Post by LIGHTNING on Nov 13, 2012 13:15:24 GMT -5
Introducing Lightning
Full Name: Claire Farron
Nickname(s): Lightning
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Home World: Bodhum; Valhalla
Canon/Original: Canon
Weapon: Blazefire Saber Gunblade
Traditional Gunblade
Omega Weapon
Employment: Former Guardian Corps Sergeant
l'Cie
Etro's Knight
Custom Title:♦--Etro's Knight
[color=0088BB]♦--Etro's [i]Knight[/i][/color]
Appearance
Hair: Long, Light Pink, Swept over one shoulder
Eyes: Blue
Body Type: 5'7, Athletic
Style: she wears a variation of the standard Guardian Corps uniform, consisting of a sleeveless white overcoat over a brown turtleneck shirt zipped up to the top, a green metallic pauldron over her left shoulder, the pauldron bearing yellow stripes symbolizing her previous rank as a sergeant. She wears a red cape attached to her uniform near her left shoulder blade, a long black sleeve over her left arm, knee-high leather boots, and a brown mini-skirt over high-topped black shorts. Her gunblade is carried behind her in a black case which hangs off her belt, along with a red pack that hangs from her waist and is strapped to her left leg. Lightning wears a necklace with a lightning bolt pendant, two black bands around her right bicep, and a silver navel piercing. Her l'Cie brand is located slightly above her left breast. The higher of the two armbands Lightning wears is also worn by her sister, Serah. Both wear it on their right bicep.
Lightning wears a silver and gold Valkyrie-like suit of armor with a shield on her right arm. She wears thigh-high armor boots, and over her left leg a long sash made of white feathers, symbolizing her connection with Etro. She has a new gunblade modified to look more like a traditional sword. The symbol with Etro script on Lightning's shield is also on Serah's dress, and both sisters wear an image of a golden bird on their outfits where their l'Cie brands used to be; Lightning wears the bird on her chest-plate. Her new gunblade also has Etro script on the hilt below the blade.
Personality
Alliance: Good
Likes:
Serah
Protecting others
Her friends [usually]
...
Dislikes:
Being on the run
Loosing sight of her goals
"Babysitting"
Weakness
Feeling helpless
Strengths: Fighting
[Commando
Ravager
Medic]
Leadership
Teaching
Protecting others
Weaknesses:
Serah
Understanding others
Showing her emotions
Showing Weakness
Asking for help
Fear(s):
Losing Serah forever
Losing her friends
Dying
Overall Personality:
Lightning is determined, concentrated and independent. Initially, she is cold and standoffish, often distancing herself from her companions. Much of her motivation is fueled from what she perceives as failing to protect Serah and wanting to make things right, which leads her to lash out at those she believes are responsible for that and the subsequent Purge: namely, the Sanctum, its fal'Cie and, to a point, Snow Villiers, due to his relationship with Serah and his own failure to protect her as he promised. Lightning's early solution to things that annoy or upset her is to distance herself from them, emotionally and physically. There are a few times when she attempts to reach out to her companions for help, but refusing to show signs of weakness, she comes across to them as arrogant. Over time, however, Lightning does begin to show compassion and trust others, and sees the errors in her approach. Her independent nature likely originates from her career in the Guardian Corps and having to assume the role of a guardian to her sister at an early age after their parents died.
Although Lightning is annoyed with him at first, she eventually takes Hope Estheim under her wing, and shows him the ropes of battle. As she teaches him how to look out for himself, she develops a bond with him and possibly as a result of seeing a bit of herself in him, she comes to confide in him and realize the mistakes she had made with Serah. She begins to accept Snow and ultimately forgives him when she realizes he, too, cares deeply for Serah. In the end, Lightning becomes the leader and, to some degree, protector of the other Pulse l'Cie as they challenge their fate.
Lightning has learned to trust others and ask them for help. She also expresses her emotions more, rather than keeping them bottled up inside her.
Background
Love Interest: None
Family: Serah-sister
Mother-Deceased
Father-Deceased
Friends: Hope, Vanille, Fang, Serah, Snow, Sahz, Noel
Enemies:
Caius
Barthandelus
Orphan
History:
Lightning's father died when she was young, and her mother died from an unknown sickness when she was fifteen. With no other family to turn to, Lightning was given the job of raising her younger sister, Serah. In an attempt to get over the pain of her parents' deaths and to become an adult as quickly as possible, she decided to change her name from Claire Farron to simply "Lightning".
