When was cloud exposed to mako

Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie were enthusiastic about his involvement, though Cloud disappointed them in claiming it was a "onetime gig" and that he had no intention of joining Avalanche's cause. Though Cloud had been hired to do all the fighting, Barret joined against ranged targets, and because he did not trust Cloud.

Cloud and the others successfully fled the exploding reactor. Cloud and the group went through a chaotic Sector 8 on their way back, with civilian casualties and destruction caused by the explosion of Reactor 1, thus commencing " Fateful Encounters ". The group split up to regroup at the train station, though Cloud was separated after an encounter with an apparition of Sephiroth.

Sephiroth taunted Cloud, reminding him of the destruction of Nibelheim that he had caused, and told him to run away for the sake of the planet. After the illusion ended, Cloud ran into Aerith Gainsborough, seeing her attacked by the invisible Whispers. Aerith offered him a flower and thanked him for "scaring those things away", confusing Cloud. He warned that he was involved in dangerous things, but she seemed unfazed. The Whispers returned and Aerith grabbed Cloud's hand, allowing him to see the mysterious beings.

Cloud gave her the flower, much to her surprise, and she showed him to a room she had secured for him at Stargazer Heights. Cloud and Tifa completed many requests before returning to Tifa's apartment to relax. She asked Cloud about what happened after he left Nibelheim, but Cloud gave ambiguous answers and was uncomfortable, prompting her to change the subject and they decide to celebrate in fancy dress soon. While out in the slums, Cloud and Tifa saw Shinra arrest a local named Johnny , and pursued the matter to stop him from talking about Avalanche to Shinra.

After rescuing Johnny, Cloud pulled a sword on him, terrifying Tifa as she pleaded for him to spare Johnny. Afterward, Tifa told Cloud that she felt trapped, as she disagreed morally with the bombings but firmly believed Shinra should be opposed. Cloud advised her to stand down if it felt wrong. Because Barret did not want to hire Cloud for the next mission, [38] Cloud left, and was confronted by hoodlums asking after Barret, but refused to disclose any information and fought them off.

In " Mad Dash ", Cloud helped Jessie travel to upper Sector 7 to procure a new blasting agent for her next bomb, Jessie still being under belief she had accidentally made the previous bomb more devastating than intended.

Cloud recalled the promise he had made to Tifa at the water tower in Nibelheim years ago, where she had asked him to help her should she ever be "trapped or in trouble"; Cloud realized she had indirectly been asking for him to fulfill this promise when she had told him earlier she felt trapped with Avalanche.

The next morning, Whispers attacked the Sector 7 slums, and Cloud and Tifa attempted to fight them off, but Jessie was injured. This prompted Barret to hire Cloud for the mission to attack mako reactor 5, which Cloud agreed in exchange for a raise. The trio made their way through the Corkscrew Tunnel to the underside of the Sector 4 plate, commencing " Light the Way ", in which they operated machinery to make their way through the plate to reach the reactor. The path to plant the remote bomb was smooth sailing, but Cloud briefly flashed back to seeing Tifa despair at the Nibel Reactor years earlier, but did not bring it up with her.

Cloud and the others sabotaged the deployment of the mech and worked together to escape before being confronted by a hologram of President Shinra outside the reactor. The president took notice of Cloud's mako eyes, concluding he must be a SOLDIER, and therefore his property, before telling the others he planned to smear Avalanche as a proxy group funded by Wutai.

Tifa reacted in disgust and remarked "I'm sick of this", which caused Cloud to recall the flashback he had earlier, and remark internally that it was when he had failed her. Cloud and the others destroyed Airbuster, though Cloud was separated from the group; Barret admitted he was wrong about him, before Cloud fell from the railings. Cloud landed in the Sector 5 slums church, commencing " Budding Bodyguard ", where he met Aerith again, who this time formally introduced herself.

The Turk Reno arrived to kidnap her, and Aerith asked Cloud to be her bodyguard, offering one date in exchange. The two journeyed to Aerith's home, where she lived with Elmyra Gainsborough, and Cloud helped Aerith by doing odd jobs for the locals and saving her from Rude, another Turk who was after Aerith. They met another delirious man in a dark cloak whom Cloud momentarily hallucinated as Sephiroth.

Tifa was relieved to see Cloud and told him she planned to see Don Corneo, encouraging Cloud to return to the others. Cloud obliged at first, confident in Tifa's ability to take care of herself in a pinch, but Aerith warned him that Corneo was incredibly dangerous and Tifa would need his help, convincing him to look for her. Chocobo Sam had arranged for Tifa to be Corneo's next "bride" in tonight's audition, warning Cloud and Aerith would likely not see her again.

