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Serah Farron | Final Fantasy XIII-2 | reserved
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Character
Name: Serah Farron
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIII series
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Time Period: XIII-2, shortly after she and Noel meet Hope in Academia 4XX AF and have started collecting the Graviton Cores.
Wing Color: Right is DARK PINK, left is GOLD. Symbolism! Family resemblance!
History: Her page on the FF Wiki.
Serah Farron | Final Fantasy XIII-2 | personality
Cheerful, curious, and optimistic, Serah is a notable contrast to her intense, taciturn older sister. Relatively(!) normal as FF characters go, she's established early-on as fashionable and capable of easily making friends, and with her stellar grades and eyes set forward toward university, pre-PLOT she seems pretty set for having a good life in her floating utopia homeland of Cocoon. All things considered, she's a pretty well-balanced eighteen year old woman, save for-- or perhaps especially because of her older, scruffy boyfriend that her guardian figure disapproves of.
If only that was the end of it, though.
In the first game, Serah mostly serves as a catalyst. Her curiosity towards a change in the giant ominous structure looming over her town betrays her, and in exploring it she promptly becomes marked as a Pulse l'Cie. Cocoon natives are fastidiously trained to fear anything from Gran Pulse, and at first Serah is no different. Frightened, she turns to trying to shove Snow away, underestimating the man's love, and even when convinced that they can figure something out together, soon afterward she advises Vanille on a "face it later" approach to problems.
Regardless, this is the first time we see just how strong-willed she can be if supported by those she trusts. Even though she has little reason to believe that there's truly anything but bleakness in her own fate and the changes quickly beginning within Cocoon, still she tells Snow, Lightning, and the others gathered when they eventually find her trapped inside the Vestige (while the residents of her hometown are being slaughtered by the government outside) that they must save Cocoon-- and then crystallizes as if she's completed her Focus. It should have been impossible. Her Focus was to destroy Cocoon.
Through the tear left with Snow after her crystallization, Serah bared witness to most of the ups and downs throughout the story, and was there after Cocoon was saved and Etro releases the l'Cie from their bonds. However, what should have been happy quickly turns into a nightmare for Serah in particular instead- even though she distinctly remembers Lightning being there with them as well, everybody else insists she must be with Fang and Vanille in the crystal pillar or worse: dead.
In New Bodhum, despite her cheerfulness, with Lightning and eventually Snow having left her behind, Serah feels a lot of guilt and loneliness because of the situation around her. She has the ability to be independent, but it is something that has to be developed across her journey- particularly in her time with Noel. Before her true colors begin to show, it's as if Serah wants to be protected- after her parents died, Lightning was the one to take care of her; the man she falls in love with is a self-proclaimed Hero; when both Lightning and Snow are gone, NORA attempts to take care of her. Notably, when she's attacked... she calls out for Lightning, instead of trying to protect herself. She relies strongly on others, whether it be her sister, her fiance, or her partner in Noel.
Eventually, she decides it's her turn to protect those she cares for... and her already-existing self-sacrificial nature promptly takes a turn for the intense. Because she has the Eyes of Etro, and she and Noel keep changing history, she knows that there's a very good chance that she will not survive to see
the ending creditswhat they've brought about. For the sake of saving the world, she decides to go through with it anyway.Serah is hardly the most ... polished of heroines, however. She can be uncertain and easily persuaded of things- especially if she trusts the person or is trying not to step on toes; she often jumps to conclusions and believes in the good of things so wholeheartedly that she can come across as a bit naive or even gullible at times. While she possesses the ability to see a problem and the pieces that can help solve the puzzle, it may take her feeling it out first before she settles on a solution.
Because of this, Serah is fairly careful- not exactly suspicious most of the time, but even if she blurts something out or is inclined towards having odd opinions about things, she does also think things through before she fully commits. Even though she's surprisingly tolerant of the words of some random guy who shows up in the midst of a monster attack, claiming to be from the future and sent to collect Serah from her MIA sister, she's sure to gather information from him and seek the opinions of her friends first. And, although perhaps it's not quite an as understandable example, she also keeps quiet on her suspicions that the Eyes of Etro are having a detrimental effect on her.
As mentioned before, although she doesn't really look it - and a lot of the time doesn't act like it - Serah's optimistic will is very, very strong. Even when she was the ill-fated girl who needed to be saved by the others, tossed off to the side as little more than a plot device, she is still the first of the Pulse l'Cie to not just deny her Focus, but to push the others to do the same and come out pretty well-off given the circumstances. Although when she meets Caius in the Void Beyond he clearly overpowers her, she refuses to bow to his attempts to demoralize her and then is quick to reject the dream world that promised her such relief and happiness away from her difficult journey and problems. Eventually, when she dies and her spirit appears to the distraught Lightning, she still insists that everything will be okay.
Serah Farron | Final Fantasy XIII-2 | strengths & weaknesses
Serah was turned into what her world would consider a monster, became a potentially eternal crystal, was saved but then became the only person who remembered the proper passage of events, called a liar or believed to be living a fantasy when she insists that Lightning did survive the fall of Cocoon... and then the love of her life ran off into the wilderness, disappearing for years with no word.
Still, she moves on.
