Post by Zack Fair on Aug 12, 2009 22:44:55 GMT -5
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Name: Zack Fair
Age: 23
What game are you from: FFVII/CrisisCore
History:
Zack was born in the town of Gongaga, and like many boys of his generation, dreamed of joining SOLDIER to become a 1st Class like the legendary Sephiroth. He left Gongaga and joined the Shinra Electric Power Company's military forces around the age of 14 in 1997. By November 2000, he has reached SOLDIER 2nd Class under the tutelage of SOLDIER 1st Class Angeal Hewley. Angeal's words of wisdom and strong sense of honor had a profound effect on Zack, who wants to be just like his mentor. During his time in SOLDIER, he becomes friends with 2nd Class SOLDIER Kunsel, who guided him in the ways of Shinra. Zack works under Director Lazard Deusericus in the 49th Floor of Shinra Headquarters, along with many other SOLDIER members.
Zack as he appears in Crisis Core whilst wielding the Buster Sword.
In Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-, Zack first appears in a digital training session with Angeal Hewley, who seems disapproving of his reckless attitude towards his enemies and himself. Despite this, he approves of Zack as a member of SOLDIER, and requests to Director Lazard that he be promoted to SOLDIER 1st Class and be sent on his own mission in Wutai. Shinra had been at war with the Wutai for a good time by now, and SOLDIER 1st Class Sephiroth had already become a hero of Shinra for his actions there.
Zack fighting a digital Sephiroth copy
Though Zack was ecstatic over Angeal's suggestion, he received some interesting news during the briefing: 1st Class SOLDIER Genesis Rhapsodos had deserted Shinra, taking an untold number of 2nd and 3rd Class warriors with him. He had to be found and stopped.
After Zack took out the forces of Fort Tamblin singlehandedly, he met with warriors in strange armor. Sephiroth identifies them as copies of Genesis. Realizing that these were the soldiers that Angeal had last been seen fighting, and that he was nowhere to be seen, Sephiroth comes to the conclusion that Angeal left with his long-time friend, Genesis. Zack, however, refuses to believe that his mentor would ever desert Shinra.
Zack now begins to fight against the forces of Genesis while meeting up with several other characters of Final Fantasy VII and uncovering the truth behind Project G. He first fights armies of Genesis Copies in Genesis and Angeal's hometown of Banora Village with the Turk Tseng one month after the Wutai mission. Zack's hopes are shattered, however, when he finds Angeal standing over the body of his dead mother, Gillian Hewley. Zack is horrified that Angeal could do something so horrible to his own family, and is badly shaken. He attempts to talk to Angeal, but the latter only says, "The mother could not continue to live...and neither can the son," and walks away. After Zack defeats Bahamut, whom Genesis had summoned, he questions Genesis about what happened to his dreams and honor. Unfortunately, Genesis only declares that they are monsters and flies away on a black wing hidden beneath his coat, leaving Zack as Tseng arrives to pick him up as the village is bombed.
In April 2001, Zack is at Shinra Headquarters when Lazard gives him the title of SOLDIER First Class (most likely to replace all the Firsts who are gone). Zack is not happy that he attained his dreams so early, and after so many losses. But then, Genesis's army attacks Midgar, and Zack has to fight them throughout the city. Along the way, he saves Cissnei, another member of the Turks. Sephiroth and Zack both head to the Sector 5 Reactor to find the rogue Dr. Hollander, who is suspected of working with Genesis. Zack chases Hollander through the Reactor until he runs into Angeal, now with a white angel wing and believing himself to be a monster. Refusing to fight his old friend and mentor, Zack lets Angeal drop him down into the Slums.
Zack wants to repay Aerith with one date, but she tells him not to be silly, and then later accepts.
