Yes, the burned, 'merely' pre-Angelic Sephiroth managed to survive, by riding within and devouring the final portions of JENOVA reamining in the Lifestream, and curing thePlanet of it's long cancer in the process.
After Cloud's being rather definitively repulsed Sephi's takeover attempt--a full-blown Omnislash certainly qualifies, he thought with a pained yet proud smirk--Sephiroth's consciousness nearly embraced thge true Death, but as another being in another world put it, "Fate it seems is not without a sense of irony." (Morpheus, in *The Matrix*)
For the force of Holy, in it's efforts to put right the Planet, actually pulled that which could end JENOVA into it.. Sephiroth, as it happened.
And now Sephiroth is as intimiately connected with the Planet and the Worlds beyond this one as any Ancient, mostly due to his returned sanity, and his awesome sense of guilt, near as he could tell.
He's not a simple-minded AVALANCHE type, he's as calculating as ever, near as ne can tell, but Sephiroth, likely Sephiroth Valentine if the tale of the vampiric Hojo-victim is true, has new goals. Goals like the assimilation into a nature-enhancing life of ALL remaining enitities with JENOVA cells, like Cloud, surviving SOLDIERs, Vincent, Red XIII, and quite likely Tifa Lockheart, as the only way he knows she could have been healed of the blow he'd struck with Masamune would, indeed, be JENOVA treatments.
Goals like seeing the consciousness of Aerith Gainsborough back in living state, if not here, then somewhere, and ensuring that similar atrocities to that which he'd created not be done if he could possibly prevent them.
It's a lifetime work, one that will challenge and annoy him for the rest of the warrior's life, he suspects.
He wouldn't have it any other way.
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(Posted Mon, 07 Apr 2003 02:23)
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