Yuffie Kisaragi

Yuffie Kisaragi Age: 16 Gender: Female Height: 5 feet 2 inches Occupation: Materia Hunter, Ninja Yuffie Kisaragi is a materia hunter, originally encountered in various forests on the planet. As a mischievous and cunning ninja, she desires to restore her homeland Wutai to the glorious nation it was before being conquered by the Shinra Electric Power Company. She initially helps the party only out of her own self-interest before befriending them and becoming a valued member. Despite her obnoxious personality, Yuffie is friendly, helpful, optimistic, and willing to help the party in their battles.

Personality Yuffie is mischievous, cocky, and rebellious, acting brash and aggressive. In the beginning, she only cares for the prospect of obtaining materia and earning money, to the point of double-crossing others to steal it. However, she is not averse to heroics and later becomes a reliable ally and caring friend. Yuffie is brash and cocky, bestowing honorific titles onto herself, such as "the single white rose of Wutai", and provoking her opponents with insulting nicknames. She is usually bright and cheerful, adopting a playful attitude, though she struggles with motion sickness, both seasickness and airship sickness. During these times, Yuffie seeks solace to suffer her affliction alone, though she seems to enjoy encouragement and sympathy from Cloud, who is likewise prone to motion sickness.

Yuffie's motivation for materia hunting stems from a desire to restore Wutai to its former glory. She had been raised on stories of Wutai's greatness prior to Shinra's arrival and greatly resented how it had since become a tourist town. She was consumed by this goal and by her hatred of Shinra, having no sympathy for anyone who trusted them. When she confronted her father with this, he initially chastised her lack of maturity; when she proved her strength by defeating Wutai's guardians, he reconciled with her and imparted his wish to do right by Wutai, but warned her that a desire for strength merely begets a dangerous cycle. Following this, Yuffie adopted the larger cause of helping the planet, growing into heroism and becoming a reliable friend to Cloud and his party. She retained her desire for materia, however, asking the party to sign it to her once the quest was finished.

Despite her devotion to her hometown, Yuffie had little respect for its customs and traditions and disliked following them. She disrespected authority figures, be they Godo, Shinra (including friendly individuals such as Zack), or the Avalanche party leader. She later softened her stance and did not show hostility to the party later on; she even briefly appeared to have a crush on Cloud, though it manifested only in the optional date scene. Yuffie later followed Vincent around and attempted to phone him numerous times, much to his annoyance.

Appearance Yuffie is the youngest member of the party and is usually depicted as the shortest. She has short black hair (occasionally depicted as brown) and dark brown eyes. Throughout all of her outfits, she wears a white headband, sometimes with a second black band tied over it. Her outfits are variations on a sleeveless top, a pair of shorts (sometimes with a belted hip-pack resting on her right hip), and large boots, with some ninja armor and weaponry. Her weapon of choice is the large 4-Point Shuriken, though she also has a pair of kunai knives tied to the ends of the headband to hang down her back.

History Early life Yuffie was born in Wutai Village on November 20, 1991, one year prior to the onset of the Wutai War, to her father, Godo Kisaragi, and her mother, Kasumi Kisaragi. The war dominated her youth, lasting from 1992 to 0001, Yuffie grew up on stories of Wutai's honor and mystique before Shinra's arrival. Her mother died of an illness when she was young.

Meeting Zack and the Turks In Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-, a 9-year-old Yuffie approached Zack Fair when he participated in the invasion of Fort Tamblin, proclaiming herself as "Wutai's Greatest Warrior". Zack played along with her antics and she ran off. After losing the war to Shinra, Yuffie's father and the leader of Wutai, Godo Kisaragi, turned their hometown into a tourist attraction. Yuffie resented this and began to think about restoring Wutai to its former glory.

Some time after the war, Godo was given a list of SOLDIER email addresses and locations of rare treasure by an unidentified blond man (appearing to be Lazard Deusericus or Rufus Shinra), but did nothing with the information. Yuffie stole it from her father and sent Zack emails about rare treasure, intending to ambush him at the end of each mission and either steal from him or seize the treasure for herself. She failed on both counts when Zack either did not fall for her ruses or the treasure she found was not up to her standards. As Yuffie continued to taunt Zack through emails, the locations she led him to became increasingly dangerous, with Yuffie getting her information from an anti-Shinra group based in Wutai. On the final mission, Yuffie stole Zack's Bahamut Fury materia and escaped. She mailed it back to him a few days later, since she did not know how to use it.

Yuffie encountered the Turks in Wutai, where Avalanche had set up a stronghold in the pagoda. Pursued by Avalanche, the player Turk saved her and she began scheming to steal their materia moments after learning what materia even was. Yuffie followed the player Turk into the Avalanche base and stole the bomb detonators planted in the pagoda, after which the player Turk chased her to get them back. Yuffie accidentally pressed the detonator switch and cooperated with the Turk to escape out of necessity. After returning to Tseng, the Turks' leader, Yuffie realized that the player Turk was with Shinra and fled.