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Final Fantasy VII • Kingdom Hearts • Remake |
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| “ | Don't know about any of that, but kindness is no use on the battlefield. If anything, it's a liability. | „ |
| ~ Cloud Strife |
Summary
Cloud Strife is the main protagonist of Final Fantasy VII: Remake. Cold, unfriendly and simply focused on getting the job done, Cloud is a former 1st Class member of SOLDIER, the elite paramilitary unit of the Shinra Electric Power Company. After having quit Shinra for unknown reasons, Cloud, thanks to recommendations from an old friend, Tifa Lockhart, began working as a mercenary in the city of Migar, where he would end up working for the anti-Shinra extremist group, Avalanche, led by Barret Wallace.
After a successful mission, Cloud moved to Sector 7 where Avalanche had its headquarters and with the help with Tifa, little by little, Cloud would start taking small jobs to build up his reputation and connections as a mercenary to eventually reach greater objectives. However, after being dismissed from another job by Barret, a large amalgamation of ghostly figures suddenly attacked Avalanche's headquarters, injuring one of their members, leaving Barret with no other choice but to hire Cloud's services once again.
This, however, was just one of many episodes of something not being quite right in Cloud's world. The same entities had appeared before to him when he tried to help a florist girl, panicking in the streets of Midgar and Cloud has been experiencing strange migraines and visions of a figure of his past, the man who took his home and his family, who now appears to him to taunt him over his loss and his failures.
As Cloud moves forward, mysteries only seem to become more numerous. His own identity suddenly becomes an inconsistency, with his hardened and professional image of a warrior clashing with an insecure and awkward boy at loss at the world around him. The mysterious man called Sephiroth, the specters and himself. It was just the beginning of a long journey of revelations.
Powers and Stats
Tier: At least High 6-A, higher with Limit Breaks
Name: Cloud Strife
Origin: Final Fantasy VII: Remake
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Classification: Mako Enhanced Human, former Shinra Infantryman, Member of AVALANCHE, Mercenary, Successful Sephiroth Clone
Powers and Abilities:
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Master Swordsman and Skilled Marksman (is a former Shinra Infantryman), Vehicular Mastery (With Motorcycles), Enhanced Awareness and Reflexes, Acrobatics, Energy Manipulation (can empower his attacks with his Spirit Energy when using Limit Breaks for greater power and different effects), Energy Projection (via Blade Beam), Attack Boost (via Limit Breaks, which are stated to reach power much greater than the usual capabilities of the user), Homing Attack, Non-Physical Interaction (Able to harm spirits), Mind Reading (the Jenova Cells in his body can read the memory of other people, however, he has no control of this ability therefore is not combat applicable)
Resistance to Fate Manipulation (Able to overcome and defeat the Whispers who control fate itself), Statistics Reduction, Time Manipulation, Poison Manipulation, Transmutation and Power Nullification via Warding Materia (Wards off abilities that correspond to the materia it is linked to)
Magic, Summoning with Summon Materia (Can summon multiple beasts to fight alongside him. These include, Ifrit, Carbuncle, Leviathan, Cactaur, Chocobo and Moogle, Fat Chocobo, Shiva, Chocobo Chick and Bahamut), Elemental Manipulation, Fire Manipulation with Fire Materia, Ice Manipulation with Ice Materia, Electricity Manipulation with Lightning Materia, Air Manipulation with Wind Materia, Poison Manipulation with Poison Materia, Regeneration (Mid Low, with Regen), Healing with Chakra, Pray, Healing and Revival Materia, Resurrection via Revival Materia, Purification (Type 3, via Cleansing Materia and Chakra), Time Manipulation with Time Materia (In the forms of TIme Acceleration, Slow and Stop) Damage Reduction with Barrier Materia, Sleep Manipulation via Sleep, Power Nullification via Silence and Subversion Materia, Statistics Amplification and Self Statistics Reduction with Berserk, Information Analysis via Assess, Can steal items and weapons from his opponent with the Steal Materia, Power Mimicry with Enemy Skill Materia, Known Enemy Skills grant, Self-Destruction, Life Manipulation (Life force draining with Spirit Syphon) and Status Effect Inducement with Bad Breath (Includes Poison, Sleep and Silence), Grants a Resistance to Statistics Reduction, Time Manipulation, Poison Manipulation, Transmutation and Power Nullification with Resist
Attack Potency: At least Multi-Continent level (Can defeat and control Summons like Ifrit and Leviathan, who can reduce the world to ashes and control its oceans. Can also defeat and command the likes of Shiva and Bahamut), higher with Limit Breaks
Speed: Sub-Relativistic (Can dodge Rufus' lasers)
Lifting Strength: Class 1
Striking Strength: At least Multi-Continent level
Durability: At least Multi-Continent level
Stamina: Extremely High
Range: Extended Melee Range with his swords. Dozens of meters with Limit Breaks, much higher with Materia.
