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Name: Orrin Rockwell
Alignment: Avalanche
Personality: Dark, untalkative, aware of his enviroment. Wandering the world in search for whatever influences Sepherioth had left behind since the meteor incident. Knowing that somehow even with his scatterd memories it would lead him to discover his past. (that really doesn't sound so good >_<)
Appearance: Appears to be in his mid 20s. High collard dark red long coat, black on the inside. Black boots, pants, and long sleeved shirt. Black Gloves that only cover the pinky, ring, and middle fingur and tinted glasses laying halfway down his eyes. Red eyes and straight black (silver streaked) hair leading a little past the neck.
Abilities and Skills: Wielding his twin handguns Dioscuri and haveing clips strapped all along the inside of his coat, his Jenova inhanced reflexes and aim, bring him as a formadible opponent to any that stand in his way. Even with his more than perfect eyesight his sixth sense allows him to 'see' everything within a 360 degree range. So whiether it be from afar or up close and personal his gunning ability is unmatched. ::Gunfu wink ::. Being immune to any ice, frost, or cold he is also equiped with his favorite summon materia, Mist Dragon. All his limit breaks have to do with ice, the fourth haveing him become an ice daemon. (Go with an ice form of Vincents fourth limit break and there you go.)
History: Haveing been a close friend and bodyguard of professor Gast's, he willing offered himself as a test subject to continue his research into Jenova. Who would have been an excellent candidate for Soldier he produced results well enough for Gast to continue further experiments. Later when Gast had fled to the north continent the equipment that he had secretly arranged to be deliverd to his laboratory suffered under a blizzard and was lost. Within the cargo that then lay somewhere beneath the ice of the north continent was Orrin. Being under acoma due to the tests, he remained oblivious to what had happend and slowly became intrapped within his frozen tomb. Years later with the release of the awakening powers caused from the joining of the Black Materia and Sephiroth, his tomb shattered. Haveing known Orrin has well has Professor Gast had he knew that if ever his friend were to retake his humanity he'd have to be ready. Gast knew that Orrin's deepest feelings had always been to protect those close to him. Awakening from his deep slumber and standing among the shattered remenants of his tomb he flexed his muscles breathing in the new air of his returned life. Around him lay the final bits of cargo that had been brought with him to this world of ice and with them the way to bring him a new life.

Name:Sofia(Played By "AkaneAme")
Age: Unknown
Alignment: Ramenants
Appearance: She appears in her late teens into early twenties. She wears tight fitting clothes, almost black and carries around a bo-staff most of the time. Her hair is long, silvery with some gold mixed in. Sofia's eyes change from time to time determined by how she feels, sometimes going from Mako-Green to almost silver.
Abilities and skills: She's an accomplished hand to hand fighter, but likes using bo-staff and even spears. She can be a distance or close up fighter. She's an excellent marksman and isn't really too bad with a blade when a moment calls. Sofia prefers as a weapon a bo-staff with a harpoon like end that retracts.
Personality: SHE IS INSANE! Pure and simple, Sofia is crazy, she has no real personality really, but to say the least, it can go from fanatical idol worship to almost apathetic silence.
Past:Sofia's past is tied directly to Jenova, she's an exact clone with some minor adjustments. She though believes she is the clone of the daughter of a member of the CEO group in Shinra. She has no fondness for these people and links them to her miserable childhood. Her connection to Sephiroth isn't known, though she got the idea to kill the one who made her from him really.
Other: Sofia is deeply entranced with Yazoo and his power. She will follow him no matter what the cause and tends to do exactly as he tells her. She isn't really blind to the fact that he does not love her, but her loyalty is simply due to him rescuing her when she was younger.

Name: Slayer 1

Alignment: Shinra
Personality: As an artificially intelligent robot designed by doctor Ghast himself, his personality is largely self learned. He is very uncertain in many situations as his experiences are limited. However he is very valiant in combat, and knows exactly what to do especially when there is someone to protect.
Apearance: Slayer 1 was one of Ghasts many experiments in robotics technology. He is a fully animated powered combat suite which can operate independently or with a pilot. Designed with a largely blue green black and chrome color scheme he is fairly atypical of some of the other mechanical weapons used in Shinra.
Abilities and skills: In addition to built in weaponry and impressive armor he also has unprecedented material slot technology and can fit a massive array of potent materia usable only by a pilot.

