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Cloud first appears in the game ''Final Fantasy VII'' and is the first character the player can control directly. He was born in the mountain village of Nibelheim. During his childhood, his father died and he was raised by his mother. Due to his lack of close friends, Cloud, perhaps as a coping mechanism, considered himself to be superior to all the other village children, and thus did not enjoy their company. | Cloud first appears in the game ''Final Fantasy VII'' and is the first character the player can control directly. He was born in the mountain village of Nibelheim. During his childhood, his father died and he was raised by his mother. Due to his lack of close friends, Cloud, perhaps as a coping mechanism, considered himself to be superior to all the other village children, and thus did not enjoy their company. | ||
At the age of 14, Cloud, upon learning of the legendary hero [[Sephiroth]]'s exploits and desiring to impress | Despite this, Cloud had a crush on his neighbor [[Tifa Lockhart]] while growing up, and the two became friends despite not being close during their childhoods. At the age of 14, Cloud, upon learning of the legendary hero [[Sephiroth]]'s exploits and desiring to impress Tifa, left Nibelheim for [[Midgar]] to join SOLDIER, the paramilitary arm of the Shinra Electric Power Company, a megacorporation that effectively ruled the world. | ||
Cloud and Zack were | Cloud's dreams were cut short when he was unable to join SOLDIER because he was mentally weak and instead became a mere infantryman. This led to Cloud being ashamed of his failure, and he stopped keeping in contact with the people from his hometown. However, he was one of the few people selected to protect Professor Rayleigh from the insurgency group known as AVALANCHE during the events of ''Before Crisis'', during which he displayed a great amount of skill with a sword in spite of his ranking. Around this time during the events of ''Crisis Core'', Cloud would eventually become best friends with a 1st Class SOLDIER named {{iw|wikipedia|Zack Fair}} on their mission to Modeoheim. | ||
Cloud's life was changed forever when he, Zack, and Sephiroth were sent to Nibelheim to investigate a faulty reactor. During the mission, Sephiroth learned the truth about the being Jenova, whom he had believed was his mother, and what his origins were. Jenova then put her desires in his head in order to bring out her will; Sephiroth was driven insane, destroyed Nibelheim (which killed Cloud's mother in the process), and wounded Zack and Tifa. Cloud retaliated by ambushing Sephiroth and, despite being impaled by his sword Masamune, managed to defeat him by using Masamune as a lever to hurl Sephiroth into a pit of Mako within the reactor. | |||
Afterwards, Cloud and Zack were captured by Shinra's corrupt head scientist, Professor Hojo, and experimented upon to test Hojo's Reunion Theory, a facet of the Jenova Project. This experimentation resulted in Cloud becoming as powerful as a 1st Class SOLDIER, but also rendered him catatonic. Four years after being deemed failures during the experimentation, Zack eventually escaped with a weak and delirious Cloud in his arms and attempted to flee to Midgar. | |||
However, Zack was ambushed by a massive army of Shinra troops; despite his best efforts to protect himself and Cloud, Zack was overrun and gunned down, although the troops didn't deem Cloud as a threat and spare him. In ''Final Fantasy VII'' upon regaining some awareness, Cloud finds that Zack was already dead and he crawls over to Zack to take his sword, and then looks over at Midgar in the horizon while in ''Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-'' Cloud manages to have one final conversation with Zack before his death, with Zack bequeathing the Buster Sword to him and saying that his legacy will live on in Cloud. Mourning the loss of his best friend, Cloud took the Buster Sword with him and trudged onward to Midgar. | |||
The trauma of these events, combined with Hojo's experimentation, shattered Cloud's mental stability; his memories warped, causing him to believe that he was an ex-SOLDIER and to forget that Zack ever existed, essentially replacing him in his mind. At Tifa's behest, he joined her in allying with the second generation of Avalanche led by [[Barret Wallace]], and aided them in their battles against Shinra and a revived Sephiroth alongside allies including [[Aerith Gainsborough]], [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Red_XIII Red XIII], {{iw|wikipedia|Yuffie Kisaragi}}, [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Cait_Sith_(Final_Fantasy_VII) Cait Sith], {{iw|wikipedia|Vincent Valentine}} and [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Cid_Highwind Cid Highwind]. Eventually, Cloud discovered that he inadvertently mimicked Zack's personality in lieu of his memories; with Tifa's aid, he came to terms with his past, resumed his true personality, and was able to move on. Despite Sephiroth killing Aerith and receiving the Black Materia from a mind controlled Cloud, Cloud and his friends eventually managed to defeat Sephiroth and thus save the world. | |||
