Tifa Lockhart (Remake)

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Tifa Lockhart (Remake)

Tifa Lockhart (Remake)
ティファ・ロックハート Tifa Rokkuhāto
Birthplace	Nibelheim
Date of birth	May 3
Hometown	Nibelheim
Age	20
Gender	Female
Species	Human
Blood type	B
Affiliation	AVALANCHE
Occupation	Bar hostess, AVALANCHE member
English voice actor	Britt Baron

In Final Fantasy VII Remake, Tifa met Cloud and Barret during "Home Sweet Slum", when they returned from the successful bombing of mako reactor 1. Cloud gave Tifa a flower, much to her surprise. She showed him to a room she had booked for him in Stargazer Heights, an apartment complex in the Sector 7 undercity owned by the landlady Marlene, who had taken Tifa under her wing. Cloud asked to be paid, leading Tifa to apologize for the lack of funds, but she promised he would be paid the next day if he helped her collect money for the water filters they sold.

The next day, Cloud helped Tifa collect the funds with her giving life lessons on living in the slums along the way, while Barret was still out making his rounds. Tifa suggested Cloud help out the slums as a mercenary, taking on small jobs to make connections. The two helped the neighborhood watch defeat monsters in Scrap Boulevard, and assisted other residents at the direction of Wymer. Afterward, Cloud returned to Tifa's apartment, where she asked him directly what had happened after he left Nibelheim. Cloud gave ambiguous answers and appeared uncomfortable. Tifa changed the topic and encouraged they celebrate in fancy dress. Later, the two found a slum dweller named Johnny harassed by Shinra's Public Security. Tifa wished to help him for fear he may leak information about Avalanche. She wanted to go alone, but Cloud insisted he also come. Tifa had to stop him from killing Johnny after they dealt with the soldiers, scared of how callous he has become.

After returning to the bar, Tifa made Cloud a drink. Though he was tight-lipped on the first cocktail she gave him, he complimented the Cosmo Canyon house special she gave him next. Tifa left Cloud to join the meeting with Barret, declining to join the Mako Reactor 5 attack due to differences of opinion, and Barret declined to rehire Cloud. After the meeting Cloud asked Tifa about having second thoughts, after hearing Jessie suggest so. Tifa felt trapped, hesitant to support the bombing though knowing the group had to think big to make a difference. She still drank and celebrated with the rest. The next morning, in "Mad Dash", Tifa awoke Cloud when the town was attacked by the Whispers. The two fought through them, but the Whispers dispersed after Jessie was hurt. Barret rehired Cloud to replace her, and asked Tifa to come instead of Wedge, who was to stay behind to look after Jessie and Marlene.

In "Dogged Pursuit", Tifa, Barret, and Cloud headed out to the next bombing mission, Biggs having already gone ahead of them. Their IDs failed the ID scan while onboard the train. Tifa helped the passengers leave the locked down car and told the Shinra Middle Manager, who was confused about her actions, that she did not care he worked for Shinra, and was only concerned with saving lives. Tifa was forced to jump into the Corkscrew Tunnel from the moving train, Cloud cushioning her landing, with her thanking him after. The two regrouped with Barret as they navigated through the tunnel to reach the Sector 4 plate, commencing "Light the Way". Tifa was hesitant to deactivate the sun lamps to allow the group to cross, knowing it would cut off the undercity's closest equivalent to sunlight. She agreed when thinking about the immense amounts of mako they consumed, and because they would stop working once the reactor was destroyed anyway. Tifa worried about Jessie's injury, but Barret reminded her the best way to help was to fight in her stead.

Arriving at Mako Reactor 5, in "A Trap Is Sprung", Tifa planted the bomb with the others. The Shinra executive Heidegger appeared on hologram to boast they were being broadcast live on TV to build Avalanche up as a public enemy and boost Shinra's popularity, and how they would be executed by a mech named Airbuster. Tifa appeared defeated, but Barret encouraged the three to give Shinra the spectacle they deserved. While attempting to sabotage the mech, Tifa advised Cloud remove the AI programming cores to slow it down. After reaching the end of the reactor, Tifa coordinated the group as they disabled an emergency lock, at Cloud's insistence. After reaching Airbuster, President Shinra appeared on hologram to reveal Shinra could detonate the reactor whenever, and that the company would smear Avalanche as a proxy group funded by Wutai. Tifa destroyed Shinra's holographic drones in frustration before fighting Airbuster. The Airbuster exploded when destroyed, separating Cloud from the group. Tifa tried to reach out to him in desperation but he fell, and Barret carried her away.