Standard Equipment: Buster Sword, Iron Blade, Nail Bat, Hardedge, Mythril Saber and Twin Stinger. Materia
Intelligence: Gifted. From the very beginning, even as an infantryman, Cloud displayed immense skill and natural talent for swordsmanship and battle. This, furthered by his military training and the memories inherited from Zack, led Cloud to have full grasp of every aspect of combat and strategy; including Magic, the use of Materia, Limit Breaks, and measures for Elemental Attributes and Ailments, among many other aspects, to the point, that by very early in the story, he could already easily defeat actual SOLDIER members.
Weaknesses: Cloud must be pressed in a battle to use his Limit Breaks, so most of the time he can't use them right away or in succession.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Braver: Jumps into the air and strikes his opponent with a powerful sword attack.
- Focused Thrust: Lunges toward an enemy with a piercing strike that hits multiple times.
- Triple Slash: Slashes 3 times in quick succession, dealing more damage with each blow.
- Disorder: Delivers a devastating attack and switch modes in one fluid motion.
- Infinity's End: Winds up and unleashes a powerful overhead strike.
- Blade Beam: With a swing of his blade, Cloud fires a wave of Spirit Energy at an opponent.
- Counterstance: Braces for attacks and then retaliates with a powerful slash.
- Algid Aura: The user imbues themselves with a magical area that deals ice damage on contact.
- Self-Destruct: Deals a large amount of damage to enemies in the surrounding area while incapacitating oneself.
- Spirit Syphon: Drains the HP of all surrounding opponents.
- Bad Breath: Releases a gas that inflicts poison, sleep and silence across a wide AoE.
- Ruby Light: Halves physical damage taken.
- Nacre Light: Halves magical damage taken.
- Emerald Light: Doubles the speed of allies by accelerating time.
- Diamond Dazzle: Carbuncle's ultimate skill that fully heals and revives all allies.
- Cactaur:
- 1,000 Needles: Shoots 1000 needles at the opponent. These needles poisons and slows the opponent.
- 10,000 Needles: Cactaur's ultimate skill that shoots needles in all directions.
- Chocobo Chick:
- Chocofire: Unleashes an AoE fire attack on the opponent.
- Chocoblizzard: Unleashes an AoE ice attack on the opponent.
- Chocothunder: Unleashes an AoE lightning attack on the opponent.
- Chocogust: Unleashes an AoE wind attack on the opponent.
- Chocoflare: Chocobo Chick's ultimate skill. Spawns non-elemental magic on the opponent and causes it to explode violently.
- Ifrit:
- Radiant Plume: Calls forth fires from below to consume an enemy and others in the vicinity.
- Crimson Dive: Leaps high into the air and strikes an enemy from above with a fiery strike.
- Hellfire: Ifrit's ultimate skill. Unleashes a massive blazing inferno within a large AoE.
- Chocobo and Moogle:
- Chocobo Kick: Run towards an enemy and unleash a powerful kick that deals wind damage.
- Moogle Blast: Throws a bomb that has a wide blast range.
- Stampede: Chocobo and Moogles's ultimate skill. Summons a large flock of chocobo that run over the opponent to deal wind damage.
- Shiva: Note: Shiva's ice has been stated to be Absolute Zero in temperature.
- Icicle Impact: Lauches Icicles at the opponent to deal ice damage to nearby opponents.
- Heavenly Strike: Conjures a great glacier and bring it down upon an enemy's head.
- Diamond Dust: Shiva's ultimate skill. Shiva encases foes in an ice cocoon and blows a kiss to shatter it.
- Fat Chocobo:
- Kaboom: Causes a massive shockwave.
- Bombs Away: Throws one or more giant bombs that create large explosions.
- Kerplunk: Fat Chocobo's ultimate skill. Summons moogles to drop it onto the enemies for non-elemental physical damage.
- Leviathan:
- Briny Bellow: Spews a concentrated beam of water in a wide arc.
- Gyre Splume: Harnesses and releases a massive concentration of water to damage nearby enemies.
- Tidal Wave: Leviathan's ultimate skill. Leviathan engulfs itself in white-crested waves dealing damage to everything around itself before departing.
- Bahamut:
- Umbral Aura: When its summon time is almost up, Bahamut emits a crimson aura that increases the power of its skills.
- Umbral Inferno: Fires countless homing lasers at an enemy.
- Umbral Strikes: Strikes enemy with twin orbs of concentrated energy.
- Megaflare: Bahamut's ultimate skill. Bahamut releases a blast of energy from its mouth that explodes, heavily damaging all enemies in the vicinity.
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