NAME: Cole

CONTACT: Journal PM

AGE: 30+

OTHER CHARACTERS: N/A

TRIGGERS: N/A

CHARACTER NAME: Ignis Scientia

CANON: Final Fantasy FFXIV

CANON POINT: Chapter 14

AGE: 32

HISTORY: Ignis @ the FF Wiki

PERSONALITY:

What impression does your character give when meeting someone for the first time? How does the first impression differ from your character’s true nature?

Upon first encounter, Ignis is a mature, reserved, exceedingly professional man, who is scarily competent at everything he puts his mind to in spite of his physical limitations. While not entirely untrue, beneath the cool exterior is an incredibly emotional man with a nurturing, protective nature towards the people he loves, and an almost reckless lack of self-preservation in regards to himself. Ignis is both the calm that comes before the storm, and the storm itself. While he may come come across as polite and helpful to the point of being a push-over, the opposite is true. As advisor/nanny/friend to the future king, Ignis was saying 'no' at an early age to the second-most influential person in all of Lucis, and only became more strict and discerning in his standards with age-- and if he can boss around the crown prince? He can and will boss around anyone. Although Gladio is physically the strongest and most imposing of the group, general consensus is that Ignis is easily more terrifying when angered.

How does your character handle stress? What do they do in an emergency?

Born into the role of royal retainer (and replacement mother) Ignis was trained from an incredibly young age in the arts of court protocol and damage-control. The crown prince was something of a wild-child in his youth, and it was up to Ignis to keep him out of trouble-- or at least keep him from being caught. The stress and responsibility of raising a child when you're only a child yourself is enough to make anyone grow up fast, and so by the time Ignis was a teenager he was already capable of handling himself, Noctis, and all the regular duties of a retainer while shadowing the court advisor and taking part in royal council meetings to learn the tactics and politics necessary to function as the future king's right-hand man.

In the event of an emergency, Ignis remains cool-headed and composed, acting on information-based strategy rather than adrenaline or impulse. As the tactician of his party, Ignis is the 'man with a plan', not to mention a plan B, C, and D for when the initial plan inevitably fails upon contact. That said, he is not impervious to stress, especially when it comes to Noctis. The crown prince is his Achilles heel, and Ignis would do anything to save him, no matter the cost, even if it meant damning the entire world.

What are your character’s ambitions/goals? Why are they important to your character?

Ignis' greatest ambition is to prepare himself for the return of his king, and to make up for his perceived failures in Noct's service. He has spent the past several years relentlessly training to regain his abilities and improve them. After a lifetime of being a highly efficient perfectionist, anything less than his absolute best isn't good enough. He has devoted his entire life to Noctis, and even when the king is away, in a deep slumber, Ignis remains single-mindedly devoted to his protection and care. All he wants is Noctis back in his care, and until then he will strive to retain his place at the king's side.


INVENTORY: Goggles, a handful of healing potions, and the clothes on his back.

SKILLS/ABILITIES:

Ignis has trained for years to regain his martial/magical skills, and can easily keep up with (and in some cases surpass) the other Crownsguard by playing to his own unique strengths. Relying on sound, tactile awareness, and intuition, he has remarkable accuracy with thrown weapons, keen environmental awareness when fighting in close quarters, and a natural advantage when fighting in darkness. Ignis is quick, flexible, and extremely dexterous, preferring to maneuver around enemies with both acrobatic ability and strategy rather brute force. He is more magically attuned than his comrades, and particularly skilled in elemental attacks and imbuing elements to weaponry when magic is available. He's also one hell of a cook.

A full list of Ignis's named abilities.


NERFING: Ignis requires magic flasks or spell daggers in order to use magic, and since he is arriving with neither he would need to regain them in order to utilize his elemental abilities. At 20% these items would simply be less potent and deal less damage.

WEAKNESSES: N/A

"Hello? Is anyone there?" The only response Ignis receives is the echo of his own voice. Clipped. Polished. Frustratingly familiar.

The silence may be deafening to some, but to Ignis? It is blinding. He navigates the world by sound, and even in the endless night and wilds of his own world, there is always something to hear, whether it's wild or daemonic in nature. Here... there is simply nothing, other than the occasional whistle of wind between tall buildings and relative structural groans.

The absence of life, friend or foe, is unnerving. Ignis would prefer combat to aimless wandering. Then he would have some awareness of this city, and the dangers lurking within. Even more strange is the fact the city seems to have simply been abandoned in perfect working order. Ignis hasn't found himself stumbling over rubble, caught up in overgrowth, or detecting the scents one would expect from such a desolate place, such as the scent of death. If this city once housed civilians, then they had up and left, or disappeared without a trace-- not an unusual occurrence in Eos, where humans become daemons, but even then there is a pile of clothing, and a daemon, left in their place.

The loudest sound is the beating of his own heart, quick and relentless, like the rapid-fire of an MT's machine-gun. Ignis won't panic. Even alone, he refuses to lose composure. Sticks to his training. Keeps walking tall. As painful as it is to be a Crownsguard without a king, he's had a decade to grieve the loss of what once was, and it's better than being a scared blind man alone in a quiet world.

He walks for some time. What would ordinarily be an indeterminate amount of time, in the endless silence and darkness, and then he feels it. The presence of something rather than someone. Both foreign and achingly intimate. It doesn't touch his face so much as caress it, and somehow, even without his sight, Ignis appreciates its beauty more than ever before.

"Fancy meeting you here." He lifts his face towards the sun and smiles.

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