Aerith Gainsborough

Odain Alias: Aerith

Played by: Kenny Blackwell (Seijimei@webtv.net) 

Homeworld: The Seventh Realm (Final Fantasy VII) 

Physical Description: Aerith is a twenty-two year old woman who stands
at 5 feet 3 inches and weighs at least 90 pounds. Strikingly beautiful,
Aerith wears her long chestnut brown hair in a braided ponytail held
together in a pink ribbon and has sparkling green eyes. She is seen clad
in a pink buttoned dress, loose-fitting brown boots, silver bracelets,
and a red leather topcoat, along with a drawstring necklace around her
neck. 

Powers: Aerith is the last of the Cetra, or Ancients, which were a race 
in tune with the harmony of nature itself. Normally in tune with the
force of energy deep within the Planet known as Lifestream, Aerith is only
weakly in tune with this force on Odain, as only a small portion of it is
familiar to her. Despite this, Aerith still has an empathic attunement to all
living things, able to understand any non-sentient lifeform she can focus on. 

Skills: Aerith does know how to defend herself if she needs to, and thus 
has good skills with using a staff. She is also quite adequate as a
gardener, able to tend to flowers easily, which is her speciality.

Weaknesses: Aerith is a very poor hand-to-hand combatant; her body isn't 
suited for rigorous exercise, so she rather avoids combat whenever
possible. 

Equipment: Aerith carries with her the Princess Guard, a Cetra staff 
that she uses to defend herself with. The Princess Guard is unbreakable,
and seems to materialize into Aerith's hand when she mentally calls for
it. She also has in her hair ribbon the White Materia, a pearl-like
bauble that is perported to possess the ultimate attack known as Holy;
in this only Aerith or another Cetra is able to use the White Materia to
summon the extremely powerful spell. Moreover, the White Materia is
idestructible, able to survive ground zero in an atomic explosion, for
example. However, the White Materia is inert and all but useless in
Odain; if Aerith were to attempt to summon Holy in Odain and if she were
to be killed, the power put into the White Materia would have all the
destructive power of a roll of firecrackers.

Personality: Aerith tries to be bright, sweet, gentle, and innocent. 
She's never without a kind word or greeting, and treats everyone as
equals. She gives everyone she meets the benefit of the doubt,
regardless of their true nature, though if her trust is betrayed, she
never forgets, and becomes cold towards that person until they redeem
themselves in her eyes; this can serve as a strength, but also as a
weakness to those who can take advantage. She also has the tendency of
being a bit stubborn, usually going off and doing her own thing because
she feels it's the right thing to do, and usually won't change her mind
about it. This has lead to her current destiny... to die in the defense
of the Planet she loves. She realizes that in Odain her destiny is in
danger of not being fulfilled; if she fails, her home reality, for all
intents and purposes, is doomed. And so she seeks a way to return hom,
hoping that she'll be one day returned to the exact spot and time she
was taken from in her home world. 
 
Connections: In Odain, none. 

Backstory: Even as a child Aerith understood her importance, even though 
she had litle understanding of her true destiny. Living in the slums of
the city of Midgar, Aerith did her best to brighten som people's lives
in her own way as a flower girl, tending and growing the lovely plants
in a church. Her destiny began to approach when she met the mercenary
known as Cloud Strife... feeling herself obligated to help him, she
voluntarily joined him and his friends in a quest to try to rescue the
Planet from the Jenova-enhanced madman known as Sephiroth. In time she
began to understand her true purpose as a Cetra, and ultimately her
fate. Although saddened by this fact, Aerith did her best to hide her
true feelings and not worry anyone, living her life to her fullest. 
Then her time had come...having left without telling her friends for the
Forgotten City in Icicle, Aerith set out to enter the secret Cetra city
to summon Holy in the hopes of counteracting Sephiroth's Meteor, even
though she knew it meant her death. However, hours before she was to
enter the Forgotten City, while in the Sleeping Forest, she had found
herself in the caverns of Odain. Realizing that she was truly lost in
another reality, though she doesn't know where exactly, she had set out
to explore the tunnels to find the surface... or anyone else within the
twisting caverns.