Sherlotta



Sherlotta (シェルロッタ, Sherurotta) is a young Clavat in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time. She is a girl who has some connection with a mysterious crystal, and takes the form of a black cat that can transform into the appearance of her real body bar a black tail. She is voiced by Marina Inoue in the Japanese version.

Story
Before the events of Echoes of Time, Sherlotta was a normal girl living in the Village. When the Crystal Core appeared in the Forest, Sherlotta was granted the power to create crystals. She was also granted immortality, along with a black-and-white cat belonging to Eryll. Larkeicus later came to the village to take the Crystal Core. He and his monsters attacked the people of the Village and killed all but Sherlotta. She ran into the forest until she arrived at the Crystal Core. Larkeicus reached her but before he could harm her, the Crystal Core began to harm him. Larkeicus was unable to take or even use the Crystal Core.

After this, Sherlotta was captured by Larkeicus. She was used in Larkeicus's immortality experiments, along with being forced to create crystals for him to use. This treatment left Sherlotta unable to act on her own anymore, but she escaped by placing her consciousness in the cat who was granted immortality. In the cat's body, Sherlotta wandered the forest alone for 2000 years until she found a baby in the forest, the young Hero of the story. After taking the baby back to the Village, she discovered that the villagers had reappeared due to the power of the Crystal Core. The old Village is abandoned and a new one is built, in which Sherlotta, along with the villagers, raises the Hero. The Hero eventually catches the crystal sickness, and Sherlotta is the one to obtain the cure for the Hero. On the Hero's 16th birthday, Sherlotta begins to prepare in the Forest for the Hero's coming-of-age ceremony.

As Echoes of Time begins, the Hero has a dream that a girl is running from a strange man (Sherlotta and Larkeicus, though the Hero does not know this) and they find a crystal in the Forest. This dream is hinted to have occurred more than once. Later, the Hero finds Sherlotta in the Forest, after having defeated the first boss for his/her coming-of-age ceremony. Sherlotta gives the Hero a crystal, which the Hero "will treasure forever,".Sherlotta and the hero come back to the village. Eryll comes to greet them. Eryll weakened and collapsed. She is carried back into the house and isdiagnosed with crystal sickness. The hero looks in town for something that can cure Eryll. Eventually, He/ She comes across a library and sees Larkecius he says he can make a cure for Eryll for a small favor. He has to climb the peak of 2 mountains;Fire mountain and Ice Mountain.chronicles. The night after the Hero cures Eryll and does the requested favors for Larkeicus, Larkeicus's plans are put into motion, resulting in the Crystal Core shattering. Meanwhile Sherlotta feels as if a bullet has ripped through her chest. She holds on to a table for support, but the pain comes again, and Sherlotta falls to her knees clutching her chest on the place where the heart is. And the pain comes again,making Sherlotta come falling to the floor. On the following morning, Sherlotta and the villagers (except for Norschtalen and Eryll) are nowhere to be found, but the Hero sees the immortal cat when he/she leaves his/her house that morning, though at that point he/she doesn't recognize the cat for what it is.



When the Hero travels to the pond in the Forest where the Crystal Core usually is, he/she finds Eryll there. Eryll explains that the Crystal Core shattered and instructs the Hero to find all of the Crystal Core fragments. After finding and returning the first fragment, the Hero is shown an scene from when he/she was little and had the crystal sickness. Upon returning the second fragment, another scene shows Sherlotta setting up the boss that is defeated for the coming-of-age ceremony. After the third fragment, he/she is shown a scene of the Hero as a baby, being named by Sherlotta, and the fourth fragment triggers a scene showing Sherlotta finding the Hero as a baby in the Forest. Upon returning the last fragment, the Crystal Core goes inside the Hero, and a new path in the forest opens up.

The Hero fights the coming-of-age boss again, and finds the Ruined Village. Sherlotta then tells the Hero that 2000 years ago, Larkeicus came upon the Ruined Village and killed everyone in it, except herself. Sherlotta explains that the Crystal Core made her immortal, and she was bestowed with the power to create crystals. Everyone in the Village is a ghost except Norschtalen, Sherlotta, and the Hero. Norschtalen and the Hero are only able to see them because the Crystal Core lets them do so.

