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Current Characters: Nothing at DDD.
Character: Rita Mordio
Fandom: Tales of Vesperia
Character Notes:
History: Rita grew up in the Sealed City of Scholars, Aspio, as an orphan, and as the smartest girl most of the researchers had ever seen. At the age of 15, she is arguably the most senior, and most intelligent, Imperial blastia researcher, known far and wide for her theories and developments. Of course, being highly intelligent at a young age means everyone else in Aspio hates her, so she isn't very social. The girl lives as a hermit in a hut on one end of the Sealed City: nobody bothers her, and she doesn't mess anyone up (too badly), plus she only explodes her own hut when she botches research. The rest of Aspio considers it a win-win situation.
Rita's peaceful(?) life is shattered when Flynn Scifo, Imperial Knight, appears before her seeking help to fix Halure's tree blastia. She sends him away, claiming she can't do anything about it (which is true), and he reluctantly leaves. A few days later, Yuri Lowell reaches Rita, in search of a blastia thief calling himself "Mr. Mordio" and that wears a cloak and lives in Aspio. She is, needless to say, angered and nearly burns her own house down venting at Yuri and his friends. Eventually, though, Rita joins Yuri's team to explore a nearby set of ruins in search of the missing aque blastia core, and stays with them from then on; when she hears Karol's slip of the tongue in Halure mentioning that Estelle somehow fixed the tree barrier, she's intrigued to no end, and it only gets worse from there for her. (This catches Rita up to the current canon point of Tales of Vesperia in DDD; let me know if you need more information.)
Personality: Rita takes the traditional definition of a tsundere and runs a marathon or two with it. She's sarcastic to everyone, and isn't above physical violence when annoyed (or scared). It'll take a lot to make her worried about someone, too. But if she gets comfortable enough, she starts to relax. She'll start to display legitimate concern, and her sharp edges (and tongue) get softer. If she really likes you she can smile and get along just fine... it just takes a while. It takes quite a lot longer if you don't demonstrate basic intelligence on important topics. Like blastia.
Rita's approach to problems is typically "shoot first, ask questions when it's dead" where the problem isn't a blastia. Ragou? Kill it. Dragon freak? Kill it with fire. Barbos? Kill it dead. She's fond of Fire Ball, her starter spell, and can be seen using it all the way through endgame; it'll explode things just fine, and it threatens surprisingly well. Where blastia are concerned, however, she makes an exception; they're her friends on some deep, personal level. She gives them names, associates with them, and is fiercely protective of them. She's made it her life's mission to fix any broken, overloading, or otherwise damaged blastia she comes across in her travels.
That's not to say Rita isn't intelligent; you don't get to be the top mind in Aspio if you're slow on the uptake, after all. She's great at solving puzzles, and in general she's got the plan for things that swords and Fire Ball can't solve. She does have issues understanding ideas that rely on brute strength or sheer dumb luck, though; thankfully, that's Yuri's job, not hers, and when Yuri has a plan she's more than happy being the siege support.
For all her attitude and bravado, Rita's big weakness is the supernatural. She hates ghosts and anything a combination of science and magic can't explain. On a slightly lesser level, she hates magic and constructs that don't make sense; she's nearly gotten herself killed on more than one occasion because she couldn't let something go that was about to explode, take a swing at her, or otherwise put her in danger. This one, at least, she's working on; she is an Imperial blastia researcher, though, so she's not putting too much effort into that.
Additional Links: Rita's entry on Aselia (Tales wiki)
First Person (audio only, clumsily locked from ToV cast):
I just want to make sure everyone knows, I'm starting to get really pissed off. We just got back from this ghost ship, I think it was called the Atherum. While we were there... [There's a pause. Rita sounds spooked... which is weird.] I let Yuri go off with the others, and I stayed behind with Estellise and Karol to watch the ship in case the blastia fixed itself, and...
[She's being quiet all of a sudden...] And there was a loud crash, and I got worried about Yuri... not that anything can ever really hurt him, but it was bad all the same. And then Estellise got the bright idea that we needed to go in after him... Oh, I hated that, but there was no way I could let her go alone, and Karol doesn't count, so I went with them. I was scared out of my mind the whole time - ghosts? Seriously? I normally could care less about the supernatural, but it's hard to not care when things are happening and you don't know why! I tried not to panic too much, but I think Estellise noticed. I can never tell with Karol. [Sarcasm there, but she's back to being quiet in a moment.]
