Post by Shock on Aug 13, 2008 22:29:36 GMT -8
WARNING: This page contains spoilers about Aerith's death. If you don't want to be told that Aerith dies, stop reading, because this bio has spoilers about her death.
Yes, I was being a smarta$$.
Name: Sephiroth (Debated last names are Hojo and Crescent. Neither is confirmed.)
Age: Thirties, no exact age is ever given.
Gender: Male
Roleplay: Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts/Open
Birthplace: Nibelheim (this is debated)
Date Of Birth: Not specified.
Parents: Professor Hojo(no known first name for him) and Dr. Lucrecia Crescent
Occupation: Samurai(that's what the Wikia says...)
Weapon: Masamune!
Lover/Spouse: ...Are you kidding? Seph doesn't do the whole 'love' thing.
Powers: *raises eyebrows* Teleportation, black magic, Meteor-the ultimate destructive magic, extremely good swordsman...the list goes on.
Height: 6' 1"
Personality: Dark, evil, vengeful. He hates everything, everything and everyone.
His mother, by the way, is a freaky alien named Jenova. He wants to control the universe. He believes himself to be higher than humans, a God. He believes he's the rightful ruler of the Planet.
Description: Going with his original design. Sorry, no Kingdom Hearts descriptions.
He's a tall man with a black 'cape'(that actually looks more like a coat) and an extremely long sword named Masamune. He has long, silver hair that goes down to about his knees, I believe. Maybe longer. His eyes are a brilliant glowing green, thanks to the mako infused with his body. He's well muscled, and he doesn't wear a shirt. In fact, in the final fight against him, he doesn't even wear the 'cape'. Anyways, he carries himself in a way that says 'I'm in charge', because he was the SOLDIER general. But I'll get to that, for now, it's picture time!
Oops, was that a spoiler? :innocent face:
Kingdom Hearts Sephiroth.
Itadaki Street Special version. ((Even as a cute, cuddly chibi, he still kicks ass.))
Sephiroth completely loosing it...in JAPANESE! ;D
That's mainly for FA, the opening of AC actually explains alot about Sephiroth.
History: (Copied and pasted from Wikia)
Sephiroth was born approximately 30 years before the start of the game (exact year left unknown) to Professor Hojo and Lucrecia Crescent. Before Sephiroth's birth, Hojo and Lucrecia were working as assistants to Professor Gast, Shin-Ra's top scientist, on the Jenova Project. The project studied the remains of an extra-terrestrial entity known as Jenova, which was mistakenly thought to be one of the Cetra, an ancient people of the world that the game takes place in. Hojo injected cell samples from Jenova into the pregnant Lucrecia. Lucrecia then carried Sephiroth to term, his fetal form merging with the cells of Jenova as it developed.
After his birth, Shin-Ra raised Sephiroth to be a supersoldier, the very first SOLDIER. They told him nothing of his mother except that her name was "Jenova." He was not aware his father was the Shin-Ra scientist 'Hojo' whom he referred to as "inexperienced" and "a walking mass of complexes" - he however, respected Professor Gast, until he left Shin-Ra under the guidance of Ifalna. Sephiroth proved to be an incredibly strong and effective member of SOLDIER, gaining worldwide fame for his exploits such as his role in Midgar's victory against Wutai. He was later sent by President Shinra to deal with the newly formed AVALANCHE when they raided Junon, and then went after the group when they "kidnapped" Professor Hojo.
In SOLDIER Sephiroth had two friends, Angeal Hewley and Genesis Rhapsodos. Though all three were rival SOLDIERs First Class, they each saw each other as close. When Genesis and Sephiroth duel in the virtual reality Junon, Sephiroth seems to be the stronger, but it ends inconclusively. Angeal stops the fight before either hurt each other too badly. The small wound Genesis takes does not heal. Sephiroth offers his blood as a transfusion, but is told that his blood is not compatible. Genesis eventually defects from Shin-Ra, making Sephiroth very uneasy about his missions against him. Just before his final mission, Sephiroth hints that he may leave Shin-Ra altogether.
In the events of Crisis Core and Last Order, taking place four years before the beginning of Final Fantasy VII itself, Sephiroth was ordered to inspect the Mako Reactor outside the town of Nibelheim with a small entourage, consisting of one other member of SOLDIER and a few Shin-Ra MPs. Among this group was SOLDIER 1st Class member Zack and his buddy, a 16-year-old Shin-Ra trooper named Cloud Strife. Nibelheim was Cloud's childhood home, but he avoided showing his face and revealing himself to his childhood friend Tifa Lockhart out of shame over not becoming a full-fledged member of SOLDIER as he had sworn to do several years earlier.
