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Character: Lumina
Age: Physically 12, chronologically around 150
Canon: Final Fantasy 13: Lightning Returns
Canon Point: On Day thirteen, watching the last of the world die to the chaos, while waiting for Lightning to appear.
Background:
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.
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.
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 her 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.
Alignment: Daimonia - In spite of her insecurity and loneliness, at her core Lumina is actually a pretty happy kid. She's always laughing and pranking and playing and helping people. She's kind of like a walking bright spot...that tends to lie and trick people.
Other:
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Emotion Sample:
Lumina let out a little 'hup' as her teleportation deposited her a few inches above the grass in a field a few miles outside of the city of Verens, taking a few quick steps forward to catch her balance. She'd spotted the field (well, she'd spotted fields) from a perch back in the city, and decided some time away from the strange, massive place would probably be a good idea. Just to clear her head a bit and take stock and…
Well. Test something.
It had been about a few hours since she'd found herself in this bizarre new world, long enough to be sure that it wasn't the new world that Lightning had been planning for. But if that was true, then...what did it mean for her? Why was she actually here? Had some force in the universe decided to take pity on her before the chaos swallowed up the last little bit of Gran Pulse?
Probably not. But it was a nice thought.
But did that mean she was it? Had the world gone poof and she was the only one left? It was a lot to process. And it left so many questions...but at least she could try to answer one of them.
Her steps carried her to the middle of the field, looking around in a long, slow circle at all the grass before she picked a spot a few feet in front of her. Okay. She drew her hand up to her chest, balled into a loose fist, and concentrated. Around her feet the chaos suddenly swirled up, whirling around her, mixed with a shimmer of crystalline light that seemed to seep out from her hand and chest. She sucked in a breath, concentrating as the two mixed, and gestured.
The swirling shimmer of darkness and light shot forward to burst into a tiny nova, and for a few seconds, maybe five, nothing happened...and then this lovely fellow burst out of it, claws tearing into the dirt as darted away from the void that had spawned him, sniffing and growling at the air. Finally he turned to Lumina, regarding her for several seconds before he trotted over to plop down on the ground by her feet.
The pink-haired girl let out a breath she hadn't even realized she'd been holding, that came out more like a relieved laugh than actual air. It wasn't just her. Or it was but...but she'd brought a part of it with her? She'd never actually thought she'd cared that much but...but she knew that had always just been a lie.
"I guess it's not just me after all, huh boy?" She said as she leaned down to give him a scratch on the nose, which earned her a brief tail wag and a sniff at her fingers, which she yanked back before he could actually lick them. She let out a giggle that was almost a full laugh as she straightened back up and-
"Oh!" All around her, flowers had begun to bloom in the grass, had been doing so for a good thirty seconds or so and she hadn't noticed. Right from when she had felt that wave of relief and happiness at seeing her bizarre dog. She reached down to pluck one up, sniffing it, and then let out a slow breath, turning to watch more flowers springing up around her. So that's what they meant…
Questions: They never really touch on it in the game because time never actually passes, but once Lumina is in another world where time does move, I was hoping to have her age? Just at a normal human rate, but finally stop being twelve, if possible? Maybe someday she can even be thirteen? Haha.
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CHARACTER: 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.
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The girl with the heart of fool's gold.
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Chocobo Breeding Pairs.
As of February 25th, there are eleven pairs of breeding chocobos:
Common Breeds:
Boko(m) the Yellow Chocobo and Wark(f) the Yellow Chocobo:
- Hatched five eggs on February 28th, 2701.
- Green Hatchling to Alice. (Gift)
- Red Hatchling to Grell. (Gift)
- Red Hatchling to Mordred. (Sale)
- Black Hatchling to Ariadne. (Gift)
- Yellow Hatchling to ???
The Honorable Reginald C. Warkingsworth(m) the Yellow Chocobo and Lady Bethandria Cluckington(f) the Yellow Chocobo:
- No Eggs Yet.
Dawn(f) the Yellow Chocobo and Savior(m) the Green Chocobo:
- No Eggs Yet
Shiver(f) the Blue Chocobo and Burn(m) the Red Chocobo:
- No Eggs Yet
Momo(f) the Red Chocobo and Tara(m) the Green Chocobo:
- No Eggs Yet.
Ifrit the Red Chocobo(m) and Shiva the Blue Chocobo(f):
- No Eggs Yet.
Vanille the Red Chocobo(f) and Fang the Yellow Chocobo(m):
- No Eggs Yet.
Uncommon Breeds:
Midnight(f) the Black Chocobo and Sunset(m) the Purple Chocobo:
- No Eggs Yet.