After graduating from high school Lightning decided to join the Guardian Corps Bodhum Security Regiment under Lieutenant Amodar, where she attained the rank of sergeant, and was scheduled for officer training. However, she began to lose sight of her goals, and worked many hours while spending little time with Serah.
Even after they rescue her from an aquatic ambush, Lightning has always held a disdain for the Bodhum monster-fighting group NORA. Snow Villiers, their leader and Serah's boyfriend, is a particular point of annoyance for her, and after a forced encounter with him, Lightning vows to have nothing to do with them as well as dissuade her sister's affections for him.
As Lightning's twenty-first birthday approaches, she begins to feel guilty for her lack of attention to Serah, feeling that she only got involved with Snow in order to quell her loneliness. Browsing the mall, she overhears a conversation between two tourists, Nora Estheim and her son, Hope, inspiring her to plan a vacation away from Bodhum for her birthday with Serah.
She notices two fugitive Pulse l'Cie, Vanille and Fang, but judging them by their clothes, she believes they must be from Eden. A few days later, the Cavalry are trying to hunt down Vanille. Though they do not explain the intention behind their investigation, Captain Rygdea asks Lightning to brief him on areas in Bodhum that teenagers are likely to visit in hopes of finding her. Regardless, she suspects it may have something to do with the "incident" at Euride Gorge.
While attending the Bodhum fireworks festival, Lightning learns of a Pulse-related incident at the nearby Vestige being kept under wraps by the Sanctum. Amodar warns her not to investigate, as it would only lead to trouble. The next day on Lightning's birthday, Serah reveals her fate as a Pulse l'Cie, as well as her engagement to Snow. Lightning refuses to believe either claim, driving Serah away and demanding Snow to leave as well, leaving her alone to open Serah's birthday present by herself: a survival knife.
When the Sanctum announces a Pulse fal'Cie is residing within the Vestige Lightning finally believes Serah's claims, but by then it is too late. After learning the Sanctum plans to Purge the entire town, Lightning tries to find Serah, but Snow reveals she is being held captive inside of the Vestige. Although military personnel are exempt from the Purge, Lightning resigns from her job in the Guardian Corps without hesitation and boards the Purge train. As she waits in line, she is approached by a pilot, Sazh Katzroy, who is also a voluntary Purgee. As allies of circumstance, they work together as Lightning tries to rescue her sister before she is taken out of reach.
As the train enters the Hanging Edge, Lightning takes it over with Sazh's aid. While the surviving Purgees escape and are found by NORA, Lightning and Sazh fight their way through PSICOM soldiers to reach the Pulse Vestige.
Within the Vestige, Lightning reveals Serah's fate as a l'Cie to Sazh. They find Serah unconscious outside Anima's Throne. Unknown to Lightning, Snow, Hope and Vanille have also infiltrated the Vestige and they all arrive in time just as Serah awakens. She asks Snow and Lightning to save Cocoon beginning to glow and rise in the air; her Focus apparently fulfilled, she crystallizes before their eyes. Snow attempts to beg with the fal'Cie to release Serah, but Lightning takes a more aggressive approach, attacking Anima, and Snow and Sazh join her. Anima awakens and brands everyone present a l'Cie before a burst of energy causes the Vestige to fall, casting them down to Lake Bresha.
Down in the crystallized lake, the group try to deduce their Focus. While the details remain hazy, they recognize the beast Ragnarok, and presume they are tasked with destroying Cocoon, although Snow remains optimistic believing that they are to save Cocoon as Serah wished. Running from PSICOM troops, they come across Serah's crystallized form. Snow stays behind to protect her, while Lightning is convinced she is saying goodbye for good.
After Lightning tells Vanille that Serah told her nothing about her Focus, Vanille says that Serah probably did not want to worry her, but Lightning believes Serah did not trust her. Then the party eventually finds an airship that Sazh attempts to pilot, though they are soon pursued. Lightning instructs Sazh to fly into the sun-like fal'Cie Phoenix, but the ship gets damaged and it crashes in the Vile Peaks.