At the reactor, Sephiroth found several pod-like chambers containing monstrous creatures, apparently former humans, possibly mutated by injection with Jenova cells and exposure to Mako. Deeper inside, he found a larger chamber labeled "JENOVA," which contained a very strange feminine-looking creature. When Zack suggests a connection between SOLDIER and the creatures in the tanks, Sephiroth flies into a rage
Crisis Core shows an alternate version of events at the Nibelheim incident, and Genesis plays a large part in Sephiroth's madness. During this time, Genesis tells Sephiroth that he was born from the Jenova Project, which was used to produce a 'monster'. Going in more depth about Jenova, and the Jenova Project, Genesis states more facts, but Sephiroth himself does not understand all of what Genesis tries to tells him.
Deeply disturbed by the fact that the creature had the same name as his "mother" and by the idea that he himself might have been created in an experiment similar to the one that created the monsters in the pods, Sephiroth made his way to the mansion that had been occupied by Shin-Ra researchers and began reading the research notes that were located in the basement library.
As a result of what he learned, Sephiroth became enraged and psychotic. Based on the Shin-Ra reports, he came to believe that Jenova was a Cetra, and therefore that he himself, Jenova's "son," was the last survivor of the Cetra. He also believed that the human race had betrayed the Cetra 2,000 years earlier, leaving them alone to defend the Planet from a calamity it had faced (eventually revealed to have been Jenova itself), and resolved to take vengeance for his "ancestors." He burned Nibelheim to the ground, killing nearly everyone within the village, including Cloud's mother, and then returned to the Mako Reactor in the Nibelheim Mountains. He was pursued by some surviving villagers, including Tifa and her father. Cloud and Zack, as of yet unharmed, also followed. When Tifa arrived at the reactor, she found her father dead with Sephiroth's Masamune left beside his body. In anger, she took the sword and charged Sephiroth outside the pod room; however, he took his blade back from her and cut her down, nearly killing her.
A moment later, Zack arrived and rushed up the stairs in the pod room to Jenova's chamber, attempting to stop Sephiroth. In Final Fantasy VII he is easily defeated, but Crisis Core retcons this into a full battle. He attempted to engage Sephiroth, but Sephiroth flung him off the walkway, plummeting far below the chamber. Luckily, Zack landed on a large glass platform right above the pool of mako. Sephiroth follows Zack down, and they exchange a few blows. Then Sephiroth shatters the glass platform, and they both manage to land on a small beam protruding from the wall. They battle some more, and eventually go back up to the Jenova chamber. Zack was sent reeling out of the doorway of the chamber and onto the stairway. Sephiroth attempted to take Jenova with him, but before he could do this, Cloud charged into the room, carrying Zack's large Buster Sword, and, taking Sephiroth by surprise, stabbed him through his abdomen from behind. Believing Sephiroth was finished, Cloud went to tend to Tifa.
Due to Sephiroth's enhanced anatomy, however, he survived Cloud's assault, though wounded greatly. He then removed Jenova's head for reasons known only to himself. He prepared to leave, and to launch an assault upon the human race to symbolically "take back the Planet" for the Cetra. Before he could leave the Reactor, Cloud pursued him once more. This time Sephiroth took Cloud by surprise, turning quickly and sliding his sword into Cloud's stomach. But Cloud's desperation proved greater than Sephiroth's strength, and he lifted Sephiroth off the floor using the blade in his chest as a lever and his own body as a pivot, flinging Sephiroth over the edge of the catwalk upon which they stood, into a wall with explosive circuits, and down into the Mako pool beneath the reactor. Sephiroth's body dissolves in the Lifestream but his will combines him and Jenova into a single being, with him in control. Cloud stumbles out of the chamber and falls next to Zack on the staircase, before they both pass out.
In Last Order, it was retconed that Cloud only managed to fling Sephiroth into the wall, and that Sephiroth jumped into the Lifestream as a means of escape, stunned by Cloud's strength. No other version of the Nibelheim incident shows events going this way.
