Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
He's alive, in the DLC he goes to the church looking for Aerith and refugees fleeing the sector 7 plate drop are there, meaning the events of part 1 has already happened at that point.
At first I thought Zack carrying cloud to Midgard was just a vision from the past, but the DLCs ending basically confirms he's alive in the present.
Right. I forgot about that