Zack drops through the roof of a church, where Zack meets Aerith Gainsborough. Grateful to her for saving his life (although she insists that she did nothing but say, "Hello-o!"), Zack offers to pay Aerith back with one date. Zack suggests that Aerith should sell the flowers that only grow in the church. Later on, Zack gets his wallet stolen by a child, and would eventually find him, only to find that the child's wallet was eaten by a monster. In generosity, he lets the child keep his wallet in order to buy some medicine, or you can choose to take the wallet back from the monsters. That being done, it happens that the kid had a lot more money in his wallet than in Zack does in his. Zack then buys Aerith the ribbon that she is seen wearing throughout the series. It was also revealed in a DMW reel that Zack wants Aerith to wear all pink when he was around. However, their date is cut short when Zack has to return to the Midgar Plate to defeat Genesis. He protects Professor Hojo during this time. Angeal rejoins Zack, and together they drive Genesis out of Midgar. Zack has to face Bahamut Fury while Angeal deals with Genesis.
In the autumn, Zack is sent to the mountain town of Modeoheim, with Tseng accompanying him once more, as well as several Shinra infantrymen, one of whom is Cloud Strife. Their helicopter is shot down by Genesis' troops on the way there, and the team must hike their way across the snow. Zack and Cloud make headway fast. When Zack makes the comment that his companion can at least keep up after seeing how far behind Tseng and the other troops are, they learn that they are both "country boys" and become immediate friends. From this point on, Cloud begins to accompany Zack on many missions and start to look up to him as a hero and role model, not unlike Zack looking up to Angeal.
They eventually come up on a Mako Excavation Facility that Zack must infiltrate while Tseng and the troops continue on to Modeoheim. Inside, Zack finds Genesis and Dr. Hollander arguing. He confronts Genesis while Hollander squirms away. Eventually defeating the degrading Genesis, Zack watches while the former SOLDIER lets himself fall into the depths of the reactor. Assuming him dead, Zack hurries after Hollander.
Inside a ruined bath house, Zack finds Hollander and Angeal. He learns here that Angeal's biological father is actually Hollander, who used the late Gillian Hewley as a test subject for Project G. It is also revealed that Angeal did not kill his mother, but that she killed herself. Although Hollander refers to him as the perfect soldier, Angeal refuses this title and, accepting the monstrosities of Project G, renames himself as the "perfect monster". He then fuses with several Angeal copy monsters and becomes Angeal Penance.
Zack inherits the Buster Sword from Angeal.
Zack is forced to fight and kill this creature, obtaining the scar shown in Advent Children. Angeal is left barely alive, and apparently degrading from the wounds. Using his last strength, he hands the Buster Sword to Zack, telling him one final time to remember his dreams and honor to be a true member of SOLDIER. Distraught over the death of his mentor and friend, Zack finds comfort in the arms of Aerith, strengthening their relationship to its strongest. As one of the last 1st Class SOLDIERs, and with the war with Genesis considered over, Zack takes over Angeal's job of being the emotional heart of the organization. He meets another SOLDIER member named Luxiere, who also looks up to him as a role model, and constantly sends Zack mail, as he is inspired by Zack's speech to the Shinra troops he commands.
On January 16th, 2002 Zack Fair is sent to deal with the insurgency known as AVALANCHE. He is sent to Icicle Inn to defeat an AVALANCHE base along with a player Turk and his SOLDIER friends, Essai and Sebastian. If the Turk player is female, Zack will hit on her. Along the way, Essai and Sebastian are kidnapped by AVALANCHE and turned into Ravens, monstrous genetically enhanced humans created by Fuhito to be his personal guard. Zack fights and kills a Raven named Kyneugh, and tries to save the SOLDIERs. However, when he arrives they have been completely transformed and must be defeated in battle. After their deaths, Zack makes a grave for them with each of their swords crossing that appears in his DMW.
By early summer, Zack is sent to Costa del Sol to rest with Cissnei watching him. However, his rest is broken by an attack of Genesis Copies, which is just the first salvo of a new round of conflict. With the help of the secret traitor within SOLDIER, no one less important than Director Lazard himself, they break Dr. Hollander out of imprisonment in Junon. Zack is sent there, with a good number of Turks and Shinra Troops to quell the threat of Genesis' copies and the stolen machines of the Shinra company. Hollander escapes with the help of the Genesis Copies, but Sephiroth, who appeared late on the scene, forgives him, and gives him permission to go back to Midgar and see Aerith.
