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Character Name: Leia Rolando
Canon: Tales of Xillia
Canon Point: post-game
Background/History: Leia @ the Tales of wiki
Personality: Viewers are introduced to Leia by watching her accidentally launch herself into the ocean from charging in on a wheelchair. To say that she has crazy amounts of energy is no understatement.
In many ways, Leia is pretty much what you'd expect out of a fifteen-year-old girl. She's bright, sunny, and always ready to greet a stranger with a friendly smile. Being infatuated and in love aren't foreign concepts to her, but when it comes to her own personal feelings on the matters, it embarrasses her more often than not. Despite her own embarrassment, when it comes to the boy she's in love with, she can get a bit jealous and prickly. Still, she doesn't hold petty grudges and easily lets feelings like that go and chooses friendship instead, even if she can be a bit rude sometimes. It's hard to match her levels of energy, and she's energetic no matter what she does, always putting 100% of her effort into whatever she chooses to do. Working hard could be something of a life motto for her in all honesty. She tries to believe that trying your best is always worth it.
Part of this stems from an accident that occurred when she was much younger that left her extremely ill and weak. She had to go through extensive physical therapy and such to recover from it, and that period in her life left her with a deep impression of having to work hard. Having had to rely on so many people for so long, Leia is tired of being a burden and holding other people back. It's why she works so hard to do anything and everything she can to help others out. However, at the same time, Leia is very aware that she's not particularly talented or skilled at anything. In her own words, doing her best is her "only real strength". It makes something of an inferiority complex as she doesn't want to hold people back, but she also feels that she can do nothing but hold people back due to her lack of talents and abilities. Part of the reason why she's so energetic and cheerful is because she knows it's all she can do cheer others up. What she doesn't realize is how much her smile, and her strength in being able to continue to smile, really does help her friends.
That's not to say it's all an act though. While Leia is very aware of her own role and how she can best use it, she's a very active girl in general, likely due to how weak she was when she was younger. She enjoys competition and a good spar, and she can be a tad on the aggressive side if her "surprise spars" (or maybe bullying is a better word) on Jude are any indication. Surprisingly, she's also interested in risky hobbies like gambling, and she actually has to be talked out of trying it out. All that energy can get the best of her at times though as she often lets her guard down when very excited, whether from being happy or mad. In line with her attitude of things turning out alright as long as you work hard enough, Leia can be pretty stubborn. If there's something she wants to do, then you can bet that she's going to do it, even if it means running away from home and stowing away on a ship. Despite her friendly attitude, she can also be downright rude; how else could you describe calling someone both taller and older you "Little Buddy"?
Even with these factors and her energetic, sometimes ditzy attitude, Leia is actually very mature for her age, wise even. When Jude all but falls into despair after Milla's death, it's Leia who tells him that to give up his will to live so easily would be the biggest insult to Milla, that they have to live, and that anything else would be a disgrace to Milla's mission and everything she did for them. However, she's also very aware that this is all she can do for Jude—even though she loves him so much, in the end, it's his love for Milla that will motivate him to stand back up on his two feet once again, not her. She's acutely aware of the fact that Jude is in love with Milla, and despite her feelings, she comes to accept that they'll always be one-sided. As much as she loves him, he just can't love her back in the same way, and that's alright. Even if that's the case, Jude is still her dear childhood friend; she'll always care for him and do everything she can to help.
As much as Leia lives by the idea of hard work being enough in the end, she knows that that's not always the case, as much as she wishes it was. No matter what she does, Jude will never return her love. No matter how hard she tries to understand Agria, she can't save her. Her relationship with Agria challenges her philosophy directly as the other girl constantly mocks, derides, and puts down Leia's attitude and beliefs. She's a nasty piece of work and an enemy to boot, but even so, Leia wants to help her. When Agria herself chooses to let go of Leia's hand and plunge to her death, it really hits Leia then: the truth is that hard work and effort can't always come on top. If someone else chooses not to accept that effort, that's all there is to it, that's all that can be done. Even so, despite the fact that Leia knows her hard work may not always pay off, she still chooses to follow that kind of path. Doing her best might not always work out, but at the very least, she'll know that she did everything she could to do it.