Following this, Shin-Ra sealed the records on Sephiroth and rebuilt Nibelheim in order to cover up the incident, populating it with Shin-Ra employees paid to act as the town's citizens. Hojo meanwhile decided to make use of the surviving residents of Nibelheim, and so commissioned them against their wills to take part in an experiment that would hopefully prove his Jenova Reunion Theory. A theory that stated that when Jenova's cells are separated, they will seek to reunite in a "Reunion". This was done by injecting some of Jenova's cells into the survivors and then infusing them with Mako, two procedures that had been carried out on Sephiroth himself (the difference being that the procedures were done on Sephiroth when he was still developing in the womb, causing them to merge with his DNA and grow with him as he developed). Thus, the subjects of the experiment were dubbed "Sephiroth Clones".
Cloud and Zack were two of Hojo's subjects for this experiment, and they would spend the next four years as his prisoners in the Shin-Ra Mansion of Nibelheim. Shortly before the main events of the game begin, Zack broke free and took the semi-comatose Cloud with him. Around this point in time, the call of the Reunion began to go out, and the Sephiroth clones began making their way toward Midgar, where Jenova was transferred to after the Nibelheim incident.
As for Sephiroth, through the years, he began to understand the true nature of Jenova by absorbing her head and being encrusted in raw materia, deciding to use the knowledge of the Cetra obtained from the Lifestream for his ambitions. Sephiroth heads to the great Northern Crater, the Planet's 2,000 year old wound that was formed by Jenova's landing, where he slowly reforms his body in preparation to become a God. This was the last time Sephiroth would be seen for four years.
The hero party of the game, known as AVALANCHE, were captive in Shin-Ra's headquarters at this time, having made a daring raid on the facility in an attempt to rescue the captive Aeris Gainsborough. During the night, Jenova's body contained now in Hojo's lab in the building, breaks out of its containment vessel through Sephiroth's influence, taking on his appearance and will as a total puppet. Since this Jenova was nothing but a projection of Sephiroth's will, all the actions she takes can be attributed to Sephiroth, for Jenova is nothing but a piece of him now. Sephiroth through Jenova slaughters much of the Shin-Ra personnel in the building. At some point, Cloud's prison cell was opened, either by Jenova itself or by an electrical malfunction occurring as a result of massacre. It is also probable that Sephiroth himself opened the lock, possibly because he views Cloud as one of his "clones". AVALANCHE found their guards slaughtered, and President Shinra impaled against his desk by a sword that apparently belonged to Sephiroth. As a result of this, Sephiroth clones began changing direction toward the Northern Cave, where Sephiroth's actual body is located.
Having decided to investigate the matter, encountering the Jenova/Sephiroth on the way, AVALANCHE discovered that Sephiroth was attempting to use the Black Materia, an item that would call forth a manifestation of the Ultimate Destructive Magic: Meteor. Sephiroth intended to use this to deal a potentially fatal wound to the Planet, at which time it would then send out large amounts of spirit energy from the Lifestream in order to heal that wound. Sephiroth planned to be at the center while bringing the Reunion to the Northern Cave so they can absorb the scattered remains of Jenova in the clones and intercept this massive concentration of energy, absorbing it and the knowledge and power it carried, which he believed would make him a God.
Aeris Gainsborough, the true last survivor of the Cetra, tried to use the White Materia given to her by her mother to summon the force called Holy, the only power able to counter Meteor. During her attempt to call forth this Ultimate White Magic, Sephiroth fell from above and impaled her with his sword, killing the flower girl almost instantly. This was part of Sephiroth's manipulation and mental torture of Cloud, possibly destabilizing him so that he might be easily manipulated. Though Aerith had successfully called Holy, it was now being held back within the Planet by Sephiroth, preventing it from moving with his will, as augmented by Jenova's power.
He continued manipulating Cloud until AVALANCHE reached Sephiroth's body inside the Northern Cave, where Hojo, along with President Rufus Shinra's entourage, were examining the slumbering WEAPONs that surrounded Sephiroth's body. Cloud was dazed and unsure what he was, but as he listened to Hojo explaining the JENOVA Project, he felt he had lost all meaning as a person, being simply a failure. He then willingly handed over the Black Materia to Sephiroth, which Sephiroth used to call forth Meteor. Afterward, AVALANCHE and the Shin-Ra executives that were present were forced to flee from the collapsing area. Sephiroth then erected a field of energy around the Crater to prevent entry.
With his shield up, and Shin-Ra busy fighting AVALANCHE and the WEAPON called forth by the Planet, Sephiroth was safe from all attacks from within the Northern Crater. While the rest of the world was chaos due to the looming shadow of Meteor, Sephiroth perfected his body so as to become a God. However, his shield was penetrated by Shin-Ra, when they fired the Sister Ray.
