History of Vincent

Bloodfist · Posted: 20/12/2007 23:42 Post subject: History of Vincent

History of Vincent

Vincent Valentine was a Turk and was selected to supervise the science project led by his farther, Grimoire Valentine. He fell in love a scientist who was assisting Grimoire in the project, called Lucrecia Crescent. When Grimoire died Lucrecia left Vincent, because she felt guilty about his father’s death. Vincent later catches up with Lucrecia when observing the Jenova Project based in Nibelheim led by Professor Gast. Here Vincent proposed to Lucrecia but she turned him down and started a relationship with Hojo who was also working on the Jenova Project.

Lucrecia fell pregnant for the baby to become the next experiment, the effects of Jenova Cells on an unborn child. Vincent objected to using living subjects being experimented on, especially Lucrecia but she continued regardless. The experiment made her become increasingly ill and Vincent confronted Hojo about it. Hojo ended the conflict by shooting Vincent in the stomach. Hojo then shut him in a Lifestream Pod in the Mount Nibel Mako Reactor where Lucrecia infected Vincent with contaminated Mako, G Substance, and became Chaos.

Vincent, being influenced by Chaos, filled with rage and broke free of his pod, Lucrecia used some meteria that could control Chaos and put Vincent into a deep sleep. When he woke up on the operating table in the basement of Shin-Ra Mansion but Hojo and Lucrecia had already gone. Vincent was distraught with rage about the modifications to his body and shut himself in the coffin. Hojo locks the coffin and the room, places the key in the safe and hides the combination and sets out the clues to find it again.
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Bloodfist · Posted: 20/12/2007 23:49 Post subject:

Vincent appears as a tall, thin, brooding man with long, unkempt negru hair wearing a ragged red and black cloak over black clothes. His left arm below the elbow is covered by a metal claw. It has been previously suggested that this is an entirely mechanical prosthetic, but the refined character estetică used in Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus shows that there is most likely an ordinary, albeit gloved, hand underneath the golden claws, presumably attached to a similarly ordinary arm. Though, some fans still argue against it. His cloak covers the lower half of his face and is held closed by a series of buckles. His eyes are distinctly coloured red. This is natural, not caused by experimentation on him, as his father Grimoire Valentine has identical eyes (Lucrecia notes this in a Dirge flashback) As of Advent Children, his weapon of choice changed to a triple-barrel revolver named "Cerberus". The name derives from the dog's heads that adorn each of the three barrels as well as the silver charm that hangs from the hilt known as the Dirge.

Character designer Tetsuya Nomura has explained that Vincent Valentine's character shifted from that of Horror researcher, to detective, to chemist, finally arriving at the figure of a former member of the Shinra Company's Turks with a tragic past, only part of which involves being used as a human test subject. It has been further explained that his crimson mantle was added to symbolize the idea of Vincent carrying a heavy weight—related to death—on his shoulders.

Vincent is a playable character in the PlayStation version of Ehrgeiz along with Tifa, Cloud, Sephiroth, Yuffie and Zack, though — like the other Final Fantasy VII characters featured in the game — he has no storyline in the game. His alternate costume is his Turk uniform seen in flashbacks in the original game.

Tetsuya Nomura commented in an interview that he wanted Vincent to appear in the Kingdom Hearts series. Instead, he opted to tip Cloud's look in the series after Vincent due to Cloud sharing many of the dark traits that Vincent shows in Final Fantasy VII. Cloud bears a red cape that covers the lower half of his face, and has golden claws on the fingers of his left hand.

Biography

Vincent was once a member of the Turks thirty years before the events of Final Fantezie VII. He was assigned to supervise The Jenova Project in Nibelheim, where he fell in love with a scientist named Lucrecia Crescent, an assistant to Professor Hojo.

