Sephiroth (Final Fantasy)

Not to be confused with his incarnation from Kingdom Hearts.

Sephiroth
Series	Final Fantasy
Age	27-30 (FF7)
Birthday	Dec. 11 (Year: N/A)
Sex	Male
Species	Jenova/Human Hybrid
Height	6'1"(185 cm)(Original) 6'7"/200 cm (Remake)
Weight	Est. 165 lbs (75 kg)
Alignment	Neutral Evil

Sephiroth is the main antagonist of the JRPG 'Final Fantasy VII'. He is nicknamed the One Winged Angel.

“	Accept it. I am the one who guides you... forever! If it's despair you want, then I shall provide.	„
	~ Sephiroth

Background

During pregnancy, Sephiroth's mother; Lucrecia Crescent, has been injected with cells from an alien being known as Jenova, this caused Jenova's cells to merge with Sephiroth's unborn body. After birth, he was taken in and trained by the Shinra Electric Power Company to become a super soldier, and he eventually rose to the rank of a SOLDIER First Class and was celebrated as a war hero.

One day, Sephiroth, Zack Fair and a young Cloud Strife were sent on a mission to investigate a monster outbreak in Nibelheim. There, he saw humans mutated into monsters, and also a chamber with the name of his "mother" on it. In shock, Sephiroth tried to find the truth, which turned himself insane. He came to the conclusion that he was the last Cetra, and that he must take vengeance on humans for their "betrayal" against the Cetra 2000 years ago. He slaughtered the people of Nibelheim and went out to claim Jenova's remains but was stopped by Cloud and supposedly fell to his death.

He fell into the Lifestream, but his will was too strong to be consumed, so he spends years traveling through it and learning. After his body has been rebuilt from the fragments, his new goal became to merge with the Lifestream and become a god, by summoning meteor and ultimately merging with the Lifestream when it tries to heal the planets wounds.

Powers & Abilities

• Jenova Empowerment: Being injected with Jenova Cells when he was an embryonic stage before birth, Sephiroth was born with remarkable inhuman prowess.
  • SOLDIER Enhancements:
    • Inhuman Strength:
    • Inhuman Speed:
    • Inhuman Agility:
    • Inhuman Durability:
    • Inhuman Reflexes:
    • Inhuman Stamina:
    • Wing Manifestation: Sephiroth can manifest a right wing on his back.
  • Mako-based Magic: Due to being in the Lifestream for 5 years, Sephiroth learned on how to preform magic without the need of Materia.
    • Flare-based Spells (Flare, Megaflare, Gigaflare): In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Sephiroth can use this to Lauch explosive blasts against opponents.
  • Illusion Creation: Like Jenova, Sephiroth can cast various illusions that can appear to whatever he wants. These illusions are known to make him look like as if he has numerous other abilities, so that it makes it seem like he's an even bigger threat.
  • Psychic Abilities: Due to "swimming" in the Lifestream for 5 years, Sephiroth gained some psionic abilities.
    • Telekinesis: Sephiroth can lift other people, as well as telekinetically choke them in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Sephiroth can also engulf the surrounding area in dark clouds.
      • Levitation: By using his telekinesis, Sephiroth can lift himself up into the air to achieve flight.
    • Telepathy:
      • Mind Reading:
      • Emotion Manipulation:
      • Memory Manipulation:
    • Teleportation: Sephiroth can teleport either himself, or other people in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
  • Jenova Cells Control: Sephiroth can control beings that possess Jenova Cells in the bodies (i.e. Sephiroth-clones), with only people like Zack Fair, and (to an extent) Cloud Strife able to resist. This also allows Sephiroth to showcase his abilities through these clones while his real body is crystalized at the Northern Crater.
• Indomitable Will: Sephiroth's body remained intact while he was floating through the Lifestream.
• Master Swordsmanship:
• Limit Breaks & Techniques:
  • Reaper: A series of three slashes which hit multiple times.
  • Shadow Flare: A group of four dark orbs which converge on an enemy’s position. He can also shoot the orbs at you or scatter them across the area.
  • Transience: A single slash which hits several times before knocking the foe backwards.
  • Fervent Blow: A burst of energy projectiles fired from the Masamune. If they connect, Sephiroth follows with a dashing lunge to launch the target upwards.
  • Sudden Cruelty: Two sword swings that deal multiple hits.
  • Oblivion: Sephiroth dashes forward and performs a single slice which hits multiple times if it connects.
  • Godspeed: A mid-air variant of Fervent Blow, modified such that Sephiroth sends the target downwards with an overhead strike.
  • Gust: A charged-up horizontal strike followed with a crushing overhead blow.
  • Trembling Earth: A quick and clean four-hit combo.
  • Surging Sky: The aerial version of Trembling Earth.
  • Telluric Fury: A standard three-slash combo.
  • Aeolian Onslaught: A horizontal spinning slash, or a rising slash followed by a slam attack.
  • Zanshin: A barrage of slash projectiles which allow Sephiroth to float in mid-air. 
  • Octaslash: A multi-hitting combo that delivers eight rapid and deadly sword attacks.
  • Scintilla: Sephiroth creates a forcefield which parries enemy attacks. He follows up with a thrusting attack to stun the opponent before knocking them away. 
  • Hell’s Gate: A diving impale attack which is strong enough to cause fissures in the ground or shockwaves in mid-air. 
  • Heaven’s Light: An upwards rising slash which covers a great amount of vertical distance. 
  • Heartless Angel: An attack with long charge time; if successful, Sephiroth reduces the target’s HP count to 1, forcing them into a near-death state in an instant.

