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I think it would have been interesting if they had gone more into this aspect. Shinra was a conquering force; Sephiroth was no hero, he was an invading demon. And maybe that revelation should have affected him just as much as his alien origins, if not more. Than again, this is FF7, not Type-0.
That is why he is such a good villain, a villain you cannot help but feel sympathy for, first Genesis abandons him then Angeal and then Genesis says what he says to him then he reads the files and again believes the lies and goes mad, in on way to a smile black it is revealed he stripped himself of his humanity all of it so he could continue his dark path and such
@Heartless Angel Ketsueki It should still play out because the rest of the party besides Aerith is clueless about Sephiroth and his connection to Cloud. The telling of his backstory is important for the characters as well as both new and even old fans alike, I don't see them skipping it. That would be a huge mistake.
@@loregasmic I beat FF7 remake part 1, watched advent children, and played the entire Kingdom Hearts series before touching the original FF7. The entire time I was playing the remake I wondered, “Why the heck do Sephiroth and Cloud have a rivalry?” So I finally played the original ps1 FF7 and got to the backstory cutscene. It surprised me so so much. I was like, “SEPHIROTH HAD A PERSONALITY?!” I super hope remake part 2 gives us a more 3 dimensional and fleshed out Sephiroth
Honestly, Sephiroth did know that. He was given a moment where he had two paths in Nebilhiem. One was to continue fighting for Shinra, the other to fight for himself. He chose the later. The tragedy was he really didn't have a third choice and let his anger and hatred regarding the situation warp him into the final monster he became.
Actually, because you know so well of your past, you wouldn’t feel the need to find out who you are, but people who have no idea of how they came to life really want to seek out their root. Especially with someone who is already on top of the pyramid like Seph, he had everything but his origin.
yes but he also understood that corperations are fucking up the planet and that he needed to do something about that,shure he went a little nuts but he also fought and killed bad people not only good people.
Sephiroth wasn't always the villain, he was a fallen hero who learned the truth of his birth and was used as a weapon his whole life. Not to mentioned sent to war at the age of 12. All that would put a toll on even the strongest of people.
Wouldn't say he knew the actual truth of his birth he found what hojo wanted him to find about his birth that collaborated with what hojo had been telling him which in my mind is even more sad
Yup. 😢 ...Everytime he does something sinister, i always get a little sad... he snapped from finding out all of the truths behind his "birth" and he goes on a path doing what he thinks to be right, only to be a genuine force of chaos in the process. No different than a child being confused in their adolescence; He just kind of starts lashing out and hurting all of those he came to love and once knew because he was never shown any other way but to destroy and take orders... 😪 I really do love his arc as a "villian"
You are not alone in this, Sammich. Hojo is the one true monster of FFVII. Everything bad that happens, happens because of him. Hollander competes with Hojo, and creates Genesis and Angeal's suffering. He creates Deepground. He manipulates everyone for his own ends. He's responsible for the imprisonment of Zack and Cloud, resulting in the former's death, and the latter's mental mess. He's to blame for everything. Even Sephiroth's breakdown.
@@Snipergod1024 the true villian of FF7 was humanity, human nature, and the apathy that humans have and willfully flaunt as long as they get what they want. Examples: 1.) Everyone knew what Mako was! the affects of the consumption of Mako was apparent all around them. 2.) when they bumped into Aerith in Midgar, no one stopped to help her (this was better exemplified in remake when she got bumped and dropped her flowers and that one guys stepped on one It wasn't in a time of panic) 3.) the dichotomy of Midgar and the Slums 4.) Clouds character arc from apathetic asshole edgelord, to a less apathetic asshole edgelord? etc... Sephiroth, Jenova, Shinra, Hojo... all of these were products of the true villain of FF7... human apathy
@@sinflux1 while I see your arguments, I would disagree. Hojo is the product of insanity and greed. Sephiroth is insanity and despair, mixed with manipulation. Cloud's arc is from mentally damaged amnesiac, to someone who worked out his own life and existence. Aerith being bumped is less apathy, and more just not noticing, rather than not caring. What Mako was wasn't common knowledge, that's wrong. Your points are good. But they aren't marks of apathy.
@Aziria Shingen It would have been a beautiful scene if it actually happened like that. Then we have Cloud and Sephiroth hugging each other like brother or brothers in arms like commrades.
"I will never be a memory," he said with raw determination glistening in his mako-infused eyes. "I don't want to be just a memory," he said as a single tear of sadness and fear ran down his cheek.
"I... don't want to be a memory... I will never be a memory... I will be an experience... I will be a goal... I want to be an inspiration... I'm done. I'm done, you hear?! Done! I'm a S.O.L.D.I.E.R. no longer! I'M THROUGH! Curse you Hojo, I'm done! I AM SEPHIROTH F*CKING GHAST, THE MAN! NOT A DAMNED MACHINE!"
If I was a minister in Shinra sent to heal his worries: “I weep with you. You will never be a memory. You are loved. Your name is in our halls and we let you frolic if it is needed. You deserve all the love we put into you, and you do deserve to share that beauty & love.” “Your strength is unmatched, your knowledge unreachable even by me, yet through my and your tears - the tears of many witnessing your art - you will heal from this. I, we, all of us in Shinra just want you to be with us, to all the people and their shelters, and for you to just not scare the wicked, but to have many children come to you to hear your instruments & glory. Please, Sephiroth. Don’t let the past hope be a memory to all of us. We do truly believe you are greatness.”
just a quick reminder that the lyrics: "estuans interius ira vehementi" means literally "burning inside with violent anger". can you imagine the amount of pain sephiroth must've been undergoing all the time before going insane?
@@shiningmissingno.8788 Yeah, he was happy and he did have friends... before they all either died or stabbed him in the back. The only friend he had after that was Zack who was there to witness his slow descent into insanity before Sephiroth eventually deemed the entire planet his enemy.
"Then what should an angel fight for? What do angels dream of?! Angels dream of one thing... To be human." -Angeal, one of few friends Sephiroth ever had.
Hear the echoes: "you are no different than those monsters you slew..." "you are nothing but a mere lab rat" "mother?" "you look in the mirror and don't recognize yourself" "am i human?" "since the beginning you knew you were different than the others..." "monster!" "abomination!" "heir to the planet" "who am i..?" "Sephiroth!" "i must end it, i must destroy everything." Knowing nothing about himself, being used as a weapon since his conception, being lied to everyday, knowing only war, and not knowing much about emotions, affection or love; every fiber of his body and mind broke upon learning the truth about himself. He turned out to the only feel that he knew: hatred.
The real villain of Final Fantasy VII was always Hojo. True, Jenova was the catalyst for most of the misery therein; but Jenova was an alien life form, whose intentions we might never be able to really discern. For all we know, Jenova was a parasite, or was itself parasitized, a slave to its own corrupted instincts. But Hojo? Hojo knew there was so much power in its blood he decided to impart some of it onto an innocent child in utero. In the Nibelheim scene, we witness Sephiroth lose his grip on sanity when he comes near the sample of Jenova contained within the reactor. It's been my hypothesis for a long time that his insanity, his corruption, was a direct consequence of coming into contact with the Jenova life-form; from there, Sephiroth's will was hijacked, the same way Jenova hijacked the Cetra. Jenova descended on to the Planet. Attempted to take it over. Even in Sephiroth's stated aims, he wants to hijack the Planet and use it as a vessel to voyage through the cosmos. Jenova was seeking to infect yet another world. She might even be related to the Lavos creature of Chrono Trigger. Interesting to think about.
Hojo was just a scientist who was rules by curiousity and he wasenabled by Shinra and descended lower into madness. Old man Shinra is the real villain. And even he views himself as a protector for Midgar, someone who maintain the land even through questionable means.
@@lower_than_furries9727 Hojo needed a leash on him. He wasn't this crazy at first, it's just all the freedom Shinra gave him got to his head gradually. Hojo might have been a better person if restrained.
"Cloud, don't go into Soldier, it's just a Den of Monsters"...zack It's kind of sad. Zack usually tell everyone to embrace their Dreams And go for it but he saw everyone he knew and loved become twisted,insane and fall into their sad demised. I even bet when he found about the Soldier projects, it must of put doubt in himself also as he realized when was working for shin-ra, how must pain it caused on normal people and the planet.
I will probably drink wine while thinking how his sword works. No kidding, once I even tried to use physic to see the impact and how much energy he's using lol
This sounds...repentant...like one day, whilst his hatred flowed through the lifestream, he realised that he was wrong. He remembered Zach, Cloud, all of the heroes he had met and realised that Jenova's schemes were never his true calling, but that he had thrown his true calling away when he stepped away from being the hero he once was. He was never meant to be a demon... He was meant to be the One Winged Angel.
none of that is in his character. he's not interested in what we would call repentance and his title "one winged angel' is not meant to be heroic or positive. it's meant to strike fear into people.
@@arctorusmedia I disagree, his character is one of uncertainty and trying to find a place in the world. He searched for meaning as a soldier, then he searched for meaning as a villain, there's nothing to say he wouldn't see being a hero as something meaningful, especially after being defeated by Cloud and Zach multiple times for that very reason. Furthermore, it's a title, it can create lots of different meanings.
i found recently that sephiroth, in japanese, says "I don't want to disappear. I don't want to erase you." it sounds more like he's saying "i don't want to die" instead of "i will not die" and "i don't want to kill you" instead of "i will not kill you"
I always think about how Sephiroth really enjoyed friendship with both Genesis and Angeal, something he appreciated enough to dismiss his hero title in favor of plase Genesis and avoid conflict. The fact that he was virtually isolated from "normal" people by his status his whole life just to find out he was actually a "monster" is quite heartbreaking if you think about it, he didn't get to chose the way people saw him, neither as a hero or as a puppet and in the end he would never be part of the rest for the most awful reason.
A kind reminder to everyone that Sephiroth was an emotionally stunted 21 year old in the middle of grieving his friends' deaths while reeling over their quick abandonment of him when he was roofied by Jenova into believing Hojo's nonsense. Cloud pities him because he's pitiful. He may never get a redemption arc, but he deserves one, just like he deserves time to heal.
To everyone trying to humanize a repentant Sephiroth, I get it. I really do. The story of a sinner seeking atonement at the end is a deeply engrained part of our global culture, it's a powerful story. But it is not this story. Sephiroth was never human, he was born a human-Jenova hybrid. He isn't a fallen angel, because he was never meant to protect the people or the planet. No, his existence was due to one thing, and pre-Nibelheim, revolved around one purpose: Human Greed. Sephiroth was made to be the perfect SOLDIER. The pinnacle of the military arm of a Corporate Government with a global empire. The lynchpin around which Shinra would establish its permanent control over the planet and its people. The enforcer and guardian of the will of those who seek profit above all else, wealth and riches at the cost of human, no, planetary lives. Jenova was a world eater, and Shinra Corporation was following in its footsteps when it attempted to access the Lifestream for its material wealth. Sephiroth was designed, ENGINEERED, to be the ultimate weapon in Shinra's war to master the planet, and we see that he did not question this, he did not hear the call of the planet, he COULD not hear it, because his very existence was an abomination. Even before Shinra Mansion he was cold, aloof, yes capable of connecting to other people like Angeal, Genesis, and even Zack, he still was part human, but they were also engineered or otherwise modified, more like him than he was like an average human. The tragedy of Sephiroth isn't that he fell from grace, a fallen angel turned demon. No. His real tragedy is that, because of human material greed, he was never even ALLOWED to be human. Not once. Small wonder then he concluded his destiny was to be a god. It's lonely at the top, and that's all he ever was: alone. As Cloud told him in Advent Children: "I pity you."
