Zidane Tribal.

[Zidane]

Full Name: Zidane Tribal
Nickname(s): “that monkey”
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Age: Twenty-six
Sex: Male
Race: Angel of Death Genome
Sexual Orientation: Decidedly sexual
Place of Birth: Terra
Current Location: Gaia
General Appearance: Zidane’s charming green-blue eyes are probably the only things about him that haven’t changed in some way. The biggest difference between the dashing young pixie-faced boy who rescued Princess Garnet and had a hand in saving the known world, among other exploits, would probably be height. As in Zidane’s shot up like a garden weed. He still doesn’t tower over Amarant, though he can probably look Steiner in the eye when he ribs the guy, but now his tallness accentuates his wiry, slender frame even more. Despite the shifting and changing of the world around him and his own rootless nature, little else about his appearance has changed significantly. He still wears leathery but elaborate clothing, sticking to vests and trousers, and his loose blond hair falls to his shoulders now but only because he’s not always on the ball in cutting it. The ponytail that used to reach just past the nape of his neck seems to be the only thing he hasn’t cut in all this time, since it falls almost to the base of his tail, which must have gotten injured at some point—likely in some daring heist—because there’s a slight kink near the tip now.
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History: Zidane is a Genome created by Garland as an Angel of Death after the planet Terra was destroyed. He wasn’t exactly meant to be an individual, since his body would become the vessel for a sleeping Terran soul, but his temporary predecessor, Kuja, dropped him off on the planet Gaia and left him to die. Zidane didn’t, and was taken in by Baku, the leader of a thief clan called Tantalus. Throughout his life he seemed to fit in effortlessly, but there was something a little broken about his past. All he could remember was a blue light.

Eventually, his path led him to Alexandria, where Tantalus planned to kidnap Princess Garnet and take her to Lindblum. Little did Zidane know, this was a special commission by Regent Cid of Lindblum in order to get his niece away from the disturbingly erratic Queen Brahne. The plan went off without a hitch, even if the princess caused a bit of a stir incognito and gave Zidane and Blank both a dizzying chase, up until Garnet’s bodyguard, Steiner, tracked them down. Despite being dissuaded with oglops, he followed them up onstage and was duped into believing the acting was real. Then a stranger in the crowd, a young black mage named Vivi, ran onstage to escape the guards trying to throw him out. In executing a fire spell he set Garnet’s hood on fire and she was forced to reveal her identity. This enraged Queen Brahne to the point of attacking the ship, which, while it sailed free of the city, crash-landed in the Evil Forest. Most of Tantalus was badly wounded, but Zidane had fallen off the ship and escaped unharmed. He discovered that the princess, Vivi, and Steiner were all missing, and tracked them down deeper into the forest. A strange creature took Garnet and then Vivi hostage, and Zidane discovered the power of Trance. Vivi escaped, but Garnet was kidnapped again by wildlife and Steiner and Vivi were exposed to deadly spores. Zidane brought them both back to the ship, where they were attended to by the clan, and talked to Baku about Garnet. Baku refused to let Zidane go after her, but Zidane quit Tantalus to do so and after a brawl with Baku took Steiner and Vivi out into the forest again to rescue Garnet. They did so, but in the process managed to petrify the forest and only barely escaped. Blank was petrified in Zidane’s stead, but the rest of Tantalus were able to escape.

