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User Info: Lelouch You didn't read the manual TC? But I'll humor you since I'm in a good mood. When the Sanctum announces Bodhum's quarantine after discovering a Pulse fal'Cie within the Vestige last night, Lightning realizes Serah told the truth. After learning the Sanctum plans to Purge everyone in town to Pulse, Lightning tries to find Serah but Snow says she is held captive inside the Vestige.
Although military personnel is exempt, Lightning volunteers to be Purged with the civilians and resigns from the Guardian Corps, wanting to enter the Hanging Edge , where PSICOM plans to move the Vestige and rescue Serah before she gets taken out of reach. This l'Cie curse, it took everything from me. My future. My dreams. I didn't want to think. So I fought instead. As long as I was fighting, nothing else was real.
I was running away. Snow, Hope, and Vanille arrive, and Serah asks Lightning to save Cocoon before entering crystal stasis , having fulfilled her Focus. Lightning and the group confront and destroy Anima but Pulse brands them l'Cie before the Vestige plummets to Lake Bresha , crystallizing it on impact. Lightning and her new companions awaken in Lake Bresha, realizing they are now l'Cie and that upon their branding, they shared a vision of the legendary beast Ragnarok.
They discover Serah's crystal form fused to the crystallized lake. Deeming Serah is dead, Lightning reluctantly opts to continue onward to evade the army's closing net, so they leave behind Snow, who has chosen to dig Serah out. They find an airship in abandoned ruins at the lake's edge and use it to escape, but are attacked by pursuing PSICOM ships and crash in the Vile Peaks.
Lightning plans to go to the capital city Eden to destroy its namesake fal'Cie that controls the Sanctum, blaming it for the Purge and her current plight. After a disagreement on their Focus, which they believe is to destroy Cocoon, the group splits up: Lightning heads for Eden to take down the Sanctum, and Sazh and Vanille go the opposite direction to run from their fate. Followed by Hope and unable to send him back, Lightning lets him accompany her.
Her patience wears thin as Hope becomes a liability and Lightning threatens to leave him. Her frustration summons the Eidolon Odin to attack Hope. Lightning saves him, and they defeat the Eidolon together, convincing her to let Hope travel with her and help him "toughen up". At the Gapra Whitewood , Hope takes the lead, and Lightning gives him her survival knife to boost his confidence.
Hope reveals his intention to take revenge on Snow for his part in his mother's death during the Purge. After Lightning advises Hope to form a plan to help him focus and fight, he keeps his sights on revenge. When Lightning tells Hope the Sanctum is to blame for Nora's death, he resolves to make both Snow and the Sanctum pay for it. Lightning tries to dissuade Hope by suggesting they visit his father.
When Hope mentions the fal'Cie treat humans as their pets, Lightning realizes that having lived under the fal'Cie's care since birth had made her their pawn and that her anger is over her protectors turning against her.
Realizing she has dragged Hope into the same delusion of fighting blindly to make up for doubt and confusion, Lightning tells Hope their quests for vengeance are over and vows not to abandon him. Lightning escapes with Fang and forces Snow to take Hope. The pairs agree to meet up at Hope's house over wireless communicators. Hope still wants to go through with his revenge, and when Lightning tries to reason with him, her plea never reaches him. Lightning learns Fang is not only a Pulse l'Cie like herself but an actual Gran Pulse citizen from the land below the floating world of Cocoon.
Fang and Vanille were crystallized there centuries earlier after completing their Focus but awoke in Cocoon without knowing how or why and were indirectly responsible for Serah becoming a l'Cie.
Lightning and Fang realize Pulse and Cocoon are more similar than they initially thought in how both worlds fear and hate each other. Fang tells Lightning how a l'Cie's brand indicates the amount of time until one becomes a Cie'th —a crystalline monster a l'Cie becomes upon failing their Focus—and reassures Serah will wake from crystal stasis one day.
Hope has abandoned his plan for revenge and returns Lightning's knife, and they promise to protect each other. Lightning tends to the injuries Snow sustained from saving Hope at the Estheim Residence and apologizes for her earlier behavior towards him, having gained an appreciation for how Snow always stayed by Serah's side. Lightning has Hope tie up his dad during the chaos to make him appear like an unwilling accomplice. The party boards the Cavalry's airship, the Lindblum , and learns Sazh and Vanille are being held captive on the Palamecia airship.
Primarch Galenth Dysley , the head of the Sanctum government, is overseeing the transport. The four l'Cie infiltrate the Palamecia to rescue Sazh and Vanille, and once reunited, they confront Dysley on the bridge. He reveals himself as the fal'Cie Barthandelus , leader of the Cocoon fal'Cie. He explains the group's Focus is to destroy Cocoon by turning into Ragnarok and killing Orphan , the fal'Cie that sustains Cocoon. The party flees on a small airship, which autopilots them through Eden into the Fifth Ark hidden beneath the city.
