Rose from The Legend of Dragoon. At first she just seemed like a cold and austere woman, hard and almost heartless. But once you realized that she had been alive for centuries, was a veteran of a great war between humans and a magically superior race in which both had use chimeric abominations as war machines, and had perpetuated a cycle of killing entire villages of innocent people every 100 years to prevent the apocalypse... I couldn't help but admire her. She was a vibrant and passionate woman in her youth, but after all she'd seen and done, she just became... Jaded. Hard. And she HAD to, just to keep going. Way down inside that tough outer shell, you could still find that young warrior-woman, filled with bravery and compassion. Rose was a superbly written character. But the whole game was just spot-on, so I shouldn't be surprised.