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Character Name: Clive Rosfield
Canon: Final Fantasy XVI
Canon Point: Just after defeating the final boss, but before the ending cutscenes
Age: 33
Background: As a warning, the below will contain mentions of suicide, slavery, and emotional abuse from a parent. Additionally, there will be major spoilers for the plot of Final Fantasy XVI.
Clive Rosfield at the FF Wikia, and I’ve summarized a few important events that aren’t included below, as the the history isn’t completely filled at the time of posting.
Cid tells Clive one of his scouts, named Gav, has seen the mysterious Dominant of Fire that killed Joshua back during the fall of Phoenix Gate, and Clive agrees to go with him to check on the information. Upon arrival at the village of Lostwind, Clive discovers the Dominant has been taken by the Kingdom of Waloed, who’s spymaster is also searching for the Dominant for reasons yet unknown. Clive confronts the spymaster, Benedikta Harmon, who is also the Dominant Garuda, Eikon of Wind. He defeats her in a fight, and absorbs a piece of Garuda, rendering Benedikta unable to use her powers to her full strength. Benedikta loses control of the Eikon, and Clive ends up fighting her once more, himself turning into the very same Eikon he has been hunting the past thirteen years: Ifrit, Eikon of Fire. Ifrit defeats Garuda, killing Benedikta in the process.
He doesn’t take the realization that he is Ifrit well, and upon arriving back at the Hideaway, Cid has him stripped and chained up to prevent him from harming himself, or worse. Clive begs Cid to kill him or let him kill himself, but Cid tells Clive there is a lead on the mystery Dominant. Clive fires back that he is the mystery Dominant, but Cid talks Clive into hearing Gav out. Cid and Clive split up to meet Gav, and Clive has another brief moment where he considers making good on his previous threat to harm himself, but Torgal’s presence pulls him away from the edge, literally, and Clive then spots Gav being chased down by Imperials. Clive is joined by Cid, and they rescue Gav from the imperials and he confesses his sin of being the Dominant Gav has been looking for. Cid points out that this mystery person who might also be a Dominant of Fire is still out there, and that Clive deserves answers. Clive realizes Cid is right and returns to the Hideaway, making plans to leave and find the rumored Dominant On his return, the Hideaway’s healer Tarja informs Clive that Jill is awake.
Clive visits her in the infirmary, confessing his sin to her as well. Jill refuses to believe it, agreeing to accompany him to the place where it all began in his search for answers. The two make a pitstop at a village in Rosaria known as Martha’s Rest at the behest of Gav. There, they are introduced to the plight of Bearers under the rule of the Empire, as Rosaria has been annexed by them after the coup. Under the Empire, Bearers are left to die the painful death from their curse once they are no longer useful, but the leader of Martha’s Rest, the titular Martha, takes them in and tries to make them as comfortable as she can. Their second pitstop is in a village known as Eastpool, where they are both recognized by Hanna Murdoch, widow of the former Lord Commander of Rosaria Robert Murdoch, who was killed by Ifrit the night Phoenix Gate fell. She puts them up for the night, Clive choosing to sleep in the barn and Jill following suit. Clive confesses to Jill that he isn’t sure why he is alive when he is responsible for the death of so many people he loved at the hands of Ifrit. Jill, in turn, confesses her own sins as a prisoner of the Iron Kingdom, and there’s a brief moment where Clive completely misses the fact she’d probably like to kiss him, and the pair turn in for the night.
Clive and Jill make their way to Phoenix Gate where they spot the mystery Dominant making their way into the depths of the apodytary, the sacred place the Phoenix would reach out to their ancestors prior to going to war. They make their way to the depths, fighting otherworldly creatures, coming to realize the apodytary is made of ruins of the ancient people who once lived in their world. At the bottom, they find a mysterious tapestry, and viewing it causes Clive to be overcome. His consciousness is transported by a strange figure to the night Phoenix Gate fell. There, Clive faces the reality of what happened that night once and for all: He, as Ifrit, killed Joshua with his own hands. He realizes he’s been blaming another for the past 13 years, afraid that if he accepted it, he would lose himself. Ready to accept the truth, Clive battles Ifrit and wins. But there’s still a part of himself that denies the truth. Telling himself to face his fears, Clive fights his shadow andawakens the power of Persona comes to finally, fully, accept the truth. He is Ifrit, second Eikon of Fire, and gains the ability to Prime into the Eikon.
The pair make their way back to Eastpool, where they discover the Imperial army laying waste to the civilians there for the crime of harboring Bearers and loyalty to Rosaria. Clive and Jill kill the Imperials, learning that the person who ordered Eastpool ‘wiped off the map’ was Clive’s own mother, the Empress Annabella. They return to the Hideaway, telling Cid they will join his cause to destroy the mothercrystals, not so bearers can die free, but so they can live free.
Cid tells them that with three Dominants on his side, it’s time to go after his first target, the mothercrystal known as Drake’s Head, located in the Empire’s capital Oriflamme. There, they will shatter the heart and destroy the crystal for good. When they reach the inner chambers of the crystal, where the heart is located, Cid realizes he must prime into Ramuh to break it, and upon doing so releases an eldritch being only known as Typhon. Typhon grabs Clive and pulls him through a portal to an unearthly world, challenging Clive to a fight. Clive primes into Ifrit and manages to defeat Typhon, releasing himself from the portal world to Jill informing him of Cid’s impending demise. Clive does not notice another eldritch being has followed him out, and Cid’s final act is an attempt to save Clive from the creature, named Ultima. The attempt grants Clive the chance to cut Ultima down. As he lies dying, Cid grants Clive a piece of Ramuh’s power, despite Clive’s protests that it will kill him. Cid passes, and Ultima revives. It attempts to subdue Clive, citing its goal to make Clive its ultimate vessel, but is foiled by the mysterious Dominant. Clive passes out before he can confirm the Dominant’s identity, but is is certain it is his younger brother, Joshua Rosfield.
