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Summary
This image is an official design of the characters (noted clockwise from the top) Cid Highwind, Cait Sith, Tifa Lockhart, Barret Wallace, Cloud Strife, Aeris Gainsborough, Yuffie Kisaragi, Red XIII, and Vincent Valentine from Final Fantasy VII, a role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix. The characters were designed by Tetsuya Nomura.

Rationale
Rationale for the fair use of this image in the article Characters of Final Fantasy VII:
 * Square Enix and Pearson Education have not released any such images to the public domain
 * The image is used to demonstrate the game's distinctive art style with relation to character design; other titles in the Final Fantasy series — including those for which Tetsuya Nomura also served as art designer — feature significantly different styles
 * The image is used to portray the main characters of the game, who serve as the driving force of its storyline, around whom most of the narrative revolves; additionally, these characters are themselves highly noteworthy and popular icons of the game
 * The image is being used in an informative way and should not detract from the game or guidebook
 * The image is a small, web-resolution image
 * The image is used to illustrate important characteristics of the game mentioned in the article, which conveys to the reader an idea of what they look like
 * The image's only purpose is to aid in the description of the fictional world of Final Fantasy VII, and for no other purpose
 * The image does not limit Square Enix's ability to sell copies of Final Fantasy VII or Pearson Education's ability to sell copies of the Official Final Fantasy VII Strategy Guide

Rationale
Rationale for the fair use of this image in the article Final Fantasy VII:
 * Square Enix and Pearson Education have not released any such images to the public domain
 * The image is used to demonstrate the game's distinctive art style with relation to character design; other titles in the Final Fantasy series — including those for which Tetsuya Nomura also served as art designer — feature significantly different styles
 * The image is used to portray the main characters of the game, who serve as the driving force of its storyline, around whom most of the narrative revolves; additionally, these characters are themselves highly noteworthy and popular icons of the game
 * The image is being used in an informative way and should not detract from the game or guidebook
 * The image is a small, web-resolution image
 * The image is used to illustrate important characteristics of the game mentioned in the article, which conveys to the reader an idea of what they look like
 * The image's only purpose is to aid in the description of the fictional world of Final Fantasy VII, and for no other purpose
 * The image does not limit Square Enix's ability to sell copies of Final Fantasy VII or Pearson Education's ability to sell copies of the Official Final Fantasy VII Strategy Guide

Licensing
Source: This image was scanned from the back cover of the Brady Games Official Final Fantasy VII Strategy Guide, which is copyright of Pearson Education, of which Brady Games is a trademark. The scan was performed by Ryu Kaze.