Laguna Loire from Final Fantasy VIII!
MBTI type: ENFP! (most likely)
(I'm actually trying to not use any MBTI types on my character posts until I've gone through them all.)
Here is Laguna in one of his best moments!
Here is Laguna in one of his not-so-best moments!
I really don't have a starting point. Okay, I'll just get inspired by those pictures up there.
I really love the sincerity and realism they put into his character! He started out as just another soldier traveling along with his two friends, Kiros (I love his snarkiness.) and Ward. He sort of bumbles along, doing stupid things (as pictured above) that anyone could do, really (yes, I'm drawing from personal experience teheh).
One small quirk that I loved that was also very realistic was that his leg would cramp up whenever he was nervous. He had a cute little crush on Julia Heartilly, a singer and pianist who played regularly at the Deling City hotel (so of course Laguna frequented it often). As he got up the nerve to approach her, you'd see "Oh, my leg's cramping up!" and then he'd hobble away as Squall said, "...Sad." Also this happened when he was nervous in battle.
He's just clumsy in general. I think my favorite is when they have to make an escape by jumping off a cliff into water. He pushes his two friends first and is then like oh, you guys are so brave! as he proceeds to just climb down it. I guess it's karma when he loses his footing and falls all the way down anyways. It sort of sucked for him though because he needed a lot of medical attention afterwards. Scene as seen below (pun intended).
Another favorite moment is him starring in a random movie. That was just an amusing part of the game...
But besides all of his funny, clumsy moments, he can truly be an inspiring character. After he fell of the cliff, he washed up in a small town called Winhill and was cared for by a woman, Raine, and an orphan girl, Ellone (Elle for short) about five years old. Eventually, they became like family to him and he would do anything to protect Elle from monsters or the army looking for children her age to be the next sorceress (part of the story plot, by the way). He would go to any length for her, fighting whoever stood in his way and really became like a father to her. Even when she grew up about...twenty years? A bit less? Well, even then, she still called him "Uncle Laguna." He calls himself the "Monster Hunter of Winhill" and calls Raine his commander and Ellone his assitant commander.
Laguna's dream was to be a journalist (the pen is mightier than the sword!) and make money with his travel articles. (I really want to do that--just travel all over the world and write about my stay). However, he became president of the isolationist country Esthar instead...
It happened as, some events later, ended up being captured in Esthar, which was still ruled by the sorceress. While captured he ended up agreeing to join the resistance against her. Somehow he comes up with a plan to capture the sorceress and seal her and her powers away for good (as long as close surveillance and many seals are kept on it).
For his bravery and triumph, he was elected leader of Esthar!
Then, the main characters finally meet him as they must defeat a new sorceress tyrant who has the power of Time Compression! And to overcome this, he has a short little spiel about how to not be lost in it.
Yes, I think I'll stop there... ^^
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