Serah Farron

Class/Classes:
-- Ravager --
-- Saboteur --
-- Medic --

One of the more important things to understand about Serah is that she tends to be rather cheerful most of the time. She can be rather curious, which can get her into trouble and got her turned into a L'Cie in the first place. Serah is rather optimistic in most all situations, keeping her hopes high for a good future. She tends to rely strongly on others, especially those she's close with but she's trying to steer clear from being too dependent on others.

Serah is a self-sacrificing person, being selfless and helpful to others. Serah can be rather uncertain and a bit naive, being easily persuaded by those that she cares for. She is fairly careful, thinking things through a lot before she commits to something. She does have a short temper and can be rather scary when angry, like her sister.

Serah was born three years after her elder sister, Claire. Their father died when they were young and they lost their mother to an unknown illness when Serah was twelve. With no other family to turn to, Claire took it upon herself to raise Serah and changed her name to "Lightning". Since then, Serah has looked up to Lightning as her guardian.

After Lightning graduated from high school and joined the Guardian Corps Bodhum Security Regiment she began to lose sight of her goals, and worked many hours while spending little time with Serah.

Serah was planning to attend the university in Eden when she fell in love with Snow during summer vacation, much to Lightning's dismay. Serah was interested in studying history, and the local landmark, the Bodhum Vestige, caught her attention. One day, Serah finds a door leading inside the Vestige and ventures into the ruins where she is chosen by the Pulse fal'Cie, Anima, that was entombed within the Vestige.

Serah is branded a l'Cie and dreams of transforming into Ragnarok and destroying Cocoon, but does not realize it is her Focus. Four days later, Serah tells Snow she had been branded a Pulse l'Cie and tries to break up with him, but Snow refuses to abandon her and offers to aid her in figuring out her Focus.

Two days later, Serah befriends a girl she aids on the beach, named Vanille. Listening to Vanille's problem, Serah advises her to face it later and look at it from a distance to find a way to overcome it. She tells Vanille about her nightmare of destroying the world and how she tried to run from it, but now knows she will get through with her friends' help. Since it was her fault Serah was made a l'Cie, Vanille apologizes but Serah, not knowing of Vanille's involvement, does not understand.

The next day, Serah goes out with Snow to find a birthday present for Lightning. Serah buys a survival knife to keep Lightning safe while she is on duty, while Snow slips away and buys two engagement necklaces. The night after, Serah and Snow attend the fireworks festival where Snow proposes to her and she accepts.

On Lightning's birthday the following day, Serah and Snow tell Lightning about her becoming a l'Cie, and their engagement, but Lightning believes Serah is lying as an excuse to marry Snow. Serah and Snow attempt to seek the council of the fal'Cie in the Bodhum Vestige, but since PSICOM discovered the fal'Cie the night before, the town has been quarantined and the Vestige is off-limits. While escaping PSICOM on an airbike, Serah jumps onto a ledge on the Vestige and becomes trapped by a silver liquid substance that pulls her into the Vestige as the fal'Cie's prisoner.

Two days later, during the Purge, 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's troops.

On the Palamecia, 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 and observing him enter crystal stasis despite going against his Focus, Snow emerges from his depression and he 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 goes through Eden, Barthandelus tells them he is holding Serah and Sazh's son, Dajh, hostage. In Orphan's Cradle, Barthandelus 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.

Serah and Snow talk about rebuilding on Gran Pulse and saving Vanille and Fang, who remain crystallized within the pillar. Serah asks Vanille what she is dreaming about in her crystal sleep, revealing she knows about Snow staying with her at Lake Bresha since he carried her crystal tear, enabling her to hear him and see what he saw. Serah theorizes the dreams people have in crystal stasis vary since Dajh told her about his dream of playing with chocobos.

Serah decides to become a school teacher and educate children on why Cocoon fell. She wants to tell them their side of the story and help them grow into adults who can think for themselves. Shortly after, she discovers Lightning is nowhere to be seen.

Due to the timeline being corrupted, Lightning is removed from history and only Serah remembers her ever returning to Gran Pulse's surface with them. In the two years after Lightning's disappearance, with help from the Cavalry, Bodhum's former residents build the Pulsian village of New Bodhum and some learn to use magic, including Snow and Serah. Serah learns how to fight with weapons and discovers she has more fighting prowess than she knew. Having yet to marry, Serah and Snow live together in the NORA House.