Pulse the Black Chocobo(m) and Lindzei the Purple Chocobo(f):
- No Eggs Yet
Rare Breeds:
Serah(f) the white chocobo and Snow(m) the silver chocobo:
- No Eggs Yet.
Odin the White Chocobo(m) and Shimmer the White Chocobo(f):
- No Eggs Yet.
Common Breeds:
Boko(m) the Yellow Chocobo and Wark(f) the Yellow Chocobo:
- Hatched five eggs on February 28th, 2701.
- Green Hatchling to Alice. (Gift)
- Red Hatchling to Grell. (Gift)
- Red Hatchling to Mordred. (Sale)
- Black Hatchling to Ariadne. (Gift)
- Yellow Hatchling to ???
The Honorable Reginald C. Warkingsworth(m) the Yellow Chocobo and Lady Bethandria Cluckington(f) the Yellow Chocobo:
- No Eggs Yet.
Dawn(f) the Yellow Chocobo and Savior(m) the Green Chocobo:
- No Eggs Yet
Shiver(f) the Blue Chocobo and Burn(m) the Red Chocobo:
- No Eggs Yet
Momo(f) the Red Chocobo and Tara(m) the Green Chocobo:
- No Eggs Yet.
Ifrit the Red Chocobo(m) and Shiva the Blue Chocobo(f):
- No Eggs Yet.
Vanille the Red Chocobo(f) and Fang the Yellow Chocobo(m):
- No Eggs Yet.
Uncommon Breeds:
Midnight(f) the Black Chocobo and Sunset(m) the Purple Chocobo:
- No Eggs Yet.
Pulse the Black Chocobo(m) and Lindzei the Purple Chocobo(f):
- No Eggs Yet
Rare Breeds:
Serah(f) the white chocobo and Snow(m) the silver chocobo:
- No Eggs Yet.
Odin the White Chocobo(m) and Shimmer the White Chocobo(f):
- No Eggs Yet.
The Gran Pulse Chocobo Ranch
Nestled in a small valley off the road a few minutes north of Mair, the Gran Pulse Chocobo Ranch is a medium sized ranch consisting of several stable buildings and one medium sized mansion. Visitors are treated to chocobos wandering around the grounds as they arrive, and depending on the time of year, they may be accosted by a swarm of baby chocobos who love to play.
The mansion is the year-round home of the owner, Lumina, but it often sees visitors and friends coming and going as their travels take them to Mair. Rooms are set aside for Shijima, Hiro and Alice, and there is a small shrine to the Outsider in a dimly lit room on the lower floor.
Unseelie interested in purchasing a chocobo need only speak to one of the ranch hands, or Lumina herself, in order to arrange a purchase from the currently available hatchlings. Instructions on the best way to train them, as well as how to get them to access their magical abilities, can also be acquired.
Seelie who wish to purchase a chocobo will need to make their case to Lumina herself. And they will have to make it very, very well.
Information about Chocobos in the Drabworld!
Current Breeding Pairs at the ranch!
The mansion is the year-round home of the owner, Lumina, but it often sees visitors and friends coming and going as their travels take them to Mair. Rooms are set aside for Shijima, Hiro and Alice, and there is a small shrine to the Outsider in a dimly lit room on the lower floor.
Unseelie interested in purchasing a chocobo need only speak to one of the ranch hands, or Lumina herself, in order to arrange a purchase from the currently available hatchlings. Instructions on the best way to train them, as well as how to get them to access their magical abilities, can also be acquired.
Seelie who wish to purchase a chocobo will need to make their case to Lumina herself. And they will have to make it very, very well.
Information about Chocobos in the Drabworld!
Current Breeding Pairs at the ranch!
Chocobo Breeds and Abilities.
CHOCOBOS!