At first is what I believed, but then, the most probable thing is that in his mind, he believes the theory you are refuting. The most interesting thing about that game is its complexity.
Sephiroth has honestly become an all-time favorite for me over the years since I played further into the installments of the series. At first, I actually didn't much care for him, yes he was a cool villain, but nothing I really went wide-eyed over, let alone hype about while younger. Then I watched the Advent Children movie, the animation and take on everything being, at least in my eyes at the time, quite breathtaking to watch everyone be in such a medium and shown in so much detail from their little polygon counterparts. Left and right I saw more instances of Sephiroth with games like Dissidia, Kingdom Hearts and so on where he grew on me in terms of being one of those cool villains and such. But then my hands reached Crisis Core, a game that moved me to tears with its ending, widened me eyes that Sephiroth before, was indeed the hero everyone spoke of in the original and got me questioning just what made it all go wrong. I wanted to know more, and when finally unmasking as much detail as I could, Sephiroth became such a favorite in my eyes on just how tragic a hero can be. An experiment before he even got a chance to be born, raised to be nothing but a peerless warrior on the battlefield that he stepped foot in at such a young age just because he didn't attain the same power of listening to the planet like the Cetra, seen nothing more than just some natural super soldier. He wasn't even given the chance to be held by his real mother, Lucrecia, even once, let alone know about her existence to begin with. The only small shimmers that kept his humanity alive were those who came into his life, some who even gained his full respect like professor Gast, or even Eife who allowed Sephiroth to question and give him reason for fighting with a cause. Then of course there was Angeal and Genesis, the two people he genuinely called friends, the only people he disobeyed orders for in order for them to escape or not be cut down by him. Sephiroth even selflessly brought himself forward to donate blood for Genesis to help heal a wound he caused during their little one-on-one duel that Angeal managed to stop in time but was refused due to being incompatible, but also due to Shinra knowing what the cells in his body would do. They practiced almost every day, the three of them true friends, until Shinra, until Hojo's actions and plans only hurled the three into a chaotic spiral that broke them all apart. Genesis defected, having learned more than he should and his pride getting the better of him and making him desperate due to being given a time limit on his quickly deteriorating life. Angeal following soon after, leaving Shinra due to being conflicted on his loyalties, unable to follow their orders any longer. Sephiroth was left alone, his two friends having left him and whenever their names came up again? They were only for orders to hunt them down as traitors to the company. The hero indeed went after them, but not for the orders he was given, but for wanting to know why, to question the two and bring them back, which brought the new friend into view; Zack. They both mutually wished to bring Angeal and Genesis to return without having to fight, but the situations became so dire, Sephiroth never making it in time let alone convince them only to learn later of being Killed In Action. The only friend left now being Zack, he expresses his wish to retire from Shinra, going on one last mission, one more trip with a friend to do his job as a hero in exterminating monsters harassing his home's reactor in Nibelheim. The mission, however, clearly didn't go as planned, instead finding the source of the monsters being the grotesque truths within the reactor of the Mako infused SOLDIERS, Zack attempting to connect the dots, dots that Sephiroth furiously refused to believe. He was already feeling alone, feeling like he was in a pitch black void of darkness with no one to reach out, even Zack's words falling on deaf ears as he tried to refuse the mixture of information that's a part of his life. So he tore the manor's library in Nibelheim apart, reading without end throughout the research notes and books across that entire lab, with the only repeated word coming into view that gnawed on his mind, the name that Hojo told him from the start to supposedly be his mother; JENOVA. The web of lies that Hojo strung around Sephiroth's life only entrapping the apparent "super monster SOLDIER" that Hojo wished to make, entangling himself further in but a bigger lie, a lie he himself embraced from having nothing more, Zack coming too late just as he was too late for Angeal and Genesis. His friends were gone, the days of him training to cut apples with Angeal and Genesis long gone, Professor Gast killed and erased from records, the one man who could've been a caring father figure, trapped in a coffin right besides the very library his descent took place in, and the one final friend he could've still had not having arrived in time to help him. And so that day, he destroyed the village where it all began, his silent fury putting it all ablaze to fully consume himself in the final lie in his life; to be the one chosen by his "mother" in getting revenge for all that humanity's done, having no more opportunities for a voice of reason, when the last one died on that cliff overlooking Midgar, paying the price for freedom.
Many people seem to forget just how tragic Sephiroth's story truly is. For all the torment he brings upon others, he is the most tortured of all, trapped within the darkness of his own mind. He was considered a hero once. It is my hope that maybe some day, he'll find a light in that darkness, and wake up the man he was. I know he's a fictional character, and in the end, it likely won't happen, but Sephiroth deserves to be remembered as more than the stereotypical "edgy anime villain" that many have come to see him as.
I honestly believe that the Remake will touch on redemption for Sephiroth, and may even deliver him a redemption arc. I believe so because of two scenes in the game, which I believe are interconnected. When Cloud and Co. were on their way to Aerith's home, Sephiroth proclaimed "his" Cetra heritage and claimed the Planet as his "birthright", and afterwards basically told Cloud to become stronger. That's highly uncharacteristic of him, and at the end, where he and Cloud are at the Edge of Creation, Sephiroth (esp in the Japanese vers) seemed to want Cloud's help to prevent a calamity. Hopefully these are signs of greater nuances and redemption of a character that didn't deserve all this.
The. Direction the way of remake Is going,shows the Will of the devs to make more ppl possible the true nature of Sephiroth,and becoming more empatic about him...Because,this time,they intend to give to his charachter a proper closure,a closure he really deserves
That would be almost poetic, the world's enemy becoming the world's savior and destroying Jenova once and for all and redeeming himself for all that he has caused, if they did that in remake it will be hard to do they would have to find a way to do that and make it work and if I know square enix I think they could pull it off. That would be sad in some way cloud would see the man he once idolized, sephiroth would see zack briefly standing before him buster sword in hand and that signature grin on his face
@@danielcook7975 they actually made him look like he wanted to team up with cloud in the remake and someone pointed out youcan see the whispers forcing him to lift his sword and fight like hes destined to his death
This cover should be called “Descent” As Sephiroth learned his past, he began to resent the people who once looked up to him. He began to burn inside with violent anger as the monster that was fate deemed him an empty shell of a person. In defiance of fate, he attempts to become a god. What was once the greatest hero of all has descended into one of the greatest antagonists in video game history: an angel missing what made it angelic. The One-Winged Angel.
I thought of a title, hopefully noy too long. "Descent of the Fallen Angel", just thought it has a grandiose feel to it and how it encaspulates Sephiroth as a character.
I want a full FF game, where you play as Sephiroth, living through his life, fighting with his enemies just to achieve what he always wanted- peace- until it is stolen away by anger, just to fight until the end of time. If this never happens, I will pass away crying, because I will never get to see Sephiroth- for once- as the good guy.
@@Melandru this is what I hoped for when they announced “First Soldier”. If they released a game simply called Sephiroth. It would be best selling ff game
With the success of FF7, I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually did.. assuming the thought crosses their minds.. or if a cool person with a snake handle brings it to their attn..
How different things could have gone if Sephiroth never went mad. He was broken by the revelation of Jenova, who wasn’t even his real mother in the end. His loving and kind mother was killed by his insane father, who was then the one to raise Sephiroth to be the perfect experiment. Vincent, who would have been the perfect father figure for our young Sephiroth, was shot by Hojo and locked away in a coffin for 20+ years. That was the nail in the coffin for Hojo, who now had supreme control over Sephiroth. He erased himself, Lucrecia, and Vincent from the narrative, then left Sephiroth to fend for himself in a world that doesn’t let you do that. All for a pointless competition over who would destroy the world between Hojo and Hollander. All of their experiments were perfect; the two just couldn’t see the things that made them that way.
You know what even sadder? If the events didn't happen Sephiroth would still be Shin-ra's lap dog Zack would be his only friend after Angel and Genesis death. Zack and Sephiroth would eventually be forced to breed with Arieth And possibly never see their kids. Cloud would never become best friends with Zack and Sephiroth and might have never return to see Tifa again. The planet would slowly die while those who is have Jenova cells will eventually become under her influence and finish what She started thousands of years ago. Thinking about it, their lives were doomed to be screwed.
Hojo is the true villain of the world. Jenova is a virus that has no free-will, Sephiroth's free-will is lost when he snaps and the Jenova cells take control, Hojo did it all of his own volition.
This is perfect, I can see Zack lying unconscious in the Mako reactor, Tifa fallen to Sepheroth and Cloud rushing to her side as Sepheroth burns the town that means so much to his friends. The emotion is disturbing yet calming, like some state of purgatory felt by a former hero turned into a crazed murderer he never thought he’d become...
One-Winged Angel was a title that once filled every soul in Midgar and the surrounding land with hope, peace, and safety... but when Niblheim was burnt to ash with few survivors, that hope was crushed and inverted into crippling despair and fear. Those who once praised the war hero Sephiroth would be paralyzed upon hearing their beloved title of One-Winged Angel...
in my mind sephiroth never went nuts,he found out the truth and together with zack and cloud he went after shinra and others responsable for messing up the world,later he astablished a company for hire and works together with avalanche. jenova is stil dorment in her tank.
By summoning Meteor, he was doing the planet a favor. A moment of pain for an eternity of peace. No more Shinra, no more war. Humanity would become a figment of the past, had he succeeded. A new world would be born in his vision. His only mistake was killing Aerith. If he never did, she would never have entered the lifestream, and never would have been able to stop it. And Cloud would have continued being a puppet.
I know it isn't exactly the truest reflection of his character, but this cover makes me imagine a scene of Sephiroth -- badly wounded, clothes tattered, dragging himself up off the ground through sheer willpower. First back up to his knees, and then his feet, slowly readying his blade to continue fighting against the heartless destiny that controlled his life from before he was born. Knowing that his only option is defeat, but determined to struggle until there's nothing left. "I will never be... a memory."
“I was once called a hero, a Legend, an “Angel” walking between people. The elders cherished me and the children admired me, they see a savior but Shinra saw a “One” man army. After the war was over they still want to take from me, I started to fall down and down as if they were ripping my “Wings” until I drew the last straw. I discovered not only they were using me but also fabricated my birth too. For you see Cloud, I’m no human. I AM AN ANCIENT!!! A ONE WINGED ANGEL....”
It is sad, even though the lyrics of the song are saying Sephiroth is an angry boi, I can't really blame the guy. Imagine being a great hero then one day finding out you're the last of a once great alien race and the people you work for are the ones that wiped out your species, killed your mother and brainwashed you into helping them. I'd be a bit triggered.
