Tifa Lockhart

Tifa is a childhood friend of Cloud Strife and a member of the resistance group Avalanche. She works at Seventh Heaven, a bar located in the Sector 7 slums. She's a sweet and shy woman, but don't let that fool you. She's a fully capable fighter, willing to act whenever necessary to protect herself and those she cares about.

Tifa is empathic, motherly, intuitive, 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, she rarely discusses her own feelings: when asked, she will usually express surprise or quickly change the subject.[116] Tifa considers all options and takes in all information before acting (best seen when she does not speak up about Cloud's confused past until she is certain of her own recollection of events and encourages others to practice this same restraint and think things through first. Tifa can and does fight to defend herself, often preferring to do so as not to get others involved. While normally reserved, Tifa still shows aggression at times, seen when beating up Rakesh, interrogating Don Corneo, and standing up to Scarlet after being provoked. Tifa has a stubborn pride that comes from her Nibelheim upbringing, but has low self-confidence and is overly self-critical of her faults.

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child, she was more outgoing, chipper, and extroverted, but the trauma of losing her mother at eight years old made her withdrawn at the time and introverted later in life. The loss of her father and hometown in the Nibelheim incident and fall of Sector 7 plate, leads her to join AVALANCHE. But she is ill-ease in regards to some of the more extreme methods.