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'''Lightning''' is a character in the ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' series of games. Prior to the events of ''Final Fantasy XIII'', she was a soldier in [[Coocoon]]'s [[Guardian Corps]], and she uses this military training throughout the saga. She is the sister of [[Serah Farron]].

==History==

===Before ''Final Fantasy XIII''===
Lightning lives in [[Bodhum]], where she works as a soldier for the Guardian Corps. She is protective of her sister Serah, and shows a dislike for Serah's partner [[Snow Villiers]]. In the days leading up to [[The Purge]], Serah reveals to Lightning that she has been branded a [[l'Cie]], to which Lightning reacts negatively. When The Purge is announced, Lightning quits her post in order to be purged so she can attempt to rescue Serah.

===''Final Fantasy XIII''===

In ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'', Lightning is a protagonist and playable character throughout much of the game. She manages to find Serah inside the [[Pulse Vestige]], but Serah quickly turns to crystal as she completes her focus. Lightning and her companions Snow, [[Sazh Katzroy|Sazh]], and [[Oerba dia Vanille|Vanille]] attempt to fight the [[Fal'Cie]] responsible for branding Serah, but are branded l'Cie in the process. Angry at both the [[Sanctum]] and at the Pulse fal'Cie for branding her, Lightning journeys off with [[Hope Estheim|Hope]] to the town of [[Palumpolum]] in an attempt to seek revenge. Along the way, she attempts to talk Hope out of his own revenge plot.

Eventually her party manages to reunite with Snow and meets [[Oerba yun Fang|Fang]], but they are captured by [[Cavalry]] leader [[Cid Raines]], who claims to want to topple the Sanctum. Cid helps the group launch a rescue attempt for Sazh and Vanille, who have been taken hostage aboard the airship ''[[Palamecia]]''. This attempt is successful, and while they escape they are given their true focus by [[Bartandelus]]: to transform into [[Ragnarok]], defeat the fal'Cie [[Orphan]], and destroy Coocoon.

She and the rest of her party grapples with this fate while they journey through [[Gran Pulse]], eventually having their hands forced by Bartandelus's schemes. The group travels to [[Eden]] and kills Orphan, sending Coocoon into freefall. While all six of them try to transform into Ragnarok to stop Coocoon's fall safely, Fang and Vanille transform themselves so that the others might live. This act completes Lightning's focus and she turns into crystal. Seeing this sacrifice, the goddess [[Etro]] takes pity on the party, and removes the l'Cie brands from Lightning's party (minus Fang and Vanille) along with Sarah, returning them to human form as Coocoon stands in the air atop a crystal pillar. After a long adventure with Snow, Lightning gives him her blessing to marry Serah.

===In between ''Final Fantasy XIII'' and ''Final Fantasy XIII-2''===

The goddess Etro pulls Lightning into [[Valhalla]] and shows her a vision of time. In response, Lightning dedicates herself to become Etro's warrior against the forces of [[Chaos]]. Lightning's presence in [[New Bodhum]] is erased, and everyone except Serah believes that she sacrificed herself to form the crystal pillar that holds up Coocoon.

===''Final Fantasy XIII-2''===

Lightning defends Valhalla against [[Caius Ballad]]. During this, Lightning pulls [[Noel Kreiss]] from his time in history 700 years after the fall of Coocoon in ''Final Fantasy XIII'', and sends him back in time to meet her sister Serah. She watches over Serah and Noel's adventures, eventually ending in Serah's death. Knowing this to be her fault, Lightning decides to atone for this by turning herself to eternal crystal, allowing her memories of Serah to survive forever.

===''Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII''===
Lightning is brought out of crystal stasis by the god [[Bhunivelze]], who makes a deal with her that he will resurrect her sister Serah if Lightning will help save the souls of the living before the world ends.

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