Vincent Valentine Profile
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Vincent Valentine
Vincent Valentine artwork by Tetsuya Nomura
Game series Final Fantasy and Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
First game Final Fantasy VII
Designed by Tetsuya Nomura
Voiced by (English) Steve Blum
Voiced by (Japanese) Kazuhiro Nakata (Ehrgeiz) Shōgo Suzuki (all other appearances)
Information
Class/Job Ex-Turk
Weapon Handgun (named "Cerberus" in Dirge of Cerberus), "Griffon" (Machine Gun, Dirge of Cerberus), "Hydra" (Rifle, Dirge of Cerberus)
Race Human/caucasian (Failed Genova Experiment/ Gentically Enhanced)
Home Unknown
Blood type A
Vincent Valentine (ヴィンセント・ヴァレンタイン, Vinsento Varentain?) is a fictional character in the role-playing game Final Fantasy VII and the protagonist in the third-person shooter Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII. He also makes appearances in the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII series and the fighting game Ehrgeiz. The English voice actor of Vincent is Steven Blum, while the Japanese voice actor was Kazuhiro Nakata in Ehrgeiz and Shōgo Suzuki in all other appearances.
Contents
1 Character design 2 Characteristics and abilities 3 Appearances
3.1 Final Fantasy VII 3.2 Final Fantasy VII Advent Children 3.3 Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
3.3.1 Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode
4 Reception 5 References 6 External links
Character design Vincent appears as a tall, thin, brooding man with long, unkempt black hair wearing a ragged red and black cloak over black clothes. His left arm below the elbow is covered by a metallic, golden claw. It has been previously suggested that this is an entirely mechanical prosthetic, but the refined character design used in Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus shows that there is most likely an ordinary, albeit gloved, hand underneath the golden claws, presumably attached to a similarly ordinary arm. However, some fans still argue against this interpretation. It is also interesting to note that brass claws are an ancient Greek characteristic typical to monsters (such as a gorgon, with brass claws and wings), which would be in line with Vincent's monstrous associations. His cloak covers the lower half of his face and is held closed by a series of buckles. His eyes are distinctly coloured red. This is natural, not caused by experimentation on him, as his father Grimoire Valentine has identical eyes (Lucrecia notes this in a Dirge flashback) As of Advent Children, his weapon of choice changed to a triple-barrel revolver named "Cerberus". The name derives from the dog's heads that adorn each of the three barrels as well as the silver charm that hangs from the hilt known as the Dirge. Character designer Tetsuya Nomura has explained that Vincent Valentine's character shifted from that of Horror researcher, to detective, to chemist, finally arriving at the figure of a former member of the Shinra Company's Turks with a tragic past, only part of which involves being used as a human test subject. It has been further explained that his crimson mantle was added to symbolize the idea of Vincent carrying a heavy weight—related to death—on his shoulders. Vincent is a playable character in the PlayStation version of Ehrgeiz along with Tifa, Cloud, Sephiroth, Yuffie and Zack, though — like the other Final Fantasy VII characters featured in the game — he has no storyline in the game. His alternate costume is his Turk uniform seen in flashbacks in the original game. Tetsuya Nomura commented in an interview that he wanted Vincent to appear in the Kingdom Hearts series. Instead, he opted to model Cloud's look in the series after Vincent due to Cloud sharing many of the dark traits that Vincent shows in Final Fantasy VII. Cloud bears a red cape that covers the lower half of his face, and has golden claws on the fingers of his left hand.
Characteristics and abilities Vincent is known for being adept at using different forms of firearms due to his training under the Turks. Due to Lucrecia's injection of the Chaos gene into Vincent he does not age and possesses a number of supernatural abilities, like enhanced speed, agility, stamina and strength. In Dirge of Cerberus his melee attacks involved various kicks and using his metal claw, with a purple aura trailing behind them. In Final Fantasy VII, Vincent transforms into four different creatures as part of his limit breaks: a bipedal version of a Final Fantasy VII Behemoth, the Galian Beast; the Frankenstein's monster-like Death Gigas; Hellmasker, a homage to Jason Voorhees; and the vampire-like Chaos. In Advent Children, he took on a flying ghostly red form evocative of his cloak, and during the fight with Bahamut SIN, at one point he jumps up, flame spouting from his cape. Concerning his inner demons, the Galian Beast was remodelled into a more humanoid form with the ability to shoot homing fireballs and unleash seismic shockwaves, and Chaos was altered to resemble Vincent with demonic features, such as pale skin, yellow eyes, spiked-black hair, monster fangs, and frayed bat-like wings. Chaos had many powers such as a red/black beam that he used to kill Azul; was able to magically recreate his Death Penalty weapon which shot black/white death-rays; a melee attack that would release a red aura wherever he struck and ended the combo with a strange ball of energy, and an attack where he charges red or purple energy around him that he used to charge into Omega and destroy him.