By the end of the game, Leia is much more content with herself. Meeting Milla and helping her with her mission changed her life and helped her grow up a little. She decides to quit pursuing nursing, realizing she was doing so in order to one day be closer to Jude, and helps out at her parents' inn. She's unsure of what it is that she really wants to do, but that's alright; she knows that she'll figure it out soon enough, and that for the time being doing what she can is fine. No matter what she chooses to do in the end, she'll always do her best.
Abilities/Powers: Like all people born in Rieze Maxia, Leia has a "mana lobe", that being a part of her brain that allows her to use spirts and their abilities in exchange for her generating mana. These abilities are called "spirit artes" and while Leia is not particularly adept at them, her artes tend to focus on healing and boosting stats like physical attack, defense, and whatnot. She has no elemental types of spirit artes herself, but she has a spirit arte that can temporarily assign an elemental attribute to physical attacks.
That's actually where most of Leia's abilities come in. She fights using a bo staff, and she's pretty darn good at it. Her agility is second only to Jude's, and while she's not a powerhouse in terms of strength, she's very good at physical fighting as she can quickly string attacks together for combos. Her airborn combat abilities are nothing to sneeze at either as she's surprisingly good at launching an enemy into the air and keeping them there before sending them back straight into the ground with a well-placed strike. She also has a special ability where after successfully back-stepping away from an enemy attack, her staff will temporarily extend and become longer. This enables her to have a wider range of attack. Interestingly enough, Leia is also rather skilled at stealing items from enemies, whether they be monster or human.
A full list of her artes can be found here.
Items/Weapons: bo staff, lilium orb, and a few apple and orange gels which heal health and TP
Sample Entry: Sample from a previous game here.
Sample Entry Two: Sample from a previous game here.
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Other Characters Played: n/a
Requested apartment: n/a
Character Name: Leia Rolando
Canon: Tales of Xillia
Canon Point: post-game
Background/History: Leia @ the Tales of wiki
Personality: Viewers are introduced to Leia by watching her accidentally launch herself into the ocean from charging in on a wheelchair. To say that she has crazy amounts of energy is no understatement.
In many ways, Leia is pretty much what you'd expect out of a fifteen-year-old girl. She's bright, sunny, and always ready to greet a stranger with a friendly smile. Being infatuated and in love aren't foreign concepts to her, but when it comes to her own personal feelings on the matters, it embarrasses her more often than not. Despite her own embarrassment, when it comes to the boy she's in love with, she can get a bit jealous and prickly. Still, she doesn't hold petty grudges and easily lets feelings like that go and chooses friendship instead, even if she can be a bit rude sometimes. It's hard to match her levels of energy, and she's energetic no matter what she does, always putting 100% of her effort into whatever she chooses to do. Working hard could be something of a life motto for her in all honesty. She tries to believe that trying your best is always worth it.
Part of this stems from an accident that occurred when she was much younger that left her extremely ill and weak. She had to go through extensive physical therapy and such to recover from it, and that period in her life left her with a deep impression of having to work hard. Having had to rely on so many people for so long, Leia is tired of being a burden and holding other people back. It's why she works so hard to do anything and everything she can to help others out. However, at the same time, Leia is very aware that she's not particularly talented or skilled at anything. In her own words, doing her best is her "only real strength". It makes something of an inferiority complex as she doesn't want to hold people back, but she also feels that she can do nothing but hold people back due to her lack of talents and abilities. Part of the reason why she's so energetic and cheerful is because she knows it's all she can do cheer others up. What she doesn't realize is how much her smile, and her strength in being able to continue to smile, really does help her friends.
