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chaoticwhimsyCHARACTER: CANON SECTION
NAME: Lumina
AGE: Physically 12, chronologically somewhere around 150.
CANON: Final Fantasy 13: Lightning Returns
NAME: Lumina
AGE: Physically 12, chronologically somewhere around 150.
CANON: Final Fantasy 13: Lightning Returns
CANON HISTORY: Lumina on the FF wiki.
Some more details: Lumina is a construct of Lightning Farron. When Lightning decided that she could never have time for emotions, for childishness and silliness, she locked all of those things away deep inside her, which allowed her to be the hard, focused soldier that she is in the first and second games. At the end of XIII-2, she locks herself up in a crystal sleep with her sister Serah’s soul hidden inside of her for safe keeping.
One hundred and fifty years before Lightning Returns (or so. It’s vague, but implied to happen around the same time as when Hope is taken) the god Bhunivelze draws Serah’s soul out of Lightning and throws it away into the Chaos. Somehow, at that point, the Chaos also drew all of those long-dormant emotions and feelings and drives, Lightning’s ‘Heart’ essentially, and formed them into a human vessel to safeguard Serah’s soul.
The side effect was Lumina, a girl of about twelve who bore a frightening resemblance to Serah at that age, but who was happy and childlike and whimsical and all of the things Lightning had tried so hard not to be. But since no one ages anymore, she’s remained that child ever since.
CANON PERSONALITY:
Lumina is the embodiment of all of the emotions that Lightning tossed away when she was young, everything she thought she had to abandon in order to protect Serah after their parents died. Childishness, playfulness, whimsy, these all went to the back burner in favor of focusing on her strength and determination and anger.
So Lumina is very much the outcome of all of those childlike things crammed into a twelve-year old body, given chaos powers, and set loose on an undying world. She’s clever, manipulative, whimsical and prone to fits of giggles. She’s a serious prankster, she’ll trick people into doing foolish and ridiculous things without a thought to it, and laugh the whole while when they fall on their face because of it.
But she’s not evil. The things she does aren’t generally cruel, or anything a person won’t recover from, and often times result in people discovering things about themselves they didn’t know they needed to learn. This is obvious in the fact that, despite having lived around the survivors for over a century, none of them hate her. They think she’s trouble, they’re amused by her or frustrated with her, but they don’t see her as a specter or a monster, they don’t run from her or try to chase her away. Snow refers to her as a ‘demon’, but not in a nasty way, it almost sounds like the way an adult would complain about an unruly, unpredictable child.
She does good things almost as often as mischievous ones, from trying to help Sazh save his son to befriending and spending time with the lonely Vanille. It can be said that most of the things she does that might be seen as terrible (and some of them could be) have a way of working out towards something good in the end.
At one point she tricks a boy into becoming a cat, but in the end its to teach him that he needs to let go of the past. (At least, that’s the lesson he learns. Whether or not that was her explicit intent is a whole different matter.) Because in the end Lumina is very much a little troll. She’ll taunt people with information rather than telling them straight out, in fact getting a genuinely straight answer out of her is a significant challenge. She asks leading questions, she alludes to answers, she urges people on to find their own, but she’s not going to just tell you. That’s boring! And Lumina does hate to be bored.
In the end though, despite her ‘age’, she’s still very much a child. She’s giggly and huggy around her best friend (Vanille), hugging her and holding her hand, and her expressions of distaste towards things like Snow being overly noble and sacrificing himself or her sorrow at what has happened to Sazh and his son are open and honest and young. She’s good at hiding her information, at dancing around a subject, but her emotions are almost always right on her face.
Even her actions express this. While many of the characters tend to be stoic and still, Lumina is always moving, always gesturing and walking and shifting as she talks, she’s almost never still unless she is discussing something that genuinely hurts her, like Sazh and his son, or Noel’s past. She’s full of energy and life and happiness and ridiculousness, all the things Lightning threw away.
Despite her exterior, she is far more lonely than she ever really lets on, evidenced on the last day, where she desperately tries to keep Lightning from leaving to go fight God, because she believes she is going to be left behind when everyone else is taken to the new world. And it terrifies her. She’s spent the last hundred and fifty years finding ways to be the center of people’s attention, and the last ten with Vanille as her best friend, keeping an eye on her, and suddenly she’s going to be completely alone.
