Tseng Tseng is the leader of the Turks in " Compilation of Final Fantasy VII " . He first appeared in " Final Fantasy VII " , but has since appeared in " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " , prequel to " Final Fantasy VII " with the Turks as the main characters ; in " " and " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " ; and also appears in the OVA " Last Order - Final Fantasy VII - " , which depicts the events of the Nibelheim Incident from the Turks ' point of view . Profile . Appearance . Tseng dons the classic , dark blue Turk attire in " Final Fantasy VII " , and wears a similar , but black suit in the rest of the " Compilation of Final Fantasy VII " . He has dark brown eyes and shoulder - length , black hair occasionally tied in a ponytail . He has a tilak in the middle of his forehead . Personality . Tseng is stern , no - nonsense , and sometimes temperamental . He has known Aerith Gainsborough since she was a child and has special feelings for her , thus never completing his long - delayed mission to bring her to Shinra Electric Power Company . In spite of several instances of ruthlessness , such as striking Aeris as she was trying to assure Barret and Tifa that Marlene was safe , he is devoted to his associates and friends , as he sent out the Turks to save Zack and Cloud before the Shinra Army could catch up with them , a failure which torments him throughout the " Compilation " . Story . Turk Operations . In " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " , Tseng is summoned by Veld to oversee a rescue mission with one of the Turks ' special agents . Tseng realizes the agent , known as the " Legendary Turk " , was once the anti - Shinra activist " Death God of the Battlefield " , whom he had crossed paths against previously . Unhappy with the partnership and wary of the agent ' s motive , the pair arrive at a secret Shinra military factory in Wutai overrun by anti - Shinra operatives . As Tseng informs Legend by phone he is to rescue a weapons trader held inside the factory and eliminate the anti - Shinra operatives before they can leak the confidential information about the facility to the world , Legend plants bombs in strategic parts of the facility . Making his way through the facility , Legend discovers the kidnapped dealer is guarded by an old ally from his anti - Shinra days . As the two fight and Legend emerges victorious , the man reveals the truth regarding a past negotiation in which Legend participated in . As Legend ' s bombs detonate the man dies . Releasing the hostage , Legend recognizes the dealer had also been present at the negotiation and questions him about the incident . Unwilling to admit the truth , the dealer denies knowledge of what Legend is talking about and Legend abandons the dealer to die in the collapsing factory . As punishment for his actions , Legend is placed under house arrest at Costa del Sol . Appalled by the lenient punishment , Tseng questions Veld who explains that even though Legend had abandoned his duty and disobeyed orders to rescue the dealer , Legend had still ensured the company ' s secrets were not leaked and had thus completed his primary objective . Veld goes on to tell Tseng that before Legend had became a Turk , there had been an incident at a Mako Reactor where a weapons dealer had entered negotiations with Legend ' s anti - Shinra faction . The dealer had betrayed the activists and only Legend survived ; mourning the loss of his comrades and a little girl who had been important to him . Deducing the hostage must have been the same weapons dealer , Tseng begins to comprehend Legend ' s actions . While still a rookie , Tseng is given the assignment of investigating the kidnapping of a Shinra soldier from one of Shinra ' s Mako Reactors . Under Veld ' s command he is sent to search an unregistered vessel in the Costa del Sol harbor . Concluding the only purpose of kidnapping a reactor guard would be to learn more about the reactor itself , Tseng believes the rescue of the soldier is important before he reveals any secrets . Boarding the ship , he finds anti - Shinra militants patrolling its passages . Finding the tortured soldier in the confinement room , he discovers the enemy has been buying stolen Shinra weapons from a black market weapons dealer , and has been stocking them aboard the ship . Torn between his duty as a Turk to investigate the stolen weapons further , and his determination to complete his mission to rescue the soldier , Tseng opts for the latter , and escapes the ship with the man . Reprimanding Tseng on choosing the guard ' s life over the security of company secrets , Veld returns with Tseng to