Midgar had also been in danger at the same time. Hordes of monsters had appeared, escaped (or perhaps set free, according to Kunsel) from Hojo's lab. One monster in particular, though, had gone to Aerith's church. A single Angeal copy that was protecting Aerith from the monsters and Shinra's confused machines until Zack arrived. Although never fully stated, it is believed that this single copy is all that is left of Angeal's will on the Planet, and is perhaps being controlled by Angeal from the Lifestream.
Before Zack leaves on his next mission, he and Aerith build a wagon so that she can sell flowers throughout Midgar. Zack has to stop selling early, though, as he is called away for another mission. Trusting Tseng to look after her, he, Sephiroth, Cloud, and two other Shinra troops head to Nibelheim, Cloud's hometown.
Zack, Sephiroth, and Cloud Strife all enter Nibelheim on September 22nd, but Cloud hides his face out of fear of being spotted by his childhood friend, Tifa. Just before the group heads up Mt. Nibel to reach the Reactor, a picture is taken of Sephiroth, Tifa, and Zack together. They all then head up the mountain and reach the Reactor.
The problem is easily fixed. However, inside the Reactor are pods filled with horrible monsters that had been infused with massive amounts of Mako. They also find a creature named Jenova, who Sephiroth was told was his mother. This, along with words from Genesis, sends Sephiroth over the edge. He hides himself in the basement of the Shinra Mansion reading over files upon files of the Jenova Project. When Zack tries to look for Sephiroth, and finds him, Sephiroth says that he wants to be left alone. However, during a DMW scene, Sephiroth talks to Zack about the Jenova Project's result, himself. On December 1st, Sephiroth comes out of the Mansion. Now insane, Sephiroth burns the village to the ground, slaughtering most of the townsfolk.
Zack runs up the mountain behind an enraged Tifa, both out to defeat Sephiroth. Once again inside the Reactor, Tifa is easily cut down. Sephiroth stands outside of his mother's tube, and does not even notice Zack enter. The two battle, and Zack, being a 1st-Class SOLDIER, manages to hold his own against Sephiroth for a time before he himself is defeated. Finally, Cloud, furious over the death of his mother and seeing Tifa gravely wounded, takes up the Buster Sword and defeats Sephiroth. Sephiroth falls into the Lifestream, where he will disappear for four years. Tifa is saved by Zangan, but Cloud and Zack are both taken by Shinra forces to be used in Professor Hojo's newest experiment.
Four years later (December 19th, 2006), Zack has a hallucination of Angeal appearing before him in Shinra Mansion's basement. As he flies off, Zack's strong will to be free allowed him to break the tube enabling him and Cloud to escape. Because of Hojo's experiments, both have become Sephiroth Clones, but Zack is completely unaffected by the experiment thanks to having been in SOLDIER. Cloud is completely comatose from Mako Addiction, but Zack can still fight. He cuts their way out of Nibelheim, which had been rebuilt by Shinra to hide the Incident of four years earlier. Cissnei in Crisis Core, or whoever the player's Turk is in Before Crisis, is ordered to take Zack in, but betrays orders and allows him to pass.
Zack and Cloud hide out from Shinra forces while trying to reach Midgar until early autumn 2007. One of Genesis's Copies eats a part of Zack's hair. Since Zack has been infused with Jenova Cells, it turns the copy into a horrible monster. Zack defeats the creature, and heads home to Gongaga. Here he once again runs into Genesis, now with a degrading Genesis Copy that was once Hollander. Hollander and Genesis try to take Cloud for his pure Sephiroth Cells, because Zack is worthless thanks to being a former member of SOLDIER. Instead, Lazard—in the form of a degrading Angeal, thanks to unknowingly obtaining his cells— and Zack fights the two. Zack finally kills Hollander once and for all.
