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Created on 2008-04-23 21:35:35 (#15438059), last updated 2009-04-04

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Name:	Doctor Lucrecia Crescent

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I wish I could start over

In My Head
Character Name: Lucrecia Crescent
Series: Final Fantasy VII
Gender: female
Age: physically, she's about 30, in actuality she's 60
Species: human
Sexuality: straight
Appearance: Lucrecia has long brown hair pulled up into a high
ponytail. Her bangs are a little messy, partly covering her left eye.
Both sides of her face are framed by the remaining length of her
bangs, flowing down nearly to her chest. The top of the pony tail is
wrapped up in an old yellow cloth that has begun to visibly
deteriorate. Her eyes are a deep chocolate brown and usually warm and
kind or scared and frightened. Living in the mako crystal for thirty
years has caused Lucrecia's clothes to deteriorate. So she no longer
wears her lab coat, shirt, and skirt. The only parts of her normal
attire that remains are her necklace, anklet, and shoes. The fabric on
her clothes deteriorated into basically scrap cloth wrapped around her
body to form loose clothing.

A little about Lucrecia
Personality: Lucrecia has a huge guilt complex. She blames
herself for everything that went wrong over the course of her life,
from the death of Dr. Valentine to the death of Vincent, and
everything in between. Being a scientist, Lucrecia is extremely
dedicated and has a penchant for putting her entire being into a
project. She's been known to block out everything around her in favor
of her research.. She's very good at convincing herself of things,
having built herself a world within her mind during the mansion time.
She's a kind and genuinely caring soul, though she has a tendency to
believe only what she wants to believe, and as such usually convinces
herself that if she doesn't like it, or that it isn't real. She does
have a good heart and only wants things to be okay, but oftentimes
doesn't believe that she deserves that happy ending, not after
everything she did. She's also persistent. Where Hojo would have given
up and called things impossible, Lucrecia would keep at it, putting
everything she had into the project until she got a true answer. She
was like this when researching Chaos, which proved to be a good thing
years down the line.

When it comes to Vincent, Lucrecia has an extremely difficult time
dealing with the past. She wants him to be happy, believing that she
is not part of that happiness. The time he spent visiting her in her
cave confuses her, as she doesn't understand how he could willingly
spend time with the remnants of the person who ruined his life.

At the time she finds herself in Manhattan, she has yet to come to
terms with her past, so she's still quiet, with eyes averted.
Abilities: Lucrecia isn't a fighter, but she still has Jenova
inside her, though the Geostigma inflicted upon her is much, much
weaker and much less progressive as a disease. She's very intelligent
and can usually figure out the answer to almost any scientific
question or thesis. She's also persistent with her research and won't
stop until she has a solid answer.
Weaknesses: Her own mind is her greatest weakness. She's very
good at doubting and guilting herself. If something goes wrong, she
will undoubtedly blame herself and the light inside her is very, very
faint. She's not a very social creature. Having lived for so long in
the ShinRa manor and then spending thirty years locked up in a mako
crystal, Lucrecia's social skills are null and void. She's not very

good at expressing herself and has a hard time dealing with things
that go wrong, having a tendency to think the worst of everything.
Manhattanite or outsider? outsider

History - major Dirge of Cerberus background spoilers
Lucrecia first worked for ShinRa alongside a scientist named Dr.
Valentine - this was Vincent's father. She was working on a theory
she'd run across in the Ancient's texts - a theory about Omega and
Chaos. Supposedly Omega was the final liberator of the planet - when
the planet knew its time was ending, it would call forth Omega. Omega
would draw together all of the spiritual energy in the planet, drawing
it into one pure lifestream that could be taken away from the dying
planet, to be reborn elsewhere - Chaos was designed to be the
destructor, to purge the lifestream of any impurities when the time
came. No one believed her except for Dr. Valentine - so in an effort
to prove them all wrong, Lucrecia tried to speed up her research on Chaos,
to the point of cultivating the Chaos gene itself in the laboratory
beneath the ShinRa mansion. Chaos, being a creature of destruction, was
not easily contained and something went wrong that day. In an effort
to save Lucrecia's life, Dr. Valentine pushed her out of the way of
Chaos' attack, succumbing to it himself and eventually dying from it.
Lucrecia had come to see him as a father figure and she blamed herself
for his death, unable to cope with the fact that she had caused it,
and that it had happened at all.

