History Characters / DissidiaFinalFantasyOperaOmniaVIIToIX

%%BT: Curtain Call

* ExtraTurn: All her abilities either delay the enemy or manipulate the party's turn order: her first base skill delays a single enemy by 2 turns, her second base skill moves a single party member's turn after her, her EX skill moves both party members' turns after her and both her Force and LD skills delay all enemies by 2 turns, with her LD skill additionally allowing her to move her next turn after the turn of another party member, including her own, letting her spam it if necessary.

* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Her LD and FR skills have her throw grenades to blow up her enemies, with her first base skill also tossing one at the targetted enemy after the kick.

* GenreSavvy: Almost to the point of MetaGuy -- he even says he is just making a "cameo appearance" when he offers his dimensional coordinates to Mog to be summoned for battle and becomes playable.

* DeathFromAbove: Vivi is part of a rather long line of characters who use meteor-themed EX abilities. His LD, Doomsday, is a giant meteor that actually attracts other meteor-sized chunks to it before falling down on enemies. His FR, Our Journey, has Vivi combining his might with Sazh, specifically following up the gunman's barrage of bullet-fire with the spell Comet, casting smaller meteor chunks at the enemy.

%%FR: Gunner Beat (with Vincent)

%%FR: Heart and Soul

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[[folder:Rufus Shinra]]
!!Rufus Shinra
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ToruOkawa

%%15: Recoil Shotgun

%%35: Whirlwhip

%%EX: Thunderclap

%%LD: Think Fast

%%FR: Accomplice (with Balthier)

%%Burst: Don't worry about the details

[[folder:Sephiroth]]
!!Sephiroth
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->''A legendary SOLDIER operative known for numerous heroic feats. Though once a popular figure, after learning the nature of his birth and coming into contact with Jenova, he changes drastically, developing an unbridled hatred for the world and everything in it. Acting on behalf of Jenova, he works to lead the planet to ruin.''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa

Recruited in his event, "One-Winged Angel". Though the party fought Sephiroth previously, they encounter him again and everyone gets surrounded by Manikins soon after. He joins the party to help them fight the Manikins and so he can learn more about Mog's motives, though like the other villains he doesn't travel with them and only wishes to be called upon for use in battle.

Sephiroth is capable of massive melee damage with Fervent Blow and Octaslash, the latter of which also debuffs enemies and raises his own speed with his unique indefinitely lasting and stackable Jenova buff. His EX Ability, Black Materia, is an 100% area of effect HP damage attack that gains its BRV via absorbing the enemy targets' BRV before unleashing the attack, and grants a unique stackable buff Reunion which increases his Max BRV with BRV regen based on the stacks (up to a total of 5); using his Black Materia also gives him a single free use skill cost on his next turn.

15: Fervent Blow

35: Octaslash

EX: Black Materia

LD: Scintilla

FR: Black Conflict (with Garland)

%%FR: Lined Crosses (with Fujin)

%%BT: Cloud-Steam Dragon

 * ContinuityNod: Several references are made in regard to Kadaj's brothers, Loz and Yazoo (hinting they may arrive in the World of Respite as well, someday).

* CharacterDevelopment: Kadaj gets one of the strongest redemptions in all of ''DFFOO'' (up there with Kuja, although his started more strongly in ''FFIX'' and the original ''Dissidia''). In ''Advent Children'' Kadaj was laser-focused on his reunion with JENOVA in order to bring Sephiroth back into the world, and only gets a sort-of DeathEqualsRedemption at the end after Aerith cures his Geostigma. In ''DFFOO'' he openly sees Cloud as one of his 'brothers', eventually allowing Zack close to him as well, and finds himself wanting to protect and befriend Aerith. Come Act 4, Chapter 4, Part 2 not only does Kadaj come to terms with the fact he cannot have his reunion with his 'Mother', but he finally opens up to the hero party and starts to consider them as his allies, and gives Aerith a genuine apology for hurting her, things he would never have done before his growth. He states he will put his obsession behind him and start living for himself.

* InterfaceScrew: When Kadaj uses his EX Ability Divinity, the screen is filtered in green static for a moment, similar to the visual effect used in ''Advent Children''.

