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•CHARACTER ☆ Cloud Strife
•FANDOM ☆ Final Fantasy VII // Dissidia
•AGE ☆ Twenty One
•SPECIES ☆ Enhanced Human
•GENDER ☆ Male
•TIMELINE ☆ Post Destiny Odyssey - Pre Share Impulse
•CLOTHING ☆
CGI Render One CGI Render Two Ultima Weapon Render
This is the basic outfit that Cloud mostly wears. When you come across him, he'll more than likely be wearing the typical uniform of a First Class Soldier.
This is the new version of Cloud's SOLDIER outfit that he wears in 012, based of Amano's artwork.
Second Outfit Render
This is the outfit he wears in Advent Children but is also available for purchase in Dissidia. By default, I normally assume that he has it, and wears it when and if something happens to his typical Soldier uniform. When wearing this outfit it is also assumed that he uses The First Tsurugi instead of his typical Buster Sword.
•PERSONALITY ☆ Seemingly cool calm and collected on the surface, in fact you could call him almost cocky. He tends to hold on to things from his past and allows them to weigh him down. He does what he thinks is right, even if it means hurting others. He's extremely naive at times, even if he has been through many experiences and has gained a lot of knowledge from them.
He feels the need to protect, which feeds into his need to do what he feels is right. He needs to protect out of the fear that he will suffer further loss, of which he has already experienced. He's a loner, and believes that he should be alone as punishment for the things he believes he has done. Under it all, he has a lot of kindness and compassion. He genuinely cares about people, and because of this, and the fear that he will either hurt them, or that they will be hurt because of him, he stays away. He's a pessimist, with a side of optimism that shines through at the oddest times.
He's not exactly a talkative person, and in fact is usually hard pressed to actually say more than a couple of sentences, if that. He's the type of person who only speaks when it's needed, or when he is spoken to, and only says what he needs to say. He's not a social person, but he doesn't mind being around people he considers friends, or the people who are close to him. He's amiable, and tends to be uncomfortable in awkward situations. He's not one for giving advice unless it's asked of him. But he's also surprisingly open and honest, at least when asked a question or asked for his opinion.
In Dissidia, we see Cloud's core personality grow, and he shows to be rather curious, searching for the reasons why he's fighting. He wants to know the how's and why's behind the actions he's been forced to take. He's begun to think things throgh instead of always rushing in. He's grown up in many ways, and is finally starting to become comfortable with himself and who he is.
•ABILITIES ☆ As a mako enhanced human, Cloud is stronger than the average person. He also has more endurance, as well as better agility. He's quicker, faster, and stronger than your average human. He also has a set of limit breaks known as Braver, Cross-slash, Blade Beam, Climhazzard, Metorain, Finishing Touch and Omni Slash. He wields the large Buster sword, which at one point had belonged to Angeal, as well as Zack. He has a series of brave and HP attacks, as well as brave to HP attacks. He's also quite talented at the use of materia, and often uses them as an aid in battle. Although he is best suited as a fighter, he can also take on the role of a mage if need be.
Cloud would come to the game with the buster sword. Because he is also quite skilled in the use of materia, he will also be equiped with a piece of armor known as the Escourt Guard. It not only nullifies Wind, Water, Poison and Earth damage, but it has space for three different types of materia. As the buster sword also has two slots for materia, Cloud would bring with him a total of ten different materia, that are as follows.
Ice | Magic Type | Deals strong ice damage when directed at an enemy.
Lightening | Magic Type | Deals moderate lightening // elemental damage when directed at an enemy.
Mystify | Magic Type | Inflicts confusion onto the target.
Shield | Magic Type | Target becomes temporarily immune to all attacks.
Heal - Resist | Magic Type | Allows target to become resistant to most types of elemental magic.
W-Magic | Command Type | Allows the wearer to cast two spells at once.
Enemy Skill | Command Type | Allows the wearer to learn a kill or spell once it is used on them.
All | Support Type | Allows linked Magic Materia to target all allies or enemies once
Elemental | Support Type | Takes the element of the linked materia, and allows the weapon to also use it. It also allows the weapon to become immune to that element.
Pre-Emptive | Independent Type | Gives the wearer a plus ten percent chance of a pre-emptive strike on an enemy.
However, because he is from the Disidia timeline, Cloud no longer requires a materia to cast fire spells. His three spells are Fire, Fira, and Firagra, all of different levels and intensity.
•WEAKNESSES ☆ Cloud also has a number of weaknesses that at times can, not interfere, but get in the way of how he reacts and uses his abilities. Cloud is rather head strong and stubborn. He often refuses to listen to other's advice and also refuses to accept help when it's offered unless he actually sees a need for it (which is next to never.) He tends to hold his feelings inside instead of letting them out, and so he tends to be seen as quiet and not easily approachable. He also gives up easily sometimes, when he really shouldn't. Physically, he sometimes has a hard time getting a handle on his strength, since he never received training or any other type of assistance when learning to deal with it. He often has moments of delusion, due to the loss of most of his memories. Also, he doesn't have a lot of memories of his own, and what he does have he's left wondering if those are his, or those of Zack and Tifa, although at the point he's being pulled from, many of his memories are in fact his own.
