Character Name: Vivi Fletcher
Sex: Female
Age: 17
Home Garden: Balamb

Appearance:

Vivi is almost decidedly average in every way.  Average height, average build, medium skin, brown hair, brown eyes.  She has a smattering of freckles from spending time on the Dolleti beaches as a child.  She wears her hair long, but tied back out of the way.  Nothing about her really stands out and she likes it that way.  It's almost like she actively cultivates being able to disappear in a crowd.  The only exception might be the lack of warmth in her eyes, the type of look that seems to assess everyone and find them wanting.

Outside of the uniform, her clothes are meant to be practical and non-descript.  Plain black pants and combat boots are often accompanied by a grey shirt and black leather jacket.  If she's feeling particularly like hiding, she'll add a newsboy cap that hides most of her face when she looks down.

Personality:

Vivi can come off as a cold, selfish person a lot of the time.  She is very direct.  She knows what her goals are and doesn't always feel the need to "play games" as she thinks of it with other people.  However, she knows that cooperation and discipline are important, especially if you want to become SeeD.  You have to be willing to work with anyone that you might get assigned to.  In that regard, Vivi is easy to get along with.  She doesn't always feel the need to be the leader, and she's not going to let personal issues get in the way of accomplishing the mission.

If someone manages to get past the shell of discipline around her, they would find Vivi a loyal friend who would come to their defense at the first sign of trouble.  Still maybe too blunt at times, but well-meaning and mostly caring.

Backstory/Personal History:

Vivi came from a family in Dollet with strict parents and many siblings.  She is the oldest, and therefore, the most responsibility was thrust on her from a young age.  She can remember changing the youngest's diapers while she was still in grade school.

Her personality was already pretty quiet back then and her parents had to spend most of their energy on her more rambunctious brothers and sisters.  What little trouble she wanted to get into was quickly scolded out of her by her parents.  They expected her to be an example to the younger ones even though she was only a couple years older.  Their expectations of her seemed random and unrealistic.  Needless to say, she didn't get much respect from either her siblings or her parents.  The result was a withdrawal into herself and a strict adherence to what few hard rules there were so that she couldn't get punished.

As she hit her teenage years, she found she had talents in athletics and organizing people. (Corralling all the siblings was starting to pay off.)  But truthfully, she wanted to get away from the chaos of her family.  The Garden and SeeD program not only offered a boarding school away from home, but an opportunity to make her own fortune and career that required no help from them.  She applied immediately and purposely chose Balamb Garden across the sea rather than the closer Galbadian Garden.

For Vivi, Garden represents freedom.  Sure, she has to follow a different sort of discipline here, but she will be respected for her accomplishments.  She just has to work hard and prove herself.

Miscellaneous:
Weapon Specialty - Polearms
Her current weapon is a 6 foot long halberd with a large 12 inch axe blade at the end that she calls Aqua Crescent.  It has a water element to it that combined with her Guardian Force makes for a deadly combo.

Magic Use
Vivi prefers to use direct damage magic such as Fire, Blizzard, or Thunder.  Her combat style revolves around trying to keep the enemy as far away as possible for as long as possible before moving into melee for the final blow.  She also likes magic that can control the battlefield such as Protect, Shell, Confuse, or Blind.

Limit Break: Risk Reward
Unlike Vivi's usual approach to battle, her limit break forces her to go all out.  She'll get up close to the enemy and swing wildly at them with her polearm, often with several spinning attacks or running around them.  The potential reward is more damage than her normal attacks which might drop the enemy, but the risk is losing her range advantage and chance to heal if the enemy survives.

Guardian Force
Name: Siku
Element: Ice
Appearance: Siku takes the form a large Siberian tiger, but dark blue with black stripes instead of orange and black.  He seems to always have a cloud of cold fog surrounding him.  If one were to look him in the eyes, he would stare back with a calculating gaze, almost as if looking through them.