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Aeris Gainsborough
Job:	Flower Merchant
Age:	22
Weapon:	Rod
Height:	5'3"
Birthdate:	February 7
Birthplace:	Unknown
Blood Type:	O
Game Decription:	Young, beautiful, and somewhat mysterious, Aeris met Cloud while selling flowers on the streets of Midgar.She decided to join him soon after. Her unusual abilities allow her to heal the party, but she seems more interested in the deepening love triangle between herself, Cloud and Tifa.
FF.CC Members Description:	Aeris Gainsborough is a flower girl on the streets of Midgar, sought after by Shinra's research department because of her past. She asks Cloud to be her bodyguard after a run-in with the Turks, and subsequently joins AVALANCHE. Aeris has long brown hair she keeps in a braid with pink bows and vivid green eyes, and wears a red mini-jacket with a pink dress. It should be noted that Aeris name was a mistranslation of Aerith - but as she is referred to in VII as Aeris, this article is also refering to her as Aeris.
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Tifa Lockheart
Job:	Bar Hostess, AVALANCHE member
Age:	20
Weapon:	Glove
Height:	5'4"
Birthdate:	May 3
Birthplace:	Nibelheim
Blood Type:	B
Game Description:	Bright and optimistic, Tifa always cheers up the others when they’re down. But don’t let her looks fool you, she can decimate almost any enemy with her fists. She is one of the main members of AVALANCHE. She and Cloud were childhood friends, and although she has strong feelings for him, she would never admit it.
FF.CC Members Decription:	Tifa Lockhart is a childhood friend of Cloud and a skilled martial artist. She is one of the lead members of AVALANCHE and convinces Cloud to join them in their rebellion against Shinra. She has long black hair tied back in a loose pony-tail and reddish-brown eyes. She has deep, unrequited feelings for the main hero, Cloud, due to a promise made by the two of them as children.
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Barret Wallace
Job:	Leader of AVALANCHE
Age:	35
Weapon:	Gun-arm
Height:	6'4"
Birthdate:	December 15
Birthplace:	Corel Village
Blood Type:	O
Game Description:	Head of the underground resistance movement, AVALANCHE, Barret is fighting the mega-conglomerate Shinra, Inc. which has monopolized Mako energy by building special reactors to suck it out of the planet. Barret depends on brute strength and his “Gun-arm” to see him through. His wife died in an accident several years ago, and he now lives with his daughter Marlene.
FF.CC Members Description:	Barrett Wallace is one of the main characters in Final Fantasy VII. Barrett starts out as the leader of the paramilitary organization known as AVALANCHE. He is opposed to the use of Shinra’s mako technology, which he believes to be killing the planet. After the group disbands, Barrett chooses to continue his mission to save the planet by joining with Cloud in the battle against Sephiroth.
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Red XIII
Job:	Research Specimen
Age:	48
Weapon:	Headdress
Height:	3'9"
Birthdate:	Unknown
Birthplace:	Cosmo Canyon
Blood Type:	Unknown
Game Description:	Just as his name implies, he is an animal with fire-red fur. But under his fierce exterior is an intelligence surpassing that of any human’s. His sharp claws and fangs make him good at close-range fighting, but other than that, not much is known about him. It’s not even certain that “Red XIII” is his real name. A real enigma.
FF.CC Members Description:	Red XIII, whose real name is Nanaki, is large and powerful, lion-like and coated with fire red fur. His species possesses great longevity, which surprises the party when they learn that his 48 years only amounts to adolescence by his species' standards. Though his real name is Nanaki, he is given the name Red XIII by Hojo, and the name sticks when the party rescues him from Hojo's laboratory.
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Cid Highwind
Job:	Pilot
Age:	32
Weapon:	Spear
Height:	5'8"
Birthdate:	February 22
Birthplace:	Unknown
Blood Type:	B
Game Description:	Cid is a tough-talking, warm-hearted old pilot who hasn’t forgotten his dreams. There’s no better pilot by air or sea. He believes that someday he’ll be the first man in space. With his handmade spear and knowledge of machinery, he throws himself into any attack regardless of the danger.
FF.CC Members Description:	Cid Highwind is thirty-two years old and the most uncouth of the protagonists, constantly swearing, losing his temper and chain-smoking cigarettes. Despite this rough appearance, he has a good heart, and is voted temporary leader of AVALANCHE at one point when Cloud Strife is incapacitated with Mako Poisoning. The residents of Rocket Town all call him "the Captain," where he serves as something of an honorary mayor.
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Sephiroth
Job:	Top ranking SOLDIER officer
Age:	Unknown
Weapon:	Long Sword
Height:	6'1"
Birthdate:	Unknown
Birthplace:	Unknown
Blood Type:	Unknown
Game Description:	Even amongst the elite troops of SOLDIER, Sephiroth is known to be the best. His past is locked away in a confidential file held by Shinra, Inc. His giant sword, which only he can handle, has extremely destructive power. Said to have disappeared in a battle years ago, his current whereabouts are unknown.
FF.CC Members Description:	Sephiroth is known to be the most powerful member of SOLDIER ever, and rose to a prominent rank at an early age. After a traumatic incident he left SOLDIER and indeed civilization altogether with plans to become a god-like power.  He is personified by his primary weapon; the powerful Masamune sword which he uses to inflict large amounts of damage.
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Yuffie Kisaragi
Job:	Materia Hunter, Ninja
Age:	16
Weapon:	Knife, boomerang, and origami (for throwing)
Height:	5'2"
Birthdate:	November 20
Birthplace:	Wutai
Blood Type:	A
Game Description:	Although you’d never know it by looking at her, Yuffie comes from a long line of Ninja. She forced herself into the group just to get a ‘certain something’. She’s sneaky, arrogant and “way” selfish. But with her super shuriken and her special skills, there isn’t anyone else you’d rather have on your side in a fight.
FF.CC Members Description:	Yuffie Kisaragi is an optional playable character and self-proclaimed "Materia Hunter" who joins the party hoping to steal their Materia, with the intention of restoring her country, Wutai, to its former glory. Although a skillful ninja, Yuffie is prone to sea and air sickness and shows signs of kleptomania. She has dark-brown eyes and black hair which is always tied back. Her face is bandaged up slightly and a cast on her legs.
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Cait Sith
Job:	Toysaurus
Age:	Uknown
Weapon:	Megaphone
Height:	3'2"
Birthdate:	Unknown
Birthplace:	Unknown
Blood Type:	Unknown
Games Description:	Cait Sith rides around on the back of a huge stuffed Mog he magically brought to life. Megaphone in hand, he’s always shouting orders and creating dopey attacks. When his slot machine attack works, the enemy lines look like an overturned toy box. His hobby is fortune telling, but like his personality, it’s pretty unreliable.
FF.CC Members Description:	Cait Sith is a robotic talking cat who is friendly, but often unreliable. He rides on the back of a stuffed moogle which he "magically brought to life". The Moogle does all of the pair's fighting while Cait Sith orders it with a megaphone. As a robot, he is able to be rebuilt and replaced. He is controlled by Reeve Tuesti.
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Vincent Valentine
Job:	Unemployed
Age:	27
Weapon:	Gun
Height:	6'
Birthdate:	October 13
Birthplace:	Unknown
Blood Type:	A
Games Description:	A mystical man, stern and upright while at the same time dark and mysterious. His past connection with Shinra, Inc. is what made him join Cloud and the others. He may seem frail at first glance, but hidden inside his body lurks a fearsome power.
FF.CC Members Description:	Vincent Valentine is a dark, brooding, and sardonic man whose heart has been numbed by a tragic love. He loved Lucrecia Crescent, who saved him after he was shot by Hojo when Vincent discovered that Lucrecia was part of an experiment implanting in his body the most lethal weapon, Chaos.
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Zack Fair

