Един със руса коса и дребен

After seeing a fal'Cie two days prior to the game storyline while
visiting Bowdam during their vacation, Hope and his mother were
captured by PSICOM and sentenced to be Purged under the notion they were tainted by Pulse. They were among the group that was saved by Snow Villiers and Team Nora.
Hope's mother volunteered to fight with Snow, but lost her life after
saving him from a cannon blast and then falling off the destroyed
motorway as Hope watched from afar. Since Snow got her involved in the
fight and could not save her (despite his efforts to do so), Hope holds
a grudge against him. After watching his mother fall to her death,
Vanille slaps Hope, tells him to snap out of it and go with her to a
safer place. After they remove their Purge attire, Vanille smiles at
him and hands him a gun. Then she hugs him, tells him that it's okay to
run away, and waves good-bye to him. Shortly after Vanille leaves, Hope
follows her. They find Snow surrounded by Lebreau, Gadot, Maqui and
Yuge, as he is about to go to the Lowerworld Vertigo, and Hope's grudge
intensifies when he learns Snow's group bore the same name as his
mother. Vanille encourages him to follow Snow into the Pulse fal'Cie to
let out his repressed anguish, but ends up becoming a l'Cie.

Hope being hugged by Vanille



After the party leaves Snow at Lake Bilge, they find an airship and
use it to escape but it gets damaged and crashes down towards the Vile Peaks.
After Lightning leaves Vanille and Sazh, Hope decides to go after her
for unknown reasons. When Lightning summons Odin for the first time, he
prepares to attack Hope, but after Lightning saves him, Hope helps her
fight Odin. Afterwards, Hope is seen with Lightning about to enter the Gapra Whitewood,
telling her to let him take the lead. Lightning asks him if he can do
it but Hope says that it wasn't about whether or not he could do it.
Lightning smiles at him, gives him the nod to go ahead, tells him to
look forward and that she will guard his back. After some time,
Lighting gives Hope a knife that she received as a birthday present,
and he tells her that he'll use it to make Snow pay for what happened
to his mother. In Palumpolum,
Hope shows Lightning a path that will help them sneak past the PSICOM
soldiers. While underground, Hope is confided with Lightning's past.
After riding an elevator back up to the surface, Hope and Lightning are
ambushed by Yaag Rosch and his troops. Lightning tells him to run while
she keeps them busy, but Hope refuses. Snow and Fang
arrive and attack the soldiers while riding Shiva. At the same time,
Lightning protects Hope as she attacks the troops. After he and
Lightning are rescued, Lightning gives him to Snow while she goes off
with Fang. Soon afterwards, Hope confronts Snow about his mother. When
Snow says that all he can do is go forward and find answers, Hope
objects and tells him that he is running from what he deserves. Snow
tells Hope to tell him what he deserves, and Hope says the same fate
that his mother suffered: death. He uses his l'Cie power to blow Snow
off a high ledge. As Hope is about to kill Snow with the weapon
Lightning gave him, a Sanctum airship fires a shot behind him and, just
as what happened to his mother, sends him over the ledge. Snow jumps
off after him, catching him in midair and shielding him from the fall.
As a result, realizing someone who was willing to give his life for him
could not possibly have deliberately killed his mother, Hope finally
apologizes to Snow, and when Snow accepts the apology, the two finally
become friends.

Bartoromy Estheim



Hope takes Lightning, Fang, and Snow to his house where they meet
his father, who is a brown-haired man with glasses who works for the Sanctum.
He told his dad that the party would leave once they were done resting
up because he wanted his father to be safe, since anyone harboring
l'Cie would suffer a horrible fate, but Hope's father protested, saying
that he did not care that Hope was a l'Cie, he was his son, and that
was his home. Hope hides with his father while Snow stands wounded and
bandaged before an entire platoon of soldiers led by Yaag Rosch.
Soon, Rygdea and more of Cid's soldiers arrive and Hope and the rest of
the party leave with them, leaving Hope's father behind as he and the
others board the Lindblum and are eventually reunited with Vanille and
Sazh in the Palamecia.
After leaving Cocoon, Hope and Vanille get sucked of the
airship they were using after it is damaged by a Pulse monster, saved
by the rest of the party flying Bahamut into Pulse. Later, Hope is
being comforted by Snow and Lightning, with the latter telling him that
they were all comrades sharing the same burden and smiles at him. Hope
tells Lightning that he doesn't want anyone to get hurt because of him
as his fear causes his l'Cie mark begins to glow, initiating his fight
against Alexander, which he managed to tame with help from Lightning
and Fang.
After returning to Cocoon from Pulse, Hope summons Alexander on a highway in Eden.