Player Name: Amanda E-mail: n/a Preferred Contact:ravenclawed Timezone: PST Current Characters in Victory Road: None
Character Name: Hope Estheim Series: Final Fantasy XIII Timeline:End of Lightning Returns Canon Resource Links:Here
Personality: Hope was really your typical 14 year old teenager who was thrown into a situation that no one can really imagine as all he did was hang out with friends, go to school, and visit a festival to have some fun with his mother (along with being angry over his father breaking yet another promise). He was a very naive, sensitive, and insecure child, whose insecurities tended to stem from relying on his mother for protection and confiding in her, but also being rather distant from his father, who tended to break his promises after Hope had idolized him a lot during his childhood. He can be emotional when his emotions get the best of him, although he tries his best to keep his feelings to himself.
Hope was also your "typical" adolescent that grew up in a place that lacked any sort of physical conflict or warfare. He didn't really know how the world worked, given his age, and so he tended to either hide behind others, clinging to them for support (namely Vanille and Lightning) or he would rather run from a battle. He also tended to run from his problems as well, especially ones that he knew he couldn't change, like when his mother was killed during the Purge. He blamed Snow despite knowing that it really wasn't Snow's fault his mother died, although he did have a slight hand in it.
It was Vanille who provided the emotional support for Hope, in the beginning, helping him try and deal with the horrors he was facing, such as being hunted down like an animal because he was unwillingly turned into a l'Cie, specifically by a Pulse fal'Cie. This meant he was an enemy of Cocoon and he was viewed by the Cocoon residents with horror and terror. But it was when he chose to follow Lightning, viewing her as a sort of surrogate older sibling/mother figure, that he began to grow as an individual. He matured and learned to deal with his emotions better and he also becomes an efficient fighter, able to take care of himself or hold off until his friends arrived. He opened up more, taking comfort in the new friends he has made in the other l'Cie despite how different they were from each other. All of them were older than him, all of them essentially adults. But he became just as essential as the rest of them. He learned to not be so angry at Snow for what happened to his mother, soon regarding him like the goofy older brother. Fang was very much like an older sister to him, for perhaps the same reasons Lightning was as well. Sazh was easily the resident dad of the group, something Hope needed since he couldn't be with his actual father during his run.
Going to Gran Pulse allowed him to learn to also ask for help when he needed it, as shown when his brand had grown a bit further and he collapsed. He had come to believe he was a burden to the group and had become distressed, but the others showed him that they would never leave him behind. His Eidolon, Alexander, showed up then and he learned to control it. It was here he learned that when they (the l'Cie) have reached their lowest point, the Eidolons reach out to bring them out of that slump, opening them up to change and growth.
Hope is also a smart individual, observant and insightful. He sees the situations as they happen and decides what to do for their next step, such as taking the plane to Pulse when the others weren't sure they should go down there or, again, figuring out just why the Eidolons appear at random times for each of them. It's also from this intuition that he realizes that he can't just rely on others, clinging to them like he had been or want to just go back to his old life. He realizes that he needs to think on his own, act on his own, make his own choices for his future, his fate, and no one else's. It's with this new found maturity that Hope finds it in him to reconcile with his father, allowing them to rekindle their distant relationship. Hope ends up being one of the more positive people in the group by the end of the game, living up to his namesake as he gives hope to others, to push them to keep going and defy their fates as Pulse l'Cie.
In XIII-2, as the majority of his development happened in the first game, his personality is only further shown to have grown as Hope becomes the director of the Academy, an intelligent and charismatic leader that eventually becomes the hope for humanity when the timeline collapses. His personality doesn't change much when he is an adult aside from the added maturity as he reveals he still has his moments of doubts and vulnerability due to his time as a l'Cie and the actions he had taken during that time. He wants to atone for those sins and that is why he works so hard to bring humanity to their feet without the machinations of the fal'Cie. It's also fairly clear that despite his doubts and emotional vulnerability, he shows a certain emotional distance from others as it's clear that when he jumps to 400AF, no one is left to keep him in his current time as all his friends and family are dead, gone, or jumping around the timeline. It's very likely that despite his hopes to see everyone again, there's a doubt and fear that he never will or that they may not stay long because it's been happening. Nonetheless, Hope does his best and he is a very well regarded individual throughout the Academy and even throughout time.
In Lightning Returns, he retains much of his adult personality although Bhunivelze had taken his emotions away, Hope often citing that the memories he has still feel as those he is watching them through someone else's eyes. Regardless of his lack of his emotion, his devotion to Lightning and saving the souls of what remained of humanity is obvious despite this disconnect his had up to and after Lightning inevitably saves his heart and soul from Bhunivelze, connecting him back to his former self.
