Lumina

a character from a game

Lumina is a 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. In the Japanese version, Lumina is voiced by.

Appearance and Personality
Lumina has pale pink hair tied into a ponytail on the left side of her head with a black hairband, large blue eyes, a wide nose and wide, pink lips. The dominant color for her "gothic style" outfit is black where she wears a long sweeper with pink interior, sleeveless top with feathers, 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. While her eyes appear a bluish-grey in-game, her CG render shows her eyes as a more sea-blue color.

While Lumina sometimes gives helpful advice, she also enjoys toying with Lightning.

Story


In Yusnaan, Lightning encounters Lumina in a dilapilated castle while chasing after Snow Villiers. Lumina taunts her that she is different from the usual servants of Bhunivelze since she could see her inside the chaos. Lumina summons a Zaltys to block Lightning's path and disappears, but Lightning is able to defeat it.

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

Creation and Development
Lumina was designed by Toshiyuki Itahana.

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 appears to draw the power to summon it from her left bicep. This seems to refer to her uncanny resemblance to Serah who had her l'Cie brand on the left bicep and that whenever a party member summoned an Eidolon in Final Fantasy XIII they drew the power to summon it from their brand.