Cloud and the rest of AVALANCHE then descended into the chasm to defeat a mutated Sephiroth, his body hatching from a pupa-like material (Bizarro Sephiroth) and preparing to absorb the Lifestream (Safer Sephiroth). After destroying Sephiroth's body, his spirit made a mental assault upon Cloud, attempting to overcome his will as easily as it had done in the past and take Cloud's body as his own. However, Cloud's mental defenses had grown and he triumphed over Sephiroth's spirit with his ultimate technique, Omnislash, at which time Sephiroth's spirit was seemingly reclaimed by the Lifestream.
During the events of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Sephiroth again plays the role of the destroyer. It has been two years following the defeat of Sephiroth, and a fatal malady called Geostigma has spread throughout the world, afflicting many with extreme fatigue and open sores on the skin.
The now-reclusive Cloud finds himself confronted by a strange trio of silver-haired men who are the physical manifestations of Sephiroth's will and spiritual energy, his powerful will having allowed him to pull out of the Lifestream before being fully diluted. However, without a great abundance of Jenova's cells, Sephiroth cannot be fully reborn. These three, Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo all believe themselves to guided by their "mother" Jenova, but rather it is Sephiroth himself who forces their actions. The leader, Kadaj becomes the vessel of Sephiroth after absorbing the contents of a case containing remains of Jenova, transforming into the man himself.
Sephiroth and Cloud then fight in the ruins of Midgar. Though Cloud is exhausted by the effort, Sephiroth does not break a sweat. He is merely toying with his old foe, hoping to crush his spirit before killing Cloud. Sephiroth reveals his intent to use those that die of Geostigma to bend the Lifestream to his will, take over the Planet and use it to travel to another world, thereby repeating the cycle started by Jenova. Sephiroth is defeated by Cloud's Omnislash Version 5 move, wherein Cloud's First Tsurugi sword is separated into individual swords (the individual swords could be combined by Cloud to form stronger and larger swords) in mid-air. Cloud dashes through Sephiroth, grabs another sword and dashes through him again. This process is repeated until he uses all six components of the First Tsurugi. Sephiroth remains floating in the air as his single black, feathered wing then appears. His final words are "I will...never be a memory," and his single wing wraps around him. The wing fades away, revealing what is left of Kadaj's body as he falls to the ground. The weakened Kadaj is then accepted into the Lifestream as his body and soul 'evaporate' into the falling rain, Aerith's Great Gospel.
In The Reunion Files, Nojima had stated that Sephiroth's only true goal in the film is taking revenge on Cloud, who he saw as a rookie SOLDIER. His revival had been decided to occur early on in the project, but not the exact reasons or means of how he would be revived, and these details were decided at later dates. Sephiroth's dialogue was also made to sound profound, as "he thinks on a level higher than humans", and his hair and eyes were exceptionally difficult to animate. Nomura says that when creating Sephiroth, his appearance was set but he had trouble deciding what kind of voice he should have; once Toshiyuki Morikawa auditioned, Nomura knew he was exactly what he wanted. Morikawa also noted that, with Sephiroth's on-screen presence, he knew his final lines had to be done properly, and with input from the director, gave Sephiroth's iconic final words a sense that "he's not done yet".
Likes: Uh, killing?
Dislikes: Everything.
Strengths: Handling a sword. And using the Black Materia.
Faults: He toys with his victims, which usually leads to Cloud winning even if Seph's far superior.
Weakness: ...You're joking, right? ((Unless you want to say he has a weakness for his 'mother'.))
Theme: One-Winged Angel ((Take your pick with which version; Advent Children, Kingdom Hearts, Original, I assume there'll be one for Dissidia, Crisis Core, Techno*NOOOOO!*...))
Advent Children
Original Version
The World's Enemy((Crisis Core Version))
Kingdom Hearts II Version
Friends: BEFORE HE WENT INSANE Genesis, Angeal, Zack
Enemies: ..The entire world. And I'm not joking.
Anything Else:
He's coming to get you... >
And I have to disagree with Usagi. While she likes Aerith's theme the best, I think One Winged Angel takes the cake as the best Final Fantasy Music to date. Well, other than Fulfilled Desire, but that's a credit song, it doesn't count.
Now that I've spammed the page with videos, enjoy the bio!
