Save The Earth application
OOC Information:
Name: Maril
Are you over 15? Yes.
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IC Information:
Name: Preincarnated - Sheba. Reincarnated - Selene Leventis.
Canon: Golden Sun
Age: 14 turning 15 on August 5th.
Preincarnation Appearance: Here only she had violet eyes the way her character portrait did.
Any differences: Rather than being true violet, Selene's eyes are a shade of blue that sometimes appears violet under certain lighting (think Elizabeth Taylor rather than violet eyes from albinism). Other than that and her sense of fashion becoming a lot more modernized she looks much the same as she did when she was Sheba.
Preincarnated History: NOTE: Throughout this application the word 'Adept' is used to describe someone that makes use of Weyard's version of magic, which is called 'Psynergy.' The four elemental Psynergies are Venus (Earth), Mars (Fire), Jupiter (Wind) and Mercury (Water).
Though Sheba never knew for sure where she came from and spent most of her life trying to figure it out, she was born on the floating city of Anemos, an ancient society of Jupiter Adepts that separated themselves from the world of Weyard when they foresaw a great calamity during Weyard's ancient past. Many people in Weyard have theorized this but it's very uncertain because there's no way of reaching Anemos to ask. What is certain is that when she was a baby she fell from the sky and landed in the ruins north of Lalivero and was taken in by the town's mayor, Faran. This was because the people of Anemos foresaw that she would be necessary to help save Weyard from total destruction and threw her from the city so that when Felix's journey began she would be where she needed to be in order to join him.
Because of the circumstances under which she came to live in Lalivero and because of the strange powers she displayed at a very early age the townsfolk began to call her the Child of the Gods. Her reputation spread through most of eastern Gondowan to Suhalla and then went as far as Tolbi on the continent of Angara. Faran and his family treated her like one of their own but that didn't keep people outside of her adoptive family from acting as though she was a goddess. However her life progressed as normally as it could for someone who saw visions and read minds, until Babi, the ruler of Tolbi, decided that he wanted to use the land north of Lalivero to build a lighthouse to search for the ancient society of Lemuria.
Because Sheba had become something of a symbol for the people of Lalivero Babi had her kidnapped to secure their cooperation. He had his soldiers bring her to Tolbi and the Laliverans were instructed to allow him to build his lighthouse in exchange for her safety. They followed the instructions but the situation only served to worsen the tensions between Tolbi and Lalivero. This tension continued until after the most recent Colosso games when Babi saw the power of Psynergy in combat from Isaac. He charged them with finding Lemuria and arranged for Sheba to be sent home with an escort of Tolbi soldiers to keep her safe as they went through the Suhalla desert.
Unfortunately her homecoming was spoiled by the fact that her guards were killed by monsters in the Suhalla. She probably would have been killed too even though she was preparing to fight them with her then-rudimentary Jupiter Psynergy if Saturos, Menardi, Alex, Felix, Jenna and Kraden, a group of travelers from Prox, Imil and Vale, hadn't found her. They rescued her because they recognized that she was an Adept and would probably be useful to them and then kidnapped her with the intention of having her open Jupiter Lighthouse for them because it's impossible to enter an Elemental Lighthouse without an Adept of the corresponding element to open the door.
It was lucky for them that they had brought Sheba along with them because they wouldn't have been able to get into Venus Lighthouse without her either. Sheba was the one to guide them through the ruins north of Lalivero and into the Lighthouse proper (alluded to by how villagers in Lalivero mention that Sheba had visions about how to get into the Lighthouse, so she would have known how to get in even without using Reveal like Ivan did) and without her powers they would have been stuck at many of the Lighthouse's puzzles (the most obvious being the group of statues that needed to be mind read to figure out the solution). Through all of this Sheba was the group's hostage though she did get close to Felix who was willing to fight Saturos and Menardi over her safety by the time they reached the aerie.
By the time Isaac and his friends caught up to them on the aerie, Felix was having a falling-out with Saturos and Menardi because they were putting her in harm's way. Their argument gave Isaac's group enough time to fight them, but they were ultimately unable to keep them from lighting the beacon even though they did send Saturos and Menardi to their deaths. One of the effects of lighting the beacon was an earthquake, however, and this earthquake sent Sheba over the side of the lighthouse. Felix jumped after her to try and save her from dying and the two were swept out to sea in a miraculous coincidence.
The two washed up on the peninsula of Idejima which became a floating island after the earthquake at Venus Lighthouse and there they reunited with Jenna and Kraden. After a tidal wave the island slammed into the continent of Indra where the group decided that they would continue the journey Saturos and Menardi had begun. Sheba insisted on coming with them because it was her 'destiny' and convinced Jenna to let her stay by pointing out that they wouldn't even be able to enter Jupiter Lighthouse if she didn't come along.
