Cid's girl! [Rikku of course]

[Rikku [Cid's Girl]]

Rikku

"Memories are nice, but that's all they are..."

Custom Title: .:Princess of Thieves:.

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Age: 17
Gender: Female
Family:

• Cid - father
  
• Brother - Brother
  
• Yuna - cousin
  

Race: Al Bhed
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Home World: Spira
Alignment: Al Bhed?
Job: Previous Guardian and Gullwing member?
Items: Lots of things she stole off people >.>
Accessories: Scarf

Appearance Rikku stands at 5'2, has long blonde hair done up loosely, tied with a blue bandana, with braids and beads throughout her hair. She has the green eyes of the Al Bhed, with her pupils being swirled, as is the trademark. While she can change outfits using dresspheres, Rikku generally wears a yellow string bikini, with an olive green mini skirt. She has two pouches that hang on her hips that she uses to put things in that she needs. Along with things she steals from others. Look out Gippy! >:3 ahem...back on subject. She has ruffle sleeves down her arms, and a long yellow, orange and red scarf. To complete the outfit she has blue and white boots.

Personality: Rikku is very kind-hearted, spirited and energetic, which sometimes clashes with the more stoic people that she knows. She looks up to Lulu as something of a role model, being impressed with her calm levelheaded nature, wanting to be like her. Kihmari tells her however, that "Rikku should stay Rikku" meaning that she shouldn't try to change who she is, and Tidus goes on to say that they appreciate her the way she is, and don't want her to change.

Child-like and playful in many ways, Rikku tries to maintain a positive outlook and often refers to gloomy or annoying people as "big meanies". Her cheerful outlook often makes a stark contrast, however, when she is sad or upset. Rikku can easily get upset, and when she does, her happy mood can plummet downhill. Even in the depths of despair, Rikku TRIES to maintain her happy nature, but it usually falls flat, and people find it easy to see through her.

Despite her outwardly happy exterior, she seems to carry some insecurities, particularly when it comes to her own future and what she wants to be. When voicing these worries to Yuna, she is reassured that her own adventure would arrive one day. Rikku is also known to be highly intelligent, speaking two languages and being skilled in chemistry. She finds it easy to pick up on things, and though somewhat oblivious, Rikku is observant. At least at times. True to her nature, she can get distracted easily and will often bounce from one subject to another. She finds it hard to resist pretty or shiny things, and will sometimes simply try to take them. Not because she intentionally steals, but because she doesn't think about it.

History:

EARLY YEARS

Rikku grew up in her early life in the bikinel desert, surrounded by her own kind. She never realized just how far the hatred for the Al Bhed ran deep until later on in her life, but simply grew up in an oblivious state. Though she is the 'princess' of the Al Bhed with her father being the leader, Rikku grew up being more of the girl next door, not the snotty kid that nobody liked. She always knew how to have a good time, and was more of a friend to people. Rikku grew up knowing almost everyone, not only because she was social, but because of course, her father was the leader of the Al Bhed. Her mother died when she was 6, hardly old enough to remember her. All she can remember is a pretty blonde woman, and the way her father used to act before she died.

After that Rikku tried to hide her sadness by overcompensating and being happy all the time. But inside insecurities started to form. She tried not to let anyone else see the cracks, and instead focused on the positive of every situation. As she got older Rikku got more and more irritated with the boundaries that her father set and her inability to go and see the world. When Gippal left to join the Crimson Squad, Rikku decided that she didn't want to stay around home either. Rikku had liked him when she was younger, they had even dated. But with them being so young, it had just sort of fizzled out after he wanted to leave to join the Crimson Squad. Rikku was hurt and he was...well...gone. But with her friend gone, Rikku couldn't do anything but think about leaving. Which she did. Having always heard about her aunt who had left to go marry someone from Yevon, Rikku decided to go and meet the cousin she had never met, and since she knew that she had become a summoner, Rikku decided to try and stop her.

FINAL FANTASY X

Early in the game, after Tidus gets trapped in the Underwater Ruins, he is "rescued" by a group of Al Bhed. Rikku, as the only member who can speak both Al Bhed and Spiran, objects when her fellows think Tidus is a fiend in human disguise and want to kill him. Rikku stops them, but knocks Tidus unconscious with a punch to the gut to stop his protesting. This is the budding of their feelings for one another, which grow throughout the game.

Rikku enlists Tidus to help reactivate an underwater power plant - doing a much better job than her brother's rather comical pantomiming - in which the Al Bhed then find a sunken airship and salvage it. Striking up a friendship with Tidus (although rather surprised by his claims of hailing from Zanarkand) she promises to take him to Luca so that he can try and find someone he knows. However, the two are separated when Tidus is washed overboard by a surprise encounter with Sin.

