Denzel

[Denzel]

Staring up at the sky stood a boy looking around at the unfamiliar landscape around him. This wasn’t Midgar, or Gaia that’s for sure. Folding his arms in front of his chest he stared at the ground at his feet as he made his first steps in this world. Was he all alone here, where was Cloud, and Tifa, and Marlene? Were they here too or was he all alone in this place with who knows what as monsters or people.

Finding a large rock outcropping he set himself down letting his legs dangle over the side as he leaned back on his hands. Wherever he was it sure had a strange moon, was that a crater in the side? Looks more like a tower than any moon though. He thought to himself as he took in the view of Cocoon held up by the crystal pillar in front of him. Back home he remembered watching the sky like this when Cloud was gone on longer deliveries waiting for him to come back home, here he wondered if Cloud was looking up at a sky that was the same and different as this one. With a quiet breath he placed a foot on the ground in support as he pushed himself up the rest of way to standing, taking in one last look at the crystal pillar before he continued walking. It actually looked kind of beautiful, like someone took a lot of care and work to make something like that.

Placing his hands in his pockets he went back to staring at his feet, kicking a pebble as he walked. He hadn’t been here long but so far there haven’t been any signs that people were actually here, friendly or otherwise. Until he found what looked to be an old abandoned ruin, maybe his luck was turning around after all. Stepping his way through the broken remains of old buildings Denzel kept looking around for anyone who might still be here. “H-hello? Is anyone still out here?” He called out rather softly to not attract monsters but tried to keep it loud enough for someone to hear him.

The boy picked his way through the ruins for over an hour before he found himself deeper underground of a relatively untouched part of the ruins. Whatever this was before it was either important enough to make this room last or someone was down here caring for it, the walls and stone looked a lot less worn down here than the rest of the site. As he stepped into the middle of the room a bright red barrier came up behind him blocking him from going back the way he came. Turning around quickly when he heard the noise he began pounding on the barrier trying to get it to open before turning back around to slide down the wall to a sitting position. Looking up from where he sat he saw a giant machine or at least looked like a machine to him, against the far wall as it seemingly came to life.

Getting back on his feet he took a moment to find an old pipe laying not far from it and picked it up thinking at least he had something to defend himself with like back home. Cautiously approaching the strange machine he started looking it over from a distance for any kind of control panel. It certainly didn’t look like any of the Mako Reactors that Shinra had built; it looked more complex like a robot or something. As he was looking it over the giant Fal’Cie picked the boy up and lifted him in the air flashing blurry out of focus images through his head. Although Denzel wasn’t paying much attention to the images as he was busy screaming and swinging his makeshift weapon trying to make the thing to let him go, which it did after a while causing the boy to pant heavily on his hands and knees before he blacked out.

After slowly opening his eyes again Denzel awoke to find himself in the same room as before but now whatever had grabbed him went back to being silent and the red barrier had disappeared allowing to escape back the way he came. After stumbling his way back down the halls he made it back to the entrance of the ruins and back on the field still clutching his head a bit in pain.