And then we found Yuri, and we fought through the rest of the ship, and we had to fight this... y'know what, I'm just going to not talk about that. Anyway, we found this red box with a crystal inside, but I can't get it open, and I've been blasting it with spells for half an hour now trying to force it. Nothing's working. And now I think Estellise is looking at me weird, like she's worried about me. I...
[Rita is silent for a moment, before she's back to her usual tone.] Ugh! I'm gonna go wait for an excuse to hit Karol to let some tension out. That, or keep blasting the box. Our ship's moving again, so I'll look at this later and see if anyone bothered to talk to me. Oh, and do not tell any of them about this! Or I'll find you! [She sounds serious... and seriously embarassed at the thought.]
Third Person:
Her first thought was, 'that shouldn't be there.' Her second was 'how the hell did that happen?'
She wasn't just following them back to Halure because she had agreed to go with them to clear her name, not anymore. It was clear something had happened, and that something was directly related to these four. Yuri, Estellise, the dog, and that brat Karol. Whatever they'd done, the tree was blooming early, and more than ever before, and she knew - knew, she was a scholar! - the tree blastia was dying in the first place. That knight earlier, Flynn, had wanted her help on it, but she'd gotten rid of him easily enough. Honestly, that work would have been below her at the time, and she wouldn't have been able to do anything about it. Why start something you already know you can't finish? Waste of time, both his, and her own.
But no, now that she was standing here drowning in luluria petals and getting a good look, she knew she couldn't just be following them. There were things to study that couldn't be found in her lab down in Aspio. She knew that on some level, before. But this proved it beyond all doubt. She was going to travel with Yuri and the others, and she was going to find answers. Sure, she'd tell them it was to finish the Rizomata Formula. She'd tell them it was to clear her name. But those were just excuses, and she knew it. Yuri would probably realize it too; he seemed pretty sharp with people.
Rita ran up the hill to the Great Tree of Halure with one purpose in her mind: to learn about this new thing she didn't understand, because it fascinated her, and when something got her attention she didn't let it go until she'd spent as long as physically possible analyzing it; until she understood, or died trying.
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maxsalsaWay to contact you:
AIM: ultimatesalsa (preferred!)
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Are you at least 15?: Aye.
Current Characters: Nothing at DDD.
Character: Rita Mordio
Fandom: Tales of Vesperia
Character Notes:
History: Rita grew up in the Sealed City of Scholars, Aspio, as an orphan, and as the smartest girl most of the researchers had ever seen. At the age of 15, she is arguably the most senior, and most intelligent, Imperial blastia researcher, known far and wide for her theories and developments. Of course, being highly intelligent at a young age means everyone else in Aspio hates her, so she isn't very social. The girl lives as a hermit in a hut on one end of the Sealed City: nobody bothers her, and she doesn't mess anyone up (too badly), plus she only explodes her own hut when she botches research. The rest of Aspio considers it a win-win situation.
Rita's peaceful(?) life is shattered when Flynn Scifo, Imperial Knight, appears before her seeking help to fix Halure's tree blastia. She sends him away, claiming she can't do anything about it (which is true), and he reluctantly leaves. A few days later, Yuri Lowell reaches Rita, in search of a blastia thief calling himself "Mr. Mordio" and that wears a cloak and lives in Aspio. She is, needless to say, angered and nearly burns her own house down venting at Yuri and his friends. Eventually, though, Rita joins Yuri's team to explore a nearby set of ruins in search of the missing aque blastia core, and stays with them from then on; when she hears Karol's slip of the tongue in Halure mentioning that Estelle somehow fixed the tree barrier, she's intrigued to no end, and it only gets worse from there for her. (This catches Rita up to the current canon point of Tales of Vesperia in DDD; let me know if you need more information.)
Personality: Rita takes the traditional definition of a tsundere and runs a marathon or two with it. She's sarcastic to everyone, and isn't above physical violence when annoyed (or scared). It'll take a lot to make her worried about someone, too. But if she gets comfortable enough, she starts to relax. She'll start to display legitimate concern, and her sharp edges (and tongue) get softer. If she really likes you she can smile and get along just fine... it just takes a while. It takes quite a lot longer if you don't demonstrate basic intelligence on important topics. Like blastia.