Zack Fair is a non-player character from the game Final Fantasy VII, and the protagonist of its prequel, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. He also appears with Aerith in Final Fantasy VII Advent Children and plays a significant role in Last Order: Final Fantasy VII. In the original game, he appears only in flashback sequences, which portray him as almost identical to Cloud Strife in physical appearance except for his black hair. When strung together, the sequences explain a great deal about Cloud's past and his connection to Sephiroth, the game's arch-villain. He also wielded the Buster Sword before Cloud.

Zack was born in the town of Gongaga, where he lived until he left to join Shinra's militant force, SOLDIER. He eventually fell in love with Aerith Gainsborough after falling into the slums. While on the hunt for the rogue SOLDIER Genesis, Zack becomes a first class SOLDIER a short time before defeating his former mentor and original owner of the Buster Sword, Angeal. Angeal passes the sword onto him while dying. Soon after, Zack went to Nibelheim to investigate the nearby Mako reactor which had been malfunctioning. However, during the investigation Sephiroth discovered the truth behind his origins and went on a rampage, destroying the Nibelheim village. Zack confronted Sephiroth in a duel only to be defeated. Following the battle, both he and Cloud were used by Hojo as test specimens. However, Zack managed to escape after four years and carried the incapacitated Cloud with him to freedom. The two were spotted riding the back of a truck headed to Midgar, with Zack putting Cloud in hiding as he fought the numerous Shinra soldiers. After fighting several Shinra infantrymen and being shot multiple times, Zack dies with the surviving Cloud at his side. It is after this that Cloud takes Zack's words of him being his "living legacy" seriously, adopting Zack's personality traits, memories, even habitual gestures, as his own.