Granted his mother was a parasite that wanted to take over everything and was the very same being that killed off his species but he's been lied to his whole life and used as a weapon
@@A-TALKING-TOASTER No Sephiroth's mom was a human Jenova did not birth him Lucrecia is the one that birthed Sephiroth,only thing Sephiroth has of Jenova is her cells being injected into him,so again Seph's true mother is a human woman and not the parasite Jenova who he confuses as his real mother when she isn't really his biological mother.
So another fun fact about the tragedy of Sephiroth's life the Jenova cells allow some data to be shared between it's hosts through this Sephiroth gets the idea that his mother is in unspeakable torment because of what humans did and continue to do. This is important cause the largest collection of Jenova cells outside of Jenova herself is in Lucretia, Sephiroth's actual mom. Jenova shows her what Sephiroth will become and do in the future and it causes her pain, she can't escape it as she tells Vincent that she can't even kill herself that endless pain is transferred to Sephiroth who works tirelessly to end the pain while thinking it originated from Jenova who Hojo made him believe is his mom and all his work just furthers Lucretia's pain causing him to spiral further and further into insanity.
Absolutely beautiful. I just hear a Sephiroth redemption as this song plays, his sins laid bare ahead of him as he ponders his role. He antagonized cloud and took his anger out on the world when it chose him. Jenova doesn’t define his fate, yet it defined his actions. Imagine playing as Sephiroth in FF7R2, a conflicted yet righteous hero
They actually made him look as if he actually wanted to team up with cloud in the remake but someone pointed out you can see like the whispers forcing him to fight forcing him to follow his destiny to death once again
@@garysmithfan1432 Aerith said it herself in FF7R that if Sephiroth continues like that he will never be able to cry or smile anymore and the voices of many people will just go rolling down his back like rain,cus his lil humanity that he has left will have been snuffed out,maybe remake is a way for us to finally save Sephiroth from the path of destruction he's going through.
@@sephirothcrescent5768 maybe he does want to redeem himself i mean he actually asked for clouds help like he was hopeless but that theory someone said the whispers are forcing his every move to follow his destiny is actually interesting
@@garysmithfan1432 Probably,stoopid whispers!...XDDDDDDD all jokes asside yeah it is a possibility that Seph wants to free himself from JENOVA's Clutches!...
I don't know man, it has that vibe that Hans Zimmer's "Time" has. I think it embodies sadness and regret which Sephiroth would feel if he ever managed to go back to his senses and saw what he's done.
@@TheSeth256 well 1. That’s just how I heard it. 2. I never heard that song. 3. I never actually seen stuff from any final fantasy game. So I wouldn’t know.
Was the breakdown of his mental state not just himself being driven more and more toward hatred and delusion from the sudden revelation of his origins?
Sephiroth controls Jenova, not the other way around. He has almost complete mastery over any and all Jenova DNA. That's why he is able to physically manipulate Cloud's body to a degree in the original game. The only way Jenova cells leave his body is if he forces them to. It's not like He's some unwilling participant in Jenova's schemes.
@@kingofbudokai Although, he presents Jenova's schemes in Advent Children; he had planned to kill the planet and use it as a means to destroy other planets. "Just as my mother did... long ago". He may have "mastery" over things, but just him saying this suggests he can't defy his genetic programming to destroy. Whether he thinks it's his idea or not.
@@kingofbudokai You sure about that? Jenova is essentially a planetary parasite, that corrupts/consumes a planet's livestream (and inhabitants) before hurtling it to new planets to consume. How convenient that once Sephiroth's mind and will is shattered that his intentions suddenly shift towards a similar goal? Sephiroth is Jenova, the parasite works through him.
usually when people remake an iconic song into something "emotional", they just change the key a few times, but i was blown away by this. this is so masterfully done with a good blend between the original's dark theme and something new, especially with the other motifs thrown in. love this to bits man. can't wait to see more from you :-)
Everyone talks about how a vicious and cruel man Sephiroth is, mainly because of the Jenova-Sephiroths and Clone-Sephiroths they encounter during the entirety of FF7... but then Crisis Core changed all of it. Sephiroth was shown to have been a good man. Sephiroth was shown how he was a hero to those he fought alongside, despite how detached he can be to total strangers. Sephiroth was a man who, for all intents and purposes, broke down and shattered when he found the notes his ‘father’ left behind. A lie he believed to be the truth... Would he still have been this way, perhaps, if he knew the whole truth- that his true mother was human, and not Jenova?
I wonder if Sephiroth ever knew Hojo was his father...been wondering that for years. Because if he didn't know about Lucrecia, then he likely didn't know about Hojo. And I think that bit might be for the best as nobody deserves Hojo for a father 😂
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley sephiroth likely knows that hojo is his father. in crisis core, he says this when asked about his family "my mother's name is jenova. she died shortly after i was born. my father... mmmh, hahahaha. why am i talking about this?" he simply doesn't want to admit that a such a slimy, despicable man is his father
@@nix.i I remember that in Crisis Core and looked at it as not wanting to mope and complain, especially given his position. Not a good look to have a general whining to his subordinates about his family life. Or...he's looking down on them, as in "Why should I tell *you*, of all people, this?" But he probably would've benefitted by getting that all off his chest, even if it was to Zack and some nameless infantrymen, lol.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley i had always thought that he just didn't want to talk about hojo, and if he didn't know when he was human, he'd likely have learnt it in the lifestream. i can see the 'general of soldier not wanting to complain', but not him looking down on them. cc sephiroth doesn't seem like the type to actively think somebody lesser than him, considering how quickly he said he'd give his fame to genesis
Well that's true, every main "Villain" needs a hero they can fight, w/o them they are empty too.. Who is Doomsday w/o Superman? Joker w/o Batman? Dr. Octopus w/o Spidey?
This sounds like the Shinra Mansion song in Crisis Core at parts. This would've been right at home in that game, my favorite of the FF7 universe simply because of how it humanizes Sephiroth.
This really puts a spotlight on how Sephiroth was really a victim of a larger tragedy. He became the villain to Cloud, but was more a symptom of evil than a source
I kept believing that deep down, he’s just a fighter and a man who wanted to feel where he truly belong, someone that can love him. If anything, if there’s even a single person who can love and cherish him either if he’s an experiment or not, that person might be able to calm the flow of his hatred against the world. And in reality, he’s just looking for that sense of true family, that sense of warmness where he can find peace. If Lucrecia still have him and deny hojo’s offerings, things will go differently
It's this sort of storytelling that makes me love Sephiroth so much. There is so much depth to his character, his motivations. He seemed to be such a private fellow, though appearing to be all right being a public figure... to quote Cloud, "he never talked about himself." He wasn't one to divulge his personal thoughts and feelings very often, perhaps because he didn't want to appear weak, perhaps because he felt so isolated from everyone else ("I always knew I was different ever since I was small") He was just so powerful and he didn't have any idea WHY, and then to find out in the way that he did... to find out that his entire life had been controlled, manipulated, in order to use him as a tool for Shinra's ambitions... Shinra, the very company he worked for... they had created him to be used. And not only that, but to believe, at least for a time, that he was a Cetra, the last of his kind, because of humans abandoning who he believed to be his ancestors, his family... And all he had left was the body of the creature he considered his mother, whose touch he probably had craved since he was little, considering he grew up without parents. He didn't know what it felt like to be cared for by a family who loved him, he didn't know what it felt like to have a home town to return to, but he, still having some semblance of humanity, NEEDED those connections, needed to have people in his life he could love and trust. And he never really got that. Is it any wonder he felt so much anger? Is it any wonder he became something that ultimately had to be destroyed? Sephiroth defines his archetype, and it is easy to see why.
Could you imagine if they made a sequel to FF7 and Advent Children, one where Sephiroth is the primary antagonist for the better part of the game before some twist of circumstances placed him in a situation where he has to help Cloud and those he was fighting against? Some crazy powerful, forgotten enemy of ancient times threatens all and Sephiroth is the only one who can stop it. He knows that in doing so, he will truly die this time. In the end, how ironic it would be that despite all of Sephiroth's destruction and chaos through the years, he was the only one who could've stepped up to save everyone. Then he would be a memory. Yet how would they remember him?
Wouldn't mind a more intense version of this backing a boss fight where Sephiroth realizes the way he handled things effectively made him as much of a monster as the ones who created him and ruined his life, but at this point he's gone too far for redemption. The music swells as he raises Masamune and prepares to fight Cloud one last time, not to defeat him, but to repent by dying on the Buster Sword.
You can't help but feel bad for Sephiroth knowing everything he went through. He had a really good life. He was at the top. He had very good friends. Genesis, and Angeal, specifically. He was a respected war hero. But then, after learning the cruel truth behind his creation, he could not handle it, and lost everything he loved to his own insanity. It's a tragic story. The real Sephiroth that Angeal and Genesis were friends with... He was gone, and nowhere to be found. Replaced by the monster that was slowly growing inside him. And this piano cover summarizes that perfectly.
Why do I want to sit quietly and reflect upon the world and also burn the world down at the same time. Damn my dude your arrangement would make Nobu proud
I believe Sephiroth represents everything we take for granted. Without these gifts, we would become monsters no matter how hard we tried. And this man tried. He really did.
Same song, different rythm. And for once, you get to delve into Sephiroth's past. That he wasn't always evil. That he too, was once revered as a hero. But the horrible truth broke him. And over time, he veered of the path. And in time, the Hero of the World became the Villain. Well-done Melandru-san. Well done.
This cover is wonderful. Since he played Crisis Core he could never hate Sephiroth, he was a good person who took the wrong path. To this day I love it and I can't see it as a villain
You ether die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. People so often forget Sephiroth isn’t just an edgy antagonist, he is broken, and tormented by himself. He was isolated from others and was given no choice but to become what people told him to unknowing of what he is, and when he found out he becomes a monster the very thing we swore to destroy.
I think the only reason they never care for Sephiroth is because he killed every guy's Anime Waifu Aerith and hurt their anime Waifu Tifa,but Aerith was not killed by Sephiroth she was killed by Jenova taking Sephiroth's form and when he hurt Tifa it was Jenova again controlling Sephiroth before Sephiroth could supposedly snap out of that control. Seriously i think that for once guys should stop thinking with their D***s and start thinking with their heads and take a better look at the true Sephiroth who was once a good kind hearted and sad broken man who's life got effed up ever since he was a baby who was taken away from his real mother before she could even hold him UGGGHHH i just hate how people are such D***s to poor Sephy it's like that one quote i heard once a very long time ago and that quote went something like this.---> "The World Pushed Me Without Mercy and when i pushed back the world pointed and cried EVIL!". And this quote suits Sephiroth's situation quite well...Poor Sephy,and even though it was not his real mom Sephiroth committed all that scary stuff because of the love he had for his Alien mother who he thought was his real mother,so Sephiroth just wanted to save his mother even though again it wasn't his real mother,so is he really to blame for wanting to save his mother from torment?...I thinks not any person who is anyone would wanna save their mother even if he or she had to kill some people in the way in order to do so,and yes innocent people died but that is because Seph was being controlled by the rage he had deep inside him for what they had done to his mother and when you have someone in deep rage like that it will sometimes be hard to tell friend from foe,cus in that moment nothing else matters and thus you are blinded to what surrounds you.
