Board 8 > I rank video game characters [nominations]

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azuarc
06/30/19 7:13:20 PM
#101:


azuarc posted...
Nominate: Tifa Lockhart (Final Fantasy VII)


This was kind of a throwaway, and not a very inspired choice. If you're still mid-ranking and this won't interfere, I'd like to propose a different character instead, and I'm surprised I didn't think of her sooner.

Nominate: Katrina (Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness

The QFG series features a silent protagonist who becomes a hero across several point-and-click adventures. QFG2 ends with you defeating the sorcerer Ad Avis. Meanwhile, at the very end of QFG3, just as you defeat the final encounter, dark magic seizes you and teleports you to parts unknown. You wake in the opening sequence of QFG4 in a very strange cave, filled with strange ritual chambers and forcing you to cross a dangerous chasm to escape. The mouth of the cave is shaped like a literal mouth -- with teeth -- that closes as you exit. And standing a short distance away, watching, is an attractive young woman.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EYHVKZP6h84/hqdefault.jpg

Her appearance is highly suspect, but she walks off after welcoming you to the land of Mordavia, almost as though your appearance is completely normal. When you follow to the next screen, there are obstacles that make you, the player, wonder how she disappeared so easily. When you finally reach town, none of the townsfolk trust you. And Katrina is also nowhere to be found. However, if you return to town after night has fallen and the gates are already shut, Katrina is waiting outside for you.

She strikes up a sort of friendship with you, claiming she works in the nearby castle. (The townsfolk will tell you this castle is haunted and abandoned.) She's evidently very lonely, only narrowly holding back her amity for the hero. On the third or so time you meet her, she finally removes her hood, suggesting she's finally comfortable around you enough to do so. And yet, you know something is very off about her.

It turns out Katrina is actually a vampire sorceress who intends to summon Avoozl, an eldritch being whose arrival on Earth will bring about permanent darkness. In this, she is thinking only of herself, and how she is unable to leave the castle during the day. It also turns out that Ad Avis was apprenticed to her, and she performed a ritual that would turn him to a vampire when he died -- which was his driving motivation for getting away and seeking immortality in QFG2. But now he is back and reunited with his dark master. When Katrina decided she needed a human agent to acquire the symbols needed for Avoozl's summoning ritual, Ad Avis suggests using the hero, which is how you came to be summoned.

You don't know any of this yet, though. In sneaking into the castle to look for a child who has been missing from town for five years, you find her in a high tower of the castle, turned as a vampire so she might never age. It seems Katrina abducted her so she would have a sort of family since she had been so fretfully lonely at the castle. You return the girl to town and help perform a resurrection ritual that restores her humanity. Obviously, Katrina isn't happy to have her "daughter" taken from her, but says nothing.

But on a second trip to the castle, you find her asleep in her coffin and have the option to wake her with a kiss. At that point, she immediately turns on you, revealing her vampiric nature and accusing you of attempting to slay her at her weakest. You immediately find yourself in the dungeon, bound and whipped, until you plead with her that you meant no harm. At that point, she spills the whole plot and orders you to find the ritual symbols for summoning Avoozl within 3 days...or else.

And despite all this, you still have the sense that she has some lingering trace of affection for you. In fact, that might be why she hadn't killed you already.
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azuarc
06/30/19 7:13:26 PM
#102:


Three days later, you return to the cave, along with Katrina and Ad Avis. She orders you to perform the five rituals in the side chambers to begin the summoning. And then, in the final chamber, Ad Avis finally betrays her. Something about the sequence of events has broken his bonds to her and he attacks. The two trade spells, to no effect, since they are both adept at magical defense, until Ad Avis decides that he knows Katrina's real weakness. He targets you with a spell instead, and she desperately flings herself in the spell's path to protect you. It kills her instantly.

At that point, you have to defeat Ad Avis, which you do through outsmarting him, and terminate the summoning ritual. In Quest for Glory V, which came out many years later, you have the option of reuniting with several of the female characters you've interfaced with over your adventures, most of whom are now dead. One of them is Katrina, who has been dragged to Hades and remembers nothing but her love for you, wishing only that she could be held. I haven't played V, so the wiki is a better source of info for this than me.

https://questforglory.fandom.com/wiki/Katrina

Many gamers think of there first gaming crush fondly, whether that's Tifa or Lara or some other beloved female character. I doubt there are very many who think back on Katrina this way, just because she was from a more niche game, but I was 13 at the time of the game's release and have memories of those moments outside the town gates where she gradually acclimates to you.

Katrina is alluring, mysterious, and exotic. She's also completely self-centered and devastatingly lonely, and her need to fill the second is what ultimately redeems her from the first. Yes, she intends to doom the world by summoning Avoozl for her own (rather short-sighted) aims, but she ultimately sacrifices that for you just for being the first person to show her any kind of real human affection.
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Gatarix
07/02/19 11:25:49 AM
#103:


bumpo
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rwlh
07/06/19 12:37:59 PM
#104:


Slowly getting through this!
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Gatarix
07/09/19 3:35:00 PM
#105:


yay
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NFUN
07/10/19 5:38:26 PM
#106:


@Gatarix can you upload shuckle somewhere else?
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Drakeryn
07/10/19 7:46:34 PM
#107:


here you go

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rwlh
07/14/19 10:45:37 PM
#108:


Keeping this alive.
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rwlh
07/18/19 5:58:19 PM
#109:


Still.
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rwlh
07/22/19 9:50:39 PM
#110:


Also.
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Shonen_Bat
07/25/19 6:18:30 AM
#111:


bump
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Hello again.
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Drakeryn
07/28/19 2:17:37 AM
#112:


bumpo
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greengravy294
07/28/19 2:26:08 AM
#113:


Drakeryn posted...
also I would like to second FL81's Utsuho nom, and by that I mean "spam your topic with fanart" hope you don't mind

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My man

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NFUN
07/30/19 1:01:00 AM
#114:


i nommed Majima after basically just being introduced to him because he has style. I just beat Yakuza 0 Majima actually deserves to win it all what the fuck
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Gatarix
08/02/19 11:53:04 AM
#115:


boing
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rwlh
08/06/19 11:30:14 AM
#116:


chime
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rwlh
08/11/19 8:11:55 PM
#117:


ding
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rwlh
08/18/19 1:42:15 PM
#118:


hey
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NFUN
08/18/19 1:51:16 PM
#119:


you
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rwlh
08/22/19 6:49:46 PM
#120:


also
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Haste_2
08/22/19 9:50:08 PM
#121:


Chu-Chu (Xenogears)
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Drakeryn
08/25/19 1:11:45 PM
#122:


bumpo?
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rwlh
08/29/19 3:33:57 PM
#123:


hi
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rwlh
09/01/19 6:43:47 PM
#124:


yo
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rwlh
09/05/19 10:09:41 PM
#125:


kick it
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rwlh
09/09/19 8:14:19 PM
#126:


maybe
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rwlh
09/14/19 2:24:31 PM
#127:


mrph
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rwlh
09/18/19 10:03:54 PM
#128:


hprm
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Gatarix
09/22/19 3:50:00 PM
#129:


hmph
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rwlh
09/26/19 8:29:40 PM
#130:


humph?
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rwlh
09/27/19 8:20:19 PM
#131:


*gasp*

I am almost done! Expect the topic soon!
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Drakeryn
09/27/19 8:34:27 PM
#132:


o.o
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rwlh
10/07/19 9:11:26 PM
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