Turks
Investigation Division of the General Affairs Department of the Shin-Ra Electric Power Company. They perform covert operations on behalf of the company, including espionage, kidnappings and assassinations. They also scout for potential candidates for Shin-Ra's elite military unit, SOLDIER, and serve as bodyguards for the Shin-Ra executives.
Main members
Tseng
Tseng is the stern but polite and calm leader of the Turks. He has long, black hair and what appears to be a tilak in the middle of his forehead. Though he is young, he has been an active member of the Turks for more than 10 years, and has known Aerith Gainsborough, for whom he seems to have romantic feelings since she was a child. Despite his long-standing admiration for Aerith, there are hints that his affections later shift to Elena.
He is wounded by Sephiroth during an investigation of the Temple of the Ancients. After enduring torture at the hands of Kadaj he is rescued along with Elena by Vincent Valentine.
Elena
Elena is a junior member of the Turks. She is a young woman with short, blonde hair and brown eyes. Though she resented — and wanted no contact with — her sister and the other Turks for outperforming her in their status, an encounter with them convinced her to join the group. Elena then obtained her position as the newest recruit after Reno sustained injuries battling AVALANCHE in Midgar.
Elena is naive, impetuous and somewhat overeager, with a loose tongue that sometimes causes her to inadvertently reveal secret information. She takes her job much more seriously than Reno and Rude do, and also becomes quite frustrated with their casual attitudes. She also has a crush on Tseng.
Reno
Reno is a prominent member of the Turks with a lanky physique, unkempt red hair terminating in a long ponytail and two symmetrical red marks on his cheek bones. He is always seen wearing goggles on his forehead, an unzipped suit jacket and an untucked dress shirt. He is cocky, cynical, and somewhat lazy, but is highly skilled and takes great pride in his work. His fighting skills are obviously far above the level of a normal human, but he is defeated with relative ease by Loz and Yazoo. Reno also has a penchant for gossiping and is a competent helicopter pilot.
Rude
Rude is a tall, bald man with a slight goatee. He always wears sunglasses and carries spare pairs with him. Rude is rarely seen without his long-time partner, Reno, and is rather taciturn, tending to relegate the talking to Reno. He also becomes uncomfortable when brought into a conversation. Rude is a superb physical combatant and prefers to use his fists in battle. Years ago, when there was war between AVALANCHE and Shinra, Rude fell in love with a woman named Chelsea. Unfortunately, she was an AVALANCHE spy, who as well fell in love with Rude, but left him because they were on different sides. Rude didn't take it so well, especially since he couldn't even say goodbye to her, since then, he's been rather quiet and refuses to get close to anyone emotionally.
Former Turks
Verdot is the previous leader of the Turks. He is very particular on matters relating to succeeding in missions and very unforgiving when it comes to failure. Tseng considers him a role model and eventually succeeds him. Though many of his subordinates are intimidated by his severity, they all deeply respect him. Formerly a resident of the town of Kalm, he had a daughter and wife that he believed perished when the town was razed due to his own misinterpreted commands. In actuality, his daughter survived, and is eventually revealed to be the leader of AVALANCHE, Elfé. He cares very deeply for the Turks, and does not wish for them to suffer any events similar to what he has; he also cares very much for his daughter, defecting from Shin-ra when he discovers she is alive.
Vincent Valentine, served as a gunman in the Turks. While on a mission in Nibelheim during the later stages of the Jenova Project, Vincent was shot by Professor Hojo, who then used his body for experimental purposes. The experiments altered his body in many ways, including fixing his physical age. Though he's chronologically 60 years old, he still bears the appearance he held at 27.
SOLDIER
Main members
Tseng
Tseng is the stern but polite and calm leader of the Turks. He has long, black hair and what appears to be a tilak in the middle of his forehead. Though he is young, he has been an active member of the Turks for more than 10 years, and has known Aerith Gainsborough, for whom he seems to have romantic feelings since she was a child. Despite his long-standing admiration for Aerith, there are hints that his affections later shift to Elena.
He is wounded by Sephiroth during an investigation of the Temple of the Ancients. After enduring torture at the hands of Kadaj he is rescued along with Elena by Vincent Valentine.
Elena
Elena is a junior member of the Turks. She is a young woman with short, blonde hair and brown eyes. Though she resented — and wanted no contact with — her sister and the other Turks for outperforming her in their status, an encounter with them convinced her to join the group. Elena then obtained her position as the newest recruit after Reno sustained injuries battling AVALANCHE in Midgar.
Elena is naive, impetuous and somewhat overeager, with a loose tongue that sometimes causes her to inadvertently reveal secret information. She takes her job much more seriously than Reno and Rude do, and also becomes quite frustrated with their casual attitudes. She also has a crush on Tseng.
