User:Krystal Tomlin/Archetypes

Perky Young Refugee
This archetype usually represents a cute (and in some cases, annoying) girl who is content with her life and seeks only positives of it despite being part of a larger populace that is shunned by the rest of society. Their weapon of choice varies, but it is usually one concerned with close-combat.

Examples

 * Final Fantasy IV has Rydia, who is the only survivor of the summoner village of Mist which was destroyed by Baron. While she's not as perky as the later examples, she does have the cuteness down and even then some of that cuteness disappears when she turns into a fully-grown women for only a short time (due to a faster time-span in Feymark) but has gained more optimism.
 * Final Fantasy V gives us Krile, arguing the very first perky girl in the series. She and her grandfather Galuf are not of the same world as Bartz, Faris and Lenna.
 * Like Krile, Relm is a preteen who also has a living grandfather but unlike in the previous game where Krile replaces her grandfather, Relm gets to fight alongside her grandfather. Both come from a magic village.
 * Yuffie is the first teen to get the perky title that launched in Final Fantasy VII. She's a ninja from an oriental town of Wutai in which she wishes to restore when it becomes nothing more than a tourist attraction - even if she has to steal the party's Materia to do so. But even then her obsession with them more or less remains.
 * Selphie from Final Fantasy VIII is a transfer student from Trabia Garden that has been dealt a devastating blow later in the game. Like Yuffie, Selphie has an obsession - in her case, it's trains. Unlike many of her 'sisters' here, Selphie may have started a relationship with a fellow party member - Irvine.
 * Eiko from Final Fantasy IX, like Rydia before her, is a summoner whose village is destroyed and is subsequently taken in by the party.
 * Rikku from Final Fantasy X is an Al Bhed, a race of humans that have been shunned by Spira because of Yevon's teachings. But she is the first to befriend Tidus when he first lands in Spira and both have a sort of a brother-sister rapport ever since. While she downplays this role in the original game, it gets taking up a notch or two in Final Fantasy X-2.
 * Penelo from Final Fantasy XII is often placed in this archetype despite being one of the less perky ones here (much like Rydia) and was actually born and raised in the capital city of Rabanastre along Vaan, who she later gets together with (like Selphie with Irvine).
 * In Final Fantasy XIII we have Vanille, who is one of the two Gran Pulsians left amongst the citizens of Cocoon and also a l'Cie who has slept for 500 years since the War of Transgression. She hides her guilt from the deaths she has caused since then with her upbeat and bright personality but later has to face her past and guilt like many of her sisters before her.