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[Denzel]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 400px; height: 380px; background-image:URL(http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy284/brooklynlolli/x0r3w0.png); border-left: 10px solid #1e1e1e; border-right: 10px solid #1e1e1e;] DENZEL L. Strife HEY THERE, THEY CALL ME DENZEL AND I'M CURRENTLY 12 YEARS OLD. I'M FROM THE WORLD OF GAIA WHERE I AM A WAITER AT 7TH HEAVEN. I GO FOR GIRLS AND I WILL THROW MY WEIGHT BEHIND NEUTRAL. ------------------------------------------------- Weapon: Metal Rods, I watched Aerith practice a bit with hers but I'm not very good at it yet. Abilities: Abilities, don't you need materia for that? (He has access to summons and the crystarium, but he doesn't know about them yet.) Personality: Denzel is quite resilient for his age and is sociable with others his age. Upon being orphaned he has become much more depressed and prone to bouts of anger, during which he may lash out or break something even if he never really meant too. When he does get parent figures Denzel does cheer up considerably and it almost appears like he's forgotten about being depressed until he's alone again to deal with the world on his own. He tries to keep any personal hardships to himself or cover them, like when he found out he had Geostigma. This shows he has a great amount of inner strength and not wanting others around him to feel worried or concerned about his condition, or it could be he's just afraid to face it to himself. History: ( Taken from the Final Fantasy Wiki) On the Way to a Smile. According to the novella, On the Way to a Smile: The Case of Denzel, Denzel grew up in a well-to-do family in Midgar's Sector 7. His father, Abel, worked for Shinra Electric Power Company, while his mother, Chloe, worked around the house. Denzel was eight years old during the events of Final Fantasy VII. It is also at this time that Abel had recently received a promotion and they were planning on moving to a new house in the upper-class Sector 5. Before they could move, however, Shinra had made plans to blow up the Sector 7 pillar in order to take out AVALANCHE's headquarters and place the blame on them. Abel had been informed of this, and attempted to get his family to Sector 5 before Sector 7's imminent destruction. Upon telling his family about the circumstances, Chloe panicked and rushed off to warn her friends and neighbors. Abel went to go look for her and had an associate of his named Arkham take Denzel to their new house in Sector 5. Abel promised Denzel that he and his mother would make it back in time, but they were unable to do so, and all Denzel could do was witness the destruction of Sector 7. The first day after the fall of Sector 7, Denzel lived alone in the house his family had planned on moving into. Arkham had said he would check in on him every once in awhile to make sure he was okay. Alone in his new home, it was not long before Denzel was overcome with emotions of anger and grief over the loss of his parents. He left the house looking for his parents, clinging to a small hope that they might have made it out in time. After walking around Sector 5 aimlessly, Denzel realized he was lost. When Denzel stopped to rest on the side of the road, he noticed a Shinra model airship, which he angrily threw at a nearby house and accidentally broke a window. The old woman who lived in the house, Ruvie Tuesti, came out to scold Denzel, but sympathized with him when she found out he lost both of his parents in Sector 7. Upon learning that Denzel lived alone, Ruvie let him live with her. For a time, Denzel and Ruvie led a peaceful life together, with the grief of losing his parents now less prominent. Denzel's days would mostly consist of helping Ruvie around the house and yard, doing mostly cleaning. When the Meteor appeared in the sky, he and Ruvie were shaken up, but continued to live out their lives and did not evacuate Midgar, as they considered it meaningless to do so if Meteor was going to destroy the world anyway. As Meteor began to crash down onto Midgar, Denzel and Ruvie awaited the end to come when the Lifestream came to destroy Meteor, and Ruvie's whole house filled with the white light of the Lifestream's presence. Ruvie protected Denzel from the Lifestream by throwing herself in its path. The next morning Denzel found Ruvie barely alive, and not long after that she died, one of the first victims of Geostigma. In the wake of Meteorfall, Denzel was found by a man named Gaskin who was helping get everyone who did not evacuate the slums. Denzel receives some help burying Ruvie's corpse from Gaskin and some other survivors, and then leaves with them to the railroad tracks, where he and the other survivors use them to descend Midgar's main pillar. On the way down, and after reaching the slums, Denzel witnessed a large amount of other people suffer and die from Geostigma (the earliest cases of it seemed to kill much faster than the later cases). While in the slums, Denzel and a group of orphaned kids his age began to make a living looking for scrap metal that people needed to build the new city of Edge in exchange for food. Denzel and his friends called themselves Triple S, for Sector Seven Scavengers. But when Geostigma took the life of Gaskin, a man who was viewed as somewhat of a leader to the survivors living in the ruins of Sector 7, the members of Triple S began to gradually leave and set off to live at homeless shelters in Edge. At first many of the kids, Denzel included, were too prideful to stop living independently as they had been. But once heavy machinery was brought into Sector 7 to clear away the ruins, they began to see very little business and food became more and more scarce. It was not long until the only remaining members of Triple S were Denzel and a boy named Rick. After Denzel made an offensive comment about people who lived in the slums, not realizing that Rick was originally a slum-dweller, Denzel found himself alone again. After an unsuccessful search for food, Denzel began to wander around the ruins of the slums. He eventually made his way to