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− | '''Serah Farron''' is a character in the ''Final Fantasy XIII'' series. She is the younger sister of heroine [[Lightning]] and fiancée of [[Snow Villers]]. |
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− | In the first game, she is a minor character that needs to be rescued in the beginning and gets crystallized throughout the rest of the game, only to be freed in the end. |
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+ | '''Serah Farron''' is a supporting character in ''Final Fantasy XIII'' and the protagonist of ''Final Fantasy XIII-2'', who also appears in ''Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII''. She is [[Lightning (Final Fantasy XIII)|Lightning]]'s younger sister by three years, and [[Snow Villiers]]'s fiancée. Lightning accuses Snow of failing to protect Serah and does not initially approve of their relationship. |
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− | Next, in the sequel, she has become a major character and fights alongside time-traveler [[Noel Kreiss]] into finding Lightning and stop Caius from completing his plan. While doing so, she eventually gets futures of the future at the cost of her lifespan decreasing; as a result, she dies in the end after seeing a vision that Caius' plan has succeeded despite being dead. In Lightning's DLC episode, she appears as a spirit to Lightning, telling her despite of getting visions of the future at the cost of her lifespan, she still chooses to save the timelines. |
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⚫ | She wears cat-shaped earrings representing NORA, a rebel group to which her fiancé belongs. She wears a black armband on her right bicep like Lightning, red plaid-pleated skirt lined with black lace, a white sleeveless dress shirt, a semi-transparent pink sweeper vest, an extra matching hair tie on her left wrist, black thigh-high stockings with a white diamond shape attached to the top of her left stocking, ivory ankle boots, and a bandage on her left bicep to cover her l'Cie brand. She wears an engagement pendant in the shape of Cocoon after receiving it from Snow. |
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− | She is voiced by Laura Bailey in English. |
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⚫ | In ''Final Fantasy XIII-2'', Serah wears a revealing form-fitting dress of white, reddish-pink, and gold consisting of a white top, pink sections on the front and back connecting the top to the skirt over black shorts, cut-out sides at the waist, crisscrossing pink straps on the sides of her torso, and two straps that go over her shoulders into a cross-back shape. She wears a storage pack on her right hip that hangs from her waist, pink and black thigh-high leggings, and purple ankle boots. The outfit mysteriously appears on her while she sleeps just before the first paradox manifests. |
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⚫ | Serah retains her earrings and engagement necklace, and wears a pink choker, short pink sleeves under gray gloves that have gold ornaments, and gold armbands one in the shape of a bird that rests on her left bicep where her l'Cie brand used to be. Similar to Lightning's use of a gunblade that can switch between gun and sword, Serah wields a bowsword, though its true form is that of her new mooglecompanion, Mog. The symbol on the front of Serah's dress is also on Lightning's shield. Etro script is written on both symbols, the blades of Serah's weapon, the back of her dress and her storage pack. The script on Serah's outfit translates to: ''Witness to Times Forgotten — Restorer of Lines Disjointed''. |
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− | + | Serah is mature and wise, and cares deeply for those around her. Despite the grave circumstances, she stays positive and believes in a better future as long as she has her friends by her side. |
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+ | In the three years that have passed in ''Final Fantasy XIII-2'', Serah is emotionally scarred by past events but she retains her strong and caring personality. Serah is a strict grade school teacher with a short temper, and like Lightning, can be scary when angered, which earned her the nickname "Meanie Miss Farron". Serah can hold her own in battle despite not having much prior experience in combat. She is determined to save the future despite learning of the peril it could put her in. |
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− | In the three years that have passed, Serah retains her strong and caring personality, showing concern for Noel's well-being, sometimes offering him words of advice and encouragement, and willing to look out for him as he does for her. Serah is now a grade school teacher, and according to her students, is strict and has short temper; she does not tolerate tardiness or misbehavior of any kind, and can be scary when angered, hence her nickname, "Meanie Miss Farron". |
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⚫ | Two days later, PSICOM Purges Bodhum's residents and transports the Vestige to be destroyed. Both Lightning and Snow make their way through the Hanging Edge to the Vestige to save Serah. Serah tells Lightning to save Cocoon and crystallizes, leaving behind a crystal tear for Snow. Snow believes Serah will awaken, but Lightning believes her to be dead. After Lightning, Snow, and the new companions they met during the Purge—Vanille, Hope and Sazh—are turned into l'Cie by Anima, the Vestige falls into Lake Bresha, crystallizing it on impact. |