•HISTORY ☆ Cloud was born in the small mountain village of Nibelheim, and was neighbors with Tifa Lockhart. Little to nothing is known of Cloud's father, only that he went missing from his life at an early age. From an earlier age, Cloud distanced himself from the other children in the village, feeling that he was different and somehow better than them, although he often longed for friendship from others. As time went on, he developed a crush on Tifa, but hated the rest of her friends, the two tended to avoid each other. When Cloud was nine, he followed Tifa up into the mountains, a dangerous place that she had ventured to in the grief that followed after her mother death. When the two were injured, Tifa's father blamed Cloud, and the two became even more distanced. Five years later, Cloud learned of Sephiroth and the SOLDIER program, and decided to leave for Midgar to pursue a future in the army. He asked Tifa out to the water tower to tell her about his departure, silently hoping to impress her. With her request, he agreed to come save her if she ever found herself in trouble. The following spring, he left for Midgar in hopes of one day achieving his goal.
Despite all of his confidence and bravado he is unable to make it into the SOLDIER program and instead becomes and ordinary infantryman. This is how he first meets First Class SOLDIER Zack Fair in the snowy mountains of Modeoheim and the two become friends after finding out that they both come from small, back water towns. It is with Zack, along with Sephiroth, that Cloud alter returns to Nibelheim to investigate a broken reactor in Mt. Nibel. Finding out that Tifa is to act of their guide, Cloud hides himself, using his helmet to cover his face, afraid to face her and admit that he has failed in to make his dreams come true and disappoint her. He does, however, reveal himself to his mother when he makes a trip to see her.
When the expedition reaches the reactor, Sephiroth discovers Professor Hojo's failed experiments, as well as information on the experiments that created him. Falling into madness, Sephiroth immerses himself in his findings, until he finally emerges from his basement hideout and sets fire to the town, killing most of the inhabitants. Witnessing his mother's death, Cloud rushes inside of the reactor to confront Sephiroth. There he found an unconscious Tifa and barely conscious Zack who tells him to take the Buster sword and go finish off Sephiroth. Catching him off guard in the reactor's core, he manages to wound him with his own sword. Leaving him, he goes to care for Tifa, taking care of her until Sephiroth emerges from the core. When Cloud attacks once more, Sephiroth impales him with the Masamune. Summoning unknown strength, Cloud manages to use the handle of the katana to knock Sephiroth into the reactor. Afterwards, Cloud collapses, badly wounded and loses consciousness quickly.
Found by Professor Hojo, both Cloud and Zack become test subjects for him, infusing them both with Sephiroth's cells, Jenova cells and exposing them to high doses of mako. He also attempts to test his Jenova Reunion Theory and turn them into Sephiroth clones. Four years later, Zack some how manages to escape from one of the mako tubes, and helped a comatose Cloud to escape as well. Due to the experiment, Cloud was left weak and unresponsive. However, as they escape, Zack talks constantly to the younger man, about his life and the plans he has for them once they reach the safely of Midgar. After almost a year of being on the run, they finally reach a cliff just outside of Midgar. However, the Shin-ra troops that have been searching for them finally catch up, and Zack fights back to defend himself and Cloud against the overwhelming numbers that stand in their way. After single-handedly and heroically massacring the majority of the hundreds of Shin-ra soldiers, Zack is gunned down and left for dead by the last remaining Soldiers. However, having woken up and witnessed the chaos, Cloud manages to crawl over to Zack, who, in his last few moments, entrust the Buster Sword to Cloud and tells him that his legacy will live on in Cloud. Deeply distressed, Cloud takes the Buster Sword, and finally says good bye to the other man, before making his way to Midgar, still sick and weak, leaving behind the only protection he had been given.
Sometime later in the Sector Seven Train Station Cloud's shattered mind undergoes a radical transformation. Hojo's experimentations, combined with his own weakened psyche, Jenova's mimicry abilities and the trauma of the events he had experienced cause Cloud to somehow impress Zack's memories, his ideal image of what he should be, as well as Tifa's memories of him come together to form a new image of himself. What comes into Cloud's mind is a new reality, one where Zack did not exist. Instead, he presents himself as a First Class SOLDIER, Sephiroth's former partner now turned mercenary. Since the official SOLDIER process is close to the experiments Hojo had performed on him, Cloud possesses the same abilities as a SOLDIER, and so his claim is easily and readily accepted.
Once in Midgar, Cloud is found by Tifa and integrated into the anti-Shin-ra terrorist group AVALANCHE. After blowing up a reactor in Sector 5, Cloud becomes separated from the others and ends up falling through the ceiling of a church in the slums where he meets Aerith Gainsborough. While Cloud is gone, Tifa allows herself to be captured by a Shin-ra informant, Don Corneo in an attempt to get much needed information. Cloud, disguised as a women, along with Aerith, make an attempt to rescue her, getting the needed information in the mean time. Learning the Shin-ra has indeed found out about AVALANCHE and their plans. To try and stop them, Shin-ra drops the plate on Sector 7, crushing the area underneath it and killing Wedge, Biggs and Jessie, and capturing Aerith. Cloud then leads an attack on Shin-ra headquarters to try and rescue her. There he meets Red XIII and also finds the headless remains of Jenova.
