The project was successful and brought about the natural birth of Angeal Hewley. The idea was to hopefully bring about a superhuman being, one with enhanced powers. Gillian Hewley with injected with Jenova cells and then impregnated. The first extreme experiment was Project Gillian with was lead by Dr. While early experiments with Jenova cells proved somewhat successful, the team began to try more extreme procedures in the hopes for greater success. The Jenova research mostly took place in the Shinra mansion above Nibelheim. Shinra, being the greedy company that it was, wanted to harness this Mako for itself, and became obsessed with finding this Cetra legend. The Promised Land was a mythical location said to house infinite amounts of Mako. It was believed that the Cetra could talk to the planet and knew where the Promised Land was. Ignorantly, Professor Gast mistook Jenova for a Cetra, and began running experiments to see if he could produce a Cetra in the present day. The Cetra were finally able to bury Jenova in the Northern Cavern where she laid dormant until Shinra found her. At the time, the prominent race was the Cetra and they suffered significant losses during Jenova’s attacks. Thousands of years before the events of Final Fantasy VII, an extraterrestrial being known as Jenova landed on Gaia and began to attack its people. Sephiroth is easily one of the most recognizable video game characters of all time and understanding his backstory sheds more light on Final Fantasy VII’s story as a whole. When trying to meet a specific word count in writing a personal biography, Derek sometimes adds Oscar Wilde quotes, like, “Be yourself everyone else is already taken.We have taken a look at a lot of Final Fantasy VII protagonists like Aerith, Tifa, Vincent, and Cait Sith, but this week we wanted to switch gears a bit and take a look at Sephiroth. A fan of classics as well as the latest and greatest, Derek balances sampling the newest entertainment media with revisiting the well of a (thankfully) never-ending backlog. After being immersed in nerd culture for many years, Derek is now happy to write about the media he enjoys instead of just ranting to his friends. He is a fan of science fiction and fantasy, video game and tabletop RPGs, classic Hong Kong action movies, and graphic novels. Derek majored in journalism and worked for a print newspaper before discovering the internet. When he is not writing, playing video games, watching movies or television, or reading novels or comic books, he occasionally takes some time to sleep. He lives with his wife, three dogs, and a likely excessive number of video game consoles. To him, Cloud is an irksome reminder that even seemingly insignificant people can face overwhelming odds to protect the ones they love.ĭerek Garcia is a Game Feature Writer for ScreenRant. To Sephiroth, Cloud was nothing, a faceless infantryman who dared to stand up to him when he was reclaiming his birthright as heir to the power of Jenova. Final Fantasy 7’s late-game segments confirm Cloud hates Sephiroth because he is a reminder of his failure and weakness, which nearly cost Tifa's life, the person who motived him to join SOLDIER in the first place. Cloud left Nibelheim aiming to become one of Shinra’s elite in hopes of winning Tifa’s approval, not out of admiration for Sephiroth.īy mentally rewriting his own origins to take on Zack’s role, Cloud forgot what originally drove him. The time he met her under the stars to state his intent to become a SOLDIER was one of the few moments they had spent together. Cloud adored Tifa from a distance as a child, but they were not close. In the Lifestream, Cloud revealed that the real reason he served Shinra was to impress Tifa. Cloud’s shame and trauma caused him to mentally superimpose himself into the role Zack occupied: a successful SOLDIER betrayed by his idol.

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