The group's l'Cie powers are fully awoken. Barthandelus desires for Cocoon's destruction so the resultant deaths will summon the Maker , the creator of fal'Cie and humans alike. Raines rebels against his Focus by attempting to kill the l'Cie, and though defeated, transforms into crystal. The group decides to follow his example and save Cocoon. Fang turns against them until Lightning and Vanille help her tame her Eidolon, Bahamut. The party finds an airship with a gate leading to Gran Pulse and descends to the world below, hoping to find aid in their quest.
After falling under attack by a wild wyvern, Lightning helps Fang summon Bahamut to save the party. They land and create a base camp in the Vallis Media but find Pulse devoid of human life after days of searching. Hope wishes to be left behind, and his Eidolon Alexander appears.
Lightning and Fang help Hope tame the Eidolon, and with their resolve renewed, the party decides to head to Oerba : Vanille and Fang's hometown. They ascend Taejin's Tower and ride a capsule down to the outskirts of Oerba but find it abandoned. Serah confronts the group, referring to Lightning by her birth name, and asks the group to destroy Orphan to summon the Maker and save the world from despair. Serah is Dysley in disguise , who announces he has resigned as Primarch and appointed a revived Raines in his place to incite a civil war, as the Cavalry would see him as a traitor.
He has his familiar, Menrva , transform into an airship for the group to return to Cocoon, and they do so to try and stop Dysley's plans.
In the depths of the Narthex, they find Dysley, who summons the crystallized Dajh Katzroy and Serah before the party and shatters them. Denouncing it as an illusion, the party fights Barthandelus and destroys him. His defeat awakens the sleeping Orphan, who wishes for death after centuries of not having a life, and attacks them. Fang submits to Orphan's demands and agrees to become Ragnarok. After they try to stop her, Lightning and the others, aside from Vanille, turn into Cie'th and attack Fang.
Orphan tortures her to force her to transform, but Fang's incomplete transformation isn't strong enough to kill Orphan. The Cie'th party members relive the memories of their quest and are restored, believing that they have seen something that resembled a new Focus.
Lightning announces their new Focus is to save Cocoon and all of the party's l'Cie brands burn out. The party defeats Orphan's true form, and Cocoon begins to fall. Lightning and the others float away as Vanille and Fang transform into a complete Ragnarok and stop Cocoon's descent by forming a crystal pillar to support it above Gran Pulse. Lightning and the others enter crystal stasis but are restored and find they are no longer l'Cie.
Lightning reunites with Serah and begins apologizing to her, but Snow interrupts her by saying they "have a wedding to plan". He promises to make Serah happy, and Lightning congratulates them. Lightning vows to find a way to save Vanille and Fang from the crystal pillar.
She believes the answer lies somewhere on Gran Pulse, and perhaps she could discover other Pulsian survivors as well, though it will be a long and challenging journey. After seeing Serah is in good hands with Snow, she decides to take up the task independently as new responsibilities will tie Serah and the others down.
A paradox removes Lightning from history, and she finds herself in another world. I took their lives just because I didn't want to die. I felt that it was a sin, but I deluded myself, saying I had no choice. I had selfishly decided the weight of life and selfishly convinced myself of it. I didn't even stop to think that their lives were sacrificed for mine.
It was all me On the first day of the AF era that started on the Day of Ragnarok , Lightning's reunion with Serah is cut short when she is dragged into an abyss by a manifestation of chaos caused by a paradox. Only her survival knife remains, and everyone except Serah believes her to be either dead or crystallized in the crystal pillar with Vanille and Fang; in actuality, Lightning fell through the Historia Crux and ended up in Valhalla, the middle world between life and death dislodged from time.
Lightning comes upon a moogle named Mog , who challenges her to a duel and promptly loses. Touched by Mog's innocence, Lightning has him follow her. Lightning and Mog encounter Odin, who challenges Lightning to a battle, during which she learns to cast magic despite no longer being a l'Cie.
She defeats Odin and rides him to Etro's temple , where Bahamut challenges her. Lightning loses her weapon during the fight, but Mog transforms into a bow for her to overcome the Eidolon. Standing before the goddess's throne, a brief oneness with Etro enables Lightning to understand the goddess's isolation and her love for humanity.
Lightning comes to realize Etro saw her and her friends as sinners for killing people during their time as l'Cie, yet freed them from their brands after giving Vanille and Fang the strength to become Ragnarok.
Through the Eyes of Etro , Lightning witnesses various moments in time, including an era facing destruction , seeress Yeul repeatedly dying, Serah trapped in an endless dream , and her losing battle with Yeul's Guardian , Caius.
Her Guardian Corps uniform disappears, and a suit of armor materializes in its place. Lightning chooses to stay as Etro's champion to contain the memories of the deceased and fight Caius as a way to atone for her sins.
Caius briefly appears behind her and tells her to go home, as the world will not end for some time, but she resolves to remain.
