Origins

[mimi_sardinia]

I find myself wondering about origins of some characters - particularly the Turks.

Of course it's a fanfic that's kicked me into this frame of mind - it has a scene with Elena talking about being a Turk and saying how she got there (this fic has her a cop who moved into the military then into the Turks).

It has me wondering about where the Turks come from. BC has origins listed for some of it's PCs (one was a bodyguard for Don Corneo, one was a Costa Del Sol detective, another was a mercenary) but the original Turks - the ones from the original game, Tseng, Reno, Rude, and Elena, were never really given any. I supose that's the fate of being secondary characters - I haven't seen any info for BC that says anything about Veld's origins (or any of the Originals that appear in it either).

Reno has some fanon about him being a street kid and given some of the discussions I've read about translating his AC dialog it sounds like canon gives some sort of impression that direction (the now-infamous "yo" is apparently translated from a japanese word that really has no meaning - is just useless slang that gets tagged on the end of speech - I'm crappy at remembering what it was I saw stated about "zotto").
Tseng... commonly considered to be Wutaian of some degree.
There's nothing I can recall definately about Rude actually, so he must not have much fanon about him and his origins.
Elena... Poor girl gets written off too much just because she's the rookie. I did read one fic where she was Rufus' secretary prior to being enlisted as a Turk - I think I like the idea of her being a cop better, the logical progression in profession is clearer.

Meh.

Comments

[fireholly.livejournal.com]

My Reno comes from Cosmo Canyon. But that's because I abhor cliches to the point where common sense is ignored.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

That'd certainly be unique, up there with Cetra!Reno in a fic I've been following (the side-fic about Reno's youth is not exactly the best writing. I wouldn't even call the main series spectacular writing but it's better than the Reno-fic and I have seen far worse).

One of the ones that I wonder about the most is Vincent. I mean we know he was a Turk and we know about the mess with Lucrecia and Hojo that ended with him sleeping in a coffin but what about before that assignment? I like fics that tackle background like that, nashidesei does a bit of it in her fic Bound and I recently read a Veld/Vincent fic set not long after he got assigned to Nibelheim but it had a lot about all the crap Vin and Veld got up to as Turks (and given Vin's personality, and what little I know of Veld, the story is rather amusing in places).