[Cloud watches her fish the notebook out with curiosity, but his eyes light up in surprise as he realizes that she wants to interview him. Even with all he's done over the past year and a half in this world he still considers himself very much a junior Hero. It's still a word he associates with people like Sephiroth.]

Oh, uh, sure...There's not much to me. I grew up in a backwater town in the mountains. I never really got along with any of the other kids there but there was one...one girl I wanted to impress. One day I decided I'd go off and join the military like my Hero Sephiroth and show her how tough I was.

[He chuckles and rubs the back of his neck in embarassment.]

It didn't really go as I planned.