Lightning's impatience towards the group causes them to separate, and Hope is the only one who follows her. Coming at what seems to be a dead end, Lightning reveals to Hope why she joined the Purge and says, "It's not a question of can or can't. There are some things in life you just do". Hearing Hope's passive response, Lightning scales the wall and leaves him behind as well. When the group reconvenes by chance, Lightning resolves to head to Eden and destroy its fal'Cie, as she believes it started the Purge and she refuses to die a fal'Cie tool.
Hope is the only one to follow her, as Vanille and Sazh choose to wander in the opposite direction. At first, Lightning is unwilling to have the him tag along with her, worried he would only slow her down. A PSICOM ambush permanently separates them from Vanille and Sazh, and Lightning has no choice but to let Hope stay with her. They form a plan to go through the Gapra Whitewood and catch a train to Eden at Hope's hometown of Palumpolum.
Lightning and Hope gain access to a Dreadnought. As Hope inspects it, Lightning tells him to stay away but he does not listen and manages to use the Dreadnought to clear their path. In her frustration at having to look after him Lightning inadvertently summons her Eidolon, Odin, who attacks Hope. Lightning saves him and the two defeat the Eidolon together, which persuades Lightning to have faith in the boy and help him 'toughen up'. Later, Lightning tells Hope to rest while she checks the area and returns to find him asleep. As she watches over him, she hears him asking for his mother.
Lightning and Hope make their way to the Gapra Whitewood and Hope asks if he can lead. Lightning gives him the knife Serah gave to her as a birthday present in an attempt to boost his confidence. She goes on to describe her impression of Snow and how he leads a gang known as NORA. Hope reveals to Lightning the grudge he holds against Snow for his mother's death and she helps him devise Operation Nora to help him control his emotions and focus, but immediately regrets it after he calls it his plan for revenge against Snow. 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 what happened to his mother.
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 been a fal'Cie pawn since birth, even before becoming a l'Cie; and in having that comfort taken from her, she wrongly turned to fighting to avoid facing reality. Realizing she had dragged Hope into the same delusion, Lightning tells him to abandon Operation Nora. Lightning reveals to Hope why she changed her name and relives her guilt for threatening Serah and not believing her unlike Snow. She tells Hope to talk to his dad and "find the hope he was named for" in order to find a new reason to keep fighting.
The two ride an elevator back to the surface, where they are surrounded by soldiers led by Yaag Rosch, who intends to publicly execute them. Lightning attempts to convince Hope to save himself while she distracts the army, but at the last moment, Snow and Fang intervene. 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.
On their journey, Lightning learns Fang is not only a Pulse l'Cie but is an actual Gran Pulse citizen. Fang says that she and Vanille were crystallized there centuries before after completing their Focus, but woke up in Cocoon without knowing why. Although Lightning is angry at Fang and backhands her when she learns of her involvement in Serah becoming a l'Cie, she says the act of aggression didn't change anything. She learns from Fang how a l'Cie's brand can show how much time one has until they turn into a Cie'th. Fang assures her that Serah will wake from crystal stasis just as she and Vanille had, and says that in order to see her again, all Lightning needs to do is survive. Several PSICOM vessels fly overhead, causing Lightning and Fang to worry that Snow and Hope have been found. An explosion goes off in the distance and the two hurry off to find them.
They reunite with Snow and Hope at Felix Heights, where Snow is injured from a fall while protecting Hope. Lightning gets her knife back from Hope and embraces him, promising to protect him. At Hope's house, Lightning looks after Snow and tends to his injuries. When he awakens, she explains the pain she felt for not trusting Serah like he did and apologizes to him for her previous behavior. While they continue to discuss the issue of what to do next, the house is attacked by PSICOM troops, once again led by Colonel Rosch. Chaos ensues, and the l'Cie are rescued by the Cavalry ship, the Lindblum.
Aboard, they learn Sazh and Vanille are being held captive on the Palamecia. After meeting up with Sazh and Vanille on the Palamecia, they confront Galenth Dysley, the Primarch of Sanctum. Dysley reveals himself to be fal'Cie Barthandelus and tells that their Focus is not to save Cocoon, but to destroy it by turning into Ragnarok and killing Orphan. Barthandelus claims Serah's true Focus was to gather them together for that purpose. The party flees on a small airship, which autopilots them through Eden into the Fifth Ark.
