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This is my understanding as well. (OT: Though it's always awkward when you're emailing a grad student instructor, and you're not sure how they wish to be addressed. I just default to Prof. and wait for them to correct me ...) Hm, I have to say the thought of Hojo as an advisor is terrifying.

Yeah, there's always going to be at least one scholar who thinks differently in academia (and esp. in the humanities) ... Dear god, I just realized that it's Professor Hojo in FF7. Does that mean he teaches?

@ Martha: Thanks for that note on Zirconiade. That actually fills me with hope that I can theorycraft something good for some odd plot. :P @ Forcestealer: I don't necessarily think they have to be crucial to the plot, per se, but crucial enough to the world that if you remove them, there'd be...

Thinking on it, it's possible, but it'd be a little bit weird. When Zirconiade was summoned, Jade Weapon woke up, sensing a threat to the Planet, suggesting that Zirconiade was more an enemy of the Planet than any sort of ally.

Yup, I'd linked the unused text in the OP, but tbh I found it rather vague. What were the nature of these mako-bathed creatures? Why were they specifically turned into summons? Who turned them into summons? So on and so forth. If Chaos is a summon, that also raises the question of how summons...

Well, by now we all know how unreliable SE's timelines are, but just in case anyone's curious, I did actually try to date stuff around Sephiroth's birth going by the Complete Timeline that Martha corrected. There's really nothing new to be said, other than 1977-1980 is a jumble of confused...

He should have some recollection of Genesis, considering he met Genesis in the Modeoheim mission. As for Angeal ... right before Zack faces Angeal in the bathhouse, we find Cloud and Tseng knocked out. I always just assumed that Angeal knocked the two of them out, since I can't really imagine...

This idea of them being "memories" or "myths" is interesting and something I will have to consider more. Kind of brings back the idea of the "dreaming" that forms the Aeons in FFX. Heh. I like your idea for the same reason (personality, woo!), but then it doesn't really make sense that they...

Just wanted to see what everyone else thinks about the nature of summons and/or if anyone's come up with a comprehensive explanation for how they work. Summons have been one of the coolest parts of the Final Fantasy series for me, and I was severely disappointed where there was little to no...

Praise be to Alex.

If any of you've ever seen Stargate SG-1, I think initially SE was trying to go for a villain similar in type to Anubis, who is fucking frightening, because he is just better than almost everyone in the show. He knows more, he's stronger (well, he's got better tech and a larger army, anyways)...

It makes me wonder if Nanaki bothers with putting on that contemplative, distant mask for strangers post-FF7, or if he now thinks it's not worth it. I imagine his inner voice sounds a lot more immature than the fireside story voice people tend to pin on him since that's what he defaults to...

Nanaki's difficult to balance. In the first bit of the game, he's written as a contemplative, distant character, but post-Cosmo Canyon, he starts acting much younger and gives air to more insecurities than he did before. Also, "ZOUNDS!!!" anyone? :P I'm surprised a lot of authors tend to sweep...

By the time of FF7, Sephiroth was more or less controlling Jenova. Maybe there was a countermeasure in the Temple, but in that case, all Sephiroth would have to do is send one of his clones in to get it for him anyways (as Cloud mentioned). We don't know how difficult the Temple's puzzle really...

Yeah, sorry about the hyperbole there with the "speck." Hmm, I guess I don't quite know what kind of response you want to see. If you dislike his character, then you're in good company, because a lot of people dislike his character. As he's written in CC, he's utterly pathetic and not even...

He's definitely salvageable. For one, he's not rotting away in the Lifestream. For another, he's not as insane as Sephiroth and doesn't have a Cloud fixation. And let's not forget that the amount of bad he's done in the world is like a speck of dust compared to the amount of bad Sephiroth's...

Also, to be fair to SE, I doubt they expected FF7 to be popular enough for spin-offs, and so they didn't really write all of the characters in a way that would be conducive to much extension/exploration. To put it simply, they will always have to deal with how Sephiroth's portrayed in FF7...

Well, I don't think anyone is seriously arguing that Sephiroth didn't fulfill his designated role well in FF7, just that he's bland as hell. An actual personality wouldn't exclude him from being a Cloud-obsessed, world-hopping villain; in fact, I think his mindfuckery with Cloud may have...

Sephiroth was funny and enjoyable when he was sane. Then he went off the deep end and didn't even have the decency to make dry, sarcastic jokes anymore. Compare him with someone like Seifer from FF8. Even after he turns villainous, he's still a complete jerkwad goof. He goes from "I'm gonna...

What is his appeal anyways? I've played FF7 more than once and have never really seen why he has so many fans. He was actually likeable in CC, but as soon as he became a villain, he started giving hammy, cheesy speeches and lost what little had been going for him in the first place (aka...