+1 tragic JPRG antagonist

[aetos]

Hello, I am Carmen and I'm completely new to this game! Nice to meet all of you! Today I bring you a character from an obscure Dreamcast-to-Gamecube game called Skies of Arcadia. My unending adoration for anyone who knows what that game is. If you don't, then all you need to know is that it takes every RPG cliche you can think of and makes them awesome.

Also air pirates. And airships. And lots of exploring.

This is Ramirez, who serves as your standard white-haired villain of the game + bonus tragic backstory. He was once a nice kid that lived on the moon and then he started working for Sky!Europe at the height of its conquering days and it just sort of went downhill from there. After some unfortunate incidents he decides he decides it's better off for entire world if they're subjugated under one ruler and then starts doing whatever he can to make it a reality. In a twist, the world ruler he envisions is not, in fact, himself, but someone completely different that he is unhealthily attached to.

Yeah. Lots of issues there, and luckily he'll have some time to adjust before he comes face-to-face with all of them. In Locke City, he's just a normal 19-year-old college student with an Engineering major and goes by the name of Roy Sellers. He's pretty well-adjusted, barring the fact that his father died when he was 10 and he didn't take his mother's remarriage very well. Overall, Roy a lot more like Ramirez's initial personality (for now), so he'll be quite pleasant and helpful to most people even if he does have a bit of a temper sometimes. Just ask his stepdad about that.

His info post is here and I can be reached at rikachai or on AIM at Penguininator. I'm excited to play with all of you!

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[enrages]

welcome to the game!! i'm linda, and i play karson valenti/karkat vantas from homestuck. if you ever wanna plot or anything, you can find me on plurk at superfluously! can't wait to play with you!

[aetos]

Hello!!! I think I've seen you on Shikki's plurks before so it's nice to meet you formally. Karson can some help Travis dogsit or something.

[enrages]

ahahaha yes. anything involving dogs is auto-okay.

[aetos]

Good, his Doberman is super cute and his name is Checkers and he gets lonely come be his friend Karson.

[enrages]

omg come here dogfriend karson will bring you treats and plenty of love

[aetos]

the dog has more friends than he does probably

especially during his horrible teenage years

[summit]

now our plurklists will become one.............

[aetos]

NO ESCAPE.

[summit]

ONE OF US

ONE OF US

ONE OF US

[dominateartimus]

Hi Carmen, welcome to the game. It's nice to meet you and Ramirez / Roy. I have not played Skies of Arcadia, but I do know of it's existence.

I'm Joc and I'm new to StE as well. I play an original character known as Sandrath, a 'fallen arch-angel' by his world's terms -- but better known in the game as Xander Jarle. I can be reached at joccatpaw on plurk.

I look forward to playing with you.

[aetos]

This is good enough for me.

Hello! I think you were actually the app up above mine, hahaha. I'm glad we both got in! Hopefully we'll get to thread or something too!

[dominateartimus]

I remember that very silly ad in magazines for the game with Vyse being framed constantly.

I was and it's funny how that turns out! There most likely will be a chance!

[aetos]

THAT WAS MY VERY FAVORITE AD AND THE WHOLE REASON I WANTED THE GAME.

Ramirez sadly has no angelic qualities but he did live on the moon and study his world with a bunch of people who liked to think they were gods that's close enough right.

[dominateartimus]

Ehehe. It amused me every time I saw it too.

That's totally okay. If anything, that'll just perk his interest when he learns of that bit of information. Then again, he tends to mock beings who think they are 'gods'.

[aetos]

That's okay he'll probably be pissy about it once he remembers anyway.

Things didn't go so well to say the least.

[testsonseashells]

(keith david voice): RAMIREZ! SAVE THE EARTH!

ahem. i'm g-man or kappy, and i have mordin solus of mass effect and roxy lalonde of homestuck and i can be plurked at kappycane

[aetos]

I've been waiting so long for someone to make that joke I'm glad you finally did it.

Nice to meet you! I actually used to play Rose once upon a time and I...have Mass Effect but the first game's battle system does not agree with me which I hear is common. I need to beat it one of these days.

NEVERTHELESS I am excited to see Roxy and Mordin and I hope we get an excuse to thread at some point!

[neonnerd]

Hiiii! I'm Bri, and welcome to the game!

Engineering major, you say? I happen to have Dr. Benjamin Ratchet here, who used to be a giant robot from the Transformers films and is now a professor at Locke University, teaching classes in engineering. Would you be interested in having Roy be in one of classes?

[aetos]

Hello, Bri, and I think that's a great idea! Roy is probably does well in his engineering classes, though I don't know if it would be enough to particularly stand out to Dr. Ratchet there.

Either way, seeing your professor on the same network? Still awkward. I'm all for it.

[neonnerd]

Awesome! Benjamin'd probably recognize his name, if nothing else, and then awkwardness can ensue. :D

[aetos]

EXCELLENT. I look forward to it.

[summit]

WE'RE IN A GAME TOGETHER AGAIN!

