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◎ Garland caught on to the 'control the Eidolons to beat up my dad' plan and took back the Invincible's car keys, utterly foiling Kuja's bid for power. Kuja makes one last desperate attempt to get control of ANY Eidolon again -- doesn't work. But in the process he experiences the true power of Trance; that it is born from a strong soul's will to survive.
◎ He gets a real bright idea.
◎ Sneaking aboard the Invincible while his master is otherwise occupied, Kuja makes contact with the roiling heart of the ship, wherein lay trapped the souls of all its many victims.
◎ This maybe makes him pass out a little bit. Don't worry about it.
◎....and that's where his canon point starts!
◎ Kuja would not explicitly CHOOSE Ainea, but I absolutely think he should be ASSIGNED Ainea. I will beat the power of love and friendship into this man's head if it's the last thing I do.
SAMPLE
(going with original prose.)
What kind of god had an empty nest as an altar?
Each time he walked past it, Kuja's head would turn, gazing longingly up at the temple of Rawna. There was a god! Flanked by a host of dragons, awash with gleaming silver -- he'd never been inside, but in his opinion, the facade told you all you needed to know.
Not so with the temple of Ainea.
Flowers could be anything. Flowers could be hope for spring, mourning for a life cut short, or all that was ephemeral, all that was beautiful -- delicate -- worth protecting. Flowers could even be danger, if it were just the right flower.
But in Aellyn, flowers were for rats.
Fine, fine: they were mice. Vermin, all the same. As if it wasn't enough seeing droves of them on the walls and furniture, carved or painted or stitched, the real things had made themselves quite at home in the temple, and had lost any innate fear of people. You'd think as familiars of the divine, they would at least sense in some vague way his many transgressions against their bigger brethren in another world... but no. The mice didn't care. They opposite of cared. They were bold.
He couldn't so much as put anything down in this blasted place without a mouse getting its dirty little paws all over it. Kuja had taken to keeping his visits to the dawn-hued temple as concise as possible, and still, he couldn't get away without a Creature Encounter. It was dreadful. He would lodge a complaint, but that would mean kneeling in front of the ridiculous empty nest statue, and he was loathe to demean himself so.
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CHARACTER INFO
❥ Name: Kuja King
❥ Canon: Final Fantasy IX / i do plan on Dissidia canon updates eventually if that's alright
❥ Canon Point: After boarding the Invincible, right as he's attempting to take someone else's soul into his body.
❥ History:
Here's a wiki link!
some additional highlights -- not necessary to read if you feel like you got enough of the gist from the wiki page, other than canon point context at the end.
◎ Kuja's a prototype with a limited lifespan, similar in intent to a scientist running trials on mice. Kuja is unaware of this; he assumes that like his fellow Genomes, he will live indefinitely in a static body.
◎ His master, Garland, decides Kuja will be insufficient for his purposes; he's become disobedient and unruly, clearly treasures Gaia over Terra, and his stunted personality prevents him from accessing the power of Trance (a mystical state of high emotion whence a person can briefly surpass their natural limits).
◎ Kuja works together with Queen Brahne to wage war on the Mist Continent and secretly further his plan to overthrow Garland, right up until Brahne identifies him as the final threat to her left and turns on him. Kuja, expecting this from day one, flips the script and kills her, trapping her soul on the airship Invincible.
❥ Canon: Final Fantasy IX / i do plan on Dissidia canon updates eventually if that's alright
❥ Canon Point: After boarding the Invincible, right as he's attempting to take someone else's soul into his body.
❥ History:
Here's a wiki link!
some additional highlights -- not necessary to read if you feel like you got enough of the gist from the wiki page, other than canon point context at the end.
◎ Kuja's a prototype with a limited lifespan, similar in intent to a scientist running trials on mice. Kuja is unaware of this; he assumes that like his fellow Genomes, he will live indefinitely in a static body.
