Sephiroth proceeded back to the reactor to claim the head of Jenova, his biological mother, at which time he impaled Tifa, before battling Cloud for the first time.
Together, they pushed past the barriers of self-deception and trauma that had obfuscated his memories. The events were mostly accurate, but she did not remember Cloud being there. Casting aside false memories, they learned that Cloud had been present as one of the masked support troops accompanying Zack and Sephiroth to Nibelheim.
When Sephiroth went berserk and injured Tifa, Zack unsuccessfully tried to stand up to him. This approach made sense at the time, as during their first playthrough, most players wouldn't have known about Sephiroth's existence aside from the few mentions made of him.
That's not so true anymore, as there's a good chance that even those who've never played a Final Fantasy game in their life might recognize Sephiroth by both appearance and name. Given his popularity, it would make little sense for the first episode of Final Fantasy 7 Remake to not include him at all, and his new role paints him in a much more powerful and dark way.
It seems that these aren't actual appearances, though, as none of the other characters ever see him in these moments, often asking Cloud if he is alright or reacting to his outbursts with confusion.
This drives home the connection that Cloud and Sephiroth share, as the two have some kind of bond that brings them together metaphysically. Frequently Sephiroth will take the place of other characters or simply appear to taunt Cloud when he is not actually there.
Furthermore, many of the flashback scenes involving Cloud and Tifa's hometown, Nibelheim , are broken up into fragments and scattered throughout the Midgar portion of the story in order to contextualize Cloud's relationship with Sephiroth in a more modern way. These are yet more instances of Sephiroth appearing in the game indirectly, further manipulating Cloud and providing depth to the characters of both Cloud and Tifa.
That said, there are two times in particular in which Sephiroth appears before the protagonists in the flesh, a fact which can be verified by the others' ability to see him as well. In the original Final Fantasy 7, the protagonists do not see Sephiroth stealing Jenova's remains , but in the remake, this is the first time the whole party comes face to face with Sephiroth in reality.
He arrives with a small entourage, including Zack and two Shinra infantrymen , one of whom is the sixteen-year-old Cloud Strife. Sephiroth asks Cloud how it feels to be back in his hometown, as he lacks one. When questioned by Zack about family, Sephiroth explains his mother, Jenova, died during childbirth, but stops short of mentioning his father before proceeding with the mission.
At the mako reactor , Sephiroth makes two disturbing discoveries: several pod-like chambers containing monstrous creatures who used to be human, mutated by exposure to mako and a section labeled "JENOVA" containing a feminine-looking creature. When Zack suggests a connection between SOLDIER and the creatures in the tanks, Sephiroth flies into a rage, horrified that he is "different", perhaps because he was created similarly to the monsters in the pods.
Sephiroth rejects Genesis's request for Jenova cells from him. Disturbed by the creature in the reactor having the same name as his "mother", along with the once-human monsters in the pods and Genesis's words, Sephiroth makes his way to the manor that had been occupied by Shinra researchers.
He pores over the research notes in the basement library , wondering why he was never told the truth of his origins. He comes to believe Jenova is a Cetra, and therefore he, as Jenova's "son", is the last Cetra survivor.
He maintains the human race had betrayed the Cetra 2, years ago, leaving them alone to defend the planet from a calamity eventually revealed to have been Jenova itself , and resolves to take vengeance for his "ancestors". On October 1st Sephiroth destroys Nibelheim, setting the town on fire and killing many townspeople before returning to the reactor to claim Jenova's remains.
He is pursued by Tifa's father , Tifa herself, Zack, and Cloud. Tifa, a girl living in the town who had been Sephiroth's group's guide up the mountain, takes up Sephiroth's Masamune from beside her father's corpse and attacks him, but he disarms her and cuts her down.
Mother, let's take back the planet together. I had an epiphany Let's go to the promised land, mother. You should have ruled this planet.
You were stronger, smarter. But then they came. Those inferior dullards. They came and took this planet away from you. But don't be sad, mother. I am with you now. Shortly after Sephiroth enters Jenova's chamber, Zack arrives to confront him. Sephiroth only keeps talking to his "mother", saying they will reclaim the planet and head to the promised land. He tears off the effigy blocking Jenova's remains and ejects Zack from the chamber, continuing to declare himself "chosen" to rule the planet.
Cloud enters with Zack's Buster Sword and impales Sephiroth from behind through the abdomen. The severely wounded Sephiroth decapitates Jenova and stumbles across the room, and is again attacked by Cloud.