Yes, I was being a smarta$$.
Name: Sephiroth (Debated last names are Hojo and Crescent. Neither is confirmed.)
Age: Thirties, no exact age is ever given.
Gender: Male
Roleplay: Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts/Open
Birthplace: Nibelheim (this is debated)
Date Of Birth: Not specified.
Parents: Professor Hojo(no known first name for him) and Dr. Lucrecia Crescent
Occupation: Samurai(that's what the Wikia says...)
Weapon: Masamune!
Lover/Spouse: ...Are you kidding? Seph doesn't do the whole 'love' thing.
Powers: *raises eyebrows* Teleportation, black magic, Meteor-the ultimate destructive magic, extremely good swordsman...the list goes on.
Height: 6' 1"
Personality: Dark, evil, vengeful. He hates everything, everything and everyone.
Sephiroth's personality is one of cold ruthlessness; he will do anything no matter how horrible to fulfill his massive celestial ambitions. Sephiroth prefers to toy with his enemies and make them suffer rather than kill them outright, taking great pleasure in taunting them. He is arrogant and egotistical, but yet holds a soft spot for his "mother".
His mother, by the way, is a freaky alien named Jenova. He wants to control the universe. He believes himself to be higher than humans, a God. He believes he's the rightful ruler of the Planet.
Description: Going with his original design. Sorry, no Kingdom Hearts descriptions.
He's a tall man with a black 'cape'(that actually looks more like a coat) and an extremely long sword named Masamune. He has long, silver hair that goes down to about his knees, I believe. Maybe longer. His eyes are a brilliant glowing green, thanks to the mako infused with his body. He's well muscled, and he doesn't wear a shirt. In fact, in the final fight against him, he doesn't even wear the 'cape'. Anyways, he carries himself in a way that says 'I'm in charge', because he was the SOLDIER general. But I'll get to that, for now, it's picture time!
Oops, was that a spoiler? :innocent face:
Kingdom Hearts Sephiroth.
Itadaki Street Special version. ((Even as a cute, cuddly chibi, he still kicks ass.))
Sephiroth completely loosing it...in JAPANESE! ;D
That's mainly for FA, the opening of AC actually explains alot about Sephiroth.
History: (Copied and pasted from Wikia)
Sephiroth was born approximately 30 years before the start of the game (exact year left unknown) to Professor Hojo and Lucrecia Crescent. Before Sephiroth's birth, Hojo and Lucrecia were working as assistants to Professor Gast, Shin-Ra's top scientist, on the Jenova Project. The project studied the remains of an extra-terrestrial entity known as Jenova, which was mistakenly thought to be one of the Cetra, an ancient people of the world that the game takes place in. Hojo injected cell samples from Jenova into the pregnant Lucrecia. Lucrecia then carried Sephiroth to term, his fetal form merging with the cells of Jenova as it developed.
After his birth, Shin-Ra raised Sephiroth to be a supersoldier, the very first SOLDIER. They told him nothing of his mother except that her name was "Jenova." He was not aware his father was the Shin-Ra scientist 'Hojo' whom he referred to as "inexperienced" and "a walking mass of complexes" - he however, respected Professor Gast, until he left Shin-Ra under the guidance of Ifalna. Sephiroth proved to be an incredibly strong and effective member of SOLDIER, gaining worldwide fame for his exploits such as his role in Midgar's victory against Wutai. He was later sent by President Shinra to deal with the newly formed AVALANCHE when they raided Junon, and then went after the group when they "kidnapped" Professor Hojo.
In SOLDIER Sephiroth had two friends, Angeal Hewley and Genesis Rhapsodos. Though all three were rival SOLDIERs First Class, they each saw each other as close. When Genesis and Sephiroth duel in the virtual reality Junon, Sephiroth seems to be the stronger, but it ends inconclusively. Angeal stops the fight before either hurt each other too badly. The small wound Genesis takes does not heal. Sephiroth offers his blood as a transfusion, but is told that his blood is not compatible. Genesis eventually defects from Shin-Ra, making Sephiroth very uneasy about his missions against him. Just before his final mission, Sephiroth hints that he may leave Shin-Ra altogether.