This is straight up miserable. It's sad, but the sadness of someone who hit rock bottom and rather than climb back up, chooses instead to watch the world burn. It's also very very well done. Your playing is gorgeous.
If there was a FFVII anime based on the actual game and not events in the past or future, this would be perfect for when Seohiroth learns of his past and becomes the "evil" villian we know him as
I have seen and performed great, terrible acts. I have brought despair upon the planet like no one else could. I pursue Cloud in a never-ending challenge that will bring about either his end or my own. And yet, I feel strangely without purpose. There is an emptiness inside me that not even devotion to my Mother's cause can fill. Listening to this music is an uncomfortable reminder of that harsh truth. Sometimes, when I'm not engrossed in my work, I wonder if the wretched series of events that brought about my creation were a blessing, or a mistake. ...It is intriguing, but distracting, and I cannot dwell on such matters.
This should've played when Sephiroth appeared in Smash, and had Cloud running away dramatically while tears get left behind in the air, knowing his friends where fucked.
Very thought provoking. Imagine a world where, having learned compassion for Sephiroth, we take all of these feelings and apply them to action and compassion for the poor, the needy, those with mental illnesses; and let that be in real life. Lessons taught by the "villian," could make our world a better place.
The best villains are the ones with a tragic past. That's what was so great about several villains in Final Fantasy. Sephiroth was used and lied to, Kefka was driven to insanity through experimentation, Kuja was made and then almost discarded for a better "Angel of Death", they are never evil for the sake of just being evil.
"Sephiroth, it's over, Jenova's corruption is fading from the lifestream. You're fading...for good this time" "Stop fighting, let it end" "Cloud, I've lived three lifetimes, all of them wasted, neither of them was mine." "Always in service to another." "Shinra" "Hojo" "Jenova" "Holy Terra" "Nothing more than empty puppet" "But this fight...I choose this of my own will." "I know it's hypocritical coming from me, but please...let me have this. Let me have my honor" *"So be it"*
I will never be a memory, but the memory of how i became will never cease to haunt my sleep. You don't know what it's like to live your whole life a lie, Cloud! You will never know what dispair I've endured!
I’m surprised this actually made me ball my damn eyes out and reminisce on past trauma. Despite having disillusions of grandeur I can relate to Sephirtoth’s feelings of being betrayed and having been lied to their entire life.
I like your description a lot, most people tend to think Sephiroth is this terrible, complex and evil person, but the reality is that he was a really nice guy when he was still in control, but after going through what he has, and Jenova taking control of him, he might as well not have been sephiroth anymore, just Jenova in his skin. Jenova is the villain, and Sephiroth is one of many victims, to it and to Shin-Ra
Am I the only one who thinks you could reverse the order of Crisis Core and FF7 in terms of publication and it would make an equally great story? It would make the Nibelheim tragedy unbelievably epic because you'd never expect Cloud to stand up to Sephiroth and win. But especially when you do FF7, you'll know right away that Cloud isn't telling the truth about his past, you'll wonder why Zack is never mentioned, and you'll have a very different way of looking at Sephiroth, still a monster but this time he really used to be your friend. Edit : Fixed a few grammar mistakes
@@Lycanthromancer1 Professor Hojo gets his. He’s the one I blame as he orchestrated a lot of this bull from the experiments on the cetra to having Sephiroth believe he’s something other than what he really was. That goes to show you the logic, scientific only approach is gravely flawed as any thing to the extreme is.
Sephiroth didn't have PTSD, he found out the truth of his heritage: "My mother was an alien that wanted to destroy all life on this planet and use this world as her living vessel." He wasn't suffering under some sort of trauma, he learned the truth of his past and said "Ohhhhh, so THAT'S what I should be doing!" If he had any humanity within him he would have truly gone insane due to the duality of his bloodline. But no, he went all-in with Jenova's wishes and made it his life's goal to fulfill his Mother's wishes. He was quite sane, and had a singular focus: the annihilation of all life on the planet to accomplish his Mother's goal.
@@ruggedlemmings9163 I say he has a form of PTSD because that leaves soldiers (which he was for Shinra) not all there (100%) in the head. So to me it still fits. He was insane. There was nothing same about what he did. I mean it was probably sane to him. Him being a soldier and exposed to crap on the battlefield at a young age plus the tests he knew nothing about had to have a negative impact on him prior to him finding out those truths. Once he found out that’s what broke the camels back in his mind.
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Hi there! I have just come across your wonderful re-edition of One Winged Angel today and it took my breath away. I'm not sure the best way to contact you, but would you possibly allow it to be used in a creative video? (I make cosplay videos with my partner and have been working on Seph cosplay for 2 years, yet to be completed but not far off xx)
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Any chance of throwing this up on spotify?
@@Squeezitgirdle maybe soon!
Can you do the Plin Plin Plon song, but even SADDER?
Everyone asks where is sephiroth but never how is sephiroth
Sympathy is hard to find 🥲
Yup this is very true.
I’ll do you one better
Why, is sephiroth
@@steavejack4151 I ask myself that question every day.
@@cradiculous Sephiroth, how are *YOU* ?
This version really brings to mind how Sephiroth wasn't always evil.
He was once seen as a great hero before everything went wrong.
Right! Glad to see you can hear that in the piece, because that was the goal I was aiming for 🙏
I think it would have been interesting if they had gone more into this aspect. Shinra was a conquering force; Sephiroth was no hero, he was an invading demon. And maybe that revelation should have affected him just as much as his alien origins, if not more.
Than again, this is FF7, not Type-0.
@@michaelwbell442
Yeah. That's a good point.
Either way, in the end Sephiroth had his life stolen from him before it even really started.
@@michaelwbell442 maybe they will lean more towards Sephiroth’s side of the story in FF VII part 2!
That is why he is such a good villain, a villain you cannot help but feel sympathy for, first Genesis abandons him then Angeal and then Genesis says what he says to him then he reads the files and again believes the lies and goes mad, in on way to a smile black it is revealed he stripped himself of his humanity all of it so he could continue his dark path and such
i feel like this song would fit as a background to when sephiroth locked himself in the shinra mansion library and did research about his past
That’s one of the scenes I took inspiration from 😁
@Heartless Angel Ketsueki I have a strong feeling we will get something else. But still good🙏
@Heartless Angel Ketsueki It should still play out because the rest of the party besides Aerith is clueless about Sephiroth and his connection to Cloud. The telling of his backstory is important for the characters as well as both new and even old fans alike, I don't see them skipping it. That would be a huge mistake.
@@loregasmic I beat FF7 remake part 1, watched advent children, and played the entire Kingdom Hearts series before touching the original FF7. The entire time I was playing the remake I wondered, “Why the heck do Sephiroth and Cloud have a rivalry?” So I finally played the original ps1 FF7 and got to the backstory cutscene. It surprised me so so much. I was like, “SEPHIROTH HAD A PERSONALITY?!” I super hope remake part 2 gives us a more 3 dimensional and fleshed out Sephiroth
@@loregasmic especially since they're going to want to know who this powerful dude was that just tried to kill all of them was
Sephiroth didn't understand that the most important thing is not how he came to life but what he does with this life...
There was no mother to show him the way 🥲
@@Melandru Cloud was no Ash to his Mewtwo lets put it that way.
Honestly, Sephiroth did know that. He was given a moment where he had two paths in Nebilhiem. One was to continue fighting for Shinra, the other to fight for himself. He chose the later.
The tragedy was he really didn't have a third choice and let his anger and hatred regarding the situation warp him into the final monster he became.
Actually, because you know so well of your past, you wouldn’t feel the need to find out who you are, but people who have no idea of how they came to life really want to seek out their root. Especially with someone who is already on top of the pyramid like Seph, he had everything but his origin.
yes but he also understood that corperations are fucking up the planet and that he needed to do something about that,shure he went a little nuts but he also fought and killed bad people not only good people.
Sephiroth wasn't always the villain, he was a fallen hero who learned the truth of his birth and was used as a weapon his whole life. Not to mentioned sent to war at the age of 12. All that would put a toll on even the strongest of people.
That’s true, it’s very sad!
Wouldn't say he knew the actual truth of his birth he found what hojo wanted him to find about his birth that collaborated with what hojo had been telling him which in my mind is even more sad
@@blackdragonburn exactly like he saw this and came to truly believe this, he learned he was lied to yet still accepted lies.
@@danielcook7975 I can't recall him ever actually learning that he was lied to cause even In advent children he referred to Jenova as his mother
Yup. 😢
...Everytime he does something sinister, i always get a little sad... he snapped from finding out all of the truths behind his "birth" and he goes on a path doing what he thinks to be right, only to be a genuine force of chaos in the process. No different than a child being confused in their adolescence; He just kind of starts lashing out and hurting all of those he came to love and once knew because he was never shown any other way but to destroy and take orders... 😪
I really do love his arc as a "villian"
People: Sephiroth was the villian of FF7
Others: No Jenova
Me: HOOOOOOOOJOOOOOOO >:0
You are not alone in this, Sammich. Hojo is the one true monster of FFVII. Everything bad that happens, happens because of him. Hollander competes with Hojo, and creates Genesis and Angeal's suffering. He creates Deepground. He manipulates everyone for his own ends. He's responsible for the imprisonment of Zack and Cloud, resulting in the former's death, and the latter's mental mess. He's to blame for everything. Even Sephiroth's breakdown.
@@Snipergod1024 the true villian of FF7 was humanity, human nature, and the apathy that humans have and willfully flaunt as long as they get what they want.
Examples:
1.) Everyone knew what Mako was! the affects of the consumption of Mako was apparent all around them.
2.) when they bumped into Aerith in Midgar, no one stopped to help her (this was better exemplified in remake when she got bumped and dropped her flowers and that one guys stepped on one It wasn't in a time of panic)
3.) the dichotomy of Midgar and the Slums
4.) Clouds character arc from apathetic asshole edgelord, to a less apathetic asshole edgelord?
etc...
Sephiroth, Jenova, Shinra, Hojo... all of these were products of the true villain of FF7... human apathy
@@sinflux1 while I see your arguments, I would disagree. Hojo is the product of insanity and greed. Sephiroth is insanity and despair, mixed with manipulation. Cloud's arc is from mentally damaged amnesiac, to someone who worked out his own life and existence. Aerith being bumped is less apathy, and more just not noticing, rather than not caring. What Mako was wasn't common knowledge, that's wrong.
Your points are good. But they aren't marks of apathy.
President Shinra listening to opera while watching the destruction of Sector 7
Heidegger: Gya haa haa haa!
“Tell me what you cherish, so that I can take it away.”
“I cherish you, Sephiroth.”
Sephiroth....T.T
Damn that hits deep
@Aziria Shingen It would have been a beautiful scene if it actually happened like that. Then we have Cloud and Sephiroth hugging each other like brother or brothers in arms like commrades.
Sephiroth: I guess I should just die then.....
Well...Cloud does say that there is nothing that he doesn't cherish, that would imply that even Sephiroth is included in all the things he cherishes.
