Quote Originally Posted by Elly View Post
Jaffer, you're just looking too hard for something that just isn't there, if the weapons were working for Sephiroth the Ultimania would have stated so...
true Sephiroth is controling JENOVA, but the Weapons are a product of Gaia to be used against JENOVA, why would the weapons of Gaia suddenly be turned to weapons of Sephiroth? it makes no sense, Sephiroth simply does not have the power to control the planet, he's trying to aquire that power by bringing it to the brink of death by using Meteor...
VeloZer0's theory is sound in this regard and makes a lot of sense, you also need to understand this game is from the ealy days of the PlayStation, it's not gonna be 100% geographicaly accurate as later additions in the FF series of games, honestly the Sister Ray could not be fired from Midgar without tearing through the mountain the Chocobo Sage lives on, there are allowances to be made on such an old title...
Actually, Sephiroth may not have been stated to control the Weapons but he has been stated to be in control of the Lifestream. Even when he was a beaten dog after FF7 he could pretty effortlessly oust Aerith from her position and go back to his schemes again. He even expressed that he could just complete his objectives while remaining inside the Lifestream but there was things he wanted to do with his own hands.

Given that. I find a lot easier to assume that Sephiroth was manipulating the WEAPONS then that they were just designed to be as counterproductive as physically possible towards achieving the goal they are set out to do.