Weapons & Equipment

• Masamune: A long two-handed ōdachi-like sword which feet will vary from 6 to 8 feet with a 255-hit rate, 99 attack power, and 100% critical hit rate. Even though it looks weak, it's capable of cutting through concrete and steel very easily. It also has six Materia Slots that Sephiroth already has pre-set for his magic set-up.
• Gold Armlet: Adds +46 to physical defense, and +28 to magic defense.
• Tough Ring: Adds +50 to Sephiroth's vitality and spirit, effectively reducing all damage taken.
• Magic Materia: Allows the user to cast magic attacks from different elements and/or various spells.
  • Fire-Based Materia (Fire, Fira, & Firaga): Simple, but strong fire-based magic.
  • Earth-Based Materia (Quake, Quakra, & Quaga): Earth-shaking spells.
  • Lightning-Based Materia (Thunder, Thundara, & Thundaga): Simple, but powerful electric magic.
  • Ice-Based Materia (Blizzard, Blizzara, & Blizzaga): Simple, but strong ice-based magic.
  • Revive-Based Materia (Raise & Arise): Both of them are spells capable of reviving fallen allies, but they're also harmful to the undead.
  • Restore-Based Materia (Cure, Cura, Curaga, & Regen): The first three consist in simply healing a target. Regen consists in healing a target periodically every turn.
  • Support-Based Materia (Barrier & Dispel): Sephiroth can summon Support Materia that can protect Sephiroth by giving him a barrier or removing any status effects dealt to him.
• Black Materia: A powerful piece of equipment that lets Sephiroth summon meteors from the sky, the largest of which can destroy planets.
  • Meteor: Summons a large meteor that destroys a large part of the planet's surface.

Alternate Forms

"Unknown/Whisper" Sephiroth

This Remake-exclusive form of Sephiroth has even greater power than the Sephiroth from the original timeline. Sephiroth retains his original powers, but he has new ones such as having control over the spirit beings known as Whispers. The black Whispers that Sephiroth has are several corrupted ones that were originally aligned to the Planet, Gaia. While Gaia still has hundreds of thousands of white Whispers compared to his tens of hundreds, they still have enough stolen can also send people to the Singularity, which is the connection between all realities, and can absorb Whispers to empower himself, gaining powers such as generating Whisper-based attacks or access pocket dimensions called "Singularities", which seem to connect to alternate timeline.

Bizarro∙Sephiroth

In this bizarre-looking form, Sephiroth's limbs act on their own and use powerful magic, but they are significantly weaker than the rest of Sephiroth's body. He can also use new techniques in this form.

