Post by Balthier Bunansa on Mar 12, 2011 17:37:37 GMT -5
♥IT'S MY LIFE♥
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xx"Princess! No need to worry. I hope you haven't forgotten my role in this little story. I'm the leading man. You know what they say about the leading man? He never dies."
♥It's Now Or Never♥[/size]
Name: Ffamran "Balthier" mied Bunansa
Age: 23
Which game are you from: FF XII
Weapons/Abilities:
Rigel: Balthier's weapon of choice. This gun was specially designed and made for him, complementing his nimbleness and speed, with a pinch of strength, this weapon is able to pierce an enemy's armor, inflicting decent damage. This weapon was enhanced and bonded to Balthier, increasing in strength and speed as Balthier becomes stronger.
Magic: Balthier is able to use black magic, being proficient on the main element spells (Firaga, Thundaga, Blizzaga and Waterga)
Steal: One of Balthier's favored abilities, it allows him to snatch items from his enemy with ease. He can also use Mug, though he preffers to make it a clean steal instead of just bashing his opponent's brains in and get the item.
Quickening Level 1 - Fires of War: Balthier focuses, making a few medium sized balls of fire surround him. By pointing at his enemy, Balthier will cause he fiery balls to converge on his enemy and explode, dealing moderate damage each. They can also follow the opponent, though they will explode when they come in contact with something.
Quickening Level 2 - Tides of Fate: With a few movements of his hand, Balthier draws a rune on the air, only to summon a huge tidal wave behind him, signalling it to wash clash onto his opponent by whistling. The attack can be stopped by stopping Balthier from completing the rune.
Quickening Level 3 - Element of Treachery:By focusing and tapping into his magical powers, Balthier summons a triangular glyph on the battleground, only then to teleport to a safe distance and have a meteor clash right in the middle of the glyph, creating an explosion that will damage opponents in a wide radius. This attack demands a high level of concentration and should he be attacked while chanelling it, the attack will be interrupted.
Canon or OC: Canon
♥I Ain't Gonna Live Forever♥[/size]
Personality:
Balthier is a charming, dashing man, with a sharp and cunning wit, and is also rather cynical. He is often complimented on his silver tongue, proving to be quite persuasive when necessary and able to easily manipulate simple minded people. Balthier comes across as cocky and self-centered at times (though he has proven time and time again that he is not selfish), declaring several things such as his status as the leading man, the speed of his shots surpassing that of most if not every and several stuff like that. He is not one to trust anyone and often shuns aside those that try to befriend him or offer help, though there is one person in the world that no matter what she did, Balthier would still deposit every single strand of confidence and trust he has on her… That person being Fran. After all they’ve been through, Balthier can’t, and probably won’t, ever find any other then can fill Fran’s shoes.
This man has a very enervating habit of other people’s abilities, often offering examples of people that could do better that are in his crew, but he means no disrespect and he just wants to express the great amount of trust in their capabilities. He doesn’t trust almost anyone, but he can sure as hell deposit his life on his crew’s hands because he knows they will be capable enough to do their jobs.
History:
In the year 706, Balthier and Fran head to the Royal Palace of Rabanastre's treasury, where they find petty thief Vaan already holding their treasure: theGoddess' Magicite. Balthier demands that he hand it over. When Vaan asks who he is, Balthier responds with "I play the leading man, who else?" Before he can retrieve the Magicite, the Ifrit attacks, allowing Vaan a chance for escape, as Balthier is reluctantly forced to follow him. He chases Vaan out into the Palace Grounds, where amidst the chaos of the fight between the risen Resistance and the Imperials, he loses his patience with the young thief and throws him onto his hovercraft, piloted by Fran. However, his plan is derailed as the Goddess' Magicite, really a piece of Nethicite, renders the hovercraft unresponsive, crashing into the Garamsythe Waterway.
Reluctantly, Balthier is forced to join forces with Vaan in order to escape the Waterway, though Vaan seems determined to keep a hold of the Magicite. As they cross the waterway, Balthier expresses his suspicions concerning the new consul Vayne Solidor, and the possibility of him deliberately luring the Resistance out of hiding to attack the palace. By chance, they encounter a Resistance fighter named "Amalia", who also joins them in search of an exit, despite her evident distaste of her "thieving" company. At the Waterway's exit Vayne and a battalion of Imperial Soldiers ambush the party. Despite Amalia's insistence that her company is innocent, they are sentenced to imprisonment. As they are marched out onto the streets of Rabanastre, Balthier gives a weepingPenelo his handkerchief as she watches Vaan be lead away. Unbeknown to Balthier, the bounty hunterBa'Gamnan watched the exchange from the shadows, with a great deal of interest.
