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❀ Aerith Gainsborough ❀
HEY THERE, THEY CALL ME AERITH AND I'M CURRENTLY TWENTY-TWO YEARS OLD. I'M FROM THE WORLD OF GAIA WHERE I AM A FLOWER MERCHANT. I GO FOR GUYS AND I WILL THROW MY WEIGHT BEHIND NEUTRAL. ------------------------------------------------- |
[/size]STAFF: Her weapon of choice. Aerith uses a large staff to fight and help cast her materia. Her particular staff is more like a
rod. It is long and wooden, save for each of the staff's ends. They are embellished with metal and decorated slightly.
❀WHITE MATERIA: a powerful Materia on Gaia. It is counterpart to the Black Materia. Both are unique, there being only one of each. The White Materia is used to speak directly with the Planet and once the Planet receives the message, the Materia glows green. On gaia, it is used only once to summon the "Ultimate White Magic," Holy, which summons the full power of the Planet to protect the continuation and harmony of life.
❀PINK RIBBON: As important to her as the materia in her hair, the pink ribbon in her hair was given to her by someone special to her. She is never seen without the ribbon.
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Abilities: [/size]HEALING WIND: Heal up to 3 allies (including herself) from minor wounds. Can be used once every 2 posts.
❀PLANET PROTECTOR: Effects up to 3 allies (including herself). This ability causes the affected to become "invincible" in some ways. It renews a parties fighting drive and boosts the parties defense. This lasts for 2 posts with a cool down of 2 more posts.[/ul]
Personality: Aerith possesses a cheery outlook on most things, although that is not to say she is constantly happy or even in a good mood. For all her good qualities she has her fair share of imperfections. She can be arrogant and hard headed, driven by her own feelings and what is right to her. Due to her mishaps with ShinRa way back when (mainly the Turks) Aerith taught herself how to take care not to get caught and also could fight if the need arose. Because of this she became extremely independent. She did not nor never will need someone else to fight her battles for her.
She is well tuned with nature, being a Cetra is the main cause of this. Sometimes she claims to hear the wind call her and even has a small fear of open sky. Aerith is definitely someone who knows what she wants most of the time. She is best described as strong and independent. She might even get offended at times when people assume she cannot protect herself.
History: Aerith was born to Ifalna and Professor Gast Faremis in Icicle Inn on February 7th, 1985, making her half-human and half-Cetra. When she was barely twenty days old Professor Hojo tracked Gast down, killed him, and captured Ifalna and Aerith. The two became subject to numerous experiments at the hands of Hojo and Shinra as they researched the Cetra.
Seven years later, in 1992, Ifalna and Aerith escaped the Shinra Headquarters, but Ifalna was wounded and only made it as far as the train platform in the slums under Sector 7 before she collapsed. Elmyra was there to wait for her husband's return from the Wutai War and before passing, Ifalna asked her to keep Aerith safe and so Elmyra brought Aerith home with her.
For years Elmyra raised Aerith alone as her daughter in the slums of Sector 5. Shinra eventually relocated her, and Tseng of the Turks, who considered Aerith a friend, attempted to persuade her to join Shinra willingly instead of capturing her, but Aerith refused. At the time, the Wutai War was still waging and ate up most of Shinra's resources, which meant that the Neo Midgar project - the project Shinra primarily wanted Aerith for - was put on hold. As Aerith grew she continued to hear the Planet speaking to her, and although she was reluctant to admit it, she was aware of her heritage as a Cetra and tried hard to hide it.
As she grew up, Aerith spent a great deal of time in the Sector 5 Church. Due to the Mako Reactors draining the life out of Midgar and the surrounding areas, little could grow in the area. Regardless, Aerith managed to cultivate a Flower patch out of the dirt under the church's floorboards.
A fifteen-year-old Aerith first meets Zack Fair when he falls into her church from the Sector 5 Reactor. When he awakens, Zack at mistakes being in heaven and Aerith as an angel, but she quickly corrects him. As a repayment for saving him, Zack suggests a date, but Aerith brushes him off. She shows him around, and Zack buys Aerith her trademark pink hair ribbon. The two go to the Sector 6 park and Aerith tells Zack she is afraid of SOLDIER members, as they frighten her for being experiments who love to fight. Zack says he is from SOLDIER, and she apologizes.
To break the awkward silence, Aerith says his eyes are beautiful. Zack lets her have a closer look, and as they draw nearer, Aerith becomes aware of their close proximity and pushes him for teasing her. Zack comments that his Mako eyes are like the sky. Aerith smiles and says they are "not scary at all". Tseng calls Zack back to the Shinra Headquarters, but he promises to see Aerith again.
Aerith and Zack continue to speak frequently over his cellphone and see each other for the next two years, and after Angeal's death, Zack returns to the church and Aerith holds him as he cries. Zack suggests that Aerith sell flowers to make money, as flowers are rarely seen in Midgar and are a luxury item. Aerith is reluctant to sell flowers above the plate, as the open sky frightens her. Zack constructs flower carts for her to sell from, and the two head out to the slums to sell flowers, although it does not go well. Aerith asks Zack for "a few tiny wishes", and Zack has her write them down for him on a piece of paper. This is the last time the two would see each other, as later that day Zack is dispatched to Nibelheim with Sephiroth. In the years after Aerith overcomes her fears and begins venturing above the plate to sell flowers.