It was only made worse when she was assigned a Turk, someone to
protect her - she didn't know who until he came to see her and told
her his name was Vincent Valentine. He had no idea about what
happened to his father, or even that his father had worked at the
ShinRa manor with Lucrecia. She wasn't about to tell him. Looking at
Vincent was hard for her. His eyes were the exact same as his father's
- so every time she saw Vincent, she saw his father in him. Of course,
this brought back her memories of Dr. Valentine's death. She tried to
make a friendship happen between herself and her body guard; she really
did. But one day, Vincent surprised her. He came into the lab while
she was out and discovered a file on his father... a file that spoke
of her working with him. She denied it, said it was none of Vincent's
business, and refused to talk about it. Not long after that, she went
over to Hojo. Her mind couldn't handle the stress of remembering Dr.
Valentine at the same time as being near Vincent and she couldn't talk
about it. So being near Vincent and friendly with him just wasn't
going to happen, not now that Vincent knew she'd worked with his
father. Having made her decision, she had to go through with it.
Something in her mind had broken and she had to make herself believe
that she had no feelings for Vincent, that she only loved Hojo.

Enter Jenova. Because Jenova was believed to be an Ancient, the
doctors of ShinRa wanted to genetically alter living people by
injecting them with the Jenova cells. Eventually, they put up the idea
to try an inutero experiment. Lucrecia was the only female, so of
course she had to carry the child. It's revealed in the original game
that Hojo was the father. Lucrecia got pregnant and Jenova was
injected into herself and the child. Thus, the Jenova Project was born
- Jenova Project S. The child's name was Sephiroth. Since no one had
been introduced to Jenova before this, or any Ancient's cells for that
matter, no one knew what kind of reaction the body would have to said
cells. While Lucrecia was pregnant, she grew weaker and weaker. Jenova
was taking its toll on her, messing with her body, showing her visions
of what her son would do when he grew up, and generally making a mess
of her physical and emotional states. Sephiroth was born, but Lucrecia
was never allowed to hold him, take care of him - nothing. He was
taken away because he was to be the prodigy, the perfect soldier for
ShinRa. Of course, not being able to see her child didn't help
Lucrecia's mental state.

Not long after Sephiroth's birth, Vincent and Hojo had a bit of a
disagreement. Vincent had protested the Jenova Project vocally when it was
first tossed around, though Lucrecia herself shot him down on that
one. This next disagreement between Hojo and Vincent showed that
Vincent really did care about her, possibly even loved her. Hojo
decided Vincent wasn't worth keeping alive and shot him. As Hojo was
standing there laughing like a maniac over Vincent's slowly dying
body, Lucrecia came into the room. And the rest of her sanity pretty
much fled then. She didn't take it well, but at least it opened her
eyes. Hojo got a hold of the body first though. Lucrecia took this
failed experiment, not wanting to see Vincent die and finally allowing
herself to realize what she'd felt for him all along. Since the other
beasts created a stronger body, better stats, and an agelessness to
him, Vincent's body was now the perfect candidate to host an even
bigger problem, which was his only chance of living - Chaos. It took a long
time and even when things seemed to be going okay, or at least in the
right direction, it was wearing on Lucrecia's mental state. And of course,
there was still Jenova eating away at her. She ended up not being able
to stay to see if her little experiment worked. Lucrecia locked
herself away in the cave where she'd first discovered the
Protomateria, the materia that would calm Chaos, the materia that
would later allow Vincent to control Chaos. The Jenova in Lucrecia's
body would not allow her to die, so she did the next-best thing -
sealed herself up in a crystal made from the planet's spiritual
energy. She was tied to the lifestream, dead in all the ways that
mattered.

Thirty years later, she actually woke up, mostly healed and actually
alive, in a place that looked nothing like anywhere she'd seen...

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