In Nalbina Dungeons Balthier sends Fran to find a possible escape route whilst he attempts to find Vaan. He finds the young thief in battle with three Seeq dungeon masters, and joins the fray. After defeating them, Balthier and Vaan hide within the arena, where Balthier overhears Ba'Gamnan has followed him to Nalbina, along with Judge Gabranth. They use Gabranth's visit as a means of escape by following him into an Oubliette, where they are surprised to find an emaciated and weak Basch fon Ronsenburg imprisoned. Following Gabranth's leave, Basch pleads the party to set him free. Despite Balthier's indifference, Vaan cannot control his resent and jumps atop Basch's cage, attracting the guards. Fran is forced to drop Basch's cage down to the Barheim Passage as a means of escape, inadvertently freeing the supposed King Slayer. Though Vaan obviously despises the disgraced Knight, Balthier allows Basch to join the party as another sword arm.
After emerging in and crossing the Dalmasca Estersand to reach Rabanastre, the party disperse. Whilst Vaan and Basch go see the Resistance, Balthier and Fran retire to the Sandsea tavern before departing. Whilst enjoying a drink on the second floor, he is accosted by the Bangaa Migelo, who claims Ba'Gamnan has kidnapped Penelo because he mistook her as someone close to Balthier. He is initially unwilling to go to Bhujerba to rescue her, but Basch appears to ask him to fly him, too, to Bhujerba. When Vaan promises Balthier the Goddess' Magicite in return for passage to Bhujerba, he finally agrees to fly them all to the Sky City.
In Bhujerba the group meets up with Larsa Solidor, who introduces himself as "Lamont". Balthier is suspicious of him, but allows the boy to accompany them to the Lhusu Mines where the Empire is mining magicite to be used inDraklor Laboratory in Archades. Hearing about magicite perks Balthier's interest and he attempts to force the boy to reveal his true identity, but Ba'Gamnan interrupts the group and they are forced to escape. After losing Ba'Gamnan and his group back in the mines, the party hear Larsa has taken Penelo to Marquis Ondore's estate.
Balthier suggests they gain the attention of the Resistance in hopes of getting into the estate. After Vaan runs around the city, proclaiming to be the supposedly executed Basch, the Resistance approaches and grants them an audience with the Marquis. In hopes of Basch rescuing "Amalia", Ondore alerts Ghis as to the party's whereabouts, and has them arrested aboard the Dreadnought Leviathan.
Aboard the imperial airship the party is reunited with "Amalia", who is revealed to be the reportedly dead Princess Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca. Judge Ghis takes the Goddess' Magicite from Vaan, though Vossler's interference allows the party to escape imprisonment and defeat Ghis, whilst Balthier manages to pilot an Atomos Imperial carrier ship back down to Bhujerba. After Ashe is advised to stay within Ondore's estate to bid out the Archadian Empire, Balthier finds Ashe aboard the Strahl attempting to steal it. She asks Balthier to "kidnap" her and take her to the Tomb of Raithwall, where the proof she requires to prove her royal lineage lies. Balthier is again reluctant to get caught into Imperial business, but is sorely tempted by Ashe's promise of Raithwall's treasure. Under her word, he and Fran accompany her across the Ogir-Yensa and Nam-Yensa Sandseas to Raithwall's Tomb.
Vossler, who again accompanies the party, openly voices his disdain of traveling with Sky Pirates, which Ashe is quick to defend. After fighting theEsper Belias, Ashe acquires another piece of Nethicite, the Dawn Shard. Much to Balthier's disappointment, the treasure of Raithwall's Tomb turns out to be control of the Esper, and naught of monetary value. Upon exiting the Tomb Ghis's Imperial Fleet accosts them again and it turns out Vossler has betrayed them. Ghis takes the Dawn Shard off the group and attempts to evaluate it himself, but manages to unleash the Nethicite's magick and destroy the entire Archadian fleet, while Balthier and the others escape, with Balthier piloting another carrier ship. Spotting the Dawn Shard glinting in the sky after the explosion, he steers the ship to retrieve it, before descending back down to Rabanastre.
