Post by lockhart on Nov 6, 2009 16:24:20 GMT -5
Tifa Lockhart
“Which is it? A memory or us?
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Age: 23
Family: Denzel, Marlene and Cloud. Somewhat.
Race: Human
Side: The good girl
Job: Bar tender at 7th Heaven
Items: Nothing
Accessories: Tear drop shaped earrings, as well as a red ribbon that ties around her upper arm.
Personality: Tifa is a very shy woman, which is perhaps best displayed by her last name, Lockhart. Tifa doesn't express her feelings often, and she has trouble doing so. She has a strong motherly streak and helps take care of the other AVALANCHE members in her bar, and she also has no compunctions about using her strength to keep rambunctious patrons in line, if what other characters indicate is true.
Tifa is also very caring and helps whenever she can. She often comforts the other AVALANCHE members, and is often found spending time with Aeris Gainsborough when the party splits up, who is similarly caring and compassionate. She is also close to Barret Wallace, the leader of AVALANCHE. In the past, Tifa bore a deep-seated hatred of Shinra and Sephiroth, and when the Lifestream emerged at the end of their first big group battle and joining, she metaphorically hoped it would absolve her sins, as she feels horribly guilty over the destruction she and AVALANCHE caused.
History: Tifa was born in Nibelheim, the same town where Cloud was born. She was out-going, lively, and quickly gained quite a lot of friends. Although she and Cloud lived right next to each other, and were only a year apart, they were never that close. She and the others didn't really know Cloud through most of, or all of their childhood. Tifa's mother died when Tifa was eight years old in 1995, leaving her upset and very confused. Tifa believed her mother had gone to Mt. Nibel, and that she could meet her again if only she crossed the mountain.
Tifa headed off to Mt. Nibel, and Cloud followed to keep her safe, but Tifa fell from the rickety bridge in the mountains. Tifa's father arrived at the scene, and finding her hurt, blamed Cloud for leading her to Mt. Nibel. Years later, in 2000, Cloud decided to become a SOLDIER, like his idol Sephiroth, in part to impress Tifa. He called Tifa out to the water tower, a local date spot, to tell her of his plans, and Tifa made Cloud promise to protect her if she was ever in trouble. He agreed, and left to join SOLDIER the following spring. Afterwards, Tifa constantly worried about him, reading the newspaper every day looking for some mention of Cloud, and asking Shinra personnel if they knew him when they came to Nibelheim, but there never was anything, for Cloud only became an infantryman.
Two years later on September 21, 2002, at the age of 15 Tifa is working as a tour guide in the Nibelheim mountains and is taking martial arts lessons from Zangan. She is hired by the Turk to lead an expedition from Shinra up Mt. Nibel to investigate a faulty Mako Reactor. The expedition included Sephiroth and a SOLDIER called Zack. During their stay, she drops hints to Zack personally and through his e-mail that she dreams of specifically having a blond-haired SOLDIER protecting her, obviously referring to Cloud. Unbenkownst to her, Cloud happens to be one of two Shinra guards with Zack and Sephiroth, but is hiding his identity due to his failure to enter SOLDIER. Without her knowing it the entire time, he happened to be the same guard that prevented her entry to the reactor, attempted to protect her from a monster attack that occurred shortly after (trying to anonymously keep his promise in the process) with little success, and whom she helped down the mountain.