the vessel to destroy the weapons , their data , and to locate the information leak which allowed the weapons to be sold on the black market . As Veld heads to the hangar to destroy the weapons Tseng is ordered to the control room to find and delete all files regarding the weapons . As he erases the files from the computer system , the anti - Shinra operatives escape with a hard copy of the data . Seeing his mentor assailed by the weapons in the hangar , Tseng attempts to assist him but Veld reprimands him again , reminding him a Turk ' s first priority is the completion of the mission . Locating the operatives carrying the hard data and dispatching them , Tseng , his initial mission completed , is now free to aid Veld in the hangar . While destroying the weapons , a surviving anti - Shinra operative sinks the vessel with the Turks still in it . As the ship sinks the ceiling collapses and Tseng is trapped beneath a steel girder . Urging his mentor to leave him , Veld instead risks his life to free his subordinate ; incurring a facial injury from falling debris in the process . Later , while recovering in a Shinra medical facility , Veld explains the reason for staying to help Tseng in that , as his mission had been completed , he , like Tseng , was free to decide whether or not he should help his coworkers and he chose to help as that was what he wanted the Turks to be ; loyal to the mission , but still good people at heart . Having found a Full Heal materia while on the vessel , Veld hands it to Tseng , instructing him to keep it safe . With the Wutai War drawing to a close , Veld sends Tseng to Costa del Sol to request that Legend returns to the Turks . Soon after his arrival , Tseng discovers Legend had become a favorite among the town ' s ladies and finds him on the beach . Delivering his request , Tseng is met with refusal , as Legend explains he enjoys the life at Costa del Sol and does not want to go back to a life that brought nothing but conflict . Understanding his reasoning , Tseng leaves the invitation open should Legend ever wish to rejoin the company . In " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " , Tseng accompanies Zack Fair on several missions after Angeal goes missing along with Genesis . Tseng is first introduced to him by Lazard on the mission to Banora . He introduces himself as " Tseng of the Turks " . Tseng and Zack travel to Banora to look for Genesis ' s parents , but find them dead and buried . While Tseng investigates the grave , Zack goes off to hunt for Genesis . After it is revealed Genesis has been using the Banora White apple juice factory as his hideout , Tseng and Zack leave the village and Banora is destroyed by Shinra bombers to conceal its secrets . In a later mission , Tseng is sent to accompany Shinra troops to Modeoheim , but their helicopter is destroyed by Genesis ' s forces and crashes on the snowy mountains of Icicle Area . Zack and Cloud lead the patrol and arrive in the abandoned town of Modeoheim . Tseng holds back while Zack goes off to confront Angeal , who fuses himself with monsters to transform into Angeal Penance , forcing Zack to kill him . Combating AVALANCHE . In " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " , as part of their duties as a new member of the Turks , the Player Turk is sent on patrol of Sector 8 . Encountering the AVALANCHE organization infiltrating the Sector , after a brief skirmish , the Player Turk informs Tseng on their PHS who instructs them to investigate the group further and in turn notifies his superior , Veld . Discovering they are intent on destroying the sector ' s Mako Reactor , Reno is sent in to support the Player Turk as they enter the reactor to prevent AVALANCHE from detonating their bomb . Shears defeats Reno and the Player Turk , who had successfully prevented the bombing . Shears is ordered to withdraw to Junon where President Shinra is residing to hold a news conference . Noting their movements , Tseng sends Reno and the Player Turk to protect the President . Later , with AVALANCHE intending to use the Sister Ray cannon to destroy Midgar as a message to Shinra , Reno leads a contingent of Shinra troops against AVALANCHE ' s street forces and the Player Turk enters the cannon facility from an underground passageway . Lead by Tseng over the PHS , they work their way through the facility ' s security countermeasures and AVALANCHE personnel into the control room to turn off the cannon . Coming across the sight of a massacre at the control room ' s entrance , the cannon is turned off mysteriously before the Turks got to the control panel . It is discovered AVALANCHE is receiving info from within Shinra , but the informant ' s identity is unknown . Veld is forced to step down as the head of Turks and Heidegger takes his place . During an AVALANCHE attack on Junon Tseng discovers they are after the airships docked in the city . Heidegger wants to let the situation escalate until it is viable to send in his military , and is using the Turks as expendable distractions and ignoring their requests for coordinated information . Veld , having being observing the conflict , approaches the President in Midgar and threatens to reveal all classified information he was privy to the media unless he was reinstated back as head of the Turks . His request granted , Veld co - ordinates the Turks into retaking the Junon airport . While the operation is a success , the Turks are no closer to discovering the leak within the Shinra executive offices . Monsters from Professor Hojo ' s laboratories escape and run rampant in the 65th to 68th floors of the Shinra Building . While Tseng evacuates the building ' s employees , the Player Turk is sent to contain the outbreak . Upon reaching Hojo ' s lab , it is discovered the outbreak was a ruse by Fuhito and Shears to capture Hojo , and while Hojo was retrieved , Shears and Fuhito escape . Having learned of Aerith ' s role as the last Cetra and wanting to protect the Promised Land from Shinra , AVALANCHE attempts to capture her , but the Player Turk foils their plans . Afterward , Tseng , who has been assigned for some time to capture Aerith , arrives in another attempt to convince Aerith to work with Shinra . Misunderstanding , the Player Turk prevents Tseng from seeing Aerith as she runs back home . Nibelheim Incident . In " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " , before Zack goes off to Nibelheim , he asks Tseng to look after Aerith for him . Tseng agrees , since he has already been keeping an eye on her for Shinra over the years . In " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " , called in due to reports of the staff manning the Nibelheim Reactor disappearing , Tseng pilots the Player Turk to Mt . Nibel where they were supposed to parachute to the reactor , but a rogue wind causes them to parachute off course . The Nibelheim Incident unravels when Sephiroth burns down the town and breaks into the reactor , but is defeated by a Shinra infantryman , Cloud Strife , and sent plummeting to the pool of Mako below the reactor . Tseng is informed of the events and when the Shinra clean - up crew arrives at Nibelheim and the reactor , the Player Turk is given orders by Tseng to enter and check on the laboratory equipment in the basement of the Nibelheim Mansion for Professor Hojo . As the Nibelheim survivors are gathered up they are to be shipped into Hojo ' s laboratory , but the Turks are indecisive over the immorality of it and are allowed to leave while Veld handles the operation . Destroying AVALANCHE . Reno and Tseng discover AVALANCHE has infiltrated and taken over the construction site of the Corel Reactor . Infiltrating the construction site , the Player Turk finds Rufus Shinra there . Veld , having followed after Rufus , informs the Turks Rufus is the informant and supplier for AVALANCHE in a bid to remove his father from presidency . As Veld instructs his subordinates to place Rufus under arrest , Fuhito appears in an ambush to kill not just the Turks but Rufus too , reasoning that AVALANCHE no longer needs him . While the fighting ensues , Elfé appears and her voice is recognized by Veld as that of his daughter ; Felicia . Her memories revived as Veld explains who she is , Elfé is taken by her mysterious illness and she is carried out of the reactor by Fuhito . The Turks encourage Veld to go after her , and before leaving Veld resigns his position to Tseng , who leads Rufus out of the reactor before Fuhito destroys it . With the Player Turk rendered comatose due to injuries and Mako poisoning sustained in the reactor ' s destruction , and Veld having deserted to pursue his daughter , Tseng is instructed to link with the Turks ' secondary division to bolster numbers . Conflict with Shinra . Four years after the Nibelheim Incident , Zack and Cloud escape the Shinra Mansion . Tseng sends out the Turks to find Zack before the army does . Tseng has 88 letters for Zack from Aerith that he never received due to being contained in the Shinra Mansion . Tseng never gets to give Zack the letters , however , as the Turks are unable to find Zack before the Shinra infantrymen kill him . Veld is looking for a number of Materia he needs to save his daughter , Elfé , and despite the Shinra Company being in the hunt for him , the Turks decide to help him . While the Turks find