After seeing the Nethicite's power Ashe decides to use it as her weapon to protect Dalmasca, but does not know how to use it. She wants Balthier to accompany her on her way to Jahara to ask the Garif's help, but Balthier is skeptical. As collateral, Balthier requests one of the rings on Ashe's finger, not knowing it to be Lord Rasler Nabradia's - her late husband - wedding band. Ashe reluctantly surrenders the precious ring to Balthier in return for his help. Due to the Strahl being damaged in the 8th Fleet's destruction, the group is forced to walk their way to Jahara, and then through Golmore Jungle to Mt. Bur-Omisace and Stilshrine of Miriam where Ashe retrieves theSword of Kings. With the sword she vows to destroy the Empire's nethicite and the party heads to Archadia with the intention of destroying the Nethicite within Doctor Cid's possession. When they stop to rest in the Phon Coast's Hunters' Camp, Balthier questions Ashe's intentions with the Nethicite, comparing her drive to that of his father's. He reveals his Imperial past as a Judge and his relation to Doctor Cid, as well as his suspicions of an unknown creature named Venat his father spoke of. He vows to persevere in their endeavor now to finally cut the ties to his past, and implores Ashe to not allow the stone's power to consume her, as it did his father.
Finally reaching Archades, Balthier is noticeably irate, separating himself from the party. They reconvene and head to the Draklor Laboratory in search of Cid, which they find to be suspiciously lacking Imperial presence. On discovering Cid's ransacked office, Balthier inspects some old papers of his father's and questions what madness found him six years ago in the Jagd Difohr. They proceed to the 70th floor to find Reddas, who is apparently responsible for the lack of guards and soldiers. They follow him to find Cid, where Balthier demands he turn over the Dusk Shard. Balthier questions his father's descent into insanity, but is forced to draw his weapon when Cid challenges the party, backed by the power of Deifacted Nethicite and his Occurian ally, Venat. After Cid's defeat, he retreats and lures the party out to the Ancient City of Giruvegan. The party return to Port at Balfonheim with their new ally, Reddas. Before heading to Giruvegan, Balthier expresses his suspicion over Reddas's intentions concerning Nethicite, inferring he knows of Reddas's true identity, past within the Empire, and his hand in the destruction of Nabudis.
With their trip to Giruvegan remaining fruitless, Reddas accompanies them to the Ridorana Cataract after his fleet were mysteriously brought down there. On the Cataract Balthier tells Vaan to take the Strahl should anything happen to him inside the tower. After climbing to the top of the Pharos at Ridorana to reach the Sun-Cryst, Ashe attempts to destroy it with the Sword of Kings, only to be intercepted by Cid. Balthier furiously confronts his father about his plans to use the Nethicite, only to fight him once again, this time fatally wounding him. Balthier has to watch his father die, and up to his dying breath, he believes what he was doing was best for mankind, much to Balthier's disappointment. Despite Cid's death, his plan has still been realised - the Sun-Cryst has awoken theSky Fortress Bahamut, and the volatile Mist it seethes seems impossible to stop. As Fran uncontrollably falls to the ground, she insists they go without her, whilst Balthier vows to never leave her behind. Seeing the party's struggles to defeat the Cryst and leave the Pharos, Reddas sacrifices his life to ensure the stone's destruction and the party's safe exit to confront Vayne Solidor aboard the newly awakened Bahamut.
During this time an all-out war is about to break out on Dalmascan ground. Balthier pilots the group on-board the Sky Fortress Bahamut, where they confront Vayne. After Vayne's defeat Balthier and Fran remain behind to start up the Bahamut's engines and stop it from falling on Rabanastre. Balthier manages to fix Bahamut's glossair rings in time to save Rabanastre, but together with Fran they are stuck inside as Bahamut crashlands outside the city and he and Fran were believed to have died in the crash.
It would only be a year later that Balthier took back the Strahl from Vaan and Penelo whom he had entrusted it to, leaving them a note and Ashe's ring, signifying he has found the 'treasure' he was looking for. On the note, Balthier explains he is going for the Cache of Glabados at Bervenia Palace, wishing Vaan and Penelo to join in on the spoils.
Likes:
Treasure
Being a Pirate
Fran
Being The Worlds Fastest Shooter
Himself
Dislikes:
Brats
Seeing Fran getting hurt
When things don’t go according to plan
His name
♥This Ain't A Song For The Brokenhearted♥[/size]
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