New information about Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has just surfaced, teasing a subplot for the returning Team Avalanche member Biggs. The second installment of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy is set to launch on February 29, and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will pick up where the first entry left off with Cloud and company leaving Midgar in search of answers about the Ancients and their connection to the former SOLIDER Sephiroth who now threatens the planet.
Just like Final Fantasy 7 Remake before it, Rebirth will cover a fraction of the original Final Fantasy 7’s beloved storyline, reportedly going all the way up to the party’s fateful journey to the Forgotten Capital at the end of the original game’s second disk. While a recent ESRB rating for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth suggests that it will faithfully follow one of the old Final Fantasy 7’s most iconic and shocking plotlines, Creative Director Tetsuya Nomura has stated that Rebirth could see certain story beats play out in a different order - and that the destinies of particular characters could be changed outright.
Such is the case for Biggs, a supporting character in the Final Fantasy 7 universe and a loyal member of Barret Wallace’s Avalanche resistance team. According to a new post on the official Final Fantasy 7 Twitter account, Biggs will return in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth to seek revenge against the corrupt Shinra Corporation for the deaths of his teammates. In Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Biggs participated in a mission to defend the plate above the Sector 7 slums from Shinra - a battle that originally claimed his life in the old Final Fantasy 7.
However, due to Final Fantasy 7 Remake’s altered timeline, Biggs is shown to be alive and well following the ill-fated attack on the Sector 7 plate and is last seen recuperating at the Leaf House orphanage in Midgar’s Sector 5 slums during Remake’s final moments. His Team Avalanche squadmates Wedge and Jesse were also among the casualties of the Sector 7 battle in the original Final Fantasy 7, but their fates in the Remake continuity are left much more ambiguous and Avalanche itself is now a global organization.
This might change in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, as Biggs is described as the last remaining member of his unit. This means that his friends could have met a tragic end at the hands of Shinra between games, assuming they didn’t die in the Sector 7 attack after all. Only time will tell how Biggs’s newfound quest for vengeance will play out in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, as well as how it will connect with the continuing journey of Cloud and his friends.