Five years pass, and Clive and Jill have spent them with two goals in mind: Continue Cid’s legacy freeing Bearers from their plight, and hunt down and kill Hugo Kupka, the Dominant of Earth, Titan, for massacring the Hideaway as revenge for the death of his lover, Benedikta Harmon. Clive (now using the pseudonym ‘Cid the Outlaw’) and Kupka are playing a game of cat and mouse, with Hugo setting a trap and Clive willingly heading right into it and finding a way back out, though with a new scar or two to show for it. Clive has also rebuilt the Hideaway with the survivors of the massacre out of the ruins of an airship, and the new Hideaway is now located in the middle of a semi-poisonous lake. It welcomes Bearers and non Bearers alike from all across the continent, as long as they are willing and able to aid Clive in his cause. Clive has not been able, however, to Prime on command since his battle with Typhon, and it begins to weigh on him. The burden of using the power of an Eikon falls to Jill who is actively harmed by her ability to do so.
Clive sets their next target as Drake’s Breath, the mothercrystal currently occupied by the Iron Kingdom, and where Jill had remained prisoner for 13 years. He makes the decision to reach out to his Uncle Byron, who had assumed both Clive and Joshua were dead. Byron grants Jill and Clive the use of one of his ships, and Clive promises Jill he will remain at her side while she kills the head priest and leader of the Iron Kingdom as atonement and closure for the abuse she suffered at their hands.
When they return to the hideaway after destroying the heart of the second mothercrystal, Clive is informed that Kupka has set a trap for him in Rosalith, and specifically in his childhood home, where he has killed the people of Rosalith and destroyed Elwin Rosfield’s throne. Kupka is seeking revenge on Cid for the death of Benedikta, and Clive informs Kupka that it wasn’t Cid who killed Benedikta but Clive himself. Enraged at one another, the two battle, culminating in Clive slicing off Kupka’s hands, and attempting to kill him while Kupka is crying out from the shock but his mysterious ‘gift’ grants him the powers of Kupka’s Eikon instead, rendering Clive temporarily out of stamina.
Clive makes his next crystal target Drake’s Fang, located underground in Dhalmekia to kill two birds with one stone, almost literally. He wants to take out the mothercrystal and kill Kupka once and for all, to end his reign of terror against Clive and the citizens of the Hideaway. He travels to the crystal, where Kupka has also lost control of his Dominant, and battles Titan for the first and final time, finally able to fully prime into Ifrit on command for the first time. He kills Kupka in the battle and destroys the heart of the mothercrystal.
Clive then sets his sights on Drake’s Tail, located in the Crystalline Dominion, and where the Empire has fled after the destruction of the crystal in Oriflamme. He and Jill make plans to cause a distraction for them to be able to sneak into the crystal, but those plans are foiled when Bahamut, Eikon of Light, seems to be destroying the city of Twinside for no reason. Much to Clive’s surprise and horror, the Phoenix is there as well, confirming Clive’s suspicions that Joshua is alive, and he and Jill race to the castle in an attempt to get closer to the crystal in the confusion. They stumble across Clive’s mother in the rubble of the castle, attempting to protect her newest, youngest, son Olivier from the battle. Clive confronts his mother about his mistreatment at her hands, and Annabella triples down on her treatment of her eldest son. The Phoenix falls in battle at that moment next to them, turning back into Joshua, and Clive Primes into Ifrit to save Jill and his brother from Bahamut’s breath attack. Joshua and Clive team up as their respective Eikons, even merging together to form a hybrid of Phoenix and Ifrit, and they defeat Bahamut together, though Dion Lesage, the Dominant of Bahamut and Crown Prince of the Empire, is only rendered unconscious. Clive still manages to take a piece of Bahamut from Dion, gaining a vision of what had made Dion lose control of his Eikon — Dion was tricked into killing his father, the Emperor, by an Ultima possessed Olivier, and Dion manages to regain consciousness just long enough to end Olivier’s non life. Distraught at the loss of her youngest, refusing to believe that not only had the eldest son she had thrown away had become an Eikon on par with the Phoenix but that her beloved middle son was still alive, Annabella killed herself, while Clive looked on, impassive.
Returning to the hideaway with an unconscious Dion and a near death Joshua in tow, Clive only had a short time to rest before learning the news that Mid, Cid’s daughter and the Hideaway’s resident engineer, Gav, and his Uncle Byron, were under attack by the Kingdom of Waloed in the city Kanver. He makes haste to the city with Jill and Joshua and confronts the Lord Commander of the Waloed armies, Sleipnir Harbard. He defeats Sleipnir in battle but is confronted directly after by the King of Waloed, Barnabas Tharmr, Dominant of Odin, Eikon of Darkness. Barnabas uses his black blade to tear nearly every sinew in Clive’s body apart and it is only through the magic of the Phoenix that Clive survives. Barnabas kidnaps Jill as bait, and Clive takes it, going after Barnabas to rescue Jill. He manages to do so, but not before Barnabas slices the ocean in twain with his black blade, causing the Waloed ship Clive and Jill are on to fall to the ocean floor. Clive is again defeated by Barnabas, and he and Jill flee as the walls of ocean water come crashing around them. They wash up on a shore of the continent of Ash, home to the kingdom of Waloed, and the pair have an intimate moment as they wait for rescue from their comrades. Jill willingly gives Clive the power of her Eikon, Shiva, and Clive finally realizes he isn’t truly alone anymore. Under the moonlight, they consummate their love for one another.