"I will never be a memory," he said with raw determination glistening in his mako-infused eyes.
"I don't want to be just a memory," he said as a single tear of sadness and fear ran down his cheek.
Damn Adam you made it even sadder!
Me: Gives this boy a warm blanket, delicious food and a big goddamn hug
"I... don't want to be a memory... I will never be a memory... I will be an experience... I will be a goal... I want to be an inspiration...
I'm done. I'm done, you hear?! Done! I'm a S.O.L.D.I.E.R. no longer! I'M THROUGH! Curse you Hojo, I'm done! I AM SEPHIROTH F*CKING GHAST, THE MAN! NOT A DAMNED MACHINE!"
If I was a minister in Shinra sent to heal his worries: “I weep with you. You will never be a memory. You are loved. Your name is in our halls and we let you frolic if it is needed. You deserve all the love we put into you, and you do deserve to share that beauty & love.”
“Your strength is unmatched, your knowledge unreachable even by me, yet through my and your tears - the tears of many witnessing your art - you will heal from this. I, we, all of us in Shinra just want you to be with us, to all the people and their shelters, and for you to just not scare the wicked, but to have many children come to you to hear your instruments & glory. Please, Sephiroth. Don’t let the past hope be a memory to all of us. We do truly believe you are greatness.”
just a quick reminder that the lyrics: "estuans interius ira vehementi" means literally "burning inside with violent anger". can you imagine the amount of pain sephiroth must've been undergoing all the time before going insane?
It’s hard to imagine spiraling that deep. Not all of us experience it
Not really, he was relatively happy. He had friends, people cared about him.
@@shiningmissingno.8788 Yeah, he was happy and he did have friends... before they all either died or stabbed him in the back. The only friend he had after that was Zack who was there to witness his slow descent into insanity before Sephiroth eventually deemed the entire planet his enemy.
Sors immanis, et inanis means fate is insane, and empty
veni veni venias, ne me mori facias means Come, Come, come to me, Death makes myself
@@CleopatraKing ne me Mori facias means do not let me die
"Then what should an angel fight for? What do angels dream of?! Angels dream of one thing... To be human."
-Angeal, one of few friends Sephiroth ever had.
The tragedy :(
Hear the echoes:
"you are no different than those monsters you slew..."
"you are nothing but a mere lab rat"
"mother?"
"you look in the mirror and don't recognize yourself"
"am i human?"
"since the beginning you knew you were different than the others..."
"monster!"
"abomination!"
"heir to the planet"
"who am i..?"
"Sephiroth!"
"i must end it, i must destroy everything."
Knowing nothing about himself, being used as a weapon since his conception, being lied to everyday, knowing only war, and not knowing much about emotions, affection or love; every fiber of his body and mind broke upon learning the truth about himself.
He turned out to the only feel that he knew: hatred.
Great words man!
Hatred, and despair
"The child who isn't embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth."
The real villain of Final Fantasy VII was always Hojo. True, Jenova was the catalyst for most of the misery therein; but Jenova was an alien life form, whose intentions we might never be able to really discern. For all we know, Jenova was a parasite, or was itself parasitized, a slave to its own corrupted instincts. But Hojo? Hojo knew there was so much power in its blood he decided to impart some of it onto an innocent child in utero.
In the Nibelheim scene, we witness Sephiroth lose his grip on sanity when he comes near the sample of Jenova contained within the reactor. It's been my hypothesis for a long time that his insanity, his corruption, was a direct consequence of coming into contact with the Jenova life-form; from there, Sephiroth's will was hijacked, the same way Jenova hijacked the Cetra.
Jenova descended on to the Planet. Attempted to take it over. Even in Sephiroth's stated aims, he wants to hijack the Planet and use it as a vessel to voyage through the cosmos. Jenova was seeking to infect yet another world. She might even be related to the Lavos creature of Chrono Trigger. Interesting to think about.
Yes, Hojo is the true villain of the story. There is a lot more going on deeper with these thoughts
Then what caused Hojo to be so evil
@@beanlets his curiousity for science. Not that it's a bad thing, though..just too much of it can create a Hojo.
Hojo was just a scientist who was rules by curiousity and he wasenabled by Shinra and descended lower into madness.
Old man Shinra is the real villain. And even he views himself as a protector for Midgar, someone who maintain the land even through questionable means.
@@lower_than_furries9727 Hojo needed a leash on him. He wasn't this crazy at first, it's just all the freedom Shinra gave him got to his head gradually.
Hojo might have been a better person if restrained.
This is the perfect song to play drinking whiskey and asking philosophically questions. What's a hero? Am I person or an experiment?
Deep questions to hard-to-find answers!😁
"SOLDIERS and monsters... are the same?"
Philosophically questions are the best questions
"Cloud, don't go into Soldier, it's just a Den of Monsters"...zack
It's kind of sad. Zack usually tell everyone to embrace their Dreams And go for it but he saw everyone he knew and loved become twisted,insane and fall into their sad demised. I even bet when he found about the Soldier projects, it must of put doubt in himself also as he realized when was working for shin-ra, how must pain it caused on normal people and the planet.
I will probably drink wine while thinking how his sword works. No kidding, once I even tried to use physic to see the impact and how much energy he's using lol
This sounds...repentant...like one day, whilst his hatred flowed through the lifestream, he realised that he was wrong. He remembered Zach, Cloud, all of the heroes he had met and realised that Jenova's schemes were never his true calling, but that he had thrown his true calling away when he stepped away from being the hero he once was.
He was never meant to be a demon... He was meant to be the One Winged Angel.
You hit the right snare!
God damnit why is everyone so fucking poetic on here i Love it🤣
@@f1nl3y99 issa vibbeeeeee 🔹🙏
none of that is in his character. he's not interested in what we would call repentance and his title "one winged angel' is not meant to be heroic or positive. it's meant to strike fear into people.
@@arctorusmedia I disagree, his character is one of uncertainty and trying to find a place in the world. He searched for meaning as a soldier, then he searched for meaning as a villain, there's nothing to say he wouldn't see being a hero as something meaningful, especially after being defeated by Cloud and Zach multiple times for that very reason. Furthermore, it's a title, it can create lots of different meanings.
"But I...will not end.
Nor will I have you end."
🙏🔥
i found recently that sephiroth, in japanese, says "I don't want to disappear. I don't want to erase you." it sounds more like he's saying "i don't want to die" instead of "i will not die" and "i don't want to kill you" instead of "i will not kill you"
@@nix.i That makes sense considering as long as Cloud is alive, Sephiroth will be through his memories
@@nix.i Late on this comment, but english adaptation is the one who derails from the original script being japanese so...
I always think about how Sephiroth really enjoyed friendship with both Genesis and Angeal, something he appreciated enough to dismiss his hero title in favor of plase Genesis and avoid conflict. The fact that he was virtually isolated from "normal" people by his status his whole life just to find out he was actually a "monster" is quite heartbreaking if you think about it, he didn't get to chose the way people saw him, neither as a hero or as a puppet and in the end he would never be part of the rest for the most awful reason.
Yeah Dante, that’s deep!
@@Melandru thank you! this song really indulged these ideas :) it's deeply nostalgic and gives a sense of "no way back", a perfect fit for him
The algorithm brought me here...I'm glad it did.
Welcome, Poco! 😁 glad you’re here
Same here!
This song is.. really beautiful, isn’t it..?
What video?
Same
Count me in, too ! :D
A kind reminder to everyone that Sephiroth was an emotionally stunted 21 year old in the middle of grieving his friends' deaths while reeling over their quick abandonment of him when he was roofied by Jenova into believing Hojo's nonsense. Cloud pities him because he's pitiful. He may never get a redemption arc, but he deserves one, just like he deserves time to heal.
This makes you realize that Sephiroth’s story isn’t about being a badass, but devolving into a monster, the very thing he swore to destroy.
To everyone trying to humanize a repentant Sephiroth, I get it. I really do. The story of a sinner seeking atonement at the end is a deeply engrained part of our global culture, it's a powerful story.
But it is not this story.
Sephiroth was never human, he was born a human-Jenova hybrid. He isn't a fallen angel, because he was never meant to protect the people or the planet. No, his existence was due to one thing, and pre-Nibelheim, revolved around one purpose:
Human Greed.
Sephiroth was made to be the perfect SOLDIER. The pinnacle of the military arm of a Corporate Government with a global empire. The lynchpin around which Shinra would establish its permanent control over the planet and its people. The enforcer and guardian of the will of those who seek profit above all else, wealth and riches at the cost of human, no, planetary lives. Jenova was a world eater, and Shinra Corporation was following in its footsteps when it attempted to access the Lifestream for its material wealth.
Sephiroth was designed, ENGINEERED, to be the ultimate weapon in Shinra's war to master the planet, and we see that he did not question this, he did not hear the call of the planet, he COULD not hear it, because his very existence was an abomination. Even before Shinra Mansion he was cold, aloof, yes capable of connecting to other people like Angeal, Genesis, and even Zack, he still was part human, but they were also engineered or otherwise modified, more like him than he was like an average human.
The tragedy of Sephiroth isn't that he fell from grace, a fallen angel turned demon. No. His real tragedy is that, because of human material greed, he was never even ALLOWED to be human. Not once. Small wonder then he concluded his destiny was to be a god. It's lonely at the top, and that's all he ever was: alone.
As Cloud told him in Advent Children: "I pity you."
Strong words, Aruniel, I agree with you!
Very well said.
_"The truth is... the game was rigged from the start."_
Damn. That hit right in feels. Very well written and so true.
At first is what I believed, but then, the most probable thing is that in his mind, he believes the theory you are refuting. The most interesting thing about that game is its complexity.
Sephiroth has honestly become an all-time favorite for me over the years since I played further into the installments of the series. At first, I actually didn't much care for him, yes he was a cool villain, but nothing I really went wide-eyed over, let alone hype about while younger. Then I watched the Advent Children movie, the animation and take on everything being, at least in my eyes at the time, quite breathtaking to watch everyone be in such a medium and shown in so much detail from their little polygon counterparts. Left and right I saw more instances of Sephiroth with games like Dissidia, Kingdom Hearts and so on where he grew on me in terms of being one of those cool villains and such.
But then my hands reached Crisis Core, a game that moved me to tears with its ending, widened me eyes that Sephiroth before, was indeed the hero everyone spoke of in the original and got me questioning just what made it all go wrong. I wanted to know more, and when finally unmasking as much detail as I could, Sephiroth became such a favorite in my eyes on just how tragic a hero can be. An experiment before he even got a chance to be born, raised to be nothing but a peerless warrior on the battlefield that he stepped foot in at such a young age just because he didn't attain the same power of listening to the planet like the Cetra, seen nothing more than just some natural super soldier. He wasn't even given the chance to be held by his real mother, Lucrecia, even once, let alone know about her existence to begin with.