◎ His master, Garland, decides Kuja will be insufficient for his purposes; he's become disobedient and unruly, clearly treasures Gaia over Terra, and his stunted personality prevents him from accessing the power of Trance (a mystical state of high emotion whence a person can briefly surpass their natural limits).
◎ Kuja works together with Queen Brahne to wage war on the Mist Continent and secretly further his plan to overthrow Garland, right up until Brahne identifies him as the final threat to her left and turns on him. Kuja, expecting this from day one, flips the script and kills her, trapping her soul on the airship Invincible.
◎ Garland caught on to the 'control the Eidolons to beat up my dad' plan and took back the Invincible's car keys, utterly foiling Kuja's bid for power. Kuja makes one last desperate attempt to get control of ANY Eidolon again -- doesn't work. But in the process he experiences the true power of Trance; that it is born from a strong soul's will to survive.
◎ He gets a real bright idea.
◎ Sneaking aboard the Invincible while his master is otherwise occupied, Kuja makes contact with the roiling heart of the ship, wherein lay trapped the souls of all its many victims.
◎ This maybe makes him pass out a little bit. Don't worry about it.
◎....and that's where his canon point starts!
❥ Personality:
Kuja is a sadistic, self-loathing narcissist with little regard for the lives of others, a poster child for arrested development, and someone simultaneously proud of and deeply disgusted with his own origins. If that last bit doesn't make sense... good. It's hard to make sense of being born to destroy the only beauty you've ever known.
He feels a strong sense of entitlement to all of Gaia -- if it's his mission to destroy it, then regardless what he does, its fate already belongs to him. Think not so much, "bent on world domination" as "sees the world as already his to do what he likes with," and you'll understand Kuja. His universe-ending meltdown in endgame is almost a way of saying he's taking all his toys and going home.
While Kuja was created with the body of a young adult, whether he had the mind of an adult upon his creation is. Debatable. His shallowness from not naturally maturing is a big plot point; it prevents him from using the power of Trance. Thus... after starting off at a deficit, the amazing thing is Kuja has managed to safely avoid maturing for quite a long time, considering he is 24 whole years old~*~*~!!!
Kuja is obsessed with roles and archetypes -- he's assumed many in his days across Gaia, and loves to put the people he meets into cozy little boxes where he can safely avoid ever giving a damn about their feelings. To be short about it, theatre is what he has instead of empathy. Much of how Kuja interacts with others, how he envisions and visualizes the world - is all distinct scripts. They’re comfortable. They’re powerful. They’re easy to sweep others up into along with him - after all, doesn’t everyone want to be a star?
I'd say the best example of the above is how he treats both Garnet and Queen Brahne. Garnet is the princess in this story! She's a tragic damsel, a precious treasure, a girl meant to be willed to a grand fate. And Queen Brahne... oh, come on! Who doesn't love to watch a corrupt, vain monarch hoist themselves by their own petard? We have these cliches for a reason!!!
Though his empathy is next to nil, he's great at gauging people's motivations and what they'll do next. He's a sly, faux-obsequious grifter whose true identity is that of a tool, and he HATES IT, but also, isn't he so wonderful at what he's meant for? Isn't he the very best of the best?
Anyway, let's talk about the cycle of abuse.
An important part of understanding Kuja is understanding Garland. Kuja's master is dispassionate yet critical, lacking in care for anything but the future of Terra. He regards his many creations as mere means to an end, valuing them only for how they can advance the dead planet's revival. Though Kuja lives in fear of Garland, resenting being his inferior, his ever-withheld approval still festers in Kuja's heart. He's TOTALLY going to kill him. So, like.... daddy issues.
You'll never guess what comes next!
Kuja basically makes Himself, The Sequel, in the form of the Black Mages, and much like himself, he reviles them - treating them worse Because of their similarities as dolls of war, heightened when some of them even start thinking for themselves. He manipulates the self-aware Black Mages ruthlessly, promising a way of lengthening their short lives. He is not yet aware of the irony.
