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[sefirot]

Remake spoilers at the end, you have been warned

Crisis Core
(Mostly from a Japanese translation with a few quotes from the english version)

- To be showing your back to the enemy, you're either very confident or very foolish.

Sephiroth: That sense of SOLDIER camaraderie will only dampen your decisions
and---
Zack: That's a lame excuse.
Sephiroth: That's why I will also be going.

Zack: Are you going to kill him when you find him?
Sephiroth: The army is on the move but it seems we have some time. We will have to find him before they do.
Zack: What are you going to do?!
Sephiroth: Fail to kill him.

Sephiroth: When all the 2nd Class were away we would all go fool around:Genesis, Angeal and me.
Zack: You were all really good friends huh?
Sephiroth: Hmm. I wonder.

Genesis: The mysterious abyss tis the Gift of the Goddess. In pursuit of this gift we take flight. Within the heart's water surface a hopeless wander will flow. Like ripples to waves come forth the dreams below.
Sephiroth: Loveless Act 1
Genesis: Painful is it?
Sephiroth: Having to hear you read it everyday---I have no choice but to remember.

- Now. How about putting away that toy sword.

Genesis: The three friends are now gathered. One becomes the prisoner. One will take flight. The last remaining friend becomes the hero.
Sephiroth: That's quite the story.
Genesis: If this were a play, would I take the role of the hero? Or would you?
Sephiroth: You can be the hero if you want.
Genesis: Oh. Your fame should have originally been mine.
Sephiroth: How pointless.

Sephiroth: Mission failed. That'll be a big minus in your assessment.
Zack: Sephiroth! It's been like what 100 years?

Sephiroth: It's been a while since you've been back to your hometown right? How does it feel? I don't have a hometown of my own so I wouldn't know---
Zack: Eh. What about your parents?
Sephiroth: My mother's name is Jenova. She died right after she gave birth to me and my father---He he ha ha. What am I talking about---? Well let's go.

Zack: What are you looking at?
Sephiroth: ---the scenery. I feel as though I know it.

- It can't be---I'm also---? Was I also created the same way? Are you trying to say I'm the same as a monster---?

- Ever since my childhood I could feel it. I was different than other people. I always thought I had some kind of special purpose. But, I didn't think it would be something like this. Am I even human?

- Are you trying to confuse me with everything you've just said---? Or is it, what I have been looking for is the "truth"---? Which ever it may be. Go decay.

- Mother let's take this planet back together. I've thought of a very good plan. Let's go to the Promised Land together. Mother.

- Ha ha ha. Mother those people have shown up again. With mother's strength and knowledge she should have been this planet's ruler. But those people---those people who took everything. The planet was taken from mother wasn't it? But, don't be sad anymore mother. Let's go together---Finally we meet mother---

- I am the chosen one. The chosen one to rule over this planet.

- You call yourself SOLDIER without knowing something that basic? Materia contains the knowledge of the Ancients. Knowledge to control the power of this planet at will. It is this knowledge that binds us to the planet and calls forth powerful magic.

- Don’t you see? There is Jenova, an Ancient unearthed from a 2000-year-old stratum. And then, there is the Jenova Project. The aim of the project was to create a human being with the powers of a Cetra. Thus, they created me.

- Ever since I was a child, I knew I was not like the others... I knew mine was a special existence... But this, this was not what I meant... Am I- A human being?

- Whether your words...are lies created to deceive me... or the truth that I have sought all my life... It makes no difference. You will rot.

FFVII

- You ignorant traitor. I'll tell you.
This Planet originally belonged to the Cetra. Cetra was a itinerant race. They would migrate in, settle the Planet, then move on...

At the end of their harsh, hard journey, they would find the Promised Land and supreme happiness.

But, those that disliked the journey appeared. Those who stopped their migrations built shelters and elected to lead an easier life.

They took that which the Cetra and the planet had made without giving back one whit in return!

Those are your ancestors.

- Long ago, disaster struck this planet.
Your ancestors escaped... They survived because they hid. The Planet was saved by sacrificing the Cetra. After that, your ancestors continued to increase. Now all that's left of the Cetra is in these reports.

- Don't you get it? An Ancient named Jenova was found in the geological stratum of 2000 years ago. The Jenova Project. The Jenova Project wanted to produce people with the powers of the Ancients...... no, the Cetra. ...I am the one that was produced.

- Ha, ha, ha...... They've come again, mother. With her superior power, knowledge, and magic, Mother was destined to become the ruler of this Planet. But they...
Those worthless creatures are stealing the planet from Mother But now I'm here with you so don't worry

- Ha, ha, ha... my sadness? What do I have to be sad about? I am the chosen one. I have been chosen to be the leader of this Planet. I have orders to take this planet back from you stupid people for the Cetra. What am I supposed to be sad about?

- ......After a long sleep... ...the time...... ...time has...... come...

- Being here brings back memories. Are you going to participate in the Reunion?

- Jenova will be at the Reunion. Jenova will join the Reunion becoming a calamity from the skies.

- ...I see. I don't think you have the right to participate. I will go North past Mt. Nibel. If you wish to find out... then follow...

- A lost treasure house of knowledge. The wisdom of the Ancients... I am becoming one with the Planet.

