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Sephiroth, the self-proclaimed god of the new world, wants nothing more than to rule over Gaia and make sure that nobody stands in his way… Especially ‘heroes’ that want to prevent his destiny.
Cloud Strife, one such hero and Gaia’s chosen, is forever intertwined with the madman trying to destroy the world, but still wants to save everyone, for such a fate needs to be prevented if the world is ever to recover.
… But be it by a divine prank or by fate entirely, both are swept away into a world entirely different from their own without any powers or weaponry whatsoever in the bodies of their childhood selves. And now, whether they like it or not, they need to work together to get back to Gaia so they can finally put an end to everything once and for all…
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When it came down to it, Cloud just wanted a father.
When it came down to it, Sephiroth just wanted a family.
When it came down to it, Vincent just wanted a second chance.
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To Love Without Remembering by Aureum_Sunflower
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
20 Aug 2025
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Cloud Strife opened his eyes for the first time in who knows how long.
“Spike...?”
Everything was blurry. He tried to blink but his eyes didn’t want to see. The world was almost too bright for him to handle.
“Please come on… Spike?”
His body was heavy, drowsy, as if he had slept for far too long. How long was he asleep for? He could barely feel the hard pelt of rain on his skin as he wiggled his fingers, and then his toes. He couldn’t even see past the blurriness that seemed to be a permanent part of his eyesight.
“Cloud… please.”
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Cloud Strife wakes up just in time to see the love of his life die before his very eyes.
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Distraction by Bananagrump
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth (Video Games 2020-2024), Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
08 May 2025
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Another stand alone from one of my WIPs!
Cloud is feeling a bit anxious and Zack wants him to talk about it, Cloud would rather be distracted.
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Cloud is just starting to settle into life with Genesis when he starts experiencing bouts of back pain. It's nothing, really, until it is.
It isn't until he's on his way home from a long haul delivery that the pain gets bad enough for him to take it seriously, but by then, it's much too late.
Cloud's back pain wasn't nothing. It was a sign of something much worse, something that changes everything he thought he knew about himself. He can never go back home, but he's a fool for thinking that Genesis would ever let him go.
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For a moment by TesseTesseTesse
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth (Video Games 2020-2024), Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
15 Sep 2024
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Cloud is losing himself; his mind fractured, caught between a past that doesn't feel real, and the promise of a grim future. The only thing keeping him grounded is Tifa, her presence a fragile tether to the person he once was. But as the Northern Crater looms closer, he wonders how long that tether can hold.
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Cloud Strife's brain is a truly terrifying place.
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- Part 2 of But what of the wretched hollow?
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A Crown of Flowers Upon Your Head by Hellfire_maniac (LogicalDelta)
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
31 Aug 2024
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Written for Scrunkly Week 2024
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Aerith's garden seemed like such a peaceful space during the day. It was a different story at night.
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AKA Cloud is haunted by a spectre amidst the pretty flowers.Series
- Part 1 of Scrunkly Week
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wish upon the northern star by gloomy_weather
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth (Video Games 2020-2024), Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
31 Aug 2024
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When the world's most renowned Hunter is being sent off to the frontlines of the very war that took his father's life, he is sure his life is either completely over or merely just beginning. He had, for the most part, accepted his fate. Everything was as it should have been.
Until war comes to a kingdom long forgotton by Gaia's people. Cloud Strife is thrust cruelly into a world he never knew existed, a world of Naga and Sirens and stormcallers. A world of angels and monsters alike.
And now, his trust of everyone he ever knew is broken. His loyalty challenged. And he realizes that everything he thought he knew about the world might be wrong. Including the King of Naga. Including himself.
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“I would never be friends with someone like you” cloud whispers harshly
“It’s a good job I don’t want to be friends sunshine”
Cloud and Zack have almost nothing in common, they hate each other.
But suddenly everywhere cloud turns there is Zack with his stupid goofy grin, and he’s starting to think he might not mind it after all.
