Profile
Mera Giswold
Story of Us
Brand x Music
Likes
- Reno
- Dumbapples
- Costa Del Sol
- Angeal / Genesis
- Sephiroth
Dislikes
- Hojo
- Heiddeger
- Scarlet
- Gin
- Hollander
Hobbies
- Hanging out
- Writing
- Reading
- Volleyball
- Swimming
Personality
Realist
AttitudeLeft
DOm. handINFJ-A (Advocate)
MBTITemperence
TarotAlly
ArchetypeFox
Spirit animalMidgar/Costa del Sol
SettingIntegrity
Kindness
Patience
Charisma
Intellect
Manners
Loyalty
Courage
Temper
Quirks & Habits
Mera tends to scrunch her nose whenever she finds something cute, funny or annoying. With a slight frown. She also often cracks her fingers, neck, back and even her ribs. Which makes most of her entourage quiver in disgust because she doesn't seem to feel any pain doing so.
Communication skills
Mera communicates a lot through actions and stares. However, she talks a lot when it comes to her close loved ones. She's sensitive and is expressive when she's off duty. Which she isn't when she's on a job. She's also tactile and doesn't seem to be extremely bothered being touched by the people she knows.
Showing affection
Mera is affective. However, her love language is random acts of kindness and service. You can find a breakfast, coffee or even a gift on your desk pretty often. She also did the cleaning of one her friends' place when they were off Midgar. She hugs and kisses a lot forehead/cheeks depending on who's the person she's interacting with. Mera doesn't mind saying "I love you" even to a friend.
Favorites
Gyashl Salad
FoodCherry Juice
DrinkVanilla
ScentBlue
ColorLys
FlowerLight
ElementSummer
SeasonAfternoon
Time of dayJumpers
Clothing itemFantasy
GenreSoft rock
MusicAcoustic Guitar
InstrumentAppearance
Facial features
Mera has a soft plumbob face shap with a skin that differs from fair to tanned if she ever goes to Costa del Sol. She has two dimples, one in each cheeks and bright pink eyes due to the Mako exposure. Eyes that can go lilac whenever she has a vision. She possesses seven beauty marks that forms the Ursa Major constellation under her right eye.
Scars & Marks
Mera doesn't have many scars thanks to the care she puts into her skin condition, but she possesses a tiny one behind her left ear because of an injection that was committed by a niddle that surpassed the recommended size.
Hair
Mera's hair are cut into two parts : one black and the other (the lowest) dark chestnut. This is due to the experiments and the Mako made by Hojo when she was a child. She often straightens then until she stops, Angeal telling her he liked her curly hair better.
Makeup
Mera's job doesn't let her wear heavy makeup, therefore she just doesn't. However, she does, every once in a while, use eyeliner and rhinestones with soft lips. She barely knows how to put eyeshadow on and barely can stand concealer on her face.
Wardrobe
Mera is soft when it comes to dressing up. She knows where her advantages are and knows how to put them first. However, she doesn't in day to day life. At least, 60% of times. She wears oversized clothes and tight jeans often with sneakers or a pair of heeled sandals. Even boots during autumn and winters. However, she likes dressing a bit fancier every once in a while and takes care of herself. She wears her TURK uniform without the tie.
- Jumpers
- Oversize clothes
- Skin-tight dresses
- Strapless crop tops
- Baggy clothes
- Strict dresses
- Kaki
- thongs
Story
Childhood
We have got the required signature About the person mentioned in the file through Legal means and total consent of the mentioned one. SHINRA COMPAGNY.
Ever since the beginning of the Shinra Company, the Giswold family has sent all the children born from the descendants or, close relatives to the main branch, to the Shinra and made them work as agents in different categories: military, scientifically, marketing, or even medically wise. A Glorious future is facing them, as entrepreneurs for the wealthiest. Mera is the third child of a couple who's the father was the bearer of the Giswold heritage, therefore, it’s no news if his offspring would sooner or later join our noble cause. They eventually did. Abel Giswold joined the military. We have integrated Victoria into the medical field as a nurse, and Mera became a trainee amongst the TURKS recruits. About January, Hojo decided what to do with her, to which President Shinra gave his consent.
The young Mera became a part of Hojo’s experiments to create a new type of Super-Turk (project T.) Supposed to bring a new type of agent amongst the TURKS team to protect from close to both the President and the borders of our lands. Miss Giswold has grown alongside the SOLDIER First Class Sephiroth, and inevitably, the two became friends as they were only two kids in the same boat. Later on, her father died alongside his wife in results of the bombings from the Wutai.
