Post by Sephiroth on May 2, 2010 11:30:43 GMT -6
[Sephiroth]
The Basics
- Real Name: Sephiroth
- Alias / Codename: The One Winged Angel, The Heartless One
- Gender: Male
- Age: Unknown, appears to be mid-late twenties
- Affiliation: Villain
- Canon / Original: Cannon
- Face Claim [if original]:
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- Enigmatic
- Insane
- Devoted
Sephiroth is an enigmatic figure to say the least. Although many know all to well what his ultimate plan might be, Sephiroth is incredibly secretive and usually not forthcoming with much else. Despite his incalculable insanity, Sephiroth is easily one of the most brilliant minds ever conceived. Able to manipulate others with relative ease, Sephiroth conceals an unknowable intellect behind those cold and abysmal eyes. Cumulatively, his personality has become quite literally, a shattered husk of his former liveliness; Sephiroth still seems to convey an unrivaled charm and wit, only blanketed beneath a sea of depravity and jaded perspectives. This unbalanced mixture of positive character traits often makes other uneasy around him, since his conveyed emotions often conceal the morbid intentions that truly shuffle within his addled mind. As the ¡®Chosen One¡¯, Sephiroth is completely devoted to the will of his mother, Jenova. Ultimately, Sephiroth sees but one purpose for his existence: The utter annihilation of the world and eventually all life until he locates 'the promised land' and creates his mother¡¯s new utopia. He is heartless, ruthless, savage and vile, relishing the pain of others and deliberately inflicting as much emotional and psychological pain as possible alongside the physical.
[/blockquote]Extraordinary Features
Powers & Abilities
- Master Swordsman: Sephiroth is considered by many to be a practically unrivaled swordsman. This is not only demonstrated by his ability to wield Masamune, a seven foot katana that is literally impossible to use by lesser swordsmen, but also through his manipulation of his blade with unparallel ease and unquestionable strength, speed and accuracy.
- Master Materia: Sephiroth, has the power of all configurations of Materia, and by extension magic. Ranging from meager elemental spells to calling down asteroids from the heavens themselves, Sehiroth has a wide array of magical powers at his disposal as well as gifts that have yet to be fully revealed.
- Tactiian: Sephiroth was the best member SOLDIER ever held in their ranks. He is a master tactician and a veteran warrior; well versed in the manipulation of strategy, positioning and subterfuge.
- ???: Quite honestly, no one knows the true depths of Sephiroth's power. He has demonstrated flight, teleportation, psychic abilities, illusions, and nearly unlimited intelligence due to his connection to the life stream. It is uncertain if he can be permanently killed at all.
Weaknesses
- Honestly, Sephiroth has revealed little in the ways of physical weaknesses, but as with all impossibly strong villains, he can be stopped. To fully understand any of Sephirth¡¯s weaknesses it is crucial to understand that sephiroth¡¯s strength does no come from any power he possesses, but rather his indomitable will. Cloud strife, a genetically weaker warrior, has always defeated him through sheer force of will rather than overpowering brute strength.
However, due to the volatile and unstable nature of Sephiroth¡¯s genetic code during rebirth, he will initially be a far weaker than norm, however he will quickly regain his full strength as time passes and his cellular structure stabilizes.- Sephiroth¡¯s mind is strong, but shattered. He is often arrogant, prideful and somewhat egocentric. Although he rarely lets anything unnerve him, topics of light, love, and happiness often take him out of his element, if but for a moment. These are often times when others can see a glimpse of what might be a fracture in his universally calm and collected demeanor.
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The Role-Player[/font][/size][/color]Sephiroth was born thirty years before the start of Final Fantasy VII (exact month left unknown) to Professor Hojo and Lucrecia Crescent. Before Sephiroth's birth, Hojo and Lucrecia were working as assistants to Professor Gast, Shinra'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 and her unborn baby. Lucrecia then carried Sephiroth to term, his fetal form merging with the cells of Jenova as it developed.
- Current Residence: N/A
After his birth, Shinra raised Sephiroth to be a super soldier, the very first SOLDIER. They told him nothing of his mother except that her name was "Jenova," and that she died during childbirth. He was not aware his father was the mad scientist Professor Hojo, whom he referred to as "inexperienced" and "a walking mass of complexes" ¡ª however, he respected Professor Gast, until he left Shinra 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 Shinra's victory against Wutai in 0000.
President Shinra comes to rely on Sephiroth during the events of Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-, calling Sephiroth in whenever the situation personally threatens the President's life, like during the first AVALANCHE attack on Junon on February 30, 0001. Sephiroth engages the AVALANCHE leader, Elf¨¦, but she blocks his strikes, impressing him. While the two are fighting, Elf¨¦ questions why Sephiroth is fighting. She asks whether if he ever wants to "fight for a reason", which seems to have a profound effect on the SOLDIER. The results of Sephiroth choosing to fight for a reason would one day threaten the entire Planet's existence. He is later sent in on June 18, 0002, to "rescue" Professor Hojo who had almost defected with the AVALANCHE forces attacking the Shinra Building.
