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They Fight The *Whole* Game For You...
Major Characters
*Cloud Strife*
*Game: FF7*
*Age: 21*
*From: Nibelheim*
*Occupation: Mercenary*
*Who?: Cloud's life has
become very cloudy. (hehe. Ok, fine. Not funny) He believes he was once
a member of SOLDIER, first class at that, and accompanied Sephiroth to
Nibelheim five years ago. In actuality many of the things he claims are
not exactly true. Cloud's memories tell him that he and Tifa were best
friends as children, but in actuality they barely knew one another. One
day, shortly after Tifa's mom died, Tifa ran up Mt. Nibel looking for her
mom, since she believed that where dead people went. Cloud followed her,
and tried to save Tifa when she fell. He was unsuccessful and Tifa was
in a coma for 7 days. Cloud always felt she blamed him. If only he had
been strong, like Sephiroth....then Tifa would notice him. Cloud wanted
to impress Tifa, so he asked to meet with her one night and he told her
he was running off to join SOLDIER where he could become like Sephiroth.
Tifa made Cloud promise that he would come back to help her if she were
ever in trouble. But Cloud never made it into SOLDIER. He went to Nibelheim
with Sephiroth alright, but as a plain old Shinra foot soldier. And a motion
sick one at that. Zack was Sephiroth's SOLDIER companion for the trip.
Cloud claimed a picture of him, Sephiroth and Tifa was taken before they
climbed Mt. Nibel, but in actuality it was Zack in Cloud's place. After
Sephiroth went mad, Tifa, Zack and Cloud all went up to where Jenova was
being kept at the Mako reactor. Tifa was injured by Sephiroth and so was
Zack. Zack told Cloud to kill Sephiroth, and Cloud tried his best. Sephiroth
stabbed Cloud through with his sword, but somehow Cloud managed to life
Sephiroth up and threw him into the Mako below. When he woke up, him and
Zack were being held in containers of Mako in the basement of the Shinra
mansion. There, Cloud was injected with the cells of Jenova in an experiment
to create clones of Sephiroth. Zack managed to free them both and dragged
Cloud's spazzy form away from Nibelheim and got them a truck headed for
Midgar. It was on that truck Zack decided he and Cloud would forget Shinra
and become mercenaries. When Zack and Cloud arrived near Midgar, Shinra
troops found Zack and shot him to death. Because Cloud was still totally
out of it, they left him alone. Cloud then took Zack's sword and headed
into Midgar to fulfill Zack's plan. Cloud ended up at the Sector 7 station
where he saw Tifa. She got him a job with AVALANCHE, a rebellion group
she belonged to. Because he had been put in Mako and injected with Jenova,
Cloud had the glow in his eye that everyone in SOLDIER had. Cloud believes
that he was the one with Sephiroth at Nibelheim, and became haunted by
him. Was he really someone else than who he believed? Was everything he
believed about Nibelheim wrong? Is he a failed clone of Sephiroth? Just
a Jenova filled puppet?*
*Barret Wallace*
*Game: FF7*
*Age: 35*
*From: Corel (now North
Corel)*
*Occupation: AVALANCHE leader*
*Who?: Barret is the head
of a rebel group that rebels against the Shinra, but in the past Barret
was all for the Shinra. When he lived in Corel the Shinra wanted to put
up a Mako reactor. Everyone was for it, except Barret's best friend Dyne
who wanted to stick with Corel's tradition of mining coal. He was overruled
and the Corel reactor was built. All was well for awhile, and Barret and
Dyne left town. When the returned they found the town in flames. Turns
out there was an explosion at the reactor and it was blamed on the people
of Corel. Scarlet and some Shinra soldiers started attacking Barret and
Dyne. Barret tried to save Dyne, but he fell off a cliff. Barret's arm
was severely injured and he got a gun grafted on. Everyone close to Barret
in Corel was killed by the Shinra except for Dyne's newborn baby daughter,
Marlene, who Barret took and raised as his own. Banished from Corel by
those who blamed him for having the reactor built, Barret moved to Midgar
