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healingflowers) wrote2020-03-27 08:44 pm
Aerith Bio for More Modern Times
AGE 22
DOB Feb. 07, 1985
SEXUALITY Heterosexual
HOUSING She'll have her old house from Sector 7 slums, plus from the Christmas wishlist hopefully a flower shop and greenhouse
PB https://i.ibb.co/zXdVLRg/Aerith-Gainsborough.jpg
MEDIUM Video games
CANON POINT Post Adevnt Children
ALTERNATES? Yes! Whatever you wish. <3
TIME ZONE EST
CDJ
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DISCORD Strangelave#1539
Aerith has always been the cheerful sort, clinging to the present more than the past as much as she can't so she isn't dwelling on her regrets and looking more forward to a happy and bright future. She always has cheery things to speak, to say and even optimistic and hopeful advice that she hopes lifts people's spirits up and gets them out of a rut. She is even prone to little bouts of depression when things aren't going very smoothly, but she tends to keep them to herself, and tries not to bring anyone else down. That's when she starts looking for something to cheer herself up and get motivated again, especially happy, bright thoughts that keep her going. A memory of her mother, an idea she might have for a project or even the love of friends and the higher power she prays to will stop the depression when she deeply thinks about it.
Aerith is flirty, but not in a raunchy sense, it's more a fun and wholesome sense. She'll lightly brush her hand over a man's arm, and giggle or even hug them fondly, or kiss them on the cheek playfully to brighten their day, especially when she knows them well enough or even if they've given her something she can't repay. She tends to like giving people compliments too, but they must be genuine and true, or else she feels like a faker. She knows telling someone they're pretty or handsome brightens their day, but she really likes telling people personal qualities they have being more stellar than they believe. She also tends to psychoanalyze and figure out a person, therefore she'll treat each person differently based on what would make them happiest.
She's a people person, she loves understanding others and making them happy. She loves deep conversation and light conversation with a side of fun, she enjoys being around others while also having private time to read, garden or even take a walk through a park or garden. She's very personable with others, having a bedside manner that any doctor should indeed have. She'll place a hand on your shoulder to comfort you or kiss you on the temple to tell you how precious you are.
She sees many people as precious and indepensible. She doesn't want anyone thinking they don't have worth, she's learned from her adoptive mother how trying and sad that can be, someone who was abandoned by their parents and felt worthless because of it. That's why her mother adopted her in the first place. She didn't want a beautiful and adorable toddler like Aerith left alone in the world with the wrong people and her mama was right, she was the absolute correct person for the job.
She's a lady, it'll take a lot, and I mean a lot for her to flip someone the bird. She gets angry, yes, but she tends to brush it off and might even give a look of distrust/disgust to someone who says or does the wrong thing in her eyes. She'd rather swallow her pride and turn the other cheek, walking away from a perlilous situation where someone wants to be rude. She feels it's best not to pay attention to such people unless they're putting her friends in danger. Then she's gonna whack you over the head with her princess guard staff and beat the crap out of you to boot even if you are bigger. However, she will childishly stick out her tongue in anger and say something to the extent of you suck if you said something really horrible but doesn't warrant violence.
She's easily jealous, especially when she's fond of someone and another person has their attention. It doesn't matter if it's a romantic interest or just a friend, she can't help herself, she'll say underhanded quips and remarks to get under someone's skin that has her love one's attention. This is her biggest flaw and she realizes it's childish but she can't help it half the time. In the lifestream she's grown up some but she's still like this to a heavy point. It's just the way she was built.
She's humble and down to Earth, she has never had the thought that she is better than anyone else besides people that are truly evil. She feels everyone is part of mankind and therefore the human race, what's the point of feeling you're better in some way? She tends not to judge in a way that a lot of people do, unless you're hurting someone in some way. Then all bets are off and you're bound to get a mouth ful. She has a live and let live attitude, believing that people have will as the higher power intended and that it's none of her business if you like eating anchovies on your pizza, just don't bring it her way.
She's a vegetarian to an extent, more like a pescatarian. She prefers light meats like chicken and fish. She's not really big on red meat, or pork, infact she strays far from it and eats the whiter meats instead. She loves vegetables and fruit, teas with petals of flowers like lavender for nights when she can't sleep or coffee with a powdered donut or navy/great northern beans with a chicken broth base and cubed chicken. Don't get her started on how much she loves spicy chicken based chili and fish tacos with lots of tomato, lettuce and sour cream as well. She loves hearty soups with chunky veggies and a side of crackers she digs in one at a time. She tends to eat delicately as well, a clean eater who is never too messy. Ocassionally she gets a drip of sauce on her shirt but she tends to peroxide right away, even in the middle of eating a meal.
