Cid Highwind

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Cid is a man who's actually rather intelligent despite his demeanor not showing as such. In reality his demeanor just makes him seem like a very grumpy old man with a huge chip on his shoulder at times. He's known for rather foul language and being a talented mechanic. However he tends to stand by his theory that science can prevail. That people can progress if they work together and there's usually some scientific explanation for something, mostly because he doesn't really like the idea of mystical things. This is because as a mechanic and scientist (to an extent), Cid is somewhat of a skeptic of things that are of a more mystical and magical nature, but his lifelong interests in the field of aeronautics reinforce his belief that through knowledge and manpower, nothing is impossible.

Cid is also very hot headed and his cursing makes it seem a bit worse than it is, especially when his cursing and name calling sometimes isn't meant in a bad way. Despite all of his attitude problems and name calling, added skepticism and the like he's actually rather kindhearted though it took a lot to get there, he's mostly just a grumpy middle aged man who had his dreams crushed, though he did sacrifice that to save Shera and that shows that he isn't cold hearted enough to kill someone innocent simply to have his dream.

Cid holds great resolve in what good his knowledge will bring to the world.

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Height: 5'8 FT (or cm)
Weight: 71 KG (or lbs)
Eye Color: Blue
Hair: Blonde
Skin: Fair/Tanned
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Since childhood Cid dreamed of becoming the first man in space and almost achieves it through the ShinRa Space Program. Aside from his ambitions as an astronaut, Cid designed a number of aircraft and is a great pilot. Among his designs are the propeller plane Tiny Bronco and the airship Highwind. ShinRa later builds a rocket, Shinra No. 26, intending to launch it into space with Cid at the helm.

In Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-, on the day ShinRa No. 26 is to launch on April 11th, 2003, Vice President Rufus ShinRa is overseeing the celebratory ceremony, although he finds the idea of space travel pointless. Cid accuses Rufus of being cynical compared to his father. AVALANCHE attempts to steal the Tiny Bronco, and Rufus's bodyguard, a member of the Turks, saves it.

AVALANCHE attacks the rocket, led by Shears. AVALANCHE steals an oxygen tank to stop the launch, but Cid tells Rufus and President ShinRa to continue despite this. The President agrees, so AVALANCHE resorts to kidnapping Cid. Cid is rescued and the launch proceeds to countdown.

Shera, Cid's assistant, is still doing a safety check. Unwilling to let the rocket launch kill Shera in the blast, Cid halts it. He vows to take care of the rocket and wait for another chance to launch, but due to the prohibitive costs ShinRa cuts funding to the space program, and the ShinRa No. 26 is abandoned. The rocket becomes a tourist attraction, which spawns the village Rocket Town around the launch pad.

The hot-tempered Cid blames Shera for destroying his dream, and the insecure Shera accepts the blame. After the incident she devotes to doing whatever she can to atone for her mistake, although Cid continues to treat her abominably. Cid becomes bitter and irate over the years as his dream continues to grow more distant.

During the events of Final Fantasy VII Cloud Strife and his party meet Cid in Rocket Town during their search for Sephiroth sometime in December 0007. Their visit coincides with a visit from Rufus ShinRa, now president of the company, who Cid hopes is planning to restart the space program. Rufus is uninterested in the space program and merely wants the Tiny Bronco to track Sephiroth. Cid refuses to give up his plane, and Shera tells Cloud and the group she suspects Palmer, a ShinRa executive, is attempting to steal it. They fight Palmer and jump onto the plane as it takes off, pilotless. As they fly over the house Cid jumps aboard, but Rufus orders his soldiers to shoot it down. They crash into the sea. His hopes dashed anew and having no reason to return to the town, Cid joins Cloud and his allies.

Though he refers to his new allies as "numbskulls" for opposing ShinRa, Cid travels with the group although he at first remains detached from their quest, sleeping through Cloud and Aeris's explanations on their motives at Gold Saucer. When Cloud is separated at the North Crater, and Tifa and Barret are held captive in Junon by ShinRa after Sephiroth summons the Meteor, Cid persuades the Highwind's crew to join him. The crew defects from ShinRa and Cid becomes the airship's captain. He commandeers the Highwind to save Barret and Tifa from execution as scapegoats for the Meteor crisis, and the Highwind becomes the group's airship. They use the Highwind to search for the missing Cloud, and when he is found in Mideel suffering from Mako poisoning, Tifa stays to care for him, and Cid is appointed leader.

ShinRa attempts to load Huge Materia onto ShinRa No. 26 and launch it at the Meteor that is approaching the Planet, hoping to destroy it. Cid spearheads an attack on two Mako Reactors to stop ShinRa from collecting the Huge Materia, hoping to save them and use them by Bugenhagen's instruction instead, a wise elder from Cosmo Canyon and an expert on the study of the Planet. Cid returns to Mideel to check on Cloud and Tifa, but the town is attacked by Ultimate Weapon, one of the gargantuan creatures that the Planet spawned millennia ago to be its "defense mechanism" that were roused when Sephiroth summoned Meteor. Cid's party fights it until it flees, but an earthquake swallows Mideel and Tifa and Cloud fall into the Lifestream that is exposed from the substrata. When they wash ashore the others take them to the Highwind to recuperate. Cloud recovers, and Cid lets him take back the leader position, explaining to him that they have been hunting Huge Materia in his absence.