At first unknown to Vincent, Lucrecia once was an assistant to his father Grimoire Valentine on the discovery of Chaos and Omega. Grimoire died in an accident concerning Chaos and Omega, pushing Lucrecia away when the tests of the experiment went wrong. Vincent later discovered her link with his father and asked Lucrecia why she never told him. When he questioned her, she fled from him. He found Lucrecia later and tried to express his feelings for her, but she didn’t want to be with him as she felt too guilty about his father’s death because, she told him, it was all her fault. Ultimately she entered a relationship with her associate Hojo instead.

Lucrecia became pregnant by Hojo soon afterwards, and her unborn child was to be part of the Jenova Project, which was an investigation into the effect of Jenova cells on an unborn child. Vincent was strongly opposed to this and confronted Hojo to ask him if what he heard was true. As Lucrecia entered the encounter, Hojo told him it had nothing to do with him and that they were scientists; they knew what they were doing. Vincent then turned to Lucrecia if she was sure this was what she wanted, and she retorted that it concerned her and not him, so she was sure. In the interest of science, she decided to proceed with the treatment.

After a while, Lucrecia became very sick and started to see visions of what would become of her unborn son in the future, Sephiroth. Outraged, Vincent confronted Hojo in the Shinra Mansion's underground laboratory. Hojo, angered by Vincent’s approach, pulled out a gun from his lab coat and shot Vincent in the stomach.

Lucrecia tried to find a way to save him. Lucrecia started to look through her unfinished thesis on Chaos, Omega and the Lifestream. Hojo caught her looking at her files and mocked her, saying she just wanted to use Vincent to prove her thesis, as many of her colleagues thought it was “unrealistic”. Lucrecia didn’t want to believe she was doing it for that, so she continued to try to save him. Lucrecia injected him with stagnant Lifestream which revived Vincent and turned him into the beast Chaos. However, due to Chaos becoming violent and attacking anything in its way, Lucrecia put the materia called "Protomateria" inside him to keep Chaos and its feral nature under control.

Later, Hojo proceeded to use his body as the subject for experiments that resulted in Vincent's body becoming stronger and capable of transforming into beasts. Hojo's experiments on Vincent, however, ended up being only a partial success. This way, Vincent was able to be such a perfect host for Chaos because Hojo made his body so strong and in the end immortal.

Later Vincent awoke on the operating table. Due to Hojo's metamorphose experimentation, Vincent's anatomy was altered to the point where he could temporarily change his physical form into monstrous enities (this also is the reason Chaos bonded with Vincent so well). Vincent responded to his modified body with both anguish and rage. He believed that this was his punishment for his “sin”, not being able to save Lucrecia from the Jenova Project. He punished himself further by putting himself in a coffin in the Shinra Manor basement, where Hojo locked the door with a key, which he locked inside a safe along with one of his experimental monsters that attack anyone who opened it. Because of Hojo's experiments, Vincent's age remains physically at 27, not 60, which is his real age in Dirge of Cerberus. He is also briefly encountered in Before Crisis, the mobile phone game concerning the storyline of the Turks.

Final Fantasy VII

After sleeping for thirty years, Vincent is found by Cloud, who had managed to retrieve the key from the safe. Vincent is surprised to hear that Cloud knows Sephiroth, and demands an explanation. Cloud tells him about everything that had happened with Sephiroth and the atrocities he had committed, but this only served to make Vincent feel even more guilt for his failure to stop the experiment, so he shuts himself back in the coffin. After some further coaxing from Cloud, he emerges from the coffin again and tells who he was and about Lucrecia and how she was Sephiroth's true mother, and then he shuts himself back in the coffin. But when Cloud leaves the room and begins to head back upstairs, Vincent catches up to him and joins Cloud after learning that his group may meet up with Hojo sooner or later.

For the remainder of FFVII, Vincent plays a very minor role, with very little story alură centered around him (even less than Yuffie, the game's other optional character). The only other time that there is any focus on Vincent is when they use the submarine to travel through an underwater cave and surface in a small lake surrounded by mountains. They find a cave in one of the surrounding mountains, and inside the cave Vincent finds Lucrecia, who was now full of pain and regret for all that she had done. Lucrecia asks Vincent if Sephiroth is still alive, but he lies to her, telling her that he is dead in order to spare her the pain of learning about the atrocities that Sephiroth had committed.