Unfortunately for them the remaining two Elemental Lighthouses were not able to be reached on foot. They needed to find a ship and so they began traveling around looking for one but they had very little luck because the tidal wave that had pushed them to the continent had destroyed most of them. They got caught up in a lot of little things, from chasing down thieves and pirates to helping a mayor's entourage cross a desert to proving a man's innocence, until finally they befriended Piers, the man whose innocence they proved in Madra. After they helped him retrieve a precious orb that was necessary to move his Lemurian ship he agreed to take them in his boat to see Lemuria and then to wherever they needed to go.
In Lemuria they gained information about what was needed to cross from the Great Eastern Sea to the Great Western Sea and they also got confirmation that Weyard was slowly dying. Their sense of urgency renewed, Felix led his group into the Great Western Sea and ultimately (after a few side trips to fulfill a prophecy and fetch an item that was necessary to continue) to Jupiter Lighthouse, where Isaac's group finally caught up with them. Rather than stopping them from lighting the beacon they ended up agreeing to talk and ultimately joined forces so that they could make all of the necessary preparations and then travel north to Prox where the final lighthouse stood.
The unlit Mars Beacon was all that lay between them and revitalizing Weyard with the power of all four elemental Psynergies. However at the aerie they were confronted by the Wise One, the same being that had told Isaac to prevent the beacons from being lit at all costs. He attempted to stop them by having them fight a three-headed dragon (which was actually Isaac's father and Felix's and Jenna's parents) but they defeated it anyway. Faced with the knowledge that they had struck down their own parents the Adepts chose to light the beacon to save the world and make their sacrifice worth it. This triggered the Golden Sun Event which rekindled the spark of life in their parents, restored the true power of Psynergy to Weyard and had the side effect of lengthening the lifespans of all who were present on the aerie at the time, Sheba included. Unfortunately it also had the side effect of destroying the entire village of Vale where Felix and Jenna were born.
With the world saved the heroes had to settle back into their daily lives. Sheba stayed in Vault for a time to help the villagers who survived Vale's destruction get settled but after Felix on his own she did too because she was unable to bring herself to stay among the people who were willing to banish him when he'd done the right thing. She never heard from Felix again (or if she did, she never mentioned it to Jenna and the others) and by the time Isaac's and Jenna's son began his journey she still hadn't found the any answers about where she was born or where Felix had gone, a question she had been trying to answer since he left. In fact she grew distant from most if not all of her friends because they weren't actively looking for him which was something she found unforgiveable after all he had done for them which is why she didn't assist Matthew's party during the events of Dark Dawn.
In the end though she never did find Felix or her birth family and she never settled down and had her own family the way Isaac, Garet, Ivan, Mia and Jenna did.
A more detailed accounting of her history can be found here.
Reincarnated History: Selene was put up for adoption in Yuma, Arizona, when she was just a baby, and was quickly adopted by a man and a woman who had tried and failed for years to have children of their own. Three years later, her adoptive mother finally became pregnant and their little family of three became a family of four when she gave birth to Alexander, Selene's younger brother, a delightful little boy who - déjà vu - wouldn't care that they're not related by blood even if he knew (which he doesn't), because Selene is his sister and always has been. The two of them were very close growing up and it wasn't uncommon for them to be a sort of 'package deal' whenever they went anywhere, at least until Alexander started school and started making his own friends. Now they're still close but not as close as they used to be.
When Selene started elementary school she had her first real taste of getting to know people outside of her own family. All in all it went well. She made friends in kindergarten and first grade and stuck with the same small group until fourth grade when two of her friends moved away. In fifth grade she started to branch out a little more and slowly started getting used to reading peoples' expressions and body language to figure out when they're not being entirely honest with her, a skill she kept honing all through middle school.
She started her freshman year of high school at Harvest Preparatory Academy in Yuma and did well (except for geography which she's always struggled with, even when she was Sheba). However about three fourths of the way through the year her adoptive father got a job in Locke City and went on ahead to prepare a place for them while his wife stayed with the children until the end of the school year. The arrangements were made for Selene to start her sophomore year at Locke City Academy once instruction resumes after the summer break and as soon as she finished her freshman year she, her brother and her mother moved to Locke City to reunite with her father. With everything that's going on there it's shaping up to be an interesting summer and an even more interesting school year.
First Echo: From encountering and nearly being bitten by a venomous Gila Monster lizard while at a reptile house in a zoo shortly after her move to Locke City, Selene has regained the memory of staring into the face of a Storm Lizard in the Suhalla Desert (though she doesn't know what the desert is called) with the dead bodies of men dressed in armor strewn about the area, and an overwhelming sense of fear and helplessness as the monster approaches.
Preincarnation Personality: Sheba was the pride and joy of Lalivero and this was not just because of her Psynergy. Faran raised her to be a kindhearted and outgoing girl and even though she could be a snob sometimes these traits shine through in all that she did. She cared for her friends and family greatly and would do anything in her power to keep them from harm which is fitting for someone who was raised by a mayor: if she follows his example she will put the well-being of her citizens before her own well-being. It was because of Faran's upbringing that seeing people who put their own well-being ahead of others was anathema to her.