In the events of Crisis Core and Last Order, taking place four years before the beginning of Final Fantasy VII itself, Sephiroth was ordered to inspect the Mako Reactor outside the town of Nibelheim with a small entourage, consisting of one other member of SOLDIER and a few Shin-Ra MPs. Among this group was SOLDIER 1st Class member Zack and his buddy, a 16-year-old Shin-Ra trooper named Cloud Strife. Nibelheim was Cloud's childhood home, but he avoided showing his face and revealing himself to his childhood friend Tifa Lockhart out of shame over not becoming a full-fledged member of SOLDIER as he had sworn to do several years earlier.
At the reactor, Sephiroth found several pod-like chambers containing monstrous creatures, apparently former humans, possibly mutated by injection with Jenova cells and exposure to Mako. Deeper inside, he found a larger chamber labeled "JENOVA," which contained a very strange feminine-looking creature. When Zack suggests a connection between SOLDIER and the creatures in the tanks, Sephiroth flies into a rage
Crisis Core shows an alternate version of events at the Nibelheim incident, and Genesis plays a large part in Sephiroth's madness. During this time, Genesis tells Sephiroth that he was born from the Jenova Project, which was used to produce a 'monster'. Going in more depth about Jenova, and the Jenova Project, Genesis states more facts, but Sephiroth himself does not understand all of what Genesis tries to tells him.
Deeply disturbed by the fact that the creature had the same name as his "mother" and by the idea that he himself might have been created in an experiment similar to the one that created the monsters in the pods, Sephiroth made his way to the mansion that had been occupied by Shin-Ra researchers and began reading the research notes that were located in the basement library.
As a result of what he learned, Sephiroth became enraged and psychotic. Based on the Shin-Ra reports, he came to believe that Jenova was a Cetra, and therefore that he himself, Jenova's "son," was the last survivor of the Cetra. He also believed that the human race had betrayed the Cetra 2,000 years earlier, leaving them alone to defend the Planet from a calamity it had faced (eventually revealed to have been Jenova itself), and resolved to take vengeance for his "ancestors." He burned Nibelheim to the ground, killing nearly everyone within the village, including Cloud's mother, and then returned to the Mako Reactor in the Nibelheim Mountains. He was pursued by some surviving villagers, including Tifa and her father. Cloud and Zack, as of yet unharmed, also followed. When Tifa arrived at the reactor, she found her father dead with Sephiroth's Masamune left beside his body. In anger, she took the sword and charged Sephiroth outside the pod room; however, he took his blade back from her and cut her down, nearly killing her.
A moment later, Zack arrived and rushed up the stairs in the pod room to Jenova's chamber, attempting to stop Sephiroth. In Final Fantasy VII he is easily defeated, but Crisis Core retcons this into a full battle. He attempted to engage Sephiroth, but Sephiroth flung him off the walkway, plummeting far below the chamber. Luckily, Zack landed on a large glass platform right above the pool of mako. Sephiroth follows Zack down, and they exchange a few blows. Then Sephiroth shatters the glass platform, and they both manage to land on a small beam protruding from the wall. They battle some more, and eventually go back up to the Jenova chamber. Zack was sent reeling out of the doorway of the chamber and onto the stairway. Sephiroth attempted to take Jenova with him, but before he could do this, Cloud charged into the room, carrying Zack's large Buster Sword, and, taking Sephiroth by surprise, stabbed him through his abdomen from behind. Believing Sephiroth was finished, Cloud went to tend to Tifa.
Due to Sephiroth's enhanced anatomy, however, he survived Cloud's assault, though wounded greatly. He then removed Jenova's head for reasons known only to himself. He prepared to leave, and to launch an assault upon the human race to symbolically "take back the Planet" for the Cetra. Before he could leave the Reactor, Cloud pursued him once more. This time Sephiroth took Cloud by surprise, turning quickly and sliding his sword into Cloud's stomach. But Cloud's desperation proved greater than Sephiroth's strength, and he lifted Sephiroth off the floor using the blade in his chest as a lever and his own body as a pivot, flinging Sephiroth over the edge of the catwalk upon which they stood, into a wall with explosive circuits, and down into the Mako pool beneath the reactor. Sephiroth's body dissolves in the Lifestream but his will combines him and Jenova into a single being, with him in control. Cloud stumbles out of the chamber and falls next to Zack on the staircase, before they both pass out.
In Last Order, it was retconed that Cloud only managed to fling Sephiroth into the wall, and that Sephiroth jumped into the Lifestream as a means of escape, stunned by Cloud's strength. No other version of the Nibelheim incident shows events going this way.
