against Sephiroth and maybe a little heroworship and fanbehaviour is okay though, since he known other people know about that.

Abilities: Vincent is, as was said before, unaging. He can go into hibernation, probably doesn't need to eat in order to live, and has supernatural physique with strength, speed, senses, some regeneration and all that good stuff.

BUT. What you want to know here is about his monsters. Vincent transforms into a wide amount of monstruous creatures during the game, and they are:
Galian Beast: Big, firebreathing bluehaired werewolf.
Death Gigas: Vincent takes "Frankensteinian" too far and actually turns INTO a Frankensteins Monster copy. Becomes BIG, strong, and shoots electricity.
Hellmasker: Vincent turns into Jason "Leatherface" Kreuger: basically a masked dude with a chainsaw that either cuts people up or enters their dreams and can cause a wide effect of statuseffects.
Chaos: Also known as the "Embodiment of all that is Goth". I already talked about Chaos before, so all you need to know is that he has razorsharp wings, can summon hostile spirits (The Lifestream turned into a Weapon?) and wield a bifty big-ass lasergun that is ridiculously overpowered. Also Chaos can interact with creatures that are from the Lifestream so ghosts and spirits and various supernatural shit can be put down by him, and he can also regenerate fatal wounds in seconds.

Notes for the Psychics: Vincent isn't actually that actively sad these days. He knows a lot of stuff now that he didn't before that's made him more at peace with life, but you will feel him think a lot about Lucrecia, his tragic ladylove. It's not active "EVERYTHING EVER IS ALL MY FAULT" thinking, more like " I miss her" thinking. Apart from that, Vincent is very goaloriented and will as such not think about a lot of stuff except for what's right ahead of him. He's very unspectacular and dots just as much in his head as he does on the outside. The only time his mental state ever changes into anything other than dotting is when he thinks nice things about his friends... which usually ends with him moping because he's going to outlive them all. Such a winner, that Vincent Valentine.

Can I shapeshift/bodyswap/spit at/step on/etc?: Personal contact isn't something Vincent has a lot of experience in. Touching's will be ninjadodged however unless you manage to sneak up on him. If you manage to get a hug in he won't do anything worse than asking you to stop and remove you from his person. Can't forget the dotting. Shapeshifting will be met by dotting. Hitting will be met by dotting. Hugging will be met by COPIOUS dotting.

Bodyswaps on the other hand... Vincent has a lot of monsters in him, as was stated. HE has mental control over them, but odds are that YOU won't.

Maim/Murder/Death: Vincent will fight back, and use every mean at his disposal to defend himself, but apart from that I have nothing against fighting seriously.

Cooking: No. Just... no. Vincent cannot cook.