the Sector 5 slums, and there, just outside of Aerith's church, he came upon Cloud's bike, Fenrir. He noticed Cloud's phone hanging off the bike's handlebars and began to examine it. Denzel decided to call one of the numbers on the phone's incoming call list. The number he called was that of 7th Heaven in Edge and he was answered by Tifa, surprised to find the person calling is not Cloud. Denzel felt a sharp pain in his forehead, and, upon realizing there was black liquid dripping from his forehead, he knew he had Geostigma. He collapsed on the ground from the stigma, and was found by Cloud. Cloud felt that him finding Denzel was no coincidence, and thought Aerith brought Denzel to his bike so he could find him in his most desperate moment of need. So rather than simply dropping off Denzel at some hospital, Cloud brought him back home. Denzel recovered from his initial symptoms and told Tifa and Cloud about all that had happened to him up until that point. Because they felt responsible for what happened to Sector 7, both Tifa and Cloud felt it was their obligation to take care of Denzel, and Marlene was also happy to have a new friend of her age. Now finally having a place to call home, Denzel was able to pull his weight around, trying to be of as much help around the bar as he could. He also looked up to Cloud as his hero, and would wait for him to come home late at night so that they could spend time together. Denzel especially enjoyed hearing stories of the places Cloud went during his travels, as did Marlene, and both would listen to his stories late at night and ask Cloud as much as they could about the places they had been. Denzel still suffered from the effects of Geostigma, but he tried his best not to think about it or how it may soon lead to death. Advent Children Denzel's condition is worsening and he begins to lose hope. He hears about men who can cure Geostigma, and is taken with the other children to "be cured". The men are in fact Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo, who take Denzel and the others to the Forgotten Capital, where Kadaj has the children drink water tainted with his will. This water enables Geostigma to run its course, and allow a complete takeover of their bodies and minds by Jenova's will. Kadaj's group uses Denzel and the other kids to track down Jenova's remains, a plan which ultimately proves unsuccessful. Denzel is eventually freed from control during Bahamut SIN's attack. When he comes to, he finds Tifa, who had been hurt while trying to protect him, lying next to him, unconscious. Feeling angry that she has gotten hurt on his account, Denzel charges at the Bahamut, calling the monster a rather foul name, but is stopped short by Barret, who opens fire on the dragon along with the other member of AVALANCHE. Shortly thereafter, after a promise from Cloud to return home, Denzel goes back to 7th Heaven, where he and Marlene await the outcome of the battle. In the end, having missed Aerith's healing rain, Denzel is the first Geostigma victim Cloud cures by using the water infused with Lifestream pooled in the church. Aftermath Denzel and Marlene are not seen during the Deepground/Omega crisis the following year in Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-, as they were spirited away by Cloud and Tifa to some place where they would be safe from the Deepground. In the year following the Deepground crisis, Denzel decides he is tired of having everyone helping him and wants a chance to give back for all that had been done for him. Denzel requests an interview for the World Regenesis Organization, which was still accepting kids at the time. Denzel was to meet for the interview at Johnny's Heaven, an outdoor cafe owned by Johnny, Tifa's old friend from Nibelheim and regular customer in Sector 7. But when the interviewer arrives, Denzel is surprised to find that person interviewing him is none other than the head of the WRO, Reeve Tuesti himself. Reeve asks Denzel what his story is and why he wants to join the WRO. Reeve listens intently as Denzel relates his story to him and at the end of the interview, Johnny, who had been listening in the whole time, voices his objection to Denzel joining the WRO, thinking it would damage his image if the word got out that a kid was recruited by the WRO at his cafe, especially when that kid belonged to Tifa. Reeve tells Denzel that as of right then the WRO would no longer be accepting kids, his heart changed by the boy's story. As Reeve leaves, he thanks Denzel for taking care of his mother. Reeve produces a handkerchief made from the exact same pattern as the one that Ruvie gave Denzel, who realizes that Reeve is, in fact, Ruvie's son, whom she had always talked about. Johnny questions why Denzel wants to join the WRO and Denzel says he wants to be strong like Cloud. Johnny says that instead of a guy who swings a sword, it is a guy who rubs away the pain of getting all the girls, which Denzel declares is not the case, before leaving with encouragement that everyone, including the women and children, can be strong. Sometime during the year, Denzel and Cloud visit the outskirts of Midgar where yellow Flowers grow in the place where Zack died. Denzel asks if this was someone's grave and Cloud replies that the spot is where a hero began his journey.

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THE PERSON BEHIND THIS WONDERFUL CHARACTER IS GENERALLY CALLED LUNETH AND SITS AT 22. HE LIVES IN THE CENTRAL TIMEZONE AND FOUND THE SITE THROUGH AFLIATE. THE CUSTOM TITLE FOR THIS CHARACTER SHOULD BE...

The Unfortunate Rebounder

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[Denzel]

Brand: media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/10065/1315515-l_cie_brand_large.jpg located over his left eye where it's covered by his bangs most of the time.


Crystal: Sea-Green, the color of Mako to match his Crystarium.


Crystarium Color: Sea-Green


Focus: Find a way to end the violence between PSICOM and the Academy ~Fal'Cie vision showed to the new L'Cie includes the world ending to the chaos~


Focus Time:
3 years


Eidolon: ChuChulainn (awaiting approval)