Aurica Nestmile

Aurica Nestmile (オリカ・ネストミール, Orika Nesutomīru) 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 in 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. 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 She became very distrusting of people, depressed and withdrawn.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. Obviously, 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.

Aurica first appeared saving Lyner's life with her Life Warmth Song Magic, since Lyner was almost dead from the impact when he crashed his airship in Viola Forest. She dropped her handkerchief, and when Lyner tried to return it to her, she feingned that she didn't know him. A little later, she was saved from the infected A.B.R. Alpha guardian thanks to Jack Hamilton and Lyner, where, thanks to Lyner's ability to raise the Reyvateil's power using Harmonics, she began to grow stronger.

She was captured by Bourd and subsequently freed when Misha selflessly surrendered herself in Aurica’s place after Bourd threatened to kill his captive. Anyways, Bourd threw her out of the airship and Lyner ended falling with her when he tried to save her, only to end up being saved by Krusche Elendia, which was flying in airship near them. The airship ended crashing in a floating island called the Falcon's Claw, but they survived, and found the ruins of a shrine dedicated to goddess Tyria of the Trio of Elemia. A little later, they were rescued by Radolf.

Aurica also assisted Lyner in the search for the Hymn Crystal Purger in the Singing Hill ruin, where, when the ruin collapsed during the search, she crafted the Song Magic Thunder Guard to save Lyner from falling in the Sea of Death. Both Krusche and Radolf where astonished by this fact, since it's very rare for a Reyvateil to craft a Song outside of the Cosmosphere. Afterwards, while searching for Lyner, she was cornered by the A.B.R. Gamma guardian, who was infected by viruses, and was saved by Lyner and Jack.

Later on, Aurica and others accompanied Lyner in his ascension through the tower, and she again helped Lyner when she was paired with him for the Ordeal of the Moon, the trial that they had to pass so the Teru Tribe would open the Pheyna Gate for them. In there, Aurica explained Lyner about the class system, and also, gave the name "Kitty Bowl" to the Circula Teleporter they needed to pass the Frozen Eye.

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 entered Aurica’s cosmosphere to duke it out with ELMA-DS. In the end, the virus is driven out and Aurica recovers.

Aurica also tried to help with the reparation of the Musical Corridor to stop the storm that was plaguing Nemo and Firefly Alley, but a virus appeared from inside her, and Shurelia and Ayatane had to intervene. Shurelia explained that Aurica had a hole in her mind and that Lyner had to help her close it.

A little later, Aurica began to have high fever, and it was discovered that it was because the Diquility that she was given a little before wasn't making effect, and they intended to give her another dose, but they couldn't since Aurica threw a tantrum and then, ran off angry. With the help of Misha, Lyner and the others found her in the fallen Hexagonal Plate and brought her back to Nemo, where Lyner gave to her the dose of Diquility. And they discovered that Aurica was the supposed reincarnation of goddess Tyria.

A little later, they went again to the temple in Falcon's Claw, where after some obstacles and puzzles, they found the Hymn Crystal Linker hidden in its depths. Aurica was overjoyced, since she had found the crystal that no one in the church could find. However, that was only one step for a evil scheme...

And she fell right into it sometime later, in 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.

Aurica showed how much she had changed her personality when she decided that she would sing the Re=Nation hymn to reactivate the tower and awaken Shurelia.

Sometime later, 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 generation Reyvateil 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 to defeat Mir, and maker her understand that not all humans were evil.

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, she, together with Misha and Shurelia, sang the Phantasmagoria hymn, with contained the wishes of everyone for a everlasting peace to come to Sol Ciel.

After everyone said their goodbyes, to go on with their lives, she makes one of the cutest marriage proposal ever seen to Lyner. 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.

Role in Ar Tonelico II
She appears as the leader of the demon mafia inside of Frelia's Cosmosphere, where she tries to abduct Fururu so she and her cohorts, Misha and Leila, can recover their demonic powers. She even uses her Don Leon costume to (comically) raise her powers.

In the real world, she, together with Misha and Shurelia sing Phantasmagoria to help Jakuri in her quest in the second tower.

Red Magic
Boom – throws a large ball of magic

Flamia – throws a large fireball

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 solidifying the voice

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 some HP

Life Shower – revives and 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 effects

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 - Disconnects and interrupts a program or song executed in the Tower, through the cutting of the energy flow to it.

EXEC_LINKER/. - Links a Reyvateil to the Tower both physically and mentally, thus turning her in the new Administrator.

EXEC_RE=NATION/. - Reboots the Tower while it is in Standby mode.

EXEC_PHANTASMAGORIA/. (together with Misha and Shurelia) - Makes peace between all the living beings in Sol Ciel, though it is more like a prayer for peace

Costumes
Standard

Skuwat

Holy Guardian

School Days

Don Leon

Bubble Passion

SERAPH

LILIM

Ceremony

Marlone