So: Kuja lashes out when he's insecure, dislikes when he encounters someone he heavily identifies with, and is a little bit batshit due to never getting parental approval Ever.
This has been a whole lot of negative! Um. Positive qualities. Positive qualities. NEUTRAL qualities. Let's see.
He's very playful? He can play nice with others if he wants to. He's also quite elegant, eloquent, and adores luxury. He's worked very hard at crafting himself into the person he wants most to be. Ingame, he has a couple of lush lairs, plenty of lackeys, an entire noble title and all that entails-- those didn't come from nowhere. He had to get those by doing crimes. But it shows he's dedicated to pursuing success!
One last thing that is very relevant for Hugtopia is how Kuja is re: affection. He's, uh.
Not normal about it.
Now, I would argue that love is absolutely something he feels! But it's a very childish, covetous love. He tosses around the word in some interesting ways that make it clear what he sees as love is more like 'attachment to playthings.' The word of the day is once again entitlement!
While we don't really get any info on this in canon, I would extrapolate his experience with any kind of affection or even romance to this point has all just been "playing house" to him. It's not real, it's all just another role to play, but it's still a diversion he likes.
..He's never known a kind touch without ulterior motive. In some ways, touch being rewarded with cold hard Dora is going to make this situation EASIER for him!
❥ Abilities:
◎ Kuja disdains any kind of weaponry, choosing to fight instead with either incanted spells or raw magic formed into funny little orbs that he just smacks people with.
◎ He's a powerful red mage, a master of both black (destructive) and white (protective, healing) magic.
◎ Difficult to injure. Genomes are generally sturdy, and while it's never explicitly stated, he's likely passively using white magic to make himself more durable. Bastard has auto-protect on.
◎ ...But take the magic and he's not got much of anything. An anti-magic field a day keeps the Kuja away.
◎ Genomes were conceived as vessels to house an outside soul. Despite having a soul of his own, Kuja is still capable of this, and in general is able to manipulate the.. stuff...of dead souls, able to summon forth monsters and craft living dolls.
◎ Capable of using telepathy. This is a Genome thing rather than a Kuja specific thing. Psychic alien furries!
◎ Can innately command the creatures of Terra. Seeing as we're not in Kansas anymore, this likely won't come up.Unless I save up enough points to add something from Terra to the Bestiary.
❥ Extras:
◎ :) he's got a tail but it is invisible because of magic. he hates it. it is my goal in life that someone is going to pet it one day.
◎ According to the FFIX height chart he is 7'1". He's certainly tall but that is.... maybe a little ludicrous, final fantasy? Also in all the other games he's in he's not actually that tall. So we could probably shrink the world's tallest twink a little bit. Let's go for 6'1" so my man isn't hurtling into every single doorframe?
◎ I'm taking away the "mess around with dead souls" thing. He can't make any new Black Mages, no matter how hard he tries! He's still capable of being a vessel for someone else's soul because I think that could be used for stuff that's fun and cool!
◎ The telepathy has no established range. I am making it have a range of, like, a city block.
◎ Nerfing the damage resistance a bit so that he can no longer tank a Megaflare to the face. Auto-protect set to off. If you want a shield you gotta cast a temporary one by using up a turn like the rest of us, Kuja.
◎ In terms of stuff he has with him -- I'm gonna say he has A) his personal deck of cards for perhaps the worst card game in existence, B) a copy of the play I Want To Be Your Canary, and C) one (1) Ether. There's nothing particularly special about it. It's just a regular Ether*.
*HI I HAD SOMETHING ELSE HERE (a set of clothes that the generic genomes in bran bal wear) BUT THEN I SAW THAT THE ITEM NEEDS TO BE SOMETHING THEY'D HAVE ON THEIR PERSON. GLAD I CAUGHT THAT
Kuja is a sadistic, self-loathing narcissist with little regard for the lives of others, a poster child for arrested development, and someone simultaneously proud of and deeply disgusted with his own origins. If that last bit doesn't make sense... good. It's hard to make sense of being born to destroy the only beauty you've ever known.
