Tifa Lockhart

General Information

Real Name

Tifa Lockart

Marital Status

Single

Status

Alive

Characteristics

Race

Human

Gender

Female

Age

Height

5'6"

Eyes

Red

Hair

Dark Brown

Sexuality

Bisexual

"A member of the anti-Shinra militant group Avalanche. Tifa manages Seventh Heaven, a bar located in the Sector 7 slums. A student of Zangan-style martial arts, she can clobber opponents with her fleet-footed combat techniques."
—Final Fantasy VII Remake loading screen

Tifa Lockhart is a playable character in Final Fantasy VII Remake. She is taken from the end of Final Fantasy VII Remake when she is walking with the others.

Tifa grew up with Cloud in Nibelheim, but lost contact with him years ago. When she meets him again, she convinces him to join Avalanche to fight the Shinra Electric Power Company, whom she bears hatred for due to the destruction of their hometown. She supports Cloud as his comrade and helps him and his allies fight Sephiroth. Tifa is reserved and empathic, acting as a motherly figure towards her allies when providing encouragement and emotional support. She also serves as the voice of reason grounding them to think things through and do the right thing.

Appearance

Tifa has dark brown hair which typically falls below her waist and is tied at the tips to form a dolphin-tail split. Tifa has red eyes. She has an athletic build, with a slender but toned physique, and visible abdominals. Her bust-waist-hip measures are 92-60-88 cm (37-24-35 inches), and her bust size is Japanese G70 (American 32 DDD).

Tifa wears a white tank top and black miniskirt with a belt and suspenders. Her skirt has pleated segments (similar to a tennis skirt) to make it easier for her to perform her martial arts, she wears black shorts underneath, and a black sports bra under her white tank top. She wears black leather gloves with metal plates on the back and knuckles, while the elbow pad on her left arm has been supplemented by a red-and-black leather vambrace. She wears a pair of black and red boots with black leg protectors.

Personality

Tifa is empathic, motherly, and reserved, both out of being observant and for being emotionally shy. Tifa identifies the feelings of others, offering sanctuary and protection for her teammates. While looking out for others, Tifa rarely discusses her own feelings: whenever she is asked, she will either express surprise, or quickly change the subject. Tifa prefers to consider all options and take in all information before acting, such as when she does not speak up about Cloud's confused past until she is certain of her own recollection of events. She also encourages others to practice restraint and think things through first. Tifa can and does fight to defend herself, often preferring to so as not to get others involved. While normally reserved, Tifa still shows aggression at times, particularly when interrogating Don Corneo. Tifa has low self-confidence and is self-critical of her faults, always pushing herself to do better.

Tifa is defined by her grief and loss throughout her life, manifesting in her conflicted nature, low self-esteem, and her reserved tendencies. As a child, she was more outgoing and extroverted, but the trauma of losing her mother at eight years old made her withdrawn at the time, and introverted later in life. As a teenager she lost her father and hometown in the Nibelheim incident, and as an adult experienced the fall of the Sector 7 plate. As a result, Tifa feels grief and anger towards both Shinra and Sephiroth, driving her desire for revenge. This, as well as her coping mechanism for pain being to withstand it rather than run from it, leads her to join Avalanche to get back at Shinra.

Abilities

Tifa is a martial artist who was taught by Zangan, and in contrast with her reserved personality, is deceptively strong. Her fighting style involves primarily punches and kicks, and she uses knuckles and claws as her weapons. Her skills put her on par with the rest of the party — including Cloud, an enhanced supersoldier; and Barret, a battle-hardened leader wielding a cybernetic gun-arm — despite not having the same advantages. Her training with Zangan is also made apparent by her physique, others commenting on her "tight muscles".

Tifa also handles the finances for Barret's Avalanche cell and runs the Seventh Heaven bar; both her food and cocktails made the bar famous in the slums. When preparing cocktails, she performs tricks with the shaker, her showmanship used to garners higher tips from patrons

History

Tifa was born May 3 in Nibelheim to Brian Lockhart and his wife Thea. As a child, she was outgoing, and played with friends around the same age as her. Though Cloud was separated by only a year in age, the two were not close.