Upon returning to the slums, Tifa found a group of hoodlums asking questions, and learned they were working for Don Corneo. Unable to figure out why, she decided to track Corneo down and learn herself. She would enter Corneo's mansion by auditioning for the role of one of Corneo's girls, getting the recommendation from Chocobo Sam, who believed she was certain to be selected. Arriving by chocobo carriage, during "The Town That Never Sleeps", she was spotted by Cloud along the way, and was relieved. She asked him not to worry about her, reminding that he has "seen how much ass I can kick", and Cloud appeared to stay behind.

Tifa later found herself joined by Cloud, who had dressed as a woman to infiltrate the mansion, along with Aerith, a friend Cloud had met in the slums. Taken aback Tifa told them of her plan, and said she was in no danger, but was concerned that she was only one of three audition candidates and there was a chance she would not be picked. With Cloud and Aerith as the other candidates, the three would be able to secure information from Corneo. He initially took interest in Tifa, who appeared very uncomfortable in contrast with the stoic Cloud and the calmer Aerith, until Cloud's derisive remarks led him being picked instead. Tifa and Aerith were sent to Corneo's lackeys, and beat them up together. Corneo's henchman Leslie Kyle provided their equipment as gifts from Andrea Rhodea, and the group hurried to Cloud's rescue. The three interrogated Corneo, Tifa threatening him with castration, until he revealed Shinra's plan to drop the Sector 7 plate, horrifying her. Corneo then dropped them into the sewer system through a trap door.

In "Rough Waters", Tifa, Aerith, and Cloud defeated Corneo's "pet" Abzu and resolved to return to Sector 7 as quickly as possible. Tifa was agitated by Corneo's words, hoping he was lying. Drawing on her time with Avalanche, she navigated a path out for the group, knowing the Sector 6 and 7 tunnels would be connected. She remained distressed, and Aerith attempted to cheer her up by making her think of what they would do after stopping the pillar, Tifa wanting to go shopping topside with Aerith to buy things for the bar, with Cloud carrying their things. When getting to know her, Tifa seemed to notice Aerith knew something they didn't. In "Haunted", the group passed through the haunted Train graveyard, unnerving Tifa due to her fear of ghosts; she took Cloud's arm (after Aerith took his other) to seek his support. At the end of a maintenance facility, Tifa remembered Marlene telling her stories of the graveyard's ghosts while she had been babysitting.

In "Fight for Survival", Tifa was mortified to see the pillar under attack from Shinra. When she ran towards it, Whispers appeared to show her down. They saw Wedge plummet off the pillar, but survive with a grappling hook cushioning his fall. Tifa and Aerith looked after him while Cloud climbed the pillar. After they were sure Wedge would be fine, Tifa asked Aerith to get Marlene to safety (though Aerith knew Tifa's request before she even asked it), and with Aerith's encouragement, followed Cloud up the pillar. Tifa found Cloud attacked by the Turks' helicopter until Rude diverted the gunfire away when she appeared. The two found a dying Jessie, with Tifa shedding tears. They rejoined Barret, and fought off Rude and Reno, but could not to stop the plate from separating, and were forced to evacuate.

In "A Broken World", Tifa joined a grieving Barret, feeling the plate's fall was their fault. Barret urged her not to think like this, reminding her it was Shinra who separated the plate, regardless of what happened before. Cloud mostly stayed back, but then chimed in that Marlene would be okay if Aerith had helped her, and Tifa agreed. After reaching Elmyra Gainsborough's house with Cloud's direction, they found Marlene, and Elmyra told them of Aerith's heritage as a Cetra. Cloud wished to go rescue her but Elmyra strongly objected, and Tifa agreed, encouraging Cloud to wait a little first, hoping that Shinra would treat her well and soon release her.

Tifas Ch14 resolution scene from FFVII Remake Cloud comforts Tifa over everything they have lost.

Barret, Tifa, and Cloud returned to the ruins of Sector 7. Through a cave-in, they found a secret Shinra testing facility hidden underground, as well as Wedge, whom they took to Aerith's place to recuperate, commencing "In Search of Hope". That night, Tifa had a chance to meet Cloud in Aerith's garden, where she revealed she learned that his flower, having come from here, symbolized reunion, and that she had tried to keep it alive as long as possible. She lamented having lost everything again because of Shinra, and burst into tears, with Cloud embracing her. The following morning, Cloud and Tifa convinced Elmyra to let them chase after Aerith, Tifa feeling obligated to as Aerith was their friend.

