Did someone call for CONCEPTS? Sorry I'm late, been MMO grinding. For Cloud's Innate...there are a few directions we could take this. Let's look at his primary character traits:
- For a good majority of the game, he's 'the Soldier 1st Class, Cloud Strife'. Even if this turns out not to be true later...
- He is still afflicted with Mako, as most SOLDIER are.
- SOLDIER's jam is 'get the job done', and to say his desire to be SOLDIER as well as Zack's memories can't instill some of that into him might be a bit of a stretch.
- Cloud's fighting style as shown by Advent Children isn't as immediately decisive as say, Sephiroth's. Sephiroth only has two cases where he doesn't immediately end a fight: He's messing about (see Angeal and Genesis fight from Crisis Core, and in fact most of his fights), or he simply can't, usually due to letting his opponent gain momentum and traction.
- Since Cloud is his opposite, this naturally leads to...
Some sort of building, offensive effect, perhaps stemming from his equipped materia to reference his Mako poisoning and SOLDIER days. In almost every fight Cloud has, he takes a beating, then pushes in and ends the fight decisively with a strong attack. Zack's protective nature (and his eventual guilt and desire to make it up to Zack) could possibly manifest this as gaining stacks when party members besides himself take damage, or simply building them FASTER when this occurs. Thoughts?
