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usedlaserbeam) wrote in slowpoke_gif2013-05-29 02:32 pm
A Wild Headcanon Meme Appears!
Because there's never a wrong time for headcanon.
→ Post with a list of your characters.
→ Comment to other people asking them questions about their lineup. Ask anything you can think of: questions about personal headcanon, thoughts on your CR, hypothetical situations, off-screen interactions, future plans, serious business, random crack, whatever!
→ Respond to the questions you receive!
→ LEARN NEW THINGS ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE'S CHARACTERS THAT YOU NEVER KNEW BEFORE.
→ Discover things your characters have in common and forge excellent CR and shenanigans accordingly.
→ Repeat steps 2-5 forever.
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If we're just looking at the info floating around in canon, he supposedly applied for SOLDIER first, but through some kind of means, he ended up with the Turks instead.
What I always imagine happened, taking into account his possible SOLDIER application, was that he applied on a whim, not actually thinking what he'd do if he made it in. Not to mention that I figure he was living in the lower plates of Midgar, which is not the most optimal place to make a life. Applying for SOLDIER was a possible way out of that kind of life. So, they bring him in for a first pass interview, and he passes okay. Training goes by without too much of a problem, because he's stubborn and refuses to be beaten by some exercises. His first field test with the rest of the grunts comes up, though, and that's where he fails miserably. Not because he didn't finish the exercise, but because he had a hard time following directions, and instead chose to do it another way.
This, naturally, upsets his superiors.
After the exercise, they try to get it through to him that he's supposed to follow them without question, but being the headstrong person he is, he argued with them, saying their decisions had been dumb and there was a more efficient way to do the exercise. Of course, this kind of talk would normally result in sending him packing, but I imagine Veld had been monitoring the recruits as a mandatory look out for possible Turk material. Naturally, he hears about this from the commanders and seeks out this brash redhead. Reno's already packing at this point, but Veld finds him and asks him about the whole situation, mostly to see what the fuss was about from his view.
It's after this conversation that Veld decides to put him through his own field test as a second chance. Reno agrees, after all, it's better to try that than to go back to the slums. During said field test, Veld gives him very vague instructions, which he'll have to work through to get to the solution. He passes this one with flying colors, and Veld offers him a position with the Turks. Reno does ask about the essential things, once the job is offered (pay, benefits, etc), but mostly just wants to know if he'll be able to fly a helicopter. Veld assures him that helicopter flying can be added to his training roster.
So, Reno signs his life onto the Turks and hasn't really looked back.
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So how did he end up getting paired with poor Rude, then?
(And has Rude ever gotten mad at him for all the broken sunglasses?)
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For the record, I am unsure if this particular question is answered in canon, so... yeah, this might vary WIDELY.
How I see it going down is thus: Reno's been working for the Turks for a little bit, and Rude may have already been working or have joined just a bit after (knee-jerk reaction is to say he joined after). The redhead is obviously good at what he does, because otherwise he would've been ejected from the Turks after the first mission. But, the only thing is that he's reckless and tends to cause collateral damage, as well as endangering himself unnecessarily. Granted, he usually does it so there's little to no danger to the partner he might be working with. However, that's not really how a partnership works. So, Veld compares notes on how both Rude and Reno work and decides to throw them into a mission together.
This goes TERRIBLY.
It's amusing to me to imagine Reno not getting along with the very stoic Rude at all at first. He's a free-spirited kind of guy, and someone so reserved would probably annoy the crap out of him. He'd see Rude as a babysitter, since Rude is cautious and would warn him not to get carried away, and he'd resent that intensely. There were probably a few strong words he threw in Veld's direction after the first few missions where he's continually paired with Rude. Naturally, Veld would just tell him to deal with it, because he needed to learn how to work with a partner, and Rude wasn't going anywhere.
