not_actually_a_bad_guy

Name: Rude
Door: Door pass (Submissive on the TDM)

Canon: Final Fantasy 7 Remake
Canon Point: End of the game

Age: 30
Appearance: Rude is a fairly tall man with a shaved head and a well-kept short beard. He is muscular but not overly so. He tends to favour dark clothes, and wears his Turk suit the way a suit is supposed to be worn, with a dark shirt and a tie. That said he does have chains hanging from it. He is also almost always seen wearing leather cloves and sunglasses with the suit. For his casual, civilian look he still follows the same themes with dark clothes and maybe a bit more formal. His normal going-out clothes are dark jeans and a button-down shirt. And the sunglasses as well. He has several piercings in each ear. And though he rarely shows them off he also has a set of tattoos covering each upper arm and shoulders, in a geometric blackwork design. He gets stuff added to this every so often.

History: Wiki here
CR AU (Optional): None

Personality:
Positive Trait: Loyal. Rude is very loyal to what he considers his family, the Turks. He has been with the Turks for many years and with his partner Reno for most of them and he continues to stay a Turk even after the company he works for falls apart. This hasn't happened yet in Remake and is in the future for Rude, but in Advent Children it is shown that he and Reno continue working for the Turks for multiple years even when they think they are the only two left. In Before Crisis, which takes place 6 years before FF7, there are more Turks but the game ends with only three of them left, Rude, his partner Reno and their leader Tseng. While other leaders of Shinra want them executed, Rufus Shinra decides not to have it happen in exchange for their loyalty. Throughout the rest of the games, they are shown as loyal to Rufus, not the Shinra company. Primarily by them staying with Rufus after Shinra has fallen apart, but also evidenced in other scenes when Reno shares the sentiment that the Turks carry out all missions they are given and later Rude echoes that with that no mission is impossible for them. However, there are some limits to this loyalty, one that is shown as happening 6 years before the story of the main game is when Rude is dating a woman named Chelsea. She is secretly working for a group called Avalance which is the Turks' main opponent. Rude is aware of this fact and still chose to date her (for a short period, she ends up running away rather than placing a bug on Rude's phone).

Negative Trait: Cold. The main feature of Rude is that he is cold and detached from the things the Turks do. He doesn't consider himself a bad guy, simply a man that does bad things. He is aware that they are expendable to Shinra, yet he is willing to complete missions like assassinations, clean-ups after mass murder and protecting the people who are actively destroying the planet. When he is working he has no problem kidnapping people and using them as blackmail or blowing up a tunnel. This coldness is often seen as him being professional and quiet, but it is also something he calls himself. Both he and Reno claim that the fight against Cloud and Avalance is "nothing personal" and that they are only doing their jobs. We are starting to see the cracks in this coldness towards the end of Remake where both Reno and Rude question if they are starting to grow a conscience and if dropping the sector 7 plate was too far of a move, even for them. That said they did still take the mission to do so, and in the process killed tens of thousands of people and help blame it on Avalance. In Advent Children, 2 years after the main game, both Reno and Rude discuss wanting to atone for the things they did as Turks and want to make a fresh start. They are not sure if it can be done but they do things like help Cloud take down the bad guy in the movie and will fight to protect children from others. This shows that Rude does grow a bit of a conscience after the plate drop and is less focused on doing things that benefit the Turks and himself, and more on working on being better than he was.

Negative Trait: Vengeful. For as much as Rude claims that there is nothing personal about him doing his job, there is a few things that gets to him. One is when his family and primarily Reno is being threatened. After Cloud mops the floor with Reno fairly early in the main game, when Rude finds Cloud and Aerith there is no question that Rude is challenging Cloud to a fight. One that he didn't need to do. And he is willing to continue fighting even after Cloud proves to be a fighter that can beat him. It isn't until Reno calls him and orders him to another mission that Rude backs down. An even more extreme example is when they are about to drop the Sector 7 plate. Reno was supposed to be the one who drops it and has one button left to press before it is done. After a fight with Avalance, Rude is about to give up, given that he is on the ground with Barret's gun in his face. But when Reno passes out, and Rude for a moment thinks he is dead, he decides to screw the gun in his face and the fact that they will be killing thousands of people and he runs to press the button that drops the plate. He would probably not have done this had Reno not passed out, and it is a high chance that his mission would have failed for them had it not been for Rude's revenge.

Negative Trait: Reckless. This is probably the trait we see the least of but it is still there. It is a result of Reno rubbing off on Rude after years of partnership. The most obvious example we see is in the fight right before he drops the Sector 7 plate. Rude is piloting the helicopter and he drops bombs on the platform they are fighting on, even though Reno is on the platform. There are also smaller signs of it, continuing to date Chelsea despite knowing she was working for their enemies could also be considered reckless in a way. This also plays together with vengefulness in how he behaves off duty, but it is more towards himself. He will go drinking or find other ways to forget after particularly bad missions. And given that his chances of getting his hands on a chopper in Duplicity will probably be low, the recklessness is more likely to come out in this fashion.

Powers and Abilities: While nothing is indicating that he is in any way anything other than a regular human in his world Rude is one tough guy, he routinely brings only his fists to a sword fight. And given it is game physics he can also jump higher and take worse landings than would be true in the real world. I do not intend for this to be game-breaking in any way so let me know if this is too much. He is also a capable combat helicopter pilot as well as the guy who handles demolitions for the Turks.
Inventory: A pair of sunglasses, a Shinra employee badge, and Reno's goggles.

Samples: TDM threads