But that’s not to say that what she does is just a façade to hide her loneliness, because it really isn’t. That’s more of a side effect, because she does genuinely enjoy being her little trickster self, and has no intention of stopping any time soon.
SKILLS/ABILITIES:
Chaos - Lumina is a manifestation of the Unseen Chaos, the driving darkness that has swallowed up the world of Gran Pulse, and as such all of her powers are derived from the Chaos itself. She generates it constantly, it leaks from her body whenever she allows it to (though she can stop this if she wishes to, and does so to ‘blend in’), seeping into the air much like a cloud. However, she is mostly human, despite her strange origins, the Chaos is just a…side effect of everything else. She does not seem to suffer any of the adverse effects that a normal human would experience from being trapped within the darkness, nor does she appear to lose her soul the way others do. (Although the nature of Lumina’s soul is of some debate, even she doesn't know if she has one.)
Because of this chaos, she has several different powers.
- Chaos – Lumina creates Chaos simply by existing. It is stored within her, it bleeds out of her, she can create clouds of it and fill rooms with it, and manipulate it to her whim. It is dangerous to others, some even are said to lose their souls to it, but Lumina is completely immune to any negative effects. Normal humans are barely able to function within the chaos, and exposure causes short periods of heightened emotions. Generally, unless she is actively trying to use it, the chaos is going to fade into nothing moments after leaving her body.
- Teleportation – Lumina teleports by creating a bubble of chaos and light energy that swallows her up and deposits her somewhere else. This act doesn’t appear to drain her at all, and does not require an overt physical gesture to trigger it. She simply gets swallowed up in the circle and reappears somewhere else. It doesn’t seem to have a ‘maximum distance’ as she uses it to move amongst the four islands of Nova Crystallis seemingly at a whim. It’s her primary means of travel!
- Monster Summoning – Lumina manifests creatures out of the Chaos, both beasts native to what remains of Pulse and creatures formed of the Chaos itself. These creatures appear to be created by the chaos itself, as the species being ‘extinct’ does not prevent her from summoning one. The creatures generally appear to do as Lumina orders. A list of these creatures can be found here.
- Red Lightning – Lumina can create bursts of destructive red lightning. She has pinpoint control of this, and uses it to shatter the blade of Lightning’s sword at one point without actually touching it, and later destroys a large chandelier with it. It doesn't seem to function like electrical lightning, it is almost like physical 'crack' of energy that breaks and shatters rather than shocks.
Her powers are essentially manipulative and defensive. She’ll summon a creature to distract someone, or teleport so that they can’t actually hurt her. She is never seen to fight directly.
Some more details: Lumina is a construct of Lightning Farron. When Lightning decided that she could never have time for emotions, for childishness and silliness, she locked all of those things away deep inside her, which allowed her to be the hard, focused soldier that she is in the first and second games. At the end of XIII-2, she locks herself up in a crystal sleep with her sister Serah’s soul hidden inside of her for safe keeping.
One hundred and fifty years before Lightning Returns (or so. It’s vague, but implied to happen around the same time as when Hope is taken) the god Bhunivelze draws Serah’s soul out of Lightning and throws it away into the Chaos. Somehow, at that point, the Chaos also drew all of those long-dormant emotions and feelings and drives, Lightning’s ‘Heart’ essentially, and formed them into a human vessel to safeguard Serah’s soul.
The side effect was Lumina, a girl of about twelve who bore a frightening resemblance to Serah at that age, but who was happy and childlike and whimsical and all of the things Lightning had tried so hard not to be. But since no one ages anymore, she’s remained that child ever since.
CANON PERSONALITY:
Lumina is the embodiment of all of the emotions that Lightning tossed away when she was young, everything she thought she had to abandon in order to protect Serah after their parents died. Childishness, playfulness, whimsy, these all went to the back burner in favor of focusing on her strength and determination and anger.
So Lumina is very much the outcome of all of those childlike things crammed into a twelve-year old body, given chaos powers, and set loose on an undying world. She’s clever, manipulative, whimsical and prone to fits of giggles. She’s a serious prankster, she’ll trick people into doing foolish and ridiculous things without a thought to it, and laugh the whole while when they fall on their face because of it.