the required Materia , Veld is taken by Shinra . While Tseng , Rude and Reno discern the location where Veld is being held , the other Turks and Shears meet in Wall Market and split the Materia orbs among themselves before dispatching to look for Elfé . Assisted by Rufus , Tseng locates Veld and attempts to liberate him while ordering the Player Turk , who is being pursued by Shinra troops through Wall Market , to secure an escape out of Midgar . While Reno , Rude and Tseng free Veld , the Player Turk commandeers a helicopter to chase after AVALANCHE before Fuhito would summon Zirconiade and kill Elfé to make it whole . While Elfé is saved , Zirconiade is summoned . As the Player Turks chase after Fuhito along the construct created by Zirconiade ' s summoning , Tseng , Reno , Rude , Veld and an awakened Elfé are captured by the Shinra military . Fuhito is killed by the Player Turk . Confronted with the offer that the Turks would be spared from capture and execution if Veld and Elfé are killed , Tseng turns his gun on the pair and pretends to shoot them . As Tseng leaves with Veld and Elfé , Reno and Rude wait for their remaining comrades still fighting Zirconiade . Zirconiade is destroyed , but the shockwave emitted from its destruction destroys the construct on which the battling Turks are standing on and the entire construction vanishes in an explosion of light . Tseng is summoned to a hearing to discuss the Turks ' fate . Scarlet suggests executing the three survivors until Rufus Shinra enters the room with Reno and Rude . He argues Tseng has proven his loyalty by assassinating Veld and the AVALANCHE leader , Elfé . Tseng thanks Rufus but says he did not do it for the Turks but for himself . Tseng removes his ponytail and lets his hair fall . " Final Fantasy VII " . Tseng remains with Shinra and keeps his position as the highest ranking Turk . Shinra deems Midgar complete and pursues their plans for building Neo Midgar in the Promised Land . To find the Promised Land , Shinra orders the Turks to kidnap Aeris , who is still living in the slums of Midgar . Tseng kidnaps Aeris during the dropping of the Sector 7 plate and takes her to the Shinra Building . AVALANCHE has reformed under Barret Wallace ' s guidance , although this sect of AVALANCHE is vastly different from the organization the Turks fought previously . AVALANCHE infiltrates the Shinra Building to rescue Aeris , but the Turks capture them , Tseng among the others . It is later reported that Sephiroth , who was thought to have perished in the Nibelheim Incident five years ago , has attacked the Shinra Building and stolen the body of Jenova from Professor Hojo ' s laboratory , and during the incident the AVALANCHE escape with Aeris . The Turks are tasked with finding Sephiroth , and they trace his whereabouts to Junon . Tseng , Rude and Elena pursue Sephiroth and come across AVALANCHE in the Mythril Mine . If Aeris is not among the group , Tseng inquires about her . If she is , Tseng will be content she is safe . As the Turks ' orders concern only Sephiroth , the Turks ignore AVALANCHE and continue on their way . Later , Tseng accompanies Shinra Executive Scarlet at Gongaga , where she searches for a Huge Materia from the village ' s destroyed reactor . Shinra places an informant among AVALANCHE in the form of Cait Sith and during AVALANCHE ' s stay at Gold Saucer , Cait Sith steals the key to the Temple of the Ancients from them and hands it over to Tseng . Tseng escapes with the Keystone and the Turks use it to open path into the temple , having gathered info this is the place Sephiroth is looking for . Tseng and Elena traverse the temple trying to decipher the murals , and Tseng asks Elena out for a dinner . Elena leaves , elated , but after she leaves Tseng is attacked by Sephiroth . Badly wounded , Tseng crawls his way to the entrance of the temple where he meets with AVALANCHE and hands them the Keystone , saying their goal in opposing Sephiroth is the same . Aeris meets Tseng here for the final time and reprimands him . Many fans took Tseng ' s appearance in the Temple of the Ancients to be his death due to poor translation , but Tseng is saved from the temple before AVALANCHE transform it into the Black Materia . Badly wounded , Tseng is not seen again during " Final Fantasy VII " . When met in Icicle Inn Elena accuses Cloud of " doin ' in her boss " , implying Tseng died from his injuries , but this is a mistranslation , and the PC version of the game has Elena saying Cloud " messed my boss up " , which is a more accurate version . The " Final Fantasy VII 10th Anniversary Ultimania " comments that , " In " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " , he is entrusted with Full Cure Materia by Veld ; perhaps this is what keeps him alive so often " . Tseng receives the news of Aeris ' s death at Sephiroth ' s hands from Reeve . Although not shown in " Final Fantasy VII " , material released after the original game reveals that Tseng was part of the evacuation process during Meteorfall along with Reno , Rude and Elena . The Turks evacuate their assigned sectors and find Tseng by a collapsing building , claiming that people are still trapped inside . A part of the building collapses and the Turks think this is too much work for only four of them , they hear a familiar voice and turn around to see Veld and the Player Turks from " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " . Veld asks Tseng what his orders are . Tseng replies it is urgent they evacuate the remaining civilians and the Turks get to work . After the Shinra Company ' s collapse Tseng continues working for Rufus Shinra with the fellow Turks Reno , Rude and Elena . Tseng and Elena retrieve Jenova ' s remains from the Northern Cave but are attacked and subsequently tortured by the Remnants of Sephiroth , Kadaj , Yazoo and Loz . Vincent Valentine rescues them and does what he can to assist them on the road to recovery . Tseng and Elena show up in Edge to give Rufus a rescue . In " Final Fantasy VII : Advent Children Complete " , Tseng has a slightly bigger role : he arrives in time with Elena to save Rufus from falling off the abandoned building , and also assists Reno and Rude in another helicopter with Elena by picking them up after Yazoo takes out the duo ' s own helicopter . Gameplay . " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " . Tseng is fought as a boss in the Training Mode . " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " . Tseng has a spot on Zack ' s Digital Mind Wave , known as " Air Strike " that involves Tseng calling in a helicopter , spraying all enemies with machine gun fire , and launching missiles at them . Air Strike is unlocked at the moment the player meets up with Tseng in the second chapter , and is usable since the start of the third chapter . Creation and development . Voice . Tseng is voiced by Junichi Suwabe in Japanese . He shares his Japanese voice actor with Seymour Guado , Jassu , Zanar , and the Hypello race from " Final Fantasy X " and " Final Fantasy X - 2 " and Nimbus from " Final Fantasy Type - 0 " . He is voiced by Ryun Yu in English . Other appearances . " Last Order - Final Fantasy VII - " . The " Last Order - Final Fantasy VII - " OVA illustrates the events surrounding Zack Fair and Cloud Strife ' s escape from the Nibelheim ' s mansion , overlapping with incidents depicted in " Final Fantasy VII " , " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " and " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " . The OVA covers the Turks ' role during both the Nibelheim Incident and events leading up to Zack ' s Final Stand against the Shinra military ; addressing the Turks ' pursuit of Zack and Cloud through the Mythril Mine and their ill - fated search for the pair in the Midgar wasteland . Etymology . Tseng ' s name was initially misunderstood to be pronounced " Shion " in Japanese , following an early , incorrect fan translation of " Final Fantasy VII : Advent Children " by Jasconius . Rather than translating by ear , Jasconius used the Japanese subtitles included on the DVD . , the correct form of " Tseng " , was misread as the similar - looking . Many viewers were confused upon reading " Shion " but seeing Tseng ( rather than a new character named Shion ) in the film , and attempted to explain the error resulted in the aforementioned misconception . Tseng ' s name is indeed pronounced as " Tsung " in English . The reason " Tseng " is written as " Tson " in katakana is due to his name being Cantonese Chinese . In — a standardized system that uses the to phonetically represent the Chinese language — " e " represents a sound resembling the short " o " of English , also approximated in Japanese with an unlengthened " o " vowel . In Chinese Pinyin , his name is written as " Zeng " ( 曾 , which means great - grandfather , is a common Chinese family name ) . In " Last Order - Final Fantasy VII - " , Tseng ' s name is written ( albeit incorrectly ) as " Zheng " in English , which is how he signs a document near the beginning . " Zheng " is also shown in the credits . In " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " , Zack can come across a camera near the church in Sector 5 , but even after reading the inscription as " T - S - E - N - G " , he does not realize it is Tseng ' s and wonders how to pronounce that .