Appearances Vincent was once a member of the Turks thirty years before the events of Final Fantasy VII. He was assigned to supervise The Jenova Project in Nibelheim, where he fell in love with a scientist named Lucrecia Crescent, an assistant to Professor Hojo. At first unknown to Vincent, Lucrecia once was an assistant to his father Grimoire Valentine on the discovery of Chaos and Omega. Grimoire died in an accident concerning Chaos and Omega, pushing Lucrecia away when the tests of the experiment went wrong. Vincent later discovered her link with his father and asked Lucrecia why she never told him. When he questioned her, she fled from him. He found Lucrecia later and tried to express his feelings for her, but she didn’t want to be with him as she felt too guilty about his father’s death because, she told him, it was all her fault. Ultimately she entered a relationship with her associate Hojo instead. Lucrecia became pregnant by Hojo soon afterwards, and her unborn child was to be part of the Jenova Project, which was an investigation into the effect of Jenova cells on an unborn child. Vincent was strongly opposed to this and confronted Hojo to ask him if what he heard was true. As Lucrecia entered the encounter, Hojo told him it had nothing to do with him and that they were scientists; they knew what they were doing. Vincent then turned to Lucrecia if she was sure this was what she wanted, and she retorted that it concerned her and not him, so she was sure. In the interest of science, she decided to proceed with the treatment. After a while, Lucrecia became very sick and started to see visions of what would become of her unborn son in the future, Sephiroth. Outraged, Vincent confronted Hojo in the Shinra Mansion's underground laboratory. Hojo, angered by Vincent's approach, pulled out a gun from his lab coat and shot Vincent in the stomach. Lucrecia tried to find a way to save him. Lucrecia started to look through her unfinished thesis on Chaos, Omega and the Lifestream. Hojo caught her looking at her files and mocked her, saying she just wanted to use Vincent to prove her thesis, as many of her colleagues thought it was “unrealistic”. Lucrecia didn’t want to believe she was doing it for that, so she continued to try to save him. Lucrecia injected him with stagnant Lifestream which revived Vincent and turned him into the beast Chaos. However, due to Chaos becoming violent and attacking anything in its way, Lucrecia put the materia called "Protomateria" inside him to keep Chaos and its feral nature under control. Later, Hojo proceeded to use his body as the subject for experiments that resulted in Vincent's body becoming stronger and capable of transforming into beasts. Hojo's experiments on Vincent, however, ended up being only a partial success. This way, Vincent was able to be such a perfect host for Chaos because Hojo made his body so strong and in the end immortal.
Vincent as he appears in Final Fantasy VII Advent Children
Later Vincent awoke on the operating table. Due to Hojo's metamorphose experimentation, Vincent's anatomy was altered to the point where he could temporarily change his physical form into monstrous enities (this also is the reason Chaos bonded with Vincent so well). Vincent responded to his modified body with both anguish and rage. He believed that this was his punishment for his “sin”, not being able to save Lucrecia from the Jenova Project. He punished himself further by putting himself in a coffin in the Shinra Manor basement, where Hojo locked the door with a key, which he locked inside a safe along with one of his experimental monsters that attack anyone who opened it. Because of Hojo's experiments, Vincent's age remains physically at 27, not 60, which is his real age in Dirge of Cerberus. He is also briefly encountered in Before Crisis, the mobile phone game concerning the storyline of the Turks.