The only small shimmers that kept his humanity alive were those who came into his life, some who even gained his full respect like professor Gast, or even Eife who allowed Sephiroth to question and give him reason for fighting with a cause. Then of course there was Angeal and Genesis, the two people he genuinely called friends, the only people he disobeyed orders for in order for them to escape or not be cut down by him. Sephiroth even selflessly brought himself forward to donate blood for Genesis to help heal a wound he caused during their little one-on-one duel that Angeal managed to stop in time but was refused due to being incompatible, but also due to Shinra knowing what the cells in his body would do. They practiced almost every day, the three of them true friends, until Shinra, until Hojo's actions and plans only hurled the three into a chaotic spiral that broke them all apart.
Genesis defected, having learned more than he should and his pride getting the better of him and making him desperate due to being given a time limit on his quickly deteriorating life. Angeal following soon after, leaving Shinra due to being conflicted on his loyalties, unable to follow their orders any longer. Sephiroth was left alone, his two friends having left him and whenever their names came up again? They were only for orders to hunt them down as traitors to the company. The hero indeed went after them, but not for the orders he was given, but for wanting to know why, to question the two and bring them back, which brought the new friend into view; Zack. They both mutually wished to bring Angeal and Genesis to return without having to fight, but the situations became so dire, Sephiroth never making it in time let alone convince them only to learn later of being Killed In Action.
The only friend left now being Zack, he expresses his wish to retire from Shinra, going on one last mission, one more trip with a friend to do his job as a hero in exterminating monsters harassing his home's reactor in Nibelheim. The mission, however, clearly didn't go as planned, instead finding the source of the monsters being the grotesque truths within the reactor of the Mako infused SOLDIERS, Zack attempting to connect the dots, dots that Sephiroth furiously refused to believe.
He was already feeling alone, feeling like he was in a pitch black void of darkness with no one to reach out, even Zack's words falling on deaf ears as he tried to refuse the mixture of information that's a part of his life. So he tore the manor's library in Nibelheim apart, reading without end throughout the research notes and books across that entire lab, with the only repeated word coming into view that gnawed on his mind, the name that Hojo told him from the start to supposedly be his mother; JENOVA. The web of lies that Hojo strung around Sephiroth's life only entrapping the apparent "super monster SOLDIER" that Hojo wished to make, entangling himself further in but a bigger lie, a lie he himself embraced from having nothing more, Zack coming too late just as he was too late for Angeal and Genesis.
His friends were gone, the days of him training to cut apples with Angeal and Genesis long gone, Professor Gast killed and erased from records, the one man who could've been a caring father figure, trapped in a coffin right besides the very library his descent took place in, and the one final friend he could've still had not having arrived in time to help him. And so that day, he destroyed the village where it all began, his silent fury putting it all ablaze to fully consume himself in the final lie in his life; to be the one chosen by his "mother" in getting revenge for all that humanity's done, having no more opportunities for a voice of reason, when the last one died on that cliff overlooking Midgar, paying the price for freedom.
Same here, Kazuma. Thanks for your words .
Many people seem to forget just how tragic Sephiroth's story truly is. For all the torment he brings upon others, he is the most tortured of all, trapped within the darkness of his own mind. He was considered a hero once. It is my hope that maybe some day, he'll find a light in that darkness, and wake up the man he was. I know he's a fictional character, and in the end, it likely won't happen, but Sephiroth deserves to be remembered as more than the stereotypical "edgy anime villain" that many have come to see him as.
This was the goal I was aiming for for people to understand 💪
I honestly believe that the Remake will touch on redemption for Sephiroth, and may even deliver him a redemption arc. I believe so because of two scenes in the game, which I believe are interconnected.
When Cloud and Co. were on their way to Aerith's home, Sephiroth proclaimed "his" Cetra heritage and claimed the Planet as his "birthright", and afterwards basically told Cloud to become stronger. That's highly uncharacteristic of him, and at the end, where he and Cloud are at the Edge of Creation, Sephiroth (esp in the Japanese vers) seemed to want Cloud's help to prevent a calamity.
Hopefully these are signs of greater nuances and redemption of a character that didn't deserve all this.
The. Direction the way of remake Is going,shows the Will of the devs to make more ppl possible the true nature of Sephiroth,and becoming more empatic about him...Because,this time,they intend to give to his charachter a proper closure,a closure he really deserves
"Whether your words...are lies created to deceive me... or the truth that I have sought all my life... It makes no difference. You will rot."
If Sephiroth ever is redeemed and ends up saving the world, this is the song that will be playing as he looks back into Cloud’s eyes
That would be a brilliant scene!
That would be almost poetic, the world's enemy becoming the world's savior and destroying Jenova once and for all and redeeming himself for all that he has caused, if they did that in remake it will be hard to do they would have to find a way to do that and make it work and if I know square enix I think they could pull it off.
That would be sad in some way cloud would see the man he once idolized, sephiroth would see zack briefly standing before him buster sword in hand and that signature grin on his face
Maybe make Sephiroth doubting along the line of the stories, and in the end he choose to redeem himself.
@@danielcook7975 that would probably be the best way to introduce it ;)
@@danielcook7975 they actually made him look like he wanted to team up with cloud in the remake and someone pointed out youcan see the whispers forcing him to lift his sword and fight like hes destined to his death
This cover should be called “Descent”
As Sephiroth learned his past, he began to resent the people who once looked up to him. He began to burn inside with violent anger as the monster that was fate deemed him an empty shell of a person. In defiance of fate, he attempts to become a god. What was once the greatest hero of all has descended into one of the greatest antagonists in video game history: an angel missing what made it angelic. The One-Winged Angel.
That’s a very solid title it could have! Tnx for your words 🙏
Clever use of "burn inside with violent anger ".
@@RNG_Lemon thank you, glad you recognize it!
@@RNG_Lemon You caught on. ;)
I thought of a title, hopefully noy too long. "Descent of the Fallen Angel", just thought it has a grandiose feel to it and how it encaspulates Sephiroth as a character.
I want a full FF game, where you play as Sephiroth, living through his life, fighting with his enemies just to achieve what he always wanted- peace- until it is stolen away by anger, just to fight until the end of time. If this never happens, I will pass away crying, because I will never get to see Sephiroth- for once- as the good guy.
Yeah a final fantasy from Sephiroth’s perspective would be amazing to understand his struggle
@@Melandru this is what I hoped for when they announced “First Soldier”. If they released a game simply called Sephiroth. It would be best selling ff game
With the success of FF7, I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually did.. assuming the thought crosses their minds.. or if a cool person with a snake handle brings it to their attn..
YES I bet a Sephiroth-as-protagonist spinoff would make SO MUCH money
I would love a spinoff but i think a remake of dirge of cerbus is more likely
How different things could have gone if Sephiroth never went mad. He was broken by the revelation of Jenova, who wasn’t even his real mother in the end. His loving and kind mother was killed by his insane father, who was then the one to raise Sephiroth to be the perfect experiment. Vincent, who would have been the perfect father figure for our young Sephiroth, was shot by Hojo and locked away in a coffin for 20+ years. That was the nail in the coffin for Hojo, who now had supreme control over Sephiroth. He erased himself, Lucrecia, and Vincent from the narrative, then left Sephiroth to fend for himself in a world that doesn’t let you do that. All for a pointless competition over who would destroy the world between Hojo and Hollander. All of their experiments were perfect; the two just couldn’t see the things that made them that way.
Crazy, right? 😵
You know what even sadder?
If the events didn't happen
Sephiroth would still be Shin-ra's lap dog
Zack would be his only friend after Angel and Genesis death.
Zack and Sephiroth would eventually be forced to breed with Arieth And possibly never see their kids.
Cloud would never become best friends with Zack and Sephiroth and might have never return to see Tifa again.
The planet would slowly die while those who is have Jenova cells will eventually become under her influence and finish what She started thousands of years ago. Thinking about it, their lives were doomed to be screwed.
Hojo is the true villain of the world. Jenova is a virus that has no free-will, Sephiroth's free-will is lost when he snaps and the Jenova cells take control, Hojo did it all of his own volition.
You said "erased from the narrative" because of the Hamilton play. The song "Burn".
@@RuneKatashima wow I actually didn't think anyone would catch that. Congrats!
This is perfect, I can see Zack lying unconscious in the Mako reactor, Tifa fallen to Sepheroth and Cloud rushing to her side as Sepheroth burns the town that means so much to his friends. The emotion is disturbing yet calming, like some state of purgatory felt by a former hero turned into a crazed murderer he never thought he’d become...
Hi Alex, thanks! Yes that’s a good scenario that would fit the theme!
When you don't get your one order of a Happy Meal and soft drink :( ...
Haha *instant sad tunes playing*
Now you just made this both funny and sad lol
One-Winged Angel was a title that once filled every soul in Midgar and the surrounding land with hope, peace, and safety... but when Niblheim was burnt to ash with few survivors, that hope was crushed and inverted into crippling despair and fear. Those who once praised the war hero Sephiroth would be paralyzed upon hearing their beloved title of One-Winged Angel...
Even in the best men the tables can turn quickly
I imagine Sephiroth listening to this at the bar while thinking if he could have saved all his friends from Shinra.
Hehe Sephi’s at the mcDonalds bar in deep thoughts
@@Melandru I just pictured the McDonald's is completely on fire while he sits there pondering.
in my mind sephiroth never went nuts,he found out the truth and together with zack and cloud he went after shinra and others responsable for messing up the world,later he astablished a company for hire and works together with avalanche.
jenova is stil dorment in her tank.
By summoning Meteor, he was doing the planet a favor. A moment of pain for an eternity of peace. No more Shinra, no more war. Humanity would become a figment of the past, had he succeeded. A new world would be born in his vision.
His only mistake was killing Aerith. If he never did, she would never have entered the lifestream, and never would have been able to stop it. And Cloud would have continued being a puppet.
in that perspective even after going insane he was still a hero, albeit not in the way most would think
Nobody:
Barrett: *THE MAKO REACTORS ARE TURNING THE FROGS GAY!!!*
xD
Why is this actually cannon
@@thefull9746 wait what
NOT THE FROGSSS!!
I mean for some reason the frog is the symbol of the bisexual community don't ask me why I genuinely don't know why
I know it isn't exactly the truest reflection of his character, but this cover makes me imagine a scene of Sephiroth -- badly wounded, clothes tattered, dragging himself up off the ground through sheer willpower. First back up to his knees, and then his feet, slowly readying his blade to continue fighting against the heartless destiny that controlled his life from before he was born. Knowing that his only option is defeat, but determined to struggle until there's nothing left.
"I will never be... a memory."
That's a really nice idea, Gundam. THanks for your words
I think there's a fanfiction like that. 🤔
“I was once called a hero, a Legend, an “Angel” walking between people. The elders cherished me and the children admired me, they see a savior but Shinra saw a “One” man army. After the war was over they still want to take from me, I started to fall down and down as if they were ripping my “Wings” until I drew the last straw. I discovered not only they were using me but also fabricated my birth too. For you see Cloud, I’m no human. I AM AN ANCIENT!!! A ONE WINGED ANGEL....”
Haha nice words, Ziiiy!
It is sad, even though the lyrics of the song are saying Sephiroth is an angry boi, I can't really blame the guy. Imagine being a great hero then one day finding out you're the last of a once great alien race and the people you work for are the ones that wiped out your species, killed your mother and brainwashed you into helping them.
I'd be a bit triggered.