Needing a way to return topside as the trains had stopped, Tifa's only suggestion was to chase after Corneo once more. Seeing an undercity resident named Kyrie Canaan spread Shinra propaganda in the hopes of being paid, Barret angrily wished to storm the stage, but Tifa held him back as there was no point, they would not be listened to with everyone so on edge. At her suggestion, they helped out several undercity residents with various tasks, including Johnny, whose wallet Kyrie had stolen. Johnny declared he was leaving Midgar unless Tifa begged him to stay; she simply wished him the best of luck. Tifa also met Andrea Rhodea who had helped Cloud and Aerith get into Corneo's mansion before, and competed with him in a pull-up contest, Andrea showing interest in her for her "slender, yet toned" physique and "perfectly balanced symmetry". After beating him, Andrea thanked her for pushing him to his limits, and she thanked him for the challenge.

The group met Leslie Kyle again at Corneo's palace, who agreed to help them topside if they helped him settle a score with Corneo. Tifa reminded him that Cloud would kill him if he betrayed them, though was otherwise not hostile, remembering he had helped them before. When the group were unable to capture Corneo, Tifa encouraged Leslie, telling him his fiancée was still out there and that the pendant she had given him symbolized reunion. Leslie gave them powerful grappling guns to cross the rubble and reach topside. On their way up, Tifa told Cloud he was nice deep down, and she had never seen that as kids. She agreed with Barret that being a mercenary suited him. In "The Day Midgar Stood Still", Tifa and the others crossed the ruins, uneasy at the sight of them. At the top Tifa and Barret planned on starting a new bar, wishing Cloud could join them.

In "The Belly of the Beast", the group infiltrated the Shinra Building through the garage, and Tifa used her acrobatic skills to procure them a keycard to enter the facility. They were surreptitiously helped by Mayor Domino who sabotaged the security. Depending on Cloud's choice, they either climbed the emergency stairwell or used the elevator. In the latter, they encountered soldiers as well as scared, normal employees. Tifa remarked how easy it was to forget that ordinary people, who are just trying to provide for themselves, work for Shinra, but Barret thought they were not without sin. Entering the building disguised as tourists, Tifa suspected things were until that point too easy, but was disgusted at President Shinra's self-aggrandizing exhibition. After seeing frantic employees at the Urban Planning Administration following the fall of the plate, Tifa felt a little better. Tifa and Cloud eavesdropped on a Shinra executive meeting, and they rescued Aerith from Professor Hojo along with the research experiment named Red XIII, who joined the group.

Aerith and Tifa in the Drum from FFVII Remake Aerith and Tifa working together in the Drum.

In "Deliverance from Chaos", in Aerith's room within Hojo's lab, she told them of her Cetra heritage, and of the Whispers' role as the stewards of a fate the planet itself wanted to come to pass. She was attacked by Whispers when she tried to warn them of a threat greater than Shinra. Tifa again suspected Aerith had more to say, and pulled her away from the Whispers, promising to help her figure it out. Domino and Wedge contacted them with news that Avalanche HQ would come extract them through a helipad. On their way to the roof Hojo dropped them into the Drum where Tifa worked with Aerith, separated from the other three, to figure a way through the maze of research experiments. After regrouping they followed a trail of black liquid up to President Shinra's office where they found the president hanging on for dear life on the side of the skyscraper. Tifa asked Barret not to murder him, but Sephiroth suddenly appeared and impaled both the president and Barret before transforming. Following a battle with Jenova Dreamweaver, Barret was healed by the Whispers, and the group attempted to leave until their helicopter was shot down by Rufus Shinra. Cloud urged the others to leave, fighting Rufus alone until he fled the scene and Cloud was shot at and nearly fell to his death. Tifa rescued him, scolding Cloud for playing the hero, and the two stole Shinra vehicles to help the others escape.

Tifa drove a pick-up truck on the Midgar Expressway in "Destiny's Crossroads", with Aerith as the passenger while Barret and Red XIII sat in the back, Cloud supporting them on the stolen Hardy-Daytona. Sephiroth awaited for them at the end of the unfinished expressway, opening a portal to the Singularity. Tifa followed the group and they defeated the Whispers, then helped Cloud fight Sephiroth, who disappeared at the end. Afterward, Tifa agreed to follow Cloud and the others in pursuit of him.

While listening to Cloud's story in Kalm, a confused Tifa attempts to question him in private while showing him the scar she recieved from Sephiroth. Tifa travels with the group as they are joined by Yuffie and Cait Sith before they reach Gongaga, where Tifa is knocked into a mako pool within the reactor by Cloud under Sephiroth's influence. While submerged, with the Weapon protecting her while seeing old memories, she learned some of the Whispers have come under Sephiroth's control before returning to the surface.