Although Serah becomes a teacher like Lightning was to her to teach the children how to protect and think for themselves, deep inside, she feels unable to move forward, haunted by her memory of the day Lightning vanished and how everyone thinks she is making things up to avoid facing reality.

One day, Snow tells Serah he believes her about Lightning still being alive and sets out to search for her. Serah wishes to go with him but Snow insists she stay for the sake of her students. Giving Serah his engagement pendant as the symbol of his promise to return with Lightning, Snow departs but a year goes by and Serah never hears back from him.

One night, Serah dreams of Lightning fighting a mysterious man within a strange world. A crystal meteor crashes outside of New Bodhum and she awakens finding herself in new clothes. The town is ravaged by monsters and Serah is saved by Noel Kreiss, the boy she saw in her dream. He gives her a moogle that can transform into a weapon and says Mog is a gift from Lightning, who now resides in Valhalla, and that she has asked him to bring Serah there. The meteorite is actually a Time Gate and the next day Serah and Noel search the town for an artefact to activate it. Serah learns Noel is the last human left from the end of the world, and after praying to create a brighter future, Lightning gave him the chance.


Serah, Mog, and Noel enter the Time Gate and travel through the Historia Crux, the crossroads of the time continuum, emerging in the Bresha Ruins in Cocoon in 5 AF. The ruins are affected by a paradox that causes a giant monster known as Atlas to appear in the area. With the help of an Academy scientist named Alyssa Zaidelle, Serah and Noel solve the paradox by defeating Atlas and the Bresha Ruins are restored. While activating another gate in the area, Serah has a vision of Ragnarok crystallizing Cocoon but hides this from Noel.

Their next destination, the Yaschas Massif in 10 AF, is darkened by a solar eclipse due to a paradox. They meet an adult Hope Estheim who tells them a tribe of Farseers ruled by a seeress named Yeul used to live in the ruins. He says the seeress could see the future and foretold the nation's destruction, causing its downfall. Hope shows them the Oracle Drive, which shows grainy images of Lightning in Valhalla. Hope believes the paradox affecting the area is also affecting the Oracle Drive, and gives Serah and Noel an artefact to help them resolve the problem.

After taking a gate to Oerba 200 AF, Serah, Mog and Noel find another Oracle Drive that projects various images of Serah's reunion with Lightning. They are interrupted by Caius Ballad and Yeul, with Serah recognizing Caius as the man she saw battling Lightning in her dream. After Caius battles Noel and Serah, Yeul stops Caius from killing them, and warns them that changing the future also changes the past.

With the paradox in Oerba solved, Serah, Noel and Mog return to the Yaschas Massif in 1X AF, an alternate reality in which the eclipse never occurred and Hope never met them. Yeul appears and gives Serah a cryptic message, saying they are the same in how they can 'show others the way'. Serah and Noel repeat their introduction to Hope, who shows the now clear images of Lightning in Valhalla with the Oracle Drive. The Oracle Drive shows images of Cocoon falling at Caius's hand, and Noel says Cocoon fell centuries before his birth, and the world fell into ruin. Serah says they must change the future and Hope decides to help them with everything he and the Academy do in the present time. Serah and Noel use the gate in the Pass of Paddra and emerge in the Void Beyond. As Serah despairs if they will ever finding Lightning, Noel reassures they are one step closer to her with each Time Gate they pass through.

Traveling to the Sunleth Waterscape 300 AF, Serah clutches her head in pain and recites Yeul's prophecy of Cocoon's fall as though possessed. She has a vision of Snow about to be killed by a giant flan, runs off and finds Snow half-conscious before Noel comes to their aid, and they fight off the flan together. As the flan reforms itself, Serah pulls a resistant Snow to safety. She introduces Noel and Snow to each other before explaining to the latter why they are there. Snow says Lightning appeared to him in a dream telling him to protect Cocoon's crystal pillar from the giant flan and Serah and Noel decide to help him by resolving the paradox that makes the flan grow.

