Gau

Gau
A.K.A.
Age	14
Voice Actor
Relatives	None
Series	Final Fantasy VI
Player	Sean

• Name: Gau
• Age: 14
• Sex: Male
• Birthday: April 5th
• Parents: Unnamed Father, Unknown Mother
  • Place of Birth: Veldt
  • Nationality: GAU!
  • Specialty: Wild Animals
  • Hobbies: Making loud outbursts
  • Likes: SHINY THINGS!
  • Dislikes: Clothes
  • Favorite Food: Dried Meat
  • Least Favorite Food:
  • Favorite Music: Drums
  • Favorite Sport:
  • Most Valuable Possessions: Diving Helmet
  • Level of Education:
  • Seiyuu/Voice Actor:

• Physical Stats
  • Height: 5'3
  • Weight: 169
  • Eyes: Yellow
  • Hair: Green
  • Special:

Appearance

Gau is a teenager with wild hair. He walks with bad posture - occasionally on all fours - and wears tattered clothing which he fashioned from animal skins.

Personality

Having grown up alone and in the wild, Gau has no concept for etiquette or grammar and often refers to himself in the third person. In some situations, he calls out "gau!" Gau has a keen interest in shiny objects, hoarding them in a cave on the Veldt. He is afraid of heights.

Background

Gau was born in a house north of the Veldt. During childbirth Gau's mother died and, as a result, his father went mad. He believed Gau was a demon and threw him out on the Veldt. As part of his delusion, Gau's father convinced himself it was all a dream and no longer remembers Gau or his wife. Somehow, Gau survived on the Veldt on his own.

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In the midst of their escape from the Gestahlian Empire, Sabin and Cyan leapt off Baren Falls and wash up on the northern shore of the Veldt where Gau finds them on the beach. Gau runs away just as Sabin comes to and the next time Sabin encounters Gau, he demands food. Tossing Gau a Dried Meat from Mobliz is enough to earn the wild child's trust, and Gau starts following them around. He immediately takes a liking to Cyan.

The feeling is mutual, even though Gau makes fun of Cyan's overly formal and archaic speech (calling a perplexed Sabin "Mr. Thou", despite Sabin's insistence that Cyan should be "Mr. Thou"). Gau agrees to show them his treasure, a diving helmet. Sabin and Cyan use the diving helmet to travel through the Serpent Trench to Nikeah, where they take a ferry to South Figaro and eventually make their way to Narshe, where both Cyan and Gau join the Returners.

Gau stays with the party and helps them fight against the Empire, but during the Apocalypse he is separated from the others. One year later, Gau has returned to the Veldt. He rejoins the party, but only if a group of three or less encounter him. After rejoining his companions, it is decided by Sabin that Gau should go to meet his father -- but first, Gau is given a makeover.

Sabin takes him to Jidoor and dresses him up, with the armor salesman making rude comments that humorously anger Terra and Celes, and eventually, when Locke makes Gau wear a bandana just like his, Edgar comments it would be hard to expect some class out of Locke, which infuriates him enough to beat up Edgar in the armor shop (to see the full version of the armor shop scene, the player must have both Locke and Edgar in the party, while Terra and Celes must be waiting in the Falcon).

When Gau meets his father, his father doesn't recognize him, and even mentions having had a "dream" of throwing away a supposed demon child into Veldt. Still, he compliments Gau's "parents" for raising such a nice young man. Sabin becomes infuriated and threatens to beat up Gau's father, but Gau is just happy to find out his father is still alive.

Skills

(These include all learned skills, as well as a relative rating from Abyssmal to Amazing. The character's level of mastery in something that can be taught or at least rated by other people follows the scale: Abyssmal, Novice, Good, Very Good, Incredible, Amazing)

Physical Skills:

• Alertness +4
• Athletics +5
• Stealth +4

Social Skills:

• Subterfuge -1
• Streetwise -1
• Intimidation +3
• Leadership +1
• Etiquette -1
• Performance +3 (Howling only)

Mental Skills:

• Computers -1
• Investigation +2
• Law -1
• Occult +3 (Gau knows monsters!)
• Politics -1
• Science -1
• Technology -1

Other Skills:

• Driving -1
• Survival +5
• Empathy +2
• Animal Ken +5

Special Abilities

Rage - Gau has learned to mimic many of the monsters he's encountered during his travels. He can acquire more by returning to the Veldt, or by spending a large portion of time with them in a sufficient wilderness area.

Rages Obtained

• Brawler
  • Stone : Randomly damages one or all enemies, with the chance to inflict Confusion
  • Absorbs Poison
• Exocite
  • Scissors : Weak physical attack.
  • Weak to Fire and Lightning, Absorbs Water
  • Immune to Imp, Blind
• Hornet
  • IronNeedle : Standard physical attack.
  • Weak to Fire
  • Float
  • Immune to Imp
• Lobo
  • Tusk : Standard Physical Attack
  • Weak to Fire
• MagitekArmor
  • Magitek Laser : Deals Lightning-elemental damage to one opponent.
  • Weak to Lightning
  • Protect
  • Immune to Zombie, Poison, Imp, Petrify, Instant Death, Doom, Sap, Invisible, Magitek
• Rhinotaur
  • Mega Volt : Deals Lightning-elemental damage to one or all opponents
  • Absorbs Lightning
  • Immune to Petrify, Slow, Stop
• Trilobiter
  • PoisonBarb : Inflicts Poison on a target.
  • Protect
  • Immune to Imp
• Were-Rat
  • Poison : Black spell that deals minor Poison-elemental damage and Inflicts Poison
  • Weak to Fire, Absorbs Poison
  • Immune to Blind, Sleep
• Whisper
  • Demi : Black spell that reduces a target by half their health.
  • Weak to Holy and Fire, absorbs Poison
  • Float, Sap, Undead
  • Immune to Blind, Zombie, Poison, Imp, Petrify, Silence, Berserk, Sleep

Weaknesses & Flaws

Afraid of Heights
Raised by wolves...and other monsters

Quotes

Uwaoooo~!

Gallery

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  Gau!