Character: Aerith Gainsborough
Canon: Final Fantasy VII Remake
Canon Point: Chapter 16 - Belly of the Beast / Whilst in Hojo's Laboratory

Crime: Abandonment

Background:
Local flower girl is the last of her kind, very friendly, and a chaos gremlin with good intentions! More seriously, Aerith is a street-savvy young woman who appears much more delicate than she actually is. She isn't the most well-versed in combat, but she has an incredible emotional strength about her that allows her to be empathetic, an excellent listening ear, and just an all around good friend.

As a note, I took her as a CRAU from isleofavalon, where I played her for a year, but nothing about her really changed and this won't impact likely anyone as much as it'll impact Balthier, with whom she had a very close and complicated relationship with that they'll eventually be forced to deal with. She'll very slowly regain memories from her adventure, but it probably won't serve as much more than conversation pieces.

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Abilities:
- She's got some weird Ancient powers, which I might play with here and there, though many of these seem insignificant. She gets to commune with the life presence in Expiation, so that's pretty cool.
- Very good with plants. DO YOU LIKE PLANTS? IF YOU KNOW AERITH, YOU DO NOW, BECAUSE SHE WILL NOT LET YOU LIVE OTHERWISE.
- She has some materia on her (but no staff...) and can use some of that magic. She also has a materia that she wears in her hair that she insists does nothing!

Plans:
Event:
- Aerith will want to help out wherever she can fit in during the food shortage. But probably not with repairs herself. (She can help hand someone tools whilst they repair, though.) Chances are she'll be of more use in the kitchens.
- She wants to go on adventure! I want her to go to Pessiria Forest and Rumpitur to meet the naga people. If you're planning on stealing and want her nagging in your ear about why that's a bad idea, this is your girl right here.
- I would also love for her to be one of those plagued with nightmares following the little adventure back.

General:
- She is seriously doing her best to make friends and help people out and we all saw how that turned out when she offered up her room with Cloud.
- Her evil, evil nemesis is here and now so too is her dead boyfriend who she never actually said was her boyfriend, but later claimed that she loved him, so everything is probably fine. (It is not fine.)
- She is going to help Rinoa make a flowerbed! (She would kind of like a flowerbed herself...)
- She's actually very interested in figuring out if she has a similar connection to this world's life force / energy that she has back home, so it could be a little amusing to have people stumble on her whilst she's testing all of that out.
- That said if you would like some flower education or just someone to meddle in your affairs whilst she tries to do good things and make good things happen, please let me point her in your direction.
- If you want a seeming damsel in distress for less-than-good intentions, I am also happy to offer her up, though she's probably not as much a damsel as it seems.