Post by Lightning on Jan 3, 2011 13:34:29 GMT -5
Lightning (Claire Farron)
"Lightning. It flashes bright, then fades away. It can’t protect, it only destroys."
Custom Title: Army of One
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Family: Serah Farron: Sister
Race: Human/L’Cie
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Home World: Cocoon
Alignment: Light
Job: Ex-Soldier (Guardian Corps, Bodhum Security Regiment)
Items: Gunblade, Gravity Device
Accessories: Gunblade pouch, pouch on leg.
Appearance Lightning has long, light pink hair draped over her left shoulder like her younger sister Serah's, pale aqua eyes, and a heart-shaped face. She wears a light brown turtleneck along with a necklace with a lightning bolt pendant underneath a white soldier uniform. There is a green metal pauldron of the Guardian Corps with two glowing yellow stripes symbolizing her rank as a sergeant, a long red cape attached to her back on the left side, and a brown belt below her bust. She also wears a long black sleeve over her left arm that begins from her bicep, knee-high leather boots, a brown mini-skirt, and black spandex shorts. She also has a navel piercing. Her gunblade is sheathed in a loose case behind her waist.
Personality: Lightning is very determined, concentrated, and independent. She has a lone wolf attitude, similar to that of Cloud Strife and Squall Leonhart. Despite this, Lightning does show compassion, as she cares deeply for her sister's safety, but often fails to see how much Serah cares about her the same way. After their parents died, Lightning looked out for Serah as though she was her daughter, although she tends to be overprotective of her. She also shows her motherly side to Hope as she comforts him after the loss of his own mother and decides to take him under her wing
After the events of FFXIII, lightning has softened up a bit, not as cold as people once thought of her to be. She isn’t heartless and actually smiles some now, giving up that ‘lone wolf’ title she had before the purge. She can be nice to those she likes but can remain cold to those she dismisses.
History: As the train enters the Hanging Edge, Lightning derails it with the aid of Sazh. While the surviving Purgees escape and are found by NORA, Lightning and Sazh fight their way through PSICOM sentries to reach the Pulse Vestige. Lightning keeps her own motives to herself, despite Sazh's probing, determined to reach the Vestige and find Serah.
Within the Vestige, Lightning finally reveals Serah's fate to Sazh, just before they find her unconscious outside Anima's Throne. Unbeknown to Lightning, Snow also infiltrated the Vestige to find Serah, and the two arrive in time just as Serah awakens. She asks Lightning to save Cocoon before she rises in the air and crystallizes before their eyes. Snow attempts to beg with the fal'Cie to release Serah, but Lightning takes a more aggressive approach, attacking Anima, alongside Snow and Sazh. Anima finally awakens, and in turn brands everyone a l'Cie, before casting them down to Lake Bresha below.
Down in the crystallized lake, the group of strangers try to deduce their Focus. Whilst the details still remain hazy, they recognise the beast Ragnarok, and presume they are tasked with destroying Cocoon. Despite Snow's optimism that they are to save Cocoon as Serah wished, Lightning is less than enthused about her new fate. Running from PSICOM troops, they come across Serah's crystallized form. Snow promises to stay behind and protect Serah, whilst Lightning stubbornly leads the group onwards and out of PSICOM's clutches. They find an airship that Sazh attempts to pilot, but it crashes in the Vile Peaks.
Lightning's impatience towards the group causes them to separate. When the group reconvenes by chance, Lightning resolves to head to Eden and destroy its fal'Cie, as she refuses to die as one of their tools. Hope decides to follow her, as Vanille and Sazh aimlessly wander in the opposite direction. At first, Lightning is unwilling to have the young man tag along with her, worried he would only slow her down. In her frustration and anger at having to look after him, she inadvertently summons her Eidolon, Odin. Unable to defeat it herself, Hope steps in to help her fight it. His aid in defeating the Eidolon persuades Lightning to have faith in the boy and help him "toughen up."
Lightning and Hope find themselves in the Gapra Whitewood, where she lets him take the lead while she acts as his backup. Later, she gives him the knife Serah gave to her as a birthday present for his protection. Hope reveals to Lightning the grudge he holds against Snow for his mother's death. Lightning helps Hope to devise 'Operation Nora' to keep him focused, but immediately regrets doing so after he calls it his plan for revenge. After they escape the Gapra Whitewood and see Palumpolum in the distance, Lightning suggests that she and Hope visit his house, in order to change his mind about revenge and also because he needs to tell his father about his mother's death.
Lightning tells Hope why she changed her name. The city is littered with PSICOM and Sanctum officers, so Lightning and Hope are forced underground to avoid capture. When they reach the Nutriculture Complex and Lightning sees the fal'Cie, Carbuncle, she has a revelation: she has always been a fal'Cie pawn, even before becoming a l'Cie; and in having that comfort taken from her, she wrongly turned to blindly fighting to avoid facing reality. Realizing she had dragged Hope into the same delusion, Lightning tells Hope to abandon Operation Nora as she made a mistake. Reliving her guilt for not believing Serah when she told her she was a l'Cie, Lightning reassures Hope that she will not abandon him. The two ride an elevator back to the surface, where they are surrounded by soldiers led by Yaag Rosch in the Agora. Snow and Fang - a l'Cie working with the Cavalry - jump down from the Lindblum to aid them, and the group separates again under the gunfire: Lightning forces Hope to run with Snow, while she escapes with Fang. They decide on Hope's home in Felix Heights as their rendezvous point using Fang's wireless device, but before Lightning can warn Snow about Hope's grudge, the latter reveals his intention to complete Operation Nora, and they are cut off before Lightning can reason with him. On their journey, Lightning learns of Fang's connection with Vanille, their origins from Gran Pulse, how they wandered Cocoon looking for their Focus, and how they were separated. Fang apologizes for her and Vanille's involvement in Serah's transformation into a l'Cie, though she reassures Lightning that Serah will eventually wake from crystal stasis just as they had.
