Storm, Cirrus, and Ray
(Disclaimer: I do not own the world of FFVII, Jenova, Geostigma, or anything else you may identify. Ray, Cirrus, and Storm are my inventions though)
If you ask anyone in Midgar about Shin-Ra, do you know what they'll probably say? The ones who made SOLDIER, right? You know that First Class SOLDIER-the tall silver haired one, Sephiroth? He went mad. Nearly took out the world with a meteor. Their science dude, Hojo, was a lunatic.
Or.
Yeah, I knew they were scum. Been an AVALANCHE sympathizer the whole time. You know, that blonde guy, what was his name, with the spike hair? He had it going.
Even though Cloud, the blonde in question, was really part of Shin-Ra originally.
The point here is there were quite a few extraordinary people who existed in Midgar around the same time.
Or, to be more exact in several cases, along side some of the people you already know.
These tales of three of those lives take place one year after the rise and fall of Deep Ground.