Noel and Serah journey to the Coliseum and receive a fragment from the Arbiter of Time. After Noel and Serah defeat the Faeryl in the Archylte Steppe in ?? AF and stop Royal Ripeness from growing, they return to the Sunleth Waterscape and find Snow struggling in front of the giant flan despite having promised to wait for their return. After defeating it for good Snow entrusts Serah's safety to Noel and disappears as the paradox affecting the area has been resolved, but Serah notices a Pulse l'Cie brand on his arm before he fades away. Serah decides it is her turn to save Snow and make sure they meet again someday.

Back in the Void Beyond, Noel explains the Farseer tribes always had a girl with the same appearance and power who is always called Yeul. In Academia 400 AF, Serah, Noel and Mog witness numerous citizens transform into Cie'th. They are confronted by what appears to be Caius, who threatens to kill them for tampering with the timeline. Caius says they were killed as a result of learning a forbidden history sealed within a tower two hundred years in the past and have now appeared before him alive, a paradox in itself. Serah and Noel find Yeul under attack by Cie'th. Yeul dies and leaves behind an artefact that enables Noel, Serah, and Mog to use a nearby Time Gate. Yeul said Caius wasn't in the city, leading Serah to wonder if she and Noel met an impostor.

In the Augusta Tower, 200 years before the events at Academia, Noel and Serah learn Hope had created a Proto fal'Cie to keep Cocoon airborne without its pillar. They meet an artificial duplicate of Alyssa and learn that Hope, Alyssa and other scientists were killed in the tower 187 years ago at 13 AF, and duplicates of them were created to hide the truth. On the tower's top level they find Yeul who gives them an artefact and implores them to protect time. She reveals Caius is an immortal Guardian and retains memory of all timeline events and says Lightning disappeared because the future had changed and if Serah and Noel solve the paradoxes the past will return to how Serah remembers it. Yeul tells them the Caius from Academia was a deception made by a sentient machine within the tower, then implores they show her a new future.

Noel, Mog and Serah enter a battle against the Proto fal'Cie Adam who keeps reviving itself whenever defeated. Serah charges Adam while shouting at Hope about his machines "driving her nuts" and just before she impales Adam's crystal, the fal'Cie disappears into thin air. Serah has a vision of the future and blacks out, but Noel brings her back. Through the next Time Gate, they emerge into an alternate Academia in 4XX AF where the city is peaceful and the Proto fal'Cie was never created. They meet Hope and Alyssa and learn Hope scrapped the idea for the Proto fal'Cie after seeing Serah yelling at him through the Oracle Drive. Hope had devised the New Cocoon Project before he and Alyssa went into the future in a time capsule he invented.

Hope explains his man-made Cocoon will be made airborne through the use of Graviton Cores. After bringing Hope the cores needed Alyssa gives Serah and Noel an artefact to open a new gate in the city. Promising to meet Hope and Alyssa again a century in the future, Serah, Noel and Mog enter the Historia Crux but get separated. Manipulated by Caius, Alyssa gave them a booby-trapped artefact to save herself from disappearing due to being a paradox herself.

Caius uses the Time Gate to separate Serah and Noel into different areas of the Void Beyond, with Mog's soul removed from his body. Finding several apparitions of Yeul from various points in time Serah learns she is a seeress chosen by Etro and how the goddess released her and the others from crystal stasis on the Day of Ragnarok. The last Yeul warns Serah that she brings herself closer to death the more she changes the timeline before transforming into Caius, who forces Serah into a battle. Caius reveals it was the miracle Etro gave to Serah and the others that condemned Yeul and that he plans to destroy time itself and send everything back to Valhalla, thus freeing Yeul from her curse. Caius impales Serah from behind, spilling chaos from her body.

Serah awakens in New Bodhum wearing her old clothes, surrounded by NORA. When she finds Snow, he claims Lightning has been living with them ever since they got married. Serah finds Lightning on the pier who says Serah changed history, making it possible for her to come back. Serah almost believes her but remembers the real Lightning is fighting in Valhalla and needs her help, and that she can't abandon Noel and her friends. Serah refuses to comply and Lightning is engulfed in chaos. Hearing a familiar voice, Serah encounters Vanille and meets Fang, who have come to help Serah escape her dream world. They open a portal Serah can use to find Noel in his dream world and save him before he becomes trapped in it forever.