On August 9th, 0002, the Turk meets Aerith coming out of her house, surprised by the blooming flowers. Aerith tells the Turk she wishes to leave Midgar to see the world, as she can hear the wind calling to her. AVALANCHE arrives searching for her, and the Turk helps Aerith evade them.
Eventually Shears defeats the Turk and Aerith is taken to her church to meet the leader of AVALANCHE, Elfé. Elfé tells Aerith AVALANCHE wants to bring down Shinra and protect the Promised Land, and it would be in her best interests to ally with them. Aerith hears an "old voice" coming from Elfé, inadvertently leading to the discovery of the Turk spying on them from the rafters. After the Turk battles Shears and Fuhito, Elfé is stricken by a sudden weakness, and AVALANCHE retreats. Tseng arrives and the Turk allows Aerith to flee while they distract him.
When Zack escapes Shinra custody years later, the final Angeal Copy who was left watching over Aerith when Zack left Midgar leaves behind a letter from Aerith as it fades. As Zack reads it he finds out Aerith has been doing well selling flowers in Midgar, and during the four years of his disappearance she has written Zack eighty-nine letters, though he never receives the rest of them. Tseng is in possession of the letters and sends the Turks to find Zack before the Shinra army so they can save him and deliver them, but the Turks ultimately fail.
Aerith is seen tending the flowers in the church, turning and looking towards the sky and clasping her hands. It is at this time, outside Midgar, that Zack is gunned down by Shinra forces. Almost as if she sensed his death.
On December 9, 0007, Aerith meets Cloud as he flees from the bombing of the Sector 1 Reactor. Cloud purchases a flower from her as he continues to run. Later, after a failed attack on the Sector 5 Reactor, Cloud falls into the church and wakes up on the flower bed.
Reno of the Turks comes to apprehend Aerith and Aerith asks Cloud to become her bodyguard, offering him a date as payment. Cloud helps Aerith escape and takes her home, but sneaks out during the night to return to Sector 7 alone. Aerith heads him off and Cloud agrees to bring her along. Taking a break in the playground, the pair see Tifa on a chocobo cart, and assume Don Corneo has kidnapped her.
Through an idea of Aerith, she and a crossdressed Cloud infiltrate the Don's mansion and try to rescue Tifa, who reveals she did not need rescuing in the first place, and was trying to get information on Shinra from the Don. Don Corneo tells them Shinra has learned where AVALANCHE's base of operations is, and is planning to drop the plate covering the sector to destroy the entire area. The party's attempts to stop Shinra fail, and Aerith is captured by Tseng while taking Barret's daughter Marlene to safety.
Cloud, Tifa and Barret attempt to rescue her from the Shinra Headquarters, but are captured themselves. Aerith's heritage is made known to them, and during their captivity, Sephiroth manifests through the remains of Jenova to attack Shinra, the group's cells opening in the process. Traveling with Cloud and his friends as they pursue Sephiroth, Aerith becomes close to them, and following a visit to Cosmo Canyon, fully comes to terms with her powers and duties as the last Cetra.
The party tracks Sephiroth to the Temple of the Ancients, and Aerith uses her innate powers to help decipher the temple's mysteries and find the inner chamber. Sephiroth reveals his plan to use the Black Materia to call Meteor, the ultimate Black Magic. The temple itself transforms into the Black Materia, but Sephiroth manipulates Cloud into giving it to him. When Aerith attempts to stop Cloud, he attacks her and then passes out. While he is unconscious, Aerith contacts Cloud in a dream, and tells him that as the last Cetra only she can stop Sephiroth. When Cloud awakens, Tifa and Barret tell him Aerith is gone. Cloud follows the clues she had given him in the dream to the Forgotten Capital.
In a temple underneath the city, the party finds Aerith praying on an altar. As Cloud approaches her Sephiroth attempts to take control of him to make him kill her, but Cloud is able to resist him. As Aerith finishes praying and lifts her head to see Cloud, Sephiroth, still using Jenova's body as a vessel transformed into his likeness, descends from the ceiling and impales her with the Masamune. Aerith collapses into Cloud's arms as her hair ribbon unravels, her Materia bouncing off the altar into the water below. Enraged, Cloud turns on Sephiroth, who detaches a part of Jenova's body to fight Cloud, transforming it into Jenova∙LIFE. After Jenova∙LIFE is dispatched and the party pays their respects to Aerith, Cloud carries her to the pool of water in the center of the city and lays her body to rest beneath the water. Reeve later brings the news of her death to Elmyra Gainsborough and consoles her.
It is later that her friends realize the reason she was praying that day was to obtain Holy, the ultimate white magic that can defend the planet against Meteor which would be called by the white materia which was worn in her hair. It is learned that Aerith succeeded in calling it only Sephiroth was blocking it's power. Once they killed Sephiroth the meteor had already gotten too close to Gaia and Holy's power struggled to fend the meteor away. Within the Lifestream, Aerith commands it to emerge from the Planet and push the Meteor back. This gives Holy the room and time it needed to fully focus it's energy. January of 0008, Holy and the Lifestream destroy Meteor and save the Planet.
After that Aerith helps her friends numerous times from the Lifestream.
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