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Gaia Username: Viciouslysexy
Character Name: Kieron Volaju
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Rank: Cadet
Guardian Force: Shiva
Appearance: Kieron
Personality: Energetic and very optimistic. He knows how to have his fun and would rather keep a smile on everyone's face. Open-minded, Kieron loves to listen to others though he lacks confidence in his own abilities. Appreciation and love are the two things his life is made up to be.
Magic Skills: Blizzard, Blizzara, Cure, Blind, Silence (More can and will be added as the story progresses)
Weapons: Estranged seven foot longsword called the 'Kinnyas'
Limit Break:
-Black Hole Sun- Kieron sticks his sword within the ground and stretches his arms out to the side. His body becomes tense and starts to shake. A ball of fire that resembles the sun forms over his head and soon grows to a good size. This 'sun' implodes into more of a black hole that pushes forward toward the enemy to cause good damage and possible blindness. If the attack is strong enough, the enemy is swallowed by the black hole. The black hole would then go unstable and explode in a variety of different colored shards of light.
Biography: Kieron was born in Winhill, a small town that does not get too much attention from the rest of the world. It was here where he learned his skills in fighting monsters with his father and friends. He soon heard of the Balamb Garden from a journalist who had passed through. Kieron had the hopes of becoming a well paid SeeD who would get to see new things.

Gaia Username: ((NPC Character))
Character Name: Phinneas Cage
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Rank: Trainer
Guardian Force: None
Appearance: Phinneas
Personality: Calm and mild-mannered. He likes to joke around with the cadets and tends to not take some things seriously. He expects the best from the ones under him.
Magic Skills: Fire, Thunder, Blizzard, Esuna (Heals status ailments), Cure
Weapons: Specialized handgun.
Limit Break:
-Real Folk Blues- Phinneas empties every bullet except for the last one into the enemy. He charges toward the opponent and hits them with a flurry of punches and finally a roundhouse kick. As his body faces the enemy again, the gun is in front of the enemy's face and the last bullet is shot.
Biography: Phinneas lives most his life inside the Garden because he was a foster. Unlike many of the others, he knows Headmaster Strife personally. He could have become a SeeD but Phinneas would have rather teach his ways down to other kids...and make fun of them as well.

Gaia Username: azreal425
Character Name: Celia Amano
Age: 18
Gender: female
Rank: Cadet
Guardian Force: Leviathon
Appearance: Celia
Personality: When Celia arrived at Garden she was withdrawn and did not interact with her classmates for fear of them hating her for being a Sorceress or worse hurting them. As she grew older she became more outgoing. No she is popular around Garden and enjoys living there. Occasionally she drifts into her old quite ways, but soon snaps out of it.
Magic Skills: mid level attack magics (fira for example), high level healing magics (regan for example), and low level status aliments (blind for example)
Weapons: n/a she fights using her magic abilities
Limit Break: Sorceress’ Rage: When in a pinch Celia’s eyes turn black and her demeanor changes. She becomes the cruel Sorceress of legends and had access to a vast magic that is normally not in her battle repertoire.
Biography: At a very early age Celia washed up near Cid and Edea’s orphanage. It is suspected that she was a throw away from Dr. Odine’s lab, when she was found she had a lab tag it read: Celia Amano Sorceress: project terminated. After spending time at the orphanage it became apparent that Cid and Edea could not give Celia the care she needed. So she was sent off to Balamb Garden a place where she could learn to control her powers.

