Serah Farron

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[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 400px; height: 380px; background-image:URL(http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy284/brooklynlolli/x0r3w0.png); border-left: 10px solid #1e1e1e; border-right: 10px solid #1e1e1e;] Serah Farron HEY THERE, THEY CALL ME SERAH AND I'M CURRENTLY 21 YEARS OLD. I'M FROM THE WORLD OF COCOON WHERE I AM A SCHOOL TEACHER. I GO FOR SNOW AND I WILL THROW MY WEIGHT BEHIND THE ACADEMY. ------------------------------------------------- Weapon: Serah uses the Moogle her sister gave her as a weapon, Mog can transform into a sword for close combat, and a bow for ranged combat. Outside of combat he’s a normal Moogle who helps Serah find hidden items, tracking down artefacts and such. Abilities: Magic: Serah is a strong magic user who mainly focuses on Black Magic and Debuffs. Her White Magic is somewhat limited, so she focuses mainly on offensive spells to get her through tough battles. Physical Combat: Although not nearly as strong as Lightning, Snow or Noel, Serah can handle herself surprisingly well in close combat. Must be those Farron genes kicking in. Eyes of Etro: After being released from her crystal stasis, the goddess Etro granted her her sight. Since then, she’s been able to see visions of the future. Personality: Serah is a friendly but somewhat shy young woman who tends to keep her deepest thoughts and secrets to herself. She’s not anti-social, she is simply an introvert who doesn’t feel the need to share every single detail about how she’s feeling at any given time. Although this may make her seem meek and docile, Serah very clearly carries the Farron genes as well, and she is said to bear an eerie resemblance to Lightning when she’s angry or annoyed. Although it may be hard to believe, she can be a real demon at times, as her students will eagerly confirm… so long as Meanie Miss Farron isn’t standing nearby enough to overhear them. Although she’s matured a lot over the years, Serah used to be quite naïve to the world around her, despite her intellect. These days, she’s more outspoken and displays more extroverted personality traits, but deep down, she hasn’t changed all that much, and most people still see her as shy. Serah’s a wise and rational girl, but still has moments of weakness where even she gets overwhelmed by emotions, such as her regrets and feelings of guilt over what happened to her back in Bodhum, and how it lead to her loved ones being placed in a dangerous situation. Though unable to forgive herself for that one event, she has an easier time forgiving others for deeds that might’ve overshadowed her own. History: Serah was born three years after her elder sister, Lightning, and looks up to her as she is her guardian, since their parents died when the sisters were young. Serah was about to attend the university in Eden when she fell in love with Snow during her summer vacation, much to her sister's dismay. Serah was interested in studying history, and the local landmark, the Pulse Vestige, got her attention. One day, Serah found a door leading inside the Vestige and ventured into the ruins where she was chosen by the Pulse fal'Cie, Anima , that was entombed inside the Vestige. Serah awakens outside and notices a l'Cie brand on her upper left arm. She tries to rub it off and her fear causes her brand to advance. Serah had a dream of transforming into Ragnarok and destroying Cocoon, but initially did not realize it was her Focus. Four days later, Serah tells Snow they are breaking up because she had been branded a Pulse l'Cie and tells him is he is her enemy now. Snow refuses to abandon her and offers to aid her in figuring out her Focus. Two days later, Serah meets Oerba Dia Vanille after the latter scrapes her leg on the beach. Serah listens to Vanille's problem about wanting to apologize to someone but never finding the words. Serah tells her if things are too much to deal with she should face it later, because things are easier to judge from a distance. She tells Vanille about her nightmare of destroying the world, and how she tried to run away from it, but because Snow come after her, she knows she will get through the mission with help from her friends. Since it was her fault Serah was made a l'Cie, Vanille apologizes to Serah, but Serah, not knowing of Vanille's involvement, does not understand. On the next day, Serah goes out with Snow to find a birthday present for Lightning. Snow slips away and buys engagement necklaces for them while Serah buys a survival knife to protect Lightning while