In Luca, Tidus tries to ask the Al Bhed Psyches Blitzball team about Rikku, but because of the language barrier - Tidus cannot speak Al Bhed and the Psyches cannot speak Spiran - he receives no answer. When the Psyches kidnap Yuna and hold her for ransom, Tidus initially suspects their ship, on which Yuna is being held, is the same as the one which rescued him, but it turns out that it was not.

Rikku herself is later encountered when the group is crossing the Moonflow, piloting an underwater machina in hopes of kidnapping Yuna and stopping her pilgrimage. However, her machina is beaten by Tidus and Wakka, and she is washed ashore.

Tidus finds her collapsed on the beach, and is happy to see her alive and well after Sin's attack. When the others come along, Tidus almost lets slip that she is an Al Bhed, but stops himself because of Wakka's strong hatred towards them. Rikku asks to become Yuna's guardian and Auron forces her to look him in the eye, revealing herself to be an Al Bhed to him, but he, like everyone else, keeps it secret from Wakka.

At Guadosalam, Rikku teaches Tidus about creating better weapons by fusing them with items. She spends time enjoying the Guado's hospitality until the group reaches the Farplane, where she stays outside with Auron, saying that she prefers to keep her memories inside, quoting an Al Bhed saying, "memories are nice, but that's all they are". It is suspected by fans that since the Al Bhed are considered heathens, there would be few Summoners willing to Send them when they die, and so they can't make their way to the Farplane.

Depending on the number of Affection Points Rikku has accumulated with Tidus, Rikku follows Tidus to the ledge overlooking Guadosalam's plaza and strikes up a conversation. She asks Tidus if Yuna will be getting married, and when he replies no, gives him a playful elbowing and points out that this could be his big chance at a relationship with Yuna. The player can either deny or confirm Tidus's feelings for Yuna, in which case Rikku will either reprimand Tidus for being cruel, or encourage him to run away and live a quiet life with Yuna. The conversation will end the same way in either case. However, if the player chooses the third option "I'd rather have you, Rikku," Rikku will ask if he is serious, then giggle and hit Tidus several times before jumping down to the lower ledge and saying in Al Bhed: "Maybe someday!" If the player pursues Rikku, she will reveal that people get married as early as fifteen to seventeen in Spira, due to the threat of fiends and Sin. Furthermore, Rikku reveals how her mother was killed, and that she has an older brother. If the player speaks to Rikku a third time, she expresses a wish to have lots of children due to her not having any younger brothers or sisters.

Rikku starts to panic when the group reaches the Thunder Plains. It turns out she has severe astraphobia - or fear of thunderstorms - left over from a mishap in the past when Brother aimed a Thunder spell at an attacking fiend, only to miss and hit Rikku instead. She is left in near-hysterics over most of the journey across the plains. She becomes so frightened that she collapses and seizes Tidus by the leg, and pleads for the group to stay longer at one of Rin's Travel Agencies. Irritated by her fear, Auron decides to leave her at the Travel Agency. She decides to go outside to prove to Auron she's not scared. She only calms down and brightens up once the group reaches Macalania.

Wakka discovers Rikku is an Al Bhed when Brother and a group of Al Bhed try to kidnap Yuna again using a tank-like machina. Wakka is deeply disgusted and blames the Al Bhed's use of forbidden machina for the reason of Sin's birth. Afterward, Tidus either rides with Rikku, Lulu, Auron, or Kimahri to Macalania Temple. If Tidus rides with Rikku, she reveals she is Yuna's cousin and articulates in a roundabout way that Yuna will die if she continues her pilgrimage, but Tidus does not realize this fact.

Rikku does not play a major role again until the party is on Bikanel Island, where she reluctantly leads the party to Home, only to find it has been attacked by the Guado, and that many of her friends have been killed. Rikku helps the group reach her father Cid, and they escape on the airship she helped salvage earlier. She also reveals to Tidus that Yuna is going to die if she goes ahead with the Final Summoning, which triggers an emotional breakdown. She is saddened by the destruction of Home over the course of the trip to Bevelle, although Wakka - deeply upset by the Guados' attack, but also moved by the Al Bhed's well-intentioned motives for kidnapping Summoners - tries to cheer her up.

At Bevelle, Rikku helps rescue Yuna by releasing a flash bomb to blind Seymour, so that the group can retreat into Bevelle Temple, where she shows little surprise that the Yevon clergy is ignoring its own teachings regarding machina. After Kinoc holds them up, Rikku tries to warn Tidus not to leave the Chamber of the Fayth, but it is too late, and the church captures them.