With the power of Shiva tucked into his belt, Clive, Joshua and Gav travel to the Kingdom of Waloed to destroy the mothercrystal there, known as Drake’s Spine. Joshua splits off from the group to research on his own and Clive and Gav make their way towards a village, where they only survivor is a pregnant woman named Edda. Odin appears and taunts Clive, who asks Gav to stay with Edda while he faces Odin alone. Clive battles Barnabas in the rain, defeating the King who, with his final breath, forcibly gives Clive the powers of Odin, completing Clive’s transformation into the perfect vessel for Ultima. Clive returns to the village, sending Edda and Gav to safety and makes a vow with Joshua that they will fight and defeat Ultima, together. The pair make their way to the capital of Waloed, Stonhyrr, where they are besieged by magical zombies known as Akashic as well as monstrous orcs, but are saved by the timely arrival of Dion, Jill, Byron and Gav on Mid’s ship the Enterprise. After the battle, Joshua and Clive are pulled into the world of the void by Ultima, where it explains its motivations and it’s reasoning for desiring Clive as a vessel. Clive and Joshua reject Ultima’s plans and upon their return to the Hideaway, make their plans for their final assault.
Clive and Joshua say their goodbyes to their comrades, and Clive confesses his love to Jill, promising her to return. He, Joshua, and Dion take off for Ultima’s location, a floating palace in the sky known as Origin.
The trio battle Ultima, and Dion is killed in the fight. Joshua and Clive are badly injured, but make their way into the inner sanctum where Ultima awaits them, his plan culminating with Clive’s arrival. Ultima’s plan had required the mothercrystals to be destroyed all along, and Ultima removes the piece of itself that was trapped within Joshua since he rescued Clive on that fateful day five years ago. Joshua is mortally wounded as a result, and as his last gift to Clive, he grants him the power of the Phoenix in full. Equipped now with the powers of all 7 Eikons, and the support of his loved ones, Clive battles Ultima one final time, the final killing blow a right hook to the jaw, shattering Ultima’s battle armor and Clive’s gauntlet. Ultima taunts him one last time as it vanishes into the aether, and it is here that Clive will be arriving in Abraxas.
Arrival Scenario: Thorne
Suitability: Clive's main purpose in his life is to help people, from being the big burly man you hire to get your cat out of a tree to being the big burly man you hire to keep hordes of monsters from attacking your village. It will be no different in Abraxas, and he will actively seek out ways to help the people in the world he's been pulled to, mostly for the sake of trying to get home to save his world. He won't be happy about having been pulled into the world of Abraxas, but he's not about to punish the innocent people that live there for it. He's not quite keen on joining an army, but he wouldn't be above mercenary work, or even becoming an outright outlaw here in Abraxas either. He'll also be eager to take a look at Thorne's libraries; Clive has been interested in fairy tales and folklore since he was a boy, and he'd be delighted to read and learn about stories from the locals.
All of this said, his loyalty will remain to his own world first, the world of Abraxas second, and Thorne a distant third, especially after learning about some of the recent atrocities that have occurred at the hands of Thorne’s queen. He’s dealt with royalty crushing those they don’t approve of under their thumb, and it’s a very personal matter to him, considering who his mother was. The more similarities between Annabella and the queen of Thorne, the less Clive will be inclined to help and he may even attempt to escape the Kingdom, even if he has no idea where to go. He will come into the game distrustful of the mages and their insistence on their room and board being free; people in power don’t give things freely, in his experience. He will chafe at the notion of being used to grind the oppressed under the heel of royalty, and if there is an active rebellion within Thorne, he will seek it out and attempt to join.
Clive is the type of person who wants to be useful, but he wants to be useful to the right type of people and those people must align with his own personal code of ethics. He has no qualm with acting the part of the outlaw to live by his own set of ethics. For lack of better phrasing, he is squarely on the Neutral Good side of the alignment chart. He’ll start out respecting the laws and rules of the land, even if they rub him the wrong way, but he has no compunction to blindly obey those rules, either. If he considers them unfair, he’ll bail. Or attempt to.
Powers:
Clive is a Dominant, a person with the ability to Prime or transform into a several story tall horned hellbeast made of rock and lava known as Ifrit. He is also a legendary being known as Mythos, which grants him the ability to absorb and use the powers of the other 8 Eikons within his world, and grants him immunity from the magic curse afflicting every other magic user on his planet. He’s also a skilled swordsman, strong enough to wield a two handed sword with one hand, and he uses a deft, flashy, combat style that incorporates his magical abilities.
Additionally, Clive is such a bad liar that it could certainly count as a skill!
