Name: Grease Monkeys
AU/AT FF7
Cloud's mom dies when he is 8 or 9 and Cloud ends up taking care of himself and living in the mountains with the wolves (they are more like allies who occasionally hunt together and sometimes end up napping in the same place than family). Cloud runs into Cid one day and keeps the wolves from attacking him. As thanks, Cid offers to teach (read: forces to learn) Cloud Engineering and to pilot. Cloud ends up building a house for himself on the Rocket Town side at the base of the Nibel Mountains. Cloud starts Strife delivery, first just going between Rocket Town and Nibelheim, spreading across the Western Continent once he builds Fenrir and Tsurugi, and then around the world when Cid started letting him use the Tiny Bronco. If they are going to the same place or Cloud has some large cargo, Cid will sometimes take the Highwind to make deliveries. While on board the Highwind, Cloud is First Mate and only below Cid in Engineering.
Cloud is almost SOLDIER strong because of eating mako-infused meat and bathing in and drinking from mako-tainted waters. He tends to carry 2 boot knives and the short sword of Tsurugi EVERYWHERE.
This is one of those stories that can go any direction from here.
Di, non vos caedit.
Ryn