i send my thoughts to far off destinations

There are other actors in the great play of Crisis Core, strutting and fretting their hour upon the stage, but we never see their faces. So I decided to post them. Here we go...

Fifth Wonder of Nibelheim. A child tells Zack there are blood-curdling moans coming from the basement of Shinra Mansion. should you have Zack investigate, he will come into a room full of coffins and bones chained to the wall; obviously people were tortured here. should zack open the coffin, he will find someone sleeping inside, and promptly close it. from FFVII, we know that it was Vincent Valentine who Hojo put to sleep within the coffin.


Fallen Friends. On their way to Mideoheim, Zack's DMW flashes to two crossed sword. "Sebastian, Essai..", and Tseng replies "I'm sorry". So after some googling information on Before Crisis, Sebastian and Essai were fellow SOLDIERS, and Zack's friends. Due to experimentation by AVALANCHE which turned them into monsters, in a moment of sanity they asked Zack to kill them. Both his friends die in Zack's arms. The swords serve as their grave markers.


Filial Piety. Zack's mother and father live in Gongaga, and were alive, and very much worried about their vanished son, in FFVII. Luckily, my team was Cloud, Tifa, and Aeris, up until Aeris died, so I got to see their reactions with Zack's family. Cloud has no recollection of him. Tifa knows exactly who Zack was, but leaves, realizing something is skewed with Cloud's memories. Aeris admits she and Zack were dating, but adds that she lost contact with him after that mission, and notes he probably has a new girlfriend, as he was a lady's man. Which is odd as we never see Zack overtly flirty with anyone but Aeris in Crisis Core.

Read the dialouge between Cloud's party and Zack's parents?.

Zack's Dad: You a traveller? Hey wait, that glare in your eye... you in SOLDIER?
Zack's Mom: Oh you're right! Don't you know anything about our son?
Zack's Dad: His name is Zack.
Zack's Mom: It's been close to 10 years since he left for the city, saying that he didn't want to live in the country . . .
Zack's Dad: He left saying he's going to join SOLDIER. You ever hear of a Zack in SOLDIER?
CLOUD: Hmmm... I don't know.
Aeris looks down
AERIS: ...Zack...
Zack's Dad: Young lady, you know him?
Zack's Mom: I remember he wrote us six or seven years ago saying he had a girlfriend. Could that have been you?
Cloud turns to Aeris
AERIS: That can't . . .
She turns and leaves the house
TIFA: Zack . . .
She follows Aeris outside.
CLOUD: What happened to you two?
He follows them outside. Aeris is standing behind a house, facing a rock
CLOUD: Aeris . . .
AERIS: What a shock..... I didn't know Zack was from this town.
CLOUD: You know him?
AERIS: Didn't I tell you? He was my first love.
CLOUD: ..
AERIS: Zack... SOLDIER First Class. Same as Cloud.
CLOUD: Strange, there aren't that many who make first class, but I've never heard of him.
AERIS: That's all right. I was just worried because I heard he'd been missing.
CLOUD: Missing?
AERIS: I think it was 5 years ago. He went out on that job, and never came back...It's all in the past now -- He loved women..a real lady's man...He probably found someone new...
CLOUD: Poor guy...
They walk towards Tifa, who is standing by a house
TIFA: Zack...
CLOUD: Do you know him?
TIFA: N-No, I don't know him!
CLOUD: ..Your face tells me differently.
TIFA: I told you, I don't!
CLOUD: A-All right...
TIFA: .... That sounds just like you, leaving town and going to join SOLDIER.
CLOUD: There were a lot of guys like that back then...
TIFA: Yeah. You must be really something, making it in SOLDIER out of a group like that.I really respect you...

I lifted this script from ZackXAerith Forever.