Character: Tifa Lockhart Canon: Final Fantasy VII Current Canon Point: End of FFVII Remake New Canon Point: Chapter 13 of FFVII Rebirth Updated Background: Writing out the events that happened in detail that are relevant to Tifa. Everything else is just brief bullet points. Wiki isn't updated so I GOTTA DO EVERYTHING MYSELF. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
SPOILERS FOR FFVII REBIRTH 🌠 When the group arrives in Kalm, Cloud shares his account of what happened in Nibelheim five years ago, much to Tifa's confusion. He gives an accurate report of the Nibelheim incident, but as far as she is concerned, Cloud was not there. She opens up to Aerith about it but decides to approach Cloud about it as well. He claims that he thought her dead, and Tifa, thinking that he might be accusing her of not being real, shows him the scar that she sustained from Sephiroth as proof that she is telling the truth. The two of them get into a disagreement, leaving Tifa upset, and they end the conversation there, with her needing space.
🌠 They disembark from Kalm to continue following the black robed figures, and they lead them to Junon where they discover that they are all wanted fugitives. There, they meet Yuffie when she is attacked by a sea monster and rescue her. Later, she and Cloud make up at the inn, and Tifa makes another attempt to gauge his memories by talking about an old friend, Emilio. The next morning, the group is properly introduced to Yuffie, who explains to them that she was sent to assassinate Rufus Shinra, and the group heads to Upper Junon to join the parade and get close to the president.
🌠 Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith participate in the parade, disguising themselves as Shinra infantrymen, and they win the President's Commendation award for their performance. However, Rufus is aware that it is Avalanche beneath the helmets, and he calls them up and tries to strike a deal with them: he will leave them be if they promise to take down Sephiroth. Cloud agrees to his terms, but the deal is quickly ended when Yuffie makes her attempt on Rufus's life.
🌠 They make their escape on the ship to Costa Del Sol, where they participate in a Queen's Blood tournament (because that is totally what you do when you are fugitives on the run!). Later that night, the ship is attacked by fiends, some of the targeting the robed men and turning them into monsters. Sephiroth appears before them and they are forced to fight Jenova aboard the ship.
🌠 After arriving in Costa Del Sol, the group gets a bit of a breather. There, they find Johnny who now runs an inn, they get assaulted by mini games, and the girls get to wear cute bathing suits. Everything is fine and good until Hojo shows up to experiment, releasing more fiends on the beach to transform the robed men again.
🌠 After leaving Costa Del Sol, they head for Corel. There, Tifa meets with Doctor Sheiran, the doctor who had performed surgery on her after the Nibelheim incident and saved her life, to thank him. There, she learns that it was a Shinra helicopter that brought her in bruh they said it was Zangan in the book, PICK ONE, SQUARE
🌠 They have another brief respite at the Gold Saucer after leaving Corel, but it doesn't last long. After a shooting at the Saucer, they are forced to investigate, worried that the accused "man with a gun for an arm" that had shot Shinra troopers was Barret. They are taken to Corel Prison and held there while Cloud participates in the chocobo races to win, and once they are free, they go off to search for Barret and find him in an old junkyard where they kept Dyne.
🌠 Gongaga is their next stop to inspect the run-down reactor. Cloud, Barret, Red, and Cait Sith head there first, but Shinra is also there, with Scarlet heading the crew to fetch the materia/weapon that resides in the reactor. After hearing an explosion, Tifa, Aerith, and Yuffie head to the reactor and make their way through the ruin and end up facing off against Scarlet in her Crimson Mare.
🌠 When Cloud is affected by Sephiroth in the reactor, Tifa tries to pull him out of it, and he accuses her again of being a fake produced by Jenova. Still under Sephiroth's spell, he pushes her off the platform and she falls into the pool of mako below, where she is swallowed up by one of the Weapons. While inside the Weapon, Tifa is taken through what appears to be the Lifestream. She sees the white and black whispers fighting one another, with the white ones protecting the Weapons.
🌠 It's there in the Lifestream where she relives some of her older, most precious memories. Particularly three important ones with Cloud: the day she wanted to find her mom on the other side of Mount Nibel with her friends when she was young, the promise atop the water tower, and when Cloud had tried to stop her from crossing the bridge to the mountain, with the latter being a memory that she had forgotten due to head trauma and losing her memory. It's only after she sees this memory play out in the Lifestream that she understands the truth of what happened that day. Cloud had tried to stop her, and when all of her friends left her to cross the bridge alone, he was the only one who stayed with her. When she awoke from her coma after the incident, the adults had told Tifa that Cloud had egged her on, and that it was his fault that she had fallen, and she hadn't thought to question it at the time, and any time she did ask, she would simply be coddled.