Following this, Shin-Ra sealed the records on Sephiroth and rebuilt Nibelheim in order to cover up the incident, populating it with Shin-Ra employees paid to act as the town's citizens. Hojo meanwhile decided to make use of the surviving residents of Nibelheim, and so commissioned them against their wills to take part in an experiment that would hopefully prove his Jenova Reunion Theory. A theory that stated that when Jenova's cells are separated, they will seek to reunite in a "Reunion". This was done by injecting some of Jenova's cells into the survivors and then infusing them with Mako, two procedures that had been carried out on Sephiroth himself (the difference being that the procedures were done on Sephiroth when he was still developing in the womb, causing them to merge with his DNA and grow with him as he developed). Thus, the subjects of the experiment were dubbed "Sephiroth Clones".
Cloud and Zack were two of Hojo's subjects for this experiment, and they would spend the next four years as his prisoners in the Shin-Ra Mansion of Nibelheim. Shortly before the main events of the game begin, Zack broke free and took the semi-comatose Cloud with him. Around this point in time, the call of the Reunion began to go out, and the Sephiroth clones began making their way toward Midgar, where Jenova was transferred to after the Nibelheim incident.
As for Sephiroth, through the years, he began to understand the true nature of Jenova by absorbing her head and being encrusted in raw materia, deciding to use the knowledge of the Cetra obtained from the Lifestream for his ambitions. Sephiroth heads to the great Northern Crater, the Planet's 2,000 year old wound that was formed by Jenova's landing, where he slowly reforms his body in preparation to become a God. This was the last time Sephiroth would be seen for four years.
The hero party of the game, known as AVALANCHE, were captive in Shin-Ra's headquarters at this time, having made a daring raid on the facility in an attempt to rescue the captive Aeris Gainsborough. During the night, Jenova's body contained now in Hojo's lab in the building, breaks out of its containment vessel through Sephiroth's influence, taking on his appearance and will as a total puppet. Since this Jenova was nothing but a projection of Sephiroth's will, all the actions she takes can be attributed to Sephiroth, for Jenova is nothing but a piece of him now. Sephiroth through Jenova slaughters much of the Shin-Ra personnel in the building. At some point, Cloud's prison cell was opened, either by Jenova itself or by an electrical malfunction occurring as a result of massacre. It is also probable that Sephiroth himself opened the lock, possibly because he views Cloud as one of his "clones". AVALANCHE found their guards slaughtered, and President Shinra impaled against his desk by a sword that apparently belonged to Sephiroth. As a result of this, Sephiroth clones began changing direction toward the Northern Cave, where Sephiroth's actual body is located.
Having decided to investigate the matter, encountering the Jenova/Sephiroth on the way, AVALANCHE discovered that Sephiroth was attempting to use the Black Materia, an item that would call forth a manifestation of the Ultimate Destructive Magic: Meteor. Sephiroth intended to use this to deal a potentially fatal wound to the Planet, at which time it would then send out large amounts of spirit energy from the Lifestream in order to heal that wound. Sephiroth planned to be at the center while bringing the Reunion to the Northern Cave so they can absorb the scattered remains of Jenova in the clones and intercept this massive concentration of energy, absorbing it and the knowledge and power it carried, which he believed would make him a God.
Aeris Gainsborough, the true last survivor of the Cetra, tried to use the White Materia given to her by her mother to summon the force called Holy, the only power able to counter Meteor. During her attempt to call forth this Ultimate White Magic, Sephiroth fell from above and impaled her with his sword, killing the flower girl almost instantly. This was part of Sephiroth's manipulation and mental torture of Cloud, possibly destabilizing him so that he might be easily manipulated. Though Aerith had successfully called Holy, it was now being held back within the Planet by Sephiroth, preventing it from moving with his will, as augmented by Jenova's power.
He continued manipulating Cloud until AVALANCHE reached Sephiroth's body inside the Northern Cave, where Hojo, along with President Rufus Shinra's entourage, were examining the slumbering WEAPONs that surrounded Sephiroth's body. Cloud was dazed and unsure what he was, but as he listened to Hojo explaining the JENOVA Project, he felt he had lost all meaning as a person, being simply a failure. He then willingly handed over the Black Materia to Sephiroth, which Sephiroth used to call forth Meteor. Afterward, AVALANCHE and the Shin-Ra executives that were present were forced to flee from the collapsing area. Sephiroth then erected a field of energy around the Crater to prevent entry.
