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OUT OF CHARACTER
Name/Handle: Egg
Contact: gonewithouta; manicalpha@gmail
Reference: n/a
Other characters: Sorey (monolike) & Aizawa (expellerhead)

IN-CHARACTER
Character name: Cloud Strife
Character journal: moseyin
Series name: Final Fantasy VII
Canon notes: taken from the end of the original game, on the Highwind after they escape Meteor

Species: Human (altered)

History: LMAOFSDF THIS FUCKIN PLOT ok ok

So this planet called Planet (I know) exists and all living things go to the Lifestream when they die, which is this actual physical stream of goopy light stuff that flows through the planet kinda like gas???magma??? Ancients were the first inhabitants of the planet, Jenova the alien virus crash-landed and killed them all (mostly) bc she's a jerk like that. FAST FORWARD A LONG TIME AFTER THAT

Cloud grew up in Nibelheim and none of the townspeople liked him, half because society is mean to awkward people and half because he was a little punk with an attitude problem. He decides he's going to go join SOLDIER (the naming scheme in this world is very literal) to be cool and awesome and impress this girl and be a hero and make everybody regret being mean to him. But he's a weakass lil ho so he doesn't get into the program and is too embarrassed to show his face back home. Sephiroth, antagonist and all around crazy jerk, goes nuts when he reads some junk and burns the town to the ground before/after slaughtering everybody. ShinRa (company who owns literally everything) shows up, covers it up and hands Cloud and Zack (SOLDIER bud) over to their science director Hojo for some neato human experimentation in an effort to make another Sephiroth, because the first one turned out SO well.

Cut to five years later, Cloud is like a waking coma patient re: experimentation and Zack is all 'enough of this tomfoolery' so he breaks them out like Vin Diesel. He drags his coma-pal around trying to get back to his girlfriend Aerith in Midgar and dies like literally, like a football field away, it's so shitty and unfair. Anyway ShinRa's regular infantry are garbage bc they don't even bother to shoot the other guy (Cloud) so the other guy (Cloud again, I think) crawls over to Zack and watches him die and then like yells about it because he's sad, assimilates his history and personality into his own bc his mind is completely fucked up and then heads over to Midgar with his new starter weapon.

START GAME.

Cloud joins up with Tifa (girl he wanted to impress) with his fucked up memories and she knows something's up but is scared to say anything because hey, she hasn't seen him in a while and now he's jacked and crazy, I WOULDN'T SAY SHIT EITHER. Tifa is an environmental terrorist now, but like soft-terrorist in that they wait for buildings to be empty on the weekend to bomb them. Also the buildings are killing the Planet, supposedly, purportedly (they find out they for sure are later). So they end up bouncing around Midgar and causing a ruckus with Barret, also known as Mr. T/Good Dad/Hippie With A Gun (But Like, On His Arm). A bombing gone wrong separates Cloud from the group where they meet up with Aerith. Shennanigans ensue, ShinRa bombs them right back and crushes their home (more terrorist-y than they were bc they actually kill civilians) and kidnap Aerith because she's special. So everybody hoofs it up to ShinRa HQ, breaks in to save her and SHIT GETS SUPER REAL. BC SEPHIROTH IS THERE, WTF IS JENOVA, HOLY SHIT HE KILLED THE PRESIDENT AND NOW THE PRESIDENT'S SON IS TAKING OVER AND HE'S AN EVEN BIGGER JERK. It's all a mess, they rescue Aerith and their new buddy, Red XIII the Dog Companion. After a truly annoying motorcycle chase they escape Midgar and Cloud tells them all this shit that Sephiroth did, minus some details (and plus some details), with him assuming Zack's role and Tifa going "UMMMMM" nervously in the back of her head.

What comes next is them following Sephiroth's trail all over the world bc Cloud wants Revenge and Barret hates The Man, and Tifa wants to know WTF is going on, Red just wants to get home and Aerith is just along for the ride. They pick up some buddies along the way (Yuffie and Cait Sith) as things get shittier and Cloud gets noticably more unstable. They hit up the prerequisite backstory places (Gongaga, North Corel, Gold Saucer, Cosmo Canyon, etc...) and eventually make their way back to Nibelheim, only to find it completely rebuilt and occupied by people who claim to not know him and also failure Sephiroth clones. Might as well get another party member and round this thing out to an even eight, right, VINCENT: GET only fuck you, then they go to Rocket Town (again, I know, GOD, I KNOW) and collect Cid for an even MORE even nine. More backstory stuff, etc etc, Yuffie takes all theIR SHIT I HATE THAT but they get it back and help her out.