🌠 Sephiroth appears before her and the Weapons and attacks her, plunging his sword through it in an attempt to kill her and nearly drowning her. As she nearly dies, she sees people who are dear to her: Zangan, Doctor Sheiran, Aerith, and Barret all reminding her that she has something to live for, and that she has to continue to live. In the same vision, she sees Cloud walking away from her, and Sephiroth's voice telling her that she can't reach him anymore, and it's then that she floats into unconsciousness.
🌠 The Weapon brings her back to the surface where the group is waiting, and they all return to Gongaga together where she and Cloud have a heart to heart when she awakens, talking about the day that she climbed Mount Nibel to find her mom, how she knows the truth now about what happened that day after losing her memory, and he opens up to her about his SOLDIER degradation. Tifa vows that she will be there to save him, just like he had saved her.
🌠 Cosmo Canyon is their next stop. Thanks to Cid Highwind and his Tiny Bronco, they make it to the canyon without issue. There, Tifa and the others learn about Planetology, and when she shares her account of the Weapons and the Lifestream with Bugenhagen, he dismisses her as being "uneducated". She and Aerith attend a seminar where she, again, tries to share her experience, and to tell the people to rally together and help the Planet fight, but she is disheartened when they don't seem to agree.
🌠 The group also learns about Red XIII's past, the Gi, the Black Materia, and the Temple of the Ancients where it is being kept. In order to find its location, Cait Sith requires a terminal.
🌠 They travel to Nibelheim to use the Shinra terminal there with the hopes of gaining more information on the whereabouts of the Temple, and when they arrive, Nibelheim has been rebuilt, much to Cloud and Tifa's surprise, after they watched it burn five years ago. It is now being used as a treatment center for those with severe cases of mako poisoning, and they both spend time exploring and reminiscing about their pasts, with Tifa very clearly distraught over what she sees. She speaks further about her father and about how she now understands why he went to seek out Sephiroth that night, opens up about her anger, and about how much trouble she has being a people pleaser.
🌠 In order to gain proper access to the terminal, they require someone with the right level of authorization, and they are sent up to the reactor to find a Shinra executive, Murasaki. Tifa goes with Cloud and Yuffie and on the way, Cloud admits that he remembers Zack, what happened on Mount Nibel, and how Zack died. Cloud claims that it was him who fell down the river and could not be saved, but Tifa knows that isn't the truth, and bids that he let her tell Aerith what happened as his memories are still fragmented and wrong. It's here when she sees how much Cloud's mind is truly starting to deteriorate and promises that she will help him. Within the reactor, they find Murasaki dead in the same place where her father had been killed, and it provokes a panic attack in Tifa. She calms down, they find the card, and they head to Shinra manor to meet up with the others.
🌠 In Shinra manor, they meet Vincent, find the terminal, fight against the Gallian Beast, and discover that the keystone will be at the Gold Saucer, in Dio's possession.
🌠 After a date with Cloud at the Gold Saucer, the group is forced to face off against Don Corneo for naming rights for the Gold Saucer. As a reward, Dio will grant them the keystone. After a fight with the Turks and Rufus Shinra, however, Cait Sith betrays them by stealing the keystone and giving it to Tseng, and they leave him behind to head to the Temple without him.
🌠 Once in the Temple, they are forced to go through the labyrinth of a place. Tifa, Cloud, and Barret are separated from Yuffie, Red, and Aerith, and they run into Reno and Rude. The group reunites and they head further in together until they find the "key". In order to continue, each of them must go through a trial and face their memories.
🌠 Tifa's trial, as I interpreted it, is all about the loss of her innocence. When the fog clears, she is standing in Nibelheim under a cloudy night sky, and she sees a younger version of herself in her favourite blue dress. She leads Tifa up the water tower where she finds Cloud sitting there, the same way that he was on the night they made the promise to each other. In the blink of an eye, the town is on fire, and Tifa is led by a young Cloud to a door on the way to the reactor, which immediately takes her inside of it. She is forced to see her late father again on the ground, and it provokes her anger again, and she says her line about Shinra, SOLDIERS, mako... SHE'S SICK OF ALL OF IT!!