She'll still use dairy in her baking strategies like milks and yogurt but she won't actually eat meat from a cow. She tends to be animal friendly, she loves them and even had a few cats growing up but they all tended to run away and never come back. She doesn't blame them, the slums weren't the best place for animals. Most animals need sunshine and freedom to move around, as she does Aerith. Besides eating what she eats because she likes the food, it also has a lot to do what's most eco and animal friendly. There tends to be a lot of fish and chickens in the world, she imagines in this world too. It makes sense to keep the population down, no matter how harsh that sounds.
She loves all things girly. Painting her nails, wearing dresses, skirts, cute leggings, doing her hair, wearing even light make up that is never too heavy. She enjoys arts and crafts, making jewelry, cooking, baking, let's not forget gardening and doing art projects with flowers. She's never one to wear high heels or stilettos though unless she really has to, it tends to be a short heel with stockings. She loves to tease people, she feels people should be less sensitive and enjoy a good jab at themselves unless it's straight up bullying. To her, it's not about being insensitive, it's more about being a thick skin so you're not hurting all the time from people's insensitive remarks. You build a tough skin, people tend not to hurt you as much anyway, because all they're looking for is a reaction.
She's deeply compassionate and empathetic, which can be seen from my earlier remarks about being a people person. She loves being the ear people go to or the shoulder to lean on. She loves giving advice and prides herself on her common sense, having sound advice to give almost every time, but even sometimes she flounders at what to do or say in certain situations. She is deeply affectionate and loves giving hugs to people, or cuddling with them. She knows a lot of people don't get a lot of affection and she tends to be the type that likes giving it out. She is also generous, if she feels a ribbon she has in her stock suits you better, she'll offer it to you and she tends to make extra helpings of food, therefore when you're a friend or a hungry stranger, you're invited to her kitchen.
One last thing, she's adventurous! She'll try most anything food wise, even though she'd be wary of something like a pufferfish and she's definitely not eating rodents. They carry diseases for crying out loud. However, she dreamed of traveling when she was younger, so when she got the opportunity to leave Midgar, she honestly couldn't wait. Besides spending time with her mother and Zack, traveling with those she considered both family and friend were the best moments of her life. All those places they went, the exotic food they ate, the games they played, the conversations that were had while on the road! It was so amazing, she remembers it all so well. She'd do it all over again if she could, especially just to be with her friends one more time.
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▸REGRET 1 (I'm sorry, Mama) – She didn't get to say goodbye to her mother, the woman who adopted her after her biological mother died. The woman raised her well, she did a good job by Aerith and Aerith pretty much learned to be a lady and tough in a different way so no one ever messed with her. Growing up in the slums, her mom gave her a staff and told her 'Anyone touches you inappropriately or won't back off, you bash them in the head with this!' Believe it, she's had to do that more than a few times. She hit Tseng over the head once, ran away and hid in the basement of the abandoned church she frequented. It worked. Never say violent acts don't warn people off, but at the end of the day she prefers peace. When she looks back at all the good things her mom taught her? She tries not tearing up. These days she'd rather make peach cobbler her mom's way instead of experimenting like the way she used to in the kitchen. It's her way of remembering the woman who loved her so much. She regrets so much not taking one trip back home and having coffee and cookies with her or at least gardening together one last time.
▸ REGRET 2 (Zack...I'm so sorry) – Ah, young lovers. Zack and her spent more time together than it appeared in Crisis Core. Everytime they were at her house and alone in her room, things would get hot and heavy but they never went any further than fondling. Call Aerith old fashioned, she was a virgin and still is a virgin, she wanted to wait until marriage. Now she looks back with fond and sad regret, wishing she and Zack had bonded that way, so she'd have something even more deep and personal to remember him by besides the moments they shared. If she ever sees him again... she'll be gunning for their first time at some point. She trusted him then, it was just a combination of shyness and wanting to wait. She's learned time is short since becoming aware of his death back then and sometimes, grabbing those moments can be more important than old fashioned values.
▸ REGRET 3 – (Never kissing Cloud) – This will be short, but she wanted to kiss fluffy chcoobo headed man just one time. However, she respected Tifa and felt she deserved him more in some way. Why? Because she had loved him much longer, and Aerith's heart still clung to the memory of Zack. None of it would have been fair. Still...he looked like he had the soft lips possible. She wants to strangle the crazy man that killed her, because she might have been able to sneak a peck at least but again, she cared about Tifa more than she let on, despite being jealous. While Tifa is the toughest woman she's ever met, she's also the most delicate. Aerith has an easier time of brushing off insensitive actions and comments. She noted Tifa really didn't.