and formed AVALANCHE to rebel against the Shinra he hated so much. Along
with Biggs, Wedge, Jessie and Tifa, the team worked to blow up the Mako
reactors around Midgar. They dreamed of going to Cosmo Canyon to celebrate
once Shinra was crushed, but Barret's dreams were smashed when Shinra destroyed
the Sector 7 pillar and Biggs, Wedge and Jessie were killed.*
*Tifa Lockheart*
*Game: FF7*
*Age: 21*
*From: Nibelheim*
*Occupation: AVALANCHE member,
bar owner*
*Who?: Tifa grew up in Nibelheim
next door to Cloud. Her mother died when she was a child, and Tifa was
very upset. Thinking the dead people went behind the mountains, she ran
up to Mt. Nibel, and Cloud followed her. Tifa slipped and fell and although
Cloud tried to save her, Tifa was severely injured and was in coma for
a long time. Cloud was blamed for her injury, which caused him to meet
up with her after her recovery. He told her he was joining SOLDIER and
she made him promise to come help her if she was ever in trouble. While
Cloud was gone, Tifa was taught the art of fighting by a man named Zangan.
Sephiroth and Zack arrived at Nibelheim to check out the reactor, and Tifa
was their guide there. Before they went up, a townsman took a picture of
Zack, Sephiroth and Tifa together. Cloud was there too as a foot soldier,
but he never let Tifa see him. When Sephiroth went crazy and burned down
the town, Tifa went up to the reactor and tried to kill Sephiroth after
she found her father dead. Sephiroth severely injured her, and she nearly
died. Afterwards, Tifa was saved by Zangan and taken to Midgar, where she
eventually joined AVALANCHE and set up a bar called "Tifa's 7th Heaven"
in sector 7. Tifa found Cloud at the sector 7 station one day, kinda out
of it, and got him a job with AVALANCE. Although she knows the truth about
how it was Zack and not Cloud in Nibelheim, she doesn't say anything and
avoids all of Cloud's questions on the subject.*
*Aeris Gainsbourgh*
*Game: FF7*
Age: 22*
*From: Midgar, Sector 5*
*Occupation: Flower Seller*
*Who?: Aeris is an Ancient,
the last of the Cetra, who roamed and healed the planet. Aeris' parents
were Professor Gast, the head of the Jenova project, and Infalna, an Ancient.
When Infalna escaped the Shinra she was badly injured. She ended up at
the Sector 5 station in Midgar where a lonely woman was waiting for her
husband to return from war. Infalna turned Aeris over to the woman who
took the child in and raised her as her own. Aeris often commented that
she heard her mother talking to her. Aeris also had some materia that belonged
to her mother, white materia. Aeris also knew a boy named Tseng who she
was friendly with. Aeris met up with a young man from SOLDIER named Zack
and they became a couple until he had to go. The Shinra sent the Turks
after Aeris, attempting to kidnap her, but she wasn't sure why. Aeris introduced
herself to Cloud when he came crashing down through the roof of the church
she kept her flowers in. He agreed to be her bodyguard, and she ended up
tagging along to find Sephiroth. After Sephiroth got a hold of the ultimate
destruction materia, Aeris left the group, aiming to stop Sephiroth herself.
Using her mother's white materia, Aeris prayed for Holy to come and stop
meteor from destroying the planet. Sephiroth then dropped in and killed
Aeris, but Holy had already been summoned. However, someone would have
to destroy Sephiroth for Holy to destroy meteor.*
*Red XIII/Nanaki*
*Game: FF7*
*Age: 40 something*
*From: Cosmo Canyon*
*Occupation: None*
*Who?: Red XIII is a warrior
by blood, and the last of his species. His parents both died saving Cosmo
Canyon from the evil Gi warriors. Red always believed his father was a
traitor until his grandfather, Bugenhagen, showed him his father single
handily battled the enemy in the Gi cave and although he was turned to
stone he saved Cosmo Canyon. Red was somehow captured by the Shinra and
Hojo gave him a tattoo with the number 23 and the name Red. Hojo wished
to mate Red and Aeris since they were both the last of their species, but
then when Cloud and the gang arrived to free Aeris, they freed Red too.