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+ | Serah becomes part of the crystallized lake and the others abandon Snow, who stays behind to try and free her. She is brought aboard the ''Lindblum'' along with Snow when he is captured by Fang and Cid Raines' troops, the Cavalry, a rogue army regimen that seeks to free Cocoon from the fal'Cie rule. What happens to Serah's crystal from now on is unknown, but Snow and Fang rendezvous with the other l'Cie, forcing Snow to leave Serah behind. |
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− | Serah says she is strict because her own teacher was, and that Lightning must have "rubbed off on her". In the Sunleth Waterscape 400 AF, she uses her experience as a teacher to scare a pack of destructive Miniflan back in line. As noted by Snow in Episode Zero -Promise- and later by Noel, Serah resembles Lightning whenever mad or serious, appearing nice at first but can become intimidating in an instant. Serah shows she can hold her own in battle, with or without Noel, despite not having much experience in combat. |
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+ | On the ''Palamecia'', the Cocoon fal'Cie's leader Barthandelus tells the group that Serah's Focus was to "assemble the tools for Cocoon's destruction", or lure them inside the Vestige to be branded l'Cie with the task of destroying Cocoon. This revelation cripples Snow, who until that point had believed their Focus was to save Cocoon as Serah asked. |
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+ | After defeating Cid Raines in the Fifth Ark, revealed to be a l'Cie branded by Barthandelus, and observing him enter crystal stasis despite going against his Focus, Snow emerges from his depression and vows to follow Serah's wish to save Cocoon. In the Sulyya Springs on Gran Pulse, Vanille reveals to Snow that Serah saw the same dream of Ragnarok they did—meaning Barthandelus must have lied about Serah's Focus—and reasons that Serah beat her Focus by putting Cocoon's fate in their hands. |
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− | Serah was born three years after her sister, Claire. Their father died while they were young, and their mother had died of an unknown illness when she was twelve. Being orphans with no family left to turn to, Claire took it upon herself to raise Serah and changed her name to Lightning. Since then Serah had looked up to her sister as her guardian. |
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⚫ | 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 returns to Cocoon and treks through Eden, Barthandelus tells them he is holding Serah and Sazh's son, Dajh, hostage. In Orphan's CradleBarthandelus destroys an illusion of the crystallized Serah to unnerve Snow and Lightning. After Orphan is destroyed and Vanille and Fang transform into Ragnarok to halt Cocoon's descent by forming a crystal pillar to support it above Pulse, Serah wakes up from 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. |
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− | However after Lightning graduated from high school, she joins the Guardian Corps. Bodhum Security Regiment and lost sight of her goals, working many hours while spending little time with Serah. |
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+ | At first, Serah had no combat training, making her an inapt fighter and henceforth being the only NORA member who could not defend herself and thus not participating in the vigilante group's heroic acts directly. However, after receiving proper training, she quickly proved herself to be a natural, having much more fighting prowess than she ever thought she wielded, swiftly mastering the use of many weapons. Wielding her bow-sword, she displays combat skills seasoned enough to be on par with Noel Kriss, a time-traveler with years of experience, despite lacking much combat experience, although she is not on par with Lightning or Caius due to their far greater experience and training, but has been seen to put up a reasonable fight against Caius alone and alongside Noel, she could best him. |
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+ | Serah wields remarkable talents in Magic, having more magical prowess than Noel, with her stat growth emphasizing magic. Her elemental magic aptitude is great, learning all the elemental spells while particularly specializing in Fire and Thunder magics. Although her medical magic talents are not on par with Noel, she still learns the necessary level of Cure and even has Esuna and Raise. She has greater aptitude in the debuffing magics than Noel, learning all the spells and their highest level. However, she lacks the enchantment spells, only learning four while Noel learns them all. |
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− | She became part of the crystallized lake and Snow remains behind, in an attempt to free her, while the others left. Both Serah's crystallized body and Snow are brought aboard the Lindblum, after they were captured by Fang and Cid Raines' troops, the Cavalry. |
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+ | Serah, like Lightning, is shown to be decent in all the roles. She majors highly in Ravager and Saboteur, as not only is she as equally magically able as a Ravager as Noel is, she also learns passive abilities of the role to increase damage while Noel doesn't and her abilities as a Saboteur is far more formidable than Noel, as not only does she learn all the spells, but she also can use it's passive ability while Noel only knows a few magic and can't use the passive ability. While not able to learn Cura and Curaja, having all the other healing spells and her higher magic and faster casting speed allows her to potentially surpass Noel in the field. Although she is not as proficient in the Synergist role, she is still able to function fairly well due to her higher magic and also learning half of the spells. She can use monster crystals to summon them (via the Paradigm Pack), provided that she defeats them. |