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
Describe an important event in your character's life and how it impacted them. The death of Joshua, Clive’s younger brother, when Clive was 15 years old. While we don’t know how old Clive was, or if Joshua was even born when the Phoenix rejected him, we do know that by the age of 15, his mother had rejected him entirely in favor of smothering Joshua, and that he was used to that treatment. He had also realized by that time that Joshua could not bear the brunt of the responsibility placed on him as the Dominant of Phoenix, and so devoted himself to the art of the blade so he could become First Shield of Rosaria and Joshua’s number one protector. He longed to prove himself to be the best knight, the best brother, a son his mother could come to love, and it all came to a head that night at Phoenix Gate when he witnesses Joshua’s murder at the hands of a mysterious Eikon of Fire. In reality, it was Clive himself who had primed into the Eikon Ifrit, and it was a truth he could not bring himself to accept for the next 13 years. Instead, he harbored a dark hatred, closing himself off and letting revenge be the only thing driving him forward. The realization that he was the one who murdered Joshua and everyone else at Phoenix Gate that night sends him into a depressive spiral. He finally accepts the truth within himself, but it still haunts him years later. He’d always felt he was born to protect Joshua, and in lieu of that, takes on his mentor’s goal of bringing equality to Valisthea, a throughline of his father’s smaller scale desire to bring equality to Rosaria. It’s an attempt to atone for what he did that night; Joshua’s death steered the course of Clive’s life for both good and bad, and while he regrets it every single day, he’s also done running from the pain.
Does your character have a moral code, or other set of standards they try to live by? If Clive’s moral code were a color, it would be the offwhite landlord beige one might find in a cheap rental apartment in a city downtown. He has his own set of ethics he abides by, and he will more or less follow the rules of the land he’s in unless those rules seem unfair. He can naturally draw people in that feel the same way he does, but he doesn’t proselytize or coerce. He says his piece, and if people agree, great! If they do not, he will cross and even burn that bridge, if necessary, when he gets to it. He isn’t above vengeance, despite not really being an eye for an eye type, but he does have a berserk button: harming his loved ones, which he can and does take very personally. He will stoop to his enemy’s level when it comes to killing, and while he won’t engage in outright villainy, violence is not, and never will be, out of the question when it comes to protecting the downtrodden. He will settle scores, no matter what it takes; he’s an excellent example of ‘good does not always equal nice’. Sometimes, doing the right thing leaves your hands bloody and people angry at you. But all he can do is apologize and press on, knowing in his heart that it’s for a good cause. He does feel guilty over it sometimes, though. He doesn’t enjoy killing, even if it feels it’s necessary and is even relieved when he finally puts an end to Kupka’s life. But he tries to keep in mind the reasons he does what he does, because it will all be worth it in the end.
What quality or qualities do they admire most? Strong wills, and the types of people who make decisions and stick to them, no matter the consequence. Clive is drawn to the types of people who hold on to the same ideals; he does understand that sometimes you have to do not great things for the cause of something greater. He admires quiet strength, and the iron resolve of someone determined to set things right. His deceased father held many ideals that Clive admired, and still does, namely the desire and love Elwin held for the people of Rosaria — all of the people of Rosaria, Bearer and non Bearer alike. People who live their truth and seek out to make their ideals a reality — sometimes even if those ideals are at odds with his own. Clive understands that sometimes people will go to extremes to do what they think is right, because he is no exception, and he cannot, and will not, blame them for that. If what you need to do to make things right for yourself is committing papicide, then that is what you must do.
Do they have a part of themselves they dislike? Everything is a short, quippy answer but it’s also entirely true. It is very difficult for Clive to find things to like about himself, though he has slowly been growing to realize that disliking himself is not something he’d like to continue doing. His whole life he’s never felt like he’s lived up to his own potential; he’s constantly felt like he’s failed in every duty he may have, whether it is as a soldier, a brother, or a son. In his youth, he would run away to a secret rookery on an island off the coast of his home city where he could try to pretend to be any number of things he wasn’t. And then his brother and father were killed and Clive felt like even more of a failure. He couldn’t do the one thing he was duty bound to do. And that regret and guilt lingers on even as an adult. He may have accepted and owned it, choosing to carry it with him, but it still colors him, still causes him to feel like a failure when it’s left to Jill to Prime into her Eikon at the cost of her health. He hates the fact he’s had to use his abilities to kill and hurt people in order to press on with his ideals, even though that hatred won’t keep him from doing it. Above all else, Clive cannot stand the fact that he is not strong enough to shoulder the burdens of everyone else around them, so that they have nothing to fear or worry about. Failing to help someone is personal, possibly even moral, failure, and Clive does regret the fact that he’s far too deep in blood to step out of it now.
What is their sign, and why?
The Tower; Clive's entire raison d'être is to break the chains that shackle his world's reliance on aether, the life force of the world, because the more that aether is used, the more the world around him dies. It goes against everything the people of his land believe, and he goes so far to gladly proclaim himself an outlaw, if that's what it takes. He's also very much the type who understands the need for revenge, and won't try to talk someone out of it if that's what they're determined to do -- he was once there himself, after all. He balks at the idea of fate, and stands firmly on the side of people needing to be able to choose their paths in life, and he'll happily fight whatever gods or monsters or people who insist on telling others their lives are pre-ordained and there's nothing they can do about it.
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IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Clive Rosfield
Canon: Final Fantasy XVI
Canon Point: Just after defeating the final boss, but before the ending cutscenes
Age: 33
Background: As a warning, the below will contain mentions of suicide, slavery, and emotional abuse from a parent. Additionally, there will be major spoilers for the plot of Final Fantasy XVI.
Clive Rosfield at the FF Wikia, and I’ve summarized a few important events that aren’t included below, as the the history isn’t completely filled at the time of posting.
