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hisownjusticeCharacter Name: Yuri Lowell
Canon: Tales of Vesperia
Age: 21
Timeline: Just after the end of the game.
Detailed Character Info
Personality: Yuri grew up in Zaphia’s (i.e. the capital) Lower Quarter (i.e. the slums), and his upbringing shaped much of his outlook on life. He’s genuinely caring and wants the world to be a better and fairer place than it is, and thus has an inherent disrespect for his kingdoms laws (which if you ask him are neither good nor fair) and a long-held distrust of the nobles who seem perfectly content to keep society corrupt.
Yuri is simultaneously cynical and upbeat. He thinks there are a lot of problems with the world, but he doesn’t generally let them drag him down too much. Even if he’s complaining about something, he seems to have a smile on his face most of the time. In his opinion, people more or less have a right to be idiots. What they don’t have a right to be is idiots who hurt other people for their own amusement and then wiggle their way out of getting punished for it. That makes him angry. And if someone is really a bad enough person to be making him that angry, he’s going to so something about it. If the law isn’t working, and there’s something he can act on, he really doesn’t mind getting his own hands dirty.
But confident as he is in his decisions and his ways of doing things, he’s also inclined to keep a lot of it to himself. He knows that his solutions to things are often against the law (sometimes quite egregiously so), and he doesn’t want anyone else to have to bear the burden. In extreme cases, he’s also not sure what anyone will think, so he just won’t say anything unless he has to. Part of that can also be attributed to the fact that (despite being something of a cocky ass in other ways) he is exceptionally modest about anything he does that’s actually praiseworthy. He constantly goes out of his way to help people, but he shrugs off praise and refuses to take credit for much of anything. He actually means it when he refers to himself as a troublemaker or a criminal, and as much as he also knows that he does a lot of good things, he doesn’t think that he’s someone that anyone should be placing up on a pedestal.
And that brings us to Flynn, who Yuri prettymuch thinks everyone should be placing on a pedestal. The two of them were childhood friends, and a while back they both decided to join the knights. They both wanted to change the way the world worked, and thought that was the way to do it. Yuri got sick of it after a few months, and quit because he couldn’t deal with the corruption and didn’t see any way to actually make progress while he was bound by all the rules of the knights. Flynn stuck with it, though, and has been working steadily to change the system from the inside. At the start of the game, Yuri is quick to point out that Flynn still hadn’t gotten that far, but at least early on in the game, he’s also aware that he doesn’t have a good basis for that criticism, since he hasn’t managed to change anything, either.
They yell at each other a lot over the course of the game, but they remain very good friends, and when they yell at each other it’s usually because they are trying to keep the other on track with that original goal of making the world better... even if they’ve chosen very different ways of going about it. When it comes down to it, Yuri has a tremendous amount of faith in Flynn, and over the course of the game, he keeps setting things up so that Flynn will get the credit for a lot of things Yuri did. Flynn keeps trying to get Yuri to tell people that he was involved in all of it, but he keeps refusing. If Flynn gets all the credit, he also gets respect, and promotions, and everything else that will help him actually accomplish things. Besides, Yuri is a troublemaker and a criminal. If everyone knew Flynn was closely associated with him, it would do nothing more than ruin Flynn’s career. He’s perfectly happy to just support him from the shadows.
In the case of most other people, he’s friendly and pretty outgoing, but it takes him a while to actually get close to people. The party members in the game became something akin to family, but only after they’d been traveling for a while and been through a hell of a lot together. That said, Yuri is also highly perceptive, and he doesn’t need to know someone all that well before he can start reading them like a book. He also likes to tease people, and that ability just makes them easy targets. He won’t be mean about it, but he might be very frustrating.
Sexuality: I’m going to call Yuri mostly-straight. He’s much more likely to be attracted to girls, but he’s open-minded and pretty easygoing, so if he was attracted to a guy in Siglen, he’d probably just roll with it. And if said other guy happened to be Flynn who happened to also be in Siglen and in desperate need of help, I’m sure he’d be okay with that. In terms of general comfort level, I don’t think he’ll have too hard of a time adjusting to Siglen’s environment. Given that he’s 21 and has the personality he has, I can’t imagine he doesn’t have any experience. Plus, he’s generally pretty comfortable with himself, which certainly doesn’t hurt.
Abilities: Yuri is a skilled fighter with either a sword or an axe. He’s strong, agile, and just came from traveling around his world fighting tons of monsters, so you’d probably have to be extremely well trained to beat him in a fight. He also used to have some other skills and techniques, but since I’m taking him from after the end of the game, they’re prettymuch irrelevant. He can’t use them anymore.
Desired job: Janitor/custodian/whatever they feel like calling him, he cleans things. In a day care center.
Action sample: [It was the end of the day at the day care center, and just out front, the last of the kids were waiting to be picked up. Yuri had been in the process of wiping down the front windows, but that had come to a halt for the moment. A small boy had decided to climb him, and a couple other kids were hanging around his feet. Nearby, there was a small cart of assorted cleaning materials, which had been completely abandoned. Yuri himself was looking just a little frazzled behind that typical smile of his.]
Okay, really, I’m just here to clean things. Don’t you have a teacher or something?
[There was an immediate chorus of answers that boiled down to the woman who has been watching them had gone back inside to get something, and they were all just waiting for their parents to come get them, anyway, so no, they really didn’t have anything better to do. Yuri glanced over at the window the led into the office, and caught the woman in question giving him an apologetic look. Yeah. Alright. So that hadn’t been in the job description. But he could deal with entertaining the crowd for a few minutes. It seemed a lot more interesting than cleaning windows, anyway.]