It should also be noted that if he is in the main party before the battle with Hojo, Hojo informs Vincent that Hojo was Sephiroth's father, and Vincent reacts in disbelief. He then claims that it should be Hojo who was punished by sleeping in a coffin, not Vincent.

Due to Vincent's status as an optional character of the game, he is noticeably absent from the ending Final Fantasy VII. This is because the game's ending was done in FMV so he could not simply be omitted from the scene as he could during normal gameplay; his presence in the game's ending would only serve to confuse players who did not unlock him more than absence would for players who did. However, this was later retconned in the introduction scene to Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII which shows Vincent and Yuffie (who was also absent from the game's ending) aiding Reeve in the evacuation of Midgar just before Meteor was about to crash into Midgar, which would imply that they had left the Northern Crater for Midgar ahead of the rest of the group. While on the Sister Ray, Vincent realized that Hojo may still be alive. Apparently he had survived the earlier fight with Cloud's group and was able to make his way over a computer terminal that was on the control platform, and it is later revealed that he stored his mind into virtual memory and uploaded it onto the net. Hojo himself was just barely alive, not even seeming conscious. Vincent prepared to finish the man off, but Meteor had already begun to crash into Midgar before he could, so he was forced to flee and was rescued by Yuffie on a hovercraft and together they escaped from Midgar.

Advent Children

After Meteorfall, Vincent reappeared two years later at the Forgotten City to rescue Cloud from Kadaj and his gang by transforming into an intangible monster evocative of his cloak. He revealed to Cloud what he knew about Kadaj's intentions and that he rescued two of the Turks, Tseng and Elena, from them. He later showed up to help his friends defeat Bahamut SIN. It was Vincent who told his friends not to help Cloud and let him face his own personal battle against Sephiroth. He was seen in the end with all of his friends celebrating the defeat of Sephiroth and Geostigma and even appeared in a picture all of them took together.

Dirge of Cerberus

A year after the events of Advent Children, Vincent was called by Reeve with an important matter in Kalm. There, Vincent becomes the prime target of the Deepground Soldiers. It would soon be revealed that they are after the Protomateria inside his body. Once removed from his body, Vincent begins to feel the stress of Chaos and its desire to kill. He faces the DGS leader, Weiss, who has been possessed by the digitized mind of Hojo while attempting to find a cure for the disease he had contracted on the net. Hojo explains how the alterations he did to his body made him a perfect host for Chaos and what he plans to do next. Vincent and Hojo have their final battle, which ended with Omega's awakening and the surfacing of Chaos. Thanks to the efforts of Shelke, however, Vincent is able to regain his consciousness while in Chaos's form and remember the truth of Lucrecia's wishes. While he survived the onslaught, Vincent was purged of Chaos during the final attack on Omega during its ascension from Midgar. Chaos's purpose is fulfilled and he returned to the planet. Vincent thanks Lucrecia as she was the reason he survived all these years and leaves her resting place, able to begin his life anew finally.

Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode

Between the events of Dirge of Cerberus, Vincent took a WRO chopper to Nibelheim at the Shinra Mansion to find out why the Deep Ground was after him. His chopper was attacked by the Deepground.

Characteristics and abilities

Vincent is known for being adept at using different forms of firearms due to his training under the Turks.

Due to Hojo's reconstruction of Vincent he does not age and possesses a number of supernatural abilities, like enhanced speed, agility, stamina and strength.