However the group is captured and imprisoned. During the night, Cloud wakes up to find the doors open and the guards murdered. He along with the rest of the group follow the blood trail to the top floor to find that the president of the company has also been killed by what looks to be Sephiroth's sword. After a brief struggle with the new president, Cloud and the group escape Midgar, stealing a motorcycle and a truck on the way.
The group stays in an inn located in Kalm for the time being. There Cloud tells them what he believes to be his own memories of the day that Nibelheim was destroyed, putting himself in the place of Zack and leaving Tifa confused about the events that took place and her own version of the way things happened, but declines to say anything. His grudge with Sephiroth seemingly explained, the group sets out the next day to try and track Sephiroth down, going through the Mythril Mines where the Turks reveal where Sephiroth is headed. Cloud and the group then proceed sneak into the Shin-ra controlled Junon and onto an oil tanker bound for Costa Del Sol, meeting Yuffie Kisaragi on the way.
The journey to find Sephiroth leads them through North Corel as well as the Gold Saucer, where the manager gives them a buggy to aid them in their journey and where the robot Cait Sith joins their cause. When the buggy breaks down, the group are forced to stay in RED XIII's home town of Cosmo Canyon, where vital information is revealed to them about the Lifestream and the negative effect of Shin-ra's many years of drilling for mako energy. When the group finally reaches Nibelheim, they find no trace of the destruction that had taken place years before.
Although Cloud and Tifa are confused, they search the now rebuilt town, and finds no one who actually remembers the fire and the destruction. In the ruins of the Shin-ra mansion, they find Vincent Valentine, who agrees to join them when they mention Sephiroth's name. In the mansion library, Sephiroth appears and alludes to a "reunion" that he feels that Cloud should attend. Climbing up and over Mt. Nibel, the group travels to Rocket Town, where they attempt to steal a plane from Cid Highwind, that's quickly shot down by Shin-ra. Adding Cid to their group, they make their way back to Gold Saucer where they are forced to spend the night after claiming the keystone from Dio. At this time, Cait Sith is reveal to be a Shin-ra spy, and steal the keystone, turning it over to the Turk Tseng.
At the Temple of the Ancients, they find Tseng, badly wounded, who also hands the keystone back over to them. In the heart of the Temple, Cloud finds Sephiroth who reveals his plan to call the ultimate black magic, Meteor, which will cause a critical wound on the planet. The Lifestream will emerge to try and heal this wound and Sephiroth will absorb the energy, becoming a god. When Sephiroth leaves, Cloud discovers the black materia and Cait Sith sacrifices himself to retrieve it. Once Sephiroth returns, he uses his power over Cloud, gained through the cells that they share, and forces him to give him the black materia. Weakened, Cloud passes out, and in a dream is told by Aerith that she is the only one who can stop him. When he wakes, he's told by the other's that she's gone.
Cloud and company follow Aerith through the Sleeping Forest to the Forgotten Capital, where he finds her praying at the alter in the center of the underground complex. Suddenly taking up the Buster Sword, he tries to attack her, his mind once again under Sephiroth's control. He stops himself in the nick of time, keeping himself from injuring her as his allies shout at him to stop. Helpless, Cloud watches as Sephiroth descends and stabs Aerith, killing her. Enraged by her death, the rest of the party mourns, as Cloud puts her to rest, carrying her out into the water and letting her float to the bottom. It's later that he reveals to the rest of the group that his mind has been under Sephiroth's control and that his actions have not been his own. Despite the fact that he could be controlled again, the rest of the group stays with him.
Finally arriving at the Northern Crater, Cloud once again regains the black materia and gives it to a party member, no longer trusting himself to hold on to it. Finding the center of the crater and also Sephiroth, Cloud's true past is revealed. Shin-ra along with professor Hojo appear not long after, reveling Jenova Reunion Theory, and also that Cloud is to be a part of it. With this information, along with the news of his memories and most of his ideas of what his life is being fake, Cloud's mind shatters. Taking back the black materia, he hands it to Sephiroth, who activates it. As Cloud apologizes to Tifa for being a fake, the crater begins to shake violently. AVALANCHE escapes, except for Barret and Tifa, leaving Cloud behind to fall into the Lifestream.
He's found in Mideel a week later, weak and incoherent from being subjected to the extreme amounts of mako contained in the Lifestream. Tifa stays behind to care for him while the rest of the party goes to fight Shin-ra, who is making a dangerous attempt to stop Meteor, which is now heading for the planet. When Ultimate Weapon attacks Mideel, and Tifa and Cloud fall into the Lifestream and into Cloud's subconscious. There, Tifa helps Cloud to regain some of his own memories, and regain a handle on who he truly is. Restored to his true self, Cloud resumes leadership of the group once more. With guidance, they discover that Aerith had managed to summon Holy before Sephiroth's attack on her. It could stop Meteor and save the planet, but Sephiroth is holding it back.