Yay for character bios. <3 Application for Elena of the Turks, and permission has been granted by Ermak Lorde.

Name: Elena
Alignment: ShinRa
Personality: Overall, Elena is a person you would consider as determined, hasty, and quite impetuous at times, especially when the issue of her job comes to hand. The majority of the time, she always considers her job to be of the utmost importance, since she takes it indeed very seriously. Although, even when trying hard to seem profesional, Elena often slips up and lets off on a little bit too much information regarding orders and missions assigned by the President of ShinRa himself, Rufus. This more than often ends up letting AVALANCHE in on too much information. In other words, she tries to hard to seem tough but it shows through her quite easily, revealing the qualities of a naive innocence not yet tainted with frequent murder. Even skeptical at some times, she continues to hold her stern look. Expressions of sadness don't come by her often, and if it does, it's usually accompanied with a tint of anger, or carefully hidden away. She tries the best to get the job done, even if the mission proves as a failure. It's speculated that all this is shown because she wants to impress the boss, although, these interpretations of her at work hardly scratch the surface.

Very loyal, and seems dedicated to what she does, always trying with the most effort she can even if things never turn out good in the end, or even if she happens to slip up on her words again. The rookie qualities fall on her like an old habit, always. A hard-working person, she usually is the one attempting to come off as professional, even when off-duty or on a vacation of sorts. Elena sometimes appears in others' eyes as trifling, but there are reasons as in why she was promoted to the position of a Turk; Rufus wouldn't just let any random person join the crew...Elena is a good fighter, strong-willed and independent, many times often following her own instincts. In the end, one can assume that she is amiable, yet her look expells a radiance of trying intentions.

Appearance: [x-Reference Picture-x] Elena's appearance is unsurprisingly similar to that of the other turks she works with. Her attire consists of a dark raven-colored suit, that radiates off a professional aura at first glance. A long sleeved black coat covers the white dress shirt worn underneath, and a tie is accessorized to adorn it. From the waist and down to her feet, she wears black slacks to complement the whole Turk look. The shoes are small, pitch-hued and pointed, simple enough. Her hands are bare, having no gloves equipped whatsoever. Short and curvy blonde tresses cascade from her head and the length stops just at the lower part of her neck. Large and loose bangs hang over a part of her face, often sometimes shielding her eyes that possess a light almond shade. Her facial features consists of a small, pointed chin and an oval shaped face. At a glance, her frame appears slim and slender, yet not so much where it's considered as frail.

Abilities and skills: She handle a gun a bit better than your average person. Her skills have with the chrome weapon had developed since she'd been with the team. [Turks] Magic has never been big on her part, she neglects the materia and sticks with the ShinRa's standard issue.

History: Elena was only first recruited to the Turks when Reno, a work colleague, had been resting from a few injuries that were dealt by none other than AVALANCHE during a battle at the Sector 7 pillar in Midgar. The Turks needed someone to replace Reno for the time being, and Elena was immediately called upon and promoted to the higher postion of a Turk. Since of this, she was considered a rookie and a novice at the arts of what the Turks really do; the dirty stuff. Not much could have been expected from the new recruit, and heavy and important jobs aren't often trusted with her alone. Although, from the age of youth to adult, she was a dedicated employee for ShinRa, having deep respect for those in official positions higher than her own. Afterwards, she was the only known female Turk that worked with Reno, Rude and Tseng during the times of when the terrors of Sephiroth struck the planet. Elena was a part of the team, and all throughout helped and aided the Turks when situations necessary.

She was first introduced to the party of AVALANCHE at the Mythril Mines Caverns, near the marshes by the chocobo farm. She also encountered them at Gongaga, where the ShinRa Corporation was searching for evidence of "big materia" for President Rufus and his purposes. During this confrontation with them, she accidently reveals herself to the team, causing a few disputes and battles between the Turks and AVALANCHE after Reno and Rude invade the scene; the battle ensues. After exchanges of a few hits, the fights soon stopped off and the Turks were forced to retreat. Some time after that, the team was sent to explore the Temple of Ancients, namely Tseng and Elena. They explored the area, possessions holding a keystone, a relic that is needed to enter the Temple of Ancients. Elena leaves the area for a bit, glancing around the forests surrounding the place. When she comes back, Elena discovers that Sephiroth had arrived at the temple, and dealt serious injuries to Tseng, who was leaned up against a corner of the stone temple walls. Immediately she called up for a helicopter and the Turks fled that scene leaving AVALANCHE inside the temple searching for the Black Materia essential for Sephiroth to use for the summoning of Meteor.

