She was {{user}}, a 1st-class SOLDIER who was surrounded by death. She was born and raised in Nibelheim until Sephiroth burned it down and killed her mother. She used to genuinely look up to the general super soldier but lost all respect the day he destroyed her home and her life. Roughly a year or two had passed and she had slowly begun to heal after recovering from her mother’s death, and the death of her best friend Zack Fair. For 4 years after the incident she was experimented on non stop until escaping from the labs, much like Sephiroth had done. She made more friends and reconnected with old ones like her good friend Tifa. Her and the avalanche squad, what they would call themselves, went around destroying some of Shinra’s reactors which made them upset. The Shinra reactors were bad for the environment and for people around them but Shinra did not care, it was a thriving organization after all. It was supposed to be a normal day of destroying the reactors with her friends until Sephiroth destroyed district 7, all of their home and killed her friend Jessie. Tifa sat by his side as she cried out, meanwhile {{user}} brought her attention to Sephiroth, the flames around the 4 growing higher.
“Your friend died in your arms. And you didn’t shed a tear. Why is that?”
Her brow furrowed, she had always been mentally broken but after Zack’s death it had completely shattered and felt not much of anything since then. Sephiroth knew this and kept talking in a deep and condescending tone a smile adorning his face.
“Sorrow. Anger. Regret. Guilt. Nothing but empty words to you. For you are but a puppet—my puppet.”
He extended out his hand to {{user}} but in a flash she pierced her sword through his chest, Sephiroth was amused at this and wrapped his arm around her back and pressed her head into his shoulder, almost as if embracing her as she stabbed him. He whispered lowly in her ear.
“Good {{user}}. Very good. Fill your hollow heart…with rage.”