Moving on to actual story they literally, I sHIT YOU NOT, find an old man in a hut to tell them where to go (Temple of the Ancients) to get the Black Materia so Sephiroth can't snag it and call it for a ride like a galactic Uber. Fetch quest stuff, yadda yadda, they find out Cait Sith is a traitor and nobody cares. The Turks (ShinRa's black ops kinda) take the shit they need and head to the Temple, so the party moseys over but like, quick moseying, and once there it's discovered that Cloud is actually even more fucked up than previously suspected, and once they get the Black Materia after the most irritating dungeon ever, Sephiroth goes NOPE MINE and controls Cloud to make him hand it over to a clone, who flies away in a hilarious bit of animation. Then Cloud goes bonkers on Aerith and shit gets real, everybody is wondering what the fuck is going on. Aerith is like "shit fuck dam I guess we don't have the Planet killing thing anymore so we should go get the PLANET PROTECTING thing" and leads the party to the Forgotten Capital via weird dream sequences Cloud has for some reason so that they can acquire Holy. Once there

SPOILER BIG HUGE SPOILER SPOILER ALERT
Aerith dies.
END SPOILER IT'S ALL CLEAR NOW

Anyway now everbody has an even BETTER reason to chase Sephiroth, bc GUESS WHO DID DONE THE DEED! It was fuckin' rude, the party agrees, and they agree to kill the shit out of him right back. So they follow him up a mountain and with a snowboard via some SICK MOVES, BRUH and end up at the edge of the Northern Crater. Down there they find all these clones showing up and dying on the way down bc Sephiroth is like THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE so he's killing them all like the jerkity jerk he is. Oh also he keeps giving Cloud visions, BUT OF LIKE THE TRUTH, because nobody could lie to Cloud like CLOUD CAN!!!! They kick the tar out of one of the clones for the Black Materia, and Cloud is like "yeah I cannot be trusted" and gives it to someone else because he's a responsible unwilling brain puppet.

It's a regular jerk party in the Crater, friends, because ShinRa's all there and then the party shows up and Tifa is so UMMMMMMMM over this whole thing, and Cloud goes bananas and runs off and Sephiroth controls him into getting the Black Materia back and giving it to him. Cloud then does this??? Floating thing??? idfk, it's Final Fantasy, and he gets separated and Sephiroth calls Meteor to kill the Planet and the Planet is like "the fuck" and wakes up the WEAPONs to defend it (by killing everything) and honestly it's just a bad time all around.

Tifa and Barret get arrested and are gonna get executed, a bunch of shit happens honestly but Cloud doesn't know about it because he washes up on some lil island somewhere completely out of his gourd. After a ton of shit happening (foiled executions, betrayals, slapfight, WEAPONs, cannons) Tifa shows up and is like I MUST DEVOTE MYSELF TO THIS BOY WHO HONESTLY DOES NOT ACTUALLY DESERVE IT BUT HEY HE'S PRETTY AND I HAVE A SAVIOR COMPLEX so that happens. Some other shit happens that Cloud is not aware of (like some world-ending stuff I guess, Huge Materia, Cid is leader now and he hates every goddamn second of it) and the Lifestream goes apeshit when Ultima attacks and it swallows up Mideel and Tifa and Cloud.

Tifa is like "this is the stupidest bullshit I have ever saw" because nobody hates the plot of FF7 like the cast does, and decides that she's going to do this weird dreamwalking shit to put Cloud's stupid broken head back together. Cloud thinks this is Swell and goes along with it, ladidah etc etc they emerge (somewhat) sane and the party picks them up like "damn what happened" and they are like "you wouLD NOT EVEN BELIEVE," because they wouldn't, because it's stupid.

Anyway they decide to continue Fucking Up ShinRa's Plans, because that's usually a good course of action even tho ShinRa just wants to lay the beatdown on Sephiroth. Probably because their idea of doing it is a dumb one. So they go underwater, to space, all these crazy places and kick the shit out of literally everybody only to find out that their dead buddy is probably the only one who can do fuckin' anything about this shit. Meteor is still hangin' out, Sephiroth is still chillin', ShinRa is mostly dead now so that's a plus ig

Cloud et al are like "this game has gone on long enough" and head to Northern Crater to kick the shit out Jenova and Sephiroth, but Meteor is like YOOOOOOOO I HEARD THERE WAS BEER HERE and Holy is like "omg fuck off" and then the Lifestream guided by Aerith is like "yeah seriously get the fuck outta here" and Meteor gets like...y'know MOSTLY repelled and then the day is saved yay


Personality:
Cloud is ten pounds of awkward in a five pound bag. It's been a long, long time since he's been a normal person with like, friends and shit, and he's still finding his way back to actual humanity one stumbling step at a time. Bless him, the boy does try, but he seems to be afflicted with Acute FuckUpitis and half the time makes things more worse than better before he fixes things. A lot of this isn't his fault, but like some of it totally, absolutely is.

