#cadet cloud.....

[soggy-fishsticks]

CLOUD!!!! WATCH OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[altocat]

Let's squish him.

[prismaticpichu]

I was just doing some research for a fic and gahhhhh I LOVE this little detail of trooper Cloud turning around when Zander’s approaching ❤️❤️❤️

Shy spiky bean doesn’t wanna be recognized :,33

[darling-sephiroth]

[im-totally-not-an-alien]

Cloud walked through the halls just a little too quickly for it to be passed off as normal. Then again, nothing was normal about this situation.

The whole room went silent as he entered the mess hall, the chatter and conversations of several people ceasing in swift union with one another as they saw what, or rather who was following him.

He turned his head just enough to look back and see, yep, he was still there behind him, looming over the poor blond cadet like some kind of wraith. Behind the figure was a sight that made him nearly slump in relief.

SOLDIERS. Actual SOLDIERS and not... whatever this thing was. It looked like...him. It shouldn't be possible, but it looked exactly like him.Whatever this creature was, it sounded like him, too.

The SOLDIERS were in position now, and that was when he noticed the 1st Class of the group was wielding the same weapon as the thing that had been following Cloud all day. Some large claymore like weapon. The 1st seemed startled by the weapons resemblance to eachother but ordered the things capture anyway.

"What do you want?" The thing whispered to Cloud once again, completely ignoring the armed men behind him. "I can give you anything. Power. Fame. Immortality."

"No."

The creature tilted it's head, wild chocobo yellow hair just like Clouds own tilting with it, "Why?"

"Why is a good question." The first joked as he cautiously approached, "One I feel like we'll be asking you a lot. Hello," the 1st said, sticking his hand out to the Cloud that was not Cloud, " I'm Angeal Hewley."

The fake him made no move to shake his hand, just stared at it with his cat slit eyes. Eyes that were just like General Sephiroths. 'Why' indeed.

[mynameiskan]

Second attempt with Giorgione oil pastel crayons 👊

Gosh, this medium will take a lot of time to learn 😅

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[strayheartless]

There is a wonderfully loud three year old in my house and while my sensory issues don’t think it’s a vibe, my fic brain is now thinking about how baby Cloud just wouldn’t be like that.

Three year old Cloud is, first of all, tiny. Like, he’s properly, properly small. His Ma really doesn’t have much in the way of money so they rely on hunting and foraging, which didn’t always garner the best results so Cloud was skin and bone for most of his childhood.

Cloud didn’t speak for a long time. He could, physically he actually had quite a developed vocabulary on account of Claudia constantly talking g and reading to him. But he didn’t want to talk for a very long time.

Cloud didn’t play like other kids. It’s my personal headcanon that Cloud is on the spectrum so I often imagine him lining up his tin soldiers, but I also imagine he was obsessive about brushing his Sephiroth dolls hair.

He had dolls of Angeal and Genesis too that he played with, but he took the Seph doll everywhere. To the store? Better take sephiroth in case of monsters. To the Forest? Better take Sephiroth in case of monsters. Bedtime? Sephiroth will keep watch.

Baby cloud wasn’t cuddly. He wanted to be. God was he desperate to be cuddly, but adults have smacked Cloud in the face for less. Not Claudia, never Claudia but one of the first memories Cloud has from his childhood is being three years old and struck across the cheek by a lady in the general store for being ‘rude’ and not answering her.

The times Claudia can coax him into her arms are special because they are the times Cloud talks. He sits in the circle of her arms and plays with her fingers and speaks just above a whisper about the new newspaper pictures of Sephiroth, or chatters placidly about the vegetables in the allotment and the ones he wants to grow in the summer.

I feel like actually Seph and Cloud would bond over how badly adjusted both of them were as children. Cloud shares being dragged in front of the town council and publicly caned and humiliated after saving Tifa. Sephiroth shares the time that Hojo injected with a test drug in front of president Shinra after he dared to question orders. Angeal, Genesis and Zack sit in silent horror though the entire conversation.

Cloud giggled very rarely, and the first time Claudia ever heard him laugh in delight was the birthday he got the FIRSTS dolls. He immediately enacted the latest Wutai defence strategy that was in the papers, going outside to draw battle lines in the sand and set up a battle front against the vegetable patch.

Clouds has a problem with authority… the problem is he’s scared stiff of it. There are certain words that will have Cloud lock up and not be able to speak or move. The firsts learn this the hard way. A single ‘don’t’ is enough to pull him up short, but the first time Genesis yelled at him as his mentor Cloud reacted so badly he disassociated hard. All Gen said was ‘how dare you…’ but it was enough. One second he’s angry about insubordination, the next he’s following a sprinting cloud into the bathroom to rub his back through panic induced nausea.

