I've been pondering over this question for a long time and so I've decided to write my thoughts on it...
A brief intro about Zack. He's the main character in Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, a SOLDIER 1st Class and a friend/mentor of Cloud (who is the main character in Final Fantasy VII). Zack was a person who upheld personal honour and his ideal dream was to be a hero. His former mentor, Angeal (another SOLDIER 1st Class), had passed him his family's Buster Sword when Zack 'set him free' from his monstrous side. In the later parts of Crisis Core, Zack and Cloud were hunted by Shinra for they had escaped a lab experiment. Attempting to flee back into Midgar while remaining undetected by enemies (which failed), Zack supported an unconscious Cloud, who was suffering from mako addiction. In the end, the Shinra Army caught up with them and Zack gets killed as a result (it's always a tearjerker to play this part of the game). Zack passes his legacy to Cloud in the form of the Buster Sword, formerly the treasured blade of Angeal. As Cloud wields the Buster Sword, the plot continues to the original 1997 Final Fantasy VII game.
The question now... is what if Zack and Cloud weren't discovered by the Shinra Army? Before the cutscene of the army finding Zack and Cloud, we see that Tseng of the Turks (an Shinra-employed force used to do underground work) telling his colleague Cissnei (another Turk, unmentioned in later plots) to find him and bring him back... to save his life. Cissnei willingly do it not just for the job, but also likely because she had a crush for him (it's too obvious if you played the game). Tseng said that he still had 88 letters for Zack (Zack only received the 89th. They were written by his own love, Aerith).
Now.. if Cissnei managed to rescue them in time, and ensured that Zack and Cloud were kept in safety (probably somewhere in the slums), Zack would probably be able to spend the rest of his free life with Aerith. The mako addiction in Cloud may not have triggered the overwhelming confusion which led him to live thinking he was Zack (he had believed himself to be in Zack's shoes in the earlier parts of Final Fantasy VII). However, if Zack had wanted to live his life in freedom with Aerith back in his hometown, Gongaga, he may still pass the Buster Sword to Cloud, so as to break free from his SOLDIER life. On the other hand, I don't think that they would move to Gongaga, because Aerith loves the flowers that she can grow in the Church of the slums, and they had wanted to sell the flowers together and spend time with each other.
The only problem is that the Turks are watching over Aerith (the last Ancient of the planet, I don't know how they found out lol), and should Shinra attempts to catch her, the Turks will have to follow the orders (which really happened in the original Final Fantasy VII). Zack will have to pick up the Buster Sword once more to defend Aerith (in a way it's like Cloud's role in Final Fantasy VII).
And what would happen to Cloud then? Zack only knew that Cloud was from Nibelheim, and it would be suicidal to return to it. Maybe he will let Cloud stay with them in the church, or let him wander on his own.
These are just my thoughts for now, on what if Zack hadn't died.
2 comments:
Well i think that you are mostly correct, see, Cloud actually went back to nibleheim 5 years later in the events of ff7, and they might visit it, but later sephiroth would have destroyed it, like in the screwed up past created town of nibel. But those events would take place unexplainebly. After being rescued at the cliff, cloud would have just ran mostly the parts of ff7, with clouds help and tifa would have rescued zack from berret, because of the first kill(out of 3) of sephiroth. Then after that, the events of all ff7 things would have been messed up. they would continue to travel as friends together, and fight alongside each other. I think that beating sephiroth though the second time, could never happen
because sephiroth is born out of a larva type thing, explained in advent children, to create another sephiroth out of clouds confused memories. after that, sephiroth could have not attack nibel again, and all of the things of clouds life would have been later just regular adventures with a good friend. Ultimately, cloud could have only thought he was zack because he got mako addiction, added onto the only thing he saw was zack, before his death
if sephiroth somehow did get a hold of more memmory type things, and him waking up from an eternal slumber, then the events of ff7 would have been the same just with an extra party member, and less emotional destruction
Oh, also, when you go to gongaga in ff7, zack fair would be there to visit his partents, and it would be a pity if zack dies and cloud knew he wasnt zack, and had to tell zacks parents he was dead.
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