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1. Not Good Enough by Jencey

   Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth (Video Games 2020-2024)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   27 Feb 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Tifa Lockhart & Cloud Strife
   • Tifa Lockhart & Barret Wallace
   • Aerith Gainsborough & Tifa Lockhart
   • Tifa Lockhart/Cloud Strife
   • Cloud Strife
   • Tifa Lockhart
   • Claudia Strife
   • Aerith Gainsborough
   • Barret Wallace
   • Marlene Wallace
   • Brian Lockhart
   • Zack Fair
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Depression
   • References to Depression
   • Slow Burn
   • Mental Health Issues
   • Healing
   • Friendship
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Zack Fair & Cloud Strife Friendship
   • Alternate Universe
   • POV Alternating
   • Eventual Romance
   • Eventual Smut
   • Eventual Happy Ending
   • Returning Home
   • A/U Elements
   • Mental Instability
   • Suffering
   • Blood and Injury
   • Major Character Injury
   • Permanent Injury
   • Tags Are Hard
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Suicidal Thoughts
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Eventual Fluff
   • Mentions of Violence
   • Mentions of Death
   • First Kiss
   • Budding Love
   • VIVID flashbacks

   Summary

   Cloud, now 27, enlisted in the military at the age of 15 with the hopes of joining the SOLDIER program. When that failed, he decided to make the best of a bad situation and stay as an infantryman in the Shinra military. However, when war broke out again between Shinra and Wutai, Cloud was sent to the front lines where he watched countless people die, including his best friend. It eventually led to his injury that got him discharged. Now, he's been forced to return to his home of Nibelheim and face his memories head on.

   Events of the game basically never happened.

   Warnings in advance for PTSD and depression. Anything depicted from Cloud's memories will not be overly graphic.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Healing

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   110,220

   Chapters:

   30/30

   Comments:

   132

   Kudos:

   230

   Bookmarks:

   39

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