Sephiroth stabs him with his Masamune, but Cloud uses it as a lever to hurl Sephiroth into a pool of mako below the reactor. Sephiroth vanishes with Jenova's head still in his grasp, apparently falling to his death. Shinra seals the records on Sephiroth, declaring him killed in action, and rebuilds Nibelheim to cover up the incident, populating it with Shinra employees paid to act as the villagers.
Sephiroth fell into the lifestream, his willpower too great to allow himself to be consumed. Over the next several years, Sephiroth traveled the lifestream, the planet's life energy, and the afterlife for its spirits that contains the summation of the cognition its inhabitant have accumulated. Growing in power and knowledge, the fragments of his body congregate at the Northern Cave inside the North Crater , joining to recreate Sephiroth's physical form in a cocoon of mako.
Sephiroth's new goal is to merge with the lifestream and seize control of it to become a god. Though his physical body is encased in mako, Sephiroth can control Jenova's cells as an extension of his body and thus act out his plans through the remains of Jenova's body. Hojo has injected Zack, Cloud and the other survivors of Nibelheim save for Tifa who was rescued by her mentor Zangan before Shinra found her with Sephiroth's cells, turning them into Sephiroth-clones : people whose wills have been over-ridden with Sephiroth's will.
Hojo believes the Jenova cells within Sephiroth would call for a " reunion " of those who share its cells and wishes to see his theory put to the test. Approximately five years after his supposed death, in December , Sephiroth enacts his plan and puts out the call for the reunion to summon the Sephiroth-clones to the North Cave. Jenova's remains, which had been moved to the Shinra HQ in Midgar , shapeshift into Sephiroth's form and break out of containment. Sephiroth kills President Shinra after declaring Shinra should never acquire the Cetra's fabled promised land.
Cloud, seeing Sephiroth's Masamune left at President Shinra's murder site, surmises Sephiroth is alive, and sets out with Avalanche to find him and settle the score for what happened to Nibelheim. However, what Cloud doesn't know is that his drive for pursuing Sephiroth is compounded by the Jenova cells calling him toward Sephiroth to reunite with the main body as per Hojo's "Reunion Theory". He appears some time later in the Nibelheim Shinra Manor basement, where he mentions the reunion and calls for Cloud to follow him.
At the Temple of the Ancients , Sephiroth reveals the full extent of his plans—the planet relies on the lifestream to heal itself when wounded, and the North Crater, where the lifestream is abundant, is where Jenova fell two thousand years ago. Using the Black Materia , Sephiroth plans to call the Ultimate Destructive Magic— Meteor —to injure the planet and place himself at the center of its impact zone as the lifestream emerges to heal the planet's wound.
Sephiroth plans to merge with the lifestream, becoming a god. Cloud acquires the Black Materia first, but Sephiroth exerts his influence over the Jenova cells within Cloud's body and takes control of him, forcing Cloud to hand the Materia over.
Aerith Gainsborough , the true last survivor of the Cetra and a member of Cloud's party, uses the White Materia to summon Holy , the only power able to counter Meteor. During her prayer, Sephiroth or rather, Jenova transformed into his image impales her with his sword, killing her. Though Aerith had successfully called Holy, Sephiroth holds it back within the planet.
Cloud and his allies continue tracking Jenova's remains in Sephiroth's form to the North Crater. Cloud and his party kill Jenova in Sephiroth's form and reclaim the Black Materia. Cloud entrusts it to a party member for safekeeping while he and Tifa continue deeper into the crater and find themselves in an illusion of Nibelheim's destruction that Sephiroth conjured. Sephiroth wants to break Cloud by making him believe he is but a simulacrum created by Professor Hojo with false memories.
Sephiroth deceives Cloud into thinking he is a mere cluster of Jenova cells that assumed the identity of a boy named "Cloud" from Tifa's childhood. Tifa tries to tell Cloud that Sephiroth is lying but cannot deny that she never saw Cloud at Nibelheim during its destruction.
Tifa's words, along with Sephiroth's manipulations, take their toll and shatter Cloud's fragile mind. Sephiroth projects an illusion of Tifa before the party members left behind to bring the Black Materia to Cloud. Once Cloud takes back the Black Materia, he hands it over to Sephiroth's true body residing within a mako cocoon.
Sephiroth summons the Meteor, which awakens the planet's defense mechanism, the Weapons. The area's walls crumble as the Weapons, colossal monsters, arise from their slumber, and Sephiroth's mako cocoon falls into the crater. Cloud's allies flee with Rufus Shinra , the new president of the Shinra Company, on the airship Highwind. Sephiroth erects an energy barrier over the crater to keep the Weapons from detecting him. Sephiroth is mentioned frequently in Hoshi o Meguru Otome , as the deceased Aerith's spirit observes the effects Sephiroth's actions are having on the lifestream and the planet.
