Quote Originally Posted by Dragon Mage View Post
Oh so you can't take Kefka seriously? I mean Kefka was definetly on at least the verge of insanity. And he poisoned a castle, Killed a general and the Emperor. I take both of them seriously.
Forgive me, but I have no idea who you're talking about. FF7 is the only FF game I've played so far. And I did say that Sephiroth was cunningly insane, so I'm not calling him an idiot, or anything. And when I say serious, I mean, how can you factor someones insanity into their 'coolness' and take it seriously? I mean, come on, insanity is cool? Please.

That's because for most of the game he was stuck in a crater. Also he doesn't sick his mother on enemies. As far as I know Lucrecia was in a cave.
You know what I mean. I'm talking about Jenova, whom he refers to as 'mother' throughout the game. Stop dodging.

I'm sorry but have you actually played this game. He has a whole frickin master plan and the best part is that his master plan won't result in suicide because if you play the game you'll know that he intends to make a wound in the planet large enough for all of the lifestream have to come together to heal it. And guess who will be stood there when the lifestream arrive. Sephiroth. His plan never had anything to do with suicide. He had it all planned out. From getting Jenova to kill Aeris to having Cloud give him the black materia.
Yeah, I see, destroy the world you're on to become godly. Sure that makes a WHOLE lot of sense. -_- Gimme a break. Everyone knows that Meteor would have destroyed the world and if not, every living thing would have been killed. ('Nuclear winter' ring a bell?) But Sephiroth, in his insanity, was so intent on gaining power to 'take back' the world he was willing to go to any extreme to gain the neccessary power. Even if this meant wiping out the world and/or all life. So actually, yes it was a suicide attempt. Not neccissarily an intentional one, but it was suicidal nonetheless.
And it seemed to me that going on this whole quest was not planned out. In fact, it seemed like a spur of the moment decision to me. He did not plan for Cloud to go multiple-personality or to have a flower girl from the slums of Midgar creamed. Every thing just seemed to fall into place and he manipulated the others into doing things to benefit him.
What you have to understand is that prior to FF7, the main villains of Final Fantasy (X-Death/Kefka) simply wanted to bring all existence into non-existence, for no apparent reason. So in '97, it seemed like Sephiroth was the deepest main villain of all time, because it was such a huge jump in storytelling in videogames.

Also, Sephiroth never had his "mother" fight Cloud & friends and then run away; he was asleep during the entire first disc in the northern crator in the pod you see when it all collapses. "1" was the only clone strong enough for "Sephiroth's Will" to control.

About him killing Aeris, that scene now seems to me as paying homage to when Setzer jumped down to the stage of the theater to claim Celes. except he rammed the musamune into her back...

The name Sephiroth also (more than an actual entity) has more to do with the whole Jewish religious basis of the storyline, for Cloud to achieve complete consciousness of himself, he had to "follow the path of the Sephiroth". You'd have to read Squall_of_SeeD 's stuff to get it.