 | Yellow Chocobos! Breed: Common Price: Hatchling: 5 Gold Coins. Adult: 15 Gold Coins The standard and most common breed of Chocobo, Yellow Chocobos are known as Commando birds. They fight with beak and claw side-by-side with their riders, and learn various forms of Ruin magic to compliment their actions. Active Abilities: Attack- Self Explanatory Ruin- Non-elemental Impact Magic. Blitz- Wide-range physical attack. Ruinga- Non-elemental Area of Affect Impact Magic Passive Abilities: Minor Elemental Resistance Adrenaline Boost - A boost to strength during heightened moments of battle. Critical Boost - Significantly increases strength when near death. |
 | Green Chocobos! Breed: Common Price: Hatchling: 10 Gold Coins. Adult: 20 Gold Coins Another of the common Chocobo breeds, the green chocobo is primarily a support healer, keeping their rider alive in times of danger or peril. They learn various assist and healing magic. Active Abilities: Cure- Minor Healing Spell Curasa- Major Healing Spell Cheer- Temporary Morale Boost to Nearby Allies. Esuna- Removes Debilitating Magic. Raise- Raise ally from near-death. Passive Abilities: Minor Physical Damage Resistance Critical: Faith - Temporary boost to magical power when near death. |
 | Blue Chocobos! Breed: Common Price: Hatchling: 10 Gold Coins. Adult: 20 Gold Coins Blue Chocobos are classified as ravagers, magic users, specializing in Ice and Wind magic. They are not as resilient as other chocobos, but make up for it with their magical abilities. Active Abilities: Blizzard- Minor Ice Magic Blizzara- Medium Ice Magic Blizzaga- Major Ice Magic Aero- Minor Wind Magic Aerora- Medium Wind Magic Aeroga- Major Wind Magic Passive Abilities: Major Cold Resistance- Significant resistance to cold temperatures and ice magic. Resist Wind- Moderate resistance to wind and wind magic. Critical: Haste- Blue chocobos gain increased speed when near death. |
 | Red Chocobos! Breed: Common Price: Hatchling: 10 Gold Coins. Adult: 20 Gold Coins Red Chocobos are the magical counterpart to blue chocobos, learning fire and earth magic. They share their opposite's lack of resilience and affinity for magical strength. Active Abilities: Fire- Minor Fire Magic Fira- Moderate Fire Magic Firaga- Major Fire Magic Quake- Localized Earth Magic/Earth distortion. Passive Abilities: Major Heat Resistance- Significant resistance to fire magic and high temperatures. Minor Earth Resistance- Minor resistance to earth magic. ...Won't fall over in an earthquake? Critical: Haste- Receives a boost to speed when near death. |
 | Black Chocobos! Breed: Uncommon Price: Hatchling: 15 Gold Coins. Adult: 25 Gold Coins Black Chocobos are support-magic casters, focusing on magic that either causes their target injury or illness, or increases their susceptibility to other attacks. They are most useful when supporting spellcasters, and are used to distract and destabilize the enemy. Active Abilities: Wound- Non-elemental magic attack that inflicts minor cuts and bruises and causes bleeding. Woundga- Non-elemental magic attack that inflicts heavy cuts and bruises and causes bleeding. Imperial- Increases target's susceptibility to elemental magic attack. Pain- Non-elemental magic that causes intense pain. Endless Nightmare- Increases the damage and extends the duration of debilitating magic. Passive Abilities: Resist Debilitation- Black Chocobos have a strong resistance to illness and debilitating magic. Critical Painga- Casts a significantly more powerful Pain spell when near death. |
 | Purple Chocobos! Breed: Uncommon Price: Hatchling: 15 Gold Coins. Adult: 25 Gold Coins Purple chocobos take a support magic role, casting a wide variety of spells designed to aid their companions. They are primarily useful for supporting front line soldiers, with spells that increase defense, magic, strength and speed. Active Abilities: Bravery- Boosts attack power. Vigilance- Increases chance of resisting interruption during attack. Faith- Increases magical power. Endless Blessings- Increases the duration and strength of support magic. Passive Abilities: Moderate Damage Resistance- Resistance to physical attacks. Critical: Protect- Casts a protective barrier when near death. |
 | White Chocobos! Breed: Rare Price: Hatchling: 25 Gold Coins. Adult: 35 Gold Coins Much like green chocobos, white chocobos are healers. They are, however, a bit hardier and faster than green chocobos. They are more suited for supporting a group of people, rather than an individual rider. Active Abilities: Cure- Minor Healing Magic Cura- Minor Healing Magic to a group of people. Curasa- Major Healing Magic to a group of people. Esunada- Removes debilitating Magic from a group of people. Passive Abilities: Moderate Physical Resistance- Resistant to physical damage. Critical: Speed- Significant increase to speed when near death. (RUN AWAY!) |
 | Silver Chocobos! Breed: Rare Price: Hatchling: 25 Gold Coins. Adult: 35 Gold Coins Silver Chocobos are the 'tank' of the chocobo family. While they do not have much in the way of aggressive abilities, their magic is focused on keeping them alive while enduring tremendous amounts of damage. Active Abilities: Steelguard- Significantly boosts resistance to damaging attacks, both physical and magical. Provoke- A Provoking WARK that encourages enemies to attack the chocobo instead of others. Passive Abilities: Mediguard- The silver chocobo gradually heals from injury. Deathward- The silver chocobo can fight on at the brink of death. Critical: Vendetta- When near death, the chocobo will attack with a violent force, inflicting damage similar to what has been inflicted on it. |
 | Gold Chocobos! Breed: Extremely Rare Price: Golden Chocobos are not for sale. Much like the classic yellow chocobos, gold chocobos are front-line fighters, capable of standing with their rider against the enemy. However, while not being as strong or as fierce as their counterparts, they have one ability that makes these rare birds prized above all others. Golden Chocobos can fly. Active Abilities: Attack- Self Explanatory Ruin- Non-elemental Impact Magic. Blitz- Wide-range physical attack. Ruinga- Non-elemental Area of Affect Impact Magic Passive Abilities: Minor Elemental Resistance Critical Boost - Significantly increases strength when near death. |
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- Six imp compatriots! which follow Lumina around doing as she instructs and wearing her colors in facepaint and headdresses. They are basically her posse. Also the ability to summon two additional imps when she needs more than six of them!