The two won an endorsement for Aerith from Madam M by winning the Corneo Cup tournament at the Corneo Colosseum , Madam M promising to give Aerith an outfit in exchange for the prize money.

Cloud and Aerith met up with Tifa, agreeing that if all three were candidates to Corneo's audition, he had to choose one of them, guaranteeing they could interrogate him. Corneo chose Cloud based on Cloud's disgust of him.

While Cloud was taken to Corneo's bedroom, Aerith and Tifa defeated Corneo's lackeys and rushed the room, bringing their weapons and clothes. Corneo revealed that Shinra planned on abandoning Midgar anyway, and would bring the Sector 7 plate down on the slums to crash Barret's group and blame it on Avalanche.

They ended up in the Train Graveyard , commencing " Haunted ", where they made their way through the haunted junkyard to return to the slums.

Cloud, Tifa, and Barret escaping the destruction of Sector 7. In " Fight for Survival ", Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith arrived at the Sector 7 slums just as a skirmish broke out at the pillar between Shinra and Avalanche. Though slowed down by the Whispers, they reached the pillar's gate as Wedge fell, surviving with the grappling gun catching his fall.

Cloud asked Tifa and Aerith to stay with Wedge while he raced up the pillar himself. Along the way, he ran into Biggs on the verge of death, who asked Cloud to visit the kids at the Leaf House orphanage, and told Cloud he had "so much in common" with them, before wishing him luck.

They ran into a badly injured Jessie who considered herself lucky that Cloud could hear her last words, believing she deserved this fate as she had blood on her hands, lamenting she was not able to have Cloud over for pizza as she had promised, before passing out. The three barely made it to safety using a zip wire. In " A Broken World ", Barret mourned the loss of the sector and of his friends. As Cloud believed Aerith had saved Barret's daughter, Marlene, Barret and the others agreed to return to Aerith's house.

On the way, Cloud encountered yet another apparition of Sephiroth, mocking his failure to save Sector 7. Cloud wished to search for her, though Elmyra strongly objected for the sake of Aerith's safety, feeling Shinra may not harm her. Tifa agreed and Barret urged they look through the Sector 7 ruins again. In " In Search of Hope ", the group returned to Elmyra, who agreed to house them and nurse Wedge to health. Having seen the underground lab, Cloud tried to convince Elmyra again to let them look for Aerith, but she needed time to think it over.

That night, Cloud met either Barret, Tifa, or an apparition of Aerith in the gardens. The following morning, Cloud, Tifa, and Barret were united in agreeing to try to rescue Aerith from the Shinra Building, with Elmyra this time reluctantly agreeing. Cloud, Tifa, and Barret completed various odd jobs around the slums before meeting Leslie Kyle in Wall Market, the only occupant of the Don's palace. Kyle promised to help them reach the Shinra Building in exchange for a favor: helping him exact revenge on Corneo in his sewer hideout.

Though they were unsuccessful in stopping Corneo, Kyle was reasonably satisfied with their help escorting him, and gave the group grappling hooks to reach the top of the plate.

Barret thought Cloud being a mercenary suited him, and that he had learned Cloud was good deep down, which Tifa agreed. In " The Belly of the Beast ", at Cloud's suggestion, the group infiltrated the Shinra Building through the parking garage, [59] before making their way through the building as tourists.

Unbeknownst to them, Mayor Domino was securing their safety with the hopes they were going to assassinate President Shinra. Clashing with Sephiroth in the Shinra Building.

Cloud awoke in Aerith's room within Hojo's lab, commencing " Deliverance from Chaos ". Aerith told the group about her history as an Ancient and Shinra's plan to use her to locate the promised land to build Neo Midgar. In front of Jenova's containment tank a cloaked man appeared, whom everyone saw as Sephiroth. Cloud charged at him, but was sent plummeting the depths of Hojo's secret research lab, the Drum , and was separated from the others.

Hojo followed their progress and made them defeat his creations and complete puzzles in order to escape. After escaping from Hojo's lab, the group followed a trail of fluid left by the remains of Jenova that has gone missing from the tank.

They found President Shinra whom Sephiroth killed before transforming into Jenova Dreamweaver , whom the group defeated. Cloud saw Sephiroth outside carrying Jenova's body, though this was just another robed man who fell off the building with Jenova.

