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rpg2015-01-19 09:00 pm
mahouchrono) wrote in rpg2015-01-19 09:00 pm
app for emp
Player: Gage
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gage | AIM - Derpiest | Age: 23
Current Characters: N/A
Character: Ludger Will Kresnik
Age: 20
Canon: Tales of Xillia 2
Canon Point: Post Elle End (True End)
Background: Here!
Personality: Ludger is a very real feeling young adult. He's not perfect, nowhere near it, and all of his flaws are very apparent. When the game starts, he's shown waking up late for an appointment, showing up for an important job interview (if you could even call it that) late. Even during said interview, he manages to fling himself into trouble, getting his brother to remark that he's short on brains, but not on guts. Ludger is someone who lets his heart guide him rather than his brain, though that doesn't mean that he's completely incapable of thinking things through, either.
He's decisive, which is observed by Bisley. If he knows something has to be done, he's the one that makes the choice to do it, and follows through with his decisions. This can be said about when he tries to stop a hijacked train at the beginning of the game, and is shown again when he agrees to destroy other worlds and their populations to ensure that the prime dimension will remain stable.
This is where another defining characteristic of Ludger comes in. He's an oddly serious and focused person at times. That shows when characters ask him how he can be so okay with destroying alternate worlds like that, and he simply and calmly states how he knows that it's wrong, but it's what he has to do, since he has the power to do so. Even then, this is a front by Ludger, who was trying to shoulder the blame of everything by himself, and not have it weigh on anyone else's conscious. Ludger thinks about how his friends would feel, and acts according to that. Jude even mentions himself that he has a kind heart.
In that sense, he's partially the team's mom too. Ludger is often shown looking after his fellow party members, either by giving them advice or trying to cheer them up. An example of this is with Elle, when she was upset about her father, Ludger attempted to make her soup. Even when he burned his arm when the soup spilled, he continued to stick to his choice to make the soup, even though he was injured.
Though, like I mentioned, Ludger isn't without his flaws. He's shown to be bratty, even as an adult. However, this is mostly just with situations that involve his brother as well. Julius asks him for his pocket watch, and instead of handing it over like someone normally would, Ludger angrily spikes it into the ground in front of him. The whole situation with Julius' reappearance generally have him in that mood, being snippy or bratty towards him in his dialogue choices. He's also shown disagreeing with Julius' clothing choices for himself, disliking that Julius always makes him dress nicely for different occasions.
This bratty side can also be shown as playful, though. With Elle, especially, when they play off of each others jokes. There's a point in the game where Elle declares that Ludger is her partner, but won't tell anyone else because it's a secret. When she tells Fractured Milla that it was on a need to know basis, Ludger chimes in with the same thing, in the same tone. He's prone to joking around like that around the party, more so with Elle as the game goes on.
The ending I took him from shows off another side of him as well. Namely, his self-sacrificing side. Quite literally. As mentioned above, Ludger is someone that doesn't like letting other people shoulder a burden that he can carry. If he can be the one to drag it around, then he'll gladly do it. Especially for someone like Elle. Ludger sacrifices himself to ensure that Elle had a future in the prime dimension, even if he wouldn't have one in the process. People would probably think it as some heroic gesture, to let a child live instead of himself, but it wasn't really anything heroic to him.
He just decided to choose what he thought was right.
Abilities: Here! Ludger also has a fun little power called the chromatus, which is fully explained here. Ludger is currently at Level 4, which is the highest level the chromatus can reach, and is the most dangerous one in terms of harming himself. Hence, he would likely not use in, unless he really had to, but it would be understandable if that was toned down when being brought to Empatheias. ... Also, obviously, he won't be destroying dimensions while he's here.
Alignment: Sosyne. Ludger is the definition of anger and calm. For example, when the discussion about destroying worlds comes up, Ludger is eerily calm. Then, at another point, when Ludger gets frustrated, he throws his watch on the ground like a child.
Other: He'll be bringing his cat Rollo with him!
Sample: Here!
Questions: N/A
REVISIONS - ROUGH
When Bisley begins to explain fractured dimensions, Ludger and the rest of the party find it pretty hard to believe, even if Ludger finds it less so, considering he's been to each of these worlds that weren't quite his own. His surprise came from the fact that these worlds were destroying their own prime dimension, and if him or his brother didn't destroy them, that everyone would be wiped out. Needless to say, Ludger accepts his job as an agent to stop this from happening, since his brother couldn't work on the job anymore due to being on the run, and of course Ludger doesn't want his dimension to be destroyed. It's with a heavy heart that he decides to destroy the other dimensions to preserve their own. Even if he didn't want to, he had no choice, really. He was the only one with the power to do so, his brother may be in one of the fractured dimensions, and the fact that he had a massive debt to pay off, this being a well-paying job, were all factors in his acceptance. Even if the money was the thing that he least wanted out of this situation. Finding his brother and saving their world were his main priority.