Rikku is thrown into Via Purifico with Tidus and Wakka and helps them escape from Bevelle. As they hide in the Macalania Woods, Rikku hopes Yuna would give up her pilgrimage now that they knew the truth about Yevon and its corruption. Rikku feels she can't stop her cousin since the pilgrimage is so important to her, so she convinces Tidus to go talk her out of it. After coming back from the spring, Tidus has not been able to convince her to quit. When arriving in the Calm Lands, Rikku and Tidus desperately try coming up with a plan on how to save Yuna from being killed, but cannot think of anything. During the group's ascent to the Zanarkand Ruins, she becomes increasingly distraught over Yuna's fate and argues repeatedly with Tidus over other possible courses of action. Rikku is overjoyed when Yuna decides to decline the Final Summoning and put a permanent end to Sin.

After this, Rikku does not play a great role in the story. However, she does argue with Mika over the identity of Yu Yevon, and tells Shelinda to spread word of the plan to pacify Sin using the Hymn of the Fayth and makes peace with Wakka before the final confrontation with Sin.

After Sin's defeat, Tidus starts to fade away and says goodbye to everyone. Rikku, however, would not accept any goodbyes from him and says that they will meet again.

FINAL FANTASY X-2

Two years have passed since the end of Yuna's pilgrimage and Sin's destruction. Rikku and Brother had a falling out with Cid in that time, and have since founded the Gullwings, a Sphere Hunting group, with the help of Brother's friends Buddy and Shinra. They are soon joined by a young woman named Paine, who has a mysterious past known only to her. During one of their hunts, Kimahri tells them of a sphere he found on Mt. Gagazet, which shows a man bearing a strong resemblance to Tidus. Rikku rushes to Besaid and shows the sphere to Yuna who immediately leaves her island home and joins the motley crew on their airship, the Celsius.

The group travels throughout Spira and encounters many old and new friends, including the three most influential Spirans: Nooj, Baralai and Gippal. Gippal, a ladies' man and Rikku's old friend, calls her "Cid's girl", and embarrasses her with a crack about the two of them having "made quite the couple." The Gullwings also get into many scuffles with rival Sphere Hunter Group the LeBlanc Syndicate. Headed by leader LeBlanc and crewed by her band of goons, including her two chief henchmen Ormi and Logos, LeBlanc and her team frequently seek the same treasure the Gullwings do. Ultimately as the plot advances the two groups end up putting aside their differences and start to work together to defeat Vegnagun.

The three girls utilize Garment Grids and Dresspheres in battle to gain strength and hone their abilities. Continuing her style from Final Fantasy X, Rikku takes the Thief Dressphere as her preferred default job. Also, the Alchemist Dressphere, which can be obtained by helping Clasko set up his Chocobo Ranch in the Calm Lands, has the Mix ability, which was Rikku's Overdrive in the previous game.

As more is learned about Shuyin and Lenne from Maechen, Rikku expresses her pity for Shuyin, as two years ago she too went to great lengths to try and save somebody she cared about, Yuna, from a tragic fate. There is a cutscene where Rikku feels that people are always leaving her behind. Yuna eventually thanks her for "kidnapping" her and letting her join the Gullwings. Concerned about her future, Rikku asks Yuna if she can have her own story. Yuna comes up with a story for her and is asked if she will get a hunky boy in her story (pretty much referencing Tidus). Yuna says if anyone could come up with a story, Rikku can.

Three months after the events of Final Fantasy X-2, the Gullwings are called back together, to Yadonoki Tower. They travel to the top of the tower, where they find a broken machina. Paine reveals she was the one who brought them back together, to show them that even though they are technically going their separate ways, they shall always be together.

CREDIT WHERE DUE (c) Final fantasy Wiki


Abilities:

• Steal
  
• Mug
  
• Luck
  
• Copycat
  
• Use
  
• Mix
  
• Dresspheres
  

Summons: That's Yunie's job!
Magic:

• Cure
  
• Esuna
  
• Fire
  
• Dispel
  

Strengths:

• Mechanic abilities
  
• Thievery
  
• Speed
  
• Agility
  
• Cheerful outlook
  
• Chemistry
  
• Intelligence
  

Weaknesses:

• Thunder
  
• Lightning storms
  
• Snakes
  
• Gippal though she'll NEVER admit it
  
• The cold -.-
  
• Meanies D:
  
• Insecurities (especially about her own future)
  
• Shiny things?
  

Weapon: Changes with dresspheres, but her main weapon is two hand daggers to SLASH AND MAIM WITH! Be very afraid Brother! >:]
Crushes: Kebbo! SHHH don't tell anyone! If you do your a BIG MEANIE!
How did you find us? he...hehe...>_>
Role Play Sample: Must I really do this?
Password: Removed once accepted
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[ebony]

Rikku! Yay! Now back to my movie! *poofs*