I said I'd get back to this sooner, but it ended up taking months due to schoolwork, as well as my current project under the Writer's Corner area. But I've finally got a break, so here's my next one. This one being for 10.

Name: Chico Ronso
Age: 7 (10)/9 (10-2)
Height: 4'5"
Weight: 81 lbs.

No. Don't be fooled by the last name. He's not a Ronso. Truthfully, Chico is a human. How he wound up taking the last name "Ronso" is a long story -- part of his backstory that begins well before he was born.

A year-and-a-half after Braska defeated Sin, Luca native Rinno met Kilika native Levia (since FF likes using names as callbacks, then why not me, too?), and over time, they fell in love. They were married and, before long, found out they were expecting their first child. They decided to leave both of their original lives behind them and start a new life somewhere else, and chose Besaid. So after packing up all of their belongings, they headed off to Besaid by boat.

Unfortunately, their boat was attacked by Sin when they were just off the coast of Besaid, and both Levia and Rinno were thrown overboard and were eventually washed up on the beach on the brink of death. Luckily, they were found by none other than Kimahri, who quickly brought them back to the village, and they were nursed back to health in the temple. Upon finding out from a nun in the temple that Kimahri had saved them, they called him to thank him and became friends with him. Eventually, Levia and Rinno recovered from their injuries, and luckily, Levia found out she hadn't lost the baby in the accident.

Levia and Rinno finally got their new life in Besaid started and fit in almost right away with the other Besaid residents. However, they actually spent much of their time with Kimahri and became close with him very quickly. And that was good, too, because that'd definitely be needed for the tragedy that was about to befall the couple.

Exactly three years to do the day Braska defeated Sin, Levia gave birth to her and Rinno's first (and what would end up being only) child, a boy, and they named him Chico. Unfortunately, they got very little time with their son. Giving birth ended up taking heavy big a toll on Levia's body, and she died a full day after Chico's birth. Rinno followed two days later when some fiends attacked him just outside of Besaid Village. This left the question of who'd raise Chico up in the air . . . until the temple summoner discovered a sphere they'd kept. It contained Levia and Rinno's recorded will, in which they expressly stated that due to their close friendship with Kimahri, they wanted him to raise their son as his own. Well, given that Kimahri was quite awkward around children, of course he was apprehensive. But it was thanks to encouragement from Yuna that he ultimately decided to do it, especially since Yuna promised that she, Wakka, Lulu, and the then-alive Chappu would help him whenever he'd need it, as well as the rest of the village. Hence, Chico having "Ronso" as his last name. Kimahri adopted him.

Leading up to the events of 10, Chico spent the entire first seven years of his life growing up in Besaid under Kimahri's watchful eye. When he was old enough to walk and talk, he often played with Yuna, Wakka, Lulu, and Chappu. However, to make sure his newly-adopted son was strong, Kimahri began training him for battle from a fairly early age -- three. During his training, he found that he had an innate ability to actually commune with the fiends in the wild, a handy ability, indeed, for such a small boy, and soon learned the ways of a trainer. Of course, Chico also learned something else -- to not talk to people his father neither liked nor trusted. So whenever he saw that Kimahri didn't like or trust someone, he knew to avoid him or her.

Eventually, when Yuna became a summoner, it was a given that Wakka, Lulu, and Kimahri would be her guardians. However, despite him being only seven, she asked Kimahri if Chico could be, as well, since both of them knew it'd be a great chance to test how strong Kimahri's training had made Chico. Kimahri agreed, so he became her youngest guardian.

And that leads up to the events of 10. After the party met Tidus, Chico took to him right away and wanted to speak to him, but seeing that his father totally despised and distrusted him, he was sadly forced not to say a word to him. At least until Kimahri finally spoke to him after Operation Mi'ihen. But before then, he only ever talked to Yuna, Wakka, Lulu, Auron, or his father. Also, Chico felt much jealously toward Yuna (though at the same time, he liked her) due to the amount of attention Kimahri would give her over him. This had him doubting if Kimahri loved or even cared about him at all. (He did.)

