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Before I begin today's topic, I have a question for all of you.
There is such a character, he has beautiful silver hair, elegant manners, handsome appearance, his usual weapon is a sword, he can teleport, he has part of the demonic blood in his body, he is the biggest boss of the whole story, and he falls in love with the guy with the big sword and kills him, so who is he?
Virgil: No.
If I add one more clarity, he is, a man of men, a male of males!
Then I am sure that many people will start to think of a tall and handsome man who will not hesitate to call out his name: Sa!
At the same time, a strong drum beat, the sound of wanton electricity, accompanied by a metallic voice, played his current exclusive BGM in the skull.
Station B @ Maruko _yukari
Sephiroth, a man among men, a male among males, a dominator among men, a ruler among men, a master of men, the terminator of men, a king!master!a male god emperor!!demon king!an overwhelming man!an immortal peak in the history of human game modeling!!!! peak of Sephiroth, too 1, 1 makes people count down, too crazy, crazy to be shocking, he has a face that all absenteeism should have!!, just like an AI-tailored absenteeism template His image~Condensed by countless absenteeism heroes, like a work of art carved by father-in-law all over the world day and night, he just exists to haunt all fathers-in-law's dreams, make all grandmothers gnash their teeth, and he sucks up the masculinity of everyone around him within his reach!
The passionate lyrics in the song,First came out of the Twitter of a South Korean Wuxia (Gojo Satoru and Xia Youjie) CP Homo Girl,The original content is a rainbow fart she wrote for Gojo Goyang.,After that, it was taken by a domestic doujin girl screenshot and moved to the domestic Internet platform。
As a result, copywriting similar to sentences began to flood on various social platforms, and both the same girl and the character dream girl followed this sentence pattern to write beautiful words for self-promotion.
At first, this copy was at most a meme that spread in the fandom. Similarly, the UP master of Station B @ Pigeon Tan, who used AI song-making software Suno to make this song, was just to make a living at the beginning.
However, things are becoming more and more magical as the number of video views climbs.
Final Fantasy also has its own big ice
The unexpected sentence breaks and rhythm of the song began to attack the ears of countless people like a virus, stimulating the cerebral cortex of countless people, so that they wanted to howl twice when they dreamed back at midnight.
This craze is spreading outward from the original B station, and Sephiroth is gradually moving towards the big sick area, while also invading other games...... You'll always see players chanting infinite lyrics on the public screen.
Splatoon 3 on the game square
"The Fifth Personality" players are on the public screen, and some are even close friends of Sephiroth......
Second-creation videos are endless, and there are many different versions of the heavy metal music of the original song.
Latin Aesthetic Epic Chant Version.
KTV follow-up version.
Violin hit.
Children's piano playing version and more......
In addition to that, there is also a brief score for this song.
Original choreography based on this song.
Homemade induction, singing, hemp, etc......
If you want me to say, Sephiroth's impression song changed from "Katatsuji Angel" to this thing, and everyone here is responsible.
(Slice Wing: Single Wing, one of Sephiroth's settings)
For passers-by, this stalk can become popular, and it seems to take advantage of the east wind of AI music, but BB Ji's readers and friends must be no stranger to Sephiroth.
Because he has become a thunderous presence in the history of games more than 20 years ago. Since his first appearance in the 1997 game Final Fantasy 7, made by Square Enix, he has been regularly featured on the gaming media's villain popularity lists.
Now, with the launch of the remake of Final Fantasy 7, it has won countless fans under the double debuff of the game and the villain boss setting after many years of silence.
So, why do so many people fall in love with Sephiroth?
When it comes to Sephiroth, the first topic that can't be avoided is his appearance.
Chromophobia, humans, as visual animals, can be bewitched by his skin even if they don't have any knowledge of his backstory—"the immortal pinnacle in the history of human modeling", which couldn't be more apt for Sephiroth.
Comparison of the original and the remaster
The treacherous and mysterious dark green vertical pupils, the tall and powerful super nine-headed body, even if the shoulders have become a double-door refrigerator, it does not make people feel abrupt at all.
And the long silky silver hair not only neutralizes Sephiroth's aggressive appearance like icing on the cake, but also becomes one of Sephiroth's signature features. The production team also did not hesitate to portray this characteristic of him.
In Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core, the player takes on the role of Zax, who opens a side quest - Sephiroth's Platinum Fan Club.
After successfully joining, you will be able to receive email messages from the fan club, and one of them will explain to the fans in detail how Sephiroth takes care of his hair.
In-game intel on Sephiroth
In addition to the description in the game text, SE also spares no effort to show Sephiroth's proud long hair in all directions.