The Turks gunned down Avalanche's helicopter as Rufus Shinra, the late president's son, arrived to take the reins of the company. Cloud stayed to duel Rufus and buy the others time, but nearly fell to his death after the duel.

Tifa caught him, herself staying behind to watch after him, scolding him for playing the hero. The two stole Shinra vehicles, Cloud riding the Hardy-Daytona while Tifa drove a pick-up truck with the others on board, to escape via the Midgar Expressway , commencing " Destiny's Crossroads ". At the end of the expressway, the group saw Sephiroth waiting for them, as he cut a path to " another future " and asked Cloud to follow.

Aerith stopped Cloud and explained that Sephiroth was a greater threat to the planet than Shinra. After some hesitation, she agreed they should follow him in, but warned they would be changing fate.

Cloud and the others entered a portal and fought colossal Whispers across a surreal terrain of flying debris, before facing Sephiroth himself. Cloud chased Sephiroth further, who pulled Cloud to what he called the "edge of creation".

Sephiroth said the world would become a part of it, unless Cloud joined with him so the two could defeat destiny together. Cloud refused, and Sephiroth disarmed him and said Cloud had "seven seconds till the end", asking what Cloud would do with that time. Cloud reunited with the party back in the normal world, and they prepared to pursue Sephiroth. The Whispers' defeat altered the timeline. Zack survived his "last stand" and was last seen taking Cloud to Midgar, but his present fate and how much Cloud remembers of him remain unknown.

Original art by Tetsuya Nomura top and render of attire for Advent Children bottom. Cloud is a young man with a lean and toned build, and spiky blond hair.

Cloud has blue eyes, which glow due to him having being exposed to mako. Cloud carries a large broadsword as his weapon of choice, with his three trademark weapons being the Buster Sword a massive sword over five feet long , a set of Fusion Swords six individual interconnecting swords that form one similar to the Buster Sword , and the Hardedge another large broadsword with a different shape.

He also has a silver earring in his left ear. This uniform comprises indigo pants with a sleeveless shirt and a belt. Unlike the default uniform, his is customized to exclude the right shoulder pauldron, likely to make it easier to draw his sword from behind him, while his left pauldron remains, albeit with protruding screws and bolts due to makeshift repairs.

He also wears a gear-like armlet on his left forearm. Cloud's second-most notable outfit is his Advent Children , or the " Cloudy Wolf ", attire. This is a black robe with with a high collar sleeveless indigo shirt, black pants and boots, and black cloth covering his left leg and arm.

The costume also includes a new pauldron, and Cloud's chest is covered by two straps, held in place by a badge representing Fenrir , a wolf that has come to be associated with him. Like the rest of the party, he wears a pink ribbon around his left arm, in honor of Aerith, though it stays hidden for most of the movie. Outside of this, Cloud has worn a few other outfits.

In his mid-teens, Cloud had a ponytail and wore a white loose t-shirt with a blue trim, dark blue jean shorts, and shoes. As a Shinra infantryman, seen in Crisis Core , Cloud wears the blue uniform of a Shinra Electric Power Company infantryman with several belts and straps and a green-gray piece of cloth around the collar, and uses his his helmet to conceal his identity at times.

Cloud also wears an outfit very similar to Vincent Valentine in Kingdom Hearts. On the surface, Cloud Strife presents himself as a hardened warrior, cocky and headstrong, coldhearted and disinterested in anything beyond completing the hired job at hand.

He tells others, often dismissively and with snark, that he has no interest in larger causes, such as the plight of the planet, [15] [31] and appears unshaken by the devastation the bombings he helped carry out cause. Many who are close to him begin to see through the cracks in his hardened persona, recognizing he is softer deep down. He is willing to go through any lengths, from fighting off powerful enemies alone, to crossdressing despite the discomfort to don a disguise, to keep them safe.

This, too, does not fool some of his friends, who in turn look out for him when they believe he is out of his depth. Though most traits core to Cloud — battle-hardened attitude, awkwardness, loyalty to his friends, and striving for heroism — do not change, Cloud's surface-level presentation and warmth shifts drastically throughout his life, based on his own yearning for a true identity.

Many of these traits began to form as a child depicted in Final Fantasy VII flashbacks , as seclusion from the others children and guilt at being unable to help Tifa at Mt. Nibel motivated him to better himself and become a hero, inspired by Sephiroth. Following Hojo's Sephiroth Clone experiments which led to his sense of self being completely shattered, Cloud as a mercenary depicted in Final Fantasy VII and Remake developed an arrogant personality, where he presented disinterest in a broader cause beyond collecting a paycheck though interest in a common good occasionally slipped through [15] [66] and he harbored vengeance toward Shinra [34].