Thea died when Tifa was eight years old, leaving Tifa upset and confused, and causing her to grow apart from her friends. Coping with her trauma, Tifa came to believe her mother had gone to Mt. Nibel, and that she could meet her again if she crossed the mountain. Tifa headed off to Mt. Nibel with a group of friends, and Cloud followed to protect her. Instead, her friends turned back, and Tifa took a misstep on a rickety bridge; Cloud tried to catch her, but they both fell. Her father found her severely injured, in a coma for seven days, and blamed Cloud for leading her to Mt. Nibel.

In their pre-teens, Tifa's friends began to view her differently, seeing her as a potential partner in life, though she would politely decline spending time with them alone. Instead, Tifa grew a connection to a white cat she owned named Mal, gifted to her by the village chief. After spraining her ankle when Mal leapt from her arms and coming down with a fever, the entire village chased after the cat to no avail. Later, Claudia Strife brought the cat to Tifa's house, as Cloud had found it in the mountains, but was too embarrassed to bring it himself. Tifa had developed an admiration for Cloud, believing him to be something unreachable.

Five years after Thea's death, Cloud decided to join SOLDIER like his idol Sephiroth, in part to impress Tifa. He called Tifa out to the water tower to tell her of his plans, which Tifa found reminiscent of the others' desire to leave. Tifa made Cloud promise to protect her if she was ever trapped or in trouble. After that night, Tifa's admiration for Cloud evolved into a love for him.

When Cloud left to join SOLDIER the following spring (becoming a Shinra Public Security Division infantryman), Tifa kept checking the newspaper looking for some mention of him, and asking Shinra personnel if they knew him when they came to Nibelheim. Meanwhile, the rest of the boys left the town one-by-one, though despite what they had promised, did not write to her, causing her to feel lonely. Tifa then began to take martial arts lessons from Zangan, and became his most prized student.

Two years later, a 15-year-old Tifa worked as a tour guide in Mt. Nibel (the same mountain where she had her injury). She was hired by the Turks to lead a Shinra expedition to investigate a faulty mako reactor. The expedition included Sephiroth and a SOLDIER named Zack. During their stay she dropped hints to Zack of dreaming of a blond-haired SOLDIER protecting her.

Unbeknown to her, Cloud was one of the two Shinra guards accompanying Zack and Sephiroth, but concealed his identity due to his shame of failing to enter SOLDIER. He prevented her entry to the reactor, and unsuccessfully attempted to protect her from a monster attack shortly after (trying to anonymously keep his promise). She protected him instead, and helped him down the mountain.

Later, Sephiroth went berserk when he learned of his origins and who "his mother" is, and set Nibelheim ablaze before setting off to the reactor. Brian Lockhart and others followed, but Sephiroth slew them. Tifa found her father dead at the Nibel Reactor with Sephiroth's Masamune. Declaring her hatred of Sephiroth and Shinra, she attacked him, but Sephiroth disarmed her and cut her down. Tifa fell down the steps and slumped to the ground.

Zack found Tifa injured, but she did not trust him and refused his help. Zack then engaged Sephiroth, but was defeated. Cloud arrived and carried Tifa aside before confronting Sephiroth himself, believing Tifa's wounds were fatal. Zangan arrived and found Tifa, carrying her away to safety, unable to save all three (Cloud, Zack and Tifa) from the reactor.

Zangan took Tifa away to Midgar for medical treatment. Wishing to avoid Shirna-affiliated clinics, Tifa ended up in the hands of quack doctors, who patched her up but stole money so she would owe them, and against her will, took a topless photograph of her. Tifa stayed at Stargazer Heights, an apartment complex in the Sector 7 slums, owned by the landlady Marle. When Marle needed surgery and saw the photo from Tifa's surgery at the quack doctor's, she became protective of Tifa. Much later, Tifa found and beat up the son of one the quack doctor who stole money.

To pay for her treatment, Tifa worked at a bun stall in the Sector 7 slums. There, she met Barret Wallace and Marlene Wallace at the bar and restaurant Seventh Heaven, which she bought and became the owner and proprietor of, to give them a place to stay. Tifa joined Avalanche, an anti-Shinra resistance group led by Barret, including Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie.

When Cloud returned to Midgar as a mercenary, he met Tifa. Unaware Cloud was in Nibelheim during its destruction, but suspecting something was off about his behavior, Tifa recruited him to work for Barret to examine him further. Realizing Cloud knew several things he should not and had forgotten things he should know, and also initially doubting her own recollections when faced with Cloud's, Tifa concealed this information while trying to figure out the reason behind Cloud's different character and inconsistent memories.

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