Post by Serah Farron on Apr 13, 2011 4:56:02 GMT -5
Serah Farron
"Is that my Hero?"
Custom Title:
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Family: Claire “Lightning” Farron (Sister)
Race: Human
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Home World: Cocoon
Alignment: Good
Job: N/A (Wants to become a teacher in Oerba)
Items: Cellphone
Accessories: Engagement necklace, Cat-shaped earrings and a bracelet.
Appearance
Serah is an eighteen-year-old girl with the same pink tint of hair that Lightning has. She stands at about 5'5" (164 cm) and weighs around 99 pounds (45 kg). She ties her hair into a ponytail on the left side of her head, much like how Lightning's hair is draped over her left shoulder. She also has blue eyes like her sister, although Serah's are a much darker shade. She wears a red plaid pleated skirt lined with black lace, a white sleeveless dress shirt, a semi-transparent pink sweeper in the same style, black thigh-high stockings, ivory ankle boots, and a bandage on her left bicep which she uses to cover her l'Cie brand.
Personality:
Serah is a friendly and curious young woman who loves being around people and helping them out. She has a fairly easy going personality most of the time, and isn’t quickly angered. She’s also quick to forgive, so long as the person didn’t somehow hurt her sister or her boyfriend, as she’s very protective of those around her and tends to hold a bit of a grudge when it involves them.
Serah has a more serious side to her that she doesn’t often show. Though she appears too gentle and meek for her own good, Serah has a good head on her shoulders, and though perhaps she’s not physically as strong, her willpower matches that of her sister’s.
Because her parents died early on in her life, and Serah didn’t want to burden her sister further, she matured faster than most, knowing how to both take care of herself and others around her. When most kids her age went out to play on the beach, Serah would take the opportunity to study instead, taking her future very seriously and working hard to be allowed into Eden’s University.
For all the book smarts Serah possesses however, she severely lacks street smarts, and doesn’t function too well outside her comfort zone. Physically, she isn’t very strong, and relies on others to keep her out of trouble. Nowadays, she often feels a bit useless, because she lacks what she feels are necessary skills in her new homeland.
History:
Serah was about to attend the university in Eden, but she fell in love with Snow during her summer vacation, much to her sister's dismay. Serah was interested in studying history, and the local landmark, the Pulse Vestige, got her attention. One day Serah noticed a door leading inside the Vestige had appeared, and curious, she ventured into the ruins. While inside, Serah was marked on her upper left arm as a l'Cie by the Pulse fal'Cie Anima that was entombed inside the Vestige. She had a dream of transforming into Ragnarok and destroying Cocoon, but initially did not realize it was her Focus. Four days later, Serah tells Snow they are breaking up and tells him it is not her choice, and that she does not want to leave him but has to, because she has been branded a Pulse l'Cie. She tells Snow he is her enemy now. He refuses to abandon her and offers to aid her in any way he can. Serah tells him she does not know what her Focus is and that she will become a monster, but Snow says l'Cie are granted eternal life after completing their Focus, reassuring Serah.
Two days later, Serah meets Vanille after the latter scrapes her leg on the beach. Serah listens to Vanille's problem about wanting to apologize to someone but never being able to find the words to do it, and tells her that if things are too much to deal with at first, she should face them later because things are easier to judge from a distance. Serah tells Vanille about her nightmare of destroying the world, and how she tried to run away from it after it scared her. She says that due to Snow coming after her, she now knows she will get through the mission with help from her friends. Vanille apologizes to Serah, since it was her fault Serah was made a l'Cie, but Serah, not knowing of Vanille's involvement, does not understand.
On the next day, Serah goes out with Snow to find a birthday present for Lightning. Unknown to her, Snow slips away and buys engagement necklaces for them. Serah buys a survival knife to protect Lightning while she is on duty. The next night, Serah attends the fireworks festival with Snow where Snow shows her the engagement necklaces and proposes to her, which she bluntly accepts. The next day, Serah and Snow tell Lightning about her becoming a l'Cie, and their engagement. This infuriates Lightning, believing Serah's lying to her as an excuse to marry Snow and drives her off. Shortly after this, Serah and Snow attempt to seek the council of the fal'Cie in the Bodhum Vestige, the one who turned her into a l'Cie, to see if there was any way to remove her brand. The Bodhum Vestige was off-limits, though, and so the couple are forced to evade the PSICOM forces chasing after them. They escape on a hover vehicle and Serah jumps onto a ledge on the Vestige as Snow tries to steer the vehicle after it is damaged, but she becomes trapped by a silver liquid substance that pulls her into the Vestige.