After extracting their revenge on Shin-ra for the wrongs that they had made towards each of them, the group lands itself in the Northern Crater once more and descends into the depths of the planet to confront Sephiroth. Defeating him in his new god-like form. Sephiroth's mind is sent back to the Lifestream once more. Cloud follows Sephiroth, and defeats him in one final battle. Returned to his body by Aerith, he rescues a falling Tifa, clinging to the edge of the cliff before pulling both of them to safety. Cloud and the group flee just as Holy emerges to fight Meteor. Along with the Lifestream, commanded by Aerith, it defeats Meteor and saves the planet.
During the twelfth cycle of the war, Cloud, along with his fellow warriors Tidus and Terra, aligned himself with Chaos. However, unlike the other Warriors of Chaos, Cloud actually shows concern for the opposing side, even going so far as to warn Lightning not to underestimate his allies, as they had been holding back their full power at the time. He is later shown having a heart to heart with Kuja, as both of them have no real intent to fight due to their memories of their lives before having been summoned to war by the gods.
At one point during the game, he witnesses a fight between Sephiroth and Tifa. He later intervenes, protecting Tifa and driving Sephiroth away, beginning what would become their rivalry in the next cycle of the conflict. Cloud doesn't go as far as revealing his true relation to Tifa, who at that point has no memories of him, but does tell her that he is infact a Warrior of Chaos. He warns her that they will have to fight the next time they meet. Once she leaves to rejoin her group, Cloud chooses to confront Chaos alone, trying to end the conflict before Tifa regains her memories of him and possibly loses her will to fight. However, Chaos over powers him and Cloud begins to face away into oblivion. As he fades, he pleads with Cosmos to protect Tifa. Cosmos receives Cloud's message and, deeming his feelings to me sincere, chooses him to0 become one of her warriors when he revives in the next cycle of battle.
The story of Dissidia follows the conflict between the gods Cosmos and Chaos, as well as their allies, all drawn from the main series of games. Backstory for the various characters come from "Reports" divided by which side the character is fighting for. Within the history of the world in which Dissidia is set in, however, Chaos and Cosmos have been at war with each other for an eternity, thus far having neither side emerge as the victor. As the game begins, Chaos seems to have gained the upper hand. Cosmos mortally wounded from the battle with Chaos, the forces of light are now in peril. Cosmos appears to the ten heroes in turn and entrusts them with the task of retrieving the crystals, which can save their worlds.
Cloud is once more confronted with Sephiroth, as a form of his own darkness, and who seems to be the path to gaining his own crystal. The driving force behind Cloud's actions in the game seem to be finding something to fight for, or better, the reason for which they are fighting. But the answer seems to elude him until after his confrontation with Spehiroth, where the other tells him that he's the reason he continues to fight, in which Cloud answers that his reasons are his own.
Defeating Sephiroth once more, Cloud finally gains his crystal which closely resembles the white materia worn by Aerith in the original game. Crystal in hand, Cloud travels back to meet with his companions so that they may finish their journey.
During this time, however, he comes across Terra in the Planet's Core where she is slowly beginning to lose control over her Esper powers. Cloud then chooses to step in and battle her without first explaining. Losing the battle, he does however manage to calm her down enough to regain control over her powers, later explaining that he did not wish to see her suffer, and didn't know of another way to calm her down. Terra thanks Cloud for saving her, then proceeds to explain how she and the Onion Knight were separated after being ambushed by Kefka, and Cloud joins her to help look for him, realizing that he can still be of help despite his indecisiveness, and thanks her for helping him recognize that.
During the search, Cloud reveals that he also has hesitations about fighting, and shows Terra Firion's wild rose, explaining Firion's dream for a peaceful world. Though neither warrior can figure out their own reason for fighting, Terra suggested that they should share the same dream, and along with the wild roses they can each add their own preferred flowers representing a bright future. The pair continues to Kefka's Tower and confronts him there, where he tries to compel Terra to give in to her Esper powers once again and cause senseless destruction, but she refuses. Kefka summons the Cloud of Darkness to attack them, at which point the Onion Knight reappears, and he and Cloud fight the Cloud of Darkness together while Terra has her final showdown with Kefka. After Terra obtains her Crystal, the three go on to rejoin the other Warriors.
With the Crystlas now in their possession, the Warriors of Cosmos return to the Order's Sanctuary in a last ditch effort to restore the goddess's strength, only to watch as Chaos incinerates her right before their very eyes. With the very last of her strength, Cosmos manages to prevent the heroes from fading back to their worlds, giving them one final change to at Chaos and to end the war for good.
With the Crystals in their possession, the Warriors of Cosmos return to the Order's Sanctuary in an effort to restore the goddess's strength, only to have Chaos incinerate her before their very eyes. But with the last of her strength, Cosmos prevents the heroes from fading back to their worlds, giving them one final chance to strike back at Chaos and end the war for good.