Zack takes a bite out of a Banora White, fulfilling Genesis' childhood dream.
It is at this point that Zack finally realizes that Genesis has been working from Banora the whole time, the Banora "Dumb Apples" that Genesis always carried being the clue. Zack travels there, and leaves Cloud under Lazard's protection. Zack travels down into Genesis's cave until he comes upon Genesis who uses the power of the Lifestream, but still is defeated. Zack takes his old enemy up to the surface.
Together with a comatose Cloud, a beaten Genesis, and a dying Lazard, he eats a Dumb Apple. The final Angeal copy that had protected Aerith shows up here as well, and as he finally dies from degradation, Zack finds the 89th and final letter from Aerith that it had been carrying and realizes that he had been asleep for four years. Desperate to return before Aerith forgets him, Zack leaves a now pacified Genesis behind while he and Cloud go off to Midgar.
At the end of September, while Zack and Cloud head back towards Midgar, a massive army of Shinra Troops awaits them. Despite Cissnei and Tseng's attempts to save Zack first, the Shinra army attacks. Zack fights hard against overwhelming odds. However, the enemy is just too many, and despite all of Zack's SOLDIER training (assumably, defeating not all, but most of the army, considering there is aparently only a handful of soldiers left in contrast to the vast amount of enemies facing him earlier), he is defeated. Riddled with bullets, and his Digital Mind Wave destroyed, Zack is barely alive when Cloud awakes and comes to him. Zack hands the Buster Sword to him, like Angeal handed the Buster Sword to Zack four years earlier. As Cloud wanders off towards Midgar, Zack is pulled into the Lifestream by Angeal. Zack then wonders if he has become a hero after all.
The combined weight of all this trauma finally makes Cloud snap, and barely conscious, he makes his way to Midgar dragging the Buster Sword behind him. Collapsing in the Sector 7 Station, Cloud is found by Tifa, where he, aided by the Jenova cells he now has in his body, adopts Zack's memories and persona, combining it with an idealized image of himself to create a new personality and history for himself. After the creation of this facade, Cloud truly believes that he was successful in joining SOLDIER, and that he fulfilled Zack's role in the fateful mission to Nibelheim 5 years before.
Favorite Game Quotes:
"Hey, would you say I became a hero?"
[/left][/size][/center]xxName: Zack Fair
Age: 23
What game are you from: FFVII/CrisisCore
History:
Zack was born in the town of Gongaga, and like many boys of his generation, dreamed of joining SOLDIER to become a 1st Class like the legendary Sephiroth. He left Gongaga and joined the Shinra Electric Power Company's military forces around the age of 14 in 1997. By November 2000, he has reached SOLDIER 2nd Class under the tutelage of SOLDIER 1st Class Angeal Hewley. Angeal's words of wisdom and strong sense of honor had a profound effect on Zack, who wants to be just like his mentor. During his time in SOLDIER, he becomes friends with 2nd Class SOLDIER Kunsel, who guided him in the ways of Shinra. Zack works under Director Lazard Deusericus in the 49th Floor of Shinra Headquarters, along with many other SOLDIER members.
Zack as he appears in Crisis Core whilst wielding the Buster Sword.
In Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-, Zack first appears in a digital training session with Angeal Hewley, who seems disapproving of his reckless attitude towards his enemies and himself. Despite this, he approves of Zack as a member of SOLDIER, and requests to Director Lazard that he be promoted to SOLDIER 1st Class and be sent on his own mission in Wutai. Shinra had been at war with the Wutai for a good time by now, and SOLDIER 1st Class Sephiroth had already become a hero of Shinra for his actions there.
Zack fighting a digital Sephiroth copy
Though Zack was ecstatic over Angeal's suggestion, he received some interesting news during the briefing: 1st Class SOLDIER Genesis Rhapsodos had deserted Shinra, taking an untold number of 2nd and 3rd Class warriors with him. He had to be found and stopped.