In the meantime, the group of Zidane, Garnet, Vivi, and Steiner proceeded through the Ice Cavern in an attempt to get to Lindblum. Garnet, Vivi, and Steiner all fell asleep due to a spell cast by a Black Waltz, a being similar to a black mage, and Zidane fought it to free them. Then they proceeded on to Dali, where Garnet took on the alias of Dagger and they discovered the village was providing black mages to Alexandria for a reason unknown to them at the moment. Vivi was kidnapped and brought in as part of the shipment, but Zidane and Garnet rescued him and escaped onto the airship with Steiner after battling another Black Waltz. On the way, they were attacked by a third Waltz and all of the black mages on the airship were killed. Vivi, who had bonded with them in spite of the fact that they mostly didn’t talk, took this personally and tried to deal with the Waltz himself. They only barely escaped, with the Waltz’s ship exploding behind them, and made it to Lindblum, where Regent Cid was revealed to be an oglop. He explained his plan to them, and Zidane met up with an old friend Freya Crescent. The two of them joined the Festival of the Hunt, Zidane because he suckered Dagger into agreeing to go on a date with him if he won. They heard that Queen Brahne has attacked Burmecia and Zidane, Vivi, and Freya all resolved to go there and find out what’s happened. Dagger decided to leave with Steiner for Alexandria to find out what’s happening, but Zidane disapproved. However, Dagger tricked him into eating sleeping weed and escaped. Despite this, Zidane and the others went to Gizmaluke Grotto and moved on through to Burmecia, where they were defeated by General Beatrix. They moved on to Cleyra, where Vivi was generally misunderstood and told Zidane about his youth with his grandfather and his questions about his existence. But then Cleyra got attacked, too, and the party had to face Beatrix.

And then Brahne attacked Cleyra with Bahamut.

Back at Alexandria, Steiner and Blank were captured and Dagger was taken to the dungeons to have her eidolons extracted. However, Zidane rushed to rescue her and came face to face with Kuja for the first time since Burmecia. Everyone escaped back to Lindblum, which Brahne attacked with Dagger’s eidolons, where Regent Cid informed them that Kuja was the one dealing the black mages to Brahne. After picking up a new party member, Quina, they headed through to the Outer Continent and encountered a place called Conde Petie, where they had to undergo a marriage ceremony in order to pass through. Once they did, they encountered a young summoner named Eiko who fell hard for Zidane. Dagger started to remember bits and pieces of her past. They discovered a tribe of black mages in the forest, all of whom spoke and were aware of themselves. Then they reached the Iifa Tree, where Kuja had been using Mist to create the black mages. Defeating the tree somehow stopped this and they returned to Madain Sari, where Eiko lived, only to discover that Amarant and another bounty hunter were both after Dagger on Brahne’s account. Zidane defeated Amarant and he joined them because Zidane didn’t kill him.

Anyway, they found out that Brahne was going to attack Kuja with Bahamut. Kuja didn’t think so, really, and attacked Brahne with Bahamut. Dagger witnessed the death of her mother and as a result stopped speaking. But then she and the others returned to Alexandria, where she was crowned Queen. Zidane got depressed because if he thought a princess was out of his league, he was pretty much screwed as far as a queen was concerned. But everyone was picking up the pieces, and everything was dandy in general.

And then Kuja attacked Alexandria with Bahamut.

Dagger and Eiko both leapt to the city’s defense by summoning Alexander, the ancient defender and namesake of Alexandria. Alexander dealt with Bahamut, and Kuja decided he needed a new toy, but then Garland crashed the party and pwnt Alexander. Zidane was able to rescue Dagger, and they went back to Lindblum where Regent Cid had moved up in the world to become a frog instead of an oglop. With his airship, they set out in search of Kuja’s desert palace. Unfortunately they epic failed and were captured. Kuja wanted Zidane to get the Gulug Stone, and gave him the choice of three companions to take with him. But it was all a façade to capture Eiko, and her pet Mog had to shield her from having her eidolons taken, turning out to be the eidolon Madeen herself. Kuja got distracted by the pretty shiny Trance and the others rescue Eiko and find Hilda, Regent Cid’s beloved wife, who had turned him into the oglop and frog in the first place. She turned him into a human again and he created an airship that doesn’t need Mist to fly.

