Vincent Valentine

Vincent is an ex-Turk with a lust for revenge. He can do major damage with his guns, but his limit breaks are like something out of a horrer movie. Vincent can morph into creatures like werewolves, gargoyles, frankenstein, and the chainsaw-toting guy from splatterhouse! While these can really hurt the enemy, they have some major drawbacks. The first is that the attacks are elemental-based, therefor they might actually start to heal your opponents! The other problem is once you use a limit break, you can never change Vincent back. This means you will lose control over him, whether he heals your opponents or not.

Vincent used to be a Turk who fell in love with a woman named Lucrecia. Their love was doomed, sadly, because of the twisted experiments of Hojo. Vincent tried to intervene when Hojo took Lucrecia for the most diabolicle of his experiments (which will not be listed here as it is a huge spoiler) but was captured and killed. Hojo took Vincent and brought him back to life, to punish him for going against the mad scientist's plans. Vincent remained locked in a room with nothing to sleep in but a coffin.

Cloud stumbles upon Vincent in Shinra's mansion, after solving a series of puzzles to unlock a safe. The safe contained a key to the room holding Vincent. Vincent is hesitant to join Cloud's party, and dismisses them so they would "let him sleep". When they leave, however, Vincent appears and asks them about Hojo and if Vincent could get a piece of his tormentor. The party says yes, and Vincent decides to join so that he can get even with Hojo for all the wrong he did him and Lucrecia.