After Zack took out the forces of Fort Tamblin singlehandedly, he met with warriors in strange armor. Sephiroth identifies them as copies of Genesis. Realizing that these were the soldiers that Angeal had last been seen fighting, and that he was nowhere to be seen, Sephiroth comes to the conclusion that Angeal left with his long-time friend, Genesis. Zack, however, refuses to believe that his mentor would ever desert Shinra.
Zack now begins to fight against the forces of Genesis while meeting up with several other characters of Final Fantasy VII and uncovering the truth behind Project G. He first fights armies of Genesis Copies in Genesis and Angeal's hometown of Banora Village with the Turk Tseng one month after the Wutai mission. Zack's hopes are shattered, however, when he finds Angeal standing over the body of his dead mother, Gillian Hewley. Zack is horrified that Angeal could do something so horrible to his own family, and is badly shaken. He attempts to talk to Angeal, but the latter only says, "The mother could not continue to live...and neither can the son," and walks away. After Zack defeats Bahamut, whom Genesis had summoned, he questions Genesis about what happened to his dreams and honor. Unfortunately, Genesis only declares that they are monsters and flies away on a black wing hidden beneath his coat, leaving Zack as Tseng arrives to pick him up as the village is bombed.
In April 2001, Zack is at Shinra Headquarters when Lazard gives him the title of SOLDIER First Class (most likely to replace all the Firsts who are gone). Zack is not happy that he attained his dreams so early, and after so many losses. But then, Genesis's army attacks Midgar, and Zack has to fight them throughout the city. Along the way, he saves Cissnei, another member of the Turks. Sephiroth and Zack both head to the Sector 5 Reactor to find the rogue Dr. Hollander, who is suspected of working with Genesis. Zack chases Hollander through the Reactor until he runs into Angeal, now with a white angel wing and believing himself to be a monster. Refusing to fight his old friend and mentor, Zack lets Angeal drop him down into the Slums.
Zack wants to repay Aerith with one date, but she tells him not to be silly, and then later accepts.
Zack drops through the roof of a church, where Zack meets Aerith Gainsborough. Grateful to her for saving his life (although she insists that she did nothing but say, "Hello-o!"), Zack offers to pay Aerith back with one date. Zack suggests that Aerith should sell the flowers that only grow in the church. Later on, Zack gets his wallet stolen by a child, and would eventually find him, only to find that the child's wallet was eaten by a monster. In generosity, he lets the child keep his wallet in order to buy some medicine, or you can choose to take the wallet back from the monsters. That being done, it happens that the kid had a lot more money in his wallet than in Zack does in his. Zack then buys Aerith the ribbon that she is seen wearing throughout the series. It was also revealed in a DMW reel that Zack wants Aerith to wear all pink when he was around. However, their date is cut short when Zack has to return to the Midgar Plate to defeat Genesis. He protects Professor Hojo during this time. Angeal rejoins Zack, and together they drive Genesis out of Midgar. Zack has to face Bahamut Fury while Angeal deals with Genesis.
In the autumn, Zack is sent to the mountain town of Modeoheim, with Tseng accompanying him once more, as well as several Shinra infantrymen, one of whom is Cloud Strife. Their helicopter is shot down by Genesis' troops on the way there, and the team must hike their way across the snow. Zack and Cloud make headway fast. When Zack makes the comment that his companion can at least keep up after seeing how far behind Tseng and the other troops are, they learn that they are both "country boys" and become immediate friends. From this point on, Cloud begins to accompany Zack on many missions and start to look up to him as a hero and role model, not unlike Zack looking up to Angeal.
They eventually come up on a Mako Excavation Facility that Zack must infiltrate while Tseng and the troops continue on to Modeoheim. Inside, Zack finds Genesis and Dr. Hollander arguing. He confronts Genesis while Hollander squirms away. Eventually defeating the degrading Genesis, Zack watches while the former SOLDIER lets himself fall into the depths of the reactor. Assuming him dead, Zack hurries after Hollander.