During the Purge both Lightning and Snow make their way into the Pulse Vestige to save Serah. When Lightning finds the unconscious Serah within the Vestige, Sazh attempts to kill her after learning she is a Pulse l'Cie. When Snow arrives Serah takes his hand and asks if her hero has arrived and Lightning scolds him for not protecting Serah. Serah tells Lightning she can save Cocoon and subsequently crystallizes, leaving behind a tear-shaped crystal for Snow. This phenomenon bewilders the group, as turning to a crystal means the l'Cie has completed his or her Focus.
After the party are turned into l'Cie themselves and wake up in Lake Bresha, they eventually find Serah, who has become part of the crystallized lake. Soon after Lightning, Vanille, Hope and Sazh abandon Snow, who stays behind to try and free Serah. She is brought aboard the Lindblum along with Snow when he is captured by Fang and Cid's troops. After this, Serah mainly appears in flashbacks and continues to be mentioned by the other characters.
On the Palamecia, Barthandelus tells the group Serah's Focus was to lure more people inside the Vestige to be branded l'Cie. This revelation cripples Snow, who by that point had believed their Focus was to save Cocoon, as asking Lightning to do what seemed to have crystallized Serah. However, after meeting Cid Raines and observing him entering crystal stasis without having completed his Focus, Snow's spirits rise and he vows to follow Serah's wish to save Cocoon till the end. On Sulyya Springs, Vanille reveals to Snow that Serah saw the same dream of Ragnarok the others did, meaning Barthandelus must have lied to the group about Serah's Focus. She also says, "I think she beat it. She handed Cocoon over to us, that's why she turned to crystal."
In Oerba, Barthandelus uses Serah's guise to try and trick the party into turning Ragnarok, but they can see through the illusion. At the end of the game, Barthandelus destroys an illusion of the crystallized Serah to unnerve Snow and Lightning, but Snow, remembering Serah's crystal at Lightning's insistence, realizes it was only an illusion. After Orphan is destroyed and Vanille and Fang sacrifice themselves to keep Cocoon from crashing into Gran Pulse, Serah wakes up from her Crystal Stasis and reunites with Lightning and Snow. Snow immediately begins to plan for their wedding, and Lightning congratulates the pair.
Abilities: Serah is a fine cook and knows a great deal about history.
Summons: N/A
Magic: N/A
Strengths:
- She’s a good listener and usually gives good advice.
- Because she took school seriously, she is fairly knowledgeable about a variety of subjects, such as science and history.
- Would do anything to protect her friends and family.
Weaknesses:
- Physically, she isn’t very strong.
- She’s too curious for her own good at times.
- Her loved ones (Lightning and Snow, in particular), she wants nothing more than to see them happy.
Weapon N/A
Crushes: Snow Villiers
How did you find us? Google
Role Play Sample:
Serah sighed softly to herself as she gazed out into the ocean, wondering just how far it stretched, and what lay on the other side. It had been a few weeks now, since she’d awakened on Pulse and had been reunited with Lightning and Snow, but it felt like it had only been a day.
Everything felt so surreal… all her life she’d been told about the horrors of Pulse, and yet, here she was, trying to start a new life on the supposed cursed world below. That she had large gaps in her memory due to her being crystallized for… – how long had she been a crystal? – didn’t help matters either. She supposed being alive and with the ones she loved was preferable over being a crystal, but a small part of her missed the quiet slumber she’d been in for so long. It felt… safe, right. She’d felt strangely at peace in her dream, felt like she’d fulfilled her duty in life and could now sit back to watch over those she had left behind.
Hurriedly shaking her head, she buried those thoughts again. For all the peace she’d felt, she’d also felt an incredible sense of sorrow when she felt her sister’s grief, her lover’s desperation… it was something she never wanted to experience again.
“Good job figuring yourself out, Serah,” she giggled at herself as she laid down onto her back and stared up at the evening sky, watching the crystals float quietly through the air above. “I’m really not on Cocoon any more…” she whispered before peacefully closing her eyes and thinking back on her life there. Would she ever be able to return?
Her quiet musings were interrupted by a sudden flow of bickering words, and Serah couldn’t stop herself from smiling as she recognized the voices. Lightning and Snow. Who else could be at each other’s throats at such an hour?
With a swing of her legs, she sat back up and pulled her legs up from where they’d been dangling over the docks, easily getting back to her feet as she dusted off her skirt and turned to greet her visitors.
“Sis… Snow…” she sighed exasperatedly when they came into view, resting her hands on her hips and giving them both a look, “I thought I told you to play nice?”
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[History and Appearance credit to Final Fantasy Wikia]