Quote Originally Posted by chionos View Post
That's not what I think now, though, since I don't think it was Sephiroth really who summoned Meteor. Multiple playthroughs have led me to believe that the Sephiroth we see in flashbacks is not the Sephiroth we experience in the present portions of the game but Jenova masquerading as Sephiroth. Yes, that's right, the baddest bestest boss in FF history is just a big fake.

I think I've said enough for this post, but I'll be back later to give my breakdown of I think is really happening with Jenova and Meteor. It's all about Jesus, I'm tellin' ya.
It has nothing to do with Sephiroth being a "fake". The soul is what matters. And the soul which controls the headless body of JENOVA is Sephiroth. So it is Sephiroth himself. His body inside the crater is also not his 100% body, because his original body was almost completely destroyed while travelling through the lifestream for such a long time. He had to regenerate and that's also the reason why his lower part was still missing. Sephiroth wants JENOVA to reunite without an explained reason. Nevertheless he thinks it is the only being similiar to him and worth being similiar to him, his "mother" and he wants it to reunite. He was the one who activated JENOVA's head. He was the one who activated the reunion. He wanted his clones to restore JENOVA ("Clone" in Final Fantasy VII is not the same as a normal clone, the "Clone" in Final Fantasy VII is like the "Replica" in Crisis Core).

Sephiroth is the one who uses JENOVA to wander around. It is exactly the same ability he uses in Advent Children. Sephiroth's reunion is way better than JENOVA's, because JENOVA needs almost all cells to reunite, but Sephiroth only needs his will and the shapeshifting ability he has learned from JENOVA to build himself a new body. Of course Sephiroth wants exactly the same JENOVA wants. he wants to get more and more powerful by absorbing the knowledge of life. But JENOVA acts mainly instinctive, it really does it because it is an instinct, while Sephiroth does it because he wants to do it. Nevertheless he is the "new JENOVA".