Name: Cloud Strife
Age: He appears to be about the age of 26 yrs.
Race: Human.
Appearance: Cloud is known for his spikey blonde hair and his gladiator physique. His eyes are greenish-blue, truly piercing one might say. He is about six foot tall, without his boots on, with them , he gets about two more inches. His shirt is tight, black and sleeveless. His pants are black as well with cargo pockets on the sides, close to the knees. Cloud also has somewhat of a cloak as well, it drifts down to his boots yet is sleeveless on one side, the left arm is encased with the sleeve down to his hand while the right arm stays revealed. He wears black gloves on both hands too.
Personality: Through the many trials and tribulations that Cloud has been through, he has just about lost all of the ability to trust. He is a shadey character, definitely quiet unless otherwise provoked. C
Fighting Weapon: The Buster Sword
History: A young boy from a small mountain village called Nibelheim, Cloud Strife would be given a destiny he could have never imagined or conceived. As a child, he grew up isolated from the village children. When he was nine, Tifa Lockheart and others tried to climb up Mt. Nibel. Cloud decided to follow them, however Tifa fell from a bridge. Tifa’s father blamed Cloud for the accident and it stuck with him. From that incident, Cloud resolved to become a member of SOLDIER, Shin-Ra’s elite fighting force. There were several reasons for doing this, one of them was that he felt he wasn’t good enough for Tifa, whom he had admired from a distance. Another was that he wanted , not only to prove to others, but most of all to himself, that he could be as strong or as great as the legendary 1st Class SOLDIER, Sephiroth. It was at this point he made a promise to Tifa, swearing that he’d protect her whenever she needed help.
However, Cloud never managed to make it into SOLDIER, and ended up becoming a Shin-Ra infantry guard. Yet he was aboard the helicopter that crashed with Zack Fair, SOLDIER 1st Class, when going Modeoheim to find out about Genesis and Hollander. Zack took a real shine to Cloud, feeling the country bumpkin camaraderie, and encouraged him never to give up on becoming a member of SOLDIER.
Later when Genesis Clones attacked Junon to get Hollander, Zack found Cloud again, who had gotten motion sickness from the helicopter ride. Zack offered to have dinner with him once the emergency was done. From there on there was a show of friendship between the two.
When Sephiroth and Zack went to Nibelheim to check out the Mako Reactor there, Cloud accompanied them, however he was ashamed by his failure to make it into SOLDIER, so kept his identity a secret from the town’s people, wearing his Shin-ra helmet to cover his features. That helped very much, especially when Tifa was hired to act as their guide to the Mako Reactor on Mt. Nibel.
They had no way of knowing what they would find. Hojo’s failed experiments with Mako Soldiers and Sephiroth discovering what he thought was his mother: Jenova. Upon returning to the village, as he locked himself away in the Shin-ra mansion, going over the work of Professor Gast and uncovering the truth behind his own past.
When he came out of the basement, he had succumbed to the madness that had developed within his mind and soul, and began to act upon it by destroying Nibelheim, setting it blaze and killing anyone that crossed his path. Cloud witnessed the death of his own mother in the blazing inferno. Desiring revenge, he rushed to the reactor to confront Sephiroth.
There he found both Tifa and Zack unconscious; they had been unsuccessful in confronting Sephiroth. Fueled by grief and anger, he picked up Zack’s Buster Sword, catching the legend off guard completely, and impaled him with the blade. Sephiroth in turn impaled Cloud with his sword, but Cloud managed to survived and forced Sephiroth off his sword, using the sword that was impaled within him.
They say that is where the fued began between Sephiroth and Cloud. None-the-less Cloud continued his journies, still dealing with his rough life and hardships that he had faced. Even today he still is in search of answers to the questions he had kept with him for so long.
Occupation: Cloud does not have a job, he is merely a wondering warrior, in search of answers.
Subject: Cloud Strife 
Sun Jun 08, 2008 6:30 pm