It’s all fine, until Zack finds out what clouds going though.——ASGZC——
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Cloud takes a long walk off a short cliff, determined to be reunited with his mother. A powerful spirit intervenes, not that he much appreciates it.
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- Part 2 of Aimee’s Unrelated WIPs
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in dreams, the mountain spoke to me by StillBubbles
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth (Video Games 2020-2024), Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997)
05 Apr 2024
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The ropes snapped one by one in slow motion. The children they had been disappeared, the old bridge morphing into steel stairs, the distant peak of the mountain becoming the looming structure of the mako reactor. Ahead of him, somehow much farther ahead of him, Tifa started climbing.
or, Cloud has a bad stress dream on the way to the Northern Crater.
Rebirth-continuity, post game. Spoilers!
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Loner by Namixart
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth (Video Games 2020-2024)
14 Mar 2024
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Nobody had taken it seriously. Ha-ha, Cloud’s a grump, he’s prickly, he’s a loner, ha-ha, moving on.
He frowned at the back of Tifa’s head. You seemed fine on your own.
He pressed his lips together and flexed his hand at his side, uncomfortable. He wasn’t... good at being the centre of attention, he wasn’t good with people. Didn’t mean he wanted to—
“You okay?”
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Angels dream of being human by PenultimateFantasy (krinaphobia)
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
12 Mar 2024
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After Sephiroth's return on Advent Day, Aerith welcomes a dying Kadaj into the Lifestream. But the Remnant has a request: he wants to live.
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Zack Fair survives somehow. He’s exhausted but he needs to get to Midgar. He made that promise to Aerith and Cloud. Speaking of Cloud, he’s been more conscious since the encounter with Shinra, much to Zack’s relief.
As time goes on and Cloud gets better, they're confident that he has beat Mako poisoning for good, but is that the case? Is there something else to it?
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A Reining Reverie by StrelitziaMystery1097
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Final Fantasy VII Remake (Video Game 2020), Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Video Game 2024), Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth (Video Games 2020-2024)
07 Mar 2024
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Reverie: a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream.
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Touch by MagistraBarista
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII Remake (Video Game 2020), Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
24 Feb 2024
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Aerith profoundly touches the lives of everyone she meets. How would things be different for Cloud, Tifa, and Vincent if she got to stay with them for longer? If she could let them care for her too this time? If Cloud could discover that he doesn't love the way he's expected to? If Tifa could realize she hasn't only fallen for Cloud? If Vincent could realize that friendship could save him from himself?
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- Part 1 of I Need Something More
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Sanctuary by Kuma_Kuroko
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Final Fantasy VII, Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII Remake (Video Game 2020)
01 Jan 2024
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"Ella encontró compañía y él, encontró un santuario."
Semi-AU
Pairing: Clerith [Aerith Gainsborough x Cloudette Strife] - Others
Advertencias: Smut, Fluff, Hurt/Confort, Animal Charasteristic, OoC, Slice-Life.Series
- Part 7 of Sons of Jenova
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• Sanctuary • by Kuma_Kuroko
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Final Fantasy VII Remake (Video Game 2020), Final Fantasy VIII, Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
01 Jan 2024
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"She found companionship and he, he found a sanctuary."
Semi-AU
Pairing: Clerith [Aerith Gainsborough x Cloudette Strife] - Others
Advertencias: Smut, Fluff, Hurt/Confort, Animal Charasteristic, OoC, Slice-Life.Series
- Part 8 of Sons of Jenova
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Soup of the Day by AimeeLouWrites
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy XV
03 Apr 2023
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Cloud crash-lands on a king's table in the middle of dinner. Free food!
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- Part 16 of Cursed to Strife
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Deep within the Drum, the gang has just rescued Aerith. But after a run-in with Sephiroth, Cloud has vanished from the party. Perhaps a certain mad scientist has some clues on his whereabouts for the rest of the group...for a cost.