Unfortunately she did have kind of a swelled head and that was because of the way the people of her hometown regarded her. The people of Lalivero believed she was descended from the gods and treated her with the kind of respect that most people don't get until they're old and grey but Sheba was only 14 so the attention she got from her friends and family nurtured her ego. When she felt like she had something to say she would simply speak up because she is used to people taking what she has seriously (since they treated her as if she was descended from gods, after all), and it annoys her when people dismiss her as not knowing what she's talking about just because she's young. She was extremely intelligent (Kraden, a 70 year old sage who devoted his life to studying Alchemy, even said that she thinks of things he hadn't and has said she has come up with very good ways of simplifying difficult concepts so that others can understand them) so when you think about it her ego wasn't undeserved, at least as far as her intelligence went.
Sheba had a highly inquisitive mind and she didn't like it when people hide answers for her, which is why she felt lucky that she could use Mind Read to find out what people aren't telling her. Or maybe that was unlucky since she didn't always like what she found there, but she kept doing it anyway. Privacy doesn't mean much to her (unless it's her own privacy) and she has demanded answers from her traveling companions lots of times: most notably in regards to Piers's age and Kraden's theorizing. When it came to the citizens of other towns her moral compass wasn't the greatest. She wouldn't read minds in Lalivero but at every new place her party went to she would read their minds without a second thought and would relay her findings back to Felix and her friends so that they could use the information. She even tried to read the minds of other Adepts even though they have the ability to tell when she's doing it (which normal people don't have) which was a sign of how little she cared that people knew she is invading their privacy.
Strangely enough for a 14 year old girl she didn't value her own life very much. Or rather she could identify when a situation is hopeless and when struggling would just make things worse. When she was hanging from the side of Venus Lighthouse she came to terms with the possibility that she would soon be dying very quickly and did what she could to give herself closure by thanking and saying farewell to the person who had been looking out for her. So she didn't like leaving things without closure but she knew that the life she was leading was dangerous and that she might actually die. It didn't bother her as much as one might think. In a way she was almost able to detach herself from difficult situations and view them objectively.
As you might expect from a 14 year old she DID have a temper. She called people names and yells at them when they bother her even when doing so might put her in danger. She did know when to keep quiet in REALLY dangerous situations like when Saturos and Menardi had her on the lighthouse aerie but when there wasn't as much of a threat she felt more free to be herself. That included being mischievous and teasing people because she did have a sense of humor and she did on some level like seeing people squirm. She thought it was funny! She was only 14 after all and even though she tried to be she is not as mature as an adult. She even teased Garet when he thought his family was dead, but she thought it was okay because she knew they weren't really. Sometimes she toed the line between acceptable and really rude, just like any teenager.
In spite of everything, Sheba never felt like she belonged. It is a fact that she worried about how Faran viewed her and where her place was in his family since she could never be his real daughter. She had some deep-seated abandonment issues stemming from being thrown out of the sky and down to Weyard, which showed themselves in the way she frequently chided Felix if it seemed like he was going to leave her behind (on Idejima, when they discuss returning to Lalivero). Her first and foremost reason for going on the quest was to answer the question of where she came from, and saving the world was her secondary reason. Which isn't to say that she wanted to see the world destroyed, but she has wanted to know who her real family is and where it is that she belongs for her entire life.
Any differences: First and foremost Selene has a much stronger desire to go on living than Sheba ever did. If it had been Selene hanging off of Venus Lighthouse she would not have been able to say "goodbye and thank you" because she would have been too busy trying to pull herself up or calling for someone to help Felix pull her up. She is not able to detach herself from situations as easily as Sheba did and often takes things a little too personally because she lacks the perspective that Sheba had from reading minds and seeing the future. Where Sheba sometimes sounded or acted like a miniature adult because of this perspective Selene sounds and acts like the 14 year old she is and has nowhere near as broad a worldview.
Her temper is a bit more potent as Selene than it was as Sheba. Selene still shares Sheba's unwillingness to be looked down on and her unwillingness to take the blame for someone else, but where Sheba could channel her anger into reading someone's mind to find something to use against them, Selene cannot. This has left her a lot more easily frustrated, doubly so when she knows someone is hiding something from her, because when she was Sheba she was able to find out what it was. Selene has no such method save for very careful observation. Selene is more easily frustrated because of her shortcomings but also takes more time to study someone's usual habits so she has a baseline to tell if they're lying to her or not. Because of this she is a little more attentive to detail than Sheba who usually looked at the big picture.
Because she doesn't have as ready access to information as Sheba did, Selene is not as much of a know-it-all. That's not to say she doesn't know things (because she does) or that she doesn't rub her knowledge in others' faces (she does this too) but she is much more likely to admit when she doesn't know something whereas Sheba would act as if she knew and would read minds to get the information she needed on the fly. She has a burning desire to need to know everything but because so much of her information comes from books she simply doesn't have as large a knowledge base as Sheba did. Selene is more easily distracted by modern-day conveniences and inconveniences like music, movies, and schoolwork and since she doesn't have as much information she is more likely to admit she doesn't know something than Sheba was. (She'll immediately start researching it whens he gets home because it bothers her when she doesn't know things though.)