Within the Fifth Ark, the l'Cie ponder what to do now. Snow apologizes to Lightning for being wrong about Serah's Focus, but she insists they have to honor Serah's wish to save Cocoon, even if it isn't their Focus. The group's l'Cie powers are fully awakened and after some time, they run into Cid Raines. Lightning charges at Raines calling him a traitor, but he blocks her attacks and disarms her. He reveals himself to be a Sanctum l'Cie marked by Barthandelus, tasked with aiding them as part of his secret Focus, and that the fal'Cie intend to destroy Cocoon as their plan to bring back their Maker.
Raines denies his Focus and tries to kill them. The l'Cie defeat him, and Cid unexpectedly enters crystal stasis. Most of the party are inspired to defy their Focus in the same way Raines did. Fang claims she will not let Vanille turn into a Cie'th and will complete their Focus herself, inadvertently summoning her Eidolon, Bahamut. The others protect Fang despite her rebellion, and Lightning asks her to fight with them, which she agrees to. The group finds a ship with a gate leading to Gran Pulse, which they take hoping to find answers on the world below.
They find Pulse devoid of human life, and the party begins to lose their resolve after days of searching. As their brands continue advancing, Hope begins to despair. Lightning and Snow try to comfort him, but Hope summons Alexander. Lightning encourages Hope, telling him that the Eidolon represents his inner power. After taming Alexander, the party agrees to journey to Oerba to find a way to remove their l'Cie brands. They travel through the Archylte Steppe, and 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 and talk about Serah. Lightning asks Snow about their planned wedding, and promises him they will see Serah again soon. Snow promises Lightning they will see her together, after they save Cocoon. In Oerba, the party is surprised to find Serah who is reciting the legend of Ragnarok. Lightning is suspicious, and demands Serah to stop, but the girl taunts her and reveals Lightning's real name. It is revealed Serah is Dysley in disguise, trying to manipulate the party into doing his bidding. Lightning leads the assault against him, but they are unable to destroy him for good. Dysley clams he doesn't need them any longer, as he has already tricked the Cavalry into destroying Orphan. Dysley leaves them an airship to go back to Cocoon.
Sazh to crashes 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. They find that the Cavalry has been turned to Cie'th, and approach Barthandelus in the Narthex Throne, where he summons the crystallized Dajh and Serah before the party and destroys them.
Lightning sees through Barthandelus's illusion and implores Snow to remain strong and keep fighting. As Barthandelus is defeated, he sinks into a pool and emerges as Orphan, whose goal is revealed to be the same as Barthandelus's: to destroy Cocoon. In trying to force Vanille and Fang to become Ragnarok, Lightning and the others are dispatched and turned into Cie'th. They relive their previous experiences and manage to return to their human forms, overcoming Orphan's tricks. Lightning declares that their true Focus is to save Cocoon and all of their l'Cie brands turn white. Lightning and the others have no chance but to fight Orphan now when it has been awakened and after defeating it they 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.
They awake briefly afterwards and see Vanille and Fang have managed to fulfill their Focus by both saving and destroying Cocoon by transforming into Ragnarok and encasing Cocoon in crystal. They also realise that their l'Cie brands have disappeared. As Serah and Dajh approach the party from the horizon Lightning comforts Hope regarding Vanille and Fang's departure. Lightning finally reunites with Serah and begins to apologize to her for not listening to her. Lightning is cut short when Snow reminds them that they "have a wedding to plan". Snow reassures Lightning he will make Serah happy, and Lightning congratulates them.
Lightning decides to find a way to save Vanille and Fang from the crystal pillar. She believes they will be able to find the answer hidden away somewhere on Gran Pulse, and perhaps discover other Pulsian survivors as well.
Lightning worries how they are no longer l'Cie, and believes it will be a long and difficult journey. After seeing that Serah is in good hands with Snow, she decides to take up the task on her own. Lightning comes to the conclusion that Serah and the others will be tied down with new responsibilities with trying to return to their new lives, and would not be able to accompany her.