In the years that follow, Cloud, Tifa, and the party go their separate ways. In the film sequel ''{{iw|wikipedia|Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children}}'', Cloud and Tifa settle down in the city of Edge and set up a delivery business called the Strife Delivery Service. He also takes in two children; Denzel, an orphan suffering from Geostigma, a disease that has started to appear after the defeat of Sephiroth. | |||
Cloud eventually sets out to find a cure for Geostigma, having been infected himself thanks to Hojo's experimentation. He discovers that Kadaj, Yazoo, and Loz, three manifestations of Sephiroth's consciousness, are responsible for the disease and have been kidnapping Geostigma-infected children with the intention of using the Jenova cells within them to revive her. Cloud confronts the trio but is outmatched; he is rescued by Vincent, who reveals that Geostigma is a plague caused by Jenova cells. | |||
Kadaj eventually leads an attack on Edge to find the remains of Jenova. The former members of Avalanche reunite to face him, and Cloud manages to cure his Geostigma using Lifestream-infused water flowing in Aerith's old church. Cloud encounters Kadaj and defeats him in the ruins of Midgar, but Kadaj merges with Jenova's remains to resurrect Sephiroth. The two duel once again and Cloud emerges victorious, resulting in Sephiroth fading away while his manifestations die immediately afterward. Cloud then returns to the church with the infected children and uses the water to cleanse the Geostigma out of them. He then says farewell to the spirits of Zack and Aerith, who had been with him throughout the events of ''Advent Children''. One year after the events of ''Advent Children'', ''{{iw|wikipedia|Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII}}'' occurs and sees Cloud assist Vincent Valentine and the World Regenesis Organization with stopping the threat of Omega and Deepground. Cloud, in particular, leads the ground assault on Midgar and faces off against Rosso the Crimson. Ultimately, Cloud and the others help Vincent defeat Omega and once again save the world. | |||
In ''Final Fantasy VII Remake'', Cloud's role is largely the same. Early on, he is taunted by visions of Sephiroth, being told to abandon his mission and "live to fight for the planet." Cloud was the second character to see the whispers after Aerith unintentionally passed her perception onto him. He would fight them off and eventually help to destroy them. He frequently receives visions of future events he has not experienced yet. He eventually figures out that these visions depict events that are not destined and the timeline can be retroactively changed. One of these altered events is Zack surviving his last stand and bringing the incoherent Cloud to Midgar himself. The new fate of Zack in this timeline is unknown. After following Sephiroth and defeating him in battle, both he and Cloud are transported to the edge of creation. Sephiroth initially asks Cloud one more time to "defy destiny" with him. Cloud refuses and the two square off in what appears to be the final battle of the original game, but Sephiroth cuts the battle short and says it is too soon. He spares Cloud and transports him back to Midgar with the rest of the group with a warning that he has "seven seconds till the end". Cloud vows to defeat Sephiroth as he leaves Midgar with the rest of AVALANCHE. | |||
In the years that follow, Cloud, Tifa, and the party go their separate ways. In the film sequel ''{{iw|wikipedia|Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children}}'', Cloud and Tifa settle down in the city of Edge and set up a delivery business called the Strife Delivery Service. He also takes in two children; Denzel, an orphan suffering from Geostigma, a disease that has started to appear after the defeat of Sephiroth. | In the years that follow, Cloud, Tifa, and the party go their separate ways. In the film sequel ''{{iw|wikipedia|Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children}}'', Cloud and Tifa settle down in the city of Edge and set up a delivery business called the Strife Delivery Service. He also takes in two children; Denzel, an orphan suffering from Geostigma, a disease that has started to appear after the defeat of Sephiroth. | ||
