Summary

• Sephiroth's single black wing symbolizes his godly figure and his belief in himself as a fallen angel.
• The wing comes from Jenova cells and genetic information, which were injected into individuals with great power or potential for power.
• Other characters, such as Genesis and Angeal, have also manifested wings due to their connection with Jenova, representing their transition into villains or their purity.

Few characters in gaming history have inspired as much fear as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 7’s Sephiroth. From the massive sword to his cold, burning e💜yes, Sephiroth radiates danger as he slaughters his way 🦩to being one of gaming’s most terrifying villains.

Perhaps the most 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:striking f✱eature of๊ the genocidal antagonist of Final Fantasy 7 is his single black wing. This functional wing lets Sephiroth fly at tremendous speed and speaks to h𝓰is status as a godly figure, even if that’s just to himself. But where does the wing come from, and why does Sephiroth grow it in the games?

Where Does Sephiroth’s Wing Come From?

A Single Black Wing, Over His Right Shoulder

The first time Sephiroth manifested wings was in the original Final Fantasy VII game. We get our first look at Sephiroth’s wings as his Bizarro∙Sephiroth form, a grotesque cocoon-like body that Sephiroth uses to try to assume a form that is befitting the god he believes himself to be. While not true wings, this Bizarro∙Sephiroth has appendages that are both arm and wing-l🌳ike, though they do not appear to be feathered.

When defeated in this form, Sephiroth falls into the Lifestream of the planet and reemerges as the final 🍬boss, Safer Sephiroth. This form more than makes up for the lack of wings by replacing much of his body with six white wings with blue tips. Safer Sephiroth still seems incomplete in thi🦄s form, however, as his right arm has been transformed into a black and red wing, with his left arm still being human.

Even this form is different fro🌊m his now iconic regular human form with a single black wing. The first appearance of this Sephiroth comes from his debut in 2002’s Kingdom Hearts. In the Disney and Square Enix crossover, Sephiroth is a secret boss that Sora and the gang can fight at the Olympic Coliseum after battling through a gauntlet of other enemies.

Since then, there have been a few attempts to try and explain the appearance of the single black wing. The most detailed explanation comes from Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, where it is reveled that those who have been imbued with cells from Jenova often grow a single black wing, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:as the original Jenova body appears to have wings as well, making the host more resemble the original organi🌞sm.

What Does The One Wing Mean?

More Than Just Feathers

The one wing motif holds a lot of symbolism just in that form. With just one, black wing, Sephiroth can easily be interpreted as a fallen angel, one whose sins have caused them to be rejected from heaven. In the pseudepigraphical text the Testament of Solomon, a demon with one red wing by the name𝄹 of Abezethibou was once an angel who now serves the Prince of Hell, Beelzebub.

The angelic symbolism comes out even stronger when you look at his Safer Sephiroth form. Another angelic form with multiple wings is the Seraph, a type of angel fou🔴nd in both Judaism and Christianity that has six wings, much like Safer Sephiroth.

Some of the influence of the one wing imagery seems to have come from the popularity surrounding the song One-Winged Angel, which plays when Cloud and the party encounter Safer Sephi🎀roth. This song has since gone on to be incredibly popular among fans, replaꦉcing Sephiroth’s actual theme song, Those Chosen by the Planet.

As mentioned before, within the Final Fantasy VII universe, the single black wing has been retroactively adapted to signify that an 168꧒澳洲幸运5开奖网:individual has been modified with ceജlls and genetic information from Jenova, though not all who have been enhanced this way manifest the wing. It appears that only those with great power, or the potential for power, can actually caꦬuse the wing to appear.

Much of what we know about Jenova comes from Shinra’s experiments on the mysterious entity. Since its discovery, it has come to light that Jenova is an extraterrestrial being th🐬at crash-landed on Gaia eons ago. An ancient civilization called the Cetra encountered Jenova and was subsequently destroyed by it, but not before they were able to contain it in the crater where it landed, which eventually became locked in a glacier.

Shinra worked to understand this ancient life form by injecting its unique cells a🅷nd genetic coding into members of its SOLDIER army, enhancing their power an🎐d allowing for clones of powerful individuals to be created from existing humans, copying everything about their original target.

How Many Characters Have Manifested The One Wing?

Three Characters So Far

While we all know Sephiroth as the One-Winged Angel there have been a number of other characters that have manifested the wing th🐻roughout the games. Among the large cast of characters in Final Fantasy VII, only a few characters have manifested wings in the game, and generally🍃, they are among the strongest characters in the games.

The first time a Jenova-like wing formed was on Genesis Rhapsodos in Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, a ge﷽netically modified human whom Shinra injected with Jenova cells as a newborn. While it took time and a traumatic injury for Genesis to form his single black wing, it did come when he tran🅠sitioned from a hero to a villain.

After him, Angeal Hewley, who also possessed cells from Jenova, grew two white wings, making him distinct among other characters in the series. With his more angelic form, it signifies his purཧer for♛m, since he doesn’t wish to harm anyone or destroy anything, unlike his more villainous counterparts.

While not canon in the Final Fantasy VII universe, Cloud does manifest his own wing in the168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Kingdom Hearts game as well. This wing is leathery in appeara𒉰nce, resembling more of a demon than that of an angel or even a fallen angel. He bears this wing on his left side, rather than Sephiroth’s right, and🥀 seems to symbolize the depths he has fallen in his search for power to finally defeat Sephiroth once and for all.