Just a bit?😂 haha tnx for your words Derek!
Granted his mother was a parasite that wanted to take over everything and was the very same being that killed off his species but he's been lied to his whole life and used as a weapon
@@A-TALKING-TOASTER No Sephiroth's mom was a human Jenova did not birth him Lucrecia is the one that birthed Sephiroth,only thing Sephiroth has of Jenova is her cells being injected into him,so again Seph's true mother is a human woman and not the parasite Jenova who he confuses as his real mother when she isn't really his biological mother.
@@sephirothcrescent5768Saying he was confused makes it a bit ambiguous, he thought that was his mother because that's what Hojo told him.
@@TheKillerJok Hojo lied to Sephiroth is what i tried to say making Sephiroth think JENOVA was his real mother.
So another fun fact about the tragedy of Sephiroth's life the Jenova cells allow some data to be shared between it's hosts through this Sephiroth gets the idea that his mother is in unspeakable torment because of what humans did and continue to do. This is important cause the largest collection of Jenova cells outside of Jenova herself is in Lucretia, Sephiroth's actual mom. Jenova shows her what Sephiroth will become and do in the future and it causes her pain, she can't escape it as she tells Vincent that she can't even kill herself that endless pain is transferred to Sephiroth who works tirelessly to end the pain while thinking it originated from Jenova who Hojo made him believe is his mom and all his work just furthers Lucretia's pain causing him to spiral further and further into insanity.
Crazy!
Cecil to Sephiroth "There is sorrow in those wintry eyes."
Absolutely beautiful. I just hear a Sephiroth redemption as this song plays, his sins laid bare ahead of him as he ponders his role. He antagonized cloud and took his anger out on the world when it chose him. Jenova doesn’t define his fate, yet it defined his actions. Imagine playing as Sephiroth in FF7R2, a conflicted yet righteous hero
Thanks, galactic! Yes, it’s a very sad story if you think of it!
They actually made him look as if he actually wanted to team up with cloud in the remake but someone pointed out you can see like the whispers forcing him to fight forcing him to follow his destiny to death once again
@@garysmithfan1432 Aerith said it herself in FF7R that if Sephiroth continues like that he will never be able to cry or smile anymore and the voices of many people will just go rolling down his back like rain,cus his lil humanity that he has left will have been snuffed out,maybe remake is a way for us to finally save Sephiroth from the path of destruction he's going through.
@@sephirothcrescent5768 maybe he does want to redeem himself i mean he actually asked for clouds help like he was hopeless but that theory someone said the whispers are forcing his every move to follow his destiny is actually interesting
@@garysmithfan1432 Probably,stoopid whispers!...XDDDDDDD all jokes asside yeah it is a possibility that Seph wants to free himself from JENOVA's Clutches!...
This is a little more calming than sad, but the comments make it sad.
I guess there are some mixed feelings 😁
I don't know man, it has that vibe that Hans Zimmer's "Time" has. I think it embodies sadness and regret which Sephiroth would feel if he ever managed to go back to his senses and saw what he's done.
@@TheSeth256 well
1. That’s just how I heard it.
2. I never heard that song.
3. I never actually seen stuff from any final fantasy game.
So I wouldn’t know.
I swear, this is gona play whenever the JENOVA cells leave his body and he realizes what he's done...
Yeah that would be a nice scene!
Was the breakdown of his mental state not just himself being driven more and more toward hatred and delusion from the sudden revelation of his origins?
Sephiroth controls Jenova, not the other way around. He has almost complete mastery over any and all Jenova DNA. That's why he is able to physically manipulate Cloud's body to a degree in the original game. The only way Jenova cells leave his body is if he forces them to. It's not like He's some unwilling participant in Jenova's schemes.
@@kingofbudokai Although, he presents Jenova's schemes in Advent Children; he had planned to kill the planet and use it as a means to destroy other planets.
"Just as my mother did... long ago". He may have "mastery" over things, but just him saying this suggests he can't defy his genetic programming to destroy. Whether he thinks it's his idea or not.
@@kingofbudokai You sure about that? Jenova is essentially a planetary parasite, that corrupts/consumes a planet's livestream (and inhabitants) before hurtling it to new planets to consume.
How convenient that once Sephiroth's mind and will is shattered that his intentions suddenly shift towards a similar goal?
Sephiroth is Jenova, the parasite works through him.
usually when people remake an iconic song into something "emotional", they just change the key a few times, but i was blown away by this. this is so masterfully done with a good blend between the original's dark theme and something new, especially with the other motifs thrown in. love this to bits man. can't wait to see more from you :-)
Tnx so much, cap! Appreciate it, and the funny thing is, I didn’t even change the key!
Everyone talks about how a vicious and cruel man Sephiroth is, mainly because of the Jenova-Sephiroths and Clone-Sephiroths they encounter during the entirety of FF7... but then Crisis Core changed all of it.
Sephiroth was shown to have been a good man.
Sephiroth was shown how he was a hero to those he fought alongside, despite how detached he can be to total strangers.
Sephiroth was a man who, for all intents and purposes, broke down and shattered when he found the notes his ‘father’ left behind. A lie he believed to be the truth...
Would he still have been this way, perhaps, if he knew the whole truth- that his true mother was human, and not Jenova?
That’s would be an interesting story to see from Sephiroth’s perspective!
I wonder if Sephiroth ever knew Hojo was his father...been wondering that for years. Because if he didn't know about Lucrecia, then he likely didn't know about Hojo. And I think that bit might be for the best as nobody deserves Hojo for a father 😂
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley sephiroth likely knows that hojo is his father. in crisis core, he says this when asked about his family
"my mother's name is jenova. she died shortly after i was born. my father... mmmh, hahahaha. why am i talking about this?"
he simply doesn't want to admit that a such a slimy, despicable man is his father
@@nix.i I remember that in Crisis Core and looked at it as not wanting to mope and complain, especially given his position. Not a good look to have a general whining to his subordinates about his family life. Or...he's looking down on them, as in "Why should I tell *you*, of all people, this?"
But he probably would've benefitted by getting that all off his chest, even if it was to Zack and some nameless infantrymen, lol.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley i had always thought that he just didn't want to talk about hojo, and if he didn't know when he was human, he'd likely have learnt it in the lifestream.
i can see the 'general of soldier not wanting to complain', but not him looking down on them. cc sephiroth doesn't seem like the type to actively think somebody lesser than him, considering how quickly he said he'd give his fame to genesis
One Winged Angel but Sephiroth actually gets to kill Cloud and then realizes that without his archnemesis he feels empty
Damn-
Well that's true, every main "Villain" needs a hero they can fight, w/o them they are empty too..
Who is Doomsday w/o Superman?
Joker w/o Batman?
Dr. Octopus w/o Spidey?
This sounds like the Shinra Mansion song in Crisis Core at parts. This would've been right at home in that game, my favorite of the FF7 universe simply because of how it humanizes Sephiroth.
Yes I think so too 🙏
This really puts a spotlight on how Sephiroth was really a victim of a larger tragedy. He became the villain to Cloud, but was more a symptom of evil than a source
Sephiroth when he's alone and doesn't bother Cloud:
I wanna give him a hug
Me too, Free. Me too
"And you... You're wrong. Everything about you is wrong."
I kept believing that deep down, he’s just a fighter and a man who wanted to feel where he truly belong, someone that can love him. If anything, if there’s even a single person who can love and cherish him either if he’s an experiment or not, that person might be able to calm the flow of his hatred against the world. And in reality, he’s just looking for that sense of true family, that sense of warmness where he can find peace. If Lucrecia still have him and deny hojo’s offerings, things will go differently
True words, Gwen! 🙏🙏
It's this sort of storytelling that makes me love Sephiroth so much. There is so much depth to his character, his motivations. He seemed to be such a private fellow, though appearing to be all right being a public figure... to quote Cloud, "he never talked about himself." He wasn't one to divulge his personal thoughts and feelings very often, perhaps because he didn't want to appear weak, perhaps because he felt so isolated from everyone else ("I always knew I was different ever since I was small") He was just so powerful and he didn't have any idea WHY, and then to find out in the way that he did... to find out that his entire life had been controlled, manipulated, in order to use him as a tool for Shinra's ambitions... Shinra, the very company he worked for... they had created him to be used. And not only that, but to believe, at least for a time, that he was a Cetra, the last of his kind, because of humans abandoning who he believed to be his ancestors, his family... And all he had left was the body of the creature he considered his mother, whose touch he probably had craved since he was little, considering he grew up without parents. He didn't know what it felt like to be cared for by a family who loved him, he didn't know what it felt like to have a home town to return to, but he, still having some semblance of humanity, NEEDED those connections, needed to have people in his life he could love and trust. And he never really got that. Is it any wonder he felt so much anger? Is it any wonder he became something that ultimately had to be destroyed? Sephiroth defines his archetype, and it is easy to see why.
Thanks for your words!
Could you imagine if they made a sequel to FF7 and Advent Children, one where Sephiroth is the primary antagonist for the better part of the game before some twist of circumstances placed him in a situation where he has to help Cloud and those he was fighting against? Some crazy powerful, forgotten enemy of ancient times threatens all and Sephiroth is the only one who can stop it. He knows that in doing so, he will truly die this time. In the end, how ironic it would be that despite all of Sephiroth's destruction and chaos through the years, he was the only one who could've stepped up to save everyone.
Then he would be a memory. Yet how would they remember him?
That’s deep, Pilgrim. Lovely stuff to think about. Thank you!
I like it apart from the Sephiroth dying Part. But I wish we would see more of Jenova in the remake & Sephiroth struggling with his plans
these are the kinds of scenarios I used to love imagining as a kid on like the school bus home as I looked out the window.
Wouldn't mind a more intense version of this backing a boss fight where Sephiroth realizes the way he handled things effectively made him as much of a monster as the ones who created him and ruined his life, but at this point he's gone too far for redemption. The music swells as he raises Masamune and prepares to fight Cloud one last time, not to defeat him, but to repent by dying on the Buster Sword.
That was something that was playing in my head during the creation of this piece!
That's a great idea 👌
@@Melandru its very beautiful! you did an amazing job. I love it more than the original.
You can't help but feel bad for Sephiroth knowing everything he went through. He had a really good life. He was at the top. He had very good friends. Genesis, and Angeal, specifically. He was a respected war hero. But then, after learning the cruel truth behind his creation, he could not handle it, and lost everything he loved to his own insanity. It's a tragic story. The real Sephiroth that Angeal and Genesis were friends with... He was gone, and nowhere to be found. Replaced by the monster that was slowly growing inside him. And this piano cover summarizes that perfectly.
Now we need a version of Aerith's theme where it's all heavy and dramatic and evil.
Are you sure you are ready for that? :)
I find this extremely poetic and chill.
That’s great; David! 😁
The beginning: "and you Know they they ask you if you're alright...but you're not. You're just not"
Ahaha yes the meme!
Why do I want to sit quietly and reflect upon the world and also burn the world down at the same time. Damn my dude your arrangement would make Nobu proud
Why not both? :) Tnx, Paul! Appreciate it deeply.