she is on duty. Serah attends the fireworks festival where Snow proposes to her, which she accepts. Serah tells Snow she wishes she had the courage to tell Lightning she has become a l'Cie, but he tells her that their engagement is bigger news. Serah and Snow kiss amidst the fireworks display, and she begins to cry, silently thanking Snow. The next day, Serah and Snow tell Lightning about her becoming a l'Cie, and their engagement. This infuriates Lightning who believes Serah is lying as an excuse to marry Snow. Serah and Snow attempt to seek the council of the fal'Cie in the Bodhum Vestige, but since PSICOM discovered the fal'Cie the night before, the town has been quarantined and the Vestige is off-limits. While riding on an aero bike Serah jumps onto a ledge on the Vestige and becomes trapped by a silver liquid substance that pulls her into the Vestige as the fal'Cie's prisoner. During the Purge, both Lightning and Snow make their way through the Hanging Edge to the Vestige to save Serah. Lightning finds her unconscious outside Anima's Throne, and Serah awakes. Serah tells Lightning to save Cocoon and crystallizes, leaving behind a crystal tear for Snow. This bewilders the group, as turning into a crystal means the l'Cie has completed their Focus. Snow believes Serah will eventually awake, but Lightning believes her to be dead. As PSICOM launches its assault on the Vestige, Snow and Lightning use their bodies to shield Serah from falling debris. The doors to the fal'Cie opens and Snow tells Serah to hang on before going to confront Anima. After the party is turned into l'Cie themselves, the Vestige falls into Lake Bresha, crystallizing it on impact. When the others find her, Serah has become part of the crystallized lake. Lightning, Vanille, Hope and Sazh abandon Snow, who stays behind to try and free Serah. She is brought aboard the ''Lindblum'' along with Snow when he is captured by Fang and Cid Raines's troops. On the ''Palamecia'', Barthandelus tells the group Serah's Focus was to "assemble the tools for Cocoon's destruction", or lure them inside the Vestige to be branded l'Cie. This cripples Snow, who until that point had believed their Focus was to save Cocoon just as Serah asked. After meeting Cid Raines and observing him entering crystal stasis despite going against his Focus, Snow's spirits rise and he vows to follow Serah's wish to save Cocoon. In the Sulyya Springs, Vanille reveals to Snow that Serah saw the same dream of Ragnarok they did, meaning Barthandelus must have lied to the group about Serah's Focus. Vanille reasons Serah beat her Focus by stating, "I think she beat it. She handed Cocoon over to us, and that's what made her turn to crystal." In Oerba, Barthandelus uses Serah's guise to try and trick the party into turning into Ragnarok, but they see through the illusion. As the party goes through Eden, Barthandelus tells them he is holding Serah and Sazh's son Dajh hostage. In Orphan's Cradle, Barthandelus destroys an illusion of the crystallized Serah to unnerve Snow and Lightning. After Orphan is destroyed and Vanille and Fang sacrifice themselves to keep Cocoon from crashing into Gran Pulse, Serah wakes up from her crystal sleep and reunites with Snow and Lightning. Serah forgives Lightning for not believing her, and Snow begins to plan for their wedding, with Lightning congratulating the pair. After reuniting with Lightning and the others, Serah contemplates seeing Cocoon from the outside for the first time, and what she can do now that she is back to normal. She and Snow talk about rebuilding on Gran Pulse and saving Vanille and Fang. Serah asks Vanille what she is dreaming about within the crystal pillar, revealing she knows about Snow staying with her at Lake Bresha since he carried her crystal tear, enabling her to hear him and see what he saw. Serah theorizes the dreams people have in crystal stasis vary since Dajh told her about his dream of playing with chocobos. After saying good-bye to Dajh and after Hope runs off to reunite with his father, Serah decides to become a school teacher and educate children on why Cocoon fell. She wants to tell them their side of the story, and help them grow up into adults who can think for themselves. Shortly after, she discovers Lightning is nowhere to be seen. Due to the corrupted timeline and Lightning being removed from history, only Serah remembers the original course of events. Two years after Lightning's disappearance, having yet to marry, Serah and Snow live together in the village of New Bodhum. Serah has learned to use magic and works as a grade school teacher. One day