%%FR: Geotomy (with Xande)

%%BT: Geodegradation

* MommasBoy: As is obvious from the name of his event and that a good number of his battle quotes involve his crying after his Mother, he has a serious case of this. A variation of this also functions as his main gameplay mechanic: his fixation on a single thing over everything else takes the form of a stacking debuff that gains more stacks as long as he keeps attacking the same enemy, and if he switches targets, the stacks drop back to 1, although he can thankfully gain maximum stacks instantly and thus switch targets with no penalty by using his LD or Awakening Ability.

** With his Force Partner, Prompto. Aside from both being firearm specialists, both have been experimented on against their wills; Vincent by Dr. Hojo, and Prompto being created as a magitek being by Verstael Besithia. Both also end up facing their experimenters in their side-stories from bonding their souls with world-destroying bodies; Vincent stopping Hojo after fusing with Omega (using Weiss's body) in ''Dirge of Cerberus'', and Prompto (with Aranea's help) slaying Verstael after he bonds his soul into the Immortalis in ''Episode: Prompto''.

* CommonalityConnection: After Fang tells the others that she was kept in sleep for many years where she (and Vanille) didn't age, Vincent points out that he was under a similar circumstance, and they both talk about how they are chronologically OlderThanTheyLook.

* CommonalityConnection: She confides to Iris and Jessie that she used to have a crush on Squall in order to relate to Iris' crush on Noctis, and both of them discuss how those feelings changed to a different sort of bond; not romantic, but no less important.

* CommonalityConnection: The group attempts to find common ground with Kadaj in regards with his obsession with his 'Mother'; Lilisette points out how she travelled through time to save her parents, although Kadaj dismisses her since her mother is still alive. Hope and Rydia point out how much they loved their mothers but still lost them, but Kadaj argues that at least their mothers were loved, while everyone blindly considers JENOVA as an enemy. Garnet then brings up how her mother Queen Brahne was a despot who pulled the world into war, yet still loved Garnet all the same in her own way. Lulu and Rosa, mothers themselves, simply tell Kadaj they are not trying to tell him that his love for his 'mother' is wrong, but that they are all there for him should he need it. Even Firion and Guy, orphans who were adopted by Maria and Leon's family, try to let Kadaj know he doesn't need to be alone.

%%FR: Star Slash (with Xande)

%%BT: Withering Planet

* CallBack: Her BT Weapon, the Windstorm Chakrum, is design after the ''FFVIII'' Guardian Force Pandemonium. Not only is Pandemonium the Wind GF, the same element shared by Fujin, but Pandemonium could be drawn from Fujin in the game.

* LauncherMove: Her lv90 rework further emphasizes on this by making all of her skills other than her LD instantly launch the enemy and making other targets launchable, and making it so that her EX trap debuff also makes the enemies instantly launchable after it triggers. Her Burst buff allows the party to automatically launch the enemy on their turn, and doubles the amount of wall damage done after the launch from a maximum of 25% to a maximum of 50% of total HP damage dealt during launches.

* LauncherMove: Her lv90 rework further emphasizes on this by making all of her skills other than her LD instantly launch the enemy and making other targets launchable, and making it so that her EX trap debuff also makes the enemies instantly launchable after it triggers. Her Burst buff allows the party to automatically launch the enemy on their turn, and doubles the amount of wall damage done after the launch from a maximum of 25% to a maximum of 50% of total HP damage during the launch.

* CallBack: Her BT Weapon, the Windstorm Chakrum, is design after the ''FFVIII'' Guardian Force, Pandemonium. Not only is Pandemonium the Wind GF, the same element shared by Fujin, but Pandemonium could be drawn from Fujin in the game.

* LauncherMove: Her lv90 rework further emphasizes on this by making all of her skills other than her LD instantly launch the enemy and making other targets launchable, and making it so that her EX trap debuff also makes the enemies instantly launchable after it triggers.

%%FR: Crystal Energy (with Sherlotta)

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Raijin has a special effect called "Thunder Mode", which unlocks the enhanced versions of Fist and Raijin Special. Perhaps in part due to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness while this 'mode' has a visual effect, it is not considered a buff or an overhead and is entirely unique to himself and him friend, Fujin.