In the remake, there is such a picture: the wind is swept up in the dust, and the hair is also hunted and fluttered, and the roots are distinct. I don't know how many modelers and animators were sacrificed for these dazzling seconds.
It can even be said that Sephiroth's hair has witnessed the technological development of the gaming industry.
There is an UP master on station B who specially made a related video, and interested friends can search and watch
And the person who created him, character designer Tetsuya Nomura, was able to position Sephiroth's design as a unisex style that transcends its time in 1997, which is also indispensable.
There are many more details similar to the display of Sephiroth's appearance, so I will not repeat them here.
And these qualities and settings make Sephiroth stand out from the crowd of blocks in the original Final Fantasy 7 with his technical prowess in the early stages of the industry.
1997 First Final Fantasy 7 Claude vs. Sephiroth
But the reason why he can make players get infected with the "villain complex" is not only the external attribute bonus of the white-haired beauty, but also the solid character creation that gives it a complex and contradictory inner soul.
Sephiroth has two interpretations of his name, one is the Hebrew word for "tree of life," which symbolizes the process of human salvation, and the more popular version is a Latin word for "the outflow of divinity."
The origin of the name comes from the 1997 official formula book "Dismantling the True Book"
But no matter which interpretation it is, it can be regarded as the verdict of his life.
In the world of the Final Fantasy 7 series, Sephiroth was originally the 1st special forces of the HRE Corporation.
The HRE Corporation is a super enterprise that controls the entire planet, and the special forces are the elite warriors they have cultivated.
The 1st of them, symbolizes the first estate, the elite of the elite. There are only three such rare existences, and Sephiroth is the strongest among them.
At the beginning of the story, the player is exposed to a completely positive image of Sephiroth, who is immeasurably beautiful, the invincible sword of the HRE Corporation, the strongest man on the altar, the hero admired by all, and the role model of every teenager's dream.
A background addition to the Heroes of the HRE, from the official canonical set
Cutscenes from Final Fantasy 7 Remastered
Despite this, he does not have a high-minded attitude, but has a kind attitude towards his subordinates, and even asks his subordinates who have returned to their hometowns, "You haven't been back to your hometown for a long time, have you?" What does it feel like?", and at the same time, he will tell his subordinates, "I don't have a hometown, I don't know much", sharing his lonely and fragile side.
But no matter how humble and kind he was, these seemingly glamorous titles and pursuits from outsiders were still a shackle to Sephiroth, binding him to the tall building. The two colleagues who belong to the same 1st with him, and perhaps his friends, are one of the few emotional connections he has with this world.
The friendship part about Sephiroth is from the official formula book "The True Book of Disintegration" in 1997
While chasing down two friends who betrayed the HRE Corporation, Sephiroth learns his true origins, and that the humans he once tried his best to protect are actually the arch-enemies who killed his people.
Sephiroth completed the reversal of his identity in this instant, from a near-perfect hero who fell into the abyss to become a feared demon king. While making him stand on the opposite side of the player, it also creates a strong sense of contrast for him.
In Final Fantasy 7 Remastered, Sephiroth and Claude parted ways
Some people may think that such a move is too extreme, but in fact, there is a good reason for all of Sephiroth's actions, and the background of his life is a tragedy. Since his birth, he has never been cared about as a "person", more often than not, he is just an object.
His parents are a pair of mad scientists, and the union of the two is purely to make an experiment, and there is no love, and there is no love for Sephiroth, and they will not give Sephiroth the love he deserves.
The HRE company is even a sweatshop, constantly squeezing the value of Sephiroth, his scientific research value as an experimental object, his military value as a humanoid weapon, and even his beautiful face was used to shoot advertisements, playing a propaganda role to attract other ignorant teenagers to work for the HRE.
Just imagine substituting into our humble social animals, the black-hearted company does not act as a person every day 996, and the colleagues speak in a weird manner, and they have to help them wipe their butts and smooth out the mess, I believe that many people think in their hearts, "Destroy the human race." ”
But because of our earthly concerns, we tend to stifle our impulses, and at most we have some "crazy literature" on the Internet. But Sephiroth has not had normal emotions since he was a child, and there is almost no one in this world who can be his concern to keep him from falling into hell.
And the tragic growth environment, which has not been contaminated with worldly life experience, has also created the purity he maintains after abandoning human nature, which may be the "outflow of divinity" in him, pure goodness, or pure evil.
So even if he finally found out that the answer he got was wrong, he didn't feel guilty about what he had done and hesitated.
For him, this is the best salvation. For those of us who are outsiders, these sufferings have not become a consumer product for him to win sympathy, nor have they become an excuse for him to wash his name, and he is indeed a real man.