- You stupid fools. You have never even thought about it. All the spirit energy of this Planet. All its wisdom... knowledge... I will meld with it all. I will become one with it... it will become one with me.

- The way...... lies here. Only death awaits you all. But do not fear.
For it is through death that a new spirit energy is born. Soon, you will live again as a part of me.

- So cold. I am always by your side. Come. Splendid. A treasure house of knowledge...

- At that which adds to the knowledge of... I am becoming one with the Planet.

- ...Mother... ...It's almost time. Soon... we will become one.

Aerith: How do you intend to become one with the Planet?

Sephiroth: It's simple. Once the Planet is hurt, it gathers Spirit Energy to heal the injury. The amount of energy gathered depends on the size of the injury. ...What would happen if there was an injury that threatened the very life of the Planet? Think how much energy would be gathered! Ha ha ha. And at the center of that injury, will be me. All that boundless energy will be mine. By merging with all the energy of the Planet, I will become a new life form, a new existence. Melding with the Planet... I will cease to exist as I am now... Only to be reborn as a 'God' to rule over every soul.

- Behold that mural. The Ultimate Destructive Magic... Meteor.

- ...Ah, but I have. I'm far superior to the Ancients. I became a traveler of the Lifestream and gained the knowledge and wisdom of the Ancients. I also gained the knowledge and wisdom of those after the extinction of the Ancients. And soon, I will create the future.

- Hmm...... She's thinking of interfering? She will be a difficult one, don't you think?

- Do not worry. Soon the girl will become part of the Planet's energy. All that is left is to go North. The 'Promised Land' waits for me over the snowy fields. There, I will become a new being by uniting with the planet. As will this girl......

- What are you saying? Are you trying to tell me you have feelings too?

Sephiroth: Ha, ha, ha...... Stop acting as if you were sad. There's no need to act as though you're angry either. Because, Cloud. You are...
Jenova: Because, you are...... a puppet.

- Oh, is that so? You are just a puppet... You have no heart... and cannot feel any pain... How can there be any meaning in the memory of such a being? What I have shown you is reality. What you remember, that is the illusion.

- Five years ago you were... ...constructed by Hojo, piece by piece, right after Nibelheim was burnt. A puppet made up of vibrant Jenova cells, her knowledge, and the power of Mako. An incomplete Sephiroth-clone. Not even given a number. ...That is your reality. Ha, ha, ha......

- Ha, ha, ha... Tifa... Why are you so worried and scared by those words? Hmm... Shall I show everyone here what's in your heart?

Advent Children

- Don’t pretend you’re sad. Why tremble with anger that’s not even there? Face it, Cloud. All you are is an empty puppet.

- Good to see you, Cloud

Cloud: Sephiroth – what do you want?
Sephiroth: The last thoughts of geostigma’s dead. Those Remnants will join the Lifestream and girdle the planet – choking it, corroding it. What I want, Cloud, is to sail the darkness of the cosmos with this planet as my vessel, just as my mother did long ago.Then one day we’ll find a new planet and on its soil we’ll create a shining future.
Cloud: What about this planet?
Sephiroth: Well, that’s up to you, Cloud.

- I’ve thought of a wonderful present for you. Shall I give you despair?

- On your knees. I want you to beg for forgiveness.

- Is this the pain you felt before, Cloud? Let me remind you. This time, you won’t forget.

- Tell me what you cherish most. Give me the pleasure of taking it away?

- I will… never be a memory.

FFVII Remake

Cloud: You're not real ... you're ... dead!
Sephiroth: I am?
Cloud: I killed you with my own --
Sephiroth: Oh you need not remind me. It was the crowning moment of our time together. But that was then, and this is now. I have a favor to ask. Our beloved planet is dying. Slowly. Silently. Painfully. Can you bear to see the planet suffer ... Cloud?

- Were the planet to die, so many things would be lost. Your hometown that burns so bright ... The sound of her voice pleading for me to spare you. The shiver of her flesh yielding to cold steal. That which binds us together would be no more and I would be loath to live in such a world. Which is why I must ask you this one favor. Don't worry. It's a simple thing. Run, Cloud ... Run away. You have to leave ... You have to live.

Cloud: You bastard.
Sephiroth: Good, Cloud. Very good. Hold on to that hatred.

- I am ... your everything. Oh Cloud. There's still so much to be done.

- The reunion ... Is nothing to fear.

- Within my veins flows the blood of ancients. This planet ... is my birthright.

- You have failed again, I see. But through suffering, you will grow strong. Isn't that what you want?

- Mother ... Together we will reclaim our world.

- Don't deny me. Embrace me.

- A touching reunion.

- Those who look with clouded eyes see nothing but shadows.

- All born are bound to her. Should this world be unmade, so too shall her children.

- Listen. Destiny comes.

- I'm waiting, Cloud.

- Careful now. That which lies ahead ... does not yet exist. Our world will become a part of it ... one day. But I ... will not end. Nor will I have you end.

Cloud: This is ...?
Sephiroth: The edge of creation. Cloud, lend me your strength. Let us defy destiny ... together.

- Not yet.

- Seven seconds till the end. Time enough for you. Perhaps. But what will you do with it? Let's see.