Cloud

> ...I'm gonna be a SOLDIER. The best of the best. Like Sephiroth.
>
> Cloud (young)

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**Cloud Strife** is a character in the JRPG *Final Fantasy VII*. He was planned to fight Solo in a scrapped episode of Smash Bracket.

## Fanon Fights so far

*Completed fights are in **bold***

* Cloud VS Ike
* Cloud Strife VS Lucas

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WARNING: *The following tab will reveal the numbers of wins and losses for the following character. **Read at your own risk.***

**Battle Record**

* Wins: 0
* Losses: 0
* Draws: 0

## Bio

One starry night in Nibelheim, a young boy made a promise to his childhood friend Tifa Lockheart that he would join SOLDIER, and that he would save her if she ever needed his help. That boy was Cloud Strife, and when the Nibelheim Incident broke out, he would not only save Tifa, but also his friend Zack from the very man he formerly aspired to be just like when he threw him into a Mako reactor, seemingly vanquishing him forever before he could do any more damage to the world; however, it came at a great cost for Cloud. In their weakened states, Zack and Cloud were captured and tortured for years. This experience left Cloud a broken man, even more so after Zack sacrificed himself to ensure Cloud's safety. The traumatized Cloud wandered the land as a mercenary when fate brought him to an eco-terrorist group known as AVALANCHE. Though he said he would only get the job done, it is reappearance of his friend that changed his mind and convinced him to go with AVALANCHE on another mission that would once again set him on the path of the hero he promised to be and then some.

On this second mission, he would get separated from the rest and run into Aerith Gainsborough: a flower seller he had met earlier who turns out to be his late friend's crush and a member of an ancient race known as the Cetra. As fate would have it, the same bad guys that AVALANCHE are trying to overthrow over at the Shinra Electric Power Company are after Aerith too in hopes of obtaining the secret to ALL of the power. Cloud takes up the role of bodyguard for Aerith and the two escape. Cloud and Aerith soon see Tifa being hauled away in a carriage. Believing her to be captured, they pursue the carriage into Wall Market to save her. Fortunately, Tifa was never in any real danger, and had gone undercover for an espionage mission to interrogate a Shinra sympathizer, who eventually reveals to them that Shinra are planning to blow up an entire section of the city in an effort to eliminate the 6 members of AVALANCHE. The trio returns to Sector 7 during the attack. Unfortunately, Shinra collapses Sector 7 and captures Aerith, with Cloud's original party barely escaping with their lives. The group vows revenge and makes their move to assault the Shinra Building and save Aerith.

They rescue Aerith and a new friend they meet along the way from a life of forced breeding, and quickly make a daring escape on a motorcycle! Well, only Cloud gets the motorcycle. Everyone else just decides to get into a truck, but not before coming across evidence that the elusive Sephiroth may still be alive. Cloud and friends travel across the land in pursuit of Sephiroth, following clues such as dead Shinra staff, weird biologically-possessed cultists, a brutally impaled snake monster, more dead Shinra staff, a part-of-an-alien boss fight, a beach episode, and tales of the elusive Black Materia--the agent of the ultimate Black Magic spell: Meteor, which he would use to injure the planet to such an enormous extent, that its life energy would all come together to heal its wounds, and at the center of it would be Sephiroth.

Though Cloud's party succeeds in getting the Black Materia at the Temple of the Ancients, JENOVA appears in the form of Sephiroth and manipulates the JENOVA cells injected into Cloud during Hojo's experimentation on him 5 years ago to force Cloud into giving her the Black Materia and almost gets Aerith killed. It is only thanks to the intervention of Cloud's friends that he is able to continue. As Cloud recovers, Aerith travels to the City of the Ancients to find her own solution. Cloud and the others find her at the Forgotten Capital praying for Holy, the White Magic counterpart to Meteor. Cloud sees her and smiles. A sign of hope...

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## Powers & Abilities

* **Limit Breaks**: Super powerful moves unleashed when the user is overcome with anger.
	+ **Braver**: A single attack that does triple damage of a normal attack.
	+ **Cross Slash**: Three slashes that inflict 3.25x damage of a normal attack; also has a chance to paralyze.
	+ **Blade Beam**: Hits a single target for 3.5x damage of a normal attack, then radiates into a secondary wave that deals normal damage to all enemies.
	+ **Climhazzard**: A single attack that does 4.375x of a normal attack.
	+ **Meteorain**: Fires 6 meteors at random targets that each inflict 1.625x damage of a normal attack.
	+ **Finishing Touch**: Instantly kills weaker enemies; otherwise inflicts 3.125x damage of a normal attack.
	+ **Omnislash**: Fifteen slashes that combined inflict 11.25x damage of a normal attack.
		- **Omnislash Ver. 5**: The Fusion Sword splits into separate blades and Cloud strikes the opponent with each before a final blow.

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## Arsenal

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* **Buster Sword**: Cloud's iconic weapon passed down from Angeal Hewley to Zack Fair to Cloud
* **Fusion Sword**: Six swords combined into one
* **Ultima Weapon**: Cloud's strongest sword in *FFVII*; Comes with 4 Linked Materia slots, increases magic resistance, and does more damage the more HP Cloud has
* **Ziedrich**: Increases Strength and Magic Attack; Halves just about all damage.
* **Champion Belt**: Increases Strength and Defense
* **Materia**: Crystalized magic, or Mako, condensed in the form of orbs that people use to enhance their abilities.
	+ **Support**: Enhance the effects of other compatible Materia when placed in linked slots
	+ **Independent (Complete)**: Granted passive benefits like improved dexterity or the ability to breathe underwater
	+ **Summon**: Provides the user access to summons
	+ **Command**: Allows the user to use new active skills and commands
	+ **Magic**: Provide the ability to use magic such as Fire or Cure

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## Feats

* Defeated Sephiroth and saved his entire planet
* Survived the following:
	+ Getting impaled through the chest (2x)
	+ Years of intensive Mako poisoning
	+ Falling from Sector 5 into Aerith's church in the slums
	+ Falling into a pit of Mako
	+ Geostigma infection

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