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− | On the Palamecia, the Cocoon Fal'Cie's leader Barthandelus reveals that Serah's focus was to "assemble the tools to bring about Cocoon's destruction", or lure them inside the Vestige to be branded l'Cie with the task of bringing about destroying Cocoon. The truth cripples Snow, who believed that Serah wanted the opposite. After the team defeat Cid Raines in the Fifth Ark, and watched on as he enter a crystal state, despite going against his Focus, Snow comes out of his depression, and still wants to carry out Serah's wish to save Cocoon. In the Sulyya Springs [[Vanille]] tells Snow that what Barthandelus said about Serah's Focus, must have been a lie, and believes that Serah beat her Focus by putting the fate of Cocoon in their hands. |
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⚫ | Serah is an agile fighter, jumping while firing her bow, which is likened to her sister's fighting style. Her strongest attack is the Ultima Arrow, an Ravager skill that can fill the enemies chain gauges with a flurry of attacks. Her weapon is the Starseeker, her moogle Mog transforms into the bowsword. She'll act accordingly, depending on its form and distance, as a Commando (with the paradigm set to "Cross"), Serah will attack using the sword. |
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− | == Powers and Abilities == |
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− | Serah starts out with the Commando, Ravager, and Sentinel roles. She majors highly in Ravager and Saboteur, and is a good Medic, due to her high magic stats and faster casting speed than Noel's. However she is not a proficient Synergist, only learning a few spells for that role. |
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− | While not as experienced as Lightning, she is able to hold her own with or without Noel, despite not being a seasoned combatant. |
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+ | * [[w:c:finalfantasy:Serah Farron|Serah Farron - Final Fantasy Wiki]] |
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Revision as of 22:35, 3 May 2020
“ | Running away and leaving behind the people you care about? That isn't love. Though you might just want to keep them safe, shutting them out of your life only hurts them more. The point is, I have people I can count on. I'll make it through. | „ |
~ Serah to Vanille |
Serah Farron is a supporting character in Final Fantasy XIII and the protagonist of Final Fantasy XIII-2, who also appears in Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. She is Lightning's younger sister by three years, and Snow Villiers's fiancée. Lightning accuses Snow of failing to protect Serah and does not initially approve of their relationship.
Appearance
Serah has the same pink tint of hair Lightning has. She ties her hair into a ponytail on the left side of her head, much like how Lightning's hair is draped over her left shoulder. Serah has blue eyes like her sister, although Serah's are a darker shade.
She wears cat-shaped earrings representing NORA, a rebel group to which her fiancé belongs. She wears a black armband on her right bicep like Lightning, red plaid-pleated skirt lined with black lace, a white sleeveless dress shirt, a semi-transparent pink sweeper vest, an extra matching hair tie on her left wrist, black thigh-high stockings with a white diamond shape attached to the top of her left stocking, ivory ankle boots, and a bandage on her left bicep to cover her l'Cie brand. She wears an engagement pendant in the shape of Cocoon after receiving it from Snow.
In Final Fantasy XIII-2, Serah wears a revealing form-fitting dress of white, reddish-pink, and gold consisting of a white top, pink sections on the front and back connecting the top to the skirt over black shorts, cut-out sides at the waist, crisscrossing pink straps on the sides of her torso, and two straps that go over her shoulders into a cross-back shape. She wears a storage pack on her right hip that hangs from her waist, pink and black thigh-high leggings, and purple ankle boots. The outfit mysteriously appears on her while she sleeps just before the first paradox manifests.
Serah retains her earrings and engagement necklace, and wears a pink choker, short pink sleeves under gray gloves that have gold ornaments, and gold armbands one in the shape of a bird that rests on her left bicep where her l'Cie brand used to be. Similar to Lightning's use of a gunblade that can switch between gun and sword, Serah wields a bowsword, though its true form is that of her new mooglecompanion, Mog. The symbol on the front of Serah's dress is also on Lightning's shield. Etro script is written on both symbols, the blades of Serah's weapon, the back of her dress and her storage pack. The script on Serah's outfit translates to: Witness to Times Forgotten — Restorer of Lines Disjointed.
Personality
Serah is mature and wise, and cares deeply for those around her. Despite the grave circumstances, she stays positive and believes in a better future as long as she has her friends by her side.
In the three years that have passed in Final Fantasy XIII-2, Serah is emotionally scarred by past events but she retains her strong and caring personality. Serah is a strict grade school teacher with a short temper, and like Lightning, can be scary when angered, which earned her the nickname "Meanie Miss Farron". Serah can hold her own in battle despite not having much prior experience in combat. She is determined to save the future despite learning of the peril it could put her in.