Hope started out as your typical emotional teenager, yet in the end, he grows and matures into something more. He learns that he can't just keep his emotions to himself, blame others for things he can't control and, most of all, that he needs to think for himself. That he has friends and family to count on, to ask for help, and to also know that he is his own person. l'Cie or not, Hope Estheim wasn't named Hope for no reason. He gives hope to his friends and ultimately helps end the fal'Cie rule on Cocoon, freeing the people and allowing them to live under their own control.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Trainer Starter: Minccino Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples RP Sample:Empatheias Intro Thread and Here. I think the first link is just shy of one month, but it's the most recent I have aside from the Victory Road TDM, so I'll link both!
Victory Road Sample: It was all just a bit too much, even for one Hope Estheim. Having someone call themselves "mom", despite very clearly not being his mother, still being in his 14 year old body, not at all being reborn in the new world that he and his friends were destined to go, to maybe live a quieter life, healing his damaged heart from God's touch and all that he had suffered these past thousand years. To be home, again. And, to top it off, he was left here on his own to go on some new journey to... catch little monsters like the one who was following behind him as he walked through the forest? He was, in no uncertain terms, far too old for this crap.
Hope abruptly stopped and kicked viciously at a rock in his path, watching it soar and ignoring his now sore into the bushes. He also let out a scream, one the nearly sent Minccino, his Pokemon, scrambling away. But once it saw Hope go to his knees, breathless and struggling to keep it together, it approached its trainer and laid a tiny paw on his thigh with a soft sound. The boy looked at the creature and sighed heavily, brows furrowed and lips pursed to keep from crying and breaking down completely. He closed his eyes. "I'm sorry, I didn't... mean to scare you."
He gripped his pants at the knees, taking a breath. His eyes shot open when his companion suddenly crawled up his arm and perched itself right on his head. It was so absurd, Hope couldn't help but be distracted by his current thoughts, eyes looking up as Minccino stared down at his trainer with a smile and a chirp. "What... are you doing?"
The big ears, the head tilt, Hope had to admit that it was adorable. He would have to find out the gender soon enough and maybe... maybe more about this world. His thoughts slowly circled back but after letting out his frustrations, however brief, he did feel somewhat better. The fact that he could feel again, cycle through his emotions again, it was frustrating as it was satisfying. To be in control again.
"Alright... you can stay up there." Hope said, standing up once more and brushing off his clothes. He scrubbed at his face and took another breath. "I guess this place will have to do as the new world. I'll learn more about this place... and my place in it. Will you help me?"
Minccino nodded with a cry and wriggled a bit on his head, eliciting a chuckle at the odd sensation. Hope may be the only one here, but he's had to learn the world on his own once before. He could do again and maybe, this time, he'll meet his friends along the way.
Hope Estheim | Final Fantasy XIII
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Character
Name: Hope Estheim
Series: Final Fantasy XIII
Timeline:End of Lightning Returns
Canon Resource Links: Here
Personality: Hope was really your typical 14 year old teenager who was thrown into a situation that no one can really imagine as all he did was hang out with friends, go to school, and visit a festival to have some fun with his mother (along with being angry over his father breaking yet another promise). He was a very naive, sensitive, and insecure child, whose insecurities tended to stem from relying on his mother for protection and confiding in her, but also being rather distant from his father, who tended to break his promises after Hope had idolized him a lot during his childhood. He can be emotional when his emotions get the best of him, although he tries his best to keep his feelings to himself.
Hope was also your "typical" adolescent that grew up in a place that lacked any sort of physical conflict or warfare. He didn't really know how the world worked, given his age, and so he tended to either hide behind others, clinging to them for support (namely Vanille and Lightning) or he would rather run from a battle. He also tended to run from his problems as well, especially ones that he knew he couldn't change, like when his mother was killed during the Purge. He blamed Snow despite knowing that it really wasn't Snow's fault his mother died, although he did have a slight hand in it.
It was Vanille who provided the emotional support for Hope, in the beginning, helping him try and deal with the horrors he was facing, such as being hunted down like an animal because he was unwillingly turned into a l'Cie, specifically by a Pulse fal'Cie. This meant he was an enemy of Cocoon and he was viewed by the Cocoon residents with horror and terror. But it was when he chose to follow Lightning, viewing her as a sort of surrogate older sibling/mother figure, that he began to grow as an individual. He matured and learned to deal with his emotions better and he also becomes an efficient fighter, able to take care of himself or hold off until his friends arrived. He opened up more, taking comfort in the new friends he has made in the other l'Cie despite how different they were from each other. All of them were older than him, all of them essentially adults. But he became just as essential as the rest of them. He learned to not be so angry at Snow for what happened to his mother, soon regarding him like the goofy older brother. Fang was very much like an older sister to him, for perhaps the same reasons Lightning was as well. Sazh was easily the resident dad of the group, something Hope needed since he couldn't be with his actual father during his run.
Going to Gran Pulse allowed him to learn to also ask for help when he needed it, as shown when his brand had grown a bit further and he collapsed. He had come to believe he was a burden to the group and had become distressed, but the others showed him that they would never leave him behind. His Eidolon, Alexander, showed up then and he learned to control it. It was here he learned that when they (the l'Cie) have reached their lowest point, the Eidolons reach out to bring them out of that slump, opening them up to change and growth.