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 friends. When Genesis and Sephiroth duel in the virtual reality Junon, Sephiroth seems to be the strongest, 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 Shinra, making Sephiroth very uneasy about his missions against him. Just before his final mission, Sephiroth hints that he may leave Shinra altogether.
In what would become his final mission, Sephiroth was ordered to inspect the Mako Reactor outside the town of Nibelheim on September 22, 0002. He enters with a small entourage, consisting of one other member of SOLDIER and a few Shinra MPs. Among this group was SOLDIER 1st Class member Zack and his friend, a 16-year-old Shinra trooper named Cloud Strife. 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 expanded 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 Shinra 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 Shinra 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".
On October 1st, Sephiroth proceeded to destroy Nibelheim, setting the town to the flame, before returning to the reactor to claim Jenova's remains. He is followed by Tifa, Zack, and Cloud. At the reactor, Tifa takes up Sephiroth's Masamune from her father's corpse and attacks him, but he disarms her and cuts her down. Shortly after entering Jenova's chamber, Zack arrives and attacks him. In Final Fantasy VII he is easily defeated, but Crisis Core retcons this into a full battle where Zack fight Sephiroth in a pair fight. Either way, Zack is defeated and tossed out of the chamber. Cloud enters the reactor and picks up Zack's Buster Sword, rushing after Sephiroth. Caught off-guard, Sephiroth is impaled through the abdomen.
Due to Sephiroth's enhanced anatomy, however, he survived Cloud's assault, though wounded greatly. As Cloud left him to tend to Tifa, Sephiroth sliced off Jenova's head and stumbled from the room. Cloud attacks him again with rage, but Sephiroth stabs him with the Masamune. Cloud summons unknown strength and uses the sword as a lever, hurling Sephiroth into a pool of Mako below the reactor. In Last Order, it was retconed that Cloud only managed to fling Sephiroth into the wall, and that Sephiroth jumped into the Mako pool as a means of escape, stunned by Cloud's strength. No other version of the Nibelheim incident shows events going this way, although Episode 12 of Before Crisis did depict a similar scenario.
Following this, Shinra sealed the records on Sephiroth and rebuilt Nibelheim in order to cover up the incident, populating it with Shinra employees paid to act as the town's citizens. However, the renegade SOLDIER survived the plunge, and spent the next few years traveling the Lifestream, learning the secrets of the Ancients. In particular, Sephiroth learned of the Black Materia, which could call the ultimate black magic, Meteor. Sephiroth eventually came to rest in the Northern Crater, the site of Jenova's landing 2,000 years ago. Crystallized in Mako to increase his powers, Sephiroth would remain in hibernation for some time, using his new found influence over Jenova to act through her.
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 states that when Jenova's cells are separated, they will seek to rejoin each other. Hojo injected the survivors with Mako and Jenova cells, dubbing them "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 Shinra Mansion of Nibelheim. Shortly before the main events of Final Fantasy VII begin, Zack broke free and took the semi-comatose Cloud with him. At some time in 0007, the call of the Reunion began to go out, and the Sephiroth clones began making their way toward the Northern Crater to join with Sephiroth.
Approximately five years after his supposed death, in December 0007, Sephiroth enacted his plan to find the Black Materia. Jenova's remains, which had been moved to Shinra Headquarters, took on Sephiroth's form and broke out of containment. Jenova/Sephiroth then released Cloud and the members of AVALANCHE, who were being held prisoner and killed President Shinra after declaring to the President that his company should never acquire the Promised Land. Sephiroth subsequently began searching for clues to the location of the Black Materia. Cloud, seeing Sephiroth's Masamune left at the scene of President Shinra's death, suspects he may be alive and sets out with AVALANCHE to find him and settle the score for what happened to Nibelheim.
The party first sees Sephiroth on the Cargo Ship, where he alludes to the Jenova Reunion. He also appears some time later in Nibelheim, where he again mentions the Reunion. When Cloud and his allies discover that Sephiroth is tracking down the Black Materia, they go to the Temple of the Ancients to acquire it first. There they again find Sephiroth, who tells them the full extent of his plans - the Planet relies on the Lifestream to heal itself when wounded. Using the Black Materia, Sephiroth plans to use it to call Meteor to strike the Planet, causing another large wound. Sephiroth would then place himself at the center of this wound, merging with the Lifestream and taking control of it, becoming a God ruling over the Planet.
Cloud succeeds in acquiring the Black Materia, but Sephiroth exerts his influence over Jenova's cells and takes control of Cloud, who hands the Materia over to Jenova. At this time 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 (or rather, a clone containing Jenova LIFE) fell from above and impaled her with his sword, killing the flower girl. Though Aeris 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. Cloud and his allies continued tracking Sephiroth to the Northern Crater.