▸ REGRET 4 (Tifa! ...I feel like we could be closer than this. I feel like we're more alike than we're even both thinking) - She never even got to hug Tifa, from what I remember. She regrets that deeply, she highly respected the woman and saw her as beauty and strength incarnate, so Aerth couldn't help being jealous of her a little. She wishes she had told her that entirely, had built her up instead of saying underhanded things sometimes. It was a small rivalry that shouldn't have been in Aerith's opinion.
▸ PRIDE 1 (Who's got a green thumb? Aerith's got a green thumb!) - Back when she was ten and learning how to garden, it took some time before she got the hang of it. Most of the time things died until she discovered things like plant food, the right amounts of water and sunlight, tending to her garden frequently instead of perodically. She's learned it takes a lot of love and care to make a garden grow and she was so proud the first time the Tulips and sunflowers she planted blossomed, she teared up and clasped her hands together and hugged her mother so tight.
She finally learned what to do instead of being careless, she finally learned how to handle things just right. She was told then, that her biological mother smelled like Tulips and sunflowers the day she dropped Aerith off at the train station. That day, she made a crown of sunflowers and stuck a pink tulip behind her ear. Mama and her celebrated with a small gathering with friends from the slum. She made all the little girls she had for friends sunflower crowns and all the boys got cheap race cars from her mama and her. The girls were impressed with the garden, one even jealous and the boys weren't interested. They weren't even into girls yet they could give flowers but Aerith enjoyed the time and even slept in the garden after the party. Somehow...she felt closer to the planet when she did that. Makes since considering her status as the last remaining Ancient.
▸ PRIDE 2 (It worked! Everyone will be safe now...I'm so happy, Zack. I'm so happy.) - Strangely, partly because she was an ancient she was able to watch from the lifestream as her friends fought to save the planet from the manic known as Sephiroth. She kept praying from the lifestream, and when meteor finally manifested, the white materia ghosted out from the lifestream and made meteor go away. She had a celebration with part of Zack's conscious she could talk to with her consciouness. It wasn't much but mostly they were both happy everyone on the planet would live and never have to worry about someone as crazy as Sephiroth again.
HEAD CANON 1 (THE HERBELIST) – Her mama taughter her home remedies for sicknesses, wounds, headaches and various other things. She knows the chemical properties of many types of flowers and herbs, and sticks by them pretty readily unless she most certainly needs a hospital. She rarely went to the hospital as a child though, and herbel remedies tend to work out for the best, though sometimes antibotics get the job done quicker.
HEAD CANON 2 (THE GAMER) – She loves arcade games! There was a small arcade in the slums. She loved playing the fighting ones, the shooting ones and even race car games. She's the type that gets excited when she finally wins a round, jumps around and hugs random people in celebration, scaring the bejeezus out of them. I won't be surprised when she discovers this world has game consoles, expensive but soon as she has enough money she'll grab herself a playstation 4 and go to town. She'll try very hard not to neglect her florists duties and I bet she'll get into fantasy games heavily, especially RPG ones.
HEAD CANON 3 (THE MOTORCYCLIST) – Her mama had an interesting boyfriend briefly that was a mechanic. He taught Aerith how to ride motorcyles at 15 outside of Midgar. Which was hard considering Shinra was keeping tabs on her, but she bargained with them, that they'd be allowed to research on her a little by taking blood and running some other tests if she could go outside the walls and just learn to ride a motorcycle. Don't be surprised if she gets a motorcyle at some point too, not a Harley because I doubt she can hold it up properly but at least a suzuki or something. Probably red or green or even pink if she can swing it.
HEAD CANON 4 (THE CREATIVE) – She's very good at art things. She picks up on new art forms quickly. Her favorite mediums happen to be clay, drawing paper and metal. She's even done garbage art when something came to mind and once again, the mother's boyfriend took her to a junkyard to pick out parts and pieces to do something interesting. She kinda made a metal rose of sorts which was very hard but satisfying once finished. Aerith's the type to see beauty in everything and everyone, so even garbage has a beautiful purpose in her eyes! Everythings recyclable! She really loves making flower arrangements as well, and tends to get very creative with it. I can't wait for her to have a flower shop, because like she'll probably give her customers free candy and fruit to go along with their arrange to make them even prettier in some way.
HEAD CANON 5 (THE LETTER) – I am in the belief that Zack and her wrote a lot of letters back and forth while he was away on Shinra duties. That's why she clung to Cloud. I'm about 99% positive that Zack wrote about how Cloud had spikey hair like him, except he was blonde, shorter and just as blue eyed. That he was a bright and happy kid, who just wanted to move up in the SOLDIER ranks and do his best. That he also had the same spunk, it was just quieter and more reserved. So when she met Cloud in the slums playground, she knew right away this was who Zack had spoken about in the letter. She kept it a secret, which I always imagined Aerith keeps a lot of secrets, but back to that, she didn't let anyone know she knew Zack for a long moment and then she discovered through Cloud that he died. I think. Therefore, she already knew a lot about Cloud and clung to him. It was more the spikey hair that reminded her of Zack, she actually developed feelings for Cloud somewhat because he was himself. She kept her romantic feelings from developing too deep because she felt Tifa deserved him much more than she did, considering their history. And still, she had these memories of Zack that never really went away.
