Who is CID Kingdom Hearts?

Who is CID Kingdom Hearts?

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Walkthrough - Traverse Town 2nd Visit

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Donald mentioned finding Leon. He's training in the waterway hidden in District 2. To get there, use the Red Trinity behind the Hotel in District 2 -- it's by the iron bars on the far end. Inside are Aerith and Leon. Talk to Leon, who provides a little background on the Keyholes and new Gummi Blocks. He'll also offer the Earthshine item, the first summon gem.

Full video walkthrough for Traverse Town 2 found [here]

The next person to talk to is Cid, back at the Accessory Shop in District 1. He explains the use of the Navigation Gummi, and gives the party a book to deliver to Merlin. Note that there's now a quick route to District 3 in the District 1 main square, across from the main gate. 

Go to door with the fire emblem and use fire magic to open it. Hop across the rocks to get to Merlin's House. The main entrance is boarded up so you need to go around the left side to an opening in the wall. Once inside, Merlin will put the Old Book in a place for future reference, and the Fairy Godmother will explain the Earthshine -- it's a summon gem, containing Simba.

Now, head back to the Small House in District 3, as Cid advised. On the way, an old friend appears...

After talking to Cid and company in the Small House, head to the Second District and the Gizmo Shop. Go in the entrance by the Hotel and out the other end, where there's a ladder to the top of the roof. Pulling the bellrope turns the mural behind the fountain -- do that three times to reveal the Traverse Town Keyhole. Hey, it's another familiar face...

Another two-stage battle. After fighting in his original guise, where he's extremely weak, he changes form and acquires some new attacks. In his new form, he mainly uses powerful charging attacks, leaping across the field in dangerous bounds. He can also divide into two sections that fight independently. Again, though, the strategy for defeating him is similar. Pick a limb and stick to it, gradually wearing down his attack capability. Make sure to use more magic as well, since Sora has a more effective complement of spells at this point. Once he's down to just his torso, no legs, he'll fire a powerful homing energy blast. Avoid that by dodging at long distance or pulling in very close, where it can't home in on Sora.

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Talk to Cid in District 1 to get a Comet-G Gummi, and then head for the Gummi Ship.

At this point, it's possible to go back to the Coliseum and enter the Games, but the real story lies in the Warp Hole. Now that the Warp Drive is activated, it's possible to skip the Gummi Ship shooting mini-game and go straight from world to world on this ring. Warp to the Coliseum and then fly to the Warp Hole. This leads to Agrabah.

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I have read guides and I have scoured Traverse Town but I can not find him after you beat the second guard armor and locked the keyhole. The guy says his house is in the 3rd district but there is nothing there except for Merlin's house.Guides tell me behind item shop but hes not there. I went to the coliseum completed the Phil cup and came and still no Cid.

Please help.

His house has a door left from the doors that you take when you enter from Second District.

Later on, he will move into First District outside the door of the second floor of the Accessory Shop.

I could kiss you right now, thanks so much.

"Bunch of pinheads. Interspace ain't no playground." —Cid to Sora regarding Gummi Ship travel

Cid is a character introduced in Kingdom Hearts who originally appeared in Final Fantasy VII. He is a gifted pilot and engineer, and teaches Sora how to build Gummi Ships.

Development[edit]

Though each Final Fantasy game each has had its own Cid since Final Fantasy II (and remakes of the original Final Fantasy mention a Cid as well), the Cid of the Kingdom Hearts series is that of Final Fantasy VII, Cid Highwind. As a Cid, he bears the trademark of his association with machinery and airships, or Gummi ships in this case. Like Cid Highwind, the Kingdom Hearts Cid is a pilot and, while somewhat uncouth, has a good heart. However, what is not retained is his smoking habit, thus the lack of the box of cigarettes strapped to his goggles and his trademark cigarette in his mouth, which is replaced by a toothpick to produce a similar image, and more importantly, his signature foul mouth, with many of these foul words replaced by symbols in the English translation. In addition, his attire resembles neither his original design nor his appearance in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.

Cid, Aerith, Yuffie, and Leon were originally set to appear in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. However, in the final release, they were removed from the game because, according to Nomura, there were too many plot lines already, and it would have gotten confusing.[1]

Story[edit]

Kingdom Hearts[edit]

Who is CID Kingdom Hearts?

Cid tells Sora to come to him if he runs into trouble.

