Ryushikaze
Deus Admiral Parsimonious, PHD, DDS, MD, JD, OBE
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I am to only half agree to some of the things you said but I think they only spoiled Sephiroth once he was adult and gave them results like victory in the Wutai war.Here is my little theory I think they kept him cooped up from day one in the labs and was monitored, experitmented, and trained since he was young to be a Soildier.He might have had interaction with other children but it was often times rare and it often times was shown that Sephiroth was very different from them all.With Hojo monitoring everything I do think that Sephiroth's childhood wasn't a happy one.I think from the fact that Lucrecia wasn't allowed to hold Sephiroth probably indicates that it would give a clue into how he was raised.
Cooped up no, In the labs no, monitored Yes. Sephiroth was an experimental subject, but in the same was as a family of a sociology study is. You observe and record, but ultimately stay largely hands off.
I think that Sephiroth was only spoiled once he gave them results because of the Wutai War.
IIRC, there is mention that he showed very early signs of promise and ShinRa spent a decent amount of money indulging his whims, such as martial arts and swordfighting training.
It would actually work like this their trained soldier deprived of a happy and normal childhood eventually somewhat gets over his drama being in a isolated and unloving setting with shallow celebrityism and close friends that he has nearby.
Except Sephiroth's issue in CC is that he's got all the people and admirers he could ever want... but he still feels alone, because his equals have deserted him.
Remember in Dirge of Cerebrus they did mention he was sent to Shinra which indicates he was sent there to be trained from the beginning to be a super solider.
No, it indicates he was sent to be studied as one of the Project J subjects.
I think it was a mix of observation and some things like Mako injections.
What are these Mako injections and what horrific fanfic hell did you drag them out of? The only Mako procedures known are Mako Showers and the Hardcore Mako Infusions done in Nibelheim that Sephiroth was explicitly unaware of before finding them in the reactor.
I do think that maybe during his childhood he was given Mako injections but like you said every Soildier gets them and he came to see them as normal routine for him.I mean it can be possible that he was raised from the getto in Shinra's lab with Hojo hovering over his upbringing.Like I said in Dirge of Cerebrus they mention Sephiroth being shipped off to Shinra which indicates that he was raised in the labs.Also remember he was raised from day one to be a soldier and probably was treated more like a mini adult than a child.
He was not raised from Day 1 to be a soldier. He was raised to hopefully be a mako dousing rod.
If he did then why did he not kill the guy I mean that is what bugs me or SE didn't really think it through when they were writing this.But the fact he never goes after Hojo really seems to me to be a byproduct of the fact that Hojo orginally wasn't that improtant in the story.I remember reading that orginally Hojo would be killed earlier and would not have been that much important except instead of cloning Sephiroth he cloned Red XII.
Hojo would have cloned a LOT of shit in the early versions.
I also want to mention the fact he has been told all his life that Jenova was his mother.If he was being told all his life that Jenova was his mother.It does send a signal that he was raised under Shinra's care which means he could have been in the labs.
Could have is not the same as was.
I can say his life has been a controlled enviorment from the day he was born.I think he would have been from the time he could be taught to fight he was trained to have the mind of a warrior.
Controlled, yes. Labs, no. Trained to be a warrior from birth, no.
It seems highly unlikely that Sephiroth ever met Gast. Here's what we know for sure:
-According to the Crisis Core Complete Guide, Gast left Shin-Ra in 1980, 27 years before FFVII
-From various official timelines, we know that Sephiroth was born "25-30 years before FFVII"
-Hollander initially had Gast's position as head of the science department, but it was given to Hojo once Sephiroth was determined to be superior to Genesis and Angeal; both of the latter (the only two surviving babies from their experiment) were determined to be failures shortly after birth, with the methodology from Jenova Project G being refined into the procedure used for Project S
From this, we can rather reasonably conclude that Gast left Shin-Ra before Sephiroth's birth. We can also conclude that, at oldest, Sephiroth is 27 during the events of FFVII, but may be even younger than that.
Actually, we can't say he's 27 at the oldest. Around 27 and absolutely certainly no older than 30 at the far outside, but 'shortly after birth' gives a short amount of wiggle room.
I agree Sephypoo probably only knew Gast through reputation, possibly- and ironically- from what Hojo said about him and what of Gast's research he was allowed access to.