In Dirge of Cerberus his melee attacks involved various kicks and using his metal claw, with a purple aura trailing behind them. In Final Fantasy VII, Vincent transforms into four different creatures as part of his limit breaks: a bipedal version of a Final Fantasy VII Behemoth, the Galian Beast; the Frankenstein's monster-like Death Gigas; Hellmasker, a homage to Jason Voorhees; and the vampire-like Chaos. In Advent Children, he took on a flying ghostly red form evocative of his cloak, and during the fight with Bahamut SIN, at one point he jumps up, flame spouting from his cape. Concerning his inner demons, the Galian Beast was remodelled into a more humanoid form with the ability to shoot homing fireballs and unleash seismic shockwaves, and Chaos was altered to resemble Vincent with demonic features, such as pale skin, yellow eyes, spiked-black hair, monster fangs, and frayed bat-like wings. Chaos had many powers such as a red/black beam that he used to kill Azul; was able to magically recreate his Death Penalty weapon which shot black/white death-rays; a melee attack that would release a red aura wherever he struck and ended the combo with a strange ball of energy, and an attack where he charges red or purple energy around him that he used to charge into Omega and destroy him.

Vincent's age, as provided in official materials, never changes: It remains fixed at 27, which is presumably how old he was when Hojo killed him. In contrast, the other main characters do "age", which can be easily confirmed by comparing their ages in the game to those provided for Advent Children, which occurs two years after Final Fantasy VII.

Further, Vincent's character designer, Tetsuya Nomura, has stated that Vincent was left immortal due to the experimentation conducted on him. However, following real time chronology, Vincent is said to be approximately 60 years old as of the events in FF7: Dirge of Cerberus
^ It is also interesting to note that brass claws are an ancient Greek characteristic typical to monsters (such as a gorgon, with brass claws and wings), which would be in line with Vincent's monstrous associations.
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Sasuke Uchiha · Posted: 04/01/2008 06:41 Post subject:

deci asta ii istoria lui Vincent, acum inteleg de ce iti place asa de mult :-)

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Bloodfist · Posted: 13/01/2008 16:45 Post subject:

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Bloodfist · Posted: 13/01/2008 16:50 Post subject:

S I M I L A R C H A R A C T E R S

Auron of Final Fantasy X

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Most fans of Vincent who played Final Fantasy X for the first time immediately noticed the similarities between these two characters. Aside from their physical resemblances including long dark hair and red cloaks, they're both very reserved and tend to say the least out of their group. When they do speak, it is usually about the serious issues at hand, although sometimes they make a humorous sarcastic remark. Both are very private individuals who don't reveal much about their lives unless necessary. Probably the biggest similarity of all is that they're both dead, though there are some minor differences on how they both came to live again. Auron was simply never sent to the Farplane (place of the dead) while Hojo brought Vincent back to life. Gee, the more I think about it, it really doesn't surprise me that my favorite FFX character was Auron.

Squall Leonhart of Final Fantasy VIII

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I know that the two obviously don't look anything alike, but there are certain quirks about Squall that remind me of Vincent. The both of them started out as people who could care less about anything other than their own problems. For Squall, it was his mission and for Vincent, it was Lucrecia. However, the both of them made changes in their lives as the games progressed. Squall learned that it was okay to care for others despite past problems just as Vincent did. They're also very introverted, sensitive and caring, which are traits they're afraid to reveal to others.

Kaze of Kinal Fantezie Unlimited

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Kaze's golden arm has a certain familiarity to it, as does his cape, long hair, and cold expression. Much like Vincent, Kaze wields a gun and also suffered through the loss of a loved one. As is customary for characters with such tragic pasts, Kaze, like Vincent, became introverted and cool. Both also fight to întocmai revenge against those who took away everything they ever loved, though I think that Vincent has other, less "angry" reasons as well.

Inuyasha of Inuyasha

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Although Inuyasha's temperament is fierier than Vincent's, they have quite a few similarities history-wise. Both slept for a long period of time before being awoken. Inuyasha is half demon and Vincent also possesses demonic powers of his own. When both characters turn into their monstrous form, they lose control over their actions. Both lost their loves and because of this, they feel tremendous guilt and are distrustful of people, making them appear as careless loners. However, with the help of friends, they soon learn how to trust again.
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