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Gaia Username: [`Ultimecia`]
Character Name: Rainer de Weistrasse
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Rank: Cadet
Guardian Force: Bahamut
Appearance: (Picture or profile, or both.)
Personality: Rainer is generally quiet, though not because she is shy, but because she's slightly anti-social. However, she likes to train with others. She can get mad pretty easily.
Magic Skills: Rainer uses healing spells and fire spells.
Weapons: A gunblade. It's long and pale blue, with darker blue swirling designs on it. The gunblade is see-through.
Limit Break: Slash and Burn. Rainer slices at her opponent and shoots them with burning bullets that cause third-degree burns at times.
Biography: Rainer grew up in the SeeD Garden in Balamb. Her parents live on a different continent, so she only rarely sees them. Rainer started using a gunblade after reading about Squall Leonheart. He is now her major idol.
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Gaia Username:Shunny Bunny
Character Name: Sagato Nagamashi
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Rank: Cadet
Guardian Force: Tonberry King heart
Appearance:
Sarashi (He has red eyes and blond hair.)
Personality: Sagato is one of those so call,"Lone Wolves" He works for himself unless it is someone he likes or respects and doesnt care for the feeling of others towards him. Sagato loves to make smart remarks towards his fellow classmates and tends to call them by nicknames that he produces from his mind then using their real names.He isnt popular at all in the Garden, infact you could all say that he isnt even liked there because of his coldness towards others. But when he hangs with poeple that he likes, he is cool towards them and talks in a casual tone then he would with others.
Magic Skills: Sagato uses more of the physical attacks then he does with magic offensive and healing, the only healing magic that he has strapped on him is Cure, the rest he uses some mid-level attack magic, but only has Fira, and Thundra and then last the low ones.
Weapons: Knuckle Claws
Limit Break: Speed Strike: It lets the user able to use incredible speed, and yet it has it's ups and downs on it. The user can strike it's enemies quickly and swiftly before they can even blink, but in return for the god like speed the user is weaken afterwards to almost the brink of exhausted in battle, so it is a one use attack mostly til the energy is regained, unless the person is healed constantly.
Biography: Sagato father was in the military, his mother had driven herself to getting a divorce when he was only a baby and it was there in the military that he was raised at a young age to be a soldier and a killer, which explains a bit of his personality. He doesnt know the word love because his father always threated him as a crud under his foot then a child, when his dear daddy died from a monster attack, Sagato found himself in the Gardens care at the mere age of ten. Sagato learned more things from there on in the Garden, about the other worlds and yet he still doesnt respect it.

Gaia Username: Ruby_emo
Character Name: Ruby Hockenbury
Age: 16
Gender: female
Rank: Cadet
Guardian Force: Siren
Appearance: Ruby
Personality: Ruby is extremely cheerful and naïve. She wants to believe in the best in people. She a little clueless about most things and falls easily in and out of love with people. Except for the one she followed to Balamb.
Magic Skills: healing and status aliments
Weapons: A light fencing blade
Limit Break: One thousand ribbon slash. Ruby slashes her enemy one thousand times, the cuts are shallow and thin creating the visual effect of bloody ribbon all over the body.
Biography: Ruby came from the Winhill following her childhood crush. She originally wanted a job at the library but soon found out that she had special knack for battle. Now she is a Cadet and working toward the goal of becoming a SeeD.
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Gaia Username: Kaji Motomiya
Character Name: Alan Rhodes
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Rank: Cadet
Guardian Force: Diablos
Appearance: Alan Rhodes
Personality: Alan, though calm, is merciless, battle and personality wise. He despises his father for what he did to his brother and his eye, and prefers to take things into his own hands. Despite his independance, he is a reliable partner who will never let his comrades die. Because of this, he's hardly ever taken seriously. While being cold and heartless around others, he's got a soft spot when he's alone. When pushed over the limit, Alan can release his angry side. It's all his negative emotions being let out, and when it's over, he becomes cold and lonely once again. He's always, however, nice to his older brother.
Magic Skills: Status Ailements, as well as Thunder, Thundara, and Thundaga
Weapons: Long Sword and Martial Arts
Limit Break: Starcatto - Only available in Long Sword mode. A series of slashes that work in a pattern. The first slash is an upwards slash, followed by a downward diagonal slash the opposite direction. Third slash is a diagonal slash outward, though more lower than the first one, and is followed by a horizontal slash. Finally, it ends with a diagonal slash downwards, the same angle as the third. In the end, the slashes form a pentagram on the enemy with the slashes, thus, STARcatto.
Zen - Only available in Martial Arts mode. This is a series of five elemental techniques, each a unique style. Each of them empowers each other, depending on the element of the attack.
Metal: Kinzoku no Tora no Tsume - A vigorous rapid strike using the palm.
Water: Doragon no Yabu Retsu - A series of flowing kicks.
Wood: Seishitsu no Tate - An exploding guard using the forearms.
Fire: Moeru Hikou - A burning uppercut, followed by somersaults.
Earth: Sekai no Tan - The end of the limit break. Using the earth's power, Alan unleashes a giant hell of a blast from his palms.
Biography: When their mother died, the brothers Rhodes were always constantly beaten by their father back at Balamb. Day after day, they'd have to suffer to his beatings, mostly the elder brother, Allister. It was then that Alan was fed up with it. Using his own strength, he fought back against his father, ending up killing him. It was an act of self-defense, so he was given a light trial. His older brother bailed him out of prison in Timber. His brother made it as an instructor in Balamb Garden, and wanted Alan to join him, as the only family he had left.