Red's real name is Nanaki, and his intelligence is far above that of humans.
Although he is in his 40's, Red is still considered a child with much to
learn.*
*Cid Highwind*
*Game: FF7*
*From: Rocket Town*
*Occupation: Pilot*
*Who?: Cid is a big arrogant,
and refers to himself as the best pilot in the world. Still, he can drive
almost anything so it may be true. Cid was supposed to be the first man
in space, a trip that would have made his dream come true. Cid was forced
to abort the mission when he found out an engineer, named Shera, was still
below. Cid canceled the take-off because he didn't want to be a murderer.
After that the Shinra forgot all about space and concentrated on Mako.
Cid's dream was forgotten, but he always clung to the hope that someday
Shinra would restart the space program. When Cloud and the gang arrived,
Cid joined up, thinking they were crazy going up against the Shinra, and
he liked it. Oh yeah, and he kinda curses a lot.*
*Yuffie Kisaragi*
*Game: FF7*
*Age: 16*
*From: Wutai*
*Occupation: Materia thief*
*Who?: Yuffie comes from
Wutai, a small town located on an island. Wutai used to be a great military
area before it was defeated in war. Now it caters to tourists, and Yuffie
is disgusted by what Wutai has become. She believes that if she collects
enough materia, Wutai can become what it once was.*
*Cait Sith*
*Game: FF7*
*Occupation: Fortune teller/
spy*
*Who?: Cait Sith is a spy
for the Shinra, controlled by Reeve. Cait Sith talked his way into the
group at Gold Saucer and was trusted until he was caught handing over the
Keystone to the Temple of the Ancients to Tseng, the head Turk. Although
everyone wanted him out of the group, Cait Sith played a clip of Marlene
in trouble to keep his position with the gang. Although he is a spy, Cait
Sith still likes what Cloud and the gang are up to and wants to be like
them. Cait Sith sacrificed his fake body to become the ultimate destruction
materia, but another Cait Sith soon arrived to continue where the first
one left off.*
*Vincent Valentine*
*Game: FF7*
*Age: I've heard 27, but
there is no way that's true. Vincent was probably about 27 when Hojo screwed
him up, so he probably looks that age. No one knows how old Sephiroth is,
but he's obviously quite older than Cloud because he was famous when Cloud
was a kid. If Sephiroth was 25 when Cloud was 10, that would make Sephiroth
36 now, meaning there would be a 36 year difference between Sephiroth and
Vincent's ages since Vincent was around when Sephiroth was born. That would
make Vincent's real age around 63.*
*Occupation: Unemployed
(formerly of the Turks)*
*Who?: Way back when the
whole Jenova project began, Vincent was a Turk for the Shinra. He was in
love with a scientist working on the Jenova project named Lucretia. Vincent
proposed to Lucretia but she said no and went off with Hojo to have Sephiroth
instead. Vincent was crushed, but didn't really care as long as she was
happy. Vincent hated the whole idea of using people in the experiments
and told this to Hojo was shot him, killed him, and genetically altered
him. Vincent was kept away in a room in the basement of the mansion where
he slept in a coffin to punish himself for not trying to save Lucretia
from Hojo's evilness.*
*Squall Leonhart*
*Game: FF8*
*Age: 17*
*Height: 5'8"*
*Birthday: August 23rd*
*Blood Type: AB*
*Occupation: SeeD from Balamb
Garden*
*Who?: Squall's parents
were probably Raine and Laguna. When Raine died, Squall and Ellone were
sent to an orphanage on the Centra continent where Edea was the matron.