• Stigma: Poisons the enemy.
• Sephiroth Shock: Slows down the enemy by a lot.
• Fire3/Ice3/Bolt3/Quake3: Magic spells that blast the opponent with fire, ice, lightning and earth respectively. These are the most powerful forms of these elemental magic powers.
• Demi3: Gravity-based magic that crushes an opponent’s health down to a quarter of its current strength. 
• Slow: A time magic spell that causes the target’s actions to slow to a crawl.
• Stop: Another time spell that freezes the opponent in time. 
• Bizarro Energy: Heals himself.
• Heartless Angel: Leaves the enemy with 1 HP and 0 MP (Gameplay mechanic).

Sephiroth Reborn

The Remake version of Bizarro∙Sephiroth in FF7: Rebirth. Sephiroth retains his Zanshin, Hell’s Gate, and Heartless Angel moves, but he has gained new powers, with some being based off of the Whispers, such as Whisper tornadoes, energy bursts, imbuing his wings with elements, and summoning Bahamut Arisen Whisper, which Sephiroth can heal using his wings.

Safer-Sephiroth

Upon his defeat in his Bizarro form, Sephiroth assumes this newer angelic transformation by further tapping into the Lifestream, remaking himself into a form he believes is more fitting for a god. In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Sephiroth can access this form for his Final Smash. Safer Sephiroth is capable of flight and numerous new moves while keeping some old ones like Shadow Flare and Heartless Angel. New abilities exclusive to this form include slashing his enemies with the dark wing in place of his right arm, as well as:

• Wall: Creates a protective barrier that reduces damage.
• DeSpell: Removes positive status effects from the enemy.
• Deen: Attacks the enemy with a powerful rupture, inflicting magic damage on all enemies hit.
• Pale Horse: Shoots a blue energy blast at the enemy, which has a chance of turning the enemy into an animal, like a frog.
• Break: Causes paralysis by dropping a rock on the enemy.
• Super Nova: Sephiroth's ultimate Limit Break is where he creates a massive illusion where he summons a large meteor that destroys multiple planets and the Sun, causing a humongous explosion.

Feats

Strength

• Capable of using a two-handed sword with just one hand.
• Sliced through Mako cannons. (Simulation feat)
• Capable of cutting through buildings.
• Nearly destroyed the Planet, Gaia.
• Capable of destroying the entire Solar System with his Super Nova attack.
• Stabbed Aerith through the chest and killed her.
• In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, defeated Galeem with one slash. (Non-Canon)

Speed

• Capable of reaching speeds over Mach 10,000.
• Was so fast he's almost appearing as if he teleported.
• In Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, parried the Omnislash.

Durability

• Blocked a 1600-ton strike.
• Survived Buster Sword impalement
• Tanked Genesis' fireballs
• Tanked his own Supernova Attack which is capable of destroying the entire Solar System.
• In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, survived the Omnislash ver. 5. (Non-canon)

Skill

• Hero of the Wutai War
• Revived himself through remnants of Jenova.
• Became the most powerful member of the SOLDIER program.
• Earned renowned status in Shinra after leading SOLDIER to multiple victories in the Wutai War. 
• Defeated Genesis, Angeal, and Tifa 
• Bested Zack Fair in Nibelheim. 
• Dominated his rematch with Cloud in Advent Children and managed to parry the original Omnislash, only losing after being surprised by the Ver. 5 variant. 
• Matched his allies Angeal and Genesis in a combat simulation; in that same instance, he destroyed the simulation's Mako Cannon.
• Above Turks such as Alvis who, while half-dead, killed the strongest summon Zirconiade with a limit break. 
• Prevented Holy from being casted through sheer willpower.

Faults

• Arrogance:
• Mentally Unstable:
• Never uses his full potential.
• Limited Magic energy: Despite having immense magic, his personal mako reserves are finite. (Though Bizarro and Safer Sephiroth forms do not rely on Materia and effectively have limitless MP, constantly replenishing it until it's full).
• Heartless Angel also leaves him open to attack if he activates it.

Fun Facts

• Sephiroth appeared in the season 4 finale of the popular web series DEATH BATTLE! where he fought against Vergil from Devil May Cry and won.