•CHARACTER ☆ Cloud Strife
•FANDOM ☆ Final Fantasy VII // Dissidia
•AGE ☆ Twenty One
•SPECIES ☆ Enhanced Human
•GENDER ☆ Male
•TIMELINE ☆ Post Destiny Odyssey - Pre Share Impulse
•CLOTHING ☆
CGI Render One CGI Render Two Ultima Weapon Render
This is the basic outfit that Cloud mostly wears. When you come across him, he'll more than likely be wearing the typical uniform of a First Class Soldier.
This is the new version of Cloud's SOLDIER outfit that he wears in 012, based of Amano's artwork.
Second Outfit Render
This is the outfit he wears in Advent Children but is also available for purchase in Dissidia. By default, I normally assume that he has it, and wears it when and if something happens to his typical Soldier uniform. When wearing this outfit it is also assumed that he uses The First Tsurugi instead of his typical Buster Sword.
•PERSONALITY ☆ Seemingly cool calm and collected on the surface, in fact you could call him almost cocky. He tends to hold on to things from his past and allows them to weigh him down. He does what he thinks is right, even if it means hurting others. He's extremely naive at times, even if he has been through many experiences and has gained a lot of knowledge from them.
He feels the need to protect, which feeds into his need to do what he feels is right. He needs to protect out of the fear that he will suffer further loss, of which he has already experienced. He's a loner, and believes that he should be alone as punishment for the things he believes he has done. Under it all, he has a lot of kindness and compassion. He genuinely cares about people, and because of this, and the fear that he will either hurt them, or that they will be hurt because of him, he stays away. He's a pessimist, with a side of optimism that shines through at the oddest times.
He's not exactly a talkative person, and in fact is usually hard pressed to actually say more than a couple of sentences, if that. He's the type of person who only speaks when it's needed, or when he is spoken to, and only says what he needs to say. He's not a social person, but he doesn't mind being around people he considers friends, or the people who are close to him. He's amiable, and tends to be uncomfortable in awkward situations. He's not one for giving advice unless it's asked of him. But he's also surprisingly open and honest, at least when asked a question or asked for his opinion.
In Dissidia, we see Cloud's core personality grow, and he shows to be rather curious, searching for the reasons why he's fighting. He wants to know the how's and why's behind the actions he's been forced to take. He's begun to think things throgh instead of always rushing in. He's grown up in many ways, and is finally starting to become comfortable with himself and who he is.
•ABILITIES ☆ As a mako enhanced human, Cloud is stronger than the average person. He also has more endurance, as well as better agility. He's quicker, faster, and stronger than your average human. He also has a set of limit breaks known as Braver, Cross-slash, Blade Beam, Climhazzard, Metorain, Finishing Touch and Omni Slash. He wields the large Buster sword, which at one point had belonged to Angeal, as well as Zack. He has a series of brave and HP attacks, as well as brave to HP attacks. He's also quite talented at the use of materia, and often uses them as an aid in battle. Although he is best suited as a fighter, he can also take on the role of a mage if need be.
Cloud would come to the game with the buster sword. Because he is also quite skilled in the use of materia, he will also be equiped with a piece of armor known as the Escourt Guard. It not only nullifies Wind, Water, Poison and Earth damage, but it has space for three different types of materia. As the buster sword also has two slots for materia, Cloud would bring with him a total of ten different materia, that are as follows.
Ice | Magic Type | Deals strong ice damage when directed at an enemy.
Lightening | Magic Type | Deals moderate lightening // elemental damage when directed at an enemy.
Mystify | Magic Type | Inflicts confusion onto the target.
Shield | Magic Type | Target becomes temporarily immune to all attacks.
Heal - Resist | Magic Type | Allows target to become resistant to most types of elemental magic.
W-Magic | Command Type | Allows the wearer to cast two spells at once.
Enemy Skill | Command Type | Allows the wearer to learn a kill or spell once it is used on them.
All | Support Type | Allows linked Magic Materia to target all allies or enemies once
Elemental | Support Type | Takes the element of the linked materia, and allows the weapon to also use it. It also allows the weapon to become immune to that element.
Pre-Emptive | Independent Type | Gives the wearer a plus ten percent chance of a pre-emptive strike on an enemy.
However, because he is from the Disidia timeline, Cloud no longer requires a materia to cast fire spells. His three spells are Fire, Fira, and Firagra, all of different levels and intensity.
•WEAKNESSES ☆ Cloud also has a number of weaknesses that at times can, not interfere, but get in the way of how he reacts and uses his abilities. Cloud is rather head strong and stubborn. He often refuses to listen to other's advice and also refuses to accept help when it's offered unless he actually sees a need for it (which is next to never.) He tends to hold his feelings inside instead of letting them out, and so he tends to be seen as quiet and not easily approachable. He also gives up easily sometimes, when he really shouldn't. Physically, he sometimes has a hard time getting a handle on his strength, since he never received training or any other type of assistance when learning to deal with it. He often has moments of delusion, due to the loss of most of his memories. Also, he doesn't have a lot of memories of his own, and what he does have he's left wondering if those are his, or those of Zack and Tifa, although at the point he's being pulled from, many of his memories are in fact his own.