But she’s not evil. The things she does aren’t generally cruel, or anything a person won’t recover from, and often times result in people discovering things about themselves they didn’t know they needed to learn. This is obvious in the fact that, despite having lived around the survivors for over a century, none of them hate her. They think she’s trouble, they’re amused by her or frustrated with her, but they don’t see her as a specter or a monster, they don’t run from her or try to chase her away. Snow refers to her as a ‘demon’, but not in a nasty way, it almost sounds like the way an adult would complain about an unruly, unpredictable child.
She does good things almost as often as mischievous ones, from trying to help Sazh save his son to befriending and spending time with the lonely Vanille. It can be said that most of the things she does that might be seen as terrible (and some of them could be) have a way of working out towards something good in the end.
At one point she tricks a boy into becoming a cat, but in the end its to teach him that he needs to let go of the past. (At least, that’s the lesson he learns. Whether or not that was her explicit intent is a whole different matter.) Because in the end Lumina is very much a little troll. She’ll taunt people with information rather than telling them straight out, in fact getting a genuinely straight answer out of her is a significant challenge. She asks leading questions, she alludes to answers, she urges people on to find their own, but she’s not going to just tell you. That’s boring! And Lumina does hate to be bored.
In the end though, despite her ‘age’, she’s still very much a child. She’s giggly and huggy around her best friend (Vanille), hugging her and holding her hand, and her expressions of distaste towards things like Snow being overly noble and sacrificing himself or her sorrow at what has happened to Sazh and his son are open and honest and young. She’s good at hiding her information, at dancing around a subject, but her emotions are almost always right on her face.
Even her actions express this. While many of the characters tend to be stoic and still, Lumina is always moving, always gesturing and walking and shifting as she talks, she’s almost never still unless she is discussing something that genuinely hurts her, like Sazh and his son, or Noel’s past. She’s full of energy and life and happiness and ridiculousness, all the things Lightning threw away.
Despite her exterior, she is far more lonely than she ever really lets on, evidenced on the last day, where she desperately tries to keep Lightning from leaving to go fight God, because she believes she is going to be left behind when everyone else is taken to the new world. And it terrifies her. She’s spent the last hundred and fifty years finding ways to be the center of people’s attention, and the last ten with Vanille as her best friend, keeping an eye on her, and suddenly she’s going to be completely alone.
But that’s not to say that what she does is just a façade to hide her loneliness, because it really isn’t. That’s more of a side effect, because she does genuinely enjoy being her little trickster self, and has no intention of stopping any time soon.
SKILLS/ABILITIES:
Chaos - Lumina is a manifestation of the Unseen Chaos, the driving darkness that has swallowed up the world of Gran Pulse, and as such all of her powers are derived from the Chaos itself. She generates it constantly, it leaks from her body whenever she allows it to (though she can stop this if she wishes to, and does so to ‘blend in’), seeping into the air much like a cloud. However, she is mostly human, despite her strange origins, the Chaos is just a…side effect of everything else. She does not seem to suffer any of the adverse effects that a normal human would experience from being trapped within the darkness, nor does she appear to lose her soul the way others do. (Although the nature of Lumina’s soul is of some debate, even she doesn't know if she has one.)
Because of this chaos, she has several different powers.
- Chaos – Lumina creates Chaos simply by existing. It is stored within her, it bleeds out of her, she can create clouds of it and fill rooms with it, and manipulate it to her whim. It is dangerous to others, some even are said to lose their souls to it, but Lumina is completely immune to any negative effects. Normal humans are barely able to function within the chaos, and exposure causes short periods of heightened emotions. Generally, unless she is actively trying to use it, the chaos is going to fade into nothing moments after leaving her body.
- Teleportation – Lumina teleports by creating a bubble of chaos and light energy that swallows her up and deposits her somewhere else. This act doesn’t appear to drain her at all, and does not require an overt physical gesture to trigger it. She simply gets swallowed up in the circle and reappears somewhere else. It doesn’t seem to have a ‘maximum distance’ as she uses it to move amongst the four islands of Nova Crystallis seemingly at a whim. It’s her primary means of travel!
- Monster Summoning – Lumina manifests creatures out of the Chaos, both beasts native to what remains of Pulse and creatures formed of the Chaos itself. These creatures appear to be created by the chaos itself, as the species being ‘extinct’ does not prevent her from summoning one. The creatures generally appear to do as Lumina orders. A list of these creatures can be found here.
