Sherry Barnett

Sherry Barnett (シェリー・バーネット) is a student of Midgar Royal Spellsword Academy. She possess a great knowledge in ancient languages and artifacts.

Appearance
Sherry is a cute girl of moderate height. She has short, pink hair with a lock of hair sticking on top. She has pink eyes.

Personality
"When it's all over, will you listen to my story?"

- Sherry to Cid Kagenou

Sherry is a smart, young girl which allows her to decipher ancient languages. However having poured a lot of her time in her studies, this makes her shy and unable to properly talk with others.

In addition, she is very loyal to those she is close to like her step-father and Cid. It was only developing a crush on the latter after receiving chocolate from him that she starts to be more active, in hopes to be closer to the boy.

Background
Sherry, was a good, cute, but naive girl, who was in the care of her mother, Lukreia (nothing is known yet, about her biological father), while she spent her childhood next to her mother, who was working hard at her job. Unbeknownst to Sherry, they were somewhat in financial trouble, they received a visit from a mysterious man named, Lutheran Barnett, who introduced himself as a good friend, who would help her mother and her in their work and funds for other things. What was she doing, during that time her mother began to study the artifacts she received and that Mr. Barnett gave her, including the "Eye of Avarice" and since then, a very affectionate relationship began to form since then.

But without knowing anything, one night, Sherry secretly witnessed the death of her mother at the hands of a mysterious man (without realizing it was Barnett) and was traumatized by that fact that would mark her entire childhood, and she cried hard at her mother's death. After her mother's funeral, Sherry was taken in by Mr. Barnett who treated her like his own daughter (not knowing that he was manipulating her), and Sherry began to try to recover from the event, and decided to continue her mother's investigation and work. ever since, while spending the rest of his childhood with his adoptive father, Mr. Barnett.

The Midgar Academy Terrorist Attack
Sherry and Lutheran Barnett are visited by Princess Iris Midgar and Alexia Midgar. Iris gives Sherry an artifact belonging to the Order of Diabolos and asks her to decipher the text on it. Ruslan encourages her to do so, stating its a rare opportunity.

As she walks in the cafeteria, Cid gives her a chocolate he doesn't need. Later, Ruslan sees the chocolate and she explains a boy gave it to her. He tells her that its hard to obtain such good chocolate, so the boy must really like her and she must consider well what she will reply.

Sherry goes to see Cid at the tournament and after his loss, she checks on him. She gives him cookies and asks if they can be friends and he accepts. Learning his name, she realizes he was Alexia's boyfriend and goes to speak with her, but Alexia explains that they are no longer together and were pretending to be a couples. That makes Sherry happy and she gets excited to work even more harder to decipher the text.

Powers & Abilities
Her greatest trait is her knowledge of ancient civilizations, allowing her to decipher their languages and recognize artifacts.

However, she is poor at fighting and her stealth is so bad that Cid had to step in to save her.