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Sephiroth Age: 28 Date of Birth: Unknown Birthplace: Nibelheim (Shin-Ra Mansion) Hair: Silver Eyes: Green Height: 6'1 Blood type: Unknown Weapon: Masamune Blade Job: 1st Class Soldier Even amongst the elite troops of SOLDIER, Sephiroth is known to be the best. His past is locked away in a confidential file held by Shinra, Inc. His giant sword, which only he can handle, has extremely destructive power. Said to have disappeared in a battle years ago, his current whereabouts are unkown. The following paragraph was written by Sleepyfantasy Sephiroth was born in Nibelheim's Shin-Ra Mansion as an experiment to Professor Hojo and his lab assistant Lucrecia. A few years prior, top Shin-Ra scientist Professor Gast found the frozen corpse of an alien lifeform known as JENOVA. Under research, JENOVA proved to be an ancient, or Cetra, and she became Shin-Ra's biggest scientific research project. After many attacks against them, the Shin-Ra science department moved out of Midgar to a mansion in the small town of Nibelheim to continue their JENOVA research. Amoung them was Professor Gast, Professor Hojo, the lab assistant Lucrecia as well as other lab assistants and science staff, and one of the Turks, who was assigned to protect them, Vincent Valentine (later in your party). Hojo became obsessed with the JENOVA project. He used her cells for virtually every use he could the think of - producing vaccines, ect. Then, he got the great idea of using them in a human. He decided he would father a child and inject it with JENOVA's cells while it was still in the mother's womb. He scanned all of the lab assitants and figured that Lucrecia was the most compatible to bear the child. Now, there is some argument on whether Hojo raped Lucrecia or somehow scientifically seduced her and forced her to marry him. However, Lucrecia did not love Hojo, she was in love with Vincent (see Vincent Valentine's Bio). Hojo injected himself, Lucrecia, and her womb with heavy amounts of JENOVA's cells. Sephiroth was born, and Lucrecia died soon after giving birth from poisoning from the cells. Professors Hojo & Gast raised and trained Sephiroth to use the power JENOVA's cell gave his body while he lived at Nibelheim. They even told him JENOVA was really his mother and not Lucrecia. When Sephiroth was nine, Tayeko Kisato, a Cetra, was captured by Hojo for research. Tayeko and Sephiroth became close friends, but only because Hojo had underlying plans to breed them. However, whe Hojo attempted, Sephiroth retaliated and Tayeko was accidently killed by a SOLDIER on guard. At the age of sixteen, Sephiroth was sent to Midgar to join Shin-Ra's SOLDIER program, their army of mako inhanced soldiers. Sephiroth's unbeilevable in-human power caused him to rise quickly in the ranks of SOLDIER, leading him to be a First-class General and leader of the SOLDIER army. As Cloud later recall, Sephiroth's power was "Unreal, far stronger than any imaginable forces.". Five years prior to the start of FFVII, Sephiroth, a SOLDIER named Zack and two officers, one of which is Cloud, go on a mission to Nibelheim to investigate a sudden influx of monsters at the Mako Reactor. When they arrived, Sephiroth noticed the pods where monsters where contained, which were humans that were exposed to high amounts of mako. After seeing this, Sephiroth began to question his own origin, and went back to the basement in the Shin-Ra mansion where the library was. He read the records and found out everything about his past, which led to his insanity. In a blind rage he burned down Nibelheim and killed most of the town. Tifa found her father slain at the reactor, and grabbed Sephiroth's Masamune sword and tried to kill Sephiroth in revenge. However, he easily overpowered her, grabbing his sword and slashing her across the chest almost fatally. Sephiroth then went into the chamber where JENOVA was held. Zack ran after him (stupid boy) but was quickly tossed out of the chamber by Sephiroth. Cloud entered the reactor and found both Zack and Tifa wounded, and ran into the chamber after Sephiroth, where he found him embracing the statue of JENOVA, promising to take the planet back for her. CLoud stabbed Sephiroth in the back, then ran out to help Tifa. Sephiroth, all though mortally wounded, ripped off the head of JENOVA and carried it out of the chamber, then tried to limp out fo the reactor. Cloud tried to stop him, but Sephiroth stabbed him, but not fatally. Cloud over powered Sephiroth and threw him off of the catwalk into the depths of the reactor below. Sephiroth was dead. (sob) Cloud and Zack were taken by Shin-Ra and held responsible for Sephiroth's death. Hojo used them as part of a Sephiroth cloning experiment, and injected them with JENOVA's cells. However, they escaped before the process was complete. Somehow, Sephiroth's body ended up in a crystallized mako rock in the Northern Crator (nobody knows how, probably has something to do with JENOVA). His will was so strong, he would not difuse into the Lifestream and he remained there. He controlled the many clones Hojo created through the JENOVA cells. Personality Sephiroth is stoic and doesn't particularly enjoy the company of anyone. At first, he seems almost hostile, but eventually opens up to the few people alright who choose to accept him.