Unfortunately, while he was well-liked by the party, he found himself the target of some non-party members' hatred. While to this day, I, personally, am unsure as to whether they truly hated Kimahri or were just messing with him, Biran and Yenke hated Chico because he was a human boy being raised by a Ronso, an honor they thought no human deserved. They also thought it made Kimahri even weaker for daring to raise a human son. So as hard a time they gave Kimahri, Chico would get an even harder one, actually getting physically pushed around when he tried to stand up for himself.

And as a side note (but one I won't dwell on as much), he bonded quickly with Pacce over being young guardians, and the fact that they technically may have seemed too young to be as such, but were still doing fine despite it. And as with most young boys, Chico nursed a crush (that was obviously one-sided) on the teenage Rikku when they met her on the Moonflow.

For the most part, Chico's main story arc throughout the game's events are getting over his jealousy toward Yuna (made easier by Yuna's assurances toward him that he has nothing to be jealous of, as Kimahri truly does love him), proving to Biran and Yenke that he's not weak for being raised by a Ronso, and the black-and-white reality he'd always lived due to his youthful innocence naivete (that summoners will beat Sin and that all will be well in Spira, and that Al Bhed are bad while everyone else is good) getting completely shattered when he finds out what actually happens to summoners who defeat Sin (he's nearly, though not quite, as devastated as Tidus, despite his jealousy of Yuna), the Al Bhed aren't quite so bad, and that the Guado are the (mostly) evil ones. During the game, his main interactions are always with Kimahri (who picks him up and throws him up an awful lot), though they're always silent. Because his father doesn't speak a lot, he always knows what Kimahri is telling him through his motions, gestures, and facial expressions and knows how to act accordingly, a sign of how close the two of them are.

During the transitional period between 10 and 10-2, when Kimahri was chosen to be the new elder of the Ronso and moved back home to Mt. Gagazet, Chico, of course, now nine years old, was taken with him. And during that game's events, Chico probably had it worse with Garik than he'd ever had it with Biran and Yenke. While they'd only pushed him around without actually striking him, in the scene in which Garik finally punches Kimahri, Chico tries to stand up for him and gets the taste slapped out of his mouth. (Though it's not helped that despite being a human, Garik found out that Kimahri had hand-picked Chico to be his heir.) Also, there's a "hidden" mission in which he's kidnapped by Logos and Ormi while trying to get a sphere for the Gullwings that he'd found somewhere on Gagazet.

In 10, Chico's regular job class is trainer. It works like a combination of 5's trainer and 10-2's trainer. Like 5, he can capture fiends, but in this case, only specific ones -- certain beasts, lizards, and birds, as well as coeurls, behemoths, dragons, and even Tonberrys (and some others, but I can't think of those right now). And he only has to tame one of each kind. And better yet, when he uses them, they won't be released. Like 10-2's trainer, he can have them fight for him. Only in something not thought up yet, he actually starts out fighting on his own, using whips in battle. He can call on a fiend he's tamed to take his place in battle (similar to how Yuna calls her aeons, only they replace everyone, while Chico's fiends only replace him) until it's either knocked out or dismissed.

However, Chico's job class becomes a geomancer when he hits his Overdrive, only it's labeled as "Lay of the Land" in the battle menu. He can learn a variety of attacks pertaining to a particular environment just by fighting in it once, then turning the battlefield into that environment when he uses a move corresponding to it. He becomes uncontrollable from the moment he uses his Overdrive until he's either knocked out or the battle ends.

In addition, while he uses whips for his weapons, coats are used for his various armors. His celestial weapon is a powerful whip named Call of the Wild.

Like my 7 character, Levi, Chico fills the role/archetype of the "energetic young boy," since none of the actual characters filled the role in 10.

Whew. That was longer than my summary for Levi, I'll bet. But still, that's my 10/10-2 character.

Soon as I get the chance, my 12 one is next.