They're swirling around me. RPGFan writer Kyle E. Miller found her an "altogether awful creature" due to her defense mechanism of covering up "sinister secrets" with "yippees, smiles, and stupid hand gestures".RPGFan writer James Quentin Clark felt that Vanille's character grew deeper as the story went along.On the character's voice, writer Mattie Brice felt that the Australian accent that Vanille and Fang have helps to make the characters feel more exotic and emphasize the difference between them and the American-accented protagonists. Nabaat's regiment captures and imprisons them on the In the Fifth Ark, the group's l'Cie powers fully awaken, and they run into the Cavalry leader After days of searching, they find Gran Pulse void of human life and decide to journey to Oerba. Vanille shows Lightning a large concentration of souls in God's Sanctum below the cathedral, and Lumina explains the Soulsong is the Order's way of enabling Vanille to call the souls to her and save them from their suffering in the Chaos by offering them oblivion. The next morning, the Sanctum announced its discovery of Anima within the Vestige and quarantined Bodhum in preparation for the Purge. Though Fang left years ago to find the holy clavis, Vanille does not worry as her crystal shard shows Fang being happy. When Vanille told Serah about her dilemma, Serah advised her to find a way to overcome it. However, those in the upper echelons were rotten garbage who exploited Vanille's desire to help the suffering populace and atone for the past to control her. Vanille explains the souls of those who died after Vanille believes that she and Fang awoke to atone for the deaths caused by their past actions. It's the real me, but inside a dream. "Memories of Happier Days" plays when Lightning reunites with "Vanille's Theme" is part of the medley "Vanille's Theme ~ Memories of Happier Days ~ The Road Home" as the sixth track on the album. It plays when Lightning reunites with Vanille, and they converse in God's Sanctum. Evading soldiers, she returned to the shopping mall before making her way back to a field by the beach to spend the night. When they find the holy clavis in the Clavis Chamber Fang tries to destroy it, but the Order's Secutors appear and steal it.
After reassuring Fang that Serah will forgive her for getting her involved, they feel goddess Etro smiling at them. Her outfit is inspired by the traditional clothes of the Namibian Himba women. She tries to call out to Serah to tell her she and Fang had a dream about being in a new place with a young man and woman they had never met before. The Order seeks to destroy the dead and erase their existence from the living's memories, "purifying" them of their burdened pasts so they can be reborn in the new world with a clean slate and live in bliss as per the god Bhunivelze's vision. At the end of the eleventh day, Lightning learns from the souls of the dead in the form of Cid Raines that, unknown to Vanille, she has the power to help them be reborn in the On the eve of the Apocalypse, Lumina reveals to Lightning the Soulsong's true nature. Fang tells Lightning that the Order sought the clavis for its ability to summon souls, and she left the Order to find the clavis and keep it away from Vanille. My feelings were caught in a dead-end, so before I knew what I was doing, I’d bought into the Order’s – no, God’s plans.Fang and Vanille stay together in the new world and move to an arid region near a remote village in an area full of cattle ranches and rocky wilderness.
Snow saves them from a Soon after leaving Snow behind with Serah's crystal, the party happens upon a Sanctum airship, which Sazh pilots out to the skies of Cocoon. As Serah and Dajh appear over the horizon, they realize Vanille and Fang fulfilled their Focus for all of them. Kids are kids - it doesn't matter where they're from!Vanille feels at peace after helping reverse the harm she had unintentionally caused.
After the party splits up, … Vanille says that after the Soulsong kills her, she will join the dead and be erased from all memory with them. Fang says that a number of the Order's followers were decent people who treated her and Vanille well. She thus chooses to stay in the cathedral. Remembering how the priests of Oerba referred to Etro as a dark and scary goddess, Vanille wonders if they were wrong. Players take control of Lightning, the main character from Final Fantasy XIII, as the sole playable character. The developers have aimed for a world where the players would be able to reach almost everything visible on the screen, and there are no load times between areas unless the player eit… I mean, look, even I'm kind of worried. When Aoede enthuses about learning more of Lightning and wants to thank her in person, Vanille and Fang assure her Lightning's wish for the world has come true if everyone is content with living in the new world. Guiding the dead to the Ark with Fang's help saves Vanille's soul as well. Vanille learns none of the dead wish to be destroyed, and she kept hearing them because, despite their suffering, they wish to be reborn. The third variant, "Memories of Happier Days", begins with solo piano like her original theme, but turns into a melancholy yet uplifting orchestral piece.