Updated Personality: Putting this under the cut too.
SPOILERS:
While Tifa, at her core, has not changed all that much from the end of the Remake, she has gone through some developments. We see that she is trying to work through her insecurities throughout the course of Rebirth, which is a major stepping stone for her. She finally acknowledges that she tends to be a people pleaser, sometimes to her own detriment, tries to remember to thank people rather than apologize for what she considers being a burden, and attempts to be more open and forward about her feelings. She opens up to Aerith and Cloud several times throughout the game, such as confiding in Aerith about Cloud's mismatched memories.
With Cloud, she explains that she wants to try and do the right thing, tries to get people to stand up and fight, but feels as though she is always coming up short, and thus she needs to remember that she is trying, and to never stop trying. That particular conversation was very much triggered by her attempts to open up about her experiences with the Weapons in the Lifestream, but she was disheartened when no one seemed to understand her or want to listen.
She opens up about her realization that the anger that she had been holding onto for so many years was not going to last. She may have had her doubts and fears in the past about Avalanche's methods, but the more time that passed, she understood better why she made those decisions, and that they were the right ones. That she was right to feel angry and still is, because Shinra continues to lie and do cruel things, and someone needs to stand up and fight.
As the game nears its end, however, we see parts of her slowly chip away as she watches Cloud begin to deteriorate and fall further under Jenova and Sephiroth's thrall. While she is still determined to help him, it is clear that her worry is taking a bigger toll on her emotionally than she lets on. That will eventually come to a head once she is updated to the very end of the game, but as of right now, she is keeping a very close eye on him.
Upon returning to Reverein, while Tifa will certainly be more genuine and candid about her feelings and desires, she will harbour deeper feelings of anger from the get-go, her trial serving as a catalyst to that, as well as suffering from some emotional turmoil, exhaustion, and the inklings of helplessness after watching Cloud beginning to change.
Any other updates: New Limit Break, Meteor Strikes, a several hit combo wombo with the force of a falling star. Regain Baubles? Yes, she'll be returning home voluntarily. And idk what months, SHE HAS LIKE 50 OF THEM.
Questions/Other: She will be gone from April 1st-3rd. Also sorry for the 1700 word history section. 💜
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CANON UPDATE
Canon: Final Fantasy VII
Current Canon Point: End of FFVII Remake
New Canon Point: Chapter 13 of FFVII Rebirth
Updated Background: Writing out the events that happened in detail that are relevant to Tifa. Everything else is just brief bullet points. Wiki isn't updated so I GOTTA DO EVERYTHING MYSELF. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
SPOILERS FOR FFVII REBIRTH
🌠 When the group arrives in Kalm, Cloud shares his account of what happened in Nibelheim five years ago, much to Tifa's confusion. He gives an accurate report of the Nibelheim incident, but as far as she is concerned, Cloud was not there. She opens up to Aerith about it but decides to approach Cloud about it as well. He claims that he thought her dead, and Tifa, thinking that he might be accusing her of not being real, shows him the scar that she sustained from Sephiroth as proof that she is telling the truth. The two of them get into a disagreement, leaving Tifa upset, and they end the conversation there, with her needing space.
🌠 They disembark from Kalm to continue following the black robed figures, and they lead them to Junon where they discover that they are all wanted fugitives. There, they meet Yuffie when she is attacked by a sea monster and rescue her. Later, she and Cloud make up at the inn, and Tifa makes another attempt to gauge his memories by talking about an old friend, Emilio. The next morning, the group is properly introduced to Yuffie, who explains to them that she was sent to assassinate Rufus Shinra, and the group heads to Upper Junon to join the parade and get close to the president.
🌠 Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith participate in the parade, disguising themselves as Shinra infantrymen, and they win the President's Commendation award for their performance. However, Rufus is aware that it is Avalanche beneath the helmets, and he calls them up and tries to strike a deal with them: he will leave them be if they promise to take down Sephiroth. Cloud agrees to his terms, but the deal is quickly ended when Yuffie makes her attempt on Rufus's life.
🌠 They make their escape on the ship to Costa Del Sol, where they participate in a Queen's Blood tournament (because that is totally what you do when you are fugitives on the run!). Later that night, the ship is attacked by fiends, some of the targeting the robed men and turning them into monsters. Sephiroth appears before them and they are forced to fight Jenova aboard the ship.
