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First of all, I am having issues with all of the images that I have collected for this post, so retrieve them yourself from FF Wiki. 
I placed this topic in the Pre-Crisis forum since it pertains to events preceding any of the FF7 compilation whatnots.
I’ve done some forum-crawling, Googling, and I’ve explored some fan art relating to this topic and I have yet to find a satisfactory answer to my question:
What does Jenova look like?
The Jenova that we see in the FFVII universe takes on several forms. The most notable being the bluish woman contained in the Mako tank. Popular theory seems to be that this is how Jenova looked when it was using its mimic capabilities to take on the form of a Cetra before it was defeated and/or restrained by the Cetra. It is known that Jenova appeared to the Cetra in the form of fallen loved ones in order to become closer to them. If you look at the blue woman in the Mako tank, there is no way that a Cetra would be fooled into thinking that this grotesque looking eyeball-nippled thing with its organs on the outside of its body was one of their loved ones. Ergo, I believe that Jenova was trying to mimic one of its adversaries immediately before it was defeated which is why it looks like a human female in FFVII, but there is another explanation for the external organs…
Similar to what I mentioned about the Cetra being fooled by Jenova’s mimic abilities…there is no way that professor Ghast unearthed this thing and assumed that it was one of the Cetra. If I unearthed this thing in my back yard, I would probably light a fire to it because it looks disgusting and only moderately human, but not nearly enough so for me to want to keep it around and find out.
In other words, I think that Jenova’s organs are on the outside of her body because the Mako that she is encased in has had some sort of effect on her over time. It seems to me that when she was defeated by the Cetra and when she was unearthed by Ghast, she looked like a regular old Cetra with no odd qualities like eyeballs on her nipples.
Her first three battle forms (Birth, Life, & Death) are all similar in appearance. If I recall correctly, these three forms were manifested with physical pieces of Jenova’s body. I remember on the Cargo Ship, Jenova Birth left behind “Jenova’s Arm”. The only difference I can see between these three forms is a swap in color palette. I think that this is where we first start to get an idea what Jenova actually looks like. Her battle forms seem to be the severed parts of her body trying to revert to their original form, no?
At last, the final form of Jenova that we encounter is Jenova Synthesis in the Northern Crater. There are two popular theories regarding her final appearance.
Theory # 1 is that this is the form taken on by the last remaining part of her body which was last possessed by Sephiroth during the Nibelheim incident; her severed head.
Theory #2 is that this is the form taken on by all of the reunited Jenova cells after The Reunion.
Supposedly, again according to theory, Jenova Synthesis is as close as we get to seeing Jenova’s actual form, but I don’t think that this is how it looks by a long shot. If theory #1 is true, then this is only a fragment of Jenova and there is no way for it to revert to its original form with so much of its body missing, right? If theory #2 is true, there are still many pieces of Jenova’s body missing (the pieces used to create Birth, Life, and Death). There are also many ‘clones’ who did not survive their journey to the Northern Crater, aren’t there?
There is one final theory that does provide a plausible answer, which is that Jenova is in fact the alien from John Carpenter’s The Thing.
...But I refuse to agree with this…
If I have provided any information that is wrong, please correct me.
What are your opinions on Jenova's true appearance? Do you think that Jenova can revert to its original form with so much of its body missing?
I placed this topic in the Pre-Crisis forum since it pertains to events preceding any of the FF7 compilation whatnots.
I’ve done some forum-crawling, Googling, and I’ve explored some fan art relating to this topic and I have yet to find a satisfactory answer to my question:
What does Jenova look like?
The Jenova that we see in the FFVII universe takes on several forms. The most notable being the bluish woman contained in the Mako tank. Popular theory seems to be that this is how Jenova looked when it was using its mimic capabilities to take on the form of a Cetra before it was defeated and/or restrained by the Cetra. It is known that Jenova appeared to the Cetra in the form of fallen loved ones in order to become closer to them. If you look at the blue woman in the Mako tank, there is no way that a Cetra would be fooled into thinking that this grotesque looking eyeball-nippled thing with its organs on the outside of its body was one of their loved ones. Ergo, I believe that Jenova was trying to mimic one of its adversaries immediately before it was defeated which is why it looks like a human female in FFVII, but there is another explanation for the external organs…
Similar to what I mentioned about the Cetra being fooled by Jenova’s mimic abilities…there is no way that professor Ghast unearthed this thing and assumed that it was one of the Cetra. If I unearthed this thing in my back yard, I would probably light a fire to it because it looks disgusting and only moderately human, but not nearly enough so for me to want to keep it around and find out.
In other words, I think that Jenova’s organs are on the outside of her body because the Mako that she is encased in has had some sort of effect on her over time. It seems to me that when she was defeated by the Cetra and when she was unearthed by Ghast, she looked like a regular old Cetra with no odd qualities like eyeballs on her nipples.
Her first three battle forms (Birth, Life, & Death) are all similar in appearance. If I recall correctly, these three forms were manifested with physical pieces of Jenova’s body. I remember on the Cargo Ship, Jenova Birth left behind “Jenova’s Arm”. The only difference I can see between these three forms is a swap in color palette. I think that this is where we first start to get an idea what Jenova actually looks like. Her battle forms seem to be the severed parts of her body trying to revert to their original form, no?
At last, the final form of Jenova that we encounter is Jenova Synthesis in the Northern Crater. There are two popular theories regarding her final appearance.
Theory # 1 is that this is the form taken on by the last remaining part of her body which was last possessed by Sephiroth during the Nibelheim incident; her severed head.
Theory #2 is that this is the form taken on by all of the reunited Jenova cells after The Reunion.
Supposedly, again according to theory, Jenova Synthesis is as close as we get to seeing Jenova’s actual form, but I don’t think that this is how it looks by a long shot. If theory #1 is true, then this is only a fragment of Jenova and there is no way for it to revert to its original form with so much of its body missing, right? If theory #2 is true, there are still many pieces of Jenova’s body missing (the pieces used to create Birth, Life, and Death). There are also many ‘clones’ who did not survive their journey to the Northern Crater, aren’t there?
There is one final theory that does provide a plausible answer, which is that Jenova is in fact the alien from John Carpenter’s The Thing.
...But I refuse to agree with this…
If I have provided any information that is wrong, please correct me.
What are your opinions on Jenova's true appearance? Do you think that Jenova can revert to its original form with so much of its body missing?
