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Folkmore Application
Nov. 28th, 2023 01:01 am★ Character Information ★
Character Name: Dion Lesage
Character Age: 28
Character Species: Human/Dominant
Current Health: Poor
Outfit: Dion is nearly always in full uniform as the leader of the Holy Order of the Knights Dragoon. Accented in silver, turquoise and white, it includes several layers, as well as gauntlets and boots. He also, beneath his sleeve and gauntlet has his right arm bandaged almost entirely from bicep to wrist.
Character Canon: Final Fantasy XVI
Link to History: Wiki Link
Canon Point: Just prior to facing Ultima in the final battle.
Canon Iteration: Original
Character Age: 28
Character Species: Human/Dominant
Current Health: Poor
Outfit: Dion is nearly always in full uniform as the leader of the Holy Order of the Knights Dragoon. Accented in silver, turquoise and white, it includes several layers, as well as gauntlets and boots. He also, beneath his sleeve and gauntlet has his right arm bandaged almost entirely from bicep to wrist.
Character Canon: Final Fantasy XVI
Link to History: Wiki Link
Canon Point: Just prior to facing Ultima in the final battle.
Canon Iteration: Original
★ Folkmore Roles & Attributes ★
Skills:
* Combat
* Battle Strategy
* Leadership
* Dragoon
* Religious/True Believer
* Righteous Justice
Canon Abilities:
* Dominant: Dion is the dominant of Bahamut and he can use his holy light magic at will. He can also semi-prime which is a partial transformation into the dragon Eikon, displaying draconic wings, a tail and scales. He can also prime completely and transform into the massive dragon Eikon. Each transformation brings forth an increase in his strength/abilities.
* Flare/Megaflare/Gigaflare/Teraflare/Zettaflare: A series of escalating attacks, all holy light based. They involve beams, blasts like fire breath and massive balls of light. Zettaflare is world ending, and so will not be useable in game. He can essentially wield holy light to his will.
* Dragoon: Several moves that involve things like Jump, Elusive Jump, High Jump and an attack that ties into his light magic, blasting everything around in a large AOE with light, that isn't specifically named. Dragoons jump much higher than most people and wield their lances deftly. Dion is capable of all of these, as shown frequently jumping and landing.
* Cursed: The cost of his magic takes a toll on Dion, like everyone else in Valisthea who can wield magic of some kind. The curse has progressed significantly on Dion, he already has some grey stone-like patches on his arm beneath the bandages, and he deals with chronic pain. The progression of this is fatal.
Role: Legend
Role Qualities/Attributes: Initially he will manifest a halo and his eyes will change colour with his mood. When particularly virtuous, or engaging in Legend related powers, he will have a faint ethereal glow.
Role Reasoning: While it can be handily argued that Dion can qualify for a role as a Myth - he does, after all, overthrow Sanbreque and send the country into chaos through revolution - his reasoning for doing so are purely good. He sees his father as being corrupted and unwilling to change, unwilling to serve their populace and sacrificing them for no reason is unjust. Dion also throws his lot in with Joshua and Clive and takes aim at the remaining crystals in an effort to bring about positive change and save the world.
★ Personality ★
OPTION 2 QUESTIONS (PICK 4-5) 100-300 WORD LIMIT EACH:
In a life that has been filled with unpleasant experiences to the point that Dion would say 'I've endured worse' when confronted with a bad situation, without a doubt the disaster at Twinside was the most traumatic for many reasons. The ramifications include the destruction of the royal family of Sanbreque, something initiated by Dion, but what he was not anticipating was the total loss of control over his Eikon.
The widespread destruction he caused when he was not in his right mind has left Dion wracked with guilt and anguish, because so many of the people he was trying to protect from Sylvestre met their end by his own hands. Even though he was not in control, he still wholeheartedly takes the blame.
From that moment, Dion sets his path on one of self destruction, joining forces with Joshua to rid the land of the mothercrystals and attempt to save what is left of Valisthea. He knows he's walking into his own demise and he's perfectly fine with it. Although offered the throne, he turns it down believing that he's not the right person for the job and that he would be better served outside of Sanbreque for the people must certainly hate him.
He does his best to seek redemption, and had things not gone the way they did, his alliance with Joshua would've likely been far more political as opposed to personal.