That's not to say it's all an act though. While Leia is very aware of her own role and how she can best use it, she's a very active girl in general, likely due to how weak she was when she was younger. She enjoys competition and a good spar, and she can be a tad on the aggressive side if her "surprise spars" (or maybe bullying is a better word) on Jude are any indication. Surprisingly, she's also interested in risky hobbies like gambling, and she actually has to be talked out of trying it out. All that energy can get the best of her at times though as she often lets her guard down when very excited, whether from being happy or mad. In line with her attitude of things turning out alright as long as you work hard enough, Leia can be pretty stubborn. If there's something she wants to do, then you can bet that she's going to do it, even if it means running away from home and stowing away on a ship. Despite her friendly attitude, she can also be downright rude; how else could you describe calling someone both taller and older you "Little Buddy"?
Even with these factors and her energetic, sometimes ditzy attitude, Leia is actually very mature for her age, wise even. When Jude all but falls into despair after Milla's death, it's Leia who tells him that to give up his will to live so easily would be the biggest insult to Milla, that they have to live, and that anything else would be a disgrace to Milla's mission and everything she did for them. However, she's also very aware that this is all she can do for Jude—even though she loves him so much, in the end, it's his love for Milla that will motivate him to stand back up on his two feet once again, not her. She's acutely aware of the fact that Jude is in love with Milla, and despite her feelings, she comes to accept that they'll always be one-sided. As much as she loves him, he just can't love her back in the same way, and that's alright. Even if that's the case, Jude is still her dear childhood friend; she'll always care for him and do everything she can to help.
As much as Leia lives by the idea of hard work being enough in the end, she knows that that's not always the case, as much as she wishes it was. No matter what she does, Jude will never return her love. No matter how hard she tries to understand Agria, she can't save her. Her relationship with Agria challenges her philosophy directly as the other girl constantly mocks, derides, and puts down Leia's attitude and beliefs. She's a nasty piece of work and an enemy to boot, but even so, Leia wants to help her. When Agria herself chooses to let go of Leia's hand and plunge to her death, it really hits Leia then: the truth is that hard work and effort can't always come on top. If someone else chooses not to accept that effort, that's all there is to it, that's all that can be done. Even so, despite the fact that Leia knows her hard work may not always pay off, she still chooses to follow that kind of path. Doing her best might not always work out, but at the very least, she'll know that she did everything she could to do it.
By the end of the game, Leia is much more content with herself. Meeting Milla and helping her with her mission changed her life and helped her grow up a little. She decides to quit pursuing nursing, realizing she was doing so in order to one day be closer to Jude, and helps out at her parents' inn. She's unsure of what it is that she really wants to do, but that's alright; she knows that she'll figure it out soon enough, and that for the time being doing what she can is fine. No matter what she chooses to do in the end, she'll always do her best.
Abilities/Powers: Like all people born in Rieze Maxia, Leia has a "mana lobe", that being a part of her brain that allows her to use spirts and their abilities in exchange for her generating mana. These abilities are called "spirit artes" and while Leia is not particularly adept at them, her artes tend to focus on healing and boosting stats like physical attack, defense, and whatnot. She has no elemental types of spirit artes herself, but she has a spirit arte that can temporarily assign an elemental attribute to physical attacks.
That's actually where most of Leia's abilities come in. She fights using a bo staff, and she's pretty darn good at it. Her agility is second only to Jude's, and while she's not a powerhouse in terms of strength, she's very good at physical fighting as she can quickly string attacks together for combos. Her airborn combat abilities are nothing to sneeze at either as she's surprisingly good at launching an enemy into the air and keeping them there before sending them back straight into the ground with a well-placed strike. She also has a special ability where after successfully back-stepping away from an enemy attack, her staff will temporarily extend and become longer. This enables her to have a wider range of attack. Interestingly enough, Leia is also rather skilled at stealing items from enemies, whether they be monster or human.
A full list of her artes can be found here.
Items/Weapons: bo staff, lilium orb, and a few apple and orange gels which heal health and TP
Sample Entry: Sample from a previous game here.
Sample Entry Two: Sample from a previous game here.