Since she wasn't praised as a goddess all throughout her childhood Selene's ego is not as well-developed as Sheba's was. She does still have confidence in herself because she's a very smart girl for her age but it's nothing so extensive as what she showed in canon. She doesn't expect people to take her seriously right away either because she's been treated as just a normal girl for most of her life. She will still talk back to people if they talk down to her but she is less haughty and more of a normal teenager.
Lastly Selene's abandonment issues are not anywhere near as deep-seated as Sheba's were. This is because even though she was adopted her adoptive parents haven't told her yet so she hasn't had any reason to question where her place is in her family is and she hasn't had any reason to wonder who her real parents were and why they gave her up. She still doesn't like to be alone for long periods of time and she really dislikes it when her friends move away and leave her but she is overall more well-adjusted and less questioning of where she belongs.
Abilities: Sheba's greatest strength was her ability to use Psynergy (which is Weyard's equivalent of magic). She was a Jupiter Adept, a master of wind-based Psynergy, and basically called upon windstorms and lightning to take down her enemies in battle. This is not to say that she could never use any other Psynergy though because by allying herself with elemental Djinn she could learn other skills; however, the abilities of the Wind Seer class are what she knows by default. Additionally, regardless of which class she was in, she could use the abilities Mind Read and Reveal to hear peoples' thoughts and see unseen things respectively.
As far as combat goes, she was trained in the use of staves and maces but she was never as hard a hitter physically as she was with Psynergy. She preferred maces once she learned to use them because they gave her more of an edge when she was cornered which could happen often if a monster ever got past the 'front line fighters' of the group.
Like Felix, Sheba was also exposed to the Golden Sun event at the top of Mars Lighthouse, which resulted in a much slower aging process. She supposes there are worse things than being perpetually stuck in puberty, as long as she doesn't get too many zits.
Lastly she had the ability to see visions of both the future and of the past. This ability was mentioned by villagers in Lalivero to point Isaac and his party in the right direction when they were following Saturos and Menardi who had kidnapped Sheba. It was said that the visions allowed her to know that the ruins north of Lalivero led to Venus Lighthouse (knowledge that was lost in Weyard's ancient past, which is why I believe she is able to see flashes of the past). Ivan and Hamma, the game's other Jupiter Adepts, are expressly stated to get visions of the future as well, and her moveset is identical to Ivan's (which is why I believe she is also able to see visions of the future).
Roleplay Sample – Third Person: Third person hides in brackets a few comments in. I'll also include one written in prose here as Selene:
Numbers, numbers, numbers. Selene is seeing so many numbers that it feels as if her head is spinning.
The paper in front of her is an Algebra II worksheet. Her parents had wanted her to get some practice done over the summer to make sure that she'd be ready for sophomore year at Locke City Academy, and she'd agreed. But now she was regretting it. The numbers were just swimming in front of her eyes, forming a long string of numbers that she just hasn't been able to get out of her head. But then she blinks and there it is, x^3 + 3x^2 − 14x − 20 = 0. An equation. Her homework. Not that weird string of numbers.
"You're not losing it, Selene," the girl mutters to herself. "You've been doing too much algebra. That's all."
She knows that isn't really it though because this has been going on for longer than she's been doing the worksheets. Ever since she'd had that weird daydream, nightmare, whatever you wanted to call it about a monster in the desert, she'd been thinking about the numbers. What she couldn't figure out was why and that was the most maddening thing about the situation. She hated not knowing things. She felt like she should know what was up with the numbers, and if she couldn't know that she should at least be able to put them out of her mind.
But she can't figure it out and can't ignore them. It has left her on edge and ill at ease and she wishes she could make it stop. She feels restless, like something is calling her. Like she should be doing something. But what...
With a sigh she leans over to rest her head on her desk. Not knowing what to do is stifling. She feels she should be doing something significant with her life and the thought makes her laugh. She's not even fifteen years old. What significant things could she hope to accomplish?
...especially when she can't even do homework without her mind wandering?
The scratching of pencil on paper reaches her ears and she looks over. She's started writing numbers without really thinking about it on the loose leaf paper she has for 'showing her work' and she realizes with a start that it's the string of numbers that's been playing through her mind for a good two weeks now.
She lets it happen. Maybe if she writes the string of numbers out it'll get out of her head for good or at least give her more information about what's going on.
Roleplay Sample - Network: [HANDWRITTEN - SKETCHED IN DIRT] [adapted from the 'Stake Out' prompt on![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
saveyourbrain]
this creepy man is standing in the park like he's waiting for someone
[The words are hastily scrawled in the dirt with a stick so her handwriting may not be the easiest to decipher. She hopes they understand that it's not easy to have great handwriting while she's hiding in a bush as part of her stakeout.]
i've been on his tail all day and he's been acting weird the whole time
before he stopped here he went into a small office building but i couldn't follow him because that would have given me away
he looks like this
[She tries to sketch out a man wearing a trench coat with a hat pulled low over his eyes but she is not an artist and it won't be easy to tell who she's trying to describe here.]
did anyone else see anything suspicious today? there's too many weird things going on for this to be a coincidence
Any Questions? No.