One day I’ll stop torturing him. Today… is not that day.

[archi-pelago]

crisis core seems different than what i remember

[moldyycheese]

No little blonde boy!! Stabbing Sephiroth doesn't do anything!!!

[dark-elf-writes]

Still going back and forth on the Tseng/Cloud soulmate au ideas whether I want it to be pre Cloud at Shinra or in the middle of him being a trooper (I’ll probably end up doing both lets be real the world needs more Tseng/Cloud) BUT I was thinking for the pre Shinra one:

Cloud still going for the Soldier program once he is old enough (Both he and Tseng know that Cloud would make a terrible Turk. Cloud frankly doesn’t have the ruthlessness required of one. That doesn’t stop Tseng from teaching Cloud all of his tricks when it comes to combat, information gathering, and some less than legal skills that will help him in the long run.) because he wants to be able to protect Tseng as much as Tseng protects him and the only way he could possibly compare to the leader of the Turks (in his own mind) is to become a Soldier First Class.

Needless to say none of his fellow cadets know what to make of this blond twink who looks like a stiff wind could blow him over and who put a man twice his size on his knees with a knife they are all convinced he conjured from thin air to the guy’s throat day one when the guy decided he wanted to haze the youngest/smallest of them. They know even less of what to make of Cloud when Turks keep popping up to talk to him like he’s a part of their incredibly fucked up murder family.

The cadets (and some of the instructors tbh) are all frankly lowkey terrified of him and kind of convinced he’s a Turk plant in the program. The fact that Cloud manages to look so innocent the whole time does not help tbh.

[soggy-fishsticks]

i animated this BECAUSE THIS INTERACTION IS SO THEM...... Alternate universe where zack and cloud try to convince Genesis to return to Shinra via choreographed song and dance.....

I've worked on this on and off for the few months so PLEASE ignore the glaring lineart inconsistencies 🙏🙏🙏

AND YES THIS IS FABULOUS FROM PHINEAS AND FERB 🥶💯🔥🔥

[salternateunreality2]

*walks up to the register*

Can I get a....uhh *squints because I don't have my glasses on* large Cloud headcanon, medium Sephiroth involvement, and a diet dash of Zack Fair? Actually no, make the Zack Fair a side.

And for a drink, can you maybe blend all the passion and talent you put in your writing and put it in a to-go cup please? Thank you! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Heck, this got away from me. I combined it with a writing exercise I'd been putting off, hope you enjoy!

Sorry, I can't put my writing into a blender or a cup, this baby is operated by a swarm of squirrels and lizards with minds of their own *slaps brain like the hood of a beloved pickup truck*.

It got so long, I had to move it to AO3.

[prismaticpichu]

"...Zack," Cloud said, frowning at his friend from across the darkened room. "You look like you're dead."

~

It’s not a true Nibelheim fix-it without Cloud, y’all. I’m freaking obsessed with fics where he’s just along for the ride, ready to have Zack’s back, ready to chuck a stick of dynamite at Sephiroth if the guy needs to. Absolute CHAMPION 🤣💛

[ff7-has-taken-me-over]

Not sure if it’s cadet Cloud suddenly gaining all the memories of advent children cloud or if it’s ac Cloud being transported back to those days but!

Cloud, armed with all his knowledge of the future and knowing everything he does is suddenly faced with a choice. He can either leave the military altogether and just avoid Zack Fair and everything that is Avalanche and Shinra and lead a peaceful life while Zack leads the one he was always meant to.

Or he can try and change everything. Save as many people as he can and prevent years of heartache and struggle.

Quite honestly (if this is AC Cloud) he’s not keen on the second option. Has lived such a horribly long and difficult life once already. He doesn’t want to go through it all again even if it would be changed cause of the knowledge he holds.

If its cadet Cloud then he’d be more willing to go with the first option, determined to alter the future and try and save everyone. Cause this is a Cloud who hasn’t gone through all this struggle. Yeah he’s got the memories of what he went through but he didn’t actually experience any of it.

Didn’t have to pick himself up over and over and over. Didn’t lose near everyone he came to care about. Didn’t go through any of it. So it’s easier to seperate himself from it and try and do better.

[mynameiskan]

Practice

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[michaelgabrill]

2025 Aviation Weather Mission: Civil Air Patrol Cadets Help Scientists Study the Atmosphere with GLOBE Clouds

The Science Activation Program’s NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative (NESEC) is working alongside the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) to launch the 2025 Aviation Weather Mission. The mission will engage cadets (students ages 11-20) and senior members to collect aviation-relevant observations including airport conditions, Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Cloud observations, commercial […] from NASA https://ift.tt/D5clRLw