Eventually, I think there'd be a breaking point. Maybe some kind of sniper/long haul mission that required a vast amount of waiting. Reno would be chomping at the bit to get started, but I feel like Rude would be trying to temper him. The redhead would probably make some rash decision that involves him almost getting killed— except Rude's cool head saves him. From then, it would be grudging respect, and ultimately, he'd learn to understand and appreciate his partner's temperament.
(....As for the sunglasses, Rude might've expressed displeasure in the beginning, but by now, I think he's used to the fact that Reno's a whirlwind of destruction and his sunglasses are usually a victim of it. Amusingly enough, I can see him keeping a tally of every destroyed one and asking Reno to pay for them at the end of the month/year, haha.)
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who who who?? now I will be nosy foreverno subject
Reno
Rude
Tseng
Sephiroth
Angeal
Cloud
Reeve/Cait Sith
Rosso
Weiss
Jenova
Lazard
Cid
Mukki (for crack)
UHM... those are the ones I remember off the top of my head anyway.
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SCREAM, VELD, REEVE, AND TSENG???I love you, pls lets marriage.
actually, now I am curious how your headcanon goes for Reno's roots? SORRY I SHOULD BE ASKING YOU PITCH QUESTIONS but I just can't help myself when FFVII gets mentioned aahhhh
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UH. OKAY. I HAD AN RP SPOUSE AT THE LAST JOURNAL GAME I WAS IN. (Where hilariously enough I played Reno)
OKAY HERE GOES. PREPARE FOR SOME TEAL DEERS.
He's from Junon, mid-lower tier Junon to be specific he was one of... nine kids and while there was certainly plenty of love there wasn't always much of anything else to go around but my god his mom cooked for an army and didn't turn people away if they were hungry. His dad worked mostly, an engineer who did stuff to maintain the structure of the city and Reno learned to climb like a boss from him.
His grandmother used to be part of the army of secretaries for ShinRa (and had a thing with Vincent's dad, there's Valentine flatwear tucked in the house that she stole when he tossed her aside. She also kind of didn't take shit from the Turks back then and returned their paperwork to them all the time... but also gave them cookies and fruit baskets so it was even. She'd stabbed Reno with a fork at the dinner table more than once when he was being a shit.) and she kind of gave him the incentive to toddle off to Midgar to find a job that wasn't... what was in Junon.
He did a lot of shitty jobs, mostly washing dishes and playing bouncer/bartender in various places under the plate. (Rude first saw him when he broke a guy's hand for coping a feel and attempting to pick him up as a prostitute. BEST FIRST IMPRESSION NEVER.) And eventually he pretty much went "screw this" and... snuck in to the ShinRa building through the air vents/climbing the outside and showed up at one of the SOLDIER training things.
Without shoes because he'd needed to use them to prop things open.
THey told him to go away and threw him out about a dozen times, he was just some crazy-ass kid who had terrible diction and no respect for anything.
But he showed up to one that Veld was at and he was like "No. Make the kid run the obstacle course with you meatheads. If you're slower than him you have to do laps. B|" and...
well he beat the record. Barefoot.
Veld bought him breakfast the next morning and recruited him. 8D
He never properly told his mom and grandma what he did, but they knew and pretty much adopted the whole lot of the Turks in to the massive family because pfff they're Reno's family and you don't leave family behind or in need. (and by massive family I mean there's about... 30+ people at "direct family only" events.)
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Oh man I love this version too because you actually included family! So many versions of his backstory don't really include them too much (or at all). Also neat since you set him in Junon and not in Midgar, where he tends to originate from in many histories.
And aahhh the SOLDIER mention is fantastic! He would be crazy enough to just straight up show up and tell them he's staying until they removed him by force.
A+++ good backstory/headcanon, thank you for sharing!
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Midgar isn't that old, it's construction began only about a year before Sephiroth was born and the plate itself didn't begin until about 15 yeas after that. It was still being built in Crisis Core as well.
I may or may not have far too much information on ff7. :|
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I headcanon that Junon was a kind of... testing ground for plate construction techiques personally.
Also, here I have a thing for you