Squall spent his days hanging around Ellone until she went away. From then
on, Squall constantly moped for "Sis", or Ellone, to come back. It was
at this time Squall realized he had no one to rely on but himself, so he
kept to himself, and didn't make many friends. Squall used to get in fights
with a fellow orphan named Seifer Almasy, and things with Seifer never
changed, even when they got to Garden. Squall worked hard and became a
SeeD for Garden at age 17. It was on his first SeeD mission he met Rinoa
Heartilly, a rebel in an organization called the Forest Owls, whose objective
it was to free Timber of Galbadian control. Squall and Rinoa had met before
at the party for new SeeD's. She had made him dance with her, but they
have never been formerly introduced. Their personalities clashed at first,
but Squall grew to truly love Rinoa. However, because of his reputation
of being cold, unemotional and withdrawn, Squall didn't do anything about
it. Would he learn to depend on others?*
*Rinoa Heartilly*
*Game: FF8*
*Age: 17*
*Height: 5' 3 1/2"*
*Birthday: March 3rd*
*Who?: Rinoa is the daughter
of Julia, a singer and pianist, and General Caraway, General for the Galbadian
army. Rinoa and her father do not get along at all, mainly because he works
for Galbadian army, while his daughter is a member of the Forest Owls,
a timber resistance group. Rinoa had a relationship with Seifer Almasy,
a student at Balamb Garden, and fell in love with him. She came to the
party for new SeeD's to find Seifer and speak with Cid about having SeeD
help the Forest Owls for not much money. Rinoa danced with squall at the
party, but was not formally introduced to him until he and his fellow SeeD's
showed up at the Forest Owls base. At first Rinoa and Squall did not get
along, as Rinoa tried to see the 'real' Squall. In time she forgot about
Seifer and fell for Squall instead.*
*Quistis Trepe*
*Game: FF8*
*Age: 18*
*Height: 5'6"*
*Birthday: October 4th*
*Blood Type: A*
*Occupation: SeeD/Garden
Instructor*
*Who?: Quistis grew up in
the orphanage on the Centra continent where Edea was matron. She was adopted,
but things never really worked out in her new home and she was at Garden
at a fairly early age. Quistis was something of a child prodigy and became
a SeeD by age 15. She also was forced to break up many Squall/Seifer fights.
By 17 Quistis had her Instructor license, a fan club of admirers known
as Trepes, and she had fallen in love with Squall. However, Quistis gave
up on being an Instructor after she was told she lacked leadership qualities
and a stern demeanor. Instead she simply went back to being a SeeD*
*Selphie Timilt*
*Game: FF8*
*Age: 17*
*Height: 5 1 1/2"*
*Birthday: July 16th*
*Blood Type: B*
*Occupation: SeeD*
*Who?: Selphie grew up at
the Centra continent orphanage before becoming a student at Trabia Garden.
While on a scouting mission one day, Selphie found a GF in one of the monsters
she'd killed. She junctioned that GF for awhile, which is how she forgot
some of her childhood. Selphie transferred to Balamb Garden right before
the SeeD exam. She took over the Garden festival committee and her bubbly
and outgoing personality quickly gained her friends at Garden.*
*Zell Dincht*
*Game: FF8*
*Age: 17*
*Height: 5'5"*
*Blood Type: B*
*Occupation: SeeD*
*Who?: Zell grew up at the
orphanage Edea was head of, where Seifer picked on him often. Zell was
adopted by the Dincht's of Balamb and always believed them to be his parents.
Zell was popular in his hometown, regarded as lively, but also klutzy and
somewhat poorly behaved. Zell tends to think before he speaks and let little
things get the better of him. Zell attended Garden and became a SeeD. Seifer
still continued to pick on him, calling him a 'chicken wuss', a name Zell
despised. Zell loves the always sold out hot dogs sold in the cafeteria
and attracted the attention of a girl who works in the Garden library.*
*Irvine Kinneas*
*Game: FF8*
*Age: 17*
*Height: 6'0"*
*Birthday: November 24th*
*Blood Type: A*
*Occupation: Galbadia Garden
student*
*Who?: Irvine grew up in
the orphanage with everyone else, but since he only started using GF's
recently, he's the only one that remembers anything. Irvine attended Galbadia
Garden where he gave off the impression he was a misunderstood lover, and
flirted with all the pretty female students. Irvine's other area of expertise
besides women? Guns. Irvine's an expert marksman, who joins up with Squall
and the gang when they're off to kill Edea. Irvine remembers everyone and
knows Edea was their Matron, but he refrains from telling anyone so it
will be easier to fight her. Zell and Irvine don't really hit it off, as
Irvine tends to say anything he wants and Zell is easily offended. Irvine
was all set to shoot Edea when he freaked out, saying he couldn't do it.