Reno
Reno is a prominent member of the Turks with a lanky physique, unkempt red hair terminating in a long ponytail and two symmetrical red marks on his cheek bones. He is always seen wearing goggles on his forehead, an unzipped suit jacket and an untucked dress shirt. He is cocky, cynical, and somewhat lazy, but is highly skilled and takes great pride in his work. His fighting skills are obviously far above the level of a normal human, but he is defeated with relative ease by Loz and Yazoo. Reno also has a penchant for gossiping and is a competent helicopter pilot.
Rude
Rude is a tall, bald man with a slight goatee. He always wears sunglasses and carries spare pairs with him. Rude is rarely seen without his long-time partner, Reno, and is rather taciturn, tending to relegate the talking to Reno. He also becomes uncomfortable when brought into a conversation. Rude is a superb physical combatant and prefers to use his fists in battle. Years ago, when there was war between AVALANCHE and Shinra, Rude fell in love with a woman named Chelsea. Unfortunately, she was an AVALANCHE spy, who as well fell in love with Rude, but left him because they were on different sides. Rude didn't take it so well, especially since he couldn't even say goodbye to her, since then, he's been rather quiet and refuses to get close to anyone emotionally.
Former Turks
Verdot is the previous leader of the Turks. He is very particular on matters relating to succeeding in missions and very unforgiving when it comes to failure. Tseng considers him a role model and eventually succeeds him. Though many of his subordinates are intimidated by his severity, they all deeply respect him. Formerly a resident of the town of Kalm, he had a daughter and wife that he believed perished when the town was razed due to his own misinterpreted commands. In actuality, his daughter survived, and is eventually revealed to be the leader of AVALANCHE, Elfé. He cares very deeply for the Turks, and does not wish for them to suffer any events similar to what he has; he also cares very much for his daughter, defecting from Shin-ra when he discovers she is alive.
Vincent Valentine, served as a gunman in the Turks. While on a mission in Nibelheim during the later stages of the Jenova Project, Vincent was shot by Professor Hojo, who then used his body for experimental purposes. The experiments altered his body in many ways, including fixing his physical age. Though he's chronologically 60 years old, he still bears the appearance he held at 27.
SOLDIER
Shin-Ra's elite military unit, itself divided into three ranks: 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class. Zack and Sephiroth are former 1st Class members. Members of SOLDIER are scouted by the company's Investigation Division of the General Affairs Department — alias, "the Turks." Those determined strong enough to mentally and physically handle the program's process of being infused with mako and injected with Jenova's cells receive the treatment, gaining powerful increases in their physical and cognitive ability. As a side-effect of their mako-infusion, members of SOLDIER have a peculiar glow in their eyes; this phenomenon is called "mako eyes."
Zack
Zack was born in the town of Gongaga, where he lived until he join Shin-Ra's militant forces. After the Genesis incident Zack was among those sent to the town of Nibelheim, accompanying Sephiroth to check on itsMako reactor. When they arrive at the reactor, Sephiroth quickly dispatches the monsters infesting the area. However, when he goes inside the reactor, he finds out much more than he bargained for and goes insane. Everyone returns to Nibelheim to rest, but Zack meets Sephiroth in the basement of the Shinra Mansion. Sephiroth storms off after the confrontation, and sets the whole town on fire. Zack is unable to do anything.Cloud saves him among others prior to chasing Sephiroth to the Nibelheim reactor. There, Tifa attacks Sephiroth in an attempt to avenge her father and Nibelheim and is seriously wounded. Cloud tends to her while Zack goes on to confront Sephiroth. Zack, however, is eventually defeated, and Sephiroth leaves while Cloud stands by mortified. Cloud rushes to Zack's aid, who gives him his Buster Sword and tells him to go after Sephiroth. Cloud confronts Sephiroth on a high gangway inside the reactor, where he is impaled by the officer's Masamune. Cloud manages to summon the power to throw him off the gangway into the depths of the reactor. Cloud then collapses.
Zack and Cloud are retrieved by Shin-Ra forces and kept in custody. They are subjected against their will to biological experimentation involving genetic material from Jenova, under the supervision of Professor Hojo. Eventually, Zack broke out and literally drags Cloud with him during their escape. Zack gives Cloud some of his clothes and gets them transport to Midgar. During this time, Cloud is weak, groggy and somewhat delirious, as he had reacted more strongly to the experiments than Zack did, though he was unknowningly driven by the Reunion. However, Zack talks continuously to the unresponsive Cloud about his life and his plans to become a mercenary in Midgar, get rich and be with his girlfriend, though he never revealed her name. When they finally arrive outside of Midgar, the Shin-Ra security force that have been searching for them finally catch up. They try to detain the escaped prisoners, but Zack fights back to defend both Cloud and himself. The Shin-Ra troops, armed with machine guns, shoot Zack to death and leave Cloud for dead after seeing his vegetative state. However, Cloud manages to recover. The combined weight of all this trauma finally makes him snap, and he adopts Zack's persona, combining it with his own. He believes that he was successful in joining SOLDIER, and that he fulfilled Zack's role in the fateful mission to Nibelheim. Cloud took Zack's buster sword and continues on to Midgar. Upon his arrival, Cloud seeks work as a mercenary, just as Zack said he intended to do.
