Cloud Strife
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Cloud Strife is one of the main characters from Square-Enix's popular video game Final Fantasy VII and also the main character in the movie Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. He also has a minor appearance in the Vincent Valentine-centered game Dirge of Cerberus. For this game, Cloud comes from Post Advent Children with some background coming from the game Dirge of Cerberus. He is a more stable, confident person because of it, but Cloud still has a lot of issues due to his past and his emotional baggage caused by that past.
Cloud's typist is Alec.
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Background
Pre-Meteor
Cloud Strife was a little guy in a small mountain town with big dreams. He wanted to become a SOLDIER and meet the Ultimate SOLDIER Sephiroth. He wanted to come back with tales of fighting with his hero to impress the other children, especially popular Tifa, a nice girl that was really his only friend. Towards that end, he made a promise to come back and protect her before he left for Midgard.
Things didn’t work out the way he had hoped when he went into the cadets. He was – and always had been – a loner, never really able to fit in among other people. He was also the smallest person in his squad and thus ended up constantly behind the others in training and other physical activities. Even with help from the SOLDIER 1st Class Zack, Cloud could not get the hang of weapon use or working with others in a team. He barely passed the Mako screening, being the sickest the longest in his squad. Because of that reason, he did not make it into the SOLDIER Program.
Zack still kept on being his friend and tried to include Cloud in missions, some of which also involved Sephiroth. That was how he ended up returning to his hometown of Nibelheim, in the uniform of a regular army grunt assigned to the two SOLDIERs. He kept his face hidden around his old playmates – especially that of Tifa – not wanting to hear the ridicule for failing yet again. He watched as Sephiroth slowly went mad in the old mansion and tried to help Zack stop the ultimate SOLDIER from torching the town as Sephiroth made his way to the Mako reactor in search of the hidden object mentioned in Hojo’s notes. Unfortunately, Cloud, Zack and Tifa stood in his way.
Tifa survived and headed for Midgard and soon became part of AVALANCHE. Zack and Cloud also survived not only Sephiroth’s blade but a high concentration of Mako energy as well. Hojo found that out and had them brought to his labs for testing in hopes to create another ultimate SOLDIER like Sephiroth. One thing led to another and three years past them by. Somehow, Cloud and Zack managed to bust out of the labs only to have their bid for freedom and Midgard blocked by Shinra soldiers. Zack died to give Cloud time to get away, and Cloud – sick, tired and unbalanced – found all his memories of what had happened either changed or blocked completely. He took on the appearance of Zack, even down to wearing the same kind of clothing and using the same kind of weaponry, and put his skills to use as a mercenary.
Meteor
He was soon hired by AVALANCHE as an extra hand in their plans to stop Shin-Ra from destroying the planet. He did not recognize Tifa when they finally met at the Seventh Heaven Bar, instead he asked for payment, accepted another job and then slept. The next mission did not turn out so easy, with Shin-Ra and the Turks showing up. It got even worse when Cloud ran into the Turks while talking with the flower girl again. Cloud brings Aerith to the bar for safety only to find that the Turks had followed them back to Seventh Heaven Bar, where Aerith got kidnapped and a lot of people got hurt.
This set off a whole bunch of traveling and fighting, that ended up proving that Sephiroth was not just insane and Cloud was not who he really thought he was. They fought Turks and Shin-Ra and several versions of a mad Sephiroth while facing the challenge of saving the earth and the Livestream against Hojo and Jenova. In the end, Cloud faced off against Sephiroth – mad with visions from Jenova and Hojo’s poisoned words – and defeated him, giving Aerith and the Lifestream the chance to stop Jenova and Meteor. Midgard and several other cities were laid to waste as a result but the planet had been saved.
Cloud helped with the clean up and building of Edge near Midgard’s ruins along with the other members of his team. But with the coming of peaceful times, the people he sometimes called friends all went to pursue their own lives and interests. He and Barret stayed to help Tifa with her bar before Barret went off drilling for oil and he decided to get a real job, delivering packages across the planet. After all, he could whatever he wanted now that the world was saved. Besides, he had to live for himself as well as Zack. It didn’t keep the nightmares away all the time, but there was something satisfying about working.
Advent Children & Beyond
Then the nightmares came back stronger than ever and he started hearing and seeing people that had died for him. Shortly after that, he started developing the geostigma, the blackness creeping across his arm just like the apathy creeping across his soul. He cut himself off from everyone, not wanting them to see his fall into ruin and even though he kept up with his work, he found himself not caring more and more each day. He stopped answering his phone, he stopped seeing Tifa and the kids, and stopped even trying to live.
A chance run in with three men following a call from Reno started shaking him out of his private misery. Then there was the meeting with Rufus – not dead as he had thought – and then finding Tifa injured, Marlene and Denzel missing and his mastered materia missing. He passed out from the pain of his geostigma after that, and woke up to have Reno and Rude give him a very brief lecture before waiting for Tifa to regain consciousness. Then a much longer lecture, and a drive through the night to find the kids and bring them home.
Which did not happen. Kadaj and his brothers nearly killed him in the Forgotten City but Vincent has saved him and dragged him to safety. Marlene showed up shortly after that and Cloud faced one of the biggest choices he had to face – give in and let everyone die or fight and help everyone live. The choice wasn’t as hard as he had thought it would be. He went back to Edge with a desire to fight and live again.
There were a few more battles – Cloud regaining his strength once again, first with the help of his friends against the summon, then later by himself against Yazoo and Loz. He then fought Kadaj with everything he had, and then gave his all against Sephiroth after Kadaj’s absorption of Jenova’s cells. At the end, he won the battles and even came back from near death after Yazoo and Loz tried blowing him up. The children were saved and the geostigma was finally defeated and Cloud was finally rid of all the baggage in his life.
A year later, there were strange things happening in old Midgard and Edge City. The Deep-grounders came from out of the ruins of Shin-Ra to cleanse the planet of taint, taking with them those that they deemed worthy of surviving. Cloud and his friends gathered together again to lend support to Vincent, who was the focus of this new army. The ruins of Midgard proved to be excellent grounds to the people of Deep-ground and also home to some strange rifts of light. Cloud happened to be in mid-battle when he literally ran into a rift with a pack of Deep-grounders after him. After a short bloody battle, he ended up stuck in Desai for an undetermined amount of time.
Desia Timeline
Cloud meets with Hana after talking to the shinigami over the net. The two become friends with Cloud growing a big brother attitude concerning Hana's welfare.
An encounter with Alucard over the book gained Cloud his first internet encounter with the twins Dante and Vergil that ended with Cloud deciding to leave those two well-enough alone.
Cloud meets up with Byakuya in the Art rooms and gives the older shinigami the nickname of 'Bee' during a teasing moment.
During the incident where the twins destroyed part of the dorms, Cloud ended up with a sever concussion and a sprained wrist. His cat survived unscratched.
During a moment of drunkenness - five Blue Screens of Death are not to be taken lightly btw - he mentioned his voices and made a number of people - Greed, Rufus Shinra and Lady - concerned as to what he was going to do next. Axel went to meet him at the bar and the two decided on a name calling game that lasted until the next day.
Classes
Major: History
Minor: Art
Currently taking:
History 2301: Intro to Inter-World History
English 2389: Literature of the Worlds
Art 2341: Art Metals
Mechanics and Engineering 1313: Automotive Repair
Physical Education 2189: Melee Weapons
Physical Education 2253: Heavy Blades
Dorm Room: 301B
Links
Cloud Strife - His LJ for the game.
Cloud's Tags - Scenes done for DU.
IC AIM Username: Fenrir Tsurugi - For chatting while IC