- Red Lightning – Lumina can create bursts of destructive red lightning. She has pinpoint control of this, and uses it to shatter the blade of Lightning’s sword at one point without actually touching it, and later destroys a large chandelier with it. It doesn't seem to function like electrical lightning, it is almost like physical 'crack' of energy that breaks and shatters rather than shocks.
Her powers are essentially manipulative and defensive. She’ll summon a creature to distract someone, or teleport so that they can’t actually hurt her. She is never seen to fight directly.
CHARACTER: AU SECTION
AU NAME: Luna Takada
AU AGE: 13
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Her hair will be brown instead of pink/rose. And she won't be made of chaos.
AU NAME: Luna Takada
AU AGE: 13
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Her hair will be brown instead of pink/rose. And she won't be made of chaos.
AU HISTORY:
- Born in Recollé.
- Sadly, brown hair instead of rose/pink.
- She is the youngest of the Takada sisters, a half-sister to Katherine and Lucy Takada. (They share a father.)
- Put into the foster system at age 3. Remembers almost nothing of her family from before then.
- Has bounced around foster homes for most of her life. Hasn't stayed in one for more than six months.
- When she was nine, she shared a foster home with her sister Lucy for several months. They were told that they were related, which was why Luna was put into the same home as Lucy. They bonded, somewhat, but then Lucy got into trouble with the police and was transferred to another home and they lost contact.
- Is 'on her way out' of her current home after a recent near-run-in with the police for shoplifting.
- Starting eighth grade in the fall. Goes to class...most of the time? Unless she doesn't feel like it.
- Passes all her classes by being smart enough to do the work/pass the tests without really having to put any effort in. Charms the teachers to forgive her for not showing up.
- Doesn't have a great time keeping friends. Doesn't make enemies or anything, just not a lot of friends.
- Is definitely driving some poor social worker to drink.
- Has something of a 'tween punk' clothing style.
- Spends a ton of time on twitter and tumblr and takes a million selfies. Has a decent following and her users think she's older. (Her profile claims she's sixteen.)
- Very little concern about personal space? Occasional shoplifting, definite trespassing. Has gotten caught for shoplifting twice but talked her way out of both times. Turns up where she's not supposed to be.
- Can pick locks!
- Reconnected with her sister, Lucy, a few months ago via an accidental internet coincidence, but they haven't spoken much.
- Does not know her sister Katherine exists. Yet.
- All people referred to in this AU have given permission to be referenced/used.
AU PERSONALITY:
- Luna is fairly close to Lumina as far as personality is concerned.
- Still sneaky, bratty and manipulative.
- Much like in canon, she's somewhat desperate for attention. Rather than being out of a need to prove she exists, this comes from a need to belong somewhere. Abandoned by her family, kicked out of numerous foster homes, Luna just wants to think people care.
- Even if she tricks them into it.
- Without the knowledge that she is part of something, even something as weird as being Lightning's emotions and holding Serah's soul, Luna lacks some of the self-confidence she projects during canon. This definitely magnifies her loneliness and tendency towards attention-whoring.
- She is, however, pretty good at faking that self-confidence. Especially on her twitter and tumblr. You'd think her life was grand, from the way she acts, even when she's talking about things like getting kicked out of a foster home or almost getting arrested.
- Has a tendency to make up stories to get people to want to hang out with her/feel for her.
- Manipulative. And awfully good at it.
- Basically she's a lying liar who lies. But not about anything really important. She just tells stories. Or says what she thinks people want to hear.
- She also really enjoys being mysterious, and putting on a kind of air that says she knows what's going on even if she doesn't. Without her actual deus-ex level knowledge from canon, this is mostly something she pulls off with other kids her own age.
- Has occasional fits of depression, usually right before she starts causing enough trouble to get removed from a foster home.
- Is not remotely above stealing if she needs/wants something, but prefers to convince someone to get whatever it is for her.
- Distant with her sister. She's somewhat distrustful of the idea of family at this point. She wants it to be a thing, she'd love for it to suddenly feel real, but she's made that mistake a few times with foster homes before they got rid of her, and she's very hesitant to do so again.
- Which isn't to say she doesn't turn on the charm if she wants something out of said sisters.
- Still has an excess of energy. Almost always moving, tapping her feet, swinging her arms, is basically only ever still when she's sleeping. Wanders around as much as she can.
- When she skips classes, it's usually because she got struck by a need to just move and is off on a walk before she even realizes what she's doing. She sometimes drags other students along.