Sephiroth
Wishing to study the effects of Jenova's cells on a human subject, Hojo and Lucrecia volunteered their unborn son for experimentation, who was henceforth injected with Jenova cells in the womb. After his birth, Sephiroth was raised by Shin-Ra, having been told that a "Jenova" was his mother, but without knowing who or what Jenova was. With superhuman abilities gained from the Jenova Project experments, Sephiroth became a top-member in SOLDIER, with the highlight of his career in the Midgar/Wutai war.A year after the war, during a mission to check on a Mako reactor at Nibelheim, Sephiroth discovered his horrifying origins as an experiment and integral role in the Jenova Project. This information corrupts him and drives him insane, after which he lays waste to the town and proceeds to the reactor to release his "mother." Zack, a fellow 1st class SOLDIER, arrives at the reactor to stop Sephiroth, but is sent reeling from Jenova's chamber after confronting him. While finally liberating Jenova, Sephiroth is caught off-guard and stabbed by Cloud, armed with Zack's Buster Sword. Sephiroth limps from the chamber carrying the severed head of Jenova, when Cloud attempts to finish him off. The fight ended with Sephiroth falling off the reactor and into the Lifestream.
Presumably thought dead, Sephiroth traveled the Lifestream, learning the truth of Jenova's nature, before ending up in the Northern Cave sealed in Mako while absorbing Jenova's head. But though physically unable, Sephiroth hatched a plot to absorb the planet's energy, turning himself into a "god."
Notions of Sephiroth's apparent death are put to question when Cloud and company are detained in Shin-Ra's headquarters. On the eve before a public execution, they escape, aided by a mysterious third party who has devastated the facility. Cloud finds the Shin-Ra president assassinated, impaled by a sword he confirms belongs to Sephiroth. However, "Sephiroth" was actually Jenova's body taken over by Sephiroth's will and remolded in his image as his puppet in order to get the "Sephiroth Copies", members of SOLDIER injected with Jenova's cells to make them as powerful as him, to have the Reunion in the Northern Cave.
Sephiroth's goal, as revealed later by Bugenhagen, is to sap the planet of its Lifestream with the aid of the Black Materia and its cataclysmic power referred to as Meteor. Aerith attempted to stop him with the White Materia and its defensive power, Holy. Though she suceeded, Aerith was murdered by Sephiroth, leaving the White Materia active but unused. Cloud procures the Black Materia but is emotionally manipulated against his will into relieving ownership. Sephiroth called forth Meteor and awaited its arrival within a sealed Northern Crater.
The barrier is penetrated by Shin-Ra, thus allowing Cloud and the rest of AVALANCHE to descend into the Northern Crater and fight Bizzaro Sephiroth, before he molted out of his cocoon as Safer Sephiroth. With the destruction of his physical body, Sephiroth's spirit made a final mental assault upon Cloud within the Lifestream, attempting to overcome his will yet again and claim Cloud's body as his own. However, Cloud overcomes Sephiroth in the mental duel and banishes his spirit back to the Planet's life energy.
Angeal
A SOLDIER that works together with Zack. From the way he speaks, it seems he has seniority over Zack. Moreover, it seems that he is also in a position of guidance in techniques and doctrines. He is the mentor of not only Zack but a mentor to others in SOLDIER as well, and seems to be on good terms with fellow SOLDIER Sephiroth. He is the previous wielder of the Buster Sword which Cloud inherited from Zack. Also, for some reason, Angeal does not like using the Buster Sword, claiming that it would be "a waste". He bears two white wings on his back. Though this seems to cause him some internal conflict as he considers it the trait of a monster, Zack instead suggests that they are "the wings of an angel". He is later seen talking to Zack, asking Zack to fight alongside him, saying "Our enemies are all those who torment the Planet."Project Genesis
G
An existence shrouded in mystery. New information indicates he served as a 1st Class SOLDIER alongside Sephiroth and Angeal, and knew Zack as well. He was ultimately the forerunner and reason for the hidden SOLDIER organization known as Deep Ground. Known as G, he is tied with another dark secret of Shin-Ra. "Project Genesis."
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