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other sections, so I decided to give them their own page.
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A.L. sent this:
Hey, nice site! I gotta admit, I liked VII from the start, but the real clencher for me was
seeing bad-old you-know-what basking in the pink glare inside that geodesic dome's with the
steady beating of a heart clearly audible in the background amidst the "Who Are You...?"
music. >gasp< Wow! That's a lot of syllables. Anyway, I have some information I'd like to
contribute to your well-worthy site, and I believe you may find it quite useful...
First, I have some corrections I'd like to make. First, I believe Professor Gast didn't
quit Shin-Ra entirely, yet merely opted out of the Jenova Project, hence his line when Hojo
invites himself and a couple of his colleagues over to his winter home. "That's it! I'm
severing all ties with the Shin-Ra!"
I also believe that, given the restrictions of trying to haul his mother around in all
her huge bad-@$$-ness, Sephiroth opted to take the most important part - her head.
Second, as to the origins of all the Sephiroth-clones, I believe they are NOT rejects from
Soldier, rather the victims of the Nibelheim incident. After all, in Zangan's letter to Tifa
(found in the piano in her pseudo-house, second disc) mentions noticing Hojo arriving
post-mortem and telling his colleagues to gather up the bodies for the "experiment." And, seeing
as how all of the test subjects were already dead (well, half-dead in Cloud's case) would
explain their vegetable-like state. Undead, even more so than Vincent. I'll discuss more on the
dead/alive theory later...
Third, in the case of the Weapons, they weren't made in the event Jenova escaped. They were
made during the time of the original crisis, as stated by Ifalna, yet were not needed because
the Cetra subdued her (Jenova) by the time they (the Weapons) were complete.
Fourth, Ifalna did not escape from Icicle Inn to Midgar. She was taken to Shin-Ra's labs,
where Hojo's experimentations most likely drained her to the point of death upon her escape to
the Sector 7 slum. Remember Elmyra's flashback, when she said Aerith told her about how she'd
escaped from a lab?
from A.L.'s second email:
(You may wish to read A.L.'s contribution to the similar characters
page before you read this next part.)
Well, I suppose I've given away my theory as to the purpose of the Jenova Reunion already.
But if you think about it, it DOES sort of make sense, considering synthesis technically means
an amalgamation of several different materials to form one object/entity. But I WILL mention
something about Jenova*DEATH. I notice that Sephiroth-clone #1 never fled the scene like he did
in the previous Jenova encounters, which leads me to believe he himself became Jenova*DEATH and
they decided not to show the transmogrification scene due to budget/time constraints, or just
because they couldn't show something nasty like that (which probably isn't the case, given that
such happens twice in the battle with Hojo).
Speaking of Hojo, I believe the Sephiroth-clone project was exactly what Jenova called for,
seeing as how she has the capability of tapping into peoples minds with or without her cells
being injected into them (injections only allow for her to directly communicate and/or manipulate
them, otherwise it's all left to suggestion). Why did Jenova call for it? Well, though she DOES
have to watch her girlish figure, a two thousand year diet is a little much. Mmm...human... Don't
worry, they were already dead, anyway. Now that I think of it, I wonder if she'd planned that all
along? Was the massacre of Nibelheim just more senseless violence? Or was it homicide with a
purpose?
The Creator sent this:
I think that the whole theory of Jenova falling from the sky, i think is true, I think that she
was a Goddess that fell from the sky and landed in the northern crater without summoning meteo.
Cetra had the black materia created from the mako and they summoned it upon Jenova, but with her
being so godly she evaded and it caused the crater to get bigger, but as they tried to heal it
she let a virus out to turn them into monsters gradually, but some didnt get effected and they
sealed away Jenova in the planet. BUT the planet didnt create the weapons, Jenova used the
planet to create the weapons against the Cetra when ever she was released. 2000 years later
when Sephiroth did it, he was original normal Sephiroth with no jenova cells but he just had to
see this thing in reactor which Jenova put a hypnotizing spell on Sephiroth thus whyhe called
him mother, OR she could have been Goddess Mother that he recognised. But seeing that cloud
killed sephiroth. Hojo found Jenova, Sephiroths body traveled the life stream and ended up at
the nothern crater, BUT Hojo still had some of his blood and he recloned cloud and sephiroth
from the jenova cells. Then when the weapons were released they went across the planet, Ultima
Weapon destroyed land near junon and terrorized towns...same wiht Crystal Weapon, comming
towards Midgar, this giving fact to Jenova creating and controling the weapons.
Mike sent this:
Sephiroth's appearance as the One Winged Angel would also have been a fitting point to mention,
as the Sephiroth can be inerpreted, in some respects as angelic beings, or even gods. (Some
believe that the Sephirot are the fragments of the True God's image which many mortals mistake
for individual gods).
The word Sepherot is also related to the word Zephyr. I can't say for sure whether Zephyr came
before Sepherot, or visa-versa, however I would be glad to find out if you so desire. The point
here, is that Zephyr refers to a God of Wind, or of the CLOUDs.
Sephiroth and Cloud therefor share not only Jenova's cells, but a vague connection in their
names. Unfortunately, I could find nothing to connect either character with the name Zak, aside
from the fact that alot of Kabbalistic authors happen to have that name, or at least an element
of it.
Now, as for Jenova. The fact that this word is so similar to the word Jehova (a mistranslation
of the Hebrew tetragrammaton JHVH/YHVH, or Yahveh) could easily be seen as simple coincidence.
In fact, I didn't even notice it until long after I made the Kaballah connection.
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