Jr. (Xenosaga)

A character/reference from the PS2 game series "Xenosaga".

Related Topics:
PS2 - Xenosaga

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Sex: Male

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Height: 4' 7"

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Weight: 84 lbs (38 kg)

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Age: 26 (looks about 12)

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Jr. (Often called 'Little Master' by those under his command) is a director of the Kukai Foundation, an organization based on Second Miltia. He looks like a child, and is sometimes thought to be the child of fellow director Gaignun Kukai (thus the nickname Jr.), but he is actually Gaignun's older brother. Both were survivors of the U.R.T.V. (U-DO Retro Virus) unit created by the scientist Dr. Yuriev to combat U-DO, a mysterious waveform that threatened to destroy the galaxy. He possesses the unique abilities of all U.R.T.V.s, including telepathy. He was known as Rubedo, while Gaignun Kukai was called Nigredo, and the two were also brothers of Albedo, known as Albedo Piazzola. Rubedo's unit number as a U.R.T.V. was 666.

Related Topics:
Kukai Foundation - Second Miltia - Gaignun Kukai - U.R.T.V. - U-DO - Albedo

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Over the course of the first two games, Jr. and MOMO have grown very close together, somewhat due to MOMO's resemblance to the model she was built after, Sakura Mizrahi. Before her 'death', Jr. and Sakura shared a juvenile romance.

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While Jr. looks like a child, and can act rashly, he is also capable of making tough decisions and cutting observations. He also has a fondness for guns, action movies, and classic novels, including The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The Wonderful Wizard of OZ and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

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During the Miltian Conflict, Jr. and the other URTVs fought against U-DO before the planet?s disappearance into the void. As leader of the URTVs, Jr. was responsible for keeping them connected through a Spiritual link, which would protect them from U-DO?s destructive powers. A moment before the U.R.T.V.s were to destroy U-DO, Rubedo had a vision of the Old Miltian planet being destroyed in an enormous explosion. Rubedo, fearing for the lives of his companions, broke the Spiritual Link leaving the other URTVs with no protection against U-DO. U-DO slew or drove mad all of the standard U.R.T.V.s, as well as Albedo During the fighting, Rubedo carried an injured Nigredo several minutes before Canaan and chaos rescued the U.R.T.V. duo on the E.S. Asher. Therefore, the only documented surviving U.R.T.V.s were Nigredo and Rubedo, though Albedo survived as well. In the original version of Soraya Saga's EPISODE II script U.R.T.V. #668 Citrine survived the Miltian Conflict as well, but she was edited out of the final version of the game.

Related Topics:
Spiritual link - Canaan - Chaos - E.S. - Soraya Saga - #668 Citrine - Miltian Conflict

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Because Jr. and Albedo began life as conjoined twins, the two share similar but opposite powers regarding the regulation of their cellular growth. Jr. is able to slow down his aging at the cellular level, thus his youthful appearance, and Albedo is able to speed up cell growth to the point of being able to instantly regenerate any part of his body.

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The name Rubedo refers to the philosophic beliefs of Karl Jung, who believed that the process of self-realization has three major steps, which he named using terms derived from alchemy, which he studied prior to developing his theories. These three steps are known as Negredo, the death of the old, perceived self, Albedo, the discovering of one?s inner identity, and Rubedo, the process of living a self-aware life. For more information on Jungian philosophy, as well as its alchemical roots, see http://www.zyworld.com/DrBernardSButler/Alchemy.htm.

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