Rufus Shinra

Rufus Shinra is a non-player character. His appearance is marked by neatly-groomed blonde hair, blue eyes and a white three-piece suit with a distinctive double-breasted jacket. In Final Fantasy VII, Rufus is depicted as callous, cold-hearted and ruthless. His views on how Shinra should conduct its rule over the world — through fear and intimidation rather than money — were considered dangerous by his father, and great care was taken to prevent them from influencing the company's inner workings. But by Advent Children, it seems Rufus has reformed and is dedicated to helping the regeneration of the planet.

At the beginning of Final Fantasy VII he is the Vice-President of the Shinra Electric Power Company, a monopoly corporation and "de facto" world government. After his father's death, he becomes the president of the company. He begins running his company through fear and intimidation whilst very sure that Shinra is capable of solving the various crises facing Gaia. However, towards the close of the game he has a change of heart so he and Cloud's group put their differences aside to fight their common foes, Meteor and Sephiroth. Rufus' actions led to many positive things towards the end of the game, actions that benefited the world, such as removing Sephiroth's energy barrier and destroying two WEAPONs. However, Rufus is thought to have died when his office in Shinra Headquarters was hit by an energy blast from Diamond WEAPON.

Turks

The Turks are a group that perform covert operations on behalf of Shinra, including espionage, kidnappings and assassinations. They also scout for potential candidates for Shinra's elite military unit, SOLDIER, and serve as bodyguards for the Shinra executives. The group's full name is the Department of Administrative Research. Within the original game, the Turks Reno, Rude, Elena, and their leader Tseng serve as recurring antagonists throughout, although they are not above forming temporary alliances with AVALANCHE, the game's group of central protagonists.

Final Fantasy VII's prequel, Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII, focuses exclusively on the Turks in the years leading up to the events of Final Fantasy VII. They also appear in Advent Children, set two years after the original. Here, they serve as allies of AVALANCHE, as well as bodyguards to Rufus Shinra and aid in his self-appointed mission to restore the world's vitality. In Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Tseng, Reno, Rude, and the Shuriken Turk from Before Crisis, who goes under the pseudonym Cissnei, act as recurring characters.

Jenova

Jenova is one of the major antagonists in the game. The character also appears in a retelling of a section of the game in the original video animation Last Order: Final Fantasy VII, and in flashbacks in the movie Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Jenova is indicated to be an extraterrestrial lifeform, composed of strange cells that carry her will and power even when separated. The Final Fantasy VII Ultimania ? Guide states that Sephiroth's will and ambition were great enough that he was allowed to control Jenova's cells.

Jenova has a major role in the continuity of Final Fantasy VII plot. In the game, many of the main characters, including Cloud Strife and Zack, have been injected with Jenova cells at some point in their lives. All members of SOLDIER were also given Jenova cells, as were the "Sephiroth clones" in Nibelheim. Additionally, all these individuals were infused with mako. This procedure leaves its subjects stronger and more resilient to physical attacks, but the cells and mako can also have various effects on one's mind, some beneficial (improved magical ability) and others detrimental (insanity). Sephiroth's case is more advanced as he was injected with Jenova cells while in the fetal stage, becoming more powerful than any other subject as a result. As explained by Ifalna to Professor Gast, when it first crashed on Earth Jenova began infecting the Ancients with its cells, transforming them into monsters under its control. She refers to Jenova as "the virus", an evil entity that infects others with its cells and mutates them for its own use.

Throughout the game, Jenova is often referred to as a "she", although the character's gender is not definitively confirmed. Furthermore, through Ifalna's description of Jenova's approach to the Cetra and Sephiroth's statements concerning—and his use of—Jenova's abilities, it is known that Jenova's cells can change their form, even from male to female appearance. This concept is also confirmed by the Final Fantasy VII Ultimania ? guide.

Jenova's full form is first revealed in a flashback, seen preserved in liquid in a large glass tank in the Mt. Nibel mako reactor. Here, Jenova appears to be human-sized and is in the shape of a nude, blue skinned woman. Of note, when seen here, she is wearing a helmet that exposes her brain at the top and, in the front, bears a plaque inscribed with the word "JENOVA".

Jenova fights the party several times in various forms. Interestingly, before fighting, Jenova takes the form of Sephiroth. However the Ultimania explains that Jenova is being controlled by Sephiroth.