Lumina

a character from a game

Lumina is a major supporting character in Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. She resembles Serah Farron in appearance and crosses paths with Lightning during her quest to save the world, at times appearing as a friend and other times as an adversary.

Appearance and Personality
Lumina has pale pink hair tied into a ponytail on the left side of her head with a black hairband. Lumina's hairstyle is a combined hairstyle from Lightning's and Serah's, with the left side of her hair being Serah's, and the right side being Lightning's.

While her eyes appear a bluish-gray in-game, her eyes are a more sea-blue color in her CG render. She has a wide nose and wide, pink lips. The dominant color for her "gothic style" outfit is black and some parts of it are adorned with feathers. She wears a long sweeper with pink interior, sleeveless halter top with a black collar with silver studs and a silver feather pendant, lacy skirt, long glove on her left arm, thigh-high stockings, and shoes. She has aerials on the back of her right shoe and her left collarbone. While she most strongly resembles Serah, elements of her hair and facial features also suggest a resemblance to Lightning.

Lumina is playful and unpredictable, seeing the world as a plaything, and people as a source of entertainment. Although she can give helpful advice, she also enjoys toying with Lightning, and summoning monsters for her to fight. Hinting at a deeper connection to Serah, Lumina refers to Lightning as "sis", or it might be one of the ways Lumina taunts her. She also taunts Snow for his fatalistic attitude.

Story
In Yusnaan, Lightning encounters Lumina during her confrontation with Snow Villiers in his castle. After Snow grabs Lightning, Lumina appears in his place as an illusion, and breaks Lightning's sword with magic. In reality, Lumina is on the chandelier above the ballroom, which she sets ablaze before vanishing. The chandelier falls but Snow uses his l'Cie powers to stop it. As Lightning chases Snow through the castle, Lumina reappears to her in a Chaos Infusion. Lumina taunts Lightning that she is different from Bhunivelze's usual servants, since she is able to see inside the Chaos. Lumina summons a Zaltys to block Lightning's path and disappears, but Lightning defeats it.

After Lightning retreats to the Ark, Lumina returns to the area, commenting on Lightning seeming to have unrealistic hopes of saving Snow and the rest of Nova Chrysalia's people.

In the Japan Expo trailer, Lumina tells Lightning the people who died in the past are going to be erased forever, as though they never existed. She later tells Lightning that if the "wind of sorrow", the doomed souls of the dead, ever escaped, it would mean the end of the world as well as the future.

Abilities
Lumina is able to use teleportation magic and can summon various monsters to her aid.

Creation and Development
Lumina was designed by Toshiyuki Itahana.

Voice
In the Japanese version, Lumina is voiced by.

Etymology
Lumina is a word of Latin origin, the plural form of the word lumen, meaning "light". An alternate definition of lumen, however, is "eye", which could be a reference to Serah's Eyes of Etro in Final Fantasy XIII-2.

Trivia

 * When Lumina summons Zaltys she draws the power to summon it from her left bicep, referring to her resemblance to Serah, who had a l'Cie brand on her left bicep, and whenever a party member summoned an Eidolon in Final Fantasy XIII, they drew the power to summon it from their brand.
 * In early screenshots, the color of the feather pendant Lumina wears is black, and her collar lacks its metal studs.