•HISTORY ☆ Cloud was born in the small mountain village of Nibelheim, and was neighbors with Tifa Lockhart. Little to nothing is known of Cloud's father, only that he went missing from his life at an early age. From an earlier age, Cloud distanced himself from the other children in the village, feeling that he was different and somehow better than them, although he often longed for friendship from others. As time went on, he developed a crush on Tifa, but hated the rest of her friends, the two tended to avoid each other. When Cloud was nine, he followed Tifa up into the mountains, a dangerous place that she had ventured to in the grief that followed after her mother death. When the two were injured, Tifa's father blamed Cloud, and the two became even more distanced. Five years later, Cloud learned of Sephiroth and the SOLDIER program, and decided to leave for Midgar to pursue a future in the army. He asked Tifa out to the water tower to tell her about his departure, silently hoping to impress her. With her request, he agreed to come save her if she ever found herself in trouble. The following spring, he left for Midgar in hopes of one day achieving his goal.
Despite all of his confidence and bravado he is unable to make it into the SOLDIER program and instead becomes and ordinary infantryman. This is how he first meets First Class SOLDIER Zack Fair in the snowy mountains of Modeoheim and the two become friends after finding out that they both come from small, back water towns. It is with Zack, along with Sephiroth, that Cloud alter returns to Nibelheim to investigate a broken reactor in Mt. Nibel. Finding out that Tifa is to act of their guide, Cloud hides himself, using his helmet to cover his face, afraid to face her and admit that he has failed in to make his dreams come true and disappoint her. He does, however, reveal himself to his mother when he makes a trip to see her.
When the expedition reaches the reactor, Sephiroth discovers Professor Hojo's failed experiments, as well as information on the experiments that created him. Falling into madness, Sephiroth immerses himself in his findings, until he finally emerges from his basement hideout and sets fire to the town, killing most of the inhabitants. Witnessing his mother's death, Cloud rushes inside of the reactor to confront Sephiroth. There he found an unconscious Tifa and barely conscious Zack who tells him to take the Buster sword and go finish off Sephiroth. Catching him off guard in the reactor's core, he manages to wound him with his own sword. Leaving him, he goes to care for Tifa, taking care of her until Sephiroth emerges from the core. When Cloud attacks once more, Sephiroth impales him with the Masamune. Summoning unknown strength, Cloud manages to use the handle of the katana to knock Sephiroth into the reactor. Afterwards, Cloud collapses, badly wounded and loses consciousness quickly.
Found by Professor Hojo, both Cloud and Zack become test subjects for him, infusing them both with Sephiroth's cells, Jenova cells and exposing them to high doses of mako. He also attempts to test his Jenova Reunion Theory and turn them into Sephiroth clones. Four years later, Zack some how manages to escape from one of the mako tubes, and helped a comatose Cloud to escape as well. Due to the experiment, Cloud was left weak and unresponsive. However, as they escape, Zack talks constantly to the younger man, about his life and the plans he has for them once they reach the safely of Midgar. After almost a year of being on the run, they finally reach a cliff just outside of Midgar. However, the Shin-ra troops that have been searching for them finally catch up, and Zack fights back to defend himself and Cloud against the overwhelming numbers that stand in their way. After single-handedly and heroically massacring the majority of the hundreds of Shin-ra soldiers, Zack is gunned down and left for dead by the last remaining Soldiers. However, having woken up and witnessed the chaos, Cloud manages to crawl over to Zack, who, in his last few moments, entrust the Buster Sword to Cloud and tells him that his legacy will live on in Cloud. Deeply distressed, Cloud takes the Buster Sword, and finally says good bye to the other man, before making his way to Midgar, still sick and weak, leaving behind the only protection he had been given.
Sometime later in the Sector Seven Train Station Cloud's shattered mind undergoes a radical transformation. Hojo's experimentations, combined with his own weakened psyche, Jenova's mimicry abilities and the trauma of the events he had experienced cause Cloud to somehow impress Zack's memories, his ideal image of what he should be, as well as Tifa's memories of him come together to form a new image of himself. What comes into Cloud's mind is a new reality, one where Zack did not exist. Instead, he presents himself as a First Class SOLDIER, Sephiroth's former partner now turned mercenary. Since the official SOLDIER process is close to the experiments Hojo had performed on him, Cloud possesses the same abilities as a SOLDIER, and so his claim is easily and readily accepted.
Once in Midgar, Cloud is found by Tifa and integrated into the anti-Shin-ra terrorist group AVALANCHE. After blowing up a reactor in Sector 5, Cloud becomes separated from the others and ends up falling through the ceiling of a church in the slums where he meets Aerith Gainsborough. While Cloud is gone, Tifa allows herself to be captured by a Shin-ra informant, Don Corneo in an attempt to get much needed information. Cloud, disguised as a women, along with Aerith, make an attempt to rescue her, getting the needed information in the mean time. Learning the Shin-ra has indeed found out about AVALANCHE and their plans. To try and stop them, Shin-ra drops the plate on Sector 7, crushing the area underneath it and killing Wedge, Biggs and Jessie, and capturing Aerith. Cloud then leads an attack on Shin-ra headquarters to try and rescue her. There he meets Red XIII and also finds the headless remains of Jenova.
