i love how there is a clear physical difference between good sephiroth and evil sephiroth.
differences in hair aside, evil sephiroth has obvious dark circles and hollowing around his eye area. this is the go to physical change to indicate that a character has gone to the dark side. a good example of this is anakin skywalker. compare the first image with the second one.
in seph's case, could this just be lighting/shadowing/angling, etc.? that's what i thought at first until i found these two gifs:
his faces in both gifs are both shadowed, but the physical difference is still there: even when his face is shadowed, you can clearly see that good sephy has no dark circles or any hollowing to his eye area. evil sephiroth also has that "aged" look to him that reminds me of arthas menethil from warcraft (who is also a hero turned villain like sephiroth):
with this, you can see just how much sephiroth has changed, not only in terms of personality, but also in appearance. his gaze is no longer as warm or as amicable as it used to be. evil sephiroth, even when he's making a neutral expression (or at least when he's not grinning or smirking), still looks very sinister, and his eyes seem to be a glowing a lot more too.
this change is also obvious in that iconic fire scene of sephiroth burning down nibelheim:
this physical change also makes sense when you take into consideration how long he was holed up in the basement at the shinra mansion without sleeping or eating, just endlessly reading outdated information about his origins.
i'm glad square enix put this little yet meaningful detail in the games.
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