I like that Cloud is a shorty. Makes him more of an "everyman."
I always thought Aeris was 5'3, Yuffie 5'2, Tifa 5'4. Unfortunately, some asshole misplaced both copies of my game and I don't have the manual handy on me right now.
However, on finalfantasy.wikia.com, Tifa's height is listed as 5'4" / 167cm, but Aeris is listed as 5'4" / 164cm. Now if they were 1cm apart I could see it being estimated to the same inch, but I
know 3cm is more than a 1" difference.
In fact, according to
this nifty metric converter, 164cm (Aeris) is 64.5669" (about 5'4 and a half), and 167cm (Tifa) is 65.748" (closer to 5'6 than 5'5). So, are these metric heights listed on finalfantasy.wikia accurate of their Japanese profiles or was whoever listed them on crack?
But more importantly, in relation to Sephiroth, I noticed this this morning:
Crisis Core Ultimania said:
Age: Around 25
Weapon: Rapier
Hometown: Banora Village
Voice Actor: Gackt Camui
Crisis Core Ultimania Scenario Q&A said:
Q2-1: What is the time difference between the start of Jenova Project S and Jenova Project G? And out of Genesis, Sephiroth and Angeal, is Genesis the eldest?
A2-1: Project S and Project G began at roughly the same time. They were lead by Hojo and Hollander respectively, and the department head Gast has little participation in either project.
The order of their births goes Angeal & Genesis > Sephiroth, but it’s fine to think of them as being around the same age. Angeal and Genesis were created at roughly the same time, and were deemed as failed projects when they were babies. Project S took the results from Project G and added further improvements, so Sephiroth’s birth was later than Angeal and Genesis’.
source:
http://thelifestream.net/tag/crisis-core-ultimania/
Now given that this is Sephiroth's fanclub—and no I have not read the other 10 pages to see if it's already been discussed—I certainly hope others here have scratched their heads in regard to his age. Before the "compilation," it was popularly assumed/calculated that he was roughly 30 years old at the time of FF7, deduced mostly from the statement of an NPC in Cosmo Canyon who says that Professor Gast discovered Jenova about 30 years ago. Furthermore, the age of 30 would have made him:
- 6 when Gast vanished from ShinRa (old enough to remember the man)
- 8 when Aeris was born
- 15 around the beginning(??) of the war with Wutai (when Elmyra's husband died and Ifalna was killed)
- 23 when Cloud idolized him and left to join SOLDIER (flashback "7 years ago"
- 25 at Nibelheim (5 years ago)
...which all jives rather nicely.
Then, the compilation and new data came along and royally fucked all of this up, implying that Sephiroth was about 25 or even 23 in FF7. 25 would make him only 1 when Gast left ShinRa (too young to have any memories of him), 10 when ShinRa started fighting Wutai, only 18 when he was already idolized as a famous war hero, and only 20 in CC. 23 would mean Gast left ShinRa before Sephiroth was even born, and that he was only 18 in CC. These numbers mostly come from data regarding Vincent, which says or implies that Vincent is only about 50 as of FF7 (rather than 57 as we believed before), and that he only slept for 23 years rather than 30.
However, if Genesis is "around 25" during Crisis Core (and this is his Crisis Core age, because Tifa's profile lists her as 15— 5 years younger than her FF7 age), and the very same book says that Sephiroth is only a little bit younger than him (probably a year or so, as it seems that Genesis and Angeal were deemed project failures as infants and the procedures were modified and Sephiroth conceived only a short time thereafter), then is it not still believable that Sephiroth was also "around 25" during Crisis Core and not FF7?
It could be possible, though illogical, that Vincent hung around in stasis for about 5-7 years before he stopped aging and went to sleep. That would, at least, seem to be what is being implied here by the math. The other possibility is that Vincent's death (and consequently Lucrecia's disappearance shortly thereafter) did not occur until Sephiroth was already a few years old, which makes even less sense because that would have given Lucrecia a lot more time to make herself a presence in Sephiroth's life.
But given that this is more about Sephiroth's age than Vincent's, I thought it might be more appropriate and interesting to dicsuss it here, and I wanted to get the opinions of Sephiroth's fans on the matter, since I've already attempted to discuss it with Vincent's.
. Anyway, enough ranting XD. I personally think his appearance (silver hair, stature, eyes face, etc.) actually give his character interesting edge because, as my mom said, he looks so very angelic and beautiful and yet, he's the villain of the story and the world's greatest enemy. Don't ya just love contrast? LOL! Well, sign me up cuz I'm here! XD.
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