History
Two days later, PSICOM Purges Bodhum's residents and transports the Vestige to be destroyed. Both Lightning and Snow make their way through the Hanging Edge to the Vestige to save Serah. Serah tells Lightning to save Cocoon and crystallizes, leaving behind a crystal tear for Snow. Snow believes Serah will awaken, but Lightning believes her to be dead. After Lightning, Snow, and the new companions they met during the Purge—Vanille, Hope and Sazh—are turned into l'Cie by Anima, the Vestige falls into Lake Bresha, crystallizing it on impact.
Serah becomes part of the crystallized lake and the others abandon Snow, who stays behind to try and free her. She is brought aboard the Lindblum along with Snow when he is captured by Fang and Cid Raines' troops, the Cavalry, a rogue army regimen that seeks to free Cocoon from the fal'Cie rule. What happens to Serah's crystal from now on is unknown, but Snow and Fang rendezvous with the other l'Cie, forcing Snow to leave Serah behind.
On the Palamecia, the Cocoon fal'Cie's leader Barthandelus tells the group that Serah's Focus was to "assemble the tools for Cocoon's destruction", or lure them inside the Vestige to be branded l'Cie with the task of destroying Cocoon. This revelation cripples Snow, who until that point had believed their Focus was to save Cocoon as Serah asked.
After defeating Cid Raines in the Fifth Ark, revealed to be a l'Cie branded by Barthandelus, and observing him enter crystal stasis despite going against his Focus, Snow emerges from his depression and vows to follow Serah's wish to save Cocoon. In the Sulyya Springs on Gran Pulse, Vanille reveals to Snow that Serah saw the same dream of Ragnarok they did—meaning Barthandelus must have lied about Serah's Focus—and reasons that Serah beat her Focus by putting Cocoon's fate in their hands.
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 returns to Cocoon and treks through Eden, Barthandelus tells them he is holding Serah and Sazh's son, Dajh, hostage. In Orphan's CradleBarthandelus destroys an illusion of the crystallized Serah to unnerve Snow and Lightning. After Orphan is destroyed and Vanille and Fang transform into Ragnarok to halt Cocoon's descent by forming a crystal pillar to support it above Pulse, Serah wakes up from 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.
Powers and Abilities
At first, Serah had no combat training, making her an inapt fighter and henceforth being the only NORA member who could not defend herself and thus not participating in the vigilante group's heroic acts directly. However, after receiving proper training, she quickly proved herself to be a natural, having much more fighting prowess than she ever thought she wielded, swiftly mastering the use of many weapons. Wielding her bow-sword, she displays combat skills seasoned enough to be on par with Noel Kriss, a time-traveler with years of experience, despite lacking much combat experience, although she is not on par with Lightning or Caius due to their far greater experience and training, but has been seen to put up a reasonable fight against Caius alone and alongside Noel, she could best him.
Serah wields remarkable talents in Magic, having more magical prowess than Noel, with her stat growth emphasizing magic. Her elemental magic aptitude is great, learning all the elemental spells while particularly specializing in Fire and Thunder magics. Although her medical magic talents are not on par with Noel, she still learns the necessary level of Cure and even has Esuna and Raise. She has greater aptitude in the debuffing magics than Noel, learning all the spells and their highest level. However, she lacks the enchantment spells, only learning four while Noel learns them all.
Serah, like Lightning, is shown to be decent in all the roles. She majors highly in Ravager and Saboteur, as not only is she as equally magically able as a Ravager as Noel is, she also learns passive abilities of the role to increase damage while Noel doesn't and her abilities as a Saboteur is far more formidable than Noel, as not only does she learn all the spells, but she also can use it's passive ability while Noel only knows a few magic and can't use the passive ability. While not able to learn Cura and Curaja, having all the other healing spells and her higher magic and faster casting speed allows her to potentially surpass Noel in the field. Although she is not as proficient in the Synergist role, she is still able to function fairly well due to her higher magic and also learning half of the spells. She can use monster crystals to summon them (via the Paradigm Pack), provided that she defeats them.
Serah is an agile fighter, jumping while firing her bow, which is likened to her sister's fighting style. Her strongest attack is the Ultima Arrow, an Ravager skill that can fill the enemies chain gauges with a flurry of attacks. Her weapon is the Starseeker, her moogle Mog transforms into the bowsword. She'll act accordingly, depending on its form and distance, as a Commando (with the paradigm set to "Cross"), Serah will attack using the sword.
Like Paddra-Nsu Yuel, Serah can see visions of the future (even cases such as Lightning's battle in Valhalla, but was left wondering was it real or a dream). However the more she changes the timeline, the closer she comes to death.
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Trivia
- The inscription on Serah's Starseeker, in Etro's script reads "The light that pierces the enveloping gloom of time, and illuminates the truth".
- During one scene in Valhalla's shadow, Serah and Caius are seen back to back, similar to a moment with him and Lightning in Valhalla.
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