Tifa working as a guide in Nibelheim. At the reactor, Sephiroth goes berserk when he learns who his mother "Jenova" is, and upon his return to town and spending several days studying, becomes fully insane. On October 1st, he puts Nibelheim to the torch and razes the town, then sets off to the reactor. Tifa's father and others follow, but Sephiroth slays them. At the reactor, Tifa finds her father's corpse with Sephiroth's Masamune. Declaring her hatred of him and Shinra, she rushes into the reactor and attacks Sephiroth, but he disarms her and cuts her down. Tifa falls down the steps of the reactor and slumps to the ground, unconscious. After learning of Sephiroth's madness, Zack goes to the reactor and finds Tifa severely injured. He engages Sephiroth in combat, but is defeated. Not long after, Cloud arrives and carries Tifa aside to make sure she will be safe while he fights Sephiroth; Cloud later admits that he thought Tifa's wounds were fatal. Tifa, heavily wounded, would later be carried by Zangan to Midgar for medical treatment. He continuously cast Cure on her to try and heal her, but succeeded only in keeping Tifa alive rather than healing her, and it is implied she has no recollection of the journey to Midgar.
The exact time frame is not given, but at some point after this Zangan leaves Midgar, and Tifa recovers from her wounds and joins AVALANCHE, an anti-Shinra resistance group led by Barret Wallace. She also becomes the owner and proprietor of the bar and restaurant 7th Heaven, which houses AVALANCHE's base in a secret basement.
When Cloud returns to Midgar as a mercenary in 0007, he meets Tifa. Unaware that Cloud was at Nibelheim in the past, but suspecting something is off about his behavior, she recruits him to work for Barret in order to keep him close to examine him further. Later realizing Cloud knows several things he shouldn't and has forgotten things he should know, and also initially doubting her own recollections when faced with Cloud's own, Tifa decides to keep this information to herself while she tries to figure out the reason behind Cloud's strangely different character and inconsistent memories.
On December 9th, Cloud's first mission with AVALANCHE was a success, and on the next mission Tifa accompanies them. The bombing is successful, but Cloud is separated from them during the mission. When the rest of AVALANCHE returns to their hideout, they find someone spying on them, who points to the crime boss Don Corneo as a Shinra informant. Tifa allows herself to be kidnapped in order to get close to him. Cloud sees her being taken away, and infiltrates Corneo's mansion with Aerith Gainsborough. In the ensuing confrontation, Corneo reveals that Shinra is planning to drop the Sector 7 plate to crush the slums. Tifa and Cloud race to help Barret defend the pillar supporting the plate while Aeris takes Barret's daughter Marlene to safety. Most of the other members of AVALANCHE are killed, and the pillar is destroyed. Tifa, Cloud and Barret escape while Aeris is captured by Shinra.
The remains of AVALANCHE fight their way into Shinra Headquarters, but are captured. That night, Sephiroth attacks the building, and in the chaos the group is mysteriously released from their cells. After battling various Shinra war machines and the new president of the company Rufus Shinra, the group flees from Midgar to Kalm. At Kalm, Cloud tells the group about Sephiroth's destruction of Nibelheim. His version of events is faulty, but Tifa, confused by his story, does not confront him on these issues both to protect him and because she now doubts her own recollection.
The group travels around the world tracking Sephiroth, with Tifa supporting the other party members when she can. When they arrive at Nibelheim, they discover that the town has been rebuilt, and the villagers (who are really actors hired by Shinra to cover up the Sephiroth incident) do not remember Cloud or Tifa ever living there.
When the group reaches the Northern Crater, Sephiroth appears and begins to show Cloud the true events of Nibelheim's razing. Tifa, worried what this could do to Cloud, pleads for him to stop, but Sephiroth's manipulations take their toll. Cloud submits to Sephiroth's will and hands over the Black Materia, a powerful materia that could summon Meteor, then apologizes to Tifa as the crater begins to shake. Tifa and Barret flee on the Shinra airship Highwind as the crater collapses and are captured, with the rest of AVALANCHE escaping another way. Tifa and Barret were both brought to Junon, where they were to be executed as scapegoats to show that Shinra was still in control as Meteor loomed in the sky.
Tifa is thrown into a gas chamber, while Barret is rescued by the other party members hidden in the crowd. While gas seeps into the chamber, Tifa breaks out of her restraints. Sapphire Weapon then attacks, blasting a hole in the gas chamber, which saves her life. Running to escape the Shinra forces, she climbs up onto the Sister Ray. Scarlet confronts Tifa, and the two girls descended into a cat fight. The Highwind then appears below the cannon. Tifa jumps down to the airship and safety from Shinra. She is elected temporary leader of the party while Cloud is gone.
