None of the characters are mine, I'm just borrowing them.
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When Lulu was born her father burst into tears and couldn't stop crying for a good half hour, while her mother looked on with a sort of fond bemusement. They took her home to a brightly coloured nursery full of fluffy toys. They called her their miracle, since they'd believed they couldn't have children.
When she was three she dragged her favourite cactaur doll through a mud puddle. When her mother took it away for washing she threw a fit, and at it's peak threw off several tiny sparks of electricity. Her parents were amazed when they realised she was one of the rare people born with a mage's talents.
When she was six she began training at the church to master her powers. She was the first natural black mage born in Besaid in over thirty years, and, as is always the case of those few gifted people, she took to magic like a fish to water. At the same time she became friends with two boys whose parents worked in the temple. The three quickly became close, and it was a rare day when they couldn't be found giggling together over some mischief they'd made.
When she was eight, Sin attacked Besaid. Lulu and her friends were in the sea playing blitzball at the time, and their frantic parents made their way down there despite the risk. They managed to get to their children, and dragged them toward the town with sin spawn hounding their steps, but were cut off from the main path. With no other options, they threw their children over the cliff into the lake leading to the track. It was all they could do to hold off the beasts until their children had swam to safety, but they died in the attempt.
After three months the church managed to track down her closest relative, a cousin several times removed named Ginnem. She barely out of childhood herself, and studying to be a summoner at Macalania Temple, but she packed up everything she owned and moved her training to Besaid. She found a solemn, sad-eyed child waiting for her, a drastic change from the bubbly girl Lulu had been. Only the younger boy, Chappu, was able to lift her from her depressed state with any regularity. Mainly she just threw herself into her training, adding lessons in weapons on top of magic.
When she was 10 Ginnem was officially made an apprentice summoner. Around the same time Lulu's skills as a mage surpassed those of her teacher, and she replaced those lessons with shuriken fighting. She had finally moved past grieving her parents death, but it was clear to everyone, though never spoken, that she fully intended to go with Ginnem when her pilgrimage began. No one tried to persuade her against it, Ginnem hadn't grown close to anyone other then Lulu during her time there, and a summoner with a child guardian was better then one with no guardian at all, especially with a child such as Lulu.
When she was eleven Ginnem was granted Valefor's powers, and began her pilgrimage with Lulu at her side.
Before the year was out Ginnem was dead, Sin defeated, and Lulu's body drastically weakened for life.
This is their story.
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When Lulu was born her father burst into tears and couldn't stop crying for a good half hour, while her mother looked on with a sort of fond bemusement. They took her home to a brightly coloured nursery full of fluffy toys. They called her their miracle, since they'd believed they couldn't have children.
When she was three she dragged her favourite cactaur doll through a mud puddle. When her mother took it away for washing she threw a fit, and at it's peak threw off several tiny sparks of electricity. Her parents were amazed when they realised she was one of the rare people born with a mage's talents.
When she was six she began training at the church to master her powers. She was the first natural black mage born in Besaid in over thirty years, and, as is always the case of those few gifted people, she took to magic like a fish to water. At the same time she became friends with two boys whose parents worked in the temple. The three quickly became close, and it was a rare day when they couldn't be found giggling together over some mischief they'd made.
When she was eight, Sin attacked Besaid. Lulu and her friends were in the sea playing blitzball at the time, and their frantic parents made their way down there despite the risk. They managed to get to their children, and dragged them toward the town with sin spawn hounding their steps, but were cut off from the main path. With no other options, they threw their children over the cliff into the lake leading to the track. It was all they could do to hold off the beasts until their children had swam to safety, but they died in the attempt.
After three months the church managed to track down her closest relative, a cousin several times removed named Ginnem. She barely out of childhood herself, and studying to be a summoner at Macalania Temple, but she packed up everything she owned and moved her training to Besaid. She found a solemn, sad-eyed child waiting for her, a drastic change from the bubbly girl Lulu had been. Only the younger boy, Chappu, was able to lift her from her depressed state with any regularity. Mainly she just threw herself into her training, adding lessons in weapons on top of magic.
When she was 10 Ginnem was officially made an apprentice summoner. Around the same time Lulu's skills as a mage surpassed those of her teacher, and she replaced those lessons with shuriken fighting. She had finally moved past grieving her parents death, but it was clear to everyone, though never spoken, that she fully intended to go with Ginnem when her pilgrimage began. No one tried to persuade her against it, Ginnem hadn't grown close to anyone other then Lulu during her time there, and a summoner with a child guardian was better then one with no guardian at all, especially with a child such as Lulu.
When she was eleven Ginnem was granted Valefor's powers, and began her pilgrimage with Lulu at her side.
Before the year was out Ginnem was dead, Sin defeated, and Lulu's body drastically weakened for life.
This is their story.