Sephiroth never had a chance. Whereas the ancients had lives before Jenova took them, he was born broken.
I believe Sephiroth represents everything we take for granted. Without these gifts, we would become monsters no matter how hard we tried. And this man tried. He really did.
Same song, different rythm. And for once, you get to delve into Sephiroth's past. That he wasn't always evil. That he too, was once revered as a hero. But the horrible truth broke him. And over time, he veered of the path. And in time, the Hero of the World became the Villain.
Well-done Melandru-san. Well done.
True that! Tnx Regalis 💪💪
This cover is wonderful. Since he played Crisis Core he could never hate Sephiroth, he was a good person who took the wrong path. To this day I love it and I can't see it as a villain
Thanks Shazani, you know the real deal!💪
You ether die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
People so often forget Sephiroth isn’t just an edgy antagonist, he is broken, and tormented by himself. He was isolated from others and was given no choice but to become what people told him to unknowing of what he is, and when he found out he becomes a monster the very thing we swore to destroy.
It makes me so happy to know that there are people who know Sephiroth from Crisis Core. That game was the only game in history to make me cry.
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Sephiroth might having a serious grief, when he had no one be his friend.
Yes Sephiroth is a hurting child
@@Melandru Atleast Aerith will hug him, cause he had a kind nature.
Everyone was hoping Tifa and Aerith got a chance to Smash bros.
Didn't he have two best friends in Angeal and Genesis?
@@Quinyel He did, but until he noticed they turned against him.
But Zack killed Sephiroth's mentor, and other one he done it all himself.
"Something something, but no one ever asks 'how' is Sephiroth"
Sympathy is hard to find nowadays!
I guess Where is Sephiroth can replace something something
I think the only reason they never care for Sephiroth is because he killed every guy's Anime Waifu Aerith and hurt their anime Waifu Tifa,but Aerith was not killed by Sephiroth she was killed by Jenova taking Sephiroth's form and when he hurt Tifa it was Jenova again controlling Sephiroth before Sephiroth could supposedly snap out of that control.
Seriously i think that for once guys should stop thinking with their D***s and start thinking with their heads and take a better look at the true Sephiroth who was once a good kind hearted and sad broken man who's life got effed up ever since he was a baby who was taken away from his real mother before she could even hold him UGGGHHH i just hate how people are such D***s to poor Sephy it's like that one quote i heard once a very long time ago and that quote went something like this.--->
"The World Pushed Me Without Mercy and when i pushed back the world pointed and cried EVIL!".
And this quote suits Sephiroth's situation quite well...Poor Sephy,and even though it was not his real mom Sephiroth committed all that scary stuff because of the love he had for his Alien mother who he thought was his real mother,so Sephiroth just wanted to save his mother even though again it wasn't his real mother,so is he really to blame for wanting to save his mother from torment?...I thinks not any person who is anyone would wanna save their mother even if he or she had to kill some people in the way in order to do so,and yes innocent people died but that is because Seph was being controlled by the rage he had deep inside him for what they had done to his mother and when you have someone in deep rage like that it will sometimes be hard to tell friend from foe,cus in that moment nothing else matters and thus you are blinded to what surrounds you.
People are always asking where is Sephiroth, and why are you doing this, Sephiroth, but never how are you, Sephiroth.
@@sephirothcrescent5768 who the hell am I copying? Get over yourself.
This is straight up miserable. It's sad, but the sadness of someone who hit rock bottom and rather than climb back up, chooses instead to watch the world burn.
It's also very very well done. Your playing is gorgeous.
That was my goal! Thanks, Selenopheria💪
@@Melandru You're very welcome! 😄
"Shall I give you despair? Tell me what you cherish most. Give me the pleasure of taking it away."
I feel like this should be called something like, "the hero of midgar" or "the fall"
Yeah, good titles!
For Once
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." -Harvey Dent
"Where is Sephiroth!?"
"I'll do you one better. Who's Sephiroth?"
"I'll do you one better. _Why_ is Sephiroth?"
"Nobody ever asks _how_ is Sephiroth."
The version cloud hears every time he goes to sleep
The only time he is at peace😂
@@Melandru *calm PTSD intensifies
If there was a FFVII anime based on the actual game and not events in the past or future, this would be perfect for when Seohiroth learns of his past and becomes the "evil" villian we know him as
Tnx, Acid Shrooms! Happy to hear :)
This is from an alternate reality where Aeris stabbed Sephiroth in the back instead and her theme strikes PTSD to whoever hears it.
Haha that would be a game!
When in the end, we realize Sephiroth's intentions were for the greater good
Sephiroth STILL my favorite boss and villain
Yeah!
"I will.....never be a memory."
I wonder, take this same composition but gradually turn it into the original from soft to dark.
That is entirely possible!
That would amaaaaaazing
The score of a great hero turning into The Great Villain.
Congratulations for making this. It's an incredible version of One Winged Angel. It sounds so sad... it fits perfect
Thx so much Haruki, appreciate it 😁. The sadness was my drive for making this piece
Cloud always asks "Did Sephiroth do this?" and not "How is Sephiroth?"
I have seen and performed great, terrible acts. I have brought despair upon the planet like no one else could. I pursue Cloud in a never-ending challenge that will bring about either his end or my own. And yet, I feel strangely without purpose. There is an emptiness inside me that not even devotion to my Mother's cause can fill. Listening to this music is an uncomfortable reminder of that harsh truth. Sometimes, when I'm not engrossed in my work, I wonder if the wretched series of events that brought about my creation were a blessing, or a mistake. ...It is intriguing, but distracting, and I cannot dwell on such matters.
Glad you recognize it yourself, my man!
@@Melandru Perhaps it is the first step towards achieving a more stable mind. But what happens then, I cannot tell.
Lame
@@oliverhopkins8074 TROLL! XD
@@Celestial7Heavens sure I'm a troll.. not the guy pretending to be a game character (and totally not nailing the character) lol
This should've played when Sephiroth appeared in Smash, and had Cloud running away dramatically while tears get left behind in the air, knowing his friends where fucked.
Haha that would be cool to see
And then Kirby happens
Very thought provoking. Imagine a world where, having learned compassion for Sephiroth, we take all of these feelings and apply them to action and compassion for the poor, the needy, those with mental illnesses; and let that be in real life. Lessons taught by the "villian," could make our world a better place.
you have a great way with words, Zhuge! Thanks for sharing that thought.
when sephiroth finally kill cloud but at the end, he tell himself: "at what cost"
Haha famous last words
@@Melandru 😆
This theme fits perfectly Sephiroth's tragic past, the guy who composed this definetly needs to be more famous
Thank you, Mischino!
"Just because you are 'Bad Guy,' does not mean you are a bad guy."
The best villains are the ones with a tragic past. That's what was so great about several villains in Final Fantasy. Sephiroth was used and lied to, Kefka was driven to insanity through experimentation, Kuja was made and then almost discarded for a better "Angel of Death", they are never evil for the sake of just being evil.
Exactly, Gimmeh! I love those kind of broken villains
Final fantasy vii will never get old
Never. It’s Golden
"Sephiroth, it's over, Jenova's corruption is fading from the lifestream. You're fading...for good this time"
"Stop fighting, let it end"
"Cloud, I've lived three lifetimes, all of them wasted, neither of them was mine."
"Always in service to another."
"Shinra"
"Hojo"
"Jenova"
"Holy Terra"
"Nothing more than empty puppet"
"But this fight...I choose this of my own will."
"I know it's hypocritical coming from me, but please...let me have this. Let me have my honor"
*"So be it"*
The tension! Nice one, bro
I will never be a memory, but the memory of how i became will never cease to haunt my sleep. You don't know what it's like to live your whole life a lie, Cloud! You will never know what dispair I've endured!
I’m surprised this actually made me ball my damn eyes out and reminisce on past trauma. Despite having disillusions of grandeur I can relate to Sephirtoth’s feelings of being betrayed and having been lied to their entire life.
Let that emotion out! That’s good. I hope you are doing okay!
I like your description a lot, most people tend to think Sephiroth is this terrible, complex and evil person, but the reality is that he was a really nice guy when he was still in control, but after going through what he has, and Jenova taking control of him, he might as well not have been sephiroth anymore, just Jenova in his skin. Jenova is the villain, and Sephiroth is one of many victims, to it and to Shin-Ra
Exactly!
This is a very interesting take, good idea to go that way
Yo Duhem, thanks for that! Yeah, he’s story is quite sad, but you don’t really hear that in the ost haha😁
@@Melandru Rebirth was hot garbage compared to this.
sephiroth is the definition of "you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
Indeed, Key!
this is like discovering a whole new side of Sephiroth, so sad yet beautiful
Glad to read you discovered that!
Everyone forgot that Sephiroth, was once a good man.
True that!
"Sometimes you dont have to be the soldier "
Words🙏
good, very good 😏
Haha thanks, my man! 🦅
Am I the only one who thinks you could reverse the order of Crisis Core and FF7 in terms of publication and it would make an equally great story? It would make the Nibelheim tragedy unbelievably epic because you'd never expect Cloud to stand up to Sephiroth and win. But especially when you do FF7, you'll know right away that Cloud isn't telling the truth about his past, you'll wonder why Zack is never mentioned, and you'll have a very different way of looking at Sephiroth, still a monster but this time he really used to be your friend.
Edit : Fixed a few grammar mistakes
Yes I think that would also be a great way to tell the story and deepen the characters arcs, especially that of Sephiroth!
I'm the guy who played CC first and later follow FF7 storyline. And yes the whole story still brings a lot of emotion for me.
Sepheroth realizes cloud looked up to him in the past:
Yes!
This is good it changes it up. All Sephiroth wants to do is let Cloud and party know he has PTSD and needs help, but they won’t listen to him.
Sad cloud 🥲
If mass murder and arson can't be heard as a cry for help, then what could?
@@Lycanthromancer1 Professor Hojo gets his. He’s the one I blame as he orchestrated a lot of this bull from the experiments on the cetra to having Sephiroth believe he’s something other than what he really was. That goes to show you the logic, scientific only approach is gravely flawed as any thing to the extreme is.
Sephiroth didn't have PTSD, he found out the truth of his heritage: "My mother was an alien that wanted to destroy all life on this planet and use this world as her living vessel." He wasn't suffering under some sort of trauma, he learned the truth of his past and said "Ohhhhh, so THAT'S what I should be doing!" If he had any humanity within him he would have truly gone insane due to the duality of his bloodline. But no, he went all-in with Jenova's wishes and made it his life's goal to fulfill his Mother's wishes. He was quite sane, and had a singular focus: the annihilation of all life on the planet to accomplish his Mother's goal.
@@ruggedlemmings9163 I say he has a form of PTSD because that leaves soldiers (which he was for Shinra) not all there (100%) in the head. So to me it still fits. He was insane. There was nothing same about what he did. I mean it was probably sane to him. Him being a soldier and exposed to crap on the battlefield at a young age plus the tests he knew nothing about had to have a negative impact on him prior to him finding out those truths. Once he found out that’s what broke the camels back in his mind.
Theres a reason Sephiroth is so often compared to Vader, A true hero turning his back on everyone is truly heartbreaking