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Sephiroth

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Articles About Sephiroth
Main Continuity Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
Sephiroth's Remnants Kadaj - Loz - Yazoo
Alternate Continuity Dissidia - Kingdom Hearts - Super Smash Bros.

Background

Sephiroth is the main overarching antagonist of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. Once a legendary SOLDIER and unrivaled swordsman who served as the inspiration for countless SOLDIER candidates across the years, Sephiroth found out about the truth behind his unnatural birth and was driven insane. He grew to hate the planet and sought to destroy it, only to be opposed by Cloud Strife and his friends.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Sephiroth’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Sephiroth, having been raised inside of the Shinra Power Electric Company and trained his entire life, was viewed as unstoppable in combat even as a young boy. Thanks to his unrivalled levels of skill, he was instrumental in ending Shinra's war with Wutai, and was promptly hailed as a hero. Several young boys from around the world, including Cloud Strife, were inspired by Sephiroth as a result.

During his glory days as a SOLDIER 1st Class, Sephiroth was best friends with Angeal Hewley and Genesis Rhapsodos, fellow SOLDIERs who constantly served as sparring partners for him. With Genesis and Angeal's departure from Shinra, however, Sephiroth was sent down a long spiral of figuring out his true identity. On a mission to Nibelheim alongside Zack Fair, Sephiroth discovered the ancient alien, JENOVA, who shared the same name as his mother.

After countless days of obsessive research inside the Shinra Mansion, Sephiroth learned the truth; he was a lab experiment created by Shinra, using JENOVA's DNA. Because of this, Sephiroth viewed himself as a monster who was wronged by the planet, and fell into insanity. Growing enraged with the planet, Sephiroth murdered the people of Nibelheim and reunited with JENOVA. However, he was opposed by Zack and Cloud Strife, who managed to fatally wound Sephiroth and send him tumbling into the Lifestream.

From then on, Sephiroth's anger grew to extreme levels, and he developed an obsessive hatred towards Cloud Strife. Having been partially diffused into the Lifestream, Sephiroth acted from a distance and would use the JENOVA DNA within Cloud to control him and do his bidding; eventually leading to Cloud delivering the Black Materia to him. Using the Black Materia, Sephiroth would call upon Meteor to destroy the planet. He was once again opposed by Cloud, however, and seemingly killed for good.

Two years passed, and a horrible plague known as Geostigma infested the planet. This was the doing of Sephiroth and JENOVA, who still existed within the Lifestream as they could not be completely diffused into it. Sephiroth used his will to develop three remnants of himself, Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo. These remnants scoured the planet for JENOVA's head, eventually finding it and bringing Sephiroth back to the living world. After a long and arduous final battle against Cloud, however, he was once again killed. With his final words, he claimed that he would never only be a memory.

General Information

Key: Before Crisis/Crisis Core | Final Fantasy VII | Advent Children

Name: Sephiroth

Origin: Final Fantasy VII

Sex: Male

Age: 21 - 22 years old (Before Crisis/Crisis Core), 27 years old (Final Fantasy VII), 30 years old (Advent Children)

Classification: Ex-SOLDIER 1st Class, Perfect Monster, One-Winged Angel, JENOVA Experiment

Species: Human/Alien Hybrid

Occupation: Shinra SOLDIER (formerly)

Status: Alive, Deceased after Nibelheim (Sephiroth is fatally wounded and thrown into the Lifestream by Cloud Strife) | Undead (Sephiroth refused to be diffused into the Lifestream and used his will to continue to exist in the mortal world) | Undead (Sephiroth refuses to disappear and will reanimate himself into host bodies in the living world)

Alignment: Chaotic Good (Sephiroth is seemingly good-hearted and has nice intentions, though he can be a bit flippant. He freely off-loads his missions onto Zack Fair when he decides that he doesn't want to do them, valuing his own feelings over his direct orders. Sephiroth has casually overlooked transgressions Zack makes, in order to allow Zack to visit Aerith) | Chaotic Evil (As stated directly by those who knew him, Sephiroth went from hating Shinra and the experiments that made him, to hating the entire world. He is filled with hatred for all things and only desires to destroy all things. Although he is influenced by the will of his mother, Jenova, Sephiroth has goals of his own revolving solely around causing pain and torment to everyone around him) | Chaotic Evil

Codex Statistics

Key: Before Crisis/Crisis Core | Final Fantasy VII | Advent Children

Tier: High 3-A | High 3-A | At least High 3-A

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Multi Supercluster level (As confirmed by Professor Hojo, Sephiroth knew Super Nova during this time, which has him create a dimension containing starry skies and multiple galaxies. He is also consistently stated to be the strongest character in the series, placing him above Bahamut Fury, who can also create a dimension with a starry sky, and Knights of the Round, which can destroy its own dimension containing a galaxy cluster) | Multi Supercluster level | At least Multi Supercluster level (Has become so much stronger that he could casually deflect the move that previously killed him)

Durability: Multi Supercluster level | Multi Supercluster level | At least Multi Supercluster level

