Tifa Lockhart - Special offer

Biographical information: Home: Nibelheim

Age: 20

Affiliation: Avalanche

Occupation: Bar hostess, Avalanche member

Physical description: Race: Human

Gender: Female

Height: 167cm (5'6")

Blood type: B

Appearance: Tifa has very dark hair, varying brown to black, which typically falls below her waist and is tied at the tips to form a dolphin-tail split. In Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and some other appearances, her hair is mid-back length. Tifa has red eyes, though they have been depicted as brown in some appearances. 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)[108] and her bust size is Japanese G70 (American 32 DDD).[109]

Tifa's typical attire throughout all her appearances is some variation of a sleeveless top that exposes her midriff, a miniskirt, and a white teardrop earring on her left ear. The three main variants of this attire are her default Final Fantasy VII outfit (slightly modified in Remake), her tour guide cowgirl outfit, and her Leather Suit outfit. In Final Fantasy VII, Tifa wears a white tank top and black miniskirt with a belt and suspenders. She dons red and black gloves that extend to her elbows, red boots, black socks, and a metal guard on her left elbow. In Remake, 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 that has Norse runes on the edging Tifa Lockhart from FFVII Remake bust render . The red sections of her vambrace and the larger metal plates on the back of her gloves have runes engraved on them. She wears a pair of black and red boots with black leg protectors (similar to a gymnast's outfit). She also has a scar across her lower chest from when Sephiroth attacked her, though this is never shown on-screen

Personality 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.[note 6][note 7][note 8] While looking out for others, she rarely discusses her own feelings: when asked, she will usually express surprise[115] 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[11]) and encourages others to practice this same restraint and think things through first.[note 9][note 8] Tifa can and does fight to defend herself, often preferring to do so as not to get others involved.[note 10] While normally reserved, Tifa still shows aggression at times, seen when beating up Rakesh,[37] interrogating Don Corneo,[85] and standing up to Scarlet after being provoked.[57] Tifa has a stubborn pride that comes from her Nibelheim upbringing,[118] but has low self-confidence and is overly self-critical of her faults.[119]

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.[11] As a teenager, she lost her father and hometown in the Nibelheim incident[11] 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,[note 11] leads her to join Avalanche to get back at Shinra. While she acknowledges that they have to be bold to make a change, she is ill at ease about the use of methods, such as the reactor bombings, and feels trapped,[52] expressing guilt at many of their actions.[note 12] Her conflicted nature allows her to resolve a tense argument between Cait Sith and Barret, able to understand both sides.[71] Ultimately, when alone with Cloud to talk about her feelings of loss, she is overwhelmed and simply bursts into tears, showing her fragile emotional state which she tries to conceal.