Cid tells Clive one of his scouts, named Gav, has seen the mysterious Dominant of Fire that killed Joshua back during the fall of Phoenix Gate, and Clive agrees to go with him to check on the information. Upon arrival at the village of Lostwind, Clive discovers the Dominant has been taken by the Kingdom of Waloed, who’s spymaster is also searching for the Dominant for reasons yet unknown. Clive confronts the spymaster, Benedikta Harmon, who is also the Dominant Garuda, Eikon of Wind. He defeats her in a fight, and absorbs a piece of Garuda, rendering Benedikta unable to use her powers to her full strength. Benedikta loses control of the Eikon, and Clive ends up fighting her once more, himself turning into the very same Eikon he has been hunting the past thirteen years: Ifrit, Eikon of Fire. Ifrit defeats Garuda, killing Benedikta in the process.
He doesn’t take the realization that he is Ifrit well, and upon arriving back at the Hideaway, Cid has him stripped and chained up to prevent him from harming himself, or worse. Clive begs Cid to kill him or let him kill himself, but Cid tells Clive there is a lead on the mystery Dominant. Clive fires back that he is the mystery Dominant, but Cid talks Clive into hearing Gav out. Cid and Clive split up to meet Gav, and Clive has another brief moment where he considers making good on his previous threat to harm himself, but Torgal’s presence pulls him away from the edge, literally, and Clive then spots Gav being chased down by Imperials. Clive is joined by Cid, and they rescue Gav from the imperials and he confesses his sin of being the Dominant Gav has been looking for. Cid points out that this mystery person who might also be a Dominant of Fire is still out there, and that Clive deserves answers. Clive realizes Cid is right and returns to the Hideaway, making plans to leave and find the rumored Dominant On his return, the Hideaway’s healer Tarja informs Clive that Jill is awake.
Clive visits her in the infirmary, confessing his sin to her as well. Jill refuses to believe it, agreeing to accompany him to the place where it all began in his search for answers. The two make a pitstop at a village in Rosaria known as Martha’s Rest at the behest of Gav. There, they are introduced to the plight of Bearers under the rule of the Empire, as Rosaria has been annexed by them after the coup. Under the Empire, Bearers are left to die the painful death from their curse once they are no longer useful, but the leader of Martha’s Rest, the titular Martha, takes them in and tries to make them as comfortable as she can. Their second pitstop is in a village known as Eastpool, where they are both recognized by Hanna Murdoch, widow of the former Lord Commander of Rosaria Robert Murdoch, who was killed by Ifrit the night Phoenix Gate fell. She puts them up for the night, Clive choosing to sleep in the barn and Jill following suit. Clive confesses to Jill that he isn’t sure why he is alive when he is responsible for the death of so many people he loved at the hands of Ifrit. Jill, in turn, confesses her own sins as a prisoner of the Iron Kingdom, and there’s a brief moment where Clive completely misses the fact she’d probably like to kiss him, and the pair turn in for the night.
Clive and Jill make their way to Phoenix Gate where they spot the mystery Dominant making their way into the depths of the apodytary, the sacred place the Phoenix would reach out to their ancestors prior to going to war. They make their way to the depths, fighting otherworldly creatures, coming to realize the apodytary is made of ruins of the ancient people who once lived in their world. At the bottom, they find a mysterious tapestry, and viewing it causes Clive to be overcome. His consciousness is transported by a strange figure to the night Phoenix Gate fell. There, Clive faces the reality of what happened that night once and for all: He, as Ifrit, killed Joshua with his own hands. He realizes he’s been blaming another for the past 13 years, afraid that if he accepted it, he would lose himself. Ready to accept the truth, Clive battles Ifrit and wins. But there’s still a part of himself that denies the truth. Telling himself to face his fears, Clive fights his shadow and
The pair make their way back to Eastpool, where they discover the Imperial army laying waste to the civilians there for the crime of harboring Bearers and loyalty to Rosaria. Clive and Jill kill the Imperials, learning that the person who ordered Eastpool ‘wiped off the map’ was Clive’s own mother, the Empress Annabella. They return to the Hideaway, telling Cid they will join his cause to destroy the mothercrystals, not so bearers can die free, but so they can live free.
Cid tells them that with three Dominants on his side, it’s time to go after his first target, the mothercrystal known as Drake’s Head, located in the Empire’s capital Oriflamme. There, they will shatter the heart and destroy the crystal for good. When they reach the inner chambers of the crystal, where the heart is located, Cid realizes he must prime into Ramuh to break it, and upon doing so releases an eldritch being only known as Typhon. Typhon grabs Clive and pulls him through a portal to an unearthly world, challenging Clive to a fight. Clive primes into Ifrit and manages to defeat Typhon, releasing himself from the portal world to Jill informing him of Cid’s impending demise. Clive does not notice another eldritch being has followed him out, and Cid’s final act is an attempt to save Clive from the creature, named Ultima. The attempt grants Clive the chance to cut Ultima down. As he lies dying, Cid grants Clive a piece of Ramuh’s power, despite Clive’s protests that it will kill him. Cid passes, and Ultima revives. It attempts to subdue Clive, citing its goal to make Clive its ultimate vessel, but is foiled by the mysterious Dominant. Clive passes out before he can confirm the Dominant’s identity, but is is certain it is his younger brother, Joshua Rosfield.
Five years pass, and Clive and Jill have spent them with two goals in mind: Continue Cid’s legacy freeing Bearers from their plight, and hunt down and kill Hugo Kupka, the Dominant of Earth, Titan, for massacring the Hideaway as revenge for the death of his lover, Benedikta Harmon. Clive (now using the pseudonym ‘Cid the Outlaw’) and Kupka are playing a game of cat and mouse, with Hugo setting a trap and Clive willingly heading right into it and finding a way back out, though with a new scar or two to show for it. Clive has also rebuilt the Hideaway with the survivors of the massacre out of the ruins of an airship, and the new Hideaway is now located in the middle of a semi-poisonous lake. It welcomes Bearers and non Bearers alike from all across the continent, as long as they are willing and able to aid Clive in his cause. Clive has not been able, however, to Prime on command since his battle with Typhon, and it begins to weigh on him. The burden of using the power of an Eikon falls to Jill who is actively harmed by her ability to do so.