This man, Caius Ballad. He seeks to destroy all hope, and bring an end to the future. Though the battle might be endless, I will never give up. Etro has chosen us—her champions. And we cannot fail. As Etro's protector, Lightning guards the goddess against Caius, Yeul's immortal Guardian, who wants to kill Etro to destroy the timeline and save Yeul from her cycle of reincarnation.
During her battle against Caius, Lightning sees Etro's gate appear over the temple and sees a person fall out of it. She recognizes it as a young man from a past vision, Noel Kreiss. Lightning saves him and shows him a Time Gate , asking him to find Serah and bring her to Valhalla. Lightning gives him Mog as a good-luck-charm for Serah once he sees her. When Caius summons a meteorite over the temple, Lightning summons Odin to throw her into its path, but it crushes the shrine.
Noel finds Serah, and together they embark on a quest through time to find their way to Valhalla. Lightning eventually appears before them from a portal in New Bodhum at AF and explains they are in a future she failed to save. Orphan's demise and Fang and Vanille's sacrifice to save Cocoon opened the portal to Valhalla; Etro closed it to prevent Valhalla's chaos from pouring out into the world, but Lightning ended up there as a result. Caius plans to destroy Etro and open the door again, unleashing chaos—mysterious energy Etro keeps at bay—into the mortal world.
The door would open wide enough if enough people died at once, such as if the crystallized Cocoon fell, and chaos would infect the world; time, life, and death would become meaningless, making the world like Valhalla. Lightning entrusts Noel and Serah with stopping Caius in the mortal realm while she deals with him in Valhalla.
She has Mog reveal the Time Gate to AF so they can stop Caius from destroying Hope's new Cocoon , an artificial world built to protect humanity for when the original Cocoon would eventually fall. In the Vile Peaks, Lightning blames herself for the paradox that caused the disappearance of an Academy anti-paradox team, the Blitz Squadron , while they were scouting the area in 10 AF to handle a distortion.
She recalls fighting alongside the squadron men and finds comfort in how they still remember her. When Mog reveals a phased-out image of Lightning in the Vile Peaks, she tells Serah and Noel how, as a l'Cie, she first thought fighting alone for what she believed in was the only approach but later saw the error in her ways.
Being all alone in Valhalla, she holds on to the memories of Serah and her friends to stay firm in her battle against Caius. Lightning prays for the day they can be together again and disappears. After Serah and Noel find their way to Valhalla and battle Caius, a wave of darkness consumes them and sends them falling into an abyss of light.
Lightning appears and saves them, urging them to keep hope alive before vanishing. Back in Valhalla, Lightning continues her fight with Caius. The loop appears broken when Caius abruptly disappears, and Lightning sees a vision of Serah's death by her Eyes of Etro.
Caius catches Lightning off guard and strikes her down before chaos takes her away, preventing him from delivering the killing blow.
Lightning comes to in the remains of Etro's temple and finds Serah's soul restrained and surrounded by chaos, manipulated by Yeul's spirits. The chaos turns into Caius, whom Lightning proceeds to battle. Caius transforms into Chaos Bahamut and flies towards the beach, where Lightning continues to fight him. Her fashionista lifestyle is also reflected in-game, with many of the Prada and Louis Vuitton outfits she's modeled making an appearance across the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy.
When designing Lightning's appearance, Tetsuya Nomura was instructed to make her strong, beautiful and 'like a female version of Cloud'. Although physically there are few similarities, her eye color and hairstyle are somewhat similar to Cloud's and both characters wield large bladed weapons. Her physique however is perhaps more resemblant of Tifa's. When it comes to personality and backstory though, there are plenty of parallels between Lightning and Cloud.
Both characters are running from their pasts and they each display a cold and stoic demeanor. Perhaps had the development team stuck with one of their earlier designs for Lightning, the physical resemblance to Cloud would have been much stronger. Some early concept art showed her with blond and brown hair and there was also a period where her hair was planned to be silver. Ultimately, however, the team decided to give her pink hair in order to highlight her feminine qualities.
Hair color seems to be something that is changed quite often when it comes to Final Fantasy 's main protagonists. Cloud, Tidus, and Noctis are just some of the other heroes whose hair color was changed during development. This may seem a little arbitrary, but it's actually a very deliberate choice by the game's designers.
Like Cloud and Squall before her, Lightning's name is based on a type of weather. Interestingly, character designer Tetsuya Nomura had originally wanted to move away from the tradition of naming the games' main protagonists after weather types and was surprised when one of the development team suggested the name Lightning.
Prior to that, the team had planned to call her Averia. They say that lightning never strikes twice, but she has now appeared in three numbered Final Fantasy titles. This is more than any other Final Fantasy protagonist - with the only other game to receive a direct sequel being Final Fantasy X. Despite this, her appearances outside of Final Fantasy titles have been fairly limited when compared to some of the series' other protagonists.
Although she doesn't appear in the game herself, some of her outfits do feature in Kingdom Hearts Re:coded.
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