HEADCANON 6 (THE BOOK WORM) – She loves to read, especially while surrounded by nature. She used to take books out in the garden and fall asleep with a bug or two crawling all over her. She can't remember how many times she woke up with a beetle crawling across her cheek and freaked out because she wasn't sure what it was. Eventually she'd be calm and flick them off. Her favorite types of novels are usually psychological in a sense or fantasy, or comedies, especially romantic comedy type reads. Tseng was so fond of her, he'd drop her off one book a week and ask for thesis and reports on the story and characters. At first she was annoyed, but she learned to enjoy psychoanalyzing characters and figuring out their motives and their secrets.
HEADCANON 7 (THE MUSICIAN) – She can play flute and Cello. She's very adept at both and knows how to make a beautiful sound out of them. She used to bargain a lot with Shinra, even though they had the power and they didn't have to do anything for her but force her, but Tseng had a soft spot for her and gave her whatever she asked for in return for testing. So, they bought her a flute one time when she was nine and she learned to play, they even paid for lessons. A second time when she was thirteen, they bought her a Cello and while heavy and hard to play, she got a thrill and happiness from it. She still enjoys playing, so when she has the money, she intends on buying both. Wait until she plays Legenda of Zelda games, she's going to learn all those smooth 8-bit, 16 bit, 32 bit and 64 bit tunes on the flute, probably Cello too.
HEADCANON 8 (SHE KNEW) - She knew she was going to die in the ancient underground city. She received a premonition in her head about her death, an angel said in her head 'Young Aerith. You have a duty to perform for your god, for the planet, for your friends. You will die in the ancient underground city, but everyone will be okay. Are you alright with this?' Aerith teared up a little, but she nodded. That was all the angel needed to hear. It's hard to explain why she had to die, and why she couldn't mention it but mostly her friends might have avoided going underground with her when she had to pray in that exact spot and Sephiroth was unstoppable back then. There was no other choice. She kept it a secret close to her heart and tried not to cry too much, she didn't and still doesn't like having pity parties too much. She resolutely to her death and by the end of it, she appreciated people like Tifa more and knew someday Cloud would have all the affection he needed from the fighting heart. She knew everyone would be okay if she did it, so dying was worth it in the end.
Let me explain, it's hard to translate her limit break to a more real life setting but I'm only going to use a few that she came with here so they make sense to displaced's world. One I'm tentatively going to use, but the mods have every right to tell me take it off if they want. It makes people she targets invincible for a few minutes, so they're safe and protected while they fight or do anything else for that matter.
HEALING RAIN - She can manipulate the weather, she can't make it storm or cause tornadoes but she can make it rain. The designated area she makes it rain, will heal anyone from a painful injury or sickness. The rain water must wash over the wound or must be drank though to heal. So it's best to collect to it in a small pail or glass when she does this, because the rain will only downpour for one minute, then turn into a heavy drizzle for the next seven minutes and finally trickle out for two minutes. She prays to a higher power to do this and I'm hoping it still works here for the most part. She can't make a big area of rain, but a smaller area and it usually works at any rate. Usually this would be healing wind but I figured this made more sense. Also, this won't work on poisons and other ailments like it.
BREATH OF THE EARTH - It heals poisons and other ailments. She can take her breath over something like a venomous or poisonous snake bite and the poison/venom will automatically gather up in the person's skin and seep out so they don't die. Why? Her breath has healing properties because she's an Ancient. This will work with any poisonus or venomous bite, or even blowing breath near someone's blind eyes that was unnaturally blinded, rather than being blinded over time or something that is permanent/happened a long time ago and won't be fixed with just her breath. Like if someone threw acid in your eyes, she could use her breath to blow over your eyes/around your eyes and your eyes will heal but this must be a recent injury.
GREAT GOSPEL - This actually wakes up a tired person that has been battling, but it also makes them invincible for at least five minutes and unable to be touched physically but they can touch others physically. They become kinda glowy, mildly transparent and slightly sparkly in a sense. How they become invincible is a breath of wind strong wind ghosts over them and then boom, they're able to fight without consequences for a little while or she could use this for other such things like going into an abandoned house to rescue a scared cat and incase you might fall through the floor, you won't break a leg because you were protected.
She can't do any of this unless she prays, and it's intensive prayer, which she is always answered, usually at any rate. She knows better than to constantly pray for these things, because the higher power might not appreciate it. She definitely doesn't pray for silly things or even for an evil person that the higher power will not answer for.