Aurica Nestmile

'Aurica Nestmile ' is one of the heroines of the first Ar Tonelico Game, Sekai no Owari de Utai Tsuzukeru Shoujo.

She is a very shy girl, who is very depressed and has a strong distrust of people as a result of a horrible event in her childhood, for which she blames herself. She is the daughter of a human and a reyvateil and hails from a small village on the Wings of Horus. Her abilities as a reyvateil are poor, thus earning her the lowly title of “D-class”. Her self confidence is very low and she feels as though she is useless and she looks to her stuffed animal called “Don Leon” for support. She is emotionally dependent and deathly afraid of being hurt emotionally. In short, she is a tortured soul.

Aurica is obsessed with the Trio of Elemia. So much so, that she considers herself to be the reincarnation of the goddess Tyria. This and her only friend Claire are the only things keeping her going. That is until she finally gets a partner. The dense minded, but formidable fighter and Knight of Elemia, Lyner.

Aurica's Story
Aurica was born in Skuwat Village the 3753 year, daughter of a human father and a Reyvateil mother. As a child, she was cheerful and happy. At the age of 11, her hometown was destroyed during a battle between Tenba & the Teru Tribe…a battle that never would have happened without the lies of a certain bastard Bishop. Her parents were killed & her home destroyed…she lost everything and was now alone in the world. Aurica and her childhood friend, Claire, are the only two people from Skuwat still alive.

As a result, she blamed herself for what happened, because she was out of town when the fight happened and believed she could have saved them. She became very distrusting of people, depressed and withdrawn. Her future abilities as a reyvateil suffered greatly as well thus placing her in the ‘D-class’ of reyvateils. This made her easy to victimize when she joined the Elemia Church three years later with the hopes of becoming the new Holy Maiden and a chance to meet with the Goddesses.

Because she is a 3rd generation reyvateil, she can not live beyond the approximate age of 15 to 20 without receiving a life extender agent called Diquility. There are only two organizations in the world that have it: Tenba and the Elemia Church. It was a no brainer that Aurica chose the church.

No sooner was she in the door of the church, when Bishop Falss came up with the idea to use her as the new vessel of Mir. Aurica was kept partner less for three years until Lyner arrived. She was partnered with him as a part of Falss’ plan. Aurica’s belief that she is the reincarnation of the goddess Tyria also made her vulnerable. She was captured by Bourd and subsequently freed when Misha selflessly surrendered herself in Aurica’s place after Bourd threatened to kill his captive.

Aurica is a dreamer and blinded by this and Lyner’s faith in her, she took on the responsibility of singing the hymn Purger to help destroy the virus ELMA-DS. Halfway through the fight, Aurica’s mind was severely damaged when ELMA-DS forcibly ripped a hole in her cosmosphere and ran rampant inside. The attack nearly kills her. Lyner and his friends enter Aurica’s cosmosphere to duke it out with ELMA-DS. In the end, the virus is driven out and Aurica recovers.

Still a dreamer, Aurica fell right into Falss’ plan four months later at the Alter of Apostles, when she sung the hymn Linker under false pretences and Mir tried to forcibly possess her. Of course, this was heavily aided by the implantation of Mir’s hymn code into Aurica’s cosmosphere via the diquility treatments. Mir successfully possessed Aurica and attacks Falss before turning her attention to Lyner & co. The process was stopped abruptly, when Misha began singing Chronicle Key during the event and drove Mir back into the binary field, thus saving Aurica’s life.

Upon recovering her strength, Aurica joined Lyner & co at the Alter of Apostles to put an end to Bishop Falss’ charade once and for all. After a long hard fight, Falss fell to the floor dead at Aurica’s feet. Slaughtered by the one for whom, he had caused incomprehensible pain for so long.

A short while later, Lady Shurelia was taken over by Mir with Ayatane’s help. It was once again time for Aurica to enter the fray of battle beside Lyner to save the world. She helped him obtain the FFT Divider, while rescuing his father from the SPU, and used it to sever Mir’s hold over Shurelia. It was shortly before this battle, that Lyner first showed indications that he truly has deep feelings for Aurica. She thanks him for everything he has done for her so far, including giving her a life worth living.

By the time a few months had passed from this point, Lyner had dived all the way to level E with Aurica and she attained tremendous power. So much power that she became the strongest 3rd generation Reyvateil ever as well as presumably the first 3rd gen RT to survive singing an ‘extract’ type hymn. Based on what occurs in game, it is also strongly hinted that Aurica had become just as strong as Misha. Using her new found power, she helped her friends put the beat down on Mir helping to straighten out Mir’s attitude.

Also, at that point, Aurica had regained some of her cheerful personality and even began to show a joker side, as Lyner had helped her to overcome her fears and psychological torture. Note that she was still a bit shy and her joker side catches Lyner by surprise. She had regained her confidence and it showed greatly in her battle quotes. Now boldly saying “Lyner! Let’s do this!”, instead of asking “Can I do this?”. Her trust in Lyner was sky high, as indicated by her line right before the final showdown with Mir when she put her life solely in Lyner’s hands.

After the battle with Mir and everyone says their goodbyes, she makes the cutest marriage proposal to Lyner I’ve ever seen. Presumably, he accepts, as they go to Karulu Village, take over the inn there & start selling music boxes powered by song stones there. Well ok, Lyner makes ‘em, Aurica sells ‘em. Aurica seems very happy in the end and even rags on Shurelia’s lack of direction one last time for good measure.

Note: some parts of this story assume that the player is going through Aurica's route.

Red Magic
Boom – throws a large ball of magic Flamia – throws a large fire ball Sword Slash – summons a reaper to attack with a magic blade Dragonferno – summons a dragon to attack with fire Undine – summons a fairy to douse the enemy with ice water Seraphiflyer – very strong cleansing lightning attack Boe – attacks enemy with verbal insults Ar tonelico – super strong magic only usable by the strongest RT’s Aurica MK I – summons a doll to shoot out a lightning blast Sylphan Dance – summons a fairy to attack with a tornado My Hero – summons an army of Don Leon’s

Blue Magic
Life Warmth – recovers a little HP Life Refresh – revives and recovers HP Life Shower – recovers a ton of HP Fire Guard – protects against fire Wind Guard – protects against wind Thunder Guard – protects against thunder Slasher – boosts attack power Defenser – boosts defense Booster – boosts agility Magi Q – absorbs enemies attacks ??? – unknown affects

Green Magic
Sonic Shot – shoots a burst of sound energy Fire Shot – shoots a burst of fire Ice Shot – shoots a chunk of ice Thunder Shot – shoots a bolt of lightning Gale Shot – shoots a gust of wind Analyzer – analyzes a destroyable target

Hymns
EXEC_PURGER/.#Aurica_Extracting EXEC_LINKER/. EXEC_RE=NATION/. EXEC_PHANTASMAGORIA/. (together with Misha and Shurelia)

Costumes
Standard Skuwat School Days Holy Guardian Don Leon Bubble Passion SERAPH LILIM Ceremony Marlone