I wrote a treatment of over 30 pages only about this character. He is not as flat as you think. And it is not a "oh, I like him because he is so attractive" treatment but only about his character, life and everything mentioned in the official material. The Compilation characters are brilliantly developed. No wonder, the more you add the more dimensional they become. The "being of evil" (the nature of evil) itself always is flat somehow, even if it has some human motivation, which Sephiroth has.
And I think, as said, it is better for Sephiroth to be the main villain as he is not just an animal and it would not have fit his character and abilities at all, not to mention it is weird to have those wannabe-villains that just were not the villains but are only revealed to be the controlled one at the very end or it not being mentioned at all while at least being implied. All that can go the void.
1. It is about his actual character.Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno
2. Lol. I can't say, actually I don't need to say more to that because it is flat-out not true. Those old Final Fantasy villains have no depth at all because it is not focussed on their character for real and for Sephiroth it just was very well focussed on him. Replay the game. It all makes sense as much as possible. Sephiroth's hunger for power reflects his feelings about being superior to anyone and wanting to prove it. Not to mention that his pride has been hurt by Cloud so no wonder he wants it even more but in the first place he is a "spoiled child" who has always been the very best like no one ever was and so of course he reaches out for more of that. By the way, revenge, arrogance and all that human stuff is enough to write a good and reasonable character (somehow reasonable). You wish for something impossible to be told. Really reasonable destruction of something good and living. And that is not the very nature of us. Also again it is no matter of feeling. It is a fact, Sephiroth was written more human now. He had friends, he was very arrogant in the first place but not really that he showed off all the time as he's not the type (or at least was, no he has Cloud to torment). His grudge was more developed, he tainted te Lifestream and laughed about Aerith because of how powerless she was compared to him as he continues to become stronger and that just supports his arrogance. That is called addition. Sephiroth has a very human character-wise weakness and that makes him very good when it comes to that. Surely many villains are arrogant but this one is really developed.
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