However the group is captured and imprisoned. During the night, Cloud wakes up to find the doors open and the guards murdered. He along with the rest of the group follow the blood trail to the top floor to find that the president of the company has also been killed by what looks to be Sephiroth's sword. After a brief struggle with the new president, Cloud and the group escape Midgar, stealing a motorcycle and a truck on the way.
The group stays in an inn located in Kalm for the time being. There Cloud tells them what he believes to be his own memories of the day that Nibelheim was destroyed, putting himself in the place of Zack and leaving Tifa confused about the events that took place and her own version of the way things happened, but declines to say anything. His grudge with Sephiroth seemingly explained, the group sets out the next day to try and track Sephiroth down, going through the Mythril Mines where the Turks reveal where Sephiroth is headed. Cloud and the group then proceed sneak into the Shin-ra controlled Junon and onto an oil tanker bound for Costa Del Sol, meeting Yuffie Kisaragi on the way.
The journey to find Sephiroth leads them through North Corel as well as the Gold Saucer, where the manager gives them a buggy to aid them in their journey and where the robot Cait Sith joins their cause. When the buggy breaks down, the group are forced to stay in RED XIII's home town of Cosmo Canyon, where vital information is revealed to them about the Lifestream and the negative effect of Shin-ra's many years of drilling for mako energy. When the group finally reaches Nibelheim, they find no trace of the destruction that had taken place years before.
Although Cloud and Tifa are confused, they search the now rebuilt town, and finds no one who actually remembers the fire and the destruction. In the ruins of the Shin-ra mansion, they find Vincent Valentine, who agrees to join them when they mention Sephiroth's name. In the mansion library, Sephiroth appears and alludes to a "reunion" that he feels that Cloud should attend. Climbing up and over Mt. Nibel, the group travels to Rocket Town, where they attempt to steal a plane from Cid Highwind, that's quickly shot down by Shin-ra. Adding Cid to their group, they make their way back to Gold Saucer where they are forced to spend the night after claiming the keystone from Dio. At this time, Cait Sith is reveal to be a Shin-ra spy, and steal the keystone, turning it over to the Turk Tseng.
At the Temple of the Ancients, they find Tseng, badly wounded, who also hands the keystone back over to them. In the heart of the Temple, Cloud finds Sephiroth who reveals his plan to call the ultimate black magic, Meteor, which will cause a critical wound on the planet. The Lifestream will emerge to try and heal this wound and Sephiroth will absorb the energy, becoming a god. When Sephiroth leaves, Cloud discovers the black materia and Cait Sith sacrifices himself to retrieve it. Once Sephiroth returns, he uses his power over Cloud, gained through the cells that they share, and forces him to give him the black materia. Weakened, Cloud passes out, and in a dream is told by Aerith that she is the only one who can stop him. When he wakes, he's told by the other's that she's gone.
Cloud and company follow Aerith through the Sleeping Forest to the Forgotten Capital, where he finds her praying at the alter in the center of the underground complex. Suddenly taking up the Buster Sword, he tries to attack her, his mind once again under Sephiroth's control. He stops himself in the nick of time, keeping himself from injuring her as his allies shout at him to stop. Helpless, Cloud watches as Sephiroth descends and stabs Aerith, killing her. Enraged by her death, the rest of the party mourns, as Cloud puts her to rest, carrying her out into the water and letting her float to the bottom. It's later that he reveals to the rest of the group that his mind has been under Sephiroth's control and that his actions have not been his own. Despite the fact that he could be controlled again, the rest of the group stays with him.
Finally arriving at the Northern Crater, Cloud once again regains the black materia and gives it to a party member, no longer trusting himself to hold on to it. Finding the center of the crater and also Sephiroth, Cloud's true past is revealed. Shin-ra along with professor Hojo appear not long after, reveling Jenova Reunion Theory, and also that Cloud is to be a part of it. With this information, along with the news of his memories and most of his ideas of what his life is being fake, Cloud's mind shatters. Taking back the black materia, he hands it to Sephiroth, who activates it. As Cloud apologizes to Tifa for being a fake, the crater begins to shake violently. AVALANCHE escapes, except for Barret and Tifa, leaving Cloud behind to fall into the Lifestream.
He's found in Mideel a week later, weak and incoherent from being subjected to the extreme amounts of mako contained in the Lifestream. Tifa stays behind to care for him while the rest of the party goes to fight Shin-ra, who is making a dangerous attempt to stop Meteor, which is now heading for the planet. When Ultimate Weapon attacks Mideel, and Tifa and Cloud fall into the Lifestream and into Cloud's subconscious. There, Tifa helps Cloud to regain some of his own memories, and regain a handle on who he truly is. Restored to his true self, Cloud resumes leadership of the group once more. With guidance, they discover that Aerith had managed to summon Holy before Sephiroth's attack on her. It could stop Meteor and save the planet, but Sephiroth is holding it back.