Around this time, he also suffered many mental breakdowns upon being reminded about his past, up to the point of doubting he was even a real person, submitting to being a puppet for Sephiroth. He became warmer and more open-minded towards others, as well as a more confident leader, though the awkwardness would still shine through at times.

Due both to Cloud's awkwardness and his tough presentation, Cloud struggles in forming interpersonal relationships. This is particularly evident with Barret; though Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie take more kindly to Cloud, Barret initially dislikes his attitude [58] and questions his loyalties, leading the two to be rude to one another. Cloud tried to atone for his perceived failure to protect her at Nibelheim, and Tifa in turn protected him as the last reminder she has of her home, looking out for him when she felt he is out of his depth.

Cloud is greatly haunted by Sephiroth, a man he once idolized who became his bitter enemy. After the Nibelheim Incident, Cloud envisioned Sephiroth mocking him and urging him to make the wrong decision. This led up to Cloud giving in and believing he was little more than a puppet for Sephiroth, [23] though after Tifa repaired his mind, Cloud resolved to rid himself and the world of Sephiroth.

Following Sephiroth's defeat, Cloud, as depicted in Advent Children , became a surrogate father to Denzel and Marlene, but had become detached. His guilt at his own perceived failures to save Aerith and Zack, and trauma following his plight against Sephiroth, led him to feel helpless, becoming somber and brooding as he isolated himself from his new family, in contrast to his younger self before where it had fueled him to strive to do better.

However, with encouragement from the friends and family he had tried to let go, he came to forgive himself and moved on.

Cloud's greatest strength is in his swordsmanship. In time, Cloud developed skills on his own, independently from Zack. Cloud has many swordsmanship techniques, seen most prominently in his limit breaks. The most potent and noteworthy of these is Omnislash and Omnislash Version 5 with his Fusion Swords , in which Cloud performs a quick succession of powerful strikes from his sword.

Cloud's abilities also allow him to use magic from his sword, seen in the form of firing a blast from his sword with Blade Beam , summoning meteors with Meteorain , or a tornado with Finishing Touch. Beyond this, Cloud is potent with using spells, being well-versed in how to use materia; in both Final Fantasy VII and Remake , his in-game stats put him ahead of most party members in spellcasting. Cloud can ride a motorcycle , and demonstrates particular feats of skill with it, able to use his sword while riding and battle nearby drivers.

He can also ride a chocobo or a snowboard , and Zack notes he is adept at scaling a snowy mountain. Cloud has also shown himself adaptable in a variety of situations, reviving a drowned girl with CPR in Junon , or dancing at the Honeybee Inn. Cloud's interpersonal skills are initially very poor. When he matures and becomes fully formed, he becomes a confident party leader, motivating the party with speeches before their big battle with Sephiroth.

Cloud is the main playable party member, who serves as the party leader throughout the majority of the game. He wields large broadswords in battle , with the most powerful Limit Breaks. Cloud has the most balanced stats and is the most powerful character, making him effective both at physical damage and at casting Magic. His ultimate weapon is the Ultima Weapon , which deals more damage based on how full his HP is. A party of Cid and Cloud offers the fastest Materia growth out of every other combination, assuming Cid is equipped with the Javelin and Cloud is equipped with the Apocalypse.

Javelin has 5 double slots for an overall growth of 10 while Apocalypse has 3 triple growth for an overall growth of 9. As the party leader, Cloud participates in all minigames , and is present in field gameplay and on the world map. Thankfully, we've sorted it all out.

This is Cloud's real story, laid out from start to finish. Read on, but be careful: chances are, there are a few big surprises and spoilers in store. Cloud's story starts 2, years before he was born. At the time, the Planet was occupied by a race called the Cetra later known as the Ancients , who had a special connection to the Lifestream , a mysterious force composed of both the Planet's essence and the souls of every creature who lived on it.

One day, an alien called Jenova crashed into the Planet on a meteor, creating a massive crater at the North Pole and unleashing a plague that decimated the Cetra.

With their survival in question, the Cetra and Planet fought back. The Lifestream surged, healing the Planet's wound. Meanwhile, the last remaining Cetra banded together and sealed Jenova away, ending its threat.