These events pleaded to Abel’s enlistment into the military of the Shinra whilst January went to the labs of Professor Hojo to become the first participant of the NEW SOLDIER project. By the age of 18, Mera officially joined the TURKS and got her first mission in helping Sir Reeve Tuesti to eliminate the rebels from the Sector 7th. (However, we never had confirmation from close or far concerning how this mission has ended, as they deleted the reports.)
Life as a TURK
Mera’s cooperation with Sephiroth was so successful that they’d even started teaming up frequently. Which led Director Lazarus to discuss of the importance between the TURKS and the SOLDIERS as colleagues. Prior to the G catastrophe, our agent also contributed to the close protection of Aerith Gainsborough, in disguise. Our geopolitical consultants advised us to send both Angeal Hewley and Mera Giswold to the Wutai as a disguised couple to cool down the tensions. This mission included the saving and safety of our hostage: the Green Emerald.
After their comeback, Sephiroth announced her sister’s unfortunate passing from the experiments, which her body couldn’t have taken any longer. Not long after, it was Abel who vanished from Gaia’s surfaces under weird circumstances. Only Victoria and Mera remained, and loved ones could both certify how bad their relationship was.
The betrayal of Mera came from her pregnancy involving our agent, Reno. A short-long story that’d be resumed into a secret, yet impossible, love that’ll give us the obligation to punish the responsible. Hojo operated Mera in order to abort the child from the womb, but what we discovered is that the baby was eight months far. Pregnancy deny. A bigger procedure has been planned, and Mera had to stop working for a couple of months. At least, long enough to recover. Which sped up through the help of Sephiroth, who brought a materia. /p>
That did not keep the child, of not getting past the following weeks.
We also recorded it with proofs that Agent Mera Giswold has joined Angeal’s cause and worked for him to help during the attacks of Genesis Rhapsodos. Zack Fair did not agree with her statement of how good the world would become if the Shinra fell from its high grounds. Our infiltrated discovered that Sephiroth did not follow our orders, which were to either execute or denounce the TURKS. Because of his rank and doings, we weren’t able to downgrade him.
2007-2011
AFTER THE TURKS
(written by Elena)
After the death of Fair, my training became harder, and I did witness for the search of Mera throughout Gaia. Captain Tseng wanted her, dead or alive. Mainly because her participation would give us answers about the projects of Avalanche and Sephiroth. Her house in Costa del Sol is inhabited, and her flat went abandoned. Reno told me they broke up soon after their offspring’s death. How unfortunate, but it’s the law of being a TURK. I don’t know what Reno thinks about this, he never speaks out. I think he wants to forget.
After the Geostigmats Outbreak, Mera went away all over again, following Reno’s savings from the trio. Damn, I wonder where she is. That woman leaves the traces behind her… Reno must be determinate to get her back to Edge…
Living as a Nomad
After being found by Reno but eventually giving up definitely on being a TURK or the possibility to take back her post, Mera teams up with Genesis for a long while before the latter joins DeepGround because of his connection to the organization. Mera ultimately disagree with his choice, but both decide to stay in good terms. They split until Vincent Valentine contacts Mera and asks her informations about DeepGround. Mera eventually works alongside Vincent to fight DeepGround and his bosses : Weiss and Nero.
Nero being her Nemesis power-wise due to her element : Light. Genesis attempts multiple times convincing her to give up on fighting the brothers, which she highly disagrees to. Mera fights Nero and almost dies. She's then pushed back by both Sephiroth and Angeal, Genesis saving her one last time. Vincent commmands her to leave and they both plan an offensive against DeepGround with the help of Reeve, boss of the WRO. Mera eventually finds Veld and asks him everything he knows about DeepGround and the two brothers. The rest is unknown.
Combat
Attack
Defence
Speed
Protection
Control
Support
Fighting style
Mera is relatively passive when she fights. She prefers to talk over eventually having a physical encounter with somebody. She often tries to convince the concerned to peacefully give up, mainly because she attends no harm. However, once she does, she's reckless and tends to use of her speed to multiply her waves of violence towards the person.
Strengths
- Using light element
- Good aim
- Excellent Speed
- Agility on point
Weaknesses
- Darkness element
- Poison
- Fire
- Any type of mortal weapons
Mera is on top of that, a light user. Her primary weakness is Darkness and can suffer a lot if she’s confronting a user of this element. She’d die quickly facing Sephiroth using Darkness (even though she doesn’t stand against the Legend at all). Mera uses her power both as defensive and offensive. Ice is equally effective on her, with poison as well.
