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I think the main reason why people totally misunderstand and then misinterpret Sephiroth (even if they only played the OG) is because they are mostly the type of person to have never felt real oppression, forced isolation, living with a groomer or toxic religious family dynamics.
Imagine if you never met or talked to someone your age before for your whole life until you were 15 because an electric company kept you in their corporate headquarters and the whole time your own father was abusing company funds by lying to them to be able experiment on you.
@serinigalini Right, like when I say Sephiroth is a pathetic crybaby, I mean that he never really got to grow up and ultimately is like a child throwing a tantrum because they took him from mother. It’s tragic, it’s painful, it’s beautiful writing…
@Sephirothite This is also one reason I wish people engaged with compilation more because obviously it’s not just that one moment. Sephiroth breaking in the library is a sum total of a LOT of past trauma, but it doesn’t really get conveyed properly in the OG/mainline games
The only thing that takes like this get right is that Sephiroth is a lot more pathetic than he seems on a surface level but it’s because he was a emotionally stunted lab baby who was forced to be a war machine adult way too soon while secretly wanting a mother.
“Learns one detail about his past” and it’s that the corrupt megacorp that raised him in isolation and bloodshed since childhood and let his psychotic father abuse him are the ones who also created him to be used and treated like a tool and then lied to him about that.
@Kittylovemeows@Ahleckss "pretend to be tough" right as his entire reality collapses. The answer is in his expression. So when Aerith said, "How can you want this loneliness?" Sephiroth deflected her. It's very clear that he NEVER wanted to be lonely.
@Kittylovemeows@Ahleckss It was 😭 It's a defensive barrier. The animation team built the subtle smirk to portray as deeply tragic character trying to mask absolute despair and intense loneliness w/ sudden, headstrong stubbornness. It is the facial equivalent of him putting up a front to—
I hate how gullible I am in my dreams. Someone is like "bro remember, you're the prince of frosting mountain?" And I'm like I forgot yeah of course I am, I'm such a fucking idiot