Shalua Rui

'''This is not FF7 canon. Well, some of it is. Most of it is not. This is mostly me trying to keep my notes straight. Spoilers abound.'''

Born 1976

Shalua's parents did not accept the company payoff when Shinra built a mako reactor in her home town. Consequently, they were "relocated". Like so many others they were sent to an internment camp attached to the Corel Desert Prison. Shaula was separated from her parents there. She hasn't seen them since.

Life at the intern camp is hard, though life in the prison is reported to be harder. Shalua did her best to look out for her younger sister Shelke, but they were separated as well. She was assisting in renovations to the medical building but was injured on the job. The medical staff did their best, but the wound became infected, resulting in the partial amputation of her left arm, removing everything below the elbow. When she woke up, Shelke was nowhere to be found. She had been "recruited" by Shinra.

Recruitment is seen as a ticket back to civilization by some, as a deeper form of enslavement by others. Shalua follows the second school of thought. She is afraid for her sister, and schemes day and night as to how she might find and rescue her.

Shalua is unusually bright for her age, and has had to grow up quickly. She is currently apprenticed to the medical staff at the intern camp where she works as a nurse and automail mechanic.