Final Fantasy VII After sleeping for thirty-one years, Vincent is found by Cloud, who had managed to retrieve the key from the safe. Vincent is surprised to hear that Cloud knows Sephiroth, and demands an explanation. Cloud tells him about everything that had happened with Sephiroth and the atrocities he had committed, but this only served to make Vincent feel even more guilt for his failure to stop the experiment, so he shuts himself back in the coffin. After some further coaxing from Cloud, he emerges from the coffin again and tells who he was and about Lucrecia and how she was Sephiroth's true mother, and then he shuts himself back in the coffin. But when Cloud leaves the room and begins to head back upstairs, Vincent catches up to him and joins Cloud after learning that his group may meet up with Hojo sooner or later. For the remainder of FFVII, Vincent plays a very minor role, with very little story aspect centered around him (even less than Yuffie, the game's other optional character). The only other time that there is any focus on Vincent is when they use the submarine to travel through an underwater cave and surface in a small lake surrounded by mountains. They find a cave in one of the surrounding mountains, and inside the cave Vincent finds Lucrecia, who was now full of pain and regret for all that she had done. Lucrecia asks Vincent if Sephiroth is still alive, but he lies to her, telling her that he is dead in order to spare her the pain of learning about the atrocities that Sephiroth had committed. It should also be noted that if he is in the main party before the battle with Hojo, Hojo informs Vincent that Hojo was Sephiroth's father, and Vincent reacts in disbelief. He then claims that it should be Hojo who was punished by sleeping in a coffin, not Vincent. Due to Vincent's status as an optional character of the game, he is noticeably absent from the ending of Final Fantasy VII. This is because the game's ending was done in FMV so he could not simply be omitted from the scene as he could during normal gameplay; his presence in the game's ending would only serve to confuse players who did not unlock him more than absence would for players who did. However, this was later retconned in the introduction scene to Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII which shows Vincent and Yuffie (who was also absent from the game's ending) aiding Reeve in the evacuation of Midgar just before Meteor was about to crash into the city, which would imply that they had left the Northern Crater for Midgar ahead of the rest of the group. While on the Sister Ray, Vincent realized that Hojo may still be alive. Apparently he had survived the earlier fight with Cloud's group and was able to make his way over a computer terminal that was on the control platform, and it is later revealed that he stored his mind into virtual memory and uploaded it onto the net. Hojo himself was just barely alive, not even seeming conscious. Vincent prepared to finish the man off, but Meteor had already begun to crash into Midgar before he could, so he was forced to flee and was rescued by Yuffie on a hovercraft and together they escaped from Midgar.
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children After Meteorfall, Vincent reappeared two years later at the Forgotten City to rescue Cloud from Kadaj and his gang by transforming into an intangible monster evocative of his cloak. He revealed to Cloud what he knew about Kadaj's intentions and that he rescued two of the Turks, Tseng and Elena, from them. He later showed up (comically asking where to obtain a cell phone) to help his friends defeat Bahamut SIN. It was Vincent who told his friends not to help Cloud and let him face his own personal battle against Sephiroth. He was seen in the end with all of his friends celebrating the defeat of Sephiroth and Geostigma and even appeared in a picture all of them took together.
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII A year after the events of Advent Children, Vincent was called by Reeve with an important matter in Kalm. There, Vincent becomes the prime target of the Deepground Soldiers. It would soon be revealed that they are after the Protomateria inside his body. Once removed from his body, Vincent begins to feel the stress of Chaos and its desire to kill. He faces the DGS leader, Weiss, who has been possessed by the digitized mind of Hojo while attempting to find a cure for the disease he had contracted on the net. Hojo explains how the alterations he did to his body made him a perfect host for Chaos and what he plans to do next. Vincent and Hojo have their final battle, which ended with Omega's awakening and the surfacing of Chaos. Thanks to the efforts of Shelke, however, Vincent is able to regain his consciousness while in Chaos's form and remember the truth of Lucrecia's wishes. While he survived the onslaught, Vincent was purged of Chaos during the final attack on Omega during its ascension from Midgar. Chaos's purpose is fulfilled and he returned to the planet. Vincent thanks Lucrecia as she was the reason he survived all these years and leaves her resting place, able to begin his life anew finally.
Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode Between the events of Dirge of Cerberus, Vincent took a WRO chopper to Nibelheim at the Shinra Mansion to find out why the Deep Ground was after him. His chopper was attacked by the Deepground.
Reception
This short section requires expansion.
Vincent is often seen as one of the more popular characters in the Final Fantasy VII conglomerate, even rivaling the main character, Cloud Strife, and the main antagonist, Sephiroth (who is often voted to be one of the most popular villains ever).
References
^ Final Fantasy Die-Cast Replica: Vincent Valentine's Cerberus - Final Fantasy Master Arms at BigBadToyStore. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
External links
Vincent Valentine character profile at the official Square Enix Final Fantasy VII site all about Vincent Valentine Media, Profile, and everything about Vincent Valentine Vincent Valentine on the Final Fantasy Wiki
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