After being released from her l'Cie bond with everything seemingly resolved, Lightning remained uneasy. She was soon caught in a paradox and attacked by incoming waves of darkness. She briefly saw her allies being surrounded, but before she could call out to them, the ground opened up and she was dragged into the abyss by chaos. In turn, she is removed from history, and everyone except Serah believe her to be either dead or crystallized along with Vanille and Fang, and all that is left of her is her survival knife.
In actuality, Lightning falls through the Historia Crux and ends up in Valhalla, the realm of death and chaos dislodged from time. Within Etro's Shrine, she stands before the goddess's throne and is briefly made one with Etro. Lightning comes to know of the goddess's isolation, having been abandoned by her father, Bhunivelze, her love toward mankind, and the memory of the countless people who have died. Then Lightning's Guardian Corps uniform disappears and a suit of armor materializes on her body. Much like Etro herself, Lightning chooses to stay to contain the memories of the deceased as a way to atone for her past sins, and becomes the goddess's knight.
Armed with a new gunblade, Lightning is now Etro's protector and guards the goddess from Caius, an immortal Guardian who wants to kill Etro to destroy the timeline. As Lightning looks out from the balcony, she has a vision of a young man falling through the Historia Crux. Caius summons an army of monsters and challenges her to battle. Lightning summons her gunblade and confronts him with her army of summoned monsters alongside Eidolons. As she charges atop Odin in Gestalt Mode, Caius summons a barrage of Comets.
Lightning and Odin dodge Caius's attack by ascending the floating rocks and she and Caius meet each other face-to-face. Caius says he is impressed by her, but Lightning tells him to save it and they clash swords. Caius eventually catches her sword and points at his heart, and his chest begins to glow red; Lightning is surprised by this. Caius transforms into Chaos Bahamut, and sends Lightning flying over Valhalla. Falling from the sky over the beach, Lightning lands safely on Odin but is promptly pursued by Chaos Bahamut. Riding Odin, Lightning battles Chaos Bahamut along the beach. Leading him into the city and dodging his attacks, she manages to defeat Chaos Bahamut with an attack from behind, but Caius launches a surprise attack against her. Lightning is saved by Odin and Caius returns in his human form. The two launch a series of attacks against each other before Lightning manages to gain the upper hand and bury Caius under a pile of fallen debris.
Lightning sees Etro's Gate appear over Etro's shrine and a figure falling out of it. She recognizes the figure as the young man she had previously seen in her vision, Noel Kreiss. Lightning summons Bahamut and saves him from his fall before engaging Caius in an aerial battle when he returns as Chaos Bahamut. Defeating him again, Lightning and Noel land on the shrine. As she cannot leave Valhalla unprotected, Lightning tells Noel about Serah and asks him for his help. Showing him a Time Gate below the shrine, she gives him a moogle named Mog along with instructions to find Serah and bring her to Valhalla. When Caius returns and summons a large meteor over the shrine, Lightning urges Noel to jump into the Time Gate. She summons Odin to throw her into the meteor's path to try and stop it, but it crushes the shrine, leaving Lightning's fate unknown.
Noel finds Serah and together they embark on a quest to find their way to Valhalla. Lightning eventually appears from a portal before Serah, Noel and Mog in New Bodhum at 700 AF, and tells them that they are in a future she had failed to save. She explains to them that Orphan's demise and Fang and Vanille's sacrifice to save Cocoon opened the portal to Valhalla. She says that Etro closed the door to prevent an immense amount of chaos from pouring out into the world but time had been distorted, and as a result of being caught in the darkness Lightning disappeared from existence. She tells them that she can see all of time from Valhalla, and that she saw the future and felt Etro's desire. Lightning says the goddess was being destroyed and if Etro vanished completely all hope for the world would be lost, which is why she decided to fight Caius and the threat he posed to Etro and the world itself.