Name: Maril
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Name: Preincarnated - Sheba. Reincarnated - Selene Leventis.
Canon: Golden Sun
Age: 14 turning 15 on August 5th.
Preincarnation Appearance: Here only she had violet eyes the way her character portrait did.
Any differences: Rather than being true violet, Selene's eyes are a shade of blue that sometimes appears violet under certain lighting (think Elizabeth Taylor rather than violet eyes from albinism). Other than that and her sense of fashion becoming a lot more modernized she looks much the same as she did when she was Sheba.
Preincarnated History: NOTE: Throughout this application the word 'Adept' is used to describe someone that makes use of Weyard's version of magic, which is called 'Psynergy.' The four elemental Psynergies are Venus (Earth), Mars (Fire), Jupiter (Wind) and Mercury (Water).
Though Sheba never knew for sure where she came from and spent most of her life trying to figure it out, she was born on the floating city of Anemos, an ancient society of Jupiter Adepts that separated themselves from the world of Weyard when they foresaw a great calamity during Weyard's ancient past. Many people in Weyard have theorized this but it's very uncertain because there's no way of reaching Anemos to ask. What is certain is that when she was a baby she fell from the sky and landed in the ruins north of Lalivero and was taken in by the town's mayor, Faran. This was because the people of Anemos foresaw that she would be necessary to help save Weyard from total destruction and threw her from the city so that when Felix's journey began she would be where she needed to be in order to join him.
Because of the circumstances under which she came to live in Lalivero and because of the strange powers she displayed at a very early age the townsfolk began to call her the Child of the Gods. Her reputation spread through most of eastern Gondowan to Suhalla and then went as far as Tolbi on the continent of Angara. Faran and his family treated her like one of their own but that didn't keep people outside of her adoptive family from acting as though she was a goddess. However her life progressed as normally as it could for someone who saw visions and read minds, until Babi, the ruler of Tolbi, decided that he wanted to use the land north of Lalivero to build a lighthouse to search for the ancient society of Lemuria.
Because Sheba had become something of a symbol for the people of Lalivero Babi had her kidnapped to secure their cooperation. He had his soldiers bring her to Tolbi and the Laliverans were instructed to allow him to build his lighthouse in exchange for her safety. They followed the instructions but the situation only served to worsen the tensions between Tolbi and Lalivero. This tension continued until after the most recent Colosso games when Babi saw the power of Psynergy in combat from Isaac. He charged them with finding Lemuria and arranged for Sheba to be sent home with an escort of Tolbi soldiers to keep her safe as they went through the Suhalla desert.
Unfortunately her homecoming was spoiled by the fact that her guards were killed by monsters in the Suhalla. She probably would have been killed too even though she was preparing to fight them with her then-rudimentary Jupiter Psynergy if Saturos, Menardi, Alex, Felix, Jenna and Kraden, a group of travelers from Prox, Imil and Vale, hadn't found her. They rescued her because they recognized that she was an Adept and would probably be useful to them and then kidnapped her with the intention of having her open Jupiter Lighthouse for them because it's impossible to enter an Elemental Lighthouse without an Adept of the corresponding element to open the door.
It was lucky for them that they had brought Sheba along with them because they wouldn't have been able to get into Venus Lighthouse without her either. Sheba was the one to guide them through the ruins north of Lalivero and into the Lighthouse proper (alluded to by how villagers in Lalivero mention that Sheba had visions about how to get into the Lighthouse, so she would have known how to get in even without using Reveal like Ivan did) and without her powers they would have been stuck at many of the Lighthouse's puzzles (the most obvious being the group of statues that needed to be mind read to figure out the solution). Through all of this Sheba was the group's hostage though she did get close to Felix who was willing to fight Saturos and Menardi over her safety by the time they reached the aerie.
By the time Isaac and his friends caught up to them on the aerie, Felix was having a falling-out with Saturos and Menardi because they were putting her in harm's way. Their argument gave Isaac's group enough time to fight them, but they were ultimately unable to keep them from lighting the beacon even though they did send Saturos and Menardi to their deaths. One of the effects of lighting the beacon was an earthquake, however, and this earthquake sent Sheba over the side of the lighthouse. Felix jumped after her to try and save her from dying and the two were swept out to sea in a miraculous coincidence.
The two washed up on the peninsula of Idejima which became a floating island after the earthquake at Venus Lighthouse and there they reunited with Jenna and Kraden. After a tidal wave the island slammed into the continent of Indra where the group decided that they would continue the journey Saturos and Menardi had begun. Sheba insisted on coming with them because it was her 'destiny' and convinced Jenna to let her stay by pointing out that they wouldn't even be able to enter Jupiter Lighthouse if she didn't come along.
Unfortunately for them the remaining two Elemental Lighthouses were not able to be reached on foot. They needed to find a ship and so they began traveling around looking for one but they had very little luck because the tidal wave that had pushed them to the continent had destroyed most of them. They got caught up in a lot of little things, from chasing down thieves and pirates to helping a mayor's entourage cross a desert to proving a man's innocence, until finally they befriended Piers, the man whose innocence they proved in Madra. After they helped him retrieve a precious orb that was necessary to move his Lemurian ship he agreed to take them in his boat to see Lemuria and then to wherever they needed to go.