Gaia Username: Kaji Motomiya
Character Name: Allister Rhodes
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Rank: Instructor
Guardian Force: The Brothers (No, seriously)
Appearance: |+|Allister Rhodes|+|
Personality: Allister is a kind young man who treats everyone like his family. He's everyone's favorite "Big Brother," who's always there to pick them up when they fall. He's usually solving other people's problems over his own because he couldn't stand to see them in the same boat as his brother, who is always in pain ever since that day. As Alan respects him lots, Allister does likewise and acts as an older brother, a father, and a best friend to Alan. Though, he's a bit forgetful at times, and probably should teach Alan about adolesence sometime later...He's sometimes blunt when he's being nice.
Magic Skills: Healing, as well as null magic, such as Meteor, Flare, Ultima, etc.
Weapons: Throwing Knives
Limit Break: Hell's Rain - It's not blood rain, but a hell of alot of knives. It's an attack similar to the Jumbo Cactaur's 10,000 Needles. The user throws a whole bunch of knives nonstop until the 10,000th knife is thrown.
Biography: When their mother died, the brothers Rhodes were always constantly beaten by their father back at Balamb. Day after day, they'd have to suffer to his beatings, mostly the elder brother, Allister. Allister was then invited by Balamb Garden to become a SeeD. Like every other trainee, he started off as a Cadet and worked his way as a SeeD, eventually qualifying as a instructor. But he heard what his brother had done and traveled to Timber. With what gil he had left, he bailed his brother out and asked him to join him as a Cadet in Balamb Garden. No parents, the brothers were reunited.

Gaia Username:King of Rogues
Character Name:Akira Natsumoto
Age:19
Gender: Male
Rank:Cadet
Guardian Force:Ifrit
Appearance: Black hair, instead of orange though
Personality:Cold, and emotionless at first, well most of the time, when impressed will insult rather than congratulate. Believes that the ends always justify the means, and not one to back down if it means getting something he wants. Likes to think that he is above feelings, and uses his head more than his heart, and believes that those who do succumb to their emotions are weak, and shouldn't be aloud to be a warrior. Has a very high sense of honor, and trains with his two swords constantly, to become the strongest member of SeeD
Magic Skills: Uses mainly Ice, and will occasionally use Healing
Weapons: Two simple Katana. The left is slightly shorter than the right, to give more control, while the right maintains it's size to inflict more damage
Limit Break: Absolute Frost-As he does his regular two attack strike, the enemy suffers from a Diamond Dust like attack-Weak damage that increases as he levels
Biography: Orphaned and taken to one of the Gardens by a SeeD member, and dedicated every waking moment to earing his respect. The SeeD member who saved him, died four years ago, and led to Akira's cold personality, no longer wanting to become attached to anybody for fear of losing someone else he cares about.