With his shield up, and Shin-Ra busy fighting AVALANCHE and the WEAPON called forth by the Planet, Sephiroth was safe from all attacks from within the Northern Crater. While the rest of the world was chaos due to the looming shadow of Meteor, Sephiroth perfected his body so as to become a God. However, his shield was penetrated by Shin-Ra, when they fired the Sister Ray.
Cloud and the rest of AVALANCHE then descended into the chasm to defeat a mutated Sephiroth, his body hatching from a pupa-like material (Bizarro Sephiroth) and preparing to absorb the Lifestream (Safer Sephiroth). After destroying Sephiroth's body, his spirit made a mental assault upon Cloud, attempting to overcome his will as easily as it had done in the past and take Cloud's body as his own. However, Cloud's mental defenses had grown and he triumphed over Sephiroth's spirit with his ultimate technique, Omnislash, at which time Sephiroth's spirit was seemingly reclaimed by the Lifestream.
During the events of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Sephiroth again plays the role of the destroyer. It has been two years following the defeat of Sephiroth, and a fatal malady called Geostigma has spread throughout the world, afflicting many with extreme fatigue and open sores on the skin.
The now-reclusive Cloud finds himself confronted by a strange trio of silver-haired men who are the physical manifestations of Sephiroth's will and spiritual energy, his powerful will having allowed him to pull out of the Lifestream before being fully diluted. However, without a great abundance of Jenova's cells, Sephiroth cannot be fully reborn. These three, Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo all believe themselves to guided by their "mother" Jenova, but rather it is Sephiroth himself who forces their actions. The leader, Kadaj becomes the vessel of Sephiroth after absorbing the contents of a case containing remains of Jenova, transforming into the man himself.
Sephiroth and Cloud then fight in the ruins of Midgar. Though Cloud is exhausted by the effort, Sephiroth does not break a sweat. He is merely toying with his old foe, hoping to crush his spirit before killing Cloud. Sephiroth reveals his intent to use those that die of Geostigma to bend the Lifestream to his will, take over the Planet and use it to travel to another world, thereby repeating the cycle started by Jenova. Sephiroth is defeated by Cloud's Omnislash Version 5 move, wherein Cloud's First Tsurugi sword is separated into individual swords (the individual swords could be combined by Cloud to form stronger and larger swords) in mid-air. Cloud dashes through Sephiroth, grabs another sword and dashes through him again. This process is repeated until he uses all six components of the First Tsurugi. Sephiroth remains floating in the air as his single black, feathered wing then appears. His final words are "I will...never be a memory," and his single wing wraps around him. The wing fades away, revealing what is left of Kadaj's body as he falls to the ground. The weakened Kadaj is then accepted into the Lifestream as his body and soul 'evaporate' into the falling rain, Aerith's Great Gospel.
In The Reunion Files, Nojima had stated that Sephiroth's only true goal in the film is taking revenge on Cloud, who he saw as a rookie SOLDIER. His revival had been decided to occur early on in the project, but not the exact reasons or means of how he would be revived, and these details were decided at later dates. Sephiroth's dialogue was also made to sound profound, as "he thinks on a level higher than humans", and his hair and eyes were exceptionally difficult to animate. Nomura says that when creating Sephiroth, his appearance was set but he had trouble deciding what kind of voice he should have; once Toshiyuki Morikawa auditioned, Nomura knew he was exactly what he wanted. Morikawa also noted that, with Sephiroth's on-screen presence, he knew his final lines had to be done properly, and with input from the director, gave Sephiroth's iconic final words a sense that "he's not done yet".
Likes: Uh, killing?
Dislikes: Everything.
Strengths: Handling a sword. And using the Black Materia.
Faults: He toys with his victims, which usually leads to Cloud winning even if Seph's far superior.
Weakness: ...You're joking, right? ((Unless you want to say he has a weakness for his 'mother'.))
Theme: One-Winged Angel ((Take your pick with which version; Advent Children, Kingdom Hearts, Original, I assume there'll be one for Dissidia, Crisis Core, Techno*NOOOOO!*...))
Advent Children
Original Version
The World's Enemy((Crisis Core Version))
Kingdom Hearts II Version
Friends: BEFORE HE WENT INSANE Genesis, Angeal, Zack
Enemies: ..The entire world. And I'm not joking.
Anything Else:
He's coming to get you... >
And I have to disagree with Usagi. While she likes Aerith's theme the best, I think One Winged Angel takes the cake as the best Final Fantasy Music to date. Well, other than Fulfilled Desire, but that's a credit song, it doesn't count.
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