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Character info
Series/Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Character's Name: Aerith Gainsborough
Character's Sex: Female
Character's Age: About 22ish?
Canon point: After sending her 89th and final letter to Zack.
Abilities:
As for abilities, Aerith has a few things going for her! First and foremost, Aerith has several white magic spells that she can execute. She's good with them! As it stands with her canon point, these will be things she'll be learning in the game. She's pretty weak right now.
Another thing all Final Fantasy VII characters have is the Limit Break. These are activate when a character has taken enough damage, and is a super special attack or status buffer that helps the party. Aerith's are primarily healing. Again, this will be something she will learn in game.
... As well... She can speak with plants! |D
Strengths:
Aerith really doesn't have anything she draws strength from other than her heart and people she cares about. Like stated above, her strengths really rely on her white magic abilities, which tend to originate from her Cetra heritage. Other than that, nothing really buffs her up physically.
Weaknesses: Plain and simple, physical attacks. As a 'white mage/summon' type, Aerith has a distinct predisposition to taking hard hits. At least she has limit breaks, right? Other than that, Aerith is a mostly normal human, with mostly normal human habits.
Background:
Here is some history! Specifically the Crisis Core area C: Appearance:
Isn't she just precious? Personality:
Aerith is one of the most positive and upbeat people in the group Cloud leads. She attempts to constantly cheer up her fellow teammates. She is generally very happy, and happiest when she is with the people she cares about. She tends to be dependent on people, yet at the same time, very independent in the sense that once she makes up her mind, she will do something. She upholds the idea that she can take care of business herself. Aerith, being of big heart, goes out of her way to help sometimes.
Yet under this confident and upbeat persona, there is an almost wistful air about her. Aerith is known to be honest, but always kept her heritage a secret, along with everything that went along with it. The planet speaking to her, the uncanny ability to grow flowers, unique healing... Obviously something is special about this girl, but she's never been forthcoming about it.
She is generally very sweet and pretty charismatic, making friends quickly. Afterall, she somehow got close to Cloud--one of the most anti-social bastards to walk the planet! She seems pretty content to stay around and care for her flowers though. She treasures them, and knows it is due to her Cetra blood that they bloomed. Flowers tend to comfort Aerith and calm her down if she's stressed or scared. Aerith is a very dedicated woman, as proven by the four years of waiting and 89 some odd letters she sent to Zack. She will stick to her cause until she sees it to what she sees as completion.
At this point in her canon, Aerith has not yet embraced her Cetrian roots, and considers herself alone, being the last of her kind. She also has a fear of the sky, though, with Zack's help, she has been overcoming it, enthusiastic to spread flowers all over Midgar.
Another mentionable trait of the flower girl is how perceptive she can be. She can tell when people or even animals are down. Paired with her persistence and boldness, she will call this out and attempt to cheer the person up. She seems to become much more brave after Zack’s last dispatched mission as she ventures onto the upper plate to sell flowers.
Aerith seems to be a little bit of a tease, never having given a straight answer as to whether she and Zack ever went out on a date, though, by all context, it looks like it. She has a distinct like of the man for his excitableness, and slight weirdness. She tends to avoid fighting as much as possible.
Strengths:
Personality wise, Aerith can not be beaten in terms of strengths. Her cheerful upbeatness has the power to bring happiness to those around her. Aerith is the type of person that friends want to be happy around. She puts off a good energy to everyone around. Her determination and kind-heartedness make her a real friend.
Aerith's strength lies in the determination she has to keep her friends and people she cares about safe. The biggest example of this is when she decides to go pray for the Holy Materia on her on and inevitably is slain by Sephiroth. Though this has not happened yet in her canon point, the will to do such things is still there.
Weaknesses:
Aerith's biggest weakness is her current fear of the world above. Though she is working through it, her fears of SHINRA, the SOLDIER, and the open sky ultimately hold her back. And who could blame her, bring raised in a lab like she was. Aerith also tends to get wrapped up in other people's business. For example, when a slums boy steals Zack's wallet, she makes it her (And unwillingly Zack's) mission to find out why. This, eventually, might lead her to trouble.
Samples
Action/Journal Sample:
Oooh, it has a video mode too? This is much fancier than what I had at home... [Aerith seems to be in decent spirits, considering what she'd just learned about her home world. ... Though, that's not something everyone can see at the moment... As the video is facing the wrong way. There's a quick ku-po! in the background.]
O-oh, like this? [Oh hello there everyone! Have a pretty young lady and her almost somber smile.]
Hel-looo? Can everyone hear me? My name is Aerith Gainsborough. I've just arrived here...
[She seems to be awkwardly searching for what to say, as if she wants to comfort the people here.]
I was... really happy when I saw that there are some beautiful flowers that remind me of home. These ones, in particular... [She points the feed down to some small yellow ones.] They're a symbol of good will and hope.
[The video turns back to Aerith again.] So... please don't give up hope, okay?
RP Sample:
She woke up to silence. Not... like the silence the average person wakes to. But silence from the planet below her. It... was a strange feeling to say the least. Of course those voices that spoke to her were unsettling, even scary sometimes, and the range of emotions that the planet willed her to was frightening... But having it turn up missing one day? That was even more so unsettling... She didn't open her eyes for a few moments or more, being almost too afraid to see where she was exactly.
It most certainly wasn't home... Nor did it have the antiqued wood smell of the old church...
Finally, she decided to open her eyes. What she saw certainly startled her. This wasn't home. This wasn't normal. The girl rose onto her feet and leaned back against the nearest wall. Okay... Okay! No... not a big deal. She'd simply ask a local person what exactly this place was...
It wasn't long before, like clockwork, one of the moogles came by and handed her the money, the communicator, and that hotel key.
"What... what are these for?"
It didn't take too long to explain but, but much much longer to comprehend it. It meant that... everything was gone. Eaten by darkness. Aerith is
"They'll come back one day... right? If I have hope?"
She lifts her head and offers a little smile. "It doesn't do me much good to be sad then, does it?"
Have you read the rules & F.A.Q.s? YES, YES I HAVE. Did I mention I have a love for things like walks on the beach, ice cream, and stars? You know. Like Paopu? C: