Gast Faremis

Professor Gast was a researcher in Final Fantasy VII. He was the head of Shin-Ras' Science Research Department. Unlike his colleague, and later successor, Hojo, he pursues wisdom for its own sake, rather than using it to gain power.

Gast drew the wrongful conclusion that Jenova was a Cetra, and Shin-Ra sends Hojo and Lucrecia to assist him in his research. He and Hojo inject Lucrecia with Jenova cells, in order to make Lucrecia and Hojo's unborn child, a new race of Cetra. Gast, however, regrets this decision, and leaves the project. Gast continues his research on the Cetra in his laboratory in Icicle Inn, where he meets Ifalna, the one of the last remaining Cetra.

He records the interviews he conducts on Ifalna, where he learns the truth about Jenova and the Promised Land. He later seems to have fallen in love with Ifalna, and they have a baby: Aerith, the last remaining Cetra. However, they are tracked down by the Shin-Ra, and Hojo kills Gast trying to capture Ifalna and Aerith.