- Born in Recollé.
- Sadly, brown hair instead of rose/pink.
- She is the youngest of the Takada sisters, a half-sister to Katherine and Lucy Takada. (They share a father.)
- Put into the foster system at age 3. Remembers almost nothing of her family from before then.
- Has bounced around foster homes for most of her life. Hasn't stayed in one for more than six months.
- When she was nine, she shared a foster home with her sister Lucy for several months. They were told that they were related, which was why Luna was put into the same home as Lucy. They bonded, somewhat, but then Lucy got into trouble with the police and was transferred to another home and they lost contact.
- Is 'on her way out' of her current home after a recent near-run-in with the police for shoplifting.
- Starting eighth grade in the fall. Goes to class...most of the time? Unless she doesn't feel like it.
- Passes all her classes by being smart enough to do the work/pass the tests without really having to put any effort in. Charms the teachers to forgive her for not showing up.
- Doesn't have a great time keeping friends. Doesn't make enemies or anything, just not a lot of friends.
- Is definitely driving some poor social worker to drink.
- Has something of a 'tween punk' clothing style.
- Spends a ton of time on twitter and tumblr and takes a million selfies. Has a decent following and her users think she's older. (Her profile claims she's sixteen.)
- Very little concern about personal space? Occasional shoplifting, definite trespassing. Has gotten caught for shoplifting twice but talked her way out of both times. Turns up where she's not supposed to be.
- Can pick locks!
- Reconnected with her sister, Lucy, a few months ago via an accidental internet coincidence, but they haven't spoken much.
- Does not know her sister Katherine exists. Yet.
- All people referred to in this AU have given permission to be referenced/used.
AU PERSONALITY:
- Luna is fairly close to Lumina as far as personality is concerned.
- Still sneaky, bratty and manipulative.
- Much like in canon, she's somewhat desperate for attention. Rather than being out of a need to prove she exists, this comes from a need to belong somewhere. Abandoned by her family, kicked out of numerous foster homes, Luna just wants to think people care.
- Even if she tricks them into it.
- Without the knowledge that she is part of something, even something as weird as being Lightning's emotions and holding Serah's soul, Luna lacks some of the self-confidence she projects during canon. This definitely magnifies her loneliness and tendency towards attention-whoring.
- She is, however, pretty good at faking that self-confidence. Especially on her twitter and tumblr. You'd think her life was grand, from the way she acts, even when she's talking about things like getting kicked out of a foster home or almost getting arrested.
- Has a tendency to make up stories to get people to want to hang out with her/feel for her.
- Manipulative. And awfully good at it.
- Basically she's a lying liar who lies. But not about anything really important. She just tells stories. Or says what she thinks people want to hear.
- She also really enjoys being mysterious, and putting on a kind of air that says she knows what's going on even if she doesn't. Without her actual deus-ex level knowledge from canon, this is mostly something she pulls off with other kids her own age.
- Has occasional fits of depression, usually right before she starts causing enough trouble to get removed from a foster home.
- Is not remotely above stealing if she needs/wants something, but prefers to convince someone to get whatever it is for her.
- Distant with her sister. She's somewhat distrustful of the idea of family at this point. She wants it to be a thing, she'd love for it to suddenly feel real, but she's made that mistake a few times with foster homes before they got rid of her, and she's very hesitant to do so again.
- Which isn't to say she doesn't turn on the charm if she wants something out of said sisters.
- Still has an excess of energy. Almost always moving, tapping her feet, swinging her arms, is basically only ever still when she's sleeping. Wanders around as much as she can.
- When she skips classes, it's usually because she got struck by a need to just move and is off on a walk before she even realizes what she's doing. She sometimes drags other students along.
AU Addendum.
Date: 2018-08-31 07:46 pm (UTC)She'll be Lucy's full sister instead of half now, and their original older sister isn't part of the AU anymore. She'll have been with their biological mom until she was five or six before being put into the foster system, where she ends up with her sister for a year or so before Lucy is sent away. Another year after that her mother is able to get her back from the system, having gotten her life back in order again, and Luna will live with her from then on.
Her personality is a bit less bitter and a bit more spoiled, and she's more prone to cheerful, teasing snark instead of her actual snark from before. And her fashion sense is more goth than punk kid it used to be.
Nothing much else is changing.