He feels a strong sense of entitlement to all of Gaia -- if it's his mission to destroy it, then regardless what he does, its fate already belongs to him. Think not so much, "bent on world domination" as "sees the world as already his to do what he likes with," and you'll understand Kuja. His universe-ending meltdown in endgame is almost a way of saying he's taking all his toys and going home.
While Kuja was created with the body of a young adult, whether he had the mind of an adult upon his creation is. Debatable. His shallowness from not naturally maturing is a big plot point; it prevents him from using the power of Trance. Thus... after starting off at a deficit, the amazing thing is Kuja has managed to safely avoid maturing for quite a long time, considering he is 24 whole years old~*~*~!!!
Kuja is obsessed with roles and archetypes -- he's assumed many in his days across Gaia, and loves to put the people he meets into cozy little boxes where he can safely avoid ever giving a damn about their feelings. To be short about it, theatre is what he has instead of empathy. Much of how Kuja interacts with others, how he envisions and visualizes the world - is all distinct scripts. They’re comfortable. They’re powerful. They’re easy to sweep others up into along with him - after all, doesn’t everyone want to be a star?
I'd say the best example of the above is how he treats both Garnet and Queen Brahne. Garnet is the princess in this story! She's a tragic damsel, a precious treasure, a girl meant to be willed to a grand fate. And Queen Brahne... oh, come on! Who doesn't love to watch a corrupt, vain monarch hoist themselves by their own petard? We have these cliches for a reason!!!
Though his empathy is next to nil, he's great at gauging people's motivations and what they'll do next. He's a sly, faux-obsequious grifter whose true identity is that of a tool, and he HATES IT, but also, isn't he so wonderful at what he's meant for? Isn't he the very best of the best?
Anyway, let's talk about the cycle of abuse.
An important part of understanding Kuja is understanding Garland. Kuja's master is dispassionate yet critical, lacking in care for anything but the future of Terra. He regards his many creations as mere means to an end, valuing them only for how they can advance the dead planet's revival. Though Kuja lives in fear of Garland, resenting being his inferior, his ever-withheld approval still festers in Kuja's heart. He's TOTALLY going to kill him. So, like.... daddy issues.
You'll never guess what comes next!
Kuja basically makes Himself, The Sequel, in the form of the Black Mages, and much like himself, he reviles them - treating them worse Because of their similarities as dolls of war, heightened when some of them even start thinking for themselves. He manipulates the self-aware Black Mages ruthlessly, promising a way of lengthening their short lives. He is not yet aware of the irony.
So: Kuja lashes out when he's insecure, dislikes when he encounters someone he heavily identifies with, and is a little bit batshit due to never getting parental approval Ever.
This has been a whole lot of negative! Um. Positive qualities. Positive qualities. NEUTRAL qualities. Let's see.
He's very playful? He can play nice with others if he wants to. He's also quite elegant, eloquent, and adores luxury. He's worked very hard at crafting himself into the person he wants most to be. Ingame, he has a couple of lush lairs, plenty of lackeys, an entire noble title and all that entails-- those didn't come from nowhere. He had to get those by doing crimes. But it shows he's dedicated to pursuing success!
One last thing that is very relevant for Hugtopia is how Kuja is re: affection. He's, uh.
Not normal about it.
Now, I would argue that love is absolutely something he feels! But it's a very childish, covetous love. He tosses around the word in some interesting ways that make it clear what he sees as love is more like 'attachment to playthings.' The word of the day is once again entitlement!
While we don't really get any info on this in canon, I would extrapolate his experience with any kind of affection or even romance to this point has all just been "playing house" to him. It's not real, it's all just another role to play, but it's still a diversion he likes.
..He's never known a kind touch without ulterior motive. In some ways, touch being rewarded with cold hard Dora is going to make this situation EASIER for him!