Hope is also a smart individual, observant and insightful. He sees the situations as they happen and decides what to do for their next step, such as taking the plane to Pulse when the others weren't sure they should go down there or, again, figuring out just why the Eidolons appear at random times for each of them. It's also from this intuition that he realizes that he can't just rely on others, clinging to them like he had been or want to just go back to his old life. He realizes that he needs to think on his own, act on his own, make his own choices for his future, his fate, and no one else's. It's with this new found maturity that Hope finds it in him to reconcile with his father, allowing them to rekindle their distant relationship. Hope ends up being one of the more positive people in the group by the end of the game, living up to his namesake as he gives hope to others, to push them to keep going and defy their fates as Pulse l'Cie.
In XIII-2, as the majority of his development happened in the first game, his personality is only further shown to have grown as Hope becomes the director of the Academy, an intelligent and charismatic leader that eventually becomes the hope for humanity when the timeline collapses. His personality doesn't change much when he is an adult aside from the added maturity as he reveals he still has his moments of doubts and vulnerability due to his time as a l'Cie and the actions he had taken during that time. He wants to atone for those sins and that is why he works so hard to bring humanity to their feet without the machinations of the fal'Cie. It's also fairly clear that despite his doubts and emotional vulnerability, he shows a certain emotional distance from others as it's clear that when he jumps to 400AF, no one is left to keep him in his current time as all his friends and family are dead, gone, or jumping around the timeline. It's very likely that despite his hopes to see everyone again, there's a doubt and fear that he never will or that they may not stay long because it's been happening. Nonetheless, Hope does his best and he is a very well regarded individual throughout the Academy and even throughout time.
In Lightning Returns, he retains much of his adult personality although Bhunivelze had taken his emotions away, Hope often citing that the memories he has still feel as those he is watching them through someone else's eyes. Regardless of his lack of his emotion, his devotion to Lightning and saving the souls of what remained of humanity is obvious despite this disconnect his had up to and after Lightning inevitably saves his heart and soul from Bhunivelze, connecting him back to his former self.
Hope started out as your typical emotional teenager, yet in the end, he grows and matures into something more. He learns that he can't just keep his emotions to himself, blame others for things he can't control and, most of all, that he needs to think for himself. That he has friends and family to count on, to ask for help, and to also know that he is his own person. l'Cie or not, Hope Estheim wasn't named Hope for no reason. He gives hope to his friends and ultimately helps end the fal'Cie rule on Cocoon, freeing the people and allowing them to live under their own control.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Minccino
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: Empatheias Intro Thread and Here. I think the first link is just shy of one month, but it's the most recent I have aside from the Victory Road TDM, so I'll link both!
Victory Road Sample: It was all just a bit too much, even for one Hope Estheim. Having someone call themselves "mom", despite very clearly not being his mother, still being in his 14 year old body, not at all being reborn in the new world that he and his friends were destined to go, to maybe live a quieter life, healing his damaged heart from God's touch and all that he had suffered these past thousand years. To be home, again. And, to top it off, he was left here on his own to go on some new journey to... catch little monsters like the one who was following behind him as he walked through the forest? He was, in no uncertain terms, far too old for this crap.
Hope abruptly stopped and kicked viciously at a rock in his path, watching it soar and ignoring his now sore into the bushes. He also let out a scream, one the nearly sent Minccino, his Pokemon, scrambling away. But once it saw Hope go to his knees, breathless and struggling to keep it together, it approached its trainer and laid a tiny paw on his thigh with a soft sound. The boy looked at the creature and sighed heavily, brows furrowed and lips pursed to keep from crying and breaking down completely. He closed his eyes. "I'm sorry, I didn't... mean to scare you."
He gripped his pants at the knees, taking a breath. His eyes shot open when his companion suddenly crawled up his arm and perched itself right on his head. It was so absurd, Hope couldn't help but be distracted by his current thoughts, eyes looking up as Minccino stared down at his trainer with a smile and a chirp. "What... are you doing?"
The big ears, the head tilt, Hope had to admit that it was adorable. He would have to find out the gender soon enough and maybe... maybe more about this world. His thoughts slowly circled back but after letting out his frustrations, however brief, he did feel somewhat better. The fact that he could feel again, cycle through his emotions again, it was frustrating as it was satisfying. To be in control again.
"Alright... you can stay up there." Hope said, standing up once more and brushing off his clothes. He scrubbed at his face and took another breath. "I guess this place will have to do as the new world. I'll learn more about this place... and my place in it. Will you help me?"
Minccino nodded with a cry and wriggled a bit on his head, eliciting a chuckle at the odd sensation. Hope may be the only one here, but he's had to learn the world on his own once before. He could do again and maybe, this time, he'll meet his friends along the way.