After that, the assignments were strictly that of confidentiality. She was seen once with the Turks loitering around at the Icicle Inn on the Northern Continent. Yet, there was also this one time where the team was resting up on their vacation in Wutai. The Turks were off-duty at Paradise Turtle imbibing themselves in sober beverages. During that trip, however, Yuffie had seemed to have led the party of AVALANCHE to Wutai, in high hopes of stealing their materia. The Turks encounter the AVALANCHE, as Elena mouths off a few words of threats towards them but only got in response the sayings of Reno and his statements on the definition of a vacation. Elena runs out the bar, ignoring completely his comments and after the team. All this just eventually lead to the kidnapping of Yuffie and Elena, and only by the ever so infamous Don Corneo. This was just about one of the rare times the Turks and AVALANCHE team up with one another to help. The two parties discover Don Corneo's hideout and soon chase him up on the mountains on the back of the town where Don Corneo met his demise, and the captured two were saved and recovered.
They days after that, she's been on her own business on the orders of Rufus and the Turks, always, from the beginning to the end.

Other: Elena's relations to the other Turks fall in a motley of categories. Regarding Reno, he constantly criticizes the majority of her actions and calling her weak, bluntly. He means no harm or offense in this and tries to make her a better Turk. Although the time has passed and she developed somewhat from the stereotype of a "rookie." As for Rude, he mainly never talks much, staying in the backgrounds of things, thinking to himself silently and only talking to Reno, if ever. And concerning Tseng, once Elena was promoted to the position of a Turk, she had developed a flame or crush for him over the times. She keeps those feelings concealed, however, believing that such things can only interfere with her goal of being the top of her class, and can only interfere her other passion- her job as a Turk.

(This is my second character. I assume this won't cause any problems.)

Name: Shade Blade

Age: 17

((This is a digitally edited picture of Heath from from Fire Emblem. Shade resembles Heath, and I really liked this pic of him.))

Allignment: Shinra in (SC), Avalanche in (AC) and (MC), Neutral in (DC)

Materia: Thunder, Restore, Sense, Summon: Ramuh

Weapon: Brionac (Halberd with 4-Materia slots) and Varista ( A Handgun)

Personality: Shade has a much brighter personality then his brother, spending the last three years with the Turks. When it comes to Shinra now, he is still mad about them lying to him about Zaber being dead, but he is still reluctant to fight any of his former allies. Despite being in Avalanche, he still wants to keep friends in the Turks. He is otherwise happy go lucky and makes cracks about anything.

Skills: Shade and Zaber, as children, had always play fought with with fake weapons, Shade's favorite was a broom because it stopped Zaber from getting to close. After joining Shinra, he fashioned a simillar weapon, the Brionac is essentially a pole with a blade and materia slots. He also learned a little about gunplay, and carries a handgun called Varista with him too. The Varista is power by a lightning materia instead of gun powder, and fires small electric blasts instead of bullets. He also has a trained wyveren that he can ride, and carrie passangers on. It is timid though, and won't fly in a fight.

Bio:
Shade is Zaber's little brother who supposedly died when Sepiroth slaughtered the Blade family in Kalm. However, the people of Kalm mistook the body of another boy for Shade's body, and buried him with a tombstone in Shade's name. Shade managed to flee the village with the help of a Shina-Ra employee who happened to be in Kalm at the time. He was then told by Shina-Ra that Avalance had killed his brother Zaber, and he spent the next three years training for them, and became a Turk.

And, as fate would have it, Shade eventually found himself face to face with his "dead" brother. As they both beleived eachother dead at the first encounter, they failed to even recognize eachother, but Shade eventually realized that the man with the black wings really was his long lost brother, and sought him out to make amends, and now has joined with Zaber and the rest of Avalanche to battle the true evil, the evil that ripped them and their family apart.

Name: Cloud Strife

Allignment: Avalanche

Personality. Quiet and unsure about himself. Dosen't like to rely on others. Nor does he like to get others involved with his own situations.

Appearence:


Skills: Cloud uses a brod swrod in combat. He is quick to draw and can dual-weild. He has several limit breaks but one called Omnislash beats them all by unleasing a series of 15 high power blows at the enemy.