- A black chocobo! His name is Chaos, he is full-sized and full-grown, and came with a saddle. He is capable of performing the magical spells of the Black Chocobo Sabateur from Gran Pulse. Her imps made him a set of battle claws to wear. He has a teddy bear carefully tied to his saddle, a gift to Lumina from Alice Lidell.
- Chocobo-morph! Once a month, Lumina can turn a person into a chocobo or a toramas for twenty-four hours.
- Two Untrained Yearling Chocobos! These guys are yellow chocobos and untrained!
- Chocobo books! Lumina has received a collection of beautiful books on chocobos! Ranging from training to fighting and everything in between!
- A Chocobo Ranch! - This comes complete with a modest manse. More details in the chocobo ranch post itself.
- Twenty chocobos!
- Bandersnatch added to her summons, once per day.
- Invisibility Hairclip - Turns the wearer invisible for six hours per day.
Accomplishments!
The Fall of the Lawkamercyme. Lumina spent her time defending Caer Scima, fighting the dogs with her summoned monsters and rescuing imps before they could get eaten. She also attempted to fight shadow Ariadne but mostly just wound up getting her cyclops eaten.
The Search for Feathers. Lumina hunted feathers, but mostly to see what kind of effects they had on her imps. She might have accidentally lit one on fire.
The Stolen Moon. Lumina 'defended' the moon, in so much as she turned up and wandered around annoying the seelie trying to get it back. She did make Captain America fight a dragon!
The Battle of Maupertius. Lumina stayed in the follower camp for most of the battle, as she isn't exactly built for outright combat. She did head there towards the end, in time to see Reynard explode, and briefly get a hold of one of his shards before it was given to Ganondorf.
The Hunt for Reynard. After Lumina had her deceit stolen by Reynard, she joined the others he had wronged in an attempt to get it back. While searching for Alice, she also went to the station with the outsider to find a piece of Reynard's heart. Later, she stole a shard and traded it to Reynard to get her lying back.
Quests
Two Stars - The death of Reynard.
Three Stars - The Hunt for the Daddywock - Lumina set off to find the father of the tragically murdered jabberwhelp, and succeeded!
Four Stars - Curing the Roc - Lumina was requested by Clarke to find a way to save the injured Roc that was flying around Nimh Gleaane, which forced her to do some unpleasant things. But she succeeded!
- Six imp compatriots! which follow Lumina around doing as she instructs and wearing her colors in facepaint and headdresses. They are basically her posse. Also the ability to summon two additional imps when she needs more than six of them!
- A black chocobo! His name is Chaos, he is full-sized and full-grown, and came with a saddle. He is capable of performing the magical spells of the Black Chocobo Sabateur from Gran Pulse. Her imps made him a set of battle claws to wear. He has a teddy bear carefully tied to his saddle, a gift to Lumina from Alice Lidell.
- Chocobo-morph! Once a month, Lumina can turn a person into a chocobo or a toramas for twenty-four hours.
- Two Untrained Yearling Chocobos! These guys are yellow chocobos and untrained!
- Chocobo books! Lumina has received a collection of beautiful books on chocobos! Ranging from training to fighting and everything in between!
- A Chocobo Ranch! - This comes complete with a modest manse. More details in the chocobo ranch post itself.
- Twenty chocobos!
- Bandersnatch added to her summons, once per day.
- Invisibility Hairclip - Turns the wearer invisible for six hours per day.
Accomplishments!
The Fall of the Lawkamercyme. Lumina spent her time defending Caer Scima, fighting the dogs with her summoned monsters and rescuing imps before they could get eaten. She also attempted to fight shadow Ariadne but mostly just wound up getting her cyclops eaten.