At the crater, Cloud kills Jenova in Sephiroth's form and reclaims the Black Materia, this time giving it to a party member to keep it safe in case Sephiroth controls him again. Cloud and Tifa continue deeper into the crater and find an illusion of Nibelheim's destruction, showing a man with black hair in Cloud's place. Sephiroth tells Cloud he was never at Nibelheim and is not even real, being nothing more than a cluster of Jenova cells who had taken on the memories of a boy named "Cloud." Sephiroth's manipulations and lies take their told, and shatter Cloud's fragile mind. Meanwhile, Sephiroth projects an illusion to the party members left behind of Cloud asking them to come to his aid, and the party member entrusted with the Black Materia follows them. Cloud takes the Black Materia back from them, and Sephiroth reveals his true body encased in crystallized Mako. Cloud delivers the Black Materia to Sephiroth, who uses it. The crater collapses, and Cloud's allies are forced to flee with Rufus Shinra to escape. Sephiroth unleashes the Weapons from their sleep and erects an energy barrier over the crater to keep them from detecting him.
With the Weapons causing chaos and keeping his enemies from rallying against him, Sephiroth began shapeshifting his body into a form befitting a God, awaiting the arrival of Meteor. Cloud was eventually recovered by his allies, and they received unlikely assistance from Shinra. In later January 0008, they fired the massive Mako cannon known as the Sister Ray at the Northern Crater, piercing Sephiroth's barrier and allowing Cloud and his allies to enter the crater and find Sephiroth.
Descending into the crater, they eventually find Sephiroth at the Planet's core, blocking Holy from stopping Meteor as it began its impact. After they dispatched Sephiroth's larva-like "Bizarro∙Sephiroth" form, Sephiroth emerged from it, almost entirely transformed into his ultimate form, an angelic being with seven wings. Cloud and his allies destroyed Sephiroth, but his mind endured. Pulling Cloud into the Lifestream for a final mental battle, Sephiroth attempted to take control of his mind again, but Cloud's mental defenses had grown, and he defeated Sephiroth. Battered and bloody, Sephiroth dissolved into the Lifestream, seemingly destroyed.
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- Name: Sephi, crim
- Experience: about 8 or 9 years
- Characters: Nope
- Custom Title: The One Winged Angel
- Other Notes: Biography was taken from final Fantasy Wiki
- Sample Role-Play Post:
¡°None can stop me¡from fulfilling your will¡¡± A voice whispered in the darkness of the abyss as a demented consciousness echoed throughout. The world in its entirety groaned at the birth pains that were to come; as though the celestial figure could foretell the resurrection of the avatar of Jenova. The heavens would once again tremble at the name of the firstborn of the destroyer¡.
A shadowed figure shuffled along the earth, his steps wild, uncontrolled, and gradually weakening. The cloaked figure, nameless, disfigured, and broken continued his journey across the desolate wastes, driven by a lone voice, calling out amongst the rock and bone of the wilderness, the creature marched; with each step his body grew weaker but his resolve grew tenfold. This would be his gift to mother, a demonstration of his unflinching love for his creator. As he marched on, a soft melodious muttering sneaked across the barren waste.¡± Hush child, darkness will rise from the deep and carry you down into sleep¡.¡±
The world seemed to grow evermore still, hushed to the approach of the figure as he continued to sing. ¡°Hush child, darkness will rise from the deep and carry you down into sleep¡loyalty¡loyalty¡.loyalty¡.loyalty¡¡± The song of his mother spurred him forward; his steps grew stronger, faster, more concise. ¡°Loyalty¡.loyalty¡.loyalty¡.loyalty!¡± The creature repeated as his legs began to pick up speed. The figure lifted his eyes to the landscape that lie ahead, his lips twisting into a crooked smile as his eyes gazed upon the womb for his birth. A chasm that exposed a small pool of the life stream, Mako.
His formerly confident steps seemed to fall away as the cloaked being was seemingly overcome by his former weakness; clinging to his purpose by wildly flailing and clawing towards the abysmal chasm. His body thrashed as though possessed, but his muscles failed him, his lungs screamed for air, all to be denied.
¡°¡Loyalty..¡±
The words that cascaded through the earth as the figure hurled himself into the pit with one final, desperate thrust of all his might. A faint glint of satisfaction stained his lips as he descended into the darkness. Mother would be pleased.
Silence loomed over the site, all creation holding it¡¯s breath as the one winged angel arose from the depths. Gracefully floating ever upwards and gradually descending to the earth, his visage alone spoke volumes of what was to come. A ominous black wing, sprouting from his right side casually receded within as a deviled smirk skipped across the demon¡¯s lips.
¡°¡And so it begins once more¡¡±