Snow leaves to search for Lightning, but a year goes by and Serah never hears back from him. One night Serah has a dream about Lightning fighting a mysterious man within a strange world. A crystal meteor crashes outside of town and she awakens to find her clothes magically changed. The town is ravaged by monsters and Serah is saved by Noel Kreiss, a boy she saw in her dream. Noel gives Serah a moogle that can transform into a weapon and says Mog is a gift from Lightning, who now resides in Valhalla, and that she has asked him to bring Serah there. The meteor is actually a Time Gate and the next day Serah and Noel search the town for an artefact to activate it. Serah, Mog, and Noel enter the Time Gate and travel through the Historia Crux, the crossroads of the time continuum, coming out in the Bresha Ruins at 5 AF. The ruins are affected by a paradox that causes a giant monster known as Atlas to appear in the area. With the help of an Academy scientist, Alyssa Zaidelle, Serah and Noel solve the paradox and the Bresha Ruins are restored. While activating another gate in the area, Serah has a vision of Ragnarok crystallizing Cocoon but hides this from Noel. Their next destination, Yaschas Massif 10 AF, is darkened by a solar eclipse due to a paradox. They meet Hope Estheim who tells them a tribe of Farseers ruled by a seeress used to live in the ruins and the seeress named Yeul had the ability to see the future and foretold the nation's destruction. Hope shows them the Oracle Drive, which shows grainy images of Lightning in Valhalla. Hope believes the paradox affecting the area is also affecting the Oracle Drive, and gives Serah and Noel an artefact to help them resolve the problem. After taking a gate to Oerba 200 AF, Serah, Mog and Noel find another Oracle Drive at an old schoolhouse that projects various images of Serah's reunion with Lightning. They are interrupted by Caius Ballad and Yeul, with Serah recognizing Caius as the man she saw battling Lightning in her dream. Yeul stops Caius from killing them, and warns them that changing the future also changes the past. With the paradox in Oerba solved, Serah, Noel and Mog return to Yaschas Massif in 1X AF, an alternate reality in which the eclipse never occurred and Hope never met them. Yeul appears and gives Serah a cryptic message, saying they are the same in how they can 'show others the way'. Serah and Noel repeat their introduction to Hope who shows the now clear images of Lightning in Valhalla with the Oracle Drive. The Oracle Drive shows images of Cocoon falling at Caius's hand, and Noel says Cocoon fell centuries before his birth, and the world fell into ruin. Serah says they must change the future and Hope decides to help them with everything he and the Academy do in the present time. Serah and Noel use the gate in the Pass of Paddra and emerge in the Void Beyond. As Serah begins to doubt of them ever finding Lightning, Noel reassures they are one step closer to Lightning with each Time Gate they pass through. Traveling to the Sunleth Waterscape 300 AF, Serah clutches her head in pain and recites Yeul's prophecy about Cocoon's fall as though possessed. She has a vision of Snow about to be killed by a giant flan. Serah finds Snow half-conscious, Noel comes to their aid, and they fight off the flan together. As the monstrous flan reforms itself after its defeat, Serah pulls a resistant Snow to safety. She introduces Noel and Snow to each other before explaining to the latter why they are there. Snow says Lightning appeared to him in a dream telling him to protect Cocoon's crystal pillar from the giant flan and Serah and Noel decide to help him by resolving the paradox that makes the flan grow. After Noel and Serah defeat the faeryl in Archylte Steppe and stop Royal Ripeness from growing, they return to the Sunleth Waterscape and find Snow nowhere in sight despite his promise to wait for them. They find him struggling in front of the giant flan and after defeating it for good, Noel yells at Snow for being reckless. After Snow entrusts Serah's safety to Noel he begins to glow, as he is doomed to disappear after the paradox affecting the area has been resolved. Serah tries to hold onto him and notices a Pulse l'Cie brand on his arm before he fades away. Noel theorizes Snow asked to become a l'Cie to protect people. Serah decides it is her turn to save Snow and make sure they meet again someday. Back in the Void Beyond, Noel asks if Serah has had any more dreams and explains the Farseer tribes had a girl with the same appearance and power who is always called Yeul. In Academia 400 AF, Serah, Noel