The Search for Feathers. Lumina hunted feathers, but mostly to see what kind of effects they had on her imps. She might have accidentally lit one on fire.
The Stolen Moon. Lumina 'defended' the moon, in so much as she turned up and wandered around annoying the seelie trying to get it back. She did make Captain America fight a dragon!
The Battle of Maupertius. Lumina stayed in the follower camp for most of the battle, as she isn't exactly built for outright combat. She did head there towards the end, in time to see Reynard explode, and briefly get a hold of one of his shards before it was given to Ganondorf.
The Hunt for Reynard. After Lumina had her deceit stolen by Reynard, she joined the others he had wronged in an attempt to get it back. While searching for Alice, she also went to the station with the outsider to find a piece of Reynard's heart. Later, she stole a shard and traded it to Reynard to get her lying back.
Quests
Two Stars - The death of Reynard.
Three Stars - The Hunt for the Daddywock - Lumina set off to find the father of the tragically murdered jabberwhelp, and succeeded!
Four Stars - Curing the Roc - Lumina was requested by Clarke to find a way to save the injured Roc that was flying around Nimh Gleaane, which forced her to do some unpleasant things. But she succeeded!
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( CHARACTER INFORMATION )
- ★ NAME: Lumina
- ★ AGE: Physically twelve, chronologically 150…or…so…?
- ★ CANON & CANON POINT: Lightning Returns: FFXIII – On Day 10, after Lightning has finished the majority of her quest and Lumina is basically killing time until the world ends/trolling helping Lightning.
- ★ CANON INFORMATION: Lumina
on FFWiki
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.
- ★ 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 (which hasn’t happened for her yet) 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.
- ★ COURT ALLIANCE: While Lumina could probably fit into either court with the right point of view, I’m going to lean towards Unseelie. At the end of the day, Lumina is a being of chaos and whimsy and disorder. She loves causing it, spends most of her life being mischievous and sneaky and tricking people. Granted, she’s often doing this for their own good, but not all the time. She’s not evil, but she probably wouldn’t be welcome in a court of order.
She is unlikely to ever directly involve herself in the conflict between the two courts, though. Lumina is very much a free agent, doing whatever she likes for whatever reason happens to pop into her head.
- ★ 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 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.)
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. For the purposes of being in a game, these creatures would fade away a few minutes after Lumina stops paying attention to them, or they are killed.
- Red Lightning – Lumina can create bursts of destructive red lightning, but does not do so often. 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 shatter a large chandelier with it.
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.
- ★ INVENTORY: The gothic-Lolita outfit she is wearing. Nothing else, really.
- ★ NAME: Lumina
- ★ AGE: Physically twelve, chronologically 150…or…so…?
- ★ CANON & CANON POINT: Lightning Returns: FFXIII – On Day 10, after Lightning has finished the majority of her quest and Lumina is basically killing time until the world ends/
- ★ CANON INFORMATION: Lumina
on FFWiki
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.
- ★ 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 (which hasn’t happened for her yet) 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.
- ★ COURT ALLIANCE: While Lumina could probably fit into either court with the right point of view, I’m going to lean towards Unseelie. At the end of the day, Lumina is a being of chaos and whimsy and disorder. She loves causing it, spends most of her life being mischievous and sneaky and tricking people. Granted, she’s often doing this for their own good, but not all the time. She’s not evil, but she probably wouldn’t be welcome in a court of order.
She is unlikely to ever directly involve herself in the conflict between the two courts, though. Lumina is very much a free agent, doing whatever she likes for whatever reason happens to pop into her head.
- ★ 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 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.)
Because of this chaos, she has several different powers.
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- 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. For the purposes of being in a game, these creatures would fade away a few minutes after Lumina stops paying attention to them, or they are killed.
- Red Lightning – Lumina can create bursts of destructive red lightning, but does not do so often. 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 shatter a large chandelier with it.
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.
- ★ INVENTORY: The gothic-Lolita outfit she is wearing. Nothing else, really.
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Lumina is a creepy, manipulative little chaos child, and as such she enjoys messing with people quite a bit. She will play pranks on them or try to trick them, especially if she thinks it is for their own good!
She also has the ability to summon monsters and shoot red lightning and pop up unexpectly through her teleporting. Usually at just the wrong moment!
So if you would like to avoid all of this, let me know!
She also has the ability to summon monsters and shoot red lightning and pop up unexpectly through her teleporting. Usually at just the wrong moment!
So if you would like to avoid all of this, let me know!
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Ruby City: IC Contact
Hey! This is Lumina. I didn't feel like answering, I guess, but if you say something fun, maybe I'll call you back.
No promises~