Lightning apologizes to Snow. They reunite with Snow and Hope at Felix Heights, where Snow is badly injured from a fall. Lightning gets her knife back from Hope, then embraces him, promising to protect him before he promises to do the same for her in return. In Hope's place, Lightning looks after Snow and tends to his injuries. When he finally awakens, she explains the pain she felt for not trusting Serah. Then Lightning apologizes to Snow for her behavior towards him and his relationship with Serah, which he gladly accepts. Their conciliation is interrupted by PSICOM troops, and the l'Cie are forced onto the rooftops to escape, where they escape on the Cavalry airship. Aboard, they learn Sazh and Vanille are being held captive on the Palamecia. Lightning recognizes that the Sanctum are trying to draw out the rest of the l'Cie, but joins them on their rescue mission. After rescuing Vanille and Sazh, Lightning and the others are confronted by Sanctum Primarch Galenth Dysley, who reveals himself to be fal'Cie Barthandelus. After he reveals Serah's true Focus, Lightning sees Snow in shock and distraught. The party escapes with an airship left behind and crash head-on into the Fifth Ark.
Within the Fifth Ark, the l'Cie's powers are fully awakened. Snow apologises to Lightning for being wrong about Serah's Focus, but she insists that they have to honor Serah's wishes and save Cocoon, even if it isn't their Focus. After fighting Cid Raines, they are inspired to try and defy the fal'Cie, just as he did, and head to Gran Pulse in hopes of finding answers. Pulse is completely devoid of human life, and the party begins to lose hope. Lightning encourages Hope to remain positive, even though their situation seems dire. In his despair, Hope inadvertently summons Alexander and Lightning tells him that the Eidolon represents his inner power. She helps him tame Alexander with help from Fang. Afterward, the entire party agrees to journey to Oerba together so that they can find a way to remove their l'Cie brands, and they travel through the Archylte Steppe.
Lightning and Snow promise to see Serah again. After going through the Mah'habara Subterra, the party stops to take a break in the Skyreach of the Sulyya Springs. Lightning and Snow drift away from the rest of the party and talk about Serah. For the first time, Lightning asks Snow about their planned wedding, and promises that they will see Serah soon, together, after they save Cocoon.
In Oerba, the party is surprised to see Serah there, reciting the legend of Ragnarok. Lightning is suspicious, and bids Serah to stop, when she tauntingly reveals Lightning's real name: Claire. Snow steps in between them and it is revealed that Serah is truly Dysley in disguise, trying to manipulate the party into completing their Focus and his bidding. Lightning leads the assault against him before they take an airship back to Cocoon, knowing Barthandelus has wreaked chaos and havoc in the capital, Eden.
Sazh manages to crash the airship into the Eden Grand Prix, where Lightning rides Odin in Gestalt Mode to escape the Sanctum and infiltrate the city, heading for Eden's heart, Orphan's Cradle. Approaching Barthandelus in the Narthex Throne, he summons the crystallized Dajh and Serah before the party. He quickly destroys them, much to the horror of Sazh and Snow. Lightning sees through Barthandelus' illusion and implores both Snow and Sazh to remain strong and keep fighting. In trying to force Vanille and Fang to become Ragnarok, Lightning and the others are turned into Cie'th. It is only when they relive their previous experiences that they manage to return to their human forms, overcoming Barthandelus' illusions. They defeat Orphan and begin turning into crystal as Cocoon falls from the sky. Lightning is crystallized along with the rest of the party at the foot of Cocoon.
Lightning and Serah reunite. They awake briefly afterwards, where they see that Vanille and Fang have managed to fulfill their Focus to save Cocoon by encasing it in crystal. As Serah and Dajh approach the party from the horizon and have their moments with Snow and Sazh, Lightning comforts Hope regarding Vanille and Fang's departure then reunites with Serah herself. Though she begins to apologize to her sister for not listening to her, it is cut short when Snow reminds them that they "have a wedding to plan". Snow then reassures Lightning that he will make Serah happy, Lightning says that she knows he will, and congratulates them.
Abilities: Commando, Ravenger, Medic
Summons: Odin
Magic: Fire-Fira
Blizzard-Blizzara
Water-Watera
Aero-Aerora
Thunder-Thundaga
Army of One
Strengths: Magic (Ravenger Role), Determined - focuses on a goal and stops at nothing to complete it. Fighting and stratagies
Weaknesses: Serah Farron, admitting she is wrong, opening up to people with her emotions and problems.
Weapon Blazefire Saber - Gunblade
Crushes: None
Role Play Sample:
Lightning stared at Cocoon...a crystallized Cocoon. They had actually done the impossible. Her, and the rest of the gang had completed their focus and saved Cocoon, it was a miracle, but Fang and Vanille had sacrificed themselves to protect Cocoon from running into Gran Pulse. Lightning knew there had to be a way to free the two from their own crystal stasis, and she would find it, she'd search years if it had to...she wanted part of her family back. "Fang....Vanille...I'll find a way to bring you back." There had to be a loophole around all this stuff. With a heavy sigh, Lightning turned her back on Cocoon and started off, back to see all her sister Serah, and her soon to be brother-in-law Snow...perhaps they had any ideas on what to do. Little did Lightning know that Fang and Vanille were moments from being woken up...
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