Lightning tells Noel and Serah that Caius plans to destroy Etro in Valhalla as she sleeps and unleash chaos out into the mortal world through an unseen doorway that opens for the souls of the departed. She says that the door would open wide enough if a large amount of people died all at once, and Noel says that would be possible if Cocoon fell. Lightning says if that were to happen a world of chaos would appear and time, life, and death would all become meaningless. After Serah says that world will essentially become like Valhalla itself, Lightning believes that it is Caius's plan to create a timeless world. Noel says that Caius wants to sacrifice countless lives and remake the world in order to save Yeul from her cursed fate. She entrusts Noel and Serah to stop Caius in the mortal realm while she deals with him in Valhalla, and has Mog reveal a Time Gate for them to proceed. Serah asks if they will be together again after the conflict and Lightning smiles replying, "One thing at a time, Serah", and walks back into the portal, returning to Valhalla.
In the Vile Peaks, Lightning blames herself for the paradox that caused the disappearance of an Academy anti-paradox team called Blitz Squadron while they were scouting the area in 10 AF to deal with a distortion. She appears in the area at 10 AF, just before Noel and Serah engage the paradox, a dark imitation of Odin called Twilight Odin. In 200 AF, after they defeat Twilight Odin's true form, Lightning is released from the burden of Odin's shadow twin. She recalls how she once fought alongside the men in Blitz Squadron and finds comfort in how they still remember her. As Lightning watches Noel and Serah from afar, she tells her, "So, Serah. If you keep me in your thoughts, one day, I am certain I will find my way home again", to which Serah answers that she will.
Later, when Mog reveals a phased-out image of Lightning in the Vile Peaks, she tells Serah and Noel about how as a l'Cie, she first thought fighting for what she believed in alone was the only way, but later realized she wasn't alone since the others were burdened with the same fate. Being all by herself in Valhalla, she holds on to the memories of Serah and her friends to stay strong in her battle against Caius. Lightning tells Serah that she misses her and prays for the day when they can be together again, and disappears.
Back in Valhalla, Lightning continues her fight against Caius. However, seeing a vision of Serah's death by her Eyes of Etro, a shocked Lightning is subdued by Caius before chaos consumes her. Coming to in the remains of Etro's temple, Lightning finds Serah's soul restrained and surrounded by chaos, manipulated by the spirits of Yeul, who taunt Lightning that Serah will remain with them until time ends. The chaos forms into a manifestation of Caius that Lightning proceeds to battle.
Caius transforms into Chaos Bahamut and flies back towards the beach, where Lightning continues to battle him. After dispatching of her opponent, Lightning mounts Odin and demands Yeul to let Serah go, but she and Odin are swallowed by chaos. Lightning is made to realize that her actions are the cause for her sister's death. As she floats through the Historia Crux, Lightning contemplates her belief that carrying out Etro's will would atone for her past sins and concludes that there is nothing left for her, not even hope. After Serah and Noel's first battle against Caius in Valhalla, they are consumed in a wave of darkness and sent falling into an abyss of light beneath the waves of chaos. Lightning appears and saves them, urging them to keep hope alive before vanishing.
Mourning over Serah's body, Lightning sees Serah's spirit on Etro's throne. Serah tells her not to cry and reveals she knew she would die, but chose to keep fighting for the chance for them to reunite. As Serah's spirit begins to fade away, Lightning runs toward the throne and finds herself in an empty void in Serah's embrace. She tells Lightning she must not give up hope and always remember her, promising that they will meet again.
To ensure that Serah's memory lives on and to hold on to their wish to be together again someday, and preserve the world's existence in Etro's place as her true atonement, Lightning sits on the goddess's throne and enters crystal stasis. Gran Pulse is engulfed in chaos and is transformed into what would become Novus Partus. In an ending cutscene, Lightning is seen walking around the Dying World, saying that she waits for the day she will awaken at the end of eternity.
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Roleplay Sample:
Lightning woke with a start, looking at her surroundings. They hadn't changed since the time she slept, but she could tell that much time had passed. Her body was stiff and her joints ached terribly. Her armor felt heavy on her body. She stood, stretching out her muscles and stepping foreword. She wondered briefly, why it was not that she was awakening. Nothing seemed to be amiss in the small area she was in, she looked back at the throne she had been sitting in. Nothing wrong with that either. When she looked foreword again, however, a portal sat open in front of her. She had fought so hard and lost so much to prevent this very thing from happening. Serah lost her life because of it. Anger welled inside her as she rushed foreword to the portal. She threw herself through it but did not land where she had expected.
