Watching Dr. Kathleen Kellett's videos makes me appreciate how hard Square Enix went in subverting stereotypical ideas about monstrosity. None of the bio-engineered characters had an inherently bad nature. Angeal couldn't accept himself. Genesis just wanted to survive. Sephiroth broke down after a lifetime of abuse and isolation. Like, this narrative really went "yeah, these guys were all engineered from biological material sourced from a planet-eating alien, but that's not actually what's wrong with them. It's the way they were treated that messed them up and put them in these horrible places."