Inside a ruined bath house, Zack finds Hollander and Angeal. He learns here that Angeal's biological father is actually Hollander, who used the late Gillian Hewley as a test subject for Project G. It is also revealed that Angeal did not kill his mother, but that she killed herself. Although Hollander refers to him as the perfect soldier, Angeal refuses this title and, accepting the monstrosities of Project G, renames himself as the "perfect monster". He then fuses with several Angeal copy monsters and becomes Angeal Penance.
Zack inherits the Buster Sword from Angeal.
Zack is forced to fight and kill this creature, obtaining the scar shown in Advent Children. Angeal is left barely alive, and apparently degrading from the wounds. Using his last strength, he hands the Buster Sword to Zack, telling him one final time to remember his dreams and honor to be a true member of SOLDIER. Distraught over the death of his mentor and friend, Zack finds comfort in the arms of Aerith, strengthening their relationship to its strongest. As one of the last 1st Class SOLDIERs, and with the war with Genesis considered over, Zack takes over Angeal's job of being the emotional heart of the organization. He meets another SOLDIER member named Luxiere, who also looks up to him as a role model, and constantly sends Zack mail, as he is inspired by Zack's speech to the Shinra troops he commands.
On January 16th, 2002 Zack Fair is sent to deal with the insurgency known as AVALANCHE. He is sent to Icicle Inn to defeat an AVALANCHE base along with a player Turk and his SOLDIER friends, Essai and Sebastian. If the Turk player is female, Zack will hit on her. Along the way, Essai and Sebastian are kidnapped by AVALANCHE and turned into Ravens, monstrous genetically enhanced humans created by Fuhito to be his personal guard. Zack fights and kills a Raven named Kyneugh, and tries to save the SOLDIERs. However, when he arrives they have been completely transformed and must be defeated in battle. After their deaths, Zack makes a grave for them with each of their swords crossing that appears in his DMW.
By early summer, Zack is sent to Costa del Sol to rest with Cissnei watching him. However, his rest is broken by an attack of Genesis Copies, which is just the first salvo of a new round of conflict. With the help of the secret traitor within SOLDIER, no one less important than Director Lazard himself, they break Dr. Hollander out of imprisonment in Junon. Zack is sent there, with a good number of Turks and Shinra Troops to quell the threat of Genesis' copies and the stolen machines of the Shinra company. Hollander escapes with the help of the Genesis Copies, but Sephiroth, who appeared late on the scene, forgives him, and gives him permission to go back to Midgar and see Aerith.
Midgar had also been in danger at the same time. Hordes of monsters had appeared, escaped (or perhaps set free, according to Kunsel) from Hojo's lab. One monster in particular, though, had gone to Aerith's church. A single Angeal copy that was protecting Aerith from the monsters and Shinra's confused machines until Zack arrived. Although never fully stated, it is believed that this single copy is all that is left of Angeal's will on the Planet, and is perhaps being controlled by Angeal from the Lifestream.
Before Zack leaves on his next mission, he and Aerith build a wagon so that she can sell flowers throughout Midgar. Zack has to stop selling early, though, as he is called away for another mission. Trusting Tseng to look after her, he, Sephiroth, Cloud, and two other Shinra troops head to Nibelheim, Cloud's hometown.
Zack, Sephiroth, and Cloud Strife all enter Nibelheim on September 22nd, but Cloud hides his face out of fear of being spotted by his childhood friend, Tifa. Just before the group heads up Mt. Nibel to reach the Reactor, a picture is taken of Sephiroth, Tifa, and Zack together. They all then head up the mountain and reach the Reactor.