In Lemuria they gained information about what was needed to cross from the Great Eastern Sea to the Great Western Sea and they also got confirmation that Weyard was slowly dying. Their sense of urgency renewed, Felix led his group into the Great Western Sea and ultimately (after a few side trips to fulfill a prophecy and fetch an item that was necessary to continue) to Jupiter Lighthouse, where Isaac's group finally caught up with them. Rather than stopping them from lighting the beacon they ended up agreeing to talk and ultimately joined forces so that they could make all of the necessary preparations and then travel north to Prox where the final lighthouse stood.
The unlit Mars Beacon was all that lay between them and revitalizing Weyard with the power of all four elemental Psynergies. However at the aerie they were confronted by the Wise One, the same being that had told Isaac to prevent the beacons from being lit at all costs. He attempted to stop them by having them fight a three-headed dragon (which was actually Isaac's father and Felix's and Jenna's parents) but they defeated it anyway. Faced with the knowledge that they had struck down their own parents the Adepts chose to light the beacon to save the world and make their sacrifice worth it. This triggered the Golden Sun Event which rekindled the spark of life in their parents, restored the true power of Psynergy to Weyard and had the side effect of lengthening the lifespans of all who were present on the aerie at the time, Sheba included. Unfortunately it also had the side effect of destroying the entire village of Vale where Felix and Jenna were born.
With the world saved the heroes had to settle back into their daily lives. Sheba stayed in Vault for a time to help the villagers who survived Vale's destruction get settled but after Felix on his own she did too because she was unable to bring herself to stay among the people who were willing to banish him when he'd done the right thing. She never heard from Felix again (or if she did, she never mentioned it to Jenna and the others) and by the time Isaac's and Jenna's son began his journey she still hadn't found the any answers about where she was born or where Felix had gone, a question she had been trying to answer since he left. In fact she grew distant from most if not all of her friends because they weren't actively looking for him which was something she found unforgiveable after all he had done for them which is why she didn't assist Matthew's party during the events of Dark Dawn.
In the end though she never did find Felix or her birth family and she never settled down and had her own family the way Isaac, Garet, Ivan, Mia and Jenna did.
A more detailed accounting of her history can be found here.
Reincarnated History: Selene was put up for adoption in Yuma, Arizona, when she was just a baby, and was quickly adopted by a man and a woman who had tried and failed for years to have children of their own. Three years later, her adoptive mother finally became pregnant and their little family of three became a family of four when she gave birth to Alexander, Selene's younger brother, a delightful little boy who - déjà vu - wouldn't care that they're not related by blood even if he knew (which he doesn't), because Selene is his sister and always has been. The two of them were very close growing up and it wasn't uncommon for them to be a sort of 'package deal' whenever they went anywhere, at least until Alexander started school and started making his own friends. Now they're still close but not as close as they used to be.
When Selene started elementary school she had her first real taste of getting to know people outside of her own family. All in all it went well. She made friends in kindergarten and first grade and stuck with the same small group until fourth grade when two of her friends moved away. In fifth grade she started to branch out a little more and slowly started getting used to reading peoples' expressions and body language to figure out when they're not being entirely honest with her, a skill she kept honing all through middle school.
She started her freshman year of high school at Harvest Preparatory Academy in Yuma and did well (except for geography which she's always struggled with, even when she was Sheba). However about three fourths of the way through the year her adoptive father got a job in Locke City and went on ahead to prepare a place for them while his wife stayed with the children until the end of the school year. The arrangements were made for Selene to start her sophomore year at Locke City Academy once instruction resumes after the summer break and as soon as she finished her freshman year she, her brother and her mother moved to Locke City to reunite with her father. With everything that's going on there it's shaping up to be an interesting summer and an even more interesting school year.
First Echo: From encountering and nearly being bitten by a venomous Gila Monster lizard while at a reptile house in a zoo shortly after her move to Locke City, Selene has regained the memory of staring into the face of a Storm Lizard in the Suhalla Desert (though she doesn't know what the desert is called) with the dead bodies of men dressed in armor strewn about the area, and an overwhelming sense of fear and helplessness as the monster approaches.
Preincarnation Personality: Sheba was the pride and joy of Lalivero and this was not just because of her Psynergy. Faran raised her to be a kindhearted and outgoing girl and even though she could be a snob sometimes these traits shine through in all that she did. She cared for her friends and family greatly and would do anything in her power to keep them from harm which is fitting for someone who was raised by a mayor: if she follows his example she will put the well-being of her citizens before her own well-being. It was because of Faran's upbringing that seeing people who put their own well-being ahead of others was anathema to her.