Clive sets their next target as Drake’s Breath, the mothercrystal currently occupied by the Iron Kingdom, and where Jill had remained prisoner for 13 years. He makes the decision to reach out to his Uncle Byron, who had assumed both Clive and Joshua were dead. Byron grants Jill and Clive the use of one of his ships, and Clive promises Jill he will remain at her side while she kills the head priest and leader of the Iron Kingdom as atonement and closure for the abuse she suffered at their hands.
When they return to the hideaway after destroying the heart of the second mothercrystal, Clive is informed that Kupka has set a trap for him in Rosalith, and specifically in his childhood home, where he has killed the people of Rosalith and destroyed Elwin Rosfield’s throne. Kupka is seeking revenge on Cid for the death of Benedikta, and Clive informs Kupka that it wasn’t Cid who killed Benedikta but Clive himself. Enraged at one another, the two battle, culminating in Clive slicing off Kupka’s hands, and attempting to kill him while Kupka is crying out from the shock but his mysterious ‘gift’ grants him the powers of Kupka’s Eikon instead, rendering Clive temporarily out of stamina.
Clive makes his next crystal target Drake’s Fang, located underground in Dhalmekia to kill two birds with one stone, almost literally. He wants to take out the mothercrystal and kill Kupka once and for all, to end his reign of terror against Clive and the citizens of the Hideaway. He travels to the crystal, where Kupka has also lost control of his Dominant, and battles Titan for the first and final time, finally able to fully prime into Ifrit on command for the first time. He kills Kupka in the battle and destroys the heart of the mothercrystal.
Clive then sets his sights on Drake’s Tail, located in the Crystalline Dominion, and where the Empire has fled after the destruction of the crystal in Oriflamme. He and Jill make plans to cause a distraction for them to be able to sneak into the crystal, but those plans are foiled when Bahamut, Eikon of Light, seems to be destroying the city of Twinside for no reason. Much to Clive’s surprise and horror, the Phoenix is there as well, confirming Clive’s suspicions that Joshua is alive, and he and Jill race to the castle in an attempt to get closer to the crystal in the confusion. They stumble across Clive’s mother in the rubble of the castle, attempting to protect her newest, youngest, son Olivier from the battle. Clive confronts his mother about his mistreatment at her hands, and Annabella triples down on her treatment of her eldest son. The Phoenix falls in battle at that moment next to them, turning back into Joshua, and Clive Primes into Ifrit to save Jill and his brother from Bahamut’s breath attack. Joshua and Clive team up as their respective Eikons, even merging together to form a hybrid of Phoenix and Ifrit, and they defeat Bahamut together, though Dion Lesage, the Dominant of Bahamut and Crown Prince of the Empire, is only rendered unconscious. Clive still manages to take a piece of Bahamut from Dion, gaining a vision of what had made Dion lose control of his Eikon — Dion was tricked into killing his father, the Emperor, by an Ultima possessed Olivier, and Dion manages to regain consciousness just long enough to end Olivier’s non life. Distraught at the loss of her youngest, refusing to believe that not only had the eldest son she had thrown away had become an Eikon on par with the Phoenix but that her beloved middle son was still alive, Annabella killed herself, while Clive looked on, impassive.
Returning to the hideaway with an unconscious Dion and a near death Joshua in tow, Clive only had a short time to rest before learning the news that Mid, Cid’s daughter and the Hideaway’s resident engineer, Gav, and his Uncle Byron, were under attack by the Kingdom of Waloed in the city Kanver. He makes haste to the city with Jill and Joshua and confronts the Lord Commander of the Waloed armies, Sleipnir Harbard. He defeats Sleipnir in battle but is confronted directly after by the King of Waloed, Barnabas Tharmr, Dominant of Odin, Eikon of Darkness. Barnabas uses his black blade to tear nearly every sinew in Clive’s body apart and it is only through the magic of the Phoenix that Clive survives. Barnabas kidnaps Jill as bait, and Clive takes it, going after Barnabas to rescue Jill. He manages to do so, but not before Barnabas slices the ocean in twain with his black blade, causing the Waloed ship Clive and Jill are on to fall to the ocean floor. Clive is again defeated by Barnabas, and he and Jill flee as the walls of ocean water come crashing around them. They wash up on a shore of the continent of Ash, home to the kingdom of Waloed, and the pair have an intimate moment as they wait for rescue from their comrades. Jill willingly gives Clive the power of her Eikon, Shiva, and Clive finally realizes he isn’t truly alone anymore. Under the moonlight, they consummate their love for one another.
With the power of Shiva tucked into his belt, Clive, Joshua and Gav travel to the Kingdom of Waloed to destroy the mothercrystal there, known as Drake’s Spine. Joshua splits off from the group to research on his own and Clive and Gav make their way towards a village, where they only survivor is a pregnant woman named Edda. Odin appears and taunts Clive, who asks Gav to stay with Edda while he faces Odin alone. Clive battles Barnabas in the rain, defeating the King who, with his final breath, forcibly gives Clive the powers of Odin, completing Clive’s transformation into the perfect vessel for Ultima. Clive returns to the village, sending Edda and Gav to safety and makes a vow with Joshua that they will fight and defeat Ultima, together. The pair make their way to the capital of Waloed, Stonhyrr, where they are besieged by magical zombies known as Akashic as well as monstrous orcs, but are saved by the timely arrival of Dion, Jill, Byron and Gav on Mid’s ship the Enterprise. After the battle, Joshua and Clive are pulled into the world of the void by Ultima, where it explains its motivations and it’s reasoning for desiring Clive as a vessel. Clive and Joshua reject Ultima’s plans and upon their return to the Hideaway, make their plans for their final assault.