The peace didn't last. Over time, the Cetra evolved into humans and learned how to tap into the Lifestream's power, which they called Mako energy. A giant corporation called Shinra used this technology to control of the Planet.

As their knowledge grew, Shinra scientists found Jenova hidden away. Misidentifying the creature as an Ancient, the scientists harvested Jenova's genetic material for their own experiments, with the goal of bringing the Cetra back to life.

As a child in the small village of Nibelheim, Cloud Strife lived an ordinary, if lonely, life. Unlike the other children, Cloud was serious and brooding, and he didn't have many friends, although he did have a crush on his pretty neighbor, Tifa Lockheart. Still, the two weren't close, and their paths rarely crossed. That changed shortly after Tifa's mother passed away and the girl, distraught, went to look for her on the neighboring Mt.

Cloud followed Tifa and was there when Tifa tripped and fell. Cloud caught Tifa and saved her life, but Tifa was hurt in the accident. Tifa recovered, but the town's adults blamed Cloud for the injury and forbade him from hanging out with her.

Cloud became angry and started getting into fights with his peers. Years passed. He was smitten. Shortly before he left Nibelheim, Cloud met with Tifa at the town's water tower, where he vowed to always protect her.

Then, he left, hoping to find glory elsewhere. Despite what you might've heard, Cloud didn't make the cut. Instead, Cloud ended up serving as an anonymous grunt in Shinra's all-encompassing military regime.

Still, it wasn't all bad. While on a mission, Cloud and other Shinra forces crash-landed in Modeoheim. Cloud and Zack bonded over their common small town upbringing and quickly became friends.

Cloud did well for himself on his own, too. He made a name for himself as a talented swordsman, especially for a mere infantryman. He met his hero, Sephiroth, who told Cloud that his mother was named Jenova. Unfortunately, Cloud's success didn't last.

Five years after joining Shinra, Cloud was forced to return to Nibelheim. That's where everything went wrong. Cloud didn't expect to return to Nibelheim so soon, but when Shinra charged Cloud, Zack, and Sephiroth with investigating Mt.

Nibel's malfunctioning Mako reactor, he had no choice. Nibel and entered the reactor. Inside, they learned why the reactor was malfunctioning: Shinra's lead scientist, Professor Hojo, had filled the reactor's purification tanks with human bodies, which Mako energy transformed into monsters. That wasn't the only shocking discovery, either. Behind a door labeled Jenova, the Shinra soldiers found an effigy in the shape of an angel.

Jenova's body was locked inside. It was all too much for Sephiroth, who began to question his true nature. Was he really a regular person, or was he, like the monsters in the reactor, the result of a scientific experiment? Slowly, Sephiroth began to lose faith in Shinra. He had many questions — and, as it turns out, he didn't like the answers. Upon returning to town, Sephiroth locked himself in Nibelheim's Shinra Mansion and began reading the research materials in the house's basement lab.

That's when he learned the truth: he was an experiment. When Sephiroth was still in the womb, he was injected with Jenova cells as part of Shinra's effort to create a new Ancient , one who would supposedly lead the company to the Cetra's fabled Mako-rich "Promised Land. Sephiroth snapped. Mistakenly assuming that the treatment made him an Ancient, Sephiroth declared war on humanity and pledged allegiance to Jenova, his "mother.

As Sephiroth tried to retrieve Jenova's body from the Mt. Nibel reactor, Tifa and Zack tried to stop him. Both were grievously wounded. It was Cloud who saved the day. Taking Zack's Buster Sword in hand, Cloud confronted an unsuspecting Sephiroth and stabbed him in the back. Cloud moved Tifa to safety, then the battle continued. During the fight, Sephiroth skewered Cloud with his sword, Masamune, but Cloud fought back.

Using Masamune as a level, Cloud flung Sephiroth into the Lifestream below the reactor, presumably killing him.

In the aftermath, Shinra gathered up Nibelheim's surviving residents aside from Tifa, who was rescued and taken to Shinra's capital, Midgar, by her martial arts instructor and rebuilt the town, hiding Sephiroth's betrayal from the public. Both Sephiroth and Zack were declared dead. As for Cloud? Nobody really cared. The truth was a little different. User Info: Anonymous. One part of the process is mako infusion. Cloud was infused with mako, but his mind was not stromg enough to handle the side effects of the infusion.

Though not a part of your question, I'd say Cloud would have died from any of the three times he had been subjected to severe mako exposure if he weren't as physically strong as he was. User Info: gmo Sign Up for free or Log In if you already have an account to be able to ask and answer questions.

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