Then Sherlotta agrees to join the Hero in search of parts to add to a crystal transforming machine that the Hero obtained when he/she was in search of Crystal Core fragments. From then on, she joins the party as a non-playable character; however, she can't be interacted with or even seen aside from cutscenes and conversations with people in the Town, where, as the Hero discovers, nearly everyone you talk to has some sort of connection or is terrified by Sherlotta.

At the end of the Graveyard, Sherlotta finds the first part for the crystal transforming machine, but awakens the Undead Princess, who tells Sherlotta to leave the part. Sherlotta, of course, does not listen and the Hero and his/her party go into battle with her. When you defeat the Undead Princess, she is absorbed into the part, and, in the same fashion as Sherlotta, effectively joins the party as a non-playable character. The Hero and Sherlotta go to the library to find a clue about where the next part is. There they discover a book in the library that describes how to get to the Mine. Once in the mine, they find the part, but when a giant lizard crawling around on the walls irritates her, Sherlotta throws the part at the lizard, and it becomes lodged in its back. Sherlotta instantly blames the lizard and demands that it "give that back!" The Hero is forced to fight the lizard in order to recover the part.

After the Crystal Staff is completed, Sherlotta and the Hero have to release power into the ruins at the top of Fire Mountain and Ice Mountain, as they have to supply the power to the gate that leads to the tower. At the top of the Fire Mountain, Sherlotta slams the Crystal Staff onto a pedestal and energy flows from the ruins into the gateway. The same exact sequence of events occurs at Ice Mountain, as well.

The Hero, the Hero's party, and Sherlotta then go to the gateway. There, Sherlotta creates thousands of crystals and uses the Staff to build a bridge to the Tower with the crystals. After clearing the Gate and upon entering the Tower, Sherlotta warns the Hero that the whole truth is finally about to be revealed, and cryptically tells the Hero that he/she will need to do "just about the simplest thing in the world" for Sherlotta. What that is is not revealed until the Hero reaches the top of the Tower.

Upon reaching that point, the Hero discovers that there is another Sherlotta, who looks the same as she appeared in the Hero's strange dream at the beginning of the game. Sherlotta then explains how this Sherlotta is her, and reveals what Larkeicus has been using her for and how she has been living in the body of the cat. Sherlotta then faces the Hero and asks him/her to kill her, because if she is not around to make crystals, Larkeicus cannot revive himself after he is defeated. Just then, Larkeicus comes out and tells the Hero and Sherlotta that it will not be necessary, because once he prevents the calamity that caused the crystals to vanish, he will not even need Sherlotta anymore. He says that he will even kill Sherlotta himself. Upon defeating Larkeicus, Larkeicus absorbs crystals from the true Sherlotta, which seems to cause the Sherlotta using the cat's body to suffer as well.

After a second battle, as Larkeicus is talking about his inability to be killed, Sherlotta rushes at him, shouting a challenge. Larkeicus easily grabs her face with his claw and stops her in her tracks. He then absorbs crystals from her. Sherlotta cries out in pain, and then Larkeicus tosses her away, absorbing even more crystals from the true Sherlotta. The Sherlotta the Hero knows fades away to reveal the cat, indicating that Sherlotta's consciousness is no longer in the cat's body. Larkeicus advances on the Hero, stating that his/her turn to die is coming soon. However, before he can do anything, the true Sherlotta grabs him from behind and holds him in place. Larkeicus is shocked, prompting Sherlotta to explain how she loves the Hero and would do anything for him/her. Sherlotta summons the Crystal Core to the Tower, and its presence hurts Larkeicus enough that he cannot move. Sherlotta tells him that she has realized why the Crystal Core appeared and why she became immortal and received her power to create crystals. Sherlotta created the Crystal Core herself. With that, Sherlotta releases Larkeicus and approaches the Hero. She asks that the Hero shatter the crystal for her.

After revealing to Larkeicus his own role in the disappearance of the crystals, Sherlotta announces that it is time to come back to their "own age." Larkeicus slowly disintegrates into dust. Sherlotta then tells the hero goodbye, saying that she has lived a long life and only knew the Hero for just a fraction of that life, but she would not have given any of it up. After thanking the Hero, Sherlotta is assumed to have disappeared in the same way Larkeicus had and the Crystal Core is destroyed.

Music
Sherlotta has a tune that plays during certain scenes titled "Sherlotta". Part of the tune also plays during the final boss tune titled "Last Battle".

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord
In My Life as a Darklord, an outfit can be downloaded as extra content for 200 Wii Points that makes Mira appear as Sherlotta.

Sherlotta