Cloud is later found in Mideel, suffering from an overdose of Mako. Tifa stays behind to watch over Cloud, and Cid is elected leader. Later, the friends decide to check up on Cloud, who is not showing any signs of improvement. However, the Ultimate Weapon suddenly appears, and Mideel is swallowed by the Lifestream, and Tifa and Cloud fall into it as Tifa tries to push Cloud's comatose form to safety.
Tifa uncovers the truth about the Nibelheim incident, and restores Cloud's memories and motivations. Later, in the aftermath of Midgar's siege by Diamond Weapon and the impending chaos of Shinra's destruction, Cloud dismisses the party members, instructing them to find a reason to fight. Tifa stays behind with Cloud, as she had nowhere else to go. Depending on the player's interactions with her during the game, the following scene has two possible dialogue course, either implying a strong romantic connection, or little at all.
In late January 0008, Tifa stays behind to help Cloud to safety as he descends into the Lifestream for a final battle with Sephiroth, and is caught by him as he returns to his own body, and the two stay near each other throughout the remainder of the end of the battle.
One year later, Tifa serves as Cloud's emotional support. She once again runs a bar called 7th Heaven, this time rebuilt in Edge, and cares for Marlene and Denzel alone; apparently, she also handles the business side of Cloud's delivery service.
While taking Marlene to Aerith's church to find Cloud, she discovers that Cloud has Geostigma. Loz shows up, hoping to find Jenova's head under Cloud's care. Instead, he finds Tifa there, who he begins to duel. Though she puts up a good fight, Tifa is eventually defeated after Loz begins to use his superhuman speed and pile bunker, Dual Hound. Cloud finds her later, unconscious in the church, and prepares to hunt down Marlene, but is stopped by a bout of pain from his Geostigma. Cloud first turns down Tifa's request to go to the Forgotten Capital to get Marlene and Denzel, fearing that he will be unable to help them, but Tifa gives him a speech about his apathy and self-loathing, talking him into going.
The next day, when Loz and Yazoo have mind-controlled the children with Geostigma (after they drank the water tainted with Kadaj's will) into going to the memorial in the center of Edge, Tifa attempts to save Denzel from them. She is knocked out by Bahamut SIN while protecting Denzel. Waking up quickly, she joins the battle with the remaining members of AVALANCHE against Bahamut SIN, and is the last person to physically help Cloud — with Aerith providing support from the Lifestream — into the air to deliver the final blow to Bamahut SIN.
She appears on the Shera with the members of AVALANCHE while Cloud fights Kadaj and Sephiroth, and arrives in the church with Denzel to heal his Geostigma, and share a shy smile with Cloud as he relaxes with the children in the pool of Lifestream purified water.
Weapon: Her fists
Ability:
::Beat Rush::
Runs up and punches the enemy a few times, dealing 1.25 times normal damage to a single target.
::Somersault::
Somersaults in the air while kicking the enemy, dealing 1.375 times normal damage to a single target.
::Water Kick::
A circling sweet kick accompanied inexplicably by water, dealing 1.5 times normal damage.
::Meteodrive::
Picks up the enemy in a vertical suplex position and drops, slamming the enemy to the ground, dealing 1.625 times normal damage.
::Dolphin Blow::
Uppercut accompanied by water and a dolphin, dealing 1.75 times normal damage to a single target.
::Meteor Strike::
Picks up the enemy, spins it around, jumps high into the air and flings it downwards, dealing 1.875 times normal damage to a single target.
::Final Heaven::
Creates a giant energy blast with a punch, dealing 2.625 times normal damage to a single target.
Magic: N/A
Crushes: Her childhood friend
