Age: 23
Height: 173cm
Blood Type: AB
Birthday: Aug, 11th
Birthplace: Nibelheim
A weak minded young man who once lost sight of himself after he was used as an experiment to clone Sephiroth, the legendary Soldier.
Taking high pride in his abilities and acting as a cool character who hardly socializes with people, Cloud buries his feelings of loneliness.
His deep blue eyes marks his identity as a Soldier and also of the fact that he was exposed heavily to Mako energy. Cloud has been called various names thoughout his journeys such as "Chocobo head" by Tifa because of his hair style.
Biography
Cloud's father died when he was still very young in Nibelheim and so he lived alone together with his mother. As a small boy, he didn't get along with others apart from Tifa. So when Tifa's mother died and three of her friends decided to take her up the mountains where the dead were believed to go, Cloud wasn't invited. But even so, Cloud secretly went after them wanting to cheer Tifa up. In the end, both of them fell from a rope bridge that snapped. Although miraculously Cloud lived with light wounds, Tifa was heavily wounded and was in the void between life and death for seven days. Cloud was accused of taking her up the mountains.
Few years later, at the age of fourteen, Cloud decided to leave Nibelheim to join Soldier so that he could become stronger, as strong as Sephiroth. Before he left, he gathered the courage to ask Tifa out alone to let her know. It was then that he promised her that he would come to rescue when she was in trouble. Little had he known about Shinra Soldier's dark secrets and what laid ahead of him.
Two years after joining Soldier and failing to reach the top ranks, Cloud travelled back to his hometown together with two other members of Soldier on a mission. The two other members the legendary Solider, Sephiroth himself along with another top ranking Soldier named Zack who Cloud got along with well. Ashamed that he couldn't achieve what he had said, he couldn't bear to face Tifa and hid himself under his helmet as they went about their mission.
Few days later, after Sephiroth went mad, Cloud watched as his hometown was burned down. Filled with anger he rushed to where Sephiroth was inside the reactor where he finds a heavily wounded Tifa. As his anger heightened further, he confronted Sephiroth and managed to kill him but not before being fatally wounded himself. It was then that he became an experiment of Professor Hojo from Shinra Inc. in an effort to clone Sephiroth.
With Jenova cells injected into his body as well as being exposed to high levels of Mako, he gained the abilities of a top ranking Soldier. But that was not all he got for his memories were scrambled so that his dreams replaced his memories while his real memories were locked away. After escaping together with Zack from the clutches of Professor Hojo, Cloud came to think that he had managed to become a first rank Soldier.
When Cloud later found out that all his memories were made up and that he was a failed experiment, his mentality fell apart. It was his childhood friend who helped him restore his former self.
After the Meteor incident, he still continues to blame himself for the death of others because he couldn't protect them. Especially Aerith's death. To this day, he also remembers his dear friend Zack well. |