❥ Abilities:
◎ Kuja disdains any kind of weaponry, choosing to fight instead with either incanted spells or raw magic formed into funny little orbs that he just smacks people with.
◎ He's a powerful red mage, a master of both black (destructive) and white (protective, healing) magic.
◎ Difficult to injure. Genomes are generally sturdy, and while it's never explicitly stated, he's likely passively using white magic to make himself more durable. Bastard has auto-protect on.
◎ ...But take the magic and he's not got much of anything. An anti-magic field a day keeps the Kuja away.
◎ Genomes were conceived as vessels to house an outside soul. Despite having a soul of his own, Kuja is still capable of this, and in general is able to manipulate the.. stuff...of dead souls, able to summon forth monsters and craft living dolls.
◎ Capable of using telepathy. This is a Genome thing rather than a Kuja specific thing. Psychic alien furries!
◎ Can innately command the creatures of Terra. Seeing as we're not in Kansas anymore, this likely won't come up.
❥ Extras:
◎ :) he's got a tail but it is invisible because of magic. he hates it. it is my goal in life that someone is going to pet it one day.
◎ According to the FFIX height chart he is 7'1". He's certainly tall but that is.... maybe a little ludicrous, final fantasy? Also in all the other games he's in he's not actually that tall. So we could probably shrink the world's tallest twink a little bit. Let's go for 6'1" so my man isn't hurtling into every single doorframe?
◎ I'm taking away the "mess around with dead souls" thing. He can't make any new Black Mages, no matter how hard he tries! He's still capable of being a vessel for someone else's soul because I think that could be used for stuff that's fun and cool!
◎ The telepathy has no established range. I am making it have a range of, like, a city block.
◎ Nerfing the damage resistance a bit so that he can no longer tank a Megaflare to the face. Auto-protect set to off. If you want a shield you gotta cast a temporary one by using up a turn like the rest of us, Kuja.
◎ In terms of stuff he has with him -- I'm gonna say he has A) his personal deck of cards for perhaps the worst card game in existence, B) a copy of the play I Want To Be Your Canary, and C) one (1) Ether. There's nothing particularly special about it. It's just a regular Ether*.
*HI I HAD SOMETHING ELSE HERE (a set of clothes that the generic genomes in bran bal wear) BUT THEN I SAW THAT THE ITEM NEEDS TO BE SOMETHING THEY'D HAVE ON THEIR PERSON. GLAD I CAUGHT THAT
◎ Kuja would not explicitly CHOOSE Ainea, but I absolutely think he should be ASSIGNED Ainea. I will beat the power of love and friendship into this man's head if it's the last thing I do.
SAMPLE
(going with original prose.)
What kind of god had an empty nest as an altar?
Each time he walked past it, Kuja's head would turn, gazing longingly up at the temple of Rawna. There was a god! Flanked by a host of dragons, awash with gleaming silver -- he'd never been inside, but in his opinion, the facade told you all you needed to know.
Not so with the temple of Ainea.
Flowers could be anything. Flowers could be hope for spring, mourning for a life cut short, or all that was ephemeral, all that was beautiful -- delicate -- worth protecting. Flowers could even be danger, if it were just the right flower.
But in Aellyn, flowers were for rats.
Fine, fine: they were mice. Vermin, all the same. As if it wasn't enough seeing droves of them on the walls and furniture, carved or painted or stitched, the real things had made themselves quite at home in the temple, and had lost any innate fear of people. You'd think as familiars of the divine, they would at least sense in some vague way his many transgressions against their bigger brethren in another world... but no. The mice didn't care. They opposite of cared. They were bold.
He couldn't so much as put anything down in this blasted place without a mouse getting its dirty little paws all over it. Kuja had taken to keeping his visits to the dawn-hued temple as concise as possible, and still, he couldn't get away without a Creature Encounter. It was dreadful. He would lodge a complaint, but that would mean kneeling in front of the ridiculous empty nest statue, and he was loathe to demean himself so.
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