Sephiroth can no longer exert his power over him, and the Sephiroth-clones are finished. After the battle with Safer∙Sephiroth, Sephiroth tries one last chance to take over Cloud's mind, but is easily defeated thanks to Cloud's strengthened will power. Later, with the help of Tifa inside his subconscious, Cloud rebuilds his psyche and is restored to normal humanity. At the North Crater, when Sephiroth reveals Cloud is a slave and claims his past is an illusion, Cloud breaks down and hands Sephiroth the Black Materia before falling into the lifestream. Only Cloud survives the journey to the North Crater, and thus becomes the only 'success' of the Sephiroth-clone experiment Cloud has his own mind and ego, but Sephiroth can still take control of him at will, although at times Cloud manages to resist Sephiroth's influence. The party talks to a Sephiroth-clone in Nibelheim. After arriving at the North Crater, Sephiroth, using Jenova's body to shapeshift into his form, kills several of them before fighting Cloud and Avalanche as Jenova∙DEATH. Cloud is influenced by both the unconscious need for the Reunion, and his drive to avenge Nibelheim. Jenova herself breaks out of the Shinra Building and moves towards Sephiroth in his form and under his complete control. Rather, the twelve head into North Crater and hunt for the Black Materia for Sephiroth. In the original, the Sephiroth-clones do not migrate to Midgar as Hojo had predicted. Clone number 49 disappears after being defeated and Barret is revived by the Whispers, but number 2 soon arrives to take Jenova's body and throws himself off the roof of the building. Clone number 49 has also come to the building, and Cloud's party as well as Shinra executive Palmer see him take the form of Sephiroth himself, who takes Jenova's body from professor Hojo's lab and murders the President and Barret before facing the party as Jenova Dreamweaver. During the party's trek through the Shinra Building, they witness an apocalyptic vision of Sephiroth-clones and a burning Midgar and an approaching Meteor in the Shinra VR theater. They are initially found staggering around the slums, but Cloud at times sees the clones as Sephiroth who taunts him in various ways. In Final Fantasy VII Remake, two pale men in dark cloaks are seen: numbers 2 and 49. The twelve successful Sephiroth-clones become the group of fanatics that follows Sephiroth around in Final Fantasy VII.Ī Sephiroth clone holding Jenova's body in the remake. Zack, also a Sephiroth-clone, was a complete failure: he was not mentally affected by the experiment due to previously being unaffected by the identical SOLDIER procedure. Cloud Strife's status, had Zack Fair not intervened and rescued him from the Shinra Manor, is debatable. Those who turned into mindless slaves were tattooed with a number somewhere on their body, but those who failed and kept some shred of their ego were left to die. Since Jenova was a puppet of Sephiroth, the Clones also became fanatics who would do anything for their master. Those not the finest in physical and mental health, and thus could not retain their personalities, became shades of Jenova. He injected them with Jenova cells and exposed them to mako energy, similar, if not identical, to the creation of a SOLDIER. 'Clone' is a misnomer subjects were infected with Jenova cells to reproduce a similar effect to that of Sephiroth-who eventually exerts control of the subjects as his puppets-rather than being genetic copies.Īfter the events of the Nibelheim Incident, Professor Hojo rounded up the survivors of Sephiroth's rampage, with the exception of Tifa Lockhart who was rescued by Zangan before Shinra's arrival. In the original Japanese script, the clones are known as Sephiroth Copies.

There are at least fourteen known test subjects, but Hojo rejected many as failures, leading the exact number of people mutilated by this experiment to be unknown. The test subjects were injected with Jenova's cells by Professor Hojo to test Jenova's ability to recall her scattered cells into a 'Reunion', in what he called the ' Jenova Reunion Theory'. Cloaked men controlled by Sephiroth also appear in Final Fantasy VII Remake, although not directly being referred to as 'clones'.

Sephiroth Copy), also known as Robed Men, are a group of test subjects used in the Project S portion of the Jenova Project in Final Fantasy VII. The Sephiroth-clones ( セフィロス・コピー, Sefirosu Kopī ?, lit. Researcher's Diary #4, Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII.

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