I just beat this

I just beat this
can someone please explain the story to me
who the fuck is cloud actually

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Nigger I played this at like 7 years old and undertood completely

Cloud is a nerd from Nibelheim who wanted to join SOLDIER, flunked out because he was a fucking nerd and joined the Shinra general infantry.
Later on Sephiroth goes nuts and massacres his hometown, he stabs Sephiroth and flings him into the lifestream but gets severely injured. The doctor responsible for the SOLDIER program abducts him and gives him advanced SOLDIER treatments which shatter his nerd psyche to pieces. The SOLDIER treatments are done with a psychic alien virus that transforms into people. Through a series of events five years later he gets to Midgar and meets his childhood friend, which causes the virus to activate and transforms himself into "himself", creating a wild fabricated history of being in SOLDIER to maintain this illusion. Throughout the game this illusion fractures (with prodding from Sephiroth, who was still pissed off about being stabbed and flung into the lifestream) before breaking apart and taking his psyche with it, his childhood friend helps rebuild him near the end so he can finally realize he is a fucking nerd now with awesome super strength.

He's the main character of FF7

he's ur uncle jim

silvery-haired pretty boy wants to bring a giant rock to earth, silvery-haired pretty boy wants to become a god, and you have to stop him. there, that's your story.

excellent summary user

>he gets to Midgar and meets his childhood friend, which causes the virus to activate and transforms himself into "himself"
this is the part I don't fully get
tifa finding him at the train station and the weird shit that happened there didn't make any sense
it looked like he rapidly aged or something

I'm at the crater about to go rape sephiroth in the ass
is there side stuff I should go and try to find first or can I come back after I actually beat it? what side stuff even is there?
navigating the overworld is fucking retarded so I mostly ignored everything that wasn't part of the main story

Jenova was doing its "transform into somebody important from your past" thing that it does. It's a predatory life form, it uses this tactic to get easy prey.
By sheerest freak coincidence, the person it matched was himself, turning Cloud into the-person-Tifa-expected-Cloud-to-be.