Sephiroth

After I was created, Shin-Ra raised me into a supersoldier, and told me nothing of my past except that my mother's name was "Jenova." I proved to be an incredibly strong and effective member of SOLDIER, gaining worldwide fame for my exploits such as his role in Midgar's victory against Wutai. I was ordered to inspect the Mako Reactor outside the town of Nibelheim with a small entourage, consisting of one other member of SOLDIER and a few Shin-Ra MPs. Among this group was SOLDIER 1st Class member Zack and his buddy, a 16-year-old Shin-Ra trooper named Cloud Strife. Nibelheim was Cloud's childhood home, but he avoided showing his face and revealing himself to his childhood friend Tifa Lockheart out of shame over not becoming a full-fledged member of SOLDIER as he had sworn to do several years earlier.At the reactor, I found several pod-like chambers containing monstrous creatures, apparently former humans mutated either by the mako energy in the reactor or by deliberate experimentation. Deeper inside, I found a larger chamber labeled "JENOVA," which contained a very strange feminine-looking creature. Deeply disturbed by the fact that the creature had the same name as my "mother" and by the idea that I might have been created in an experiment similar to the one that created the monsters in the pods, I made my way to the mansion that had been occupied by Shin-Ra researchers and began reading the research notes that were located in the basement library.As a result of what I learned, I became enraged and slightly psychotic. Based on the Shin-Ra reports, I came to believe that JENOVA was a Cetra, and therefore that I, JENOVA's son, was the last survivor of the Cetra. I also believed that the human race had betrayed the Cetra 2,000 years earlier, leaving them alone to defend the Planet from a calamity it had faced and resolved to take vengeance for my ancestors. I burned Nibelheim to the ground, killing nearly everyone within the village, including Cloud's mother, and then went to the Mako Reactor. I was pursued by some surviving villagers, including Tifa and her father. Zack, as of yet unharmed, and Cloud also followed. When Tifa arrived at the Reactor, she found her father dead with my sword left beside his body. In anger, she took the sword and charged me in the pod room, though I took my blade back from her and cut her down, nearly killing her.A moment later, Zack arrived and rushed up the stairs in the pod room to Mother's chamber, attempting to stop me. A moment later, I sent Zack reeling out the doorway of the chamber and into a pod. I was attempting to take Mother's body with me, but before I could do this, Cloud charged into the room, carrying Zack's large Buster Sword, and -- taking me by surprise -- stabbed me through my abdomen with it. Believing I was finished, Cloud went to tend to Tifa.Due to my enhanced anatomy, however, I survived Cloud's assault, though wounded greatly. I was now unable to take Mother's entire body with me, and so settled for taking just her head. I then prepared to leave, and to launch an assault upon the Human race to symbolically "take back the Planet" for the Cetra. However, before I could leave the Reactor, Cloud pursued me once more, but, I took Cloud by surprise this time, turning quickly and sliding my sword into Cloud's chest. Cloud's desperation unfortuneatly proved greater than my strength and he lifted me off the floor using the blade in his chest as a lever and his own body as a pivot, flinging me over the edge of the catwalk upon which we stood, and down into the Mako pool beneath the Reactor, from where my body would be carried into the Lifestream and eventually to the great Northern Crater, the Planet's 2,000 year old wound that was formed by Mother's landing. This was the last time I would be seen for five years.Following this, Shin-Ra sealed the records on me and rebuilt Nibelheim in order to cover up the incident, populating it with actors paid to act as the town's citizens. Professor Hojo meanwhile decided to make use of the surviving residents of Nibelheim, and so commissioned them against their wills to take part in an experiment that would hopefully prove his JENOVA Reunion Theory, a theory stating that when Mother's Cells are separated, they will seek to reunite. This was done by injecting some of Mother's Cells into the survivors and then infusing them with Mako, two procedures that had been carried out on me. Thus, the subjects of the experiment were dubbed "Sephiroth Clones," though this term has often been misinterpreted by Westerners due to the "genetic duplicate" connotation carried by the term "clone."Cloud and Zack were two of Hojo's subjects for this experiment, and they would spend the next five years as his prisoners in the Shin-Ra Mansion of Nibelheim. Zack breaks free and takes the semi-comatose Cloud with him. Around this point in time, the call of the Reunion began going out, and the Sephiroth Clones began making their way toward the Northern Crater, searching for the Black Materia along the way as per instructions telepathically given to them by me.AVALANCHE, was captive in Shin-Ra's headquarters at this time, having made a daring raid on the facility in an attempt to rescue a captive ally. During the night, Mother's body -- contained now in Hojo's lab in the building -- breaks out of her containment vessel and slaughters much of the Shin-Ra personnel in the building. At some point, Cloud's prison cell was opened, either by Mother or by an electrical malfunction occurring as a result of Mother blasting her chamber open. AVALANCHE finds their guards slaughtered and the President of Shin-Ra Inc. dead, impaled against his desk by my sword.Having decided to investigate the matter, the members of AVALANCHE discover that I was attempting to use the Black Materia, an item that would call forth a manifestation of the most powerful destructive Magic in existence: Meteor. I intended to use this to deal a fatal wound to the Planet, at which time it would then send out large amounts of Spirit Energy from the Lifestream in order to heal that wound. I planned to merge with Mother and intercept this massive concentration of energy, absorbing it and the knowledge and power it carried, which I believed would make me god-like.Before I could obtain and use the Black Materia, Aeris Gainsborough, the last of the Cetra, tried to use the White Materia given to her by her mother to summon the force called "Holy," the only power able to counter Meteor. During her attempt to call forth this Ultimate White Magic, I had a piece of Mother in my form slide a sword through her, killing her almost instantly. This was part of my manipulation and mental torture of Cloud, exacting revenge upon him for having bested me five years earlier. Though Aeris had successfully called Holy, it was now being held back within the Planet by Me, preventing it from moving with my will, as augmented by Mother's power. I continued manipulating Cloud until AVALANCHE reaches my body inside the Northern Crater, by which time I had so whittled away at Cloud's mind that he believes he is nothing more than some of Mother's Cells that had assumed the form of a real person named "Cloud." He then willingly hands over the Black Materia to me, which I used to call forth Meteor. Afterward, AVALANCHE and the Shin-Ra executives present are forced to flee from the collapsing area, and I then erect a field of energy around the Crater to prevent entry. The force field protecting me was later penetrated by Shin-Ra, and Cloud and the rest of AVALANCHE then descend into the chasm and defeat a mutated me , my body having merged with Mother. After destroying my body, my spirit makes a mental assault upon Cloud, attempting to overcome my will as easily as it had done in the past and take Cloud's body as mys own. However, Cloud's mental defenses had grown and he triumphs over my spirit, at which time, my Spirit Energy was reclaimed by the Lifestream.Two years following my defeat, a malady called "Geostigma" has spread throughout the world, afflicting many with its ill effects of extreme fatigue and open sores on the skin. The now reclusive Cloud finds himself confronted by a strange trio of men. Their leader, Kadaj, bears a resemblance to me. Their mission is to finish what I started.....