After extracting their revenge on Shin-ra for the wrongs that they had made towards each of them, the group lands itself in the Northern Crater once more and descends into the depths of the planet to confront Sephiroth. Defeating him in his new god-like form. Sephiroth's mind is sent back to the Lifestream once more. Cloud follows Sephiroth, and defeats him in one final battle. Returned to his body by Aerith, he rescues a falling Tifa, clinging to the edge of the cliff before pulling both of them to safety. Cloud and the group flee just as Holy emerges to fight Meteor. Along with the Lifestream, commanded by Aerith, it defeats Meteor and saves the planet.
During the twelfth cycle of the war, Cloud, along with his fellow warriors Tidus and Terra, aligned himself with Chaos. However, unlike the other Warriors of Chaos, Cloud actually shows concern for the opposing side, even going so far as to warn Lightning not to underestimate his allies, as they had been holding back their full power at the time. He is later shown having a heart to heart with Kuja, as both of them have no real intent to fight due to their memories of their lives before having been summoned to war by the gods.
At one point during the game, he witnesses a fight between Sephiroth and Tifa. He later intervenes, protecting Tifa and driving Sephiroth away, beginning what would become their rivalry in the next cycle of the conflict. Cloud doesn't go as far as revealing his true relation to Tifa, who at that point has no memories of him, but does tell her that he is infact a Warrior of Chaos. He warns her that they will have to fight the next time they meet. Once she leaves to rejoin her group, Cloud chooses to confront Chaos alone, trying to end the conflict before Tifa regains her memories of him and possibly loses her will to fight. However, Chaos over powers him and Cloud begins to face away into oblivion. As he fades, he pleads with Cosmos to protect Tifa. Cosmos receives Cloud's message and, deeming his feelings to me sincere, chooses him to0 become one of her warriors when he revives in the next cycle of battle.
The story of Dissidia follows the conflict between the gods Cosmos and Chaos, as well as their allies, all drawn from the main series of games. Backstory for the various characters come from "Reports" divided by which side the character is fighting for. Within the history of the world in which Dissidia is set in, however, Chaos and Cosmos have been at war with each other for an eternity, thus far having neither side emerge as the victor. As the game begins, Chaos seems to have gained the upper hand. Cosmos mortally wounded from the battle with Chaos, the forces of light are now in peril. Cosmos appears to the ten heroes in turn and entrusts them with the task of retrieving the crystals, which can save their worlds.
Cloud is once more confronted with Sephiroth, as a form of his own darkness, and who seems to be the path to gaining his own crystal. The driving force behind Cloud's actions in the game seem to be finding something to fight for, or better, the reason for which they are fighting. But the answer seems to elude him until after his confrontation with Spehiroth, where the other tells him that he's the reason he continues to fight, in which Cloud answers that his reasons are his own.
Defeating Sephiroth once more, Cloud finally gains his crystal which closely resembles the white materia worn by Aerith in the original game. Crystal in hand, Cloud travels back to meet with his companions so that they may finish their journey.
During this time, however, he comes across Terra in the Planet's Core where she is slowly beginning to lose control over her Esper powers. Cloud then chooses to step in and battle her without first explaining. Losing the battle, he does however manage to calm her down enough to regain control over her powers, later explaining that he did not wish to see her suffer, and didn't know of another way to calm her down. Terra thanks Cloud for saving her, then proceeds to explain how she and the Onion Knight were separated after being ambushed by Kefka, and Cloud joins her to help look for him, realizing that he can still be of help despite his indecisiveness, and thanks her for helping him recognize that.
During the search, Cloud reveals that he also has hesitations about fighting, and shows Terra Firion's wild rose, explaining Firion's dream for a peaceful world. Though neither warrior can figure out their own reason for fighting, Terra suggested that they should share the same dream, and along with the wild roses they can each add their own preferred flowers representing a bright future. The pair continues to Kefka's Tower and confronts him there, where he tries to compel Terra to give in to her Esper powers once again and cause senseless destruction, but she refuses. Kefka summons the Cloud of Darkness to attack them, at which point the Onion Knight reappears, and he and Cloud fight the Cloud of Darkness together while Terra has her final showdown with Kefka. After Terra obtains her Crystal, the three go on to rejoin the other Warriors.
With the Crystlas now in their possession, the Warriors of Cosmos return to the Order's Sanctuary in a last ditch effort to restore the goddess's strength, only to watch as Chaos incinerates her right before their very eyes. With the very last of her strength, Cosmos manages to prevent the heroes from fading back to their worlds, giving them one final change to at Chaos and to end the war for good.
With the Crystals in their possession, the Warriors of Cosmos return to the Order's Sanctuary in an effort to restore the goddess's strength, only to have Chaos incinerate her before their very eyes. But with the last of her strength, Cosmos prevents the heroes from fading back to their worlds, giving them one final chance to strike back at Chaos and end the war for good.