Unwilling to let ShinRa go ahead with the rocket launch that still houses some Huge Materia, Cid and the party infiltrate the ShinRa No. 26 in Rocket Town, but end up stuck aboard with Shera as Palmer launches the rocket. Having unwittingly realized his dream of space travel, Cid and the party head for an escape pod when an oxygen tank explodes and Cid gets stuck under the rubble. He tells the others to go without him, but with Shera's help they rescue him. Realizing Shera's fears from the original launch had been founded, Cid apologizes for his rude treatment of her, and the group returns to the Planet safely. The view of their world among the vastness of space inspires Cid to give a heartened speech to the party about the Planet being "a sick little kid" with Sephiroth a disease inside it, and it would be their job to protect it.

ShinRa No. 26 fails to destroy the Meteor, but Bugenhagen's help lets the party discover that Aeris had summoned the power of Holy, the ultimate White Magic spell, to destroy Meteor before she had perished by Sephiroth's hand. The power of Holy could destroy Meteor, but Sephiroth is holding it at bay at the Planet's core. Cid joins with the party to finish Sephiroth off in the Northern Cave in late January 0008, and takes the Highwind's controls to escape as the crater begins to crumble. As the Highwind is damaged when Holy bursts from the North Crater, Cid pulls an emergency switch to modify the airship. They watch from the skies as the Lifestream and Holy concentrate on Midgar to destroy the Meteor.

In On the Way to a Smile, Cid makes an appearance in "Case of Barret." He and Shera are working on a new airship at Rocket Town, and Shera is in charge of operating a refurbished oil drilling rig to provide fuel. Cid acts as Barret's confidante, helping him find a new purpose in life. Barret suggests Cid could use his new airship to help people with Geostigma reach medical attention, which Cid agrees to, but only if a suitable fuel for the ship could be found.

One year later, in 0009 during the events of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Cid pilots his new airship to help out Cloud and the others in the battle against Bahamut SIN, and saves Tifa and Denzel from a group of Shadow Creepers. He carries the other AVALANCHE members into the Shera, and Barret orders him to land so they can help with the battle between Cloud and Kadaj. Cid tells Barret, "If you want off, then jump!"

The following year, 0010 during the events of Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-, Cid works as the leader of an airship division with support from the World Regenesis Organization and participates in the Battle of Midgar against Deepground and Omega while helping out his old friend, Vincent Valentine.



Having crash landed with the Shera in the bay near Ranoe, he was washed up on the shore and his plane was retrieve, however the ship has been kept outside of the port town and people have been a little intruiged by it. Cid on the other hand has been comatose for a few weeks and when he finally opened his eyes for the first time, people were actually pretty amazed. Waking to a bunch of new faces and smiles that were plastered on said faces Cid has sort of made himself comfortable here.

He's been here for a month, having a few people bring him food and drink while he fixes his ship slightly annoyed with the fact it's completely totaled. He's also been pretty handy around the Port town, fixing generators and other things that need a mechanics touch. Since the town couldn't really afford the repairs, and Cid offered to help in exchange for free food, drink, board, a few assistants and parts if he needed them the town was quick to agree since it was much less of a price than it would cost for all the work on the mechanics here at the port town.

He's even helped with fixing their fishing boats here and there.

Currently however his main thought is 'How the *&%^ do I get home?' and he wonders how he even got there in the first place. What he isn't aware of was that he was dragged with the Shera through a tear that appeared near Rocket Town. He went to investigate it and if necessary was going to alert the others, however, he didn't get that chance and he's not sure if any of the people he remembers were brought with him.

Ranoe was a nice little port place. The residents were friendly, people came through a lot, you could see some massive crystal looking tower easily from the town and currently? Cid was just outside of it, about a mile out where his ship was in a wreck. Poor thing, she needed a good overhaul right about now, the cooling system was fried, some of the propellers were damaged, steering and rudder was messed up as well and so he'd been working on getting her in good working order for a good month now.

Sure this place was nice but damn were the people here fucking retarded half the time. Apparently on this Oephus place they hadn't even managed to get to the skies yet. What back water place had he ended up? It made getting parts extremely hard but he didn't care if he really had to he'd instruct them on how to make the damn parts. He would get this ship back in the air if it killed him. Besides he needed to get her back in the air to go and find everyone else right? If he didn't who the fuck would? Chocobo head? Fat chance, the guy'd just ride chocobos everywhere or run, there was a better view from above, there always was unless it happened to be a forest that people ran in to.

"*&^%!" He growled through his teeth, around the cigarette that was stuck there, he wasn't best pleased and he looked to one of his -assistants-.

"OI! You see that doo-hickey there to yer left?!" The person nodded.

"*^%$ING PULL IT LIKE I GOD DAMNED WELL TOLD YOU TO EARLIER!" He snapped at the person, they panicked and pulled the thing he told them too and then he smirked a bit as he heard the propellers start up. Good, that was one thing fixed. The interior was fixed already, glass had been replaced, bits here and there had been torn out and replaced.

Now however after working on this all day, he climbed out of the inside and he rolled his shoulders.

"Beer or tea?" He grumbled to himself as he headed back to town, the assistants who were learning from him trailed behind.

"Um Mister Cid? Could you show me how to keep the generators in good maint later?" One asked and Cid just gave them a grunt and nod, he needed something to drink, something to eat, a new smoke since he just now tossed the end of the cig away.

Considering where he'd ended up though, things hadn't been too bad so far.

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