Read more about Zack Fair at: Wikipedia Official Site: Square-Enix is a fictional character from the Final Fantasy series by Square Enix. He first appeared as a non-player character in the role-playing game Final Fantasy VII. In the story, Zack is a late member from the paramilitary organization SOLDIER developed by the megacorporation Shinra Electric Power Company. During the game, he is revealed to be Aerith Gainsborough's first boyfriend, as well as a friend from Cloud Strife. Zack ultimately dies protecting Cloud from Shinra's army after escaping from imprisonment and human experimentation. He is the second owner of the , and wielded it before Cloud. Zack also appears in the titles from Compilation of Final Fantasy VII—which are prequels and sequels from the original game— most notably in the prequel Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, where he acts as the protagonist. Zack originally was not meant to appear in Final Fantasy VII, and was created by scenario writer Kazushige Nojima when he wanted to bring mysteries to the title. He was designed by Tetsuya Nomura and his name derived from "fair weather", to contrast with Cloud Strife's name. With Zack's conceptual backstory already written by Final Fantasy VII, the staff decided to use Compilation of Final Fantasy VII to expand his character. Zack is voiced by Kenichi Suzumura in Japanese and Rick Gomez in English. Suzumura was chosen specifically for his voice by Nomura, and was given the role without an audition. Western critics have praised Zack's character, commenting on his development since Final Fantasy VII, as well as his role within Crisis Core. Zack had not existed during the original scenario of Final Fantasy VII, and was created when scenario writer Kazushige Nojima was adding mysteries of the story, most notably Cloud Strife's background which would be deemed as false across the game although the reason for that was initially unknown. Nojima also used Zack to link Cloud and Aerith Gainsborough, as Aerith had seen her past love in Cloud, and as such Zack was used as that past love, while in the original idea Sephiroth was meant to be Aerith's first love interest. The mysteries regarding Zack and Cloud were thought by Nojima as the game continued development, causing some of the scenes of the game to be revised. Director Yoshinori Kitase was surprised by the revelation of Cloud's and Zack's connection as until latter stages of development, he did not know about Zack. Character designer Tetsuya Nomura got the request to design Zack when Final Fantasy VII was reaching the end of development, making the request for concept art sudden for him. Before the late addition of Zack to Final Fantasy VII, Nojima asked the staff to add some parts to some scenes in order to give clues about him despite not revealing to the members the outcome of Zack's existence. Zack appears as a young man with spiky black hair standing 6 feet 3 inches (185 cm) tall. Zack had few appearances in Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, and as a result was not difficult to animate; the team had also acquired his design early on in the production stages, allowing modeling of his character to be taken care of then as well. Beforehand, Nomura had had dinner with Suzumura, where he had decided that "at that point [Nomura] wanted him to be in one of [Nomura's] projects if the opportunity ever presented itself." Suzumura was selected without an audition for the role; Nomura described that, because Zack had been chosen to be the lead in Last Order: Final Fantasy VII, he wanted "someone who could handle [the] role well." Rick Gomez did the English voice acting for Zack, debuting in Advent Children.
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Zack Fair
