#i'll give you 3 seconds (high noon verse)

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High Noon Flayn

"Ma always said i was a spitfire. Hard to deny that when swinging and shooting this thing is so darn fun."

Summary: Formerly a farmgirl, Flayn was turned into a demon hunting bounty hunter after Thresh razed her family’s farm and killed her mother and younger sister. While a reckless encounter with Urgot costed her her left arm, after getting a mechanical replacement she continues her pursuit, assisting any other hunter she finds at whatever chance she gets. Wielding a massive Gunblade, her main goal is to find Thresh and avenge her family. Purging the demons from the land is just a side effect.

Personality: While this version of Flayn is certainly much easier to handle than her Runeterran counterpart, that doesn’t make her any less tough than her namesake. She’s a wild, rowdy cowgirl that enjoys a good fight and a good drink even more. Always one to take initiative, she’s always the first one to jump into the fray, whether it’s demons, outlaws with a good bounty on their heads or just drunks starting a bar brawl that are in front of her. She’s also definetly not one to keep quiet about her opinions. To put it bluntly: If she thinks you’re a clown, then she’s definetly gonna make sure you’re aware of that. She can also not tolerate injustice of any kind, abuse of power in particular is a really easy way to make her fly off her handle. If she takes a liking to you, though, she’ll also make sure you know that too; from friendly praising to inviting you over for a drink so you both can share stories.

Affilliations: None in particular. Wherever there’s demons to kill, bounties to collect and bar brawls to be on, she’ll go.

Appearence: Her facial features are exactly the same as her Runeterran counterpart, and so is her body shape. The only notable differences are her left arm, that was completely destroyed by Urgot, and had to be replaced with a mechanical one. Clothing wise, she always wears a duster coat over a plain black dress shirt, denim jeans, high boots and a pair of black gloves. On particular hot days she puts on a matte black hat, but it’s not a usual part of her wardrobe.

Weaponry and abilities:

-Maggie: Her beloved Gunblade and named after her deceased mother Margaret, this little beast was forged with the finest steel in the land and can hold 6 high caliber bullets in total that can each pack a massive punch. While slashing and cutting is it’s most obvious use, pulling the trigger can do one of two things depending on how it’s done. A fast tap will fire the round as if it were a regular hand cannon round, but squeezing it for a full second will instead detonate the bullet, causing a small explosion aimed at whatever is directly in front of the weapon. Combining this second firing mode with srikes from the blade itself can make for a very deadly assault.

(Official art from Final Fantasy VIII)

-Mechanical Arm: Losing her left arm to Urgot might as well have been the best thing that could have happened to her. Using the parts from his legs that she managed to blast off before she fell into his trap and with the help of a certain short-statured engineer she met days earlier, Flayn managed to craft a mechanical arm that works just like any other regular limb. The differences being that the physical strength she can achieve with this one is much greater than the rest of her body can manage, and being crafted with scrapped part from Urgot’s body means that she can also channel demonic energy with it. However, doing so is extremely taxing on the rest of her being, so she avoids doing so unless it’s absolutely necessary. Whenever she draws out this demonic power her entire body is engulfed in a dark shadow, and her eyes shine a crimson red color.

Main tag: i’ll give you 3 seconds (high noon verse)

>Her hair color was actually blonde before she had to draft the mechanical arm into her body. After that, it shifted to her current platinum color.

Other headcanons:

>She's actually a Nephilim. More specifically, her father was an angel. He's not around anymore but not due to Heaven's destruction. He's gone because he left for a final duel against an old Demon rival he had when Flayn and her sister were both barely a year old, and needless to say, he lost. And yes, she's completely unaware about this fact.

>The sole reason why Flayn didn’t die alongside the rest of her family at Thresh’s hand was because she just happened to be away when he razed their farm; She had left for a nearby town for some supplies minutes before he arrived. By the time she got back, everyone was long dead and the devil was already taking his leave.

>Urgot crushed her arm at elbow length. Everything before it is still her own body, but after the elbow it’s the mechanical arm.

>Even without the arm, Flayn is still rather strong physically. Being raised in a farm meant that she had to do a lot of work, and that made her body tone itself with time.

>In a certain way, Dranna is still with Flayn even in this verse. The demon that she contacts whenever she channels it’s power also happens to be a sassy female that likes the color purple. Talk about a coincidence.