Clive and Joshua say their goodbyes to their comrades, and Clive confesses his love to Jill, promising her to return. He, Joshua, and Dion take off for Ultima’s location, a floating palace in the sky known as Origin.
The trio battle Ultima, and Dion is killed in the fight. Joshua and Clive are badly injured, but make their way into the inner sanctum where Ultima awaits them, his plan culminating with Clive’s arrival. Ultima’s plan had required the mothercrystals to be destroyed all along, and Ultima removes the piece of itself that was trapped within Joshua since he rescued Clive on that fateful day five years ago. Joshua is mortally wounded as a result, and as his last gift to Clive, he grants him the power of the Phoenix in full. Equipped now with the powers of all 7 Eikons, and the support of his loved ones, Clive battles Ultima one final time, the final killing blow a right hook to the jaw, shattering Ultima’s battle armor and Clive’s gauntlet. Ultima taunts him one last time as it vanishes into the aether, and it is here that Clive will be arriving in Abraxas.
Arrival Scenario: Thorne
Suitability: Clive's main purpose in his life is to help people, from being the big burly man you hire to get your cat out of a tree to being the big burly man you hire to keep hordes of monsters from attacking your village. It will be no different in Abraxas, and he will actively seek out ways to help the people in the world he's been pulled to, mostly for the sake of trying to get home to save his world. He won't be happy about having been pulled into the world of Abraxas, but he's not about to punish the innocent people that live there for it. He's not quite keen on joining an army, but he wouldn't be above mercenary work, or even becoming an outright outlaw here in Abraxas either. He'll also be eager to take a look at Thorne's libraries; Clive has been interested in fairy tales and folklore since he was a boy, and he'd be delighted to read and learn about stories from the locals.
All of this said, his loyalty will remain to his own world first, the world of Abraxas second, and Thorne a distant third, especially after learning about some of the recent atrocities that have occurred at the hands of Thorne’s queen. He’s dealt with royalty crushing those they don’t approve of under their thumb, and it’s a very personal matter to him, considering who his mother was. The more similarities between Annabella and the queen of Thorne, the less Clive will be inclined to help and he may even attempt to escape the Kingdom, even if he has no idea where to go. He will come into the game distrustful of the mages and their insistence on their room and board being free; people in power don’t give things freely, in his experience. He will chafe at the notion of being used to grind the oppressed under the heel of royalty, and if there is an active rebellion within Thorne, he will seek it out and attempt to join.
Clive is the type of person who wants to be useful, but he wants to be useful to the right type of people and those people must align with his own personal code of ethics. He has no qualm with acting the part of the outlaw to live by his own set of ethics. For lack of better phrasing, he is squarely on the Neutral Good side of the alignment chart. He’ll start out respecting the laws and rules of the land, even if they rub him the wrong way, but he has no compunction to blindly obey those rules, either. If he considers them unfair, he’ll bail. Or attempt to.
Powers:
Clive is a Dominant, a person with the ability to Prime or transform into a several story tall horned hellbeast made of rock and lava known as Ifrit. He is also a legendary being known as Mythos, which grants him the ability to absorb and use the powers of the other 8 Eikons within his world, and grants him immunity from the magic curse afflicting every other magic user on his planet. He’s also a skilled swordsman, strong enough to wield a two handed sword with one hand, and he uses a deft, flashy, combat style that incorporates his magical abilities.
- Dominant Powers
- Priming is the ability to transform fully into the Eikon the person is the Dominant of, and the Dominant is also capable of channeling part of the Eikon’s aether to give them superhuman strength, speed, and agility. While Semi-primed, Clive glows red with Ifrit’s aether, gains spike like protrusions made of igneous rock on his arms, and has little bursts of flame travel around his body. When fully Primed, Clive transforms into Ifrit, a several story tall beast made of lava and igneous rock. As Ifrit, he has the ability to cast fire spells and use a fire breath attack, much like a big dog version of Godzilla.
NERF: When fully Primed, Clive will still be Clive-sized, just as Ifrit. Additionally, while Ifrit will still be stronger than regular Clive, his strength will also be sized down accordingly. No more lifting up huge tracts of land to throw at people, just smedium ones.- Magic and Mythos
- As the intended vessel for the Eldritch god Ultima, Clive has been granted the ability to absorb and use the powers of his fellow Eikons. As of his canon point, Clive has absorbed all of the Eikons left in Valisthea: Garuda, Titan, Bahamut, Shiva, Odin and the Phoenix. This grants him the ability to use elemental magics correlating with their respective Eikons as well as smaller versions of skills and abilities that the Dominants can use when they are fully Primed. Clive is unable to Prime into any Eikon other than Ifrit, however. An overview of the skills and abilities Clive has gained as a result of absorbing Eikonic power can be found here: Eikonic Ability List.
NERF: In Abraxas Clive will only have the full abilities for the eikons Phoenix, Shiva, Ramuh, and Ifrit, but will still be able to cast wind, earth, light, and darkness spells in the form of ranged projectiles of the element.
