Final Fantasy VII/Characters

This article has an overview of the different characters in Final Fantasy VII.

Background
Growing up in the sleepy mountain town of Nibelheim, Cloud never quite fit in with the other children in the village, though he often tried to get closer to his next-door neighboor, Tifa Lockhart. Hoping to prove his worth, he set out to join SOLDIER like his hero Sephiroth. At fourteen, and after saying goodbye to Tifa, he left for Midgar to pursue this dream. 7 years later Cloud meets Tifa again in the Sector 7 Slum in Midgar. Cloud, now a mercenary, is hired by Tifa and AVALANCHE to destroy the Number One Mako Reactor.

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Leader of the terrorist group AVALANCHE, and bitter enemy of the Shinra. He grew up in the mining town of North Corel, where he was involved in a decision to have the town switch from mining coal to using Mako energy, against the protests of his friend Dyne. The decision turned out to be disastrous for the people there, and both him and Dyne lost one of their arms after an attack from the Shinra. Barret had an operation to have his arm replaced with a gun, and learned that Dyne did the same. He adopted Dyne's daughter, Marlene, and traveled to Cosmo Canyon where he learned about the harm the Shinra and their Mako reactors were inflicting upon the planet. He came to live in the Midgar slums, where he organized a group called AVALANCHE to fight back against what he believed the Mako reactors were doing to the planet.

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Known as Aeris in the US release.

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 * Getting Vincent to the party

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 * Getting Yuffie to the party