He starts the game out as a supreme asshole who thinks strength and a cool attitude are all that's needed to be considered a hero, and subsequently treats the people around him like garbage. That wears off pretty quick when it becomes apparent that he's the MOST GARBAGIEST OF THEM ALL and he begins to really care about the people around him. Even when he gets elected as party leader, he does a lot less leading and a lot more agreeing with everybody that shit is fucked and needs to be taken care of. Honestly, he spends a lot of time as a janitor, and shoulders a lot of responsiblity for the mess the world is in and sees it as his duty to finish things and save the world.

Cloud's a weird mix of shyness, attitude, defensiveness and self-doubt. He's undoubtedly been royally fucked by everything that's happened to him, but he's still at his core that painfully awkward boy from Nibelheim. He tends to stay quiet unless someone talks to him first, and the way he goes about fixing other people's problems involves a lot of sighing and a lot of 'welp I guess I better get up from my seat,' almost like an old man. Cloud is Tired of things going to shit, he didn't want this when he left home, he just wanted a cool job and to be all impressive. He's very much the picture of a guy who bit off a hell of a lot more than he can chew, and everybody in the party knows it.

Guilt complexes and self-esteem issues galore, this one, but he's also got a pretty light sense of humor and says things like 'let's mosey' and whatnot like it's normal. Despite everything he's been involved in, Cloud is the type of person who would've eventually made a home for himself in some nobody village and probably would've been just fine running like a general store or something. He ends up getting wrapped up in big grand causes because they practically sit themselves right in front of him, and because he's capable and he's there, he handles it. He's no genius, his street smarts are only about average and pretty much the only reason he can pick up a truck is because of the experiments, but by golly, the boy is GODDAMN stubborn. If nothing else, Cloud takes particular exception to being used and being told what to do.

Cloud has learned over and over and OVER again what it's like to lose everything, so he clings with particular ferocity to the people he loves and who love him. While he can be secretive about himself (more because his memory is still jacked up) and while he doesn't like to make himself vulnerable, his group of friends have seen him at his worst and still accepted him for it. He'll love them (and anyone else who accepts him) until his final shaking breath.

Abilities: Cloud's a super soldier via Mako (processed Lifestream so like GHOSTS??? HE'S STRONG BC OF GHOSTS??? idfk), Jenova cells and Sephiroth cells. His eyes glow in the dark and he has super strength and speed and reflexes and durability but the most important thing here, obviously, is the glowing eyes. I don't know if this counts as an 'ability' but if Jenova and Sephiroth are nearby they can try to influence him into doing their bidding, like (you guessed it) jerky jerks

Augment Skillset: Pilot

Sample:

Space.

It just has to be space, doesn't it? Cloud's been in space before and honestly, it was nothing to write home about. Sure it was kind of pretty but the lack of breathable air outside their little rocket was kicking up all kinds of claustrophobic tendencies he hadn't even known he had. Plus, he did that thing where he zones out and thinks as he stares into the middle distance, and considering the rocket was about to hit Meteor and explode, zoning out was not a wise course of action.

...shit, he's zoning out right now. "Damn you," Cloud says to the beautiful starscape just past the window, and continues on his way to the armory. It's been a hell of a long time since he's used a firearm but without his sword or his materia he's practically naked. Tactically naked, anyway. The quarters are tight (no thanks) and there are people here that he has to live with whom he does not know (a huge no thanks) and he has to deal with all of that with no weapons? At all? No sir. Even some ridiculous little pew pew handgun would be better than nothing, which as luck would have it is all he gets.

"I feel like I'm about to go play laser tag," Cloud grumbles, fiddling with the heat chamber to make sure he knows how to pop out the sink cartridge and let it cool. Feeling mostly like an idiot but kind of like a Turk he tries to find some place to tuck the pistol and ends up just wedging it into the leather of his belt. It'll have to do.