In addition to the above reasons for Sephiroth's own appeal, there is another reason why he has been an evergreen in the villain boss: continuous fanfiction from the outside.
We always say that fandom creation is the continuation of the existence of the work, and it is the power source to keep the work active, and this set of logic actually applies to the characters as well. And in Sephiroth's fanfiction, the most representative is the CP pair of him and Claude.
Do you think this is an evil + unpopular CP? Then you are wrong. In the corner behind the topic of Claude's partisanship, Sephiroth and Claude's CP has long become the American emperor of the "Final Fantasy 7" series. (U.S. Imperialism: The Hottest CP)
There's already an exclusive Only fandom for CP......
Whether it's the beautiful and miserable setting, or the ambiguous attitude towards Claude, or the mode of getting along with each other in love and killing, Sephiroth has too many elements that make the same girl addicted, enough for these people to generate electricity for love, and create one story after another that belongs to the two of them.
In fact, the official does not reject the existence of such creations, but will provide endless space for fandom lovers to reverie. You might think I'm just having a fanbrain attack, and you're about to turn around and head out into the mountains.
But in fact, the Black passage from the official novel of "Final Fantasy 7" written by Nojima Kazunari - "The Road to a Smile" Lifestream is a big bump in the relationship between the two.
Excerpt from the novel, screenshot from the self-flip of the UP master of station B @donkey-headed man Boxer
Even in the latest reset, the unblackened version of Sephiroth has added more interaction with Claude, and some of the previous rivalry with Zax in the Core Crisis has also been changed to Claude's role.
The blackened Sephiroth is no longer the same as before in the face of Claude, he came up and took out the "40-meter big knife" and began to "skewer", more to talk about some unthinkable dialogues, and his behavior is more "ghostly".
Recognition .JPG from netizens
In addition, in the officially arranged crossover games, Sephiroth and Claude always appear in pairs, and they are also inseparable in the crossover advertisements for other products.
Nissin's crossover ad, original tweet: Tangled is Alice or Tifa
In the end, it was decided - Sephiroth
After the shaping of these fanfiction stories and the reinterpretation of the official works, the fandom creators are like perpetual motion machines, and they can keep chasing the CP characters they love until they run out of love. And the song Sephiroth "A Man Among Men" is also a second creation of the same kind.
As for why he is considered a man among men, I think that his one-of-a-kind handsome appearance and resolute life creed, which stem from Sephiroth's own charm, make him an emotional projection of the perfect man for fans, and the fanfic creator amplifies this emotional projection through his CP relationship with Claude.
This song has already won the first prize......
(Father-in-law: simply understood as the attacker in the CP relationship;
Battle for the Top of the Father-in-law: A voting contest for a bunch of attacking characters, and now the winner of this tournament is Sephiroth)
The same track as Claude opposite Sephiroth's "A Man Among Men" (Mama: simply understood as the recipient in the CP relationship)
As Sephiroth's meme came out of the circle, different voices emerged. Among them, most took the opportunity to start offering Amway Final Fantasy 7 and other titles in the series.
But there are also some ordinary gamers who believe that the spread of these rotten stalks destroys the original fan ecosystem of the original work, and many cloud players and KY parties come to play rotten stalks.
Some of the people who single-mindedly promoted Sephiroth were unhappy with the fact that they had become a comedian because of the popularity of this ghost song.
even put this pot on the head of the same girl.,Think it's all their trick.。
And the same girl is even more wary because of this song.
Some fanwomen in the circle fight over the question of "whether Sephiroth is 1 or not", but this is only a small scene.
The real battlefield is on the side of some of the same women outside the circle.。 They watched Sephiroth and Claude salivate from afar, they generally don't care about how the two characters are portrayed in the original work, and they care more about some labeled attributes between CPs, which can always be easily "knocked".
Many fandom women said: "The game is not played for a minute, but the meal is not a mouthful." ”
Gradually, a vicious circle was formed between the three, and the wait-and-see fanwomen outside the circle became the main force of "cloud players", and they also became one of the targets of verbal criticism from single pushers and ordinary players.
But in fact, it's not that bad. In the process of breaking the circle, a stalk is the sense of identity that expands from a small range in the circle to a large range outside the circle, and now Sephiroth has become a man among countless people in the hearts of countless people under the spread of the stalk.
Driven by this sense of identity, countless people have indeed begun to develop a deep curiosity to learn about Final Fantasy 7 and the Final Fantasy series.
So my friend, will you look at the face of Sephiroth, the master of the word king, and the peak layman, to experience the classic cold rice of this SE?
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