His most defining relationship is with his father, Sylvestre. His relationship with him is complicated, to say the least. While Dion had an impression that Sylvestre was an honourable man, lured under a façade - he never was, and realizing that was entirely crushing. Dion loved his father, and hoped to save him, while the man saw him as nothing but a tool to be used and he certainly did, Dion's in a sorry state for someone so young, thanks to magic overuse.
The veneer started to lift when, after Joshua and Clive's demise, Sylvestre married Annabella, and she completely orchestrated a further rift between the two. By the time his education was ended on Annabella's word, the cracks were already there but the actions in Twinside against the people were something that Dion could not tolerate. He could accept his family was dark, twisted and hated him to some degree, but harming the citizens was a step too far, and that's what led to his rebellion - although Dion never intended on killing him, that was the outcome.
As a contrast to his father, respite and care was found with his best friend, lover and squire Terence. He entered a romantic relationship with him ten years ago and despite this Dion cannot leave duty behind. He also cannot marry Terence, or he likely would have, due to their difference in station. Because Dion would always choose duty first, their relationship was always doomed to end at some point - something that comes to a head after Twinside and Dion has accepted his fate. No amount of pleading from Terence makes him change his mind. It has meant the world to him that someone would show him love when he wasn't getting it anywhere else, but unfortunately this relationship has never really been enough for Dion.
Dion has a very firm moral code, one where he believes in fair and righteous justice. He believes that the Church and their Holy Emperor are in that position to make decisions meant to benefit the populace. Those without power are meant to be protected by those that have it - including himself. He takes this as his god given duty and straying from it (as Sylvestre does) is a deep affront to everything he believes in.
He's deeply religious, as he would be in a country that is essentially influenced and ruled by the Church. He believes in the ideals set out by Greagor, and he endeavors to uphold them.
He was raised this way, specifically, likely because that was the opinion of the time and Sylvestre as a candidate was trying to get selected to be the Holy Emperor. Dion internalized his beliefs and morals, where as to Sylvestre they were a means to an end which is why they came into conflict later when Sylvestre cast those teachings aside to seek power and Dion did not.
Despite everything, Dion's faith in his morality ha not been shaken in the least. He believes himself to be in the right.
On the subject of Bearers (the slave class) he is on the side of being sympathetic to their plight, more than most, and willing to help Clive and Joshua challenge this by removing magic from their land altogether - although Bearers far pre-date them for hundreds of years and as a Dominant he is literally in the same position they are, albeit without being branded. He is celebrated and heralded as a hero, but has no more free will or choices than they do in the end.
Dion is the type of person who offers forgiveness and grace, mostly due to his religious upbringing, and more than that what he seeks from others is not understanding but forgiveness in return for the actions at Twinside. Even in Sylvestre's final moments, when he was so far gone that Dion felt he had to overthrow the country to save the people from his tyranny, was he offering him the chance to accept forgiveness and see the correct path.
However, Dion is human and there's likely nothing Annabella could've done to make him forgive her. His relationship with her was tumultuous and fraught with her doing her very best to undermine him and get him out of the way - quite successfully - and Dion is more resigned than forgiving. He would see this as a shortcoming on his part that he couldn't forgive her, but honestly, she was not repentant.
Nor would he forgive Ultima for tearing his family apart and using them all as pawns to destroy Valisthea so it could take total control. The entire plot, from using the crystals to destroy the entirety of the continent, pitting them all against each other and making them suffer to use magic, all of that came from Ultima and considering how he and everyone else suffered - it's unforgivable.
I think Dion genuinely believes if Rosaria had not fallen, Clive and Joshua disappearing and Annabella sidling up to Sylvestre, that everything would be okay. He would choose that. Both because he desires Joshua's safety as they were friends then and definitely are friends now - but also because Annabella was a severe thorn in his side, but beyond that, he can handle her whispers and insults, even her turning his father against him. He cannot stand for Sylvestre losing his way and becoming a power hungry tyrant. He attributes this to both Ultima and Annabella, and since Annabella brought Ultima in their lives through Olivier as a host, her not marrying his father would have stopped that in its tracks.
Dion is, unfortunately, wrong. Sylvestre was always a dark soul, and he and Annabella get along quite well for a reason. This likely wouldn't have changed the final outcome, although all it would've done was made him sour on his father sooner. Sylvestre hid a lot of dirty deeds from Dion.
★ Player Information ★
