Marlene Wallace
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Marlene Wallace is a major non-playable character in Final Fantasy VII. She is the adopted daughter of Barret Wallace.
[edit] Storyline
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[edit] Final Fantasy VII
Marlene is actually the daughter of Dyne and Eleanor, friends of Barret's. Barret had taken Marlene in as his own daughter after his friend Dyne, his hometown Corel, and loved ones were destroyed by Shin-Ra troops. As Marlene was less than a year old when her town was burned to the ground and her mother was killed, she has no memory of her biological parents.
In the storyline of the game, Marlene is four years old. She takes it upon herself to care for Tifa Lockhart's 7th Heaven bar when Tifa joins Cloud Strife and Barret Wallace on an AVALANCHE mission.
The game follows to a point where another of the lead characters, Aeris Gainsborough, gives herself to the Turks in replacement for Marlene's safety. Marlene is later held ransom by the Shin-Ra spy Cait Sith to force Cloud to cooperate with him on their journey to the Temple of the Ancients. She is later left with Elmyra, Aerith's adoptive mother.
[edit] Advent Children
Marlene also appears in the CG film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children as a major character, now 6 years old. Unlike many of the other children in the film, she is unaffected by Geostigma. It can be noticed that in the film she is wearing her hair similar to the way Aerith wore hers.
Her role in the film is fairly large. She recounts the story of Sephiroth and the events of Final Fantasy VII to the viewer. She is close to Denzel, caring for him when he is afflicted by Geostigma. She goes with Tifa to Aeris's church to look for Cloud, and is subsequently abducted by Loz and taken, with the other children, to the Ancient City. There, she witnesses Kadaj's manipulation of the Geostigmatic children, including Denzel, and is forced to watch as Cloud and Vincent take on Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo. By the end, she is safely back in Edge with Denzel. In the last scene she is seen holding Barret's hand, symbolizing that their bond is still strong.
Nomura has said of Marlene that due to her time with Tifa, she has essentially been taken under her wing and is a "mini-Tifa" in personality, but also shares a physical similarity to Aerith and could sense her presence near the climax of the film, giving her aspects of both women in her character.
| v · e · d | ||
|---|---|---|
| Characters | ||
| Main Characters | ||
| Cloud Strife - Tifa Lockhart - Marlene Wallace - Denzel | ||
| Villains | ||
| Kadaj - Yazoo - Loz - Sephiroth - Jenova | ||
| Other Characters | ||
| Aerith Gainsborough - Barret Wallace - Cait Sith - Cid Highwind - Elena - Red XIII - Reno - Rude - Rufus Shinra - Ruvie Tuesti - Tseng - Vincent Valentine - Yuffie Kisaragi - Zack Fair | ||
| Locations | ||
| Edge - Healin Lodge - Forgotten Capital - Midgar - Northern Crater - Sector 5 Church - Shin-Ra Headquarters | ||
| Terms | ||
| Cellphone - Fenrir - First Tsurugi - Geostigma - Lifestream - Meteor - Motorcycle - Remnants of Sephiroth - The Shera - World Regenesis Organization | ||
| Novellas | ||
| On the Way to a Smile - Maiden Who Travels the Planet | ||
| Music | ||
| Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children OST - One-Winged Angel |
