Selphie Tilmitt

**Selphie Tilmitt** is a playable supporting protagonist in *Final Fantasy VIII* and a supporting minor protagonist in both *Kingdom Hearts* and the Carl Cooper fanfic *Sora's Adventures in Kingdom Hearts.* She is an active, outspoken and energetic teenage girl who participates in many extracurricular activities, such as planning the Garden Festival and running a school website. She may be clumsy, but despite this she wields giant nunchaku in battle (the younger Selphie from the original *Kingdom Hearts* used a jump rope instead) and pilots the *Ragnarok* airship (Gummi Ship in *Sora's Adventures*).

She also appears in the original Kingdom Hearts game as a resident of Destiny Islands, able to fight Sora in the prologue and asks "What's most important to you?" to determine how one levels up in the game. In Sora'a Adventures, the original Selphie appears in Twilight Town as a student there, helping Hayner, Pence and Olette with their Mark of Mastery and later transferring to Radiant Garden High School to finish her schooling.

## Physical Appearance

Selphie is thin, shortish and has lightly tanned skin with green eyes, a pointy nose and chin-length brown hair that is a "swooped" style of bob. She most often wears a yellow overall dress with a clip at the front, a frontal zipper that travels the full length of the dress and two large back pockets. She wears a silver pendant, a blue strap bracelet on her left wrist and brown boots that reach mid-calf. As a cadet, Selphie wears the standardized Balamb Garden uniform with knee socks and shoes. This is how she looks in *Final Fantasy VIII* and Sora's Adventures.

While she is seventeen years old in Final Fantasy VIII and Sora's Adventures, the official *Kingdom Hearts* website states that she is thirteen years old at the beginning of *Kingdom Hearts* and *Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories* and fourteen during the events of *Kingdom Hearts II*.

In *Kingdom Hearts*, her alternate younger self is mostly unchanged, but her nose is less pointy and she wears brown-strapped tan sandals rather than her boots. She carries a brown-handled jump rope that she uses as a practice weapon, which later become the aforementioned nunchaku . She retains this appearance in *Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories* and *Kingdom Hearts coded*.

In *Kingdom Hearts II*, a slightly older and noticeably taller Selphie is briefly seen in a school uniform similar to the one Kairi wears: a short-sleeved white polo shirt, a plaid, sky blue tie, a pleated skirt of the same color, navy blue knee-high socks, and black shoes. She also wears a small brown strap around her left wrist in lieu of her bracelet from *Kingdom Hearts*, and carries a pink-lined white handbag with charms shaped like yellow stars and a moogle.

During development of *Kingdom Hearts Re:coded*, a coding mistake made her legs slightly fatter, giving her a more adult impression

Her school uniform in Sora's Adventures is changed to the Radiant Garden High School uniform: a white-and-black sailor fuku with a red scarf, knee socks and black shoes.

## Personality

Selphie is childish, upbeat and hyperactive, always looking to have fun. She is a fan of combining words to form new ones (such as taking "nervous" and "excited" to form "nervicited," not unlike Pinkie Pie). She wants to spread the lingo, but it fails.

Selphie is talented with computers and vehicles, and has many hobbies, ranging from running school websites to heading the Garden Festival Committee to being obsessed with trains. Selphie has a dark sense of humor, sometimes displaying it in a way others are not comfortable with.

## Powers and Abilities

Selphie's main weapon is a large pair of nunchaku, which she uses to whip opponents with. Her Limit Break is Slot, which randomly selects a command until a special ability is used. She is also a skilled technologist, and as such is often put in charge of electronics on missions. Selphie's primary Guardian Force she junctions, as first seen in Sora's Adventures in Twilight Town, is Carbuncle, who provides healing when summoned.