Sephiroth begins shapeshifting his body into a form befitting a god, awaiting Meteor's arrival. Cloud recovers upon discovering the truth about his past. In late January , Shinra fires the Mako Cannon, known as the Sister Ray , at the North Crater, piercing Sephiroth's barrier and allowing Cloud and his allies to enter the crater and reach Sephiroth. They find Sephiroth at the planet's core, blocking Holy. Cloud and his allies destroy him. However, his mind persists; pulling Cloud into a final metaphysical battle in an attempt to control him.
Cloud's mind has grown, and he defeats Sephiroth, who dissolves into the lifestream, seemingly destroyed. With Sephiroth gone, Holy is released from the planet's core.
Aerith's spirit helps the lifestream emerge and keep the Meteor at bay for the Holy to destroy it. Sephiroth is the focus of the On the Way to a Smile "Lifestream: Black" chapters where he uses the lifestream's emergence to fight Meteor to infect the planet with Geostigma , dispersing his memories among the lifestream to spread the disease.
Sephiroth avoids dissolution into the lifestream by focusing on his hatred of Cloud, which allows him to maintain a core sense of being and remain separate from the other spirits. With his peripheral memories, including those of his appearance, stripped away over time, he uses memories of how others in the lifestream see him craft his avatars and sends them to find Jenova's remains to create a new body for himself.
Geostigma has spread throughout the world, afflicting many with extreme fatigue and skin sores. Sephiroth's remaining consciousness corrupts a part of the lifestream. It primarily affects children due to their weaker immune systems. Cloud has also contracted the disease and experiences visions of Sephiroth. The now-reclusive Cloud finds himself confronted by a trio of silver-haired men who are physical manifestations of Sephiroth's will.
The three, Kadaj , Loz and Yazoo , believe they are guided by their "mother" Jenova, but rather, it is Sephiroth himself who forces their actions. The three seek Jenova's cells to be reunited with her, unaware of Sephiroth's plan to resurrect himself using Jenova's last remnants. When Kadaj absorbs Jenova's cells, Sephiroth exerts his power over Jenova to shapeshift Kadaj's body into his own visage, restoring him to life.
Sephiroth faces Cloud and, disappointed his adversary was cured of Geostigma, reveals his plan to gather the souls of Geostigma's deceased victims to corrupt the lifestream and gain control over the world. He plans to use the planet as a vessel to travel space and find a new planet to rule.
Sephiroth and Cloud fight in the ruins of Midgar that was never rebuilt after being ravaged by the Meteor, with Sephiroth dominating and severely injuring Cloud by impaling him in the same manner in Nibelheim. Cloud is reinvigorated by memories of his friends and family and destroys Sephiroth. When Cloud demands he stay in his memories, Sephiroth only replies, "I will His black wing folds around him and he fades away, leaving a weakened Kadaj to die and fade into the lifestream as Aerith's spirit calls healing rain to cure the planet of Geostigma.
Chronologically, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is Sephiroth's final appearance in the Final Fantasy VII timeline , and his current status is unknown, though it is likely, given his past tenacity, that he continues to exist within the lifestream.
Although Sephiroth himself does not appear during the events of Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII- , he is mentioned in a flashback with the pregnant Lucrecia, who experienced a vision as to what her child would become. The second mention is from Weiss the Immaculate when explaining he is actually Hojo possessing his body.
In another flashback, when Lucrecia is trying to save Vincent Valentine , she demands that Hojo give back her baby Sephiroth. He was experimented on from a very young age. Besides all that, he merged with Jenova, and she and Sephiroth become a single being. After falling into the lifestream, Sephiroth learned all that he could from the planet. Besides that, he was able to create bodies to travel around the world when he needed something physically done. That is most likely why Sephiroth is always trying to bring despair to Cloud.
It was Cloud who threw Sephiroth into the lifestream when he was leaving a Mako Reactor with Jenova's head. It is very clear that at this point, Sephiroth and Cloud are nearly at the same power level. The third time, Cloud was able to defeat Sephiroth on his own, without any help or use of Materia. One can argue that the circumstances were always favoring Cloud in every single one of their conflicts.
During the first one, Sephiroth was extremely confused. During their second encounter, Sephiroth transformed into a creature that had godlike powers. In order to be stopped, Cloud needed all his friends and all the Materia they could find on their journey.
The third time is the one that might cause some arguments. Kadaj turned into Sephiroth by merging with Jenova's cells. However, in theory, the reunion should have happened with the help of the other two Advent Children.
One can argue that Sephiroth did not have all his powers at his disposal.
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