He couldn't be the one to change history so drastically. Irvine managed
to get off a perfect shot, but Edea stopped the bullet.*
*Laguna Loire*
*Game: FF8*
*Age: 27 (past) about 44
(present)*
*Height: 5' 9"*
*Birthday: January 3rd*
*Blood Type: B*
*Occupation: Galbadian soldier/writer/President*
*Who?: Laguna was a klutzy
Galbadian soldier with a bad sense of direction who hung out with his fellow
soldiers Kiros and Ward. Laguna often returned home to Deling City to see
a woman named Julia perform in the hotel. Laguna really liked Julia, but
he always got really awkward around her. Julia told Laguna she was going
to write a song he had inspired, but Laguna went to Centra and never saw
her again. While at Centra, Laguna, Kiros and Ward were all badly injured.
Laguna was taken in by Raine, a woman from Winhill, and nursed back to
health. Laguna really liked Raine, and the child she was caring for, Ellone.
He paid back to debt to the town by getting rid of the monsters that had
moved in. One day Kiros showed up and filled his friend in on everything
that happened since the Centra accident. He also told Laguna that the Timber
Maniacs were looking for someone to write about travel. Laguna was excited
about the opportunity to write, but was reluctant to leave Winhill. He
loved Raine, and Raine loved him, even if the town hated him. Laguna married
Raine at some point, but I am not sure which. Laguna left Winhill and spent
all his money staying in a hotel. To make money, Laguna, Kiros and Ward
were stuck acting in a crappy movie where they were attacked by ruby dragons.
Badly injured again, Laguna ended up in the Shumi village where he tried
to teach the Moombas to speak. I believe that after he recovered, Laguna
went back to Winhill and that's when Ellone was captured by Esthar. So
he went in search of her, but ended up a slave to the Esthar leader, Adel.
Ellone was being held by Doctor Odine for a study, but Laguna freed her
and sent her back to Winhill and Raine. Raine died, however, leaving behind
a child. Meanwhile, Laguna fell in with an anti-Adel movement and had the
evil sorceress trapped and sent into space where her powers were sealed.
Laguna also helped to have lunatic pandora sunk. During the meeting to
decide who would rule Esthar, Laguna was spacing out until he found out
he had been elected ruler.*
*Kiros Seagill*
*Game: FF8*
*Age: 23 (past) about 40
(present)*
*Height: 6' 4"*
*Birthday: July 6th*
*Blood Type: O*
*Occupation: Galbadian soldier/
Presidential Aide*
*Who?: Not much is known
about Kiros, except that he's Laguna's pal with a sharp wit. Kiros went
to Centra where he was badly injured after Laguna threw him off a cliff.
After he recovered he hunted Laguna down and stuck with him the rest of
the way.*
*Ward Zabac*
*Game: FF8*
*Age: 25 (past) about 42
(present)*
*Height: 7' 0"*
*Birthday: February 25th*
*Blood Type: A*
*Occupation: Galbadian soldier/janitor/Presidential
Aide*
*Who?: Ward was a soldier
with Laguna and Kiros. At Centra Ward was badly injured, and he could not
longer talk. Since he was mute, Ward worked in a prison as a janitor after
he recovered. He was bored out of hi mind, and longed to be back with his
pals. Ward ended up back with Kiros and Laguna and stayed with them through
the Esthar operation.*