Striking Strength: Multi Supercluster Class | Multi Supercluster Class | At least Multi Supercluster Class

Lifting Strength: At least Athletic Human

Travel Speed: Athletic Human (Is comparable to Cloud Strife, who can run at similar speeds to a Chocobo; Chocobo are said in the Dissidia Final Fantasy Museum to run at 20 mph) | Athletic Human, Superhuman with flight (Should have similar flying speed to his futre self) | Athletic Human, Superhuman with flight (Has a wing and thus scales to Genesis Rhapsodos, who can fly this fast)

Attack Speed: FTL+ | FTL+ | At least FTL+

Reaction Speed: FTL+ (Was confirmed by Hojo to have known Super Nova at the time of their fight, meaning he could react to the comet of his Super Nova) | FTL+ | At least FTL+ (Was so much faster than before, that he could casually deflect the move that killed him previously)

Stamina: Superhuman (Sephiroth is able to fight for incredibly long periods of time, while using large amounts of Materia, without any signs of fatigue. He was able to fight both Zack Fair and Cloud Strife with no trouble, only showing signs of tiring after receiving a fatal wound. He was about to fight Genesis and Angeal for prolonged periods of time without tiring) | Limitless (Sephiroth has transcended the flesh and likely will never tire if left to his own doings. He was able to plague Cloud along his entire journey without need for rest) | Limitless

Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee with Masamune, Far Higher with Materia and within Negative Lifestream

Intelligence: Unknown Intelligence

Knowledge: Grandmaster level (An extremely experienced and prodigious SOLDIER, who became a legendary war hero in the Wutai War at the age of 12. He was noted to be the first SOLDIER 1st Class, and inspired several others. Sephiroth, even before learning of his JENOVA heritage, could take on both Genesis Rhapsodos and Angeal Hewley at the same time, who each have several years of experience. Later, he was able to gain extreme amounts of knowledge of the thousand-year old alien, JENOVA, and gain knowledge through the Negative Lifestream)

Powers and Techniques

Spirit Energy Physiology, which includes: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Blessed (Everyone born into the world is blessed with Spirit Energy), Sheer Will (Willpower alone can be enough to fight off Mako poisoning, and the will of Jenova. Those with a strong enough will can retain their sense of self after dying and returning to the Lifestream), Memory Manipulation, Energy Manipulation, Rage Power, & Aura (Limit Breaks are born of memories, are comprised of Spirit Energy, and are unleashed when the user's anger is pushed to the limit. They give off an aura when used), Non-Standard Interaction (Characters can interact with the souls of the Gi Tribe), Regeneration Negation (Biological; Can completely kill pieces of Jenova, preventing them from regenerating). Jenova can regenerate itself fully so long as its cells remain, as Cloud Strife participates in Jenova's Reunion despite only containing her cells. Despite this, pieces of Jenova defeated by the heroes were unable to enact the Reunion), Accelerated Development (When Sephiroth fought the party far earlier than he was supposed to, the main characters could still contend with him, even after Sephiroth absorbed the Whispers and became stronger than he had ever been)

Equipment


  • Masamune: Sephiroth's primary weapon is an extremely large odachi-type blade, with a length of around seven feet long. Because of its length, Sephiroth is able to utilize this blade almost as more of a ranged weapon than a melee weapon. It's very durable, able to cut through metal with ease, though Sephiroth prefers to use it more for piercing foes. This blade has six whole Materia blades, and can be summoned by Sephiroth at will from the Negative Lifestream.
  • Masamune

    Masamune

Notable Techniques

  • Energy Blade: Sephiroth can use giant crescent beams of energy that are launched from swings of his Masamune. He's used this previously to cut through a giant Mako Cannon during his fight with Genesis Rhapsodos.
  • Energy Shockwave: Sephiroth gathers a massive amount of energy into the Masamune, which he then stabs into the ground to unleash a huge shockwave.
  • Octaslash: Sephiroth's most iconic move, which has him use the Masamune to quickly slash the opponent eight consecutive times.
  • Heartless Angel: Summons a small angel that sprinkles magic on the opponent, which leaves them with 1 HP.
  • Supernova: Sephiroth's ultimate attack, which has him create his own pocket dimension where a gigantic meteor of energy collides with the sun. The sun is detonated, expanding into a massive supernova that engulfs the entire solar system and destroys each planet individually.
  • Geostigma: Also called Jenova’s Memetic Legacy, Geostigma is a horrible plague that Kadaj can inflict on others. Those infected with Geostigma will become infected with S-Cells and thus be subject to the Reunion. Those infected with Geostigma become extremely physically weak, and experience intolerable pain in the affected area that secretes a black ooze.

Other

Weaknesses: Sephiroth is extremely arrogant in his own abilities, to the point where he viewed Cloud overpowering him as impossible, which then led to his death. His hatred of Cloud has grown to obsessive levels, and can oftentimes impede on his own goals, as he will sometimes go out of his way to try and make Cloud suffer.

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