[aetos]

do you want a kawaii brother figure travis he'll beat up people who bully you and everything

[summit]

yes

come be my nii-san roy

[aetos]

he will be everyone's nii-san

right up until he remembers his life was horrible and that he hates everyone

:)

[summit]

just don't make him cry

[aetos]

does he

have to make that promise

[summit]

yes

[aetos]

he can only promise to try

[summit]

good enough

[cava]

HI CARMEN

japanese media villains unite

[aetos]

ZERO WE ARE IN A GAME FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER HOW EXCITING

would you like to subjugate the world with him

[cava]

IT'S GREAT

why would he not

[aetos]

perfect he will have someone to bond with once his nice, normal life is horribly ruined forever

[cava]

for about five seconds anyway

enter doesn't give a shit about the fate of the world \8D/

[aetos]

well it's not like ramirez has a stellar record of seeking the company of decent people anyway

[scramasax]

Hello and welcome into the game~!

I'm Blue, player of Anthony from Eternal Darkness, a messenger boy in the Holy Roman Empire turned zombie whose reincarnation is a somewhat uptight and goody-goody fifteen-year-old student also turning somewhat zombie; and Rarity from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, unicorn fashionista reincarnated to the life of a hornless pet pony named Cinderella.

Pleasure to meet you and I shall look forward to playing with you, and may you have a lovely time here!

[aetos]

Hello and thank you for the welcome! That's a very interesting pair of characters you have there, hahaha! I had Eternal Darkness forever ago but I never beat it, alas.

I hope I get to thread with you soon!

[metalbent]

Hi! I'm Lucy with two! The first Aradia Megido from Homestuck, reincarnated as Aria Megido. She's a fairly cheerful and friendly girl who likes history and a variety of nerdy things, and she lives with her sister in Japantown. She's 16 and therefore a high school student, though she also works part-time at her grandmother's antique shop (also in Japantown) and does occasional babysitting gigs.

The second is Toph Beifong from Avatar, reincarnated as Sophie Bai, 13-year-old middle school student. She's sort of blunt and snarky still, but also is more polite and willing to work with people/ask for help in her current incarnation, partly because her family support system is a lot more awesome and less overprotective. She's still blind, and has a cane and a lack of seeing feet at the moment.

I LOVE SKIES OF ARCADIA A LOT. <3

[aetos]

EXCELLENT. Skies of Arcadia master race. ♥

I mean. Hello, Lucy, it's nice to meet you! I love both of those characters a lot so I hope I'll get to thread with you one of these days! Roy could use some nice girls in his life.

[metalbent]

I will endeavor to hit your intro with at least one of them, so hopefully yes!!

[ursoreckless]

Hello there, I'm Alec and I have this guy here - Sho from the movie Moon Child. In his previous life, he was a street rat that became the head of his district in a mafia-owned town and then was turned into a vampire. In this life, he is a trust fund baby that likes fast cars, dating and not being responsible at all.

Welcome to the game!

[aetos]

Hello, nice to meet you, Alec! I've heard of Moon Child but I've never had the chance to watch it, sadly. I always hear interesting things about it though and your character blurb leaves me no less intrigued.

Roy is often dragged around on irresponsible adventures and he also likes fast cars, how lovely.

[ursoreckless]

It's sadly camp but it still is a camp that has feels. Also it can be found on the you of tube in parts :3

Shou's car is nicknamed the sparkling orange juice box and he rides around all times of day and night in it.

[vanisland]

You do not know how much I want to play Skies. I've just never been able to find it anywhere. I still think my parents shouldn't have sold our family's Dreamcast, and that was years ago.

I'm Awe, and this is Mir from Ar tonelico. She's also an antagonist with bonus tragic backstory, but she actually survives the ending and goes on to appear in a sequel since she was out of her right mind at the time.

Here, though, she's Miranda Atmiller, graduate CS student. Kind of a loner and a little trollish, really.

[aetos]

UGH IT'S SO HORRIBLY EXPENSIVE NOW THAT IT'S OUT OF PRINT I keep hoping they'll release it on PSN or something /cries and holds onto dreams forever. LEGENDS IS MARGINALLY LESS EXPENSIVE ON AMAZON IF YOU HAVE A WII OR GAMECUBE THOUGH.

Anyway, game enabling aside, it's nice to meet you! I've heard of Ar Tonelico even though I've never played any of the games and Jacqli always seemed interesting.

And what luck Roy here is absolute trollbait she must say hello.

[vanisland]

Sadly, I have neither. I just have a PS2 and a DS that can barely carry a charge.

Yes, I look forward to doing this trolling. It will be glorious.

[aetos]

ALAS. There's always that Let's Play in the LParchive that gives you the added bonus of not having to fight random battles every ten seconds.

Literally every ten seconds. I'm not exaggerating. Ask anyone. Skies of Arcadia has one of the worst random encounter rates ever.

AND YES, EXCELLENT. I always endorse people giving him a hard time.

[vanisland]

Yeah THAT part I was less excited about, since I have heard a few things.

I'll read that at some point, I'm sure.