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[illuminas]

Name: Megan
Contact Info: mercurialfelines or flufflekittens@gmail.com!
Other Characters Played: Eugene Fitzherbert (Tangled, panhandled)
Requested apartment: N/A

Character Name: Lumina (also Claire Farron, technically)
Canon: Final Fantasy XIII series (only appears in Lightning Returns)
Canon Point: Near the end of Lightning Returns, before Lumina is reintegrated into Lightning near the very end.
Background/History: Wiki link!

Personality:

"I swear that child is a demon." It's no wonder that the patron of Yusnaan thought that of the tiny trickster girl, though many of the other citizens of Nova Chrysalia apparently make light of her penchant for mischief. Her interactions with Lightning are less "mischievous" and more "randomly antagonistic", however, but that may be because Lumina is a part of Lightning; the part she rejected in order to be what she considered strong. Lumina has a skill for sticking her nose where it doesn't belong, in the name of help. And while some of her meddling does have a golden lining (she procures the coffer of souls so that Sazh can restore his son's soul, as well as points out that he needs to be less sad and mean if he wants his kid to return) there are somethings you just have to go "what the hell, Lumina" (such as when he purposely gives Noel an oracle drive with a fake prophecy of him killing Lightning...) though it's likely that Lumina sees even her more... rude stunts as "helpful" in their own way. She's very much a big picture person over little details.

And Lumina does mean to help-- well and have fun, as she states herself. She is far from a normal child, and clearly considers it her job to in particular check-in on Lightning's friends (including being there when Fang and Vanille were freed from crystal, pestering Snow enough that he thinks she's a demon, etc) while Lightning was, y'know, missing for five hundred years. That said, Lumina has a habit of seeing the world and the people in it as her playthings, so to speak. While she has a desire to help others, she is very playful and incredibly unpredictable. When she appears to Lightning, it's usually to taunt her or summon monsters for the Savior to fight. Despite her clear dislike of God (aka Bhunivelze), it could be said that she has a habit of playing God herself-- or, no. Rather, she plays snack-sized guardian angel. The residents of Nova Chrysalia seem to regard her mischievous antics lightly. To be fair, who could hold anything against such a sweet face? (Snow Villiers didn't seem to be a fan, but it could be that it's the weird resemblance to his dead fiancée throwing him off. Or that Lumina has just been a brat to him.)

While not a normal child, she is a child. Having fun is clearly a priority, even if it's followed closely by whatever tangled up help she gives others. She is easily amused, not surprising since she often has the upper hand. Some of her "helping" antics barely seem that at all-- giving an oracle drive with a false prophecy to kill Lightning to a guy, trying to convince Lightning to kill Snow to put him out of misery-- but they are. Lumina has a good understanding of those around her, of the humans that she toys with most. Of course, by that time she had been running around for five hundred years, so it's not entirely amazing. Though she seems to be the only one who's gotten anything done in all that time, even if most of it could be summarized as "general mayhem and mischief".

Lumina is the part of Claire Farron that Lightning wanted to be rid of-- "I'm Claire Farron. Her selfishness, her loneliness, her fear. That little bit of your soul that you couldn't accept." And these are the traits that make up Lumina's core; a selfish, lonely, and scared child. Lumina is not Lightning and Lightning isn't Lumina, but both of them are Claire Farron. Both of them care for the same people, in particular Claire's sister Serah. It's no real wonder that Lumina toys with Lightning like a cat with a mouse, considering that she knows the woman best and could be a bit hurt by Lightning essentially tossing her away like trash-- and she only reintegrates once Lightning realizes she doesn't want to be sucked into the Chaos and left alone, in other words once Lightning sucks it up and stops trying to reject her emotions.

Abilities/Powers:

• Lumina is not human. She's essentially the repressed emotions of Claire Farron. She looks human, feels human, but has special powers and can dance around in the chaos without being, y'know, disintegrated. She isn't some immortal being, however, and likely has no other special traits/powers than as listed here.
• Teleportation, appears/disappears with a flash of light.
• Monster summoning. She canonly only summons a couple of different monsters, it is unknown what her "range" or stock of monsters for summoning is.
• Chaos. Chaos in the FFXIII world is force that destroys everything it touches. However, humans all have a piece of chaos in their soul-- it could be said that this is what Lumina is made of. She walks through it unharmed and refers to the monsters it can spawn as her "friends".

Items/Weapons: Aside from her clothes, Lumina comes with Lightning's Crimson Blitz sword, which she broke; and nothing else because she doesn't have three items to choose from. :|

Sample Entry:

[ A young girl with a mischievous grin and pink hair appears on screen. She gives a small wave of greeting, then directs the camera's phone over to where the convenience store and Pyramid Head lie. She's fairly far away from him, obviously, since otherwise she would be shredded by now. ]

Now, I'm quite curious-- what's this thing supposed to be? It's not a person, I don't think... [ Is it a plant/mineral/animal, then. ] I'd ask it myself, but! I saw someone try that. It didn't seem to go too well.

[ She means someone got ripped to pieces by it; "didn't seem to go too well" is an understatement. ] Is there a way to approach it without it wanting to rip me up?

[ It may be prudent to advise the small child to not approach the murderous triangle-headed thing guarding the store. Or perhaps just drag her away from the area, since she doesn't seem to take seeing someone get ripped to shreds as much of a warning to STAY AWAY. ]

Sample Entry Two:

She could hear Lightning call out, and she'd been coming to her... now all she heard was the beep of some machine. There's a moment of fear, of sharp loneliness until she hears the rustling noises of other people in the room. They may be strangers, but somehow not being all alone is enough to calm her. A clock is going off. Sitting upright and swinging her legs over the side of the bed, she looks around until she finds the source. Then she casually gets up and turns it off. There, that's better.

Lumina doesn't linger long in her apartment before she goes out to inspect her new surroundings. Humming pleasantly, she isn't panicking like some people seem to be. In fact, she isn't horribly concerned at all. Yes, she doesn't want to be here. But she is, so might as well have a bit of fun while she figures a way out, right? And figuring a way out requires exploring! Apparently, anyway, since Lumina has never been in such a situation before. It's just a bit fascinating to her. Just a bit.

After a walk, she finds herself in front of the black, deep Void. She stares into it, curious. "This isn't like the Chaos, is it?" That's not said to anyone in particular; she's just musing aloud. "No, not at all. What is it, then?"

She's half-tempted to jump in and find out, but thinks better of it. If it isn't Chaos, there's no telling what might happen if she were to leap in. She might not even be able to teleport out, and that'd be terribly troublesome.