Fuhito

Fuhito (フヒト, Fuhito) is the central villain in Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-. He is the intellectual force behind AVALANCHE, Fuhito excels in creating battle plans. Highly knowledgeable in not just matters of science, but also in terms of tactical warfare, he is helpful with conceiving tactical solutions and providing support from a strategic vantage. Fuhito is highly polite and calm to both his allies and enemies. However, he is very treacherous, and cold to all those around him, viewing them as tools not as equals. His hero is mad scientist Professor Hojo, as the both share a similarly deranged view of science. He is also shown to have no patience with Sears. Fuhito fights with a modified Gun that shoots out a high-powered blast of energy.

Storyline
Fuhito's plans take preservation of nature to the extreme. He believes that all people should be returned to the Planet in order to stop the harming of the Planet and let it heal - in short he wants to kill all people. To achieve his end of genocide, he is willing to do anything and everything. To this end, he uses Elfé in a plot to summon a creature called "Zirconiade". His coldness towards Elfé's deteriorating condition causes Sears to leave AVALANCHE.

Fuhito captures a disc containing data on SOLDIER, and with it creates a personal attack squad of semi-human monsters called the Ravens. So proud of these creations is he, that Fuhito orchastrates an AVALANCHE attack on Shinra Headquarters so that he can meet Professor Hojo and show off his scientific genius.

Once gaining the Zirconiade Materia, Fuhito activates it and his body mutates becomes one with the powers of Zirconiade. Due to this and the immence powers radiating from the Materia, Fuhito with the infinite knowledge held within it, loses most of his sanity, but is able to keep only some of it when he battles the Turks. After his defeat, Zirconiade would be fully released, and Fuhito is killed. His plans fail once the Turks destroy Zirconiade.

Fuhito would leave behind plans to bomb the Sector 1 Reactor, which are later performed by Barret Wallace and his second AVALANCHE at the start of Final Fantasy VII.

Battle
Fuhito's human form is fought as a boss in Chapters 2, 7, 11, 14, and 17. His transformation is fought in Chapter 23.