and Mog witness numerous citizens transform into Cie'th. They are confronted by what appears to be Caius, who threatens to kill them for tampering with the timeline. Caius says they were killed as a result of learning a forbidden history sealed within a tower two hundred years in the past and have now appeared before him alive, a paradox in itself. Serah and Noel find Yeul under attack by Cie'th. After dispatching the Cie'th, Noel holds Yeul in his arms and Serah despairs, because her and Noel's actions have determined the fallen Yeul's fate. Yeul dies and leaves behind an artefact that enables Noel, Serah, and Mog to use a nearby Time Gate. Yeul said Caius wasn't in the city, leading Serah to wonder if she and Noel met an imposter. In Augusta Tower, 200 years before the events at Academia, Noel and Serah learn Hope had created a Proto fal'Cie to keep Cocoon airborne without its pillar. They meet an artificial duplicate of Alyssa and learn that Hope, Alyssa, and other scientists were killed in the tower 187 years ago at 13 AF, and duplicates of them were created to hide the truth. On the tower's top level they find Yeul, who gives them an artefact and implores them to protect time. She reveals Caius is an immortal Guardian and retains memory of all timeline events and says Lightning disappeared because the future had changed and if Serah and Noel solve the paradoxes the past will return to how Serah remembers it. Yeul tells them the Caius from Academia was a deception made by a sentient machine within the tower, then implores they show her a new future. Noel, Mog and Serah enter a battle against the Proto fal'Cie Adam who keeps reviving itself whenever defeated. Serah charges Adam while shouting at Hope about his machines "driving her nuts" and just before she impales Adam's crystal, the fal'Cie disappears into thin air. Serah has another vision of the future and blacks out. Through the next Time Gate, they emerge into an alternate Academia in 4XX AF where the city is peaceful and the Proto fal'Cie was never created. They meet Hope and Alyssa and learn Hope scrapped the idea for the Proto fal'Cie after seeing Serah yelling at him through the Oracle Drive. Hope had devised the New Cocoon Project before he and Alyssa went into the future in a time capsule he invented. Hope explains his man-made Cocoon will be made airborne through the use of Graviton Cores. After bringing Hope the cores needed, Alyssa gives Serah and Noel an artefact to open a new gate in the city. Promising to meet Hope and Alyssa again in the future, Serah, Noel and Mog enter the Historia Crux but get separated. Manipulated by Caius, Alyssa gave a booby-trapped artefact to Noel and Serah, betraying them to save herself from disappearing due to being a paradox herself. Caius uses the Time Gate to separate Serah from Noel into different areas of the Void Beyond, with Mog's soul removed from his body. Finding several apparitions of Yeul, Serah learns she is a seeress chosen by Etro and how on the Day of Ragnarok the goddess released her and the others from crystal stasis. The last Yeul warns Serah that she brings herself closer to death the more she changes the timeline before transforming into Caius who reveals it was the miracle Etro gave to Serah and the others that condemned Yeul. Caius stabs Serah through her back, chaos from her body. Serah awakens in New Bodhum wearing her old clothes, surrounded by NORA. When she finds Snow, he claims Lightning never disappeared and has been living with them ever since they got married. Serah finds Lightning on the pier who says that Serah changed history, making it possible for her to come back. Serah almost believes her but remembers the real Lightning is fighting in Valhalla and needs her help, and that she can't abandon Noel and her friends. Serah refuses to comply and Lightning is engulfed in chaos. Vanille and Fang are able to contact Serah as they are all trapped in a dream, and help Serah escape her dream world by opening a portal where Serah can find Noel. Serah emerges in a desolate world under a red sky and finds him, but he does not acknowledge her. Realizing she is in Noel's dream, Serah follows him as he interacts with Caius and Yeul along, and witnesses a duel between Noel and Caius where the latter emerges the victor, and sees Yeul die in Noel's arms, leaving him all alone. As he is being pulled off the ground towards a light in the sky, Serah grabs hold of his arm and he remembers her. Noel tells Serah if they change history in a big way it will cost Serah her life, but Serah chooses to continue onwards as it is what