#ff7 jenova

[ryanthel0ser]

I NEED TO HIT HER WITH A NUCLEAR BOMB RIGHT NOW

[mandrakepot]

I REJECT MY HUMANITY, HOJO!

Dio Sephiroth grabbing Jenova the Metalhead in Hojo’s Bizarre Adeventure

[tireddovahkiin]

Mommy issues am I right

[Yall cut me some slack i have NO idea how to draw Jenova💀 I basically speedran this shit on the phone with my finger]

Based on this meme:

[mynameiskan]

My friend had this evil idea and she urged me to draw 😂😂😂

I haven't drawn by my finger on ibispaint for such a long time. It's fun to do some doodles once in a while.

Original meme:

[nadielle]

"For thin is the veil betwixt man and the godless deep. The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnameable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again. And the evil of the stars is not as the evil of earth."

— Clark Ashton Smith.

[sapphirothcrescent]

I like the theory that Sephiroth puppets Jenova. I like the theory that Jenova is puppeting Sephiroth. Both theories GOOD. ❤️ People who only subscribe to one theory are good so long as they don't dislike the people who enjoy the other.

[cross-reviews]

Jenova is the Real Villain of FF7

Jenova was told of as this insidious plague at a source that could overtake people and wear their faces to get close to others and spread her terror and influence.

People take Hojo's word as the lead expert on the Jenova project, but he's actually wrong on a few key points. He says that this is all Sephiroth and that the Reunion at the North Crater went against his initial guess of it happening at Shinra HQ where Jenova's body was stored. Everyone just assumes it's all Sephiroth leading the force, and pushing for his plan of godhood.

I disagree.

Let's actually break down what happens to Sephiroth. We see in Crisis Core that he actually had a relatively stable moral center and was disillusioned with Shinra and his upbringing. He even said he may abandon Shinra if things kept going the way they did. There was a sliver of hope for him to actually become the hero that everyone saw him as.

Then the Nibelheim incident occurred. But what happened there exactly? We see Sephiroth come to the realization that he was created similarly to the monsters being developed there, and then delves into the Jenova Project notes. Gast erroneously thought of Jenova as a Cetra, so Sephiroth believed himself to be one as well. The Cetra were the original stewards and protectors of the planet, so Sephiroth would believe that to be his birthright, not the role of humans.

But wait, doesn't that go against what else we know about the Cetra?

The Cetra were in deep communion with the Planet and could feel its pain and its needs, enough to respond to threats and protect it. Sephiroth even admits to such, that the Cetra can communicate and sense when beings returned to the planet. But learning this doesn't give him that ability. He never feels that connection. Not truly. So is he just misled? Believing some incorrect information?

If that were the case, why go through so much destruction to see Jenova? Why go through with the plan to call Meteor? Why manipulate people so thoroughly to achieve these goals, especially when Sephiroth was NEVER like that before? What changed?

Simple.

He wants to be with Jenova.

Sephiroth spent days researching and learning all about Jenova and the project, while being physically closer to her than any other SOLDIER at the time aside from Zack. Sephiroth was also uniquely created with an even greater amount of Jenova cells and grew up with them, so his connection is even stronger. Being so close and being so connected, Jenova did what she does best.

She got into his head.

Days of poring over pages and getting fed half-truths and inaccuracies, but with a purpose. He needed his own revelation as to what he was, and Jenova provided the answers he wanted. And once the thoughts were planted, Sephiroth immediately lost every other thought except to see Jenova.

The horrific experiments creating monsters?

Irrelevant. Go see Mother.

The wellbeing of his friend and comrade Zack?

Irrelevant. Go see Mother.

The lives of all those innocent people?

Irrelevant. Go see Mother.

That's not Sephiroth's thoughts.

That's The Reunion taking effect on him.

Even if Sephiroth just learned that his life was a lie, he has no reason to just attack people to openly.

But Jenova DOES. Jenova spreads fear and chaos, and now she has the most terrifying face to wear as she works her schemes.

Sephiroth takes Jenova's head and falls into the Lifestream, but we never see the head again. That's because it melded with Sephiroth so Jenova could take over, use his power to cause more Calamity, and grow ever stronger to continue her assault on the cosmos.

The Reunion at the Northern Creater wasn't focusing on Sephiroth. It was focusing on Jenova's head, which has merged INTO Sephiroth.

Oh and would you look at the Jenova fight in Revelation?

Barret asked the right question all the way back in 1997:

[phoenixcatch7]

Petition: Sephiroth doesn't have a father.

Half of his dna? Lucrecia

The other half? Jenova

None of this Hojo vs Vincent argument I humbly propose we get far more symbolic mileage out of a corrupted version of an immaculate conception via Jenova as the 'angelic' presence.

Mad science IVF, essentially.

This lasted about ten seconds as a crack theory but now I think I'm actually going to add that to my belief system

Like Jenova is generally given female pronouns and called 'mother' but we do need to remember it's an alien megafauna virus (often referred to with 'it' pronouns in multiple translations of the original game, including the original Japanese). Its cells do not work like human animal cells. It's entirely feasible that it was used in place of a father donor, and would explain why sephiroth has such strong Jenova characteristics (white hair, slit eyes) where Angeal and Genesis don't (and also just. The rest of him. Where you'd put the genes for halos I don't know).

Sephiroth does have huge issues, just, in general, but his real weak point was his mummy issues where he'd been primed by hojo and that was where Jenova squarely hit. And it's generally agreed no matter which side of the 'sephiroth is in control/a puppet' spectrum you fall on that she was preying on him in nibelheim.

And also, just in final fantasy in general, there is a LOT of religious symbolism and icons (as is fairly typical of rpg games of that type. Just look at the Persona or Shin megami tensei series!). The summons, the church, etc. Sephiroth, aka the paths of sephiroth, is taken from what Wikipedia calls 'esoteric Jewish mysticism' and describes, I quote, 'channels of divine creative life force or consciousness through which the unknowable divine essence is revealed to mankind' or 'the ten structural forces of nature'. No guesses for how that tied into Project S' original intent to re-establish the extinct cetra and lead shinra to the promised land of infinite totally-not-afterlife-compost mako.

And I'm sure there's been plenty of essays done on the meanings and themes in ff7 (not that I can find them under all the sephiroth character analysis) but sephiroth very clearly went the demi urge route where he should have been a saviour and guide so why not throw in some immaculate conception as well?

Disclaimer: this tumblr user does not think of IVF as corrupted mad science nor do they think children born of it are any less human, we're talking about Hojo's experiments with Jenova on an unborn child here.

This would also mean that any 'Jenova is not your mother!' dramatic reveal could be followed up with 'she's your dad!' which is hilarious and we know Sephiroth's opinions on father figures.