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[personal profile] meteors 2015-11-01 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Personality:
Before his fall into madness, Sephiroth was a part of SOLDIER 1st Class, Shinra's finest weapon, and fit both roles near perfectly.

As such, he is what one might expect of a veteran war hero; aloof, hardened, experienced. He appears professionally cool, calm and collected at most times, which often spells him out as arrogant as well, but while there is an air about him that he knows his own worth, Sephiroth never calls active attention to his own accomplishments, nor does he seem to desire more fame or power. For example, the role thrust on him as the hero of the Wutai War is simply a byproduct of his actions throughout the conflict with Wutai, something born out of very necessary deeds committed on the battle field. As such, Sephiroth accepts the title as what it is (and since denying it and the public the hero they want would be messier than not), but he never revels in it. He doesn’t actively reap the goods of being Shinra’s poster boy.

All of this speaks to a modest desire to simply keep doing what he believes he is meant to do; be a SOLDIER 1st, take on missions, and lead an army.

This might make him sound rather one note, or simple in his desires of life. And for a long while it was all there really was to him. Sephiroth did what he had been bred to do; he fought, he killed, he followed orders. He never questioned any of it, not actively.

Conflict does rest inside him though, as he has a deep yearning for better understanding of himself and the world they all live on, Gaia. While the latter isn’t touched upon as much until a later, darker part of his life, the need to better know himself has been present since his very birth— through stifled somewhat by the duty he has to Shinra and SOLDIER.

When born, Sephiroth was immediately stripped from his biological mother’s, Lucrecia Crescent’s, arms and thrust into a childhood full of laboratories and tests, with no notion of parents other than being told that his mother's name was Jenova. Growing up in such a clinical and vastly unnatural environment, Sephiroth grew up to become very different from what one might call a normal human being. He is detached in a sense, something which shows up in his aloofness even in adulthood, and tends to keep people at an arm’s length. His ability for social interaction is harsh and to the point, even analytical as he breaks apart every situation and mission piece by and piece instead of reacting with emotion. It all adds to the aforementioned image of a perfect soldier, and due to his incredible abilities of one, Sephiroth has mostly gotten by remaining as he is socially without the need to change. With the skills to slay countries into submission, he is allowed to be as distant as he desires, to say it simply.

And while this all holds true for the most of what makes up Sephiroth’s personality, there is however a spark in him that speaks of something a little warmer and more human, one that only a few chosen ever get a glimpse of. While he might have grown up with a very stunted childhood socially, upon entering SOLDIER Sephiroth met both Angeal Hewley and Genesis Rhapsodos. These two would then become his closest and only friends, the three of them forming Shinra’s and SOLDIER’s elite three 1st Class members. Both Angeal and Genesis had grown up in somewhat similar conditions and thus a kinship was formed, and all three were able to find something familiar in each other— and it’s perhaps that incredibly rare familiarity that Sephiroth desires, seeing as he is used to being different from everyone else, and they give him a place in the world where he isn’t entirely alone. It’s because of this, that when Sephiroth speaks of his friends, or interacts with them, we see the warmth and humanity seep back into him— all of which points to a care for loyalty and camaraderie. It’s with them that we also learn of Sephiroth’s very dry sense of humor, as he has no problem calling out Genesis on his obsessive quoting of Loveless, or telling Zack about the lectures Angeal would dish him. To take the point of his care for his friends even further, later on Sephiroth both rejects a missions regarding bringing back his defected friends, and then later along with Zack Fair, plans to find them only to let them go again.

His loyalty is to them, not Shinra, and not even SOLDIER. With the way Shinra handles the cases of both Angeal and Genesis, Sephiroth even ends up talking about possibly leaving Shinra entirely.

Some of that loyalty and warmth begins to extend towards Zack as well, as Sephiroth and Zack work together for a few years after Angeal’s passing, and grow closer— some might even call them friends. There is a mutual pain shared between the two as well, concerning Angeal mainly, which Sephiroth uses as a bridge to Zack, once again finding similarity binding him to another person. It’s hard for him to trust people, but as we see through the years of Crisis Core, a few can manage to gain it.

”I knew ever since I was a child, I was not like the others. I knew mine was a special existence. But this is not what I meant.”


The similarity and camaraderie that Sephiroth uses to build the few friendships he has also serves as the opposite of what will then eventually become his ultimate downfall when exploited during a mission to a town called Nibelheim. As mentioned before, Sephiroth’s childhood was an anomaly, and has left him with many questions and no answers. Needless to say underneath the perfect soldier is a wound of insecurity over his origins, the stem of what has always made him so different, and his ultimate weakness. Never does he actively let others know of his thoughts or feelings on the matters concerning himself and his origin, but even he can’t entirely hide his reactions upon learning that there is something different about him— from simple things such as not being allowed to donate blood to a wounded Genesis, to eventually figuring out he’s much more of a monster than anything he has ever fought on the battlefield or anyone else in SOLDIER due to the Jenova cells in his body.

Both Genesis and Angeal share similar cells and are quick to call themselves monsters, never realizing that in doing so they were pinning the title of worst monster on Sephiroth. It’s a truth that will eventually shatter Sephiroth’s mind, and murder the person he had once been, thus casting him into a madness which almost takes the entire world along with him.


Flavor Abilities:


"Sephiroth's strength is unreal. He is far stronger in reality than any story you might have heard about him."


Sephiroth is a SOLDIER 1st Class and as such comes with all the abilities of one. This mean he’s efficient in multiple styles of combat, his most prominent being swordplay with secondary skills in Materia use. He’s also in beyond human physical condition, with strength, speed, stamina— everything surpassing that of a normal human. And thanks to his lifelong relationship with Mako and upbringing in Shinra’s labs, Sephiroth is also far more capable than any other SOLDIER in leaps and bounds.

Despite losing all of his enhancement upon entering Norfinbury, Sephiroth is highly adaptable and will still be in peak condition, pushing the boundaries of human strength. Outside of his Mako-boosted abilities, he’s also good with technology and has a mind for strategic planning and leading during stressful situations.

It should also be noted that Sephiroth, much like his fellow SOLDIER 1st Class comrades Angeal and Genesis, has a large, bird-like and dark feathered wing which stems from his right shoulder blade. It can be furled and unfurled at will (as in it disappears entirely when furled), though he very, very rarely shows it off. Without his Mako enhancements the single wing will essentially not be strong enough to carry his weight, and will thus be fairly useless.

On a similar note with other SOLDIERs, Sephiroth has Mako-glowing eyes, though his have been taken to a whole new level as his pupils are near cat-like slits, and no traces of whatever original colour Sephiroth’s eyes might have been remain from under the Mako green hue.
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