Re: Sephiroth: What the fucked happened?
("Ever since my childhood I could feel it. I was different than other people"
Well, maybe he should cut his fucking hair for once, and wear a shirt.
That having been said, I think Sephiroth probably harbored a deep resentment for those different from him. Probably envy too, but hey breeding ground for resentment, so I'm gonna go there. I always felt that Sephiroth expressed more bitterness/anger than sadness or angst over his past. He wanted to experience simple things like what it is to have a hometown and experience that sense of belonging and commonality ("So how does it feel? I wouldn’t know because I don’t have a hometown"
, but I don't quite think the man has a great deal of empathy, and I think he probably acts/reacts as he
thinks people would in a number of given situations.
Genesis and Angael may be an exception, because they are both like him in many ways. Although they don’t exactly know what it is that makes them different, those differences do unite them. But even the famous trio isn’t exactly a symmetrical relationship. Sephiroth still seems to stand outside the tight circle of Angel/Zack or even Angael/Genesis. Worth noting is that Sephiroth is always portrayed in this manner, even in Dissidia. There is also the distinct possibility that this relationship with them could be viewed as Sephiroth considering them an extension of himself – freaks like him
He could be a fucking narcissist.
There’s a great deal of anger, more so than sadness even over the betrayal. It’s about him, really.
He was betrayed, or made to face the fact that all of them were not who he thought they were and once again, he’s outta the loop. Once again, he’s an outsider.
And they seem to have found a purpose, unlike Sephiroth.
Before Nibelheim, I think he probably viewed himself as incomplete, somewhere below "human" on the scale and I think he’d have liked to be one of them. This is probably a source of his great anger; all this time, he'd been made to feel as if he lacked something essential, only to discover that the ones lacking were the ones who tried to control him and use him for their own purposes. He has had to bend to the will of someone who is, technically, inferior.
I don’t know, I never saw Sephiroth as someone who needed a hug. I don’t think he was a dandy person who found out he was a lab rat and then went bananas. I mean, yes, it affected him and clearly there’s all that psychobabble about taking back the planet and the mothermothermother shit, but it’s not Sephiroth in his great depression turning to Jenova’s motherly affections. We all know he pretty much makes her his puppet afterwards. I think he is angry that his (technically) “mother” and someone
like him/of his kind was put through the same shit as he – Jenova was imprisoned/used/studied and shit and he is angry/a possessive bitch. I think Jenova prolly helped to push him off the edge, but sadness didn't break his little heart.
That’s that Jenny? Take
back the planet? Why yes, these shitheads are undeserving of our greatness anyway. And who the fuck do they think they are?
As he dissolved in the Lifestream and then remade himself/gathered knowledge of the Ancients, I assume he came to know Jenova was not an Ancient, and that’s probably why he later dropped his “I am the rightful heir to this planet” bullshit. But he kept the “I wanna go planet hopping like my mommy, and suck the life outta things because I CAN!” His sadistic nature isn’t really something that is shown to have been present prior to the Nibelheim incident, so I assume his interest in puppeteering was born of the fact he was made into someone else's bitch and thus, with his newfound powers/knowledge, he wants to do the same onto others. Reunion, Negative Lifestream etc. He wants everything to bend to his will. Cloud gets the brunt of it because he happened to piss Sephiroth off by – GASP- defeating him/breaking up with him. Stupid failed experiment! YOU’RE MAH PUPPET, BITCH!
but merely "misunderstood".
The emo teenagers demand it! Sephiroth is lame if you make him into an angstball that only needed someone to love him and understand him.
The man really isn't misunderstood, imo
Be nice! 
But seriously, I agree with you on the lame attitude part, though I think we gave good reasons as to why that is.