The problem is easily fixed. However, inside the Reactor are pods filled with horrible monsters that had been infused with massive amounts of Mako. They also find a creature named Jenova, who Sephiroth was told was his mother. This, along with words from Genesis, sends Sephiroth over the edge. He hides himself in the basement of the Shinra Mansion reading over files upon files of the Jenova Project. When Zack tries to look for Sephiroth, and finds him, Sephiroth says that he wants to be left alone. However, during a DMW scene, Sephiroth talks to Zack about the Jenova Project's result, himself. On December 1st, Sephiroth comes out of the Mansion. Now insane, Sephiroth burns the village to the ground, slaughtering most of the townsfolk.
Zack runs up the mountain behind an enraged Tifa, both out to defeat Sephiroth. Once again inside the Reactor, Tifa is easily cut down. Sephiroth stands outside of his mother's tube, and does not even notice Zack enter. The two battle, and Zack, being a 1st-Class SOLDIER, manages to hold his own against Sephiroth for a time before he himself is defeated. Finally, Cloud, furious over the death of his mother and seeing Tifa gravely wounded, takes up the Buster Sword and defeats Sephiroth. Sephiroth falls into the Lifestream, where he will disappear for four years. Tifa is saved by Zangan, but Cloud and Zack are both taken by Shinra forces to be used in Professor Hojo's newest experiment.
Four years later (December 19th, 2006), Zack has a hallucination of Angeal appearing before him in Shinra Mansion's basement. As he flies off, Zack's strong will to be free allowed him to break the tube enabling him and Cloud to escape. Because of Hojo's experiments, both have become Sephiroth Clones, but Zack is completely unaffected by the experiment thanks to having been in SOLDIER. Cloud is completely comatose from Mako Addiction, but Zack can still fight. He cuts their way out of Nibelheim, which had been rebuilt by Shinra to hide the Incident of four years earlier. Cissnei in Crisis Core, or whoever the player's Turk is in Before Crisis, is ordered to take Zack in, but betrays orders and allows him to pass.
Zack and Cloud hide out from Shinra forces while trying to reach Midgar until early autumn 2007. One of Genesis's Copies eats a part of Zack's hair. Since Zack has been infused with Jenova Cells, it turns the copy into a horrible monster. Zack defeats the creature, and heads home to Gongaga. Here he once again runs into Genesis, now with a degrading Genesis Copy that was once Hollander. Hollander and Genesis try to take Cloud for his pure Sephiroth Cells, because Zack is worthless thanks to being a former member of SOLDIER. Instead, Lazard—in the form of a degrading Angeal, thanks to unknowingly obtaining his cells— and Zack fights the two. Zack finally kills Hollander once and for all.
Zack takes a bite out of a Banora White, fulfilling Genesis' childhood dream.
It is at this point that Zack finally realizes that Genesis has been working from Banora the whole time, the Banora "Dumb Apples" that Genesis always carried being the clue. Zack travels there, and leaves Cloud under Lazard's protection. Zack travels down into Genesis's cave until he comes upon Genesis who uses the power of the Lifestream, but still is defeated. Zack takes his old enemy up to the surface.
Together with a comatose Cloud, a beaten Genesis, and a dying Lazard, he eats a Dumb Apple. The final Angeal copy that had protected Aerith shows up here as well, and as he finally dies from degradation, Zack finds the 89th and final letter from Aerith that it had been carrying and realizes that he had been asleep for four years. Desperate to return before Aerith forgets him, Zack leaves a now pacified Genesis behind while he and Cloud go off to Midgar.
At the end of September, while Zack and Cloud head back towards Midgar, a massive army of Shinra Troops awaits them. Despite Cissnei and Tseng's attempts to save Zack first, the Shinra army attacks. Zack fights hard against overwhelming odds. However, the enemy is just too many, and despite all of Zack's SOLDIER training (assumably, defeating not all, but most of the army, considering there is aparently only a handful of soldiers left in contrast to the vast amount of enemies facing him earlier), he is defeated. Riddled with bullets, and his Digital Mind Wave destroyed, Zack is barely alive when Cloud awakes and comes to him. Zack hands the Buster Sword to him, like Angeal handed the Buster Sword to Zack four years earlier. As Cloud wanders off towards Midgar, Zack is pulled into the Lifestream by Angeal. Zack then wonders if he has become a hero after all.
