It somewhat irritates me when cloud's personality is compared to Squall, because I think they were quite different. But, that isn't why I made this topic. I made this topic because of the first few hours of the game in Midgar, all the way up to the Kalm flashback.

Cloud was... hired by avalanche to help them blow up these reactors. He gives the impression that he couldn't give a damn about the planet or anything for that matter, and that all he wanted was his money. He also makes it clear that he was in SOLDIER. When asked whether there was anyone from SOLDIER that they fought, Cloud responds 'If there was you wouldn't be standing' or some other statement, which is actually indirectly arrogant.. in that since he was in SOLDIER, he is blowing himself up as some kind of hot shot. This irritates Barret a lot.

But wait, all of the sudden he's saving Aeris, and the planet? He's after Sephiroth, which I think he exclaims to be 'the real threat to the planet'? Was he secretly hiding these heroic notions?

Or maybe, he was jsut trying to act tough in front of Tifa?

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What are your interpretations of Cloud's personality? I'm still not sure how to enterpret it. Did he like Aeris enough that it motivated himself to save her, loosening up in the process or what?