Cloud Strife

Bio: Cloud was born in Nibelheim and was almost always a loner. He liked Tifa, but she didn’t pay attention to him. Cloud decided that if he joined Soldier, Tifa would notice him. One night Cloud asked Tifa to go meet him at the well and told her about his plan. Tifa made Cloud promise to come back and be her hero if he got famous.

Tifa, depressed about her mother’s death, decided to go up to the mountains and she almost died. Cloud was blamed and he left. Cloud never got to join soldier and became just a regular Shinra soldier. He was assigned to accompany Sephiroth and Zack to Nibelheim to find out about some monsters. Cloud hid his face when arriving and Tifa’s hope of Cloud appearing disappeared. When they went up to the reactor in the Nibelheim Mountains it was Cloud who was keeping Tifa out of the reactor while Sephiroth and Zack found the humans exposed to the raw Mako.

The town burned when Sephiroth went crazy. Zack pulled an unconscious Cloud from his house and woke up in time to see Zack head for the Reactor where Sephiroth said he would go to see his “mother.” Tifa’s dad got in the way of Sephiroth and was killed. When Tifa saw him, she got the Masamune that was embedded in her father and tried to attack Sephiroth. Tifa was overpowered and got slashed and fell down the stairs. Zack arrived and tried to attack Sephiroth, but he too was defeated. Cloud arrived and took Tifa to the side.

Zack told him to kill Sephiroth and Cloud got Zack’s sword and tried attacking Sephiroth. Sephiroth impaled cloud, but Cloud managed to lift Sephiroth by the end of the sword and threw Sephiroth into the pit of the reactor. Cloud and Zack were taken to the basement of the Shinra Mansion and were experimented on for 5 years.

Tifa was found by Zaban and taken to Midgar. Zack broke out one day and rescued Cloud and they escaped. They went to Midgar because Zack’s former girlfriend, Aeris, was there. Cloud was still weak, but was still able to hear Zack talk about becoming mercenaries. Right at the outskirts of Midgar, Shinra caught up with them and killed Zack. They thought Cloud was going to die anyways and left him.

Cloud didn’t die though and took Zack’s sword and his mind got messed up and his memories were fused with Zack’s. Cloud went to Midgar where Tifa found him at the train station. Cloud was then hired by Avalanche. He set a bomb for his first mission. On the second they were trapped by President Shinra and Cloud ended up falling to the slums.

He luckily survived and met the flower girl he saw on his first mission. She was being chased and Cloud acted as her bodyguard and escorted her to her house. When Cloud was trying to go back to Avalanche’s HQ, he saw Tifa in a wagon. She was being taken to Don Corneo’s place. Cloud had to infiltrate it to save Tifa and dressed as a woman to get in.

There they found out that they were going to destroy the Sector 7 slums to get rid of Avalanche. They got to the main support pillar but couldn’t stop Reno from setting off the self-destruct. Aeris was captured in return for Marlene’s safety. Cloud, Tifa, and Barret made it out before the plate came down. Jessie, Wedge, and Biggs didn’t.

They went to go infiltrate the Shinra Tower to rescue Aeris. They followed Hojo and found her and met Red XIII. They also found Jenova. They were captured, but in the morning they escaped and found that Jenova was gone. President Shinra was found dead with the Masamune stuck in him. Cloud briefly fought the new President of Shinra, Rufus. They all left Midgar and headed to Kalm where Cloud told his messed up version of when he came back to Nibelheim. At the marsh they found a Midgar Zolom wound up on a tree. Possibly done by Sephiroth.

In the cave they meet a new member of the Turks, Elena. In Junon, they are celebrating the new president’s arrival. Cloud gets on a boat and finds Sephiroth. They follow him to North Corel where they find out more about Barret’s past and how he got his gun hand. They go to Gongaga and find that Shinra is looking for special materia. They go west and find Red XIII's home and he finds out about his dad.

Still going west, they find a reconstructed Nibelheim and clones of Sephiroth. Continuing to follow him they reach Rocket Town. There they meet Cid and find that Sephiroth is going the other way now. Rufus now searches for the Temple of the Ancients and keystone to unlock it. Dio has it and they go to Gold Saucer where they find out Cait Sith is a spy and has taken Marlene hostage. They reach the Temple of Ancients and find Tseng wounded and follow Sephiroth deep into the temple where he tells his plan to become a god with the Black Materia.

They find that the entire temple is the Black Materia and Cait Sith volunteers to be the one to be crushed when the temple shrinks to be normal sized materia. Sephiroth then controls Cloud and Cloud is forced to give him the Black Materia. Cloud passes out and dreams of Aeris going by herself to the City of the Ancients and Sephiroth follows.

Cloud wakes up and Aeris is gone. He heads to the Sleeping Forest and to the City of the Ancients. Cloud finds Aeris praying for Holy to work. Sephiroth tries to make Cloud kill her, but he came to his senses and Sephiroth decides to do it himself. Sephiroth comes falling down with his sword and kills Aeris.

After a brief funeral, Cloud follows Sephiroth and arrives at the Icicle Inn where Aeris was born. Sephiroth goes to the Northern Crater and Cloud follows. Cloud finally catches up with him, but Jenova gets in the way. The Black Materia is retrieved from it and Cloud reaches the real Sephiroth and is forced to give the Black Materia to him. Meteor is summoned and Weapons awaken. Cloud is thrown into the lifestream and everyone else leaves with Rufus on the Highwind.

Cloud is found sometime later in Mideel with Mako poisoning. Tifa helps Cloud remember what really happened to him since he left Nibelheim. They find out that Aeris was trying to use Holy to save the planet and that Holy did work, but Sephiroth’s power kept it from being summoned. They prepare to fight Sephiroth, but Hojo got hold of the cannon in Midgar and was trying to help his son, Sephiroth, to achieve his godly-hood. Hojo’s first shot breaks the barrier surrounding the North Crater. Hojo is stopped before he could release a second. The team goes out to find reasons to fight Sephiroth and all come back and they destroy Jenova. They then destroy the 2 forms of Sephiroth. Cloud fights Sephiroth in his human form and easily wins. They escape the North Crater and hope that Holy has chosen to help the planet.