The combined weight of all this trauma finally makes Cloud snap, and barely conscious, he makes his way to Midgar dragging the Buster Sword behind him. Collapsing in the Sector 7 Station, Cloud is found by Tifa, where he, aided by the Jenova cells he now has in his body, adopts Zack's memories and persona, combining it with an idealized image of himself to create a new personality and history for himself. After the creation of this facade, Cloud truly believes that he was successful in joining SOLDIER, and that he fulfilled Zack's role in the fateful mission to Nibelheim 5 years before.
Favorite Game Quotes:
"Hey, would you say I became a hero?"
We will fight
Weapons: Buster Sword
Powers: Limit Breaks(DMV) All Materia Materia pft (yes it does exist. It's a materia that has every single materia in that one materia)
How did you find us: Tifa lawl;
Custom Title: The Hero
Sample RP:
It must of been the late evening, but of course, Zack couldn't tell at all with the upper plate covering the sky. He had hopped off the train's roof and moved across the train tracks quickly, his boots practically dragging their way towards the small little united buildings that were in the next area over. The bright lights were what really attracted Zack's attention.
He was getting light headed. He had lost too much blood and from the dirt from the train, he swore the wound was probably infected now. He shuffled a cough and winced due to the muscles spamming in his side.
That's when he saw the bar. If Cloud was somewhere around here..he might as well of started there right? It was a bar....so if anyone knew Cloud, why not go to a place where everyone gathered? It seemed like the smartest thing to do, so of course, Zack headed there.
He climbed up the steps slowly, weary from the days travel, and the wound didn't make it better. The sword was actually heavy on his back and the moment he stepped inside the Bar and the doors swung open, some of the customers had turn their eyes on him.
They gave cautious eyes. A tall man, wearing a black cloak, hood over his face, with a large sword on their back. That didn't exactly scream out "Don't worry, I'm a good guy."
So, many of the people shuffled uncomfortably.
Zack had felt their eyes and ignored them. His lips dry and he wet them, clearing his throat aswell.
"Does..anyone know a ....Cloud..Strife here?"
Password: Life Stream
Weapons: Buster Sword
Powers: Limit Breaks(DMV) All Materia Materia pft (yes it does exist. It's a materia that has every single materia in that one materia)
How did you find us: Tifa lawl;
Custom Title: The Hero
Sample RP:
Apr 17, 2009 23:39:53 GMT -5 @mrhero said:
It had been so long, entirely too long now. Zack had hopped a train to get here. Free loaded of course. He couldn't dare have his face shown. So he stayed on top of the train. He was good at that sort of thing. But the bullet in his side was keeping him to his max.It must of been the late evening, but of course, Zack couldn't tell at all with the upper plate covering the sky. He had hopped off the train's roof and moved across the train tracks quickly, his boots practically dragging their way towards the small little united buildings that were in the next area over. The bright lights were what really attracted Zack's attention.
He was getting light headed. He had lost too much blood and from the dirt from the train, he swore the wound was probably infected now. He shuffled a cough and winced due to the muscles spamming in his side.
That's when he saw the bar. If Cloud was somewhere around here..he might as well of started there right? It was a bar....so if anyone knew Cloud, why not go to a place where everyone gathered? It seemed like the smartest thing to do, so of course, Zack headed there.
He climbed up the steps slowly, weary from the days travel, and the wound didn't make it better. The sword was actually heavy on his back and the moment he stepped inside the Bar and the doors swung open, some of the customers had turn their eyes on him.
They gave cautious eyes. A tall man, wearing a black cloak, hood over his face, with a large sword on their back. That didn't exactly scream out "Don't worry, I'm a good guy."
So, many of the people shuffled uncomfortably.
Zack had felt their eyes and ignored them. His lips dry and he wet them, clearing his throat aswell.
"Does..anyone know a ....Cloud..Strife here?"
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