It’s not common seeing pink coloured irises, but it’s even less common when it comes to having visions. Mera remains a natural-born medium who can see both the past and the future, but with a price. Each time the brunette has a vision, her eyes become different with a very light purple shade, which almost looks white facing the sun or strong light. The consequences can be blindness for a few minutes or hours, days at its extreme. When it reaches its limits, Mera can bleed from her nose, which is harmless (step one), but dangerous if she starts bleeding from her eyes too (step two). Mera can clearly die. Fortunately, it doesn’t happen much, she can’t, nonetheless, be blind definitely. Nora Giswold stated her daughter’s gift was the inheritance of her grandmother, Cynthia. Victoria is also a medium, but not extremely like her younger sister. Mera indeed saw her mother’s, father’s and brother’s death when she was a child, but never recognized it until she met Sephiroth back in Final Fantasy. She had foreseen Angeal’s death before it happened back in Crisis Core, however, she didn’t perceive the face of the SOLDIER at this moment. Mera confessed being guilty of her incapacity of protecting Angeal, Genesis, and even him. Thus, Mera can't see faces, distinctive objects, clothes, either names, which doesn't give her a clue of what she sees.
Lithe, The Slaughtering Scythe : Lithe is a special scythe made of mithril whom can slaughter all types of enemies as long the bearer doesn’t get themselves killed; it stands out well with twenty blades on its own. Murdering, anyone passing through the weapon is getting wounded or dead. Lithe can be infused with light thanks to Mera while she provides her element to the gear, it’s most likely sure it’d hit someone or something. Its height is 5’4.
While Dalliance is made for firepower, Elision is for accuracy. Shorter than its twin, Elision is likely being a revolver with a scope and compressor, while Dalliance length is a bit bigger, with more ammos than the other one. Mera can use them both at the same time, or just one. You can definitely feel the lack of accuracy with Dalliance and the opposite with Elision, with the firepower as well.
Inventory
Heal Materia
Materia capable of giving heal to the needed.
Phoenix tails x15
Capable of reviving one.
TURK EARRING
An accessory enhancing the defence of the one wearing it.
Ether x8
Restores a small amount of MP.
Trivia
General
- Mera's measurements are said to be 36-24-38.
- The end of her hair will never go black again
- She used to watch her mother doing her makeup. That's how she learned.
Combat
- Mera avoids collateral damages.
- Mera doesn't use thunder because she doesn't like the tingly sensation in her fingers.
- Her main invocation is Shiva.
Social
- Mera, Genesis, Sephiroth and Angeal used to hang out at least 4x times a week.
- Mera and Reno were together for a year. Their stillborn is named Elio.
- Mera doesn't like staying at one place for too long.
Design
- She's been created since over a decade.
- Mera's hair is naturally curly.
- She never had cut her hair except the ends.
Related
Relationship:
Respect
Trust
Comfort
Caring
Affection
Sephiroth and Mera know each other since they were kids caught in Hojo's lab. They met when Mera dropped a bag of candies into Sephiroth's cell and the latter decided he wouldn't tell anyone. They both forgot about this as they grew older, but their friendship became undestructible. They never left each other's side and promised they'd never give up on one another. Mera was heartbroken when she learned the truth about him and grieved hardly his death.
Relationship:
Respect
Trust
Comfort
Caring
Affection
Mera and Angeal know each other thanks to Sephiroth who got them both to meet for a mission. Related to the Wutai War. Angeal was the very first one to ever kiss Mera when she was 18. As a new TURK. Angeal apologized numerous times to her, but she never really gave a damn about that. Later on, the two grew close until Angeal developed feelings towards Mera. Feelings that were unreciprocated, but still kind of blurry due to them spending almost 95% their off time together. The two or alone. Mera never clearly stated how she felt towards Angeal besides he was a "friend and a great warrior". Sephiroth always found he was a perfect match for her : kind, honourable, generous...
Relationship:
Respect
Trust
Comfort
Caring
Affection
From the group, Genesis is the one Mera trusts the least. Noticeably due to his behaviour towards Sephiroth and overrall view of what being a hero is. He's smug, bold and she doesn't like that out of measure. To say he appreciated her is pure illusion. However, both grew to dig the resent and become closer. Which they did. Mera searched for Genesis post Advent Children and once she found him, she jumped in his arms, promising she'd never give up on him.
Relationship:
Respect
Trust
Comfort
Caring
Affection
Reno and Mera were colleagues that'd later grow into lovers when she reached her twentieth' birthday. Their relationship was explosive in terms that Mera and Reno were the counterpart of each other. Mera was the water, Reno was the fire. They had a son who's been stolen from Mera's womb, dying in the process. Afterwards, they splitted and Reno never got the chance to tell her what he felt towards everything that had happened. but he still loves her.