Zidane, Dagger, Vivi, Steiner, Freya, Eiko, and Amarant all went to Terra through a dimensional warphole. This was the home of Kuja and, Zidane realizes, himself. For the first time he discovered others that looked just like him, as Genomes were meant to look the same, and met a girl named Mikoto who was genetically his sister. Kuja, he discovered, was basically his brother as well, and Garland created them all. Zidane faced Garland, who revealed to him everything about Terra and the soulless Genomes forwarding the plan to eliminate all life on Gaia to make room for the dormant Terrans, which prompted an existential crisis of epic proportions. Zidane shrugged it off, though, and joined his friends in working against Garland. Before they had the chance to actually do that, Kuja turned pretty and shiny and feathery and destroyed Garland. Garland told him anyway that Zidane was his replacement and he was going to die. Kuja lost his mind and blew up Terra, destroying it. In the meantime, Zidane and the others evacuate the rest of the Genomes. While those guys holed up in Black Mage Village, Zidane and the others headed to the Iifa Tree to sort out this Mist problem again. Because if you hit a tree enough times it stops producing fog.

Things didn’t exactly go as planned, per se, and Garland transported them right to Kuja in a mysterious place called Memoria. They defeated Kuja so he pouted and destroyed the Crystal, which was supposed to sustain all life. So Necron dropped in to see what the hell was going on and Zidane and company practically defeated death. Kuja used his remaining power to teleport them out of the Iifa Tree and to safety, but Zidane had never cooperated with Kuja and wasn’t about to start, so he insisted on going back for the Genome who was his brother as well as the Zidane that could have been. He was able to find Kuja, but Kuja definitely seemed to be dying now and the Iifa Tree didn’t exactly help when it attacked them with vines.

Against all odds, Zidane was able to escape and showed up at Alexandria years later, slipping in as Marcus in the play I Want To Be Your Canary just to be dramatic. He’s reunited with Dagger, Beatrix and Steiner get together, Freya and Ferdinand get together, Eiko and Amarant dropped by to visit in the right place at the right time, and everyone lived happily ever after.

Since leaving behind the celebration that heralded his return and dashing and sneaking and skirt-chasing through the years, Zidane hasn’t wasted a moment. He’s been everywhere his adventure took him and then he’s been there again in a variety of different ways, sometimes for a reason and often for none at all. From Dali to Esto Gaza, he’s wandered, battled, stolen, and flirted just about all of Gaia into his memory. There’s only one place he seems to come back to with any regularity, and that’s Alexandria Castle, where the queen who will always be a princess to him is still imprisoned in what Zidane can only see as a cage.
Abilities/Skills:
Scoop Art: Once a more devastating move only available to him in Trance, Zidane simplified this one to a series of three pink energy beams that he can kick out at an enemy at any time. It does minimal damage and the bullets are slow-moving, but home in on their target.
Solution 9: Also once limited to Trance, this ability is now more flexible, coming as a rapid assault of heatstroke red orbs. The attack is widespread but has low accuracy, hitting by a stroke of luck rather than careful aim.
Tidal Flame: As muted as the others, this attack creates three whirling flames that Zidane launches at the enemy from close to the ground. They can home in on the target, but can’t reach an airborne enemy and may be deflected.
Stellar Circle 5: A tornado of arcane Terran symbols erupts from around Zidane, specifically catching an airborne enemy above him, both damaging them and letting him absorb some of their energy.
Trance: During times of intense emotional stress, Zidane is able to tap into his strongest form, and with the furry magenta comes increased speed and dexterity. This form only lasts a short time and can weaken him to the point of exhaustion if he overdoes it, but over the years Zidane’s learned to control it more and more and can sometimes (though rarely) launch into it at will instead of through emotion.
Shift Break: Only available through Trance, this attack is long range, causing a cage of lightning to knock the enemy back into a damaging spray of water.
Free Energy: Trance-only; Zidane strikes in a quick and dirty blast of energy that strikes anyone immediately in front of him with enough force to send them flying.
Meo Twister: While in Trance, Zidane can interrupt a series of attacks with this one, throwing both daggers out at his enemy and trapping his foe between them with scorching white energy.
Grand Lethal: Possibly the most destructive ability in Zidane’s arsenal, Lethal launches him in a spinning attack bolstered by shining magenta energy in a direct and powerful strike.

How did you find us? Kuja’s fault. And Numbers’s.

[Vivi Orunitia]

Approved! :3