Unfortunately she did have kind of a swelled head and that was because of the way the people of her hometown regarded her. The people of Lalivero believed she was descended from the gods and treated her with the kind of respect that most people don't get until they're old and grey but Sheba was only 14 so the attention she got from her friends and family nurtured her ego. When she felt like she had something to say she would simply speak up because she is used to people taking what she has seriously (since they treated her as if she was descended from gods, after all), and it annoys her when people dismiss her as not knowing what she's talking about just because she's young. She was extremely intelligent (Kraden, a 70 year old sage who devoted his life to studying Alchemy, even said that she thinks of things he hadn't and has said she has come up with very good ways of simplifying difficult concepts so that others can understand them) so when you think about it her ego wasn't undeserved, at least as far as her intelligence went.
Sheba had a highly inquisitive mind and she didn't like it when people hide answers for her, which is why she felt lucky that she could use Mind Read to find out what people aren't telling her. Or maybe that was unlucky since she didn't always like what she found there, but she kept doing it anyway. Privacy doesn't mean much to her (unless it's her own privacy) and she has demanded answers from her traveling companions lots of times: most notably in regards to Piers's age and Kraden's theorizing. When it came to the citizens of other towns her moral compass wasn't the greatest. She wouldn't read minds in Lalivero but at every new place her party went to she would read their minds without a second thought and would relay her findings back to Felix and her friends so that they could use the information. She even tried to read the minds of other Adepts even though they have the ability to tell when she's doing it (which normal people don't have) which was a sign of how little she cared that people knew she is invading their privacy.
Strangely enough for a 14 year old girl she didn't value her own life very much. Or rather she could identify when a situation is hopeless and when struggling would just make things worse. When she was hanging from the side of Venus Lighthouse she came to terms with the possibility that she would soon be dying very quickly and did what she could to give herself closure by thanking and saying farewell to the person who had been looking out for her. So she didn't like leaving things without closure but she knew that the life she was leading was dangerous and that she might actually die. It didn't bother her as much as one might think. In a way she was almost able to detach herself from difficult situations and view them objectively.
As you might expect from a 14 year old she DID have a temper. She called people names and yells at them when they bother her even when doing so might put her in danger. She did know when to keep quiet in REALLY dangerous situations like when Saturos and Menardi had her on the lighthouse aerie but when there wasn't as much of a threat she felt more free to be herself. That included being mischievous and teasing people because she did have a sense of humor and she did on some level like seeing people squirm. She thought it was funny! She was only 14 after all and even though she tried to be she is not as mature as an adult. She even teased Garet when he thought his family was dead, but she thought it was okay because she knew they weren't really. Sometimes she toed the line between acceptable and really rude, just like any teenager.
In spite of everything, Sheba never felt like she belonged. It is a fact that she worried about how Faran viewed her and where her place was in his family since she could never be his real daughter. She had some deep-seated abandonment issues stemming from being thrown out of the sky and down to Weyard, which showed themselves in the way she frequently chided Felix if it seemed like he was going to leave her behind (on Idejima, when they discuss returning to Lalivero). Her first and foremost reason for going on the quest was to answer the question of where she came from, and saving the world was her secondary reason. Which isn't to say that she wanted to see the world destroyed, but she has wanted to know who her real family is and where it is that she belongs for her entire life.
Any differences: First and foremost Selene has a much stronger desire to go on living than Sheba ever did. If it had been Selene hanging off of Venus Lighthouse she would not have been able to say "goodbye and thank you" because she would have been too busy trying to pull herself up or calling for someone to help Felix pull her up. She is not able to detach herself from situations as easily as Sheba did and often takes things a little too personally because she lacks the perspective that Sheba had from reading minds and seeing the future. Where Sheba sometimes sounded or acted like a miniature adult because of this perspective Selene sounds and acts like the 14 year old she is and has nowhere near as broad a worldview.
Her temper is a bit more potent as Selene than it was as Sheba. Selene still shares Sheba's unwillingness to be looked down on and her unwillingness to take the blame for someone else, but where Sheba could channel her anger into reading someone's mind to find something to use against them, Selene cannot. This has left her a lot more easily frustrated, doubly so when she knows someone is hiding something from her, because when she was Sheba she was able to find out what it was. Selene has no such method save for very careful observation. Selene is more easily frustrated because of her shortcomings but also takes more time to study someone's usual habits so she has a baseline to tell if they're lying to her or not. Because of this she is a little more attentive to detail than Sheba who usually looked at the big picture.
Because she doesn't have as ready access to information as Sheba did, Selene is not as much of a know-it-all. That's not to say she doesn't know things (because she does) or that she doesn't rub her knowledge in others' faces (she does this too) but she is much more likely to admit when she doesn't know something whereas Sheba would act as if she knew and would read minds to get the information she needed on the fly. She has a burning desire to need to know everything but because so much of her information comes from books she simply doesn't have as large a knowledge base as Sheba did. Selene is more easily distracted by modern-day conveniences and inconveniences like music, movies, and schoolwork and since she doesn't have as much information she is more likely to admit she doesn't know something than Sheba was. (She'll immediately start researching it whens he gets home because it bothers her when she doesn't know things though.)