Additionally, Clive is such a bad liar that it could certainly count as a skill!
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
Describe an important event in your character's life and how it impacted them. The death of Joshua, Clive’s younger brother, when Clive was 15 years old. While we don’t know how old Clive was, or if Joshua was even born when the Phoenix rejected him, we do know that by the age of 15, his mother had rejected him entirely in favor of smothering Joshua, and that he was used to that treatment. He had also realized by that time that Joshua could not bear the brunt of the responsibility placed on him as the Dominant of Phoenix, and so devoted himself to the art of the blade so he could become First Shield of Rosaria and Joshua’s number one protector. He longed to prove himself to be the best knight, the best brother, a son his mother could come to love, and it all came to a head that night at Phoenix Gate when he witnesses Joshua’s murder at the hands of a mysterious Eikon of Fire. In reality, it was Clive himself who had primed into the Eikon Ifrit, and it was a truth he could not bring himself to accept for the next 13 years. Instead, he harbored a dark hatred, closing himself off and letting revenge be the only thing driving him forward. The realization that he was the one who murdered Joshua and everyone else at Phoenix Gate that night sends him into a depressive spiral. He finally accepts the truth within himself, but it still haunts him years later. He’d always felt he was born to protect Joshua, and in lieu of that, takes on his mentor’s goal of bringing equality to Valisthea, a throughline of his father’s smaller scale desire to bring equality to Rosaria. It’s an attempt to atone for what he did that night; Joshua’s death steered the course of Clive’s life for both good and bad, and while he regrets it every single day, he’s also done running from the pain.
Does your character have a moral code, or other set of standards they try to live by? If Clive’s moral code were a color, it would be the offwhite landlord beige one might find in a cheap rental apartment in a city downtown. He has his own set of ethics he abides by, and he will more or less follow the rules of the land he’s in unless those rules seem unfair. He can naturally draw people in that feel the same way he does, but he doesn’t proselytize or coerce. He says his piece, and if people agree, great! If they do not, he will cross and even burn that bridge, if necessary, when he gets to it. He isn’t above vengeance, despite not really being an eye for an eye type, but he does have a berserk button: harming his loved ones, which he can and does take very personally. He will stoop to his enemy’s level when it comes to killing, and while he won’t engage in outright villainy, violence is not, and never will be, out of the question when it comes to protecting the downtrodden. He will settle scores, no matter what it takes; he’s an excellent example of ‘good does not always equal nice’. Sometimes, doing the right thing leaves your hands bloody and people angry at you. But all he can do is apologize and press on, knowing in his heart that it’s for a good cause. He does feel guilty over it sometimes, though. He doesn’t enjoy killing, even if it feels it’s necessary and is even relieved when he finally puts an end to Kupka’s life. But he tries to keep in mind the reasons he does what he does, because it will all be worth it in the end.
What quality or qualities do they admire most? Strong wills, and the types of people who make decisions and stick to them, no matter the consequence. Clive is drawn to the types of people who hold on to the same ideals; he does understand that sometimes you have to do not great things for the cause of something greater. He admires quiet strength, and the iron resolve of someone determined to set things right. His deceased father held many ideals that Clive admired, and still does, namely the desire and love Elwin held for the people of Rosaria — all of the people of Rosaria, Bearer and non Bearer alike. People who live their truth and seek out to make their ideals a reality — sometimes even if those ideals are at odds with his own. Clive understands that sometimes people will go to extremes to do what they think is right, because he is no exception, and he cannot, and will not, blame them for that. If what you need to do to make things right for yourself is committing papicide, then that is what you must do.
Do they have a part of themselves they dislike? Everything is a short, quippy answer but it’s also entirely true. It is very difficult for Clive to find things to like about himself, though he has slowly been growing to realize that disliking himself is not something he’d like to continue doing. His whole life he’s never felt like he’s lived up to his own potential; he’s constantly felt like he’s failed in every duty he may have, whether it is as a soldier, a brother, or a son. In his youth, he would run away to a secret rookery on an island off the coast of his home city where he could try to pretend to be any number of things he wasn’t. And then his brother and father were killed and Clive felt like even more of a failure. He couldn’t do the one thing he was duty bound to do. And that regret and guilt lingers on even as an adult. He may have accepted and owned it, choosing to carry it with him, but it still colors him, still causes him to feel like a failure when it’s left to Jill to Prime into her Eikon at the cost of her health. He hates the fact he’s had to use his abilities to kill and hurt people in order to press on with his ideals, even though that hatred won’t keep him from doing it. Above all else, Clive cannot stand the fact that he is not strong enough to shoulder the burdens of everyone else around them, so that they have nothing to fear or worry about. Failing to help someone is personal, possibly even moral, failure, and Clive does regret the fact that he’s far too deep in blood to step out of it now.
What is their sign, and why?
The Tower; Clive's entire raison d'être is to break the chains that shackle his world's reliance on aether, the life force of the world, because the more that aether is used, the more the world around him dies. It goes against everything the people of his land believe, and he goes so far to gladly proclaim himself an outlaw, if that's what it takes. He's also very much the type who understands the need for revenge, and won't try to talk someone out of it if that's what they're determined to do -- he was once there himself, after all. He balks at the idea of fate, and stands firmly on the side of people needing to be able to choose their paths in life, and he'll happily fight whatever gods or monsters or people who insist on telling others their lives are pre-ordained and there's nothing they can do about it.
SAMPLES
Samples:
TDM Top Level
PSL with Jill Warrick