Lightning wants, and if they fix the timeline quick enough she won't have to see the future for long. Mog's soul is freed from the Void Beyond and he brings new information from Lightning about Caius. Caius used to be a Pulse l'Cie tasked with the Focus of protecting Yeul and was saved by Etro and made immortal, watching over the seeresses for centuries, and is using his knowledge of their visions to warp the timeline as he pleases. They come out of a spacetime distortion into New Bodhum at 700 AF that is now a wasteland. Serah opens a portal on the beach, and Lightning emerges before them, saying they are in a future she failed to save. After Lightning explains everything to them, Serah theorizes Caius's plan is to turn the world into a timeless world like Valhalla. Lightning says they will need to go to the year 500 AF where Caius plans to destroy both the old and new Cocoons. She has Mog reveal a new Time Gate and as Lightning leaves, Serah asks if they will be together once everything is over, but Lightning only says, "One thing at a time, Serah." In Academia 500 AF they fight Caius as Chaos Bahamut. Caius warns Serah that even if she saves the future, she will not survive to see it. Serah tells Caius she knows each change in the timeline threatens her life but she doesn't care. A wormhole tears open the sky and Caius flies into it, Serah, Noel and Mog following close behind. They fall out into Valhalla and engage Caius on the beach. After Noel strikes him down, Caius transforms into Jet Bahamut and fires an attack upon them and they are sent falling into an abyss of light under Valhalla's waves of chaos. Lightning saves them by pulling them towards the surface for the final battle. Afterward, Noel repeatedly refuses to obey Caius's demands to kill him. When Caius claims he killed Lightning Serah is shocked, but Noel says Caius is lying. Caius stabs himself with Noel's blade and as Caius's body fades away, Serah believes he had wanted to return to Valhalla to die so he could end Yeul's cycle of rebirth. A series of gates appear throughout Valhalla and Mog says the final paradox has been resolved and he doesn't sense Lightning anywhere in Valhalla. Serah worries Caius had really killed her, but Noel reassures Lightning will be with the others since they fixed the timeline. Serah, Noel and Mog return to Gran Pulse at 500 AF, where they see the new Cocoon named Bhunivelze afloat in the sky and the gate to Valhalla close. With their journey now over, Serah thanks Noel but has another vision of the future and dies in his embrace. After her death, Serah's spirit is bound by chaos before Etro's throne in Valhalla as Lightning helplessly watches. Disembodied spirits of Yeul tell Lightning that Serah will remain with them until the end of time and fade into darkness. While Lightning mourns her sister's death, Serah's spirit appears to her on Etro's throne. Serah explains she was aware of her eventual death yet continued on her journey because she made a promise to herself she would not stop until they were together and has no regrets. Within a void full of light, Serah embraces Lightning. As she fades away, Serah asks Lightning not to forget her, and promises they will see each other again. - Credit goes to Final Fantasy Wiki, because obviously I didn’t write this massive amount of text myself. ;D

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Back on Cocoon, a subject similar to her situation now had come up in a philosophy class. It was about knowing when and how you were going to die in the future, the question had been whether you’d want to know it or choose to remain ignorant about it, you also had to explain your reason for choosing one over the other. Back then, Serah had chosen that she wanted to know, because if she knew, at least she’d always know how much time she still had. She could properly plan her future with that piece of information in mind. Others had told her that it would be a great burden to know that you only had a certain amount of time left before you bit the dust, but the pinkette had honestly believed that the positives outweighed the negatives. Now that she could actually see the future however, she took back everything she’d said during that class, no more than three years ago now. Seeing the future was really horrible, especially if you only saw one point in time, and not all the events leading up to that point. It made you feel powerless and useless, because what use was it to know that something bad was going to happen, but be unable to prevent it from happening because you didn’t know the events leading up to it?

