Best Cloud Strife Fix-It Fanfics
The best fix-it fanfiction featuring Cloud Strife (FF7) on AO3, curated by popularity. The catharsis of getting the ending you wanted, exploring 'what if' scenarios.
Top Cloud Strife Fix-It Fic Recs
8 fix-it fics featuring Cloud Strife, followed by other top-rated stories.
Nothing by halves
Fix-Itby Cohali · Sefikura
Gaia can't be saved, Jenova's poison too far reaching and Sephiroth tied too closely to her Chosen One. Unable to break that bond, she chooses to steer into it. She completes their bond fully and sends Cloud back in time. This time, if one is killed, the other is halved. Cloud can work with that.Sep
To Stem the Tide
Fix-Itby corvidkohai · Sefikura
Seeing no other solution, Gaia sends Cloud back in time to prevent the clash with Sephiroth from ever happening. Cloud lands in the past in the middle of the Wutai War.
Home Run
Fix-Itby ToastedCatBread · Sefikura
Omegas were supposed to be subservient. They were supposed to wait at home, caring for young pups and tending to the family. Their heats were unbearable, satisfied only by an alpha’s knot, unable to think of anything but the thought of being bred.Sephiroth held the ice pack to his head, scowling dan
Blond Devils
Fix-Itby metamorcy · Sefikura
One day, an announcement is made that there will be a new Director of SOLDIER and Turks, setting off a series of changes among ShinRa Corporation, and an uproar of unimaginable proportions. It's just another day at ShinRa at this point. brother!Rufus and Cloud
Without Mercy, Without Grace
Fix-Itby BloodyWar2411 · Sefikura
When Angeal died, it was without Honor. Rejected from the Lifestream, he watched his friends fall and the Planet crumble. And when the end arrived, he was ready for it. What he wasn't prepared for was the chance to try again. Armed with nothing but the fail-safe of Cloud Strife's soul, Angeal attemp
Memory's Struggle
Fix-Itby Squirrel_of_Mibu · Sefikura
Things are looking up for Cadet Cloud Strife. He actually has friends, unlike in Nibelheim, and now General Sephiroth of all people wants to train him personally. If only he could figure out why everybody keeps asking him if he remembers.Or: A Time Travel Fix-it where everybody but Cloud remembers a
Back and Forth With You
Fix-Itby SKayLanphear · Zakkura
Cloud hadn't expected that the string of words on his arm would lead him to First Class SOLDIER, Zack Fair. Having such an impressive soulmate was beyond intimidating, especially since Cloud couldn't even begin to measure up. Which was why he'd decided to keep his mouth shut and never say a word. If
Promises Not Hollowed (Novel Edition)
Fix-Itby Yangu_Fuyu_Nemiko · Cloti
OG/Rebirth/ACC+DOC spoilers.Zack takes it upon himself once he realised Aerith’s attempt to change things went badly. Too bad that he doesn’t exactly tell Cloud this. Or Tifa, and Denzel, who just happened to accidentally come along for the ride to Zack throwing Cloud back to when in time they could
The Strength of a Thousand
by ToastedCatBread · Sefikura
Cloud Strife was older than most of the typical cadets, but his blue eyes burned with the strength of a thousand men. The Firsts (and Zack) find out exactly how strong he really was.
The Completely Inept Courtship of the One-Winged Angel's Cloud
by Anonymous · Sefikura
Sephiroth finally manages to kill everyone during one of his many returns from the dead. He is a badass, nearly all powerful god of destruction and completely bored out of his oh so perfect, superior mind now that he’s gotten his way. He starts missing his fights with his only rival and the entertai
The Key to Survival
by jesso · Sefikura
Cloud is sent back to his own humble beginnings with his badassery fully intact, but one thing is very different about the world, and that one thing changes EVERYTHING. Featuring: Soulmates, The Implication of Time-travel, Mama!Strife, Smol BAMF Cloud, Emotionally-Stunted Sephiroth, One Very Distres
Five Hearts To Make Him Whole
by Squirrel_of_Mibu · Sefikura
In a last-ditch effort to save the planet, Cloud is hurled into another dimension. One where the link between him and god-complex Sephiroth will be broken. The only problem is, his cross-dimensional counterpart is the soulmate of the four strongest SOLDIERs in Midgar, that dimension’s Sephiroth incl
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Cloud Strife in Fix-It Fanfiction
Cloud Strife — Mercenary with a buster sword and a borrowed identity, whose shattered memories of Nibelheim and Zack form the trilogy's emotional core. Time-travel fix-its sending him back to save everyone are practically their own genre.
Fix-It — Stories that 'fix' canon events that fans found unsatisfying, usually character deaths or relationship outcomes.
The catharsis of getting the ending you wanted, exploring 'what if' scenarios. Cloud Strife's (also known as Cloudy, SOLDIER First Class) role in FF7 makes them a natural fit for fix-it storylines, which is why this combination is one of the most popular in FF7 fanfiction.
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