That’s why he avoids contacts with anyone, especially with his friends and the ones he loves, because in my opinion he’s afraid he could hurt someone of them without being conscious of his own actions. He’s acting like the worst reject of the world, like a ferocious, insane and uncivilized beast that can attack anyone in a matter of second without any foretold warning. He behaves like he’s doomed, afflicted by his inner demon for life. The lost of that balance would probably lift his spirit, but there are times in life in which you can choose to “sacrifice” your own mental or general health to hide in a precarious yet useful balance that keeps you detached from reality, social life, beloved ones and, sometimes, ever yourself but is fundamental to achieve certain goals. He voluntarily looks for loneliness but he does it because he’s afraid to be a burden to his friends or to confront someone (Tifa in the first place) who will probably mess up the precarious balance he reached with the only purpose to help his beloved ones and those affected by Geostigma. I think these expressions aren’t casual, they’re very specific and they mean a lot to me. So he does have a reaction to contrast his miserable state, but he’s evidently still immersed in it. And that’s what he’s using to grab on to life. In this particular scene I personally can see and feel his hope. Without talking about this in psychological terms, he seems to have a certain reaction to his state of sadness and inner agony: he’s researching a cure for Geostigma, he accepts to meet Reno, that contacted Tifa asking about him, he is still concerned about his beloved’s and the world’s “safety”, he still wants the whole thing to go on and he’s doing what it takes to do it. There are many different types of depression, I don’t want to dive into the topic because I do have a precise idea about depression but this is not the right post in which explain it, so take my idea as it is. He shows all symptoms of an “active” type of depression. These are basically his “basic” personality traits that he maintains for the whole storyline in FFVII AND in FFVII Advent Children. Now, said this, let’s take a quick look at Cloud’s Advent Children’s personality / changes: Cloud in Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (and inner, because you are actually having also your own mental or psychological issues still going on and that you must solve now that there is a chance to look deeply inside yourself) that forces you to do all of this very quickly, without having the requested and needed time to fully recover because the world basically needs you. On top of that, you would have to do this in a hostile external Psychologically, all these factors and changes would basically destroy anyone’s mind, because you would have to restart your very own being and existence without having a single piece of floor on which land your feet, not an only certainty. His inner conflict, probably born by an incompatible coexistence of different realities and personalities inside his only body or by a non - satisfaction and non - acceptance of his own - self - esteem issues, to make it short, or non - acceptance of his “evil” part, that one of Jenova’s Cells / Sephiroth.The whole plot about the world being threatened by his predestined enemy - and counterpart under a few points of view.His mind was scatter in tiny pieces or, if you want, imploded as he subconsciously realized that he was actually made of two (or even three, if we count Jenova’s Cells too) different people / personalities (him, Zack Fair and Jenova’s Cells if we want to include them as said before).It is pretty evident that Cloud already had his own psychological problems at the very beginning of FFVII game, but if we add:įormally (and under Zack’s legacy story’s point of view not only formally) in charge to protect died and he found the reason of her death in his lack of ability to save her His conception of life was blasted away in the universe with no possibility to retrieve or re - elaborate it.

His whole idea about the world, the people around him and himself in the first place were completely erased, like he never existed for real. In FFVII Cloud has been through several and very, very scarring experiences that changed him from his very roots. I suggest you to take a big cup of tea or chocolate because this is gonna take a while xDD Here I explain my point of view with my personal analysis. So here it goes the question: what do you think about it? I personally like his Advent Children personality a lot because I basically find it perfectly fitting to a natural psychological growth and evolution. Cloud Strife Character Analysis and growth in Advent ChildrenĪlright, hot topic: overlooking on his appearance, it seems that many people and fans didn’t like Cloud Strife’s personality in FFVII Advent Children.

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