One dimension in particular manages to hit Ludger the hardest. Namely, the one with Victor. Even from the start, Ludger is unsure about Victor. He gives him strange looks the entire time that he's there, especially when he calls Ludger by name, when he didn't introduce himself as such. Then, when they learn about Victor's true identity, Ludger is obviously shaken up by it. Even if he doesn't say it, how pained and upset he is is evident just by how he's breathing. How else would you react to killing yourself and a young girl's father? Even the look on Ludger's face when he does it shows how pained he is, especially once Elle starts crying, and Victor starts humming the Hymn of Proof. Though, he stays strong about it. Even Milla says that he's a strong person, and that she can't imagine what he's going through.
How Ludger interacts with the cast
There's always more to how Ludger interacts with the cast. To start with, he helps Elle, a young girl who frames him for kidnapping her when he did nothing of the sort, just to get on a train. Ludger chases her, especially once seeing the train being raided, and protects her throughout the game after that. He quickly warms up to her, becoming her guardian while they look for her father. He takes her journey very seriously, his thoughts on that not shaking, especially once Elle and him make a pinky swear to go to Canaan together, officially becoming partners, and Elle sharing her father's watch with Ludger.
And he would protect her at all costs. This shows in the ending of the game, with how he chooses her to live instead of himself. He risks everything, forcing himself to take on so much power that he turns into a divergence catalyst, just so she can remain in the world instead of him, even if she wasn't even born in the prime dimension. He even chooses her over his brother, who can be picked in the bad ending with much more drastic measures. With Elle, he thinks things through to make sure everything is okay and safe, while with Julius he acts impulsively, protecting his brother no matter what, but not thinking clearly enough on the matter to stop him from making a horrible decision.
- Character quests
- Conflict with Milla
REVISIONS - FINAL
One dimension in particular manages to hit Ludger the hardest. Namely, the one with Victor. Even from the start, Ludger is unsure about Victor. He gives him strange looks the entire time that he's there, especially when he calls Ludger by name, when he didn't introduce himself as such. Then, when they learn about Victor's true identity, Ludger is obviously shaken up by it. Even if he doesn't say it, how pained and upset he is is evident just by how he's breathing. How else would you react to killing yourself and a young girl's father? Even the look on Ludger's face when he does it shows how pained he is, especially once Elle starts crying, and Victor starts humming the Hymn of Proof. Though, he stays strong about it. Even Milla says that he's a strong person, and that she can't imagine what he's going through.
There's always more to how Ludger interacts with the cast. To start with, he helps Elle, a young girl who frames him for kidnapping her when he did nothing of the sort, just to get on a train. Ludger chases her, especially once seeing the train being raided, and protects her throughout the game after that. He quickly warms up to her, becoming her guardian while they look for her father. He takes her journey very seriously, his thoughts on that not shaking, especially once Elle and him make a pinky swear to go to Canaan together, officially becoming partners, and Elle sharing her father's watch with Ludger.
And he would protect her at all costs. This shows in the ending of the game, with how he chooses her to live instead of himself. He risks everything, forcing himself to take on so much power that he turns into a divergence catalyst, just so she can remain in the world instead of him, even if she wasn't even born in the prime dimension. He even chooses her over his brother, who can be picked in the bad ending with much more drastic measures. With Elle, he thinks things through to make sure everything is okay and safe, while with Julius he acts impulsively, protecting his brother no matter what, but not thinking clearly enough on the matter to stop him from making a horrible decision.
This even reflects in his choices at the end of the game. He wants to eliminate the fractured dimensions, but he wants to protect Elle at the same time. He learned that if he used his new power, he would become a divergence catalyst himself, so before letting Elle become it, he forces himself to become one instead. With that, Ludger sacrifices himself for the girl he had promised to protect. This further shows Ludger's inner strength, to destroy so man worlds, and then to go as far as even destroying himself, just to protect the world and Elle both. This is much different than his normal ending, where instead of using his power to become one, he lets Elle become the catalyst instead, and hence, the Fractured Elle is erased from the prime world.
He cares about the other party members as well. Each party member has their own set of issues that they come with, fractured dimensions revolving around them all as well, some of them being more serious than others. An example of one situation is that Muzét wants to get gifts for everyone to help their opinion of her, and while Ludger has the option to walk away and ignore it, he doesn't. He also chooses to help Alvin try to sell fruit, even if he has to lie in the process.
Fractured Milla is the party member he's closest to, yet is still the furthest from. While the party knows of a Milla, Fractured Milla is the only one that Ludger had known. She was also the major source of Ludger's guilt of destroying fractured worlds. Ludger travels with her, a constant reminder of the crimes that he's committed, and she's sure to remind him of that as well. But despite that, Ludger is probably closest to her, over the rest of the party, due to how fond of her Elle is.