Emotionally, while many people in her situation would break down, Serah is strong enough to face it, knowing how important rebuilding after the heyday of life in Cocoon has crumpled. For all of her obvious surprise at this thing or that, at her core she's steady, and her cute appearance hides a lot of intelligence, a woman with a strong interest in history and the ability to be a schoolteacher without any actual formal training for such a job. While not always the most tactful, she's good at getting to the root of peoples' problems. She's empathetic to what people need... from kindness up to and including a considerable amount of sternness if required (AKA, her students are sort of scared of her).
She's certainly not a pushover, because although she's not really a fighter to begin with, Serah's quick to learn the art of monster-killing and boss fights alike regardless. Her physical weapon is Mog, a moogle who turns into a transformable bowsword, and she rapidly develops a nimble style reminiscent of a particular other pink-haired woman. Like Lightning, she's also strongly magical as well, particularly in offensive (Ravager) and healing (Medic) magic. As if she might have learned it from her fiance, she also starts off with the guarding 'Sentinel' role, and can eventually learn Synergist and Saboteur abilities as well (buffing and debuffing, respectively).
Weaknesses:
Serah is not a soldier. She is a fairly petite, twenty-one year old schoolteacher. As a result, she's certainly not as physically strong as someone like Noel or her older sister, and when compared to the people who have actually had more training than just being handed a magic bowsword and told to defend herself, she's noticeably less coordinated. It isn't uncommon for her to be knocked down, forced to drop her weapon, lose her footing and nearly fall a bazillion feet to her death, etc.
Behind her easy smile and willingness to keep morale up and the interactions between those around her peaceful, Serah does still suffer a lot of guilt, uncertainty, and sadness- things which are often hidden studiously to avoid treading on the spirits of her friends. Unselfishness can be a good thing, and in her story arc it often is, but she also often takes it to a degree where she's left pushed to the side (Snow declaring to Noel that their wedding is on hold and her saying nothing- despite acknowledging via voiceover that she is both sad and angry at his behavior) or hiding her pain for the sake of others (her refusing to acknowledge that she's seeing the future- an act that is specifically stated to steal the life away of the person experiencing it... amongst several other incidents).
She can also just flat-out be a derp at times too, let's be honest. Sometimes it is a wonder people take her seriously when she's babbling about things that obviously show her as being from a totally different time period without restraint.
Serah Farron | Final Fantasy XIII-2 | samples
First Person:
Hello, everyone. I'm Serah- Serah Farron, that is.
[ The journal shows a politely-smiling young woman, toying with a ponytail tied to the side in her long pink hair- something that was apparently put up only moments beforehand. The urgency of her message could barely wait, obviously. ]
I was wondering if anyone could help me. You see, I'm looking for... a friend of mine. Mog. He's-- well. [ ... ] A moogle. I guess you could say he looks kind of like a stuffed animal. White, red nose, little wings and a bobble...
[ ... Despite the smile she puts on for the camera, there's a touch of something like pleading in her demeanor too, as if she's half-concerned people might not believe her; she's clearly anxious about her fantastical little friend, and slowly, her expression grows even more worried as she seems to think about it. ]
He-- there's a weapon, too. It looks like a bow, but also turns into a sword. It doesn't really... resemble anything else around, so it's pretty hard to miss.
[ Blinking... blinking... but then finally, she pulls her smile back into place. ]
Anyway, ah... any help would be appreciated! [ ANYTHING ELSE? ] -- Oh, and if anyone sees a guy wandering around named Noel... tell him I'm looking for him too, alright? Thanks...
Third Person:
Serah's legs still itched. Even as she bent to run her hands over them, crossed her arms in a vain attempt to bring some warmth to her bare skin there, her lower calves and ankles were apparently unwilling to let her forget the grass and tiny feathers that had been sticking to them only minutes beforehand, sneaking down into her boots, wet with the precipitation that the Bresha Ruins now seemed so inclined to attract. Even though she was completely clean (and freezing in the chill air here without her proper clothing), like the confusion running circles in her mind, her limbs seemed unwilling to let go of what should be.
Not that Serah wasn't plenty familiar with ending up in odd places, but... well, when she'd been nowhere near a Gate and there had been no signs of something awry in the environment, finding herself suddenly here was nothing less than disorienting. She was sure if there was anything wrong, Mog at least would have warned her beforehand!
Of course, neither the moogle or Noel was anywhere to be found, now.
And even more importantly, clearly there was something wrong, because even if weird things were always happening to her and surprise seemed to almost be her default state, she couldn't think of any reasons for the abrupt loss of the outfit she'd awakened in on that fateful night Noel appeared in New Bodhum. Not unless something had gone terribly wrong with the timeline or... she really wasn't sure.
There was also the wings attached firmly to her back as well; "strange" didn't quite cover that little discovery. Serah wasn't sure that even "bizarre" managed to convey the bewilderment she experienced when she felt down over her shoulder-blade, tugged on one of the feathery appendages, and suffered pain in it for her trouble.
Regardless, phantom-itching, sudden loneliness, and disorientation aside, the young woman had little other choice but to explore her options apart from staying where she'd woken- specifically, the ones that likely included getting inside and somewhere warmer. She didn't know where she was, but she could see buildings nearby. All she could hope was that whoever lived here was friendly, right...?
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