Canon: Tales of Vesperia
Age: 21
Timeline: Just after the end of the game.
Detailed Character Info
Personality: Yuri grew up in Zaphia’s (i.e. the capital) Lower Quarter (i.e. the slums), and his upbringing shaped much of his outlook on life. He’s genuinely caring and wants the world to be a better and fairer place than it is, and thus has an inherent disrespect for his kingdoms laws (which if you ask him are neither good nor fair) and a long-held distrust of the nobles who seem perfectly content to keep society corrupt.
Yuri is simultaneously cynical and upbeat. He thinks there are a lot of problems with the world, but he doesn’t generally let them drag him down too much. Even if he’s complaining about something, he seems to have a smile on his face most of the time. In his opinion, people more or less have a right to be idiots. What they don’t have a right to be is idiots who hurt other people for their own amusement and then wiggle their way out of getting punished for it. That makes him angry. And if someone is really a bad enough person to be making him that angry, he’s going to so something about it. If the law isn’t working, and there’s something he can act on, he really doesn’t mind getting his own hands dirty.
But confident as he is in his decisions and his ways of doing things, he’s also inclined to keep a lot of it to himself. He knows that his solutions to things are often against the law (sometimes quite egregiously so), and he doesn’t want anyone else to have to bear the burden. In extreme cases, he’s also not sure what anyone will think, so he just won’t say anything unless he has to. Part of that can also be attributed to the fact that (despite being something of a cocky ass in other ways) he is exceptionally modest about anything he does that’s actually praiseworthy. He constantly goes out of his way to help people, but he shrugs off praise and refuses to take credit for much of anything. He actually means it when he refers to himself as a troublemaker or a criminal, and as much as he also knows that he does a lot of good things, he doesn’t think that he’s someone that anyone should be placing up on a pedestal.
And that brings us to Flynn, who Yuri prettymuch thinks everyone should be placing on a pedestal. The two of them were childhood friends, and a while back they both decided to join the knights. They both wanted to change the way the world worked, and thought that was the way to do it. Yuri got sick of it after a few months, and quit because he couldn’t deal with the corruption and didn’t see any way to actually make progress while he was bound by all the rules of the knights. Flynn stuck with it, though, and has been working steadily to change the system from the inside. At the start of the game, Yuri is quick to point out that Flynn still hadn’t gotten that far, but at least early on in the game, he’s also aware that he doesn’t have a good basis for that criticism, since he hasn’t managed to change anything, either.
They yell at each other a lot over the course of the game, but they remain very good friends, and when they yell at each other it’s usually because they are trying to keep the other on track with that original goal of making the world better... even if they’ve chosen very different ways of going about it. When it comes down to it, Yuri has a tremendous amount of faith in Flynn, and over the course of the game, he keeps setting things up so that Flynn will get the credit for a lot of things Yuri did. Flynn keeps trying to get Yuri to tell people that he was involved in all of it, but he keeps refusing. If Flynn gets all the credit, he also gets respect, and promotions, and everything else that will help him actually accomplish things. Besides, Yuri is a troublemaker and a criminal. If everyone knew Flynn was closely associated with him, it would do nothing more than ruin Flynn’s career. He’s perfectly happy to just support him from the shadows.
In the case of most other people, he’s friendly and pretty outgoing, but it takes him a while to actually get close to people. The party members in the game became something akin to family, but only after they’d been traveling for a while and been through a hell of a lot together. That said, Yuri is also highly perceptive, and he doesn’t need to know someone all that well before he can start reading them like a book. He also likes to tease people, and that ability just makes them easy targets. He won’t be mean about it, but he might be very frustrating.
Sexuality: I’m going to call Yuri mostly-straight. He’s much more likely to be attracted to girls, but he’s open-minded and pretty easygoing, so if he was attracted to a guy in Siglen, he’d probably just roll with it. And if said other guy happened to be Flynn who happened to also be in Siglen and in desperate need of help, I’m sure he’d be okay with that. In terms of general comfort level, I don’t think he’ll have too hard of a time adjusting to Siglen’s environment. Given that he’s 21 and has the personality he has, I can’t imagine he doesn’t have any experience. Plus, he’s generally pretty comfortable with himself, which certainly doesn’t hurt.
Abilities: Yuri is a skilled fighter with either a sword or an axe. He’s strong, agile, and just came from traveling around his world fighting tons of monsters, so you’d probably have to be extremely well trained to beat him in a fight. He also used to have some other skills and techniques, but since I’m taking him from after the end of the game, they’re prettymuch irrelevant. He can’t use them anymore.
Desired job: Janitor/custodian/whatever they feel like calling him, he cleans things. In a day care center.
Action sample: [It was the end of the day at the day care center, and just out front, the last of the kids were waiting to be picked up. Yuri had been in the process of wiping down the front windows, but that had come to a halt for the moment. A small boy had decided to climb him, and a couple other kids were hanging around his feet. Nearby, there was a small cart of assorted cleaning materials, which had been completely abandoned. Yuri himself was looking just a little frazzled behind that typical smile of his.]
Okay, really, I’m just here to clean things. Don’t you have a teacher or something?
[There was an immediate chorus of answers that boiled down to the woman who has been watching them had gone back inside to get something, and they were all just waiting for their parents to come get them, anyway, so no, they really didn’t have anything better to do. Yuri glanced over at the window the led into the office, and caught the woman in question giving him an apologetic look. Yeah. Alright. So that hadn’t been in the job description. But he could deal with entertaining the crowd for a few minutes. It seemed a lot more interesting than cleaning windows, anyway.]