History: Cloud was born in a town called Nibelheim. He left the town at age 14 to join Soldier. Upon comming back home for a misson at age 16 he watched his home town burn down because of a man called Sephiroth. He looked up to this worrior as an idol, but now was filled with hate for him. Cloud did everything in his power to destroy sephiroth, alond with his companions.

Name: Alceron Shate
Allignment: Unaffiliated
Personality: Coldly passionate would best describe his behavior. He never becomes irrational to the point of a total loss of control but he will not stop when he has set his will on something. He tries to live without assumptions and because of this he refuses to give anyone any respect that hasn't been earned in his presence. While not necessarily unpleasant or rude, he is sometimes abrupt and overly blunt.
Appearance: Alceron wears heavy clothing. His shirt is fairly thick and, while still cloth, is quite durable and covers his entire upper body from the neck to the waist with the color of sandstone. He wears a long coat and a pair of gloves as well. Both the coat and the gloves are black leather and heavy. His pants are heavy material as well and they are blue but dark enough to be considered black under most lighting. He wears no shoes and his feet are calloused and scarred. His physical build could best be described as 'wirey' but his eyes glow with an abnormal glow, even for mako. The eyes of a mako infused soldier will glow green, Alceron's eyes glow a grayish blue. His hair color is prismatic, it reflects the colors of the light that it is exposed to. When indoors with artificial white light, his hair is white/silver. When outside in the shade his hair seems steel gray/silver. When there is no light at all his hair is black, not that you can see it. He appears to be between twenty and thirty years of age but his face has something of an ageless quality that confuses the casual assessment.
Abilities and Skills: Alceron carries a sword made of gray materia in a plain scabbard behind his back. However, he doesn't wield it. He uses a pair of gauntlets that have a fire and a lightning materia in the back of each. Their combined effect allows him to wield whip-like projections of either blue fire (cold) or red lightning (hot). All four materia are mastered and he has full access to their spells. Also, he has learned how to 'Echo-Cast', a useful skill that involves casting the same level of two different elemental spells simultaniously in order to achieve more than a two-fold increase in effective power. This only works with elemental materia however. His limit break is sealed at this time due to the fact that it actually involves the sword.
History: Alcern was raised in a rather nomadic lifestyle by his parents in the Icicle Area. He joined in killing the monsters that they encountered on their journeys as soon as he was old enough to. He had a sister and they were fairly close until a very strange monster attacked them. The monster had large crystalized formations of a corrupted materia that extended out from its body like spikes and it wielded spells of a strange and powerful nature. He and his sister bombarded the monster with spells with their mother while their father held it off with his twin axes for as long as he could. The monster killed his father and sister and wounded his mother with a thrown piece of the gray materia before they managed to finish it off. His mother grew ill from the materia slivers in the wound and became delusional, attacking her own child with a shard taken from the monster's body. Alceron bears a scar on his left bicep, his right thigh and the center of his chest from that fight, as well as one on his heart. The exertion worsened his mother's condition, resulting in her death. His own illness, resulting from his wounds, prevented him from being conscious when she died. He wandered, delerious and half-mad, through the region until he finally recovered himself on one of the slopes at the very northmost region of the area. The illness had changed him physically. His eyes, hair, and blood color had changed. His blood was gray, as gray as the tainted materia that his mother had driven into his chest.

Name: Saqr Ih'rabi
Alignment: Jenova CS timeline
Personality: Saqr is cocky and arrogant, charismatic and cunning.
Apearance: Saqr is, like his sister, very large in size. He is now a bright metallic silver and his eyes glow green and are slitted. He is without any decoration, as his tattoes are bleached with his fur, and his beads and talismans have long since been pulled away.
Abilities and skills: Is a warrior that relies mostly on brute strength, however he has very quick reflexes. His abilities have at least doubled in strength since his accident.
History: Saqr was the first born amongst a great many siblings, more than was usual in the society of his kind. He was very close to his little sister and all his siblings looked up to him, he was the pride of his parents, and even his entire clan. In a battle against humans, he lost his armor due to the intensity of the blows and was then knocked into a wellspring of mako energy, he fell into it and was lost in the lifestream. He is no longer quite the same as he was and now hears orders only from one he fondly calls The Goddess, The Lady, and less commonly, The Mother, even though his biological mother had long-since returned to the planet.

Other: Saqr is Sadira's long-lost older brother that was presumed to be dead.