Since she wasn't praised as a goddess all throughout her childhood Selene's ego is not as well-developed as Sheba's was. She does still have confidence in herself because she's a very smart girl for her age but it's nothing so extensive as what she showed in canon. She doesn't expect people to take her seriously right away either because she's been treated as just a normal girl for most of her life. She will still talk back to people if they talk down to her but she is less haughty and more of a normal teenager.
Lastly Selene's abandonment issues are not anywhere near as deep-seated as Sheba's were. This is because even though she was adopted her adoptive parents haven't told her yet so she hasn't had any reason to question where her place is in her family is and she hasn't had any reason to wonder who her real parents were and why they gave her up. She still doesn't like to be alone for long periods of time and she really dislikes it when her friends move away and leave her but she is overall more well-adjusted and less questioning of where she belongs.
Abilities: Sheba's greatest strength was her ability to use Psynergy (which is Weyard's equivalent of magic). She was a Jupiter Adept, a master of wind-based Psynergy, and basically called upon windstorms and lightning to take down her enemies in battle. This is not to say that she could never use any other Psynergy though because by allying herself with elemental Djinn she could learn other skills; however, the abilities of the Wind Seer class are what she knows by default. Additionally, regardless of which class she was in, she could use the abilities Mind Read and Reveal to hear peoples' thoughts and see unseen things respectively.
As far as combat goes, she was trained in the use of staves and maces but she was never as hard a hitter physically as she was with Psynergy. She preferred maces once she learned to use them because they gave her more of an edge when she was cornered which could happen often if a monster ever got past the 'front line fighters' of the group.
Like Felix, Sheba was also exposed to the Golden Sun event at the top of Mars Lighthouse, which resulted in a much slower aging process. She supposes there are worse things than being perpetually stuck in puberty, as long as she doesn't get too many zits.
Lastly she had the ability to see visions of both the future and of the past. This ability was mentioned by villagers in Lalivero to point Isaac and his party in the right direction when they were following Saturos and Menardi who had kidnapped Sheba. It was said that the visions allowed her to know that the ruins north of Lalivero led to Venus Lighthouse (knowledge that was lost in Weyard's ancient past, which is why I believe she is able to see flashes of the past). Ivan and Hamma, the game's other Jupiter Adepts, are expressly stated to get visions of the future as well, and her moveset is identical to Ivan's (which is why I believe she is also able to see visions of the future).
Roleplay Sample – Third Person: Third person hides in brackets a few comments in. I'll also include one written in prose here as Selene:
Numbers, numbers, numbers. Selene is seeing so many numbers that it feels as if her head is spinning.
The paper in front of her is an Algebra II worksheet. Her parents had wanted her to get some practice done over the summer to make sure that she'd be ready for sophomore year at Locke City Academy, and she'd agreed. But now she was regretting it. The numbers were just swimming in front of her eyes, forming a long string of numbers that she just hasn't been able to get out of her head. But then she blinks and there it is, x^3 + 3x^2 − 14x − 20 = 0. An equation. Her homework. Not that weird string of numbers.
"You're not losing it, Selene," the girl mutters to herself. "You've been doing too much algebra. That's all."
She knows that isn't really it though because this has been going on for longer than she's been doing the worksheets. Ever since she'd had that weird daydream, nightmare, whatever you wanted to call it about a monster in the desert, she'd been thinking about the numbers. What she couldn't figure out was why and that was the most maddening thing about the situation. She hated not knowing things. She felt like she should know what was up with the numbers, and if she couldn't know that she should at least be able to put them out of her mind.
But she can't figure it out and can't ignore them. It has left her on edge and ill at ease and she wishes she could make it stop. She feels restless, like something is calling her. Like she should be doing something. But what...
With a sigh she leans over to rest her head on her desk. Not knowing what to do is stifling. She feels she should be doing something significant with her life and the thought makes her laugh. She's not even fifteen years old. What significant things could she hope to accomplish?
...especially when she can't even do homework without her mind wandering?
The scratching of pencil on paper reaches her ears and she looks over. She's started writing numbers without really thinking about it on the loose leaf paper she has for 'showing her work' and she realizes with a start that it's the string of numbers that's been playing through her mind for a good two weeks now.
She lets it happen. Maybe if she writes the string of numbers out it'll get out of her head for good or at least give her more information about what's going on.
Roleplay Sample - Network: [HANDWRITTEN - SKETCHED IN DIRT] [adapted from the 'Stake Out' prompt on
saveyourbrain]this creepy man is standing in the park like he's waiting for someone
[The words are hastily scrawled in the dirt with a stick so her handwriting may not be the easiest to decipher. She hopes they understand that it's not easy to have great handwriting while she's hiding in a bush as part of her stakeout.]
i've been on his tail all day and he's been acting weird the whole time
before he stopped here he went into a small office building but i couldn't follow him because that would have given me away
he looks like this
[She tries to sketch out a man wearing a trench coat with a hat pulled low over his eyes but she is not an artist and it won't be easy to tell who she's trying to describe here.]
did anyone else see anything suspicious today? there's too many weird things going on for this to be a coincidence
Any Questions? No.