It's been too long since I saw advènt children, now I'm curious if cloud is all tenebrous and ***there or not. Will have to rewatch
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Self manifested? Or externally justified?
Entire hometown annihilated by his childhood hero. Best friend and the woman he has a thing for maimed (and possibly killed as far as he knows) before his eyes. Best friend murdered protecting him after they escape from being experimented on by Hojo.
His mind then breaks and he takes up the Zack persona. Sephiroth returns and his persona starts to break. Aerith see through the persona and starts chipping at it. Aerith is murdered right in front of him and he's unable to do anything. Sephiroth breaks his persona entirely and he becomes a vegetable.
Remembers who he is and is still determined to stop Sephiroth. Despite not being the hero he idealized Zack to be, he manages to win.
That should have erased ALL the baggage and awful ***that he had gone through and everything was suddenly okay. According to everyone, anyway.