Serah emerges in a desolate world and finds him, but he does not acknowledge her. Realizing she is in Noel's dream, Serah follows him as he interacts with Caius and Yeul along the way, and witnesses a duel between Noel and Caius where the latter emerges the victor. Serah sees Yeul die in Noel's arms, leaving him alone. As he is being pulled off the ground towards a light in the sky, Serah grabs hold of his arm and calls out to him and he remembers her, waking him from his dream.

Noel tells Serah if they change history in a big way it will cost Serah her life, but Serah chooses to continue onwards as it is what Lightning wants, and if they fix the timeline quick enough she won't have to see the future anymore. Mog's soul is freed from the Void Beyond by Lightning and he brings new information from her about Caius. Caius used to be a Pulse l'Cie tasked with the Focus of protecting Yeul until he was saved by Etro and made immortal. From watching over the seeresses for centuries, Caius has been using his power and knowledge of their visions to warp the timeline as he pleases.

They come out of a space-time distortion into New Bodhum in 700 AF, which is now a wasteland. Serah opens a portal on the beach and Lightning emerges before them, saying they are in a future she failed to save. After Lightning explains everything to them, Serah theorizes Caius's plan is to turn the world into a timeless world like Valhalla. Lightning says they will need to go to the year 500 AF where Caius plans to destroy both the old and new Cocoons. She has Mog reveal a new Time Gate and as Lightning leaves, Serah asks if they will be together once everything is over, but Lightning only says, "One thing at a time, Serah".

In Academia 500 AF, the city is a labyrinth of chaos. As Serah, Mog and Noel make their way through the city they hear Yeul's disembodied voice warning them not to kill Caius and Etro. After fighting Caius, a wormhole tears open the sky and Caius flies into it as Chaos Bahamut, with Serah, Noel and Mog following close behind on an airship piloted by Sazh. They jump through the wormhole into Valhalla and engage Caius on the beach. Caius transforms into Jet Bahamut and fires an attack upon them and they are sent falling into an abyss of light under Valhalla's waves of chaos. Lightning saves them by pulling them towards the surface for the final battle. After Noel repeatedly refuses to kill him, Caius stabs himself with Noel's blade and as his body fades away, Serah believes he had always wanted to return to Valhalla so he could die and end Yeul's cycle of rebirth.

A series of gates appear throughout Valhalla and Mog says the final paradox has been resolved, but he doesn't sense Lightning anywhere in Valhalla. Serah worries Caius had killed her, but Noel reassures her Lightning will be with the others since they fixed the timeline.


As she and Noel went back through the Historia Crux, an unexplainable event occured. Forming behind them, a tear appeared and Serah turned back to see what it was. And she was pulled into it, even with all of her struggles. She closed her eyes when she entered it and when she opened them again, she was in a different place entirely. She found out that she was in a place called Y'n Bay. She wasn't sure how she got here as the last thing she remembered was being in New Bodhum, the attack there and meeting the boy named Noel. But she would stay here and try to piece her memories back together. She could only hope that she wasn't alone here.

It was a rather beautiful day on Y'n Bay. A young pink-haired girl was standing alone on the beach, her feet in the sand. Serah Farron had found herself in a strange land and to be honest, she felt rather lonely. She didn't know if anyone else from Cocoon made it here. And was there a way back? She had so many question but not many answers. She looked up into the clear blue sky as she thought of those she left behind. 'Lightning? Snow? Where are you guys?'

She took a breath and looked out over the water before her. "I'll find you guys, I promise. Then we'll all have a good life here." She smiled rather happily, optimistic of the future. She was sure that she would find them at some point. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but it would happen. She was sure they were out there looking for her if they ended up here too. If not, she'd find some way to get to them. They would be surely be upset to see that she was no where around.

Serah decided that when she found them, that she and Snow would finally get married. Lightning would be there to give her away and she was sure the members of N.O.R.A would be there too. Yuj could even design her wedding dress if he wanted to! Serah picked up her shoes and walked out of the sand, smiling wide at the future that she had in mind.

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