🌠 After arriving in Costa Del Sol, the group gets a bit of a breather. There, they find Johnny who now runs an inn, they get assaulted by mini games, and the girls get to wear cute bathing suits. Everything is fine and good until Hojo shows up to experiment, releasing more fiends on the beach to transform the robed men again.
🌠 After leaving Costa Del Sol, they head for Corel. There, Tifa meets with Doctor Sheiran, the doctor who had performed surgery on her after the Nibelheim incident and saved her life, to thank him. There, she learns that it was a Shinra helicopter that brought her in
bruh they said it was Zangan in the book, PICK ONE, SQUARE🌠 They have another brief respite at the Gold Saucer after leaving Corel, but it doesn't last long. After a shooting at the Saucer, they are forced to investigate, worried that the accused "man with a gun for an arm" that had shot Shinra troopers was Barret. They are taken to Corel Prison and held there while Cloud participates in the chocobo races to win, and once they are free, they go off to search for Barret and find him in an old junkyard where they kept Dyne.
🌠 Gongaga is their next stop to inspect the run-down reactor. Cloud, Barret, Red, and Cait Sith head there first, but Shinra is also there, with Scarlet heading the crew to fetch the materia/weapon that resides in the reactor. After hearing an explosion, Tifa, Aerith, and Yuffie head to the reactor and make their way through the ruin and end up facing off against Scarlet in her Crimson Mare.
🌠 When Cloud is affected by Sephiroth in the reactor, Tifa tries to pull him out of it, and he accuses her again of being a fake produced by Jenova. Still under Sephiroth's spell, he pushes her off the platform and she falls into the pool of mako below, where she is swallowed up by one of the Weapons. While inside the Weapon, Tifa is taken through what appears to be the Lifestream. She sees the white and black whispers fighting one another, with the white ones protecting the Weapons.
🌠 It's there in the Lifestream where she relives some of her older, most precious memories. Particularly three important ones with Cloud: the day she wanted to find her mom on the other side of Mount Nibel with her friends when she was young, the promise atop the water tower, and when Cloud had tried to stop her from crossing the bridge to the mountain, with the latter being a memory that she had forgotten due to head trauma and losing her memory. It's only after she sees this memory play out in the Lifestream that she understands the truth of what happened that day. Cloud had tried to stop her, and when all of her friends left her to cross the bridge alone, he was the only one who stayed with her. When she awoke from her coma after the incident, the adults had told Tifa that Cloud had egged her on, and that it was his fault that she had fallen, and she hadn't thought to question it at the time, and any time she did ask, she would simply be coddled.
🌠 Sephiroth appears before her and the Weapons and attacks her, plunging his sword through it in an attempt to kill her and nearly drowning her. As she nearly dies, she sees people who are dear to her: Zangan, Doctor Sheiran, Aerith, and Barret all reminding her that she has something to live for, and that she has to continue to live. In the same vision, she sees Cloud walking away from her, and Sephiroth's voice telling her that she can't reach him anymore, and it's then that she floats into unconsciousness.
🌠 The Weapon brings her back to the surface where the group is waiting, and they all return to Gongaga together where she and Cloud have a heart to heart when she awakens, talking about the day that she climbed Mount Nibel to find her mom, how she knows the truth now about what happened that day after losing her memory, and he opens up to her about his SOLDIER degradation. Tifa vows that she will be there to save him, just like he had saved her.
🌠 Cosmo Canyon is their next stop. Thanks to Cid Highwind and his Tiny Bronco, they make it to the canyon without issue. There, Tifa and the others learn about Planetology, and when she shares her account of the Weapons and the Lifestream with Bugenhagen, he dismisses her as being "uneducated". She and Aerith attend a seminar where she, again, tries to share her experience, and to tell the people to rally together and help the Planet fight, but she is disheartened when they don't seem to agree.
🌠 The group also learns about Red XIII's past, the Gi, the Black Materia, and the Temple of the Ancients where it is being kept. In order to find its location, Cait Sith requires a terminal.
🌠 They travel to Nibelheim to use the Shinra terminal there with the hopes of gaining more information on the whereabouts of the Temple, and when they arrive, Nibelheim has been rebuilt, much to Cloud and Tifa's surprise, after they watched it burn five years ago. It is now being used as a treatment center for those with severe cases of mako poisoning, and they both spend time exploring and reminiscing about their pasts, with Tifa very clearly distraught over what she sees. She speaks further about her father and about how she now understands why he went to seek out Sephiroth that night, opens up about her anger, and about how much trouble she has being a people pleaser.