Even after she’d told Noel about her vision, she couldn’t bring herself to actually look at him. Serah knew he wouldn’t think badly of her for not knowing what to do here, after all, he’d known Yeul in his own time, and Yeul suffered from the same fate she did. He knew there was nothing she could do about her visions. But still… even if he didn’t think badly of her, it didn’t mean she didn’t think badly of herself. She wanted to help these people so badly; protect them from whatever was going to happen to them, but she couldn’t, and that was more frustrating than anything she’d ever had to deal with in the past. Even dealing with everyone telling her Lightning was dead when she knew for a fact that she was alive somewhere hadn’t been so bad compared to this. Noel agreed with her suggestion of trying to warn everyone, and that made her feel at least a little better about this whole situation. If they could get even a few people to listen to them and heed their warning, that was already better than doing nothing. Saving even one or two people meant they had actually tried to fix whatever mess they’d gotten themselves into this time. Serah was about to suggest they split up and warn as many people as were willing to listen to them, but before she could finish her sentence, she felt a sharp, foreign pain in her left arm. As soon as she felt it, something told her that what she had seen in her vision was about to happen, right here, right now. This was just the start.

“N-No...” she whispered fearfully when Noel approached her with his question, before her attention was drawn to the man that had just passed her by. And it wasn’t just him; whole groups of people were caught up in whatever was causing this sudden mutation. They changed into what could only be Cie’th right before her eyes, and there was nothing she could do to stop it. She was too late… had she acted sooner, some of these people might’ve been able to escape in time to avoid this horror. But despite feeling tears of sorrow begin to well up in her eyes, Serah had no time to dwell on her fears and regrets. The people she’d failed to save had become mindless monsters, and those monsters lusted for blood, both the blood of their former neighbors and friends as well as Serah and Noel’s. She couldn’t stand around and mope, she needed to fight. She needed to make sure that the people who hadn’t been turned wouldn’t fall victim to those who had. Those Cie’th couldn’t be saved anymore, but the others still had a chance. Noel had the same thought, because even before Serah had a chance to react, he was already running forward to deal with the first Cie’th that happened to be running in their direction. The pinkette followed his lead and grasped her bow after Mog had transformed into it. Without really wasting any time, she started to shoot her arrows at the ones Noel had already targeted. With their joined effort, the Cie’th went down in a distorted and miserable fashion, which only served to make Serah feel even worse about all of this. There was nothing human left inside those things, was there? They truly were lost to them. Serah quietly obeyed when Noel told her to step back, but when she’d reached a safe distance, she started shooting again – this time adding extra power to her attack by fueling them with magic – to make sure they couldn’t come too close to them. Even if they did get up in their faces, at least the arrows would’ve weakened them enough that Noel could take care of them without having to use too much effort. They needed to spare their strength for the next wave, which was sure to come.

As her eyes scanned the battlefield for enemies, Serah spotted more innocent people just suddenly turning into these horrific creatures… what was doing this? “Noel! We need to find out what’s causing this, otherwise they’re gonna keep coming!” or that seemed to be the case anyway, since more and more people kept getting turned, seemingly out of nowhere. But something, somewhere had to be doing this. They needed to find that source, because even if they had experience fighting, neither Noel nor Serah would be able to keep fighting forever.