Cid is one of the first characters that Sora meets and befriends after arriving in Traverse Town. He runs an accessory shop in the center of the town's First District. At one point, Cid sends Sora out to deliver an old, broken book—The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh—to Merlin. When Sora and company return to Traverse Town with unusual gummis, he explains Navigation Gummis to them and offers to install that ones they find on their Gummi Ship. He turns over the accessory shop to someone else, and he begins selling Gummi Ship parts outside the synthesis shop.

Like Leon, Merlin, and other important characters met in Traverse Town, Cid was originally from Radiant Garden. When Leon, Yuffie, and Aerith depart to Hollow Bastion, he remains behind in Traverse Town, and seemingly becomes Kairi's only guardian. After Sora sealed Kingdom Hearts, he returns to his world, meeting up with Cloud on the way.

A memory-based Cid appears in Castle Oblivion, in the memory-based version of Traverse Town. Like the other characters appearing out of Sora's memory, he doesn't remember Sora, but knows his name.

Cid is a member of the Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee, working out of Merlin's home. He fills Sora and company in on the goings on in town when the drop by. Cid seems to have a rivalry with Merlin, with Cid favoring technology over magic and Merlin favoring magic. He is a computer expert, and manages to create a program which helps Sora and Tron defeat the Master Control Program.

Kingdom Hearts coded[edit]

Shortly after entering the Datascape's version of Traverse Town, Data-Sora meets Data-Cid outside the accessory shop. Data-Cid asks Data-Sora to help search for Data-Huey, Dewey, and Louie around town. After Data-Sora brings back Data-Huey and Data-Dewey, Data-Cid gives him a piece of the world's Keyhole.

Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind[edit]

A year after Sora's disappearance, Cid, Leon, Yuffie, Aerith, and Riku all try to uncover the whereabouts of Sora. Cid recreates Sora's battle data and Real Organization XIII's Recreated Data. After the digital Sora defeats the recreated Organization XIII, the data analysis still states that Sora's data hasn't been updated, sending the group's search back to square one.

Design[edit]

According to the official Japanese website for the first Kingdom Hearts, Cid is forty-two years old at the beginning of Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories and forty-three during the events of Kingdom Hearts II.

Unlike his fellow Compilation of Final Fantasy VII characters, Cid's appearance in the Kingdom Hearts only vaguely resembles his look in the Compilation media. He retains his goggles and wears a necklace with a rectangular charm that resembles one he wore in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (though it is made of wood and secured by a rope here, whereas in Advent Children it was metal and secured by a thin chain, rather resembling a military dog tag). Cid's short hair is blond, albeit styled a bit differently and much brighter than his original incarnation's platinum blond hair.

His eyes are blue and he has some stubble on his chin. Cid chews on a toothpick instead of his normal cigarette due to the younger demographic of the Kingdom Hearts series. He wears a white T-shirt with two buttons descending from the neck. His baggy pants are blue and have a very wide, orange waistband with thin, vertical stripes on it. Cid's pants are worn rather high, with the waistband coming up to just under his ribcage, similar to the way he wore them in the Final Fantasy VII games. Cid also wears grey socks and black shoes.

Personality[edit]

Origin[edit]

Who is CID Kingdom Hearts?

Cid Highwind made his debut in Final Fantasy VII as one of the playable characters, and the last non-optional party member.

Was to be the first man to ever go to the outer space, Cid is forced to abandon his dreams by his very own assistant, Shera. As he is about to take off in the "Shinra No. 26", he decided to abort the launch because Shera was still in the engine room, checking an oxygen tank as it showed some minor anomalies.

Later, the new president of Shinra, Rufus, held a meeting with him. Cid thought he was going to re-initiate the Space Program, but it turns out Rufus planned to take Cid's airplane, the "Tiny Bronco", to chase after Sephiroth. After Cloud and the others defeated Palmer (who was going to steal the airplane under Rufus's order) and accidentally turned on the airplane, both the party and Cid made an escape from Rocket Town and landed on the sea. Cid then decided to join the party to oppose Shinra and defeat Sephiroth.

  • The Kingdom Hearts manga briefly showed him attacking Heartless with a flamethrower. The backpack he wears is based on the main weapon of Cid from Final Fantasy Unlimited.

  1. ^ Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Ultimania, Interviewer: "Zack appears at the Coliseum, but was there a reason why he is the only Final Fantasy character this time around?" / Tetsuya Nomura: "We wanted to have Cid and the gang in Radiant Garden, but that would have made the story go too far off track. The main story of Birth by Sleep is complicated enough as it is, so instead of making a lot of side roads, we concentrated on the main story. Which resulted in having no other Final Fantasy character but Zack make an appearance." Translation via Lissar.