Rita's approach to problems is typically "shoot first, ask questions when it's dead" where the problem isn't a blastia. Ragou? Kill it. Dragon freak? Kill it with fire. Barbos? Kill it dead. She's fond of Fire Ball, her starter spell, and can be seen using it all the way through endgame; it'll explode things just fine, and it threatens surprisingly well. Where blastia are concerned, however, she makes an exception; they're her friends on some deep, personal level. She gives them names, associates with them, and is fiercely protective of them. She's made it her life's mission to fix any broken, overloading, or otherwise damaged blastia she comes across in her travels.
That's not to say Rita isn't intelligent; you don't get to be the top mind in Aspio if you're slow on the uptake, after all. She's great at solving puzzles, and in general she's got the plan for things that swords and Fire Ball can't solve. She does have issues understanding ideas that rely on brute strength or sheer dumb luck, though; thankfully, that's Yuri's job, not hers, and when Yuri has a plan she's more than happy being the siege support.
For all her attitude and bravado, Rita's big weakness is the supernatural. She hates ghosts and anything a combination of science and magic can't explain. On a slightly lesser level, she hates magic and constructs that don't make sense; she's nearly gotten herself killed on more than one occasion because she couldn't let something go that was about to explode, take a swing at her, or otherwise put her in danger. This one, at least, she's working on; she is an Imperial blastia researcher, though, so she's not putting too much effort into that.
Additional Links: Rita's entry on Aselia (Tales wiki)
First Person (audio only, clumsily locked from ToV cast):
I just want to make sure everyone knows, I'm starting to get really pissed off. We just got back from this ghost ship, I think it was called the Atherum. While we were there... [There's a pause. Rita sounds spooked... which is weird.] I let Yuri go off with the others, and I stayed behind with Estellise and Karol to watch the ship in case the blastia fixed itself, and...
[She's being quiet all of a sudden...] And there was a loud crash, and I got worried about Yuri... not that anything can ever really hurt him, but it was bad all the same. And then Estellise got the bright idea that we needed to go in after him... Oh, I hated that, but there was no way I could let her go alone, and Karol doesn't count, so I went with them. I was scared out of my mind the whole time - ghosts? Seriously? I normally could care less about the supernatural, but it's hard to not care when things are happening and you don't know why! I tried not to panic too much, but I think Estellise noticed. I can never tell with Karol. [Sarcasm there, but she's back to being quiet in a moment.]
And then we found Yuri, and we fought through the rest of the ship, and we had to fight this... y'know what, I'm just going to not talk about that. Anyway, we found this red box with a crystal inside, but I can't get it open, and I've been blasting it with spells for half an hour now trying to force it. Nothing's working. And now I think Estellise is looking at me weird, like she's worried about me. I...
[Rita is silent for a moment, before she's back to her usual tone.] Ugh! I'm gonna go wait for an excuse to hit Karol to let some tension out. That, or keep blasting the box. Our ship's moving again, so I'll look at this later and see if anyone bothered to talk to me. Oh, and do not tell any of them about this! Or I'll find you! [She sounds serious... and seriously embarassed at the thought.]
Third Person:
Her first thought was, 'that shouldn't be there.' Her second was 'how the hell did that happen?'
She wasn't just following them back to Halure because she had agreed to go with them to clear her name, not anymore. It was clear something had happened, and that something was directly related to these four. Yuri, Estellise, the dog, and that brat Karol. Whatever they'd done, the tree was blooming early, and more than ever before, and she knew - knew, she was a scholar! - the tree blastia was dying in the first place. That knight earlier, Flynn, had wanted her help on it, but she'd gotten rid of him easily enough. Honestly, that work would have been below her at the time, and she wouldn't have been able to do anything about it. Why start something you already know you can't finish? Waste of time, both his, and her own.
But no, now that she was standing here drowning in luluria petals and getting a good look, she knew she couldn't just be following them. There were things to study that couldn't be found in her lab down in Aspio. She knew that on some level, before. But this proved it beyond all doubt. She was going to travel with Yuri and the others, and she was going to find answers. Sure, she'd tell them it was to finish the Rizomata Formula. She'd tell them it was to clear her name. But those were just excuses, and she knew it. Yuri would probably realize it too; he seemed pretty sharp with people.
Rita ran up the hill to the Great Tree of Halure with one purpose in her mind: to learn about this new thing she didn't understand, because it fascinated her, and when something got her attention she didn't let it go until she'd spent as long as physically possible analyzing it; until she understood, or died trying.