🌠 In order to gain proper access to the terminal, they require someone with the right level of authorization, and they are sent up to the reactor to find a Shinra executive, Murasaki. Tifa goes with Cloud and Yuffie and on the way, Cloud admits that he remembers Zack, what happened on Mount Nibel, and how Zack died. Cloud claims that it was him who fell down the river and could not be saved, but Tifa knows that isn't the truth, and bids that he let her tell Aerith what happened as his memories are still fragmented and wrong. It's here when she sees how much Cloud's mind is truly starting to deteriorate and promises that she will help him. Within the reactor, they find Murasaki dead in the same place where her father had been killed, and it provokes a panic attack in Tifa. She calms down, they find the card, and they head to Shinra manor to meet up with the others.
🌠 In Shinra manor, they meet Vincent, find the terminal, fight against the Gallian Beast, and discover that the keystone will be at the Gold Saucer, in Dio's possession.
🌠 After a date with Cloud at the Gold Saucer, the group is forced to face off against Don Corneo for naming rights for the Gold Saucer. As a reward, Dio will grant them the keystone. After a fight with the Turks and Rufus Shinra, however, Cait Sith betrays them by stealing the keystone and giving it to Tseng, and they leave him behind to head to the Temple without him.
🌠 Once in the Temple, they are forced to go through the labyrinth of a place. Tifa, Cloud, and Barret are separated from Yuffie, Red, and Aerith, and they run into Reno and Rude. The group reunites and they head further in together until they find the "key". In order to continue, each of them must go through a trial and face their memories.
🌠 Tifa's trial, as I interpreted it, is all about the loss of her innocence. When the fog clears, she is standing in Nibelheim under a cloudy night sky, and she sees a younger version of herself in her favourite blue dress. She leads Tifa up the water tower where she finds Cloud sitting there, the same way that he was on the night they made the promise to each other. In the blink of an eye, the town is on fire, and Tifa is led by a young Cloud to a door on the way to the reactor, which immediately takes her inside of it. She is forced to see her late father again on the ground, and it provokes her anger again, and she says her line about Shinra, SOLDIERS, mako... SHE'S SICK OF ALL OF IT!!
Updated Personality: Putting this under the cut too.
SPOILERS:
While Tifa, at her core, has not changed all that much from the end of the Remake, she has gone through some developments. We see that she is trying to work through her insecurities throughout the course of Rebirth, which is a major stepping stone for her. She finally acknowledges that she tends to be a people pleaser, sometimes to her own detriment, tries to remember to thank people rather than apologize for what she considers being a burden, and attempts to be more open and forward about her feelings. She opens up to Aerith and Cloud several times throughout the game, such as confiding in Aerith about Cloud's mismatched memories.
With Cloud, she explains that she wants to try and do the right thing, tries to get people to stand up and fight, but feels as though she is always coming up short, and thus she needs to remember that she is trying, and to never stop trying. That particular conversation was very much triggered by her attempts to open up about her experiences with the Weapons in the Lifestream, but she was disheartened when no one seemed to understand her or want to listen.
She opens up about her realization that the anger that she had been holding onto for so many years was not going to last. She may have had her doubts and fears in the past about Avalanche's methods, but the more time that passed, she understood better why she made those decisions, and that they were the right ones. That she was right to feel angry and still is, because Shinra continues to lie and do cruel things, and someone needs to stand up and fight.
As the game nears its end, however, we see parts of her slowly chip away as she watches Cloud begin to deteriorate and fall further under Jenova and Sephiroth's thrall. While she is still determined to help him, it is clear that her worry is taking a bigger toll on her emotionally than she lets on. That will eventually come to a head once she is updated to the very end of the game, but as of right now, she is keeping a very close eye on him.
Upon returning to Reverein, while Tifa will certainly be more genuine and candid about her feelings and desires, she will harbour deeper feelings of anger from the get-go, her trial serving as a catalyst to that, as well as suffering from some emotional turmoil, exhaustion, and the inklings of helplessness after watching Cloud beginning to change.
Any other updates: New Limit Break, Meteor Strikes, a several hit combo wombo with the force of a falling star.
Regain Baubles? Yes, she'll be returning home voluntarily. And idk what months, SHE HAS LIKE 50 OF THEM.
Questions/Other: She will be gone from April 1st-3rd. Also sorry for the 1700 word history section. 💜
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