This world had many of the things she was used to, buildings vehicles people, but it was different. The air seemed heavier, and the people unorganized. It was loud and fast, and after sleeping for, we she didn't really know how long she had been in stasis. It was overwhelming, her ears hurt from the noise after so long in silence, and her head ached along with her muscles. Upon leaving Valhalla her armor dissipated and she was once again in her Guardian Corps Uniform, her Gunblade at her hip, but that remained the Gunblade gifted to her by Etro. She briefly wondered why that had remained, though her clothing chnged once again. Her Uniform was much lighter than the armor, more flexible and it at least blended a bit better with this world's people. Not by much, but walking around in a full suit of armor probably would have gotten her some looks in her own world, she assumed this place was no different.
She pressed on, people seemed to be wary of her, eyeing the sword on her hip warily and watching her. Her face hardened. Weapons apparently were not taken lightly in this world, but she would not give up her sword. It was not an option. She did, however, remove her hand from the sword's handle, it seemed to quell the others fear slightly.
Lightning realized quite quickly that she was lost, looking around the sea of people moving rapidly in all directions made her dizzy, and she didn't know where to start, much less where she would end up or even where she was. A few moments of aimlessly wandering, and she already had enough. She ducked into an alleyway, where people seemed less abundant. She found a set of stairs on the side of one building, but they seemed to above her reach by quite a bit. Upon inspection she realized they must be on some sort of sliding mechanism. She took a few steps back and ran at the metal stairs, jumping to grab the edge and pull it down. They squealed loudly as she did, but she climbed them. They stopped several feet below the top of the building, but she climbed up on top of the railing, and pulled herself up onto the ledge of the next window up, before being able to grip the top of the building and pull herself up to the top.
She stood at the edge inspecting the geography. The buildings seemed to be random, and messy. How could these people survive with their town being so unorganized. It was annoying to say the least and merely confused her more. After several minutes she realized a group of people had formed at the bottom of the building she was standing at, looking up and watching her. She watched them for a few moments, before taking a few steps back and jumping to the next building. If she didn't know where she was going she might as well figure out the geography.
This world had many of the things she was used to, buildings vehicles people, but it was different. The air seemed heavier, and the people unorganized. It was loud and fast, and after sleeping for, we she didn't really know how long she had been in stasis. It was overwhelming, her ears hurt from the noise after so long in silence, and her head ached along with her muscles. Upon leaving Valhalla her armor dissipated and she was once again in her Guardian Corps Uniform, her Gunblade at her hip, but that remained the Gunblade gifted to her by Etro. She briefly wondered why that had remained, though her clothing chnged once again. Her Uniform was much lighter than the armor, more flexible and it at least blended a bit better with this world's people. Not by much, but walking around in a full suit of armor probably would have gotten her some looks in her own world, she assumed this place was no different.
She pressed on, people seemed to be wary of her, eyeing the sword on her hip warily and watching her. Her face hardened. Weapons apparently were not taken lightly in this world, but she would not give up her sword. It was not an option. She did, however, remove her hand from the sword's handle, it seemed to quell the others fear slightly.
Lightning realized quite quickly that she was lost, looking around the sea of people moving rapidly in all directions made her dizzy, and she didn't know where to start, much less where she would end up or even where she was. A few moments of aimlessly wandering, and she already had enough. She ducked into an alleyway, where people seemed less abundant. She found a set of stairs on the side of one building, but they seemed to above her reach by quite a bit. Upon inspection she realized they must be on some sort of sliding mechanism. She took a few steps back and ran at the metal stairs, jumping to grab the edge and pull it down. They squealed loudly as she did, but she climbed them. They stopped several feet below the top of the building, but she climbed up on top of the railing, and pulled herself up onto the ledge of the next window up, before being able to grip the top of the building and pull herself up to the top.
She stood at the edge inspecting the geography. The buildings seemed to be random, and messy. How could these people survive with their town being so unorganized. It was annoying to say the least and merely confused her more. After several minutes she realized a group of people had formed at the bottom of the building she was standing at, looking up and watching her. She watched them for a few moments, before taking a few steps back and jumping to the next building. If she didn't know where she was going she might as well figure out the geography.