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Jenova in Final Fantasy VII Advent Children"TJP" redirects here. For the video game, see The Journeyman Project.
Jenova (ジェノバ, Jenoba?) is a fictional video game character, and is a major antagonist in the PlayStation and computer role-playing game, Final Fantasy VII. The character also appears in a retelling of a section of the game in the original video animation Last Order -Final Fantasy VII-, and in flashbacks in the movie Final Fantasy VII Advent Children. Throughout the game, Jenova is often referred to as a "she", although the character's gender is not definitively confirmed. Furthermore, through Ifalna's description of Jenova's approach to the Cetra and Sephiroth's statements concerning — and his use of — Jenova's abilities, it is known that Jenova's cells can change their form, even from male to female appearance.[1][2] (Note: Ifalna calls Jenova "he" in the Playstation version of the game, yet refers to the creature as "it" in the PC version.) This concept is also confirmed by the Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Ω guide.[3]

Jenova is indicated to be an extraterrestrial lifeform, composed of strange cells that carry her will and power even when separated. Her name has long been speculated to be a portmanteau of "Jehovah" and "nova," the Hebrew name of God and the Latin word for "new," thus meaning "New God." Various points of symbolic signifiance within the game's storyline may support this notion, but it has not as yet been confirmed. The creature is also known as "the Calamity from the Sky/Skies" or "Heaven's Dark Harbinger".

Jenova has a major role in the continuity of Final Fantasy VII plot. In the game, many of the main characters, including Cloud Strife and Zack, have been injected with Jenova cells at some point in their lives. All members of SOLDIER were also given Jenova cells, as were the "Sephiroth clones" in Nibelheim. Additionally, all these individuals were infused with mako. This procedure leaves its subjects stronger and more resilient to physical attacks, but the cells and mako can also have various effects on one's mind, some beneficial (improved magical ability) and others detrimental (insanity). Sephiroth's case is more enhanced as he was injected with Jenova cells while in the fetal stage, giving him some extra abilities, such as flight, as a result.

Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Arrival
1.2 The Jenova Project
2 Hojo's Jenova Reunion Theory
3 Control
4 Encounters
5 Music
6 References
7 External links



[edit] History

[edit] Arrival

Jenova at the Nibelheim Reactor in Final Fantasy VII.
Jenova's casing in Last Order -Final Fantasy VII-.Approximately two thousand years before the main events of the game, Jenova arrived on the Planet, having traveled through space on a meteor. Its landing rendered a giant wound to the Planet that would later come to be known as the "Northern Crater," a blight on its surface to which the Planet would channel its Lifestream in an effort to heal even up to the beginning of the game.[4][5]

After its arrival, Jenova emerged from the Crater and approached the Cetra (also known as "the Ancients" wink , using her psionic abilities to glean the memories and emotions of the Cetra from their minds, and then instinctually shifting her form in response, assuming the appearances of their deceased loved ones. This allowed her to get close enough to them to infect them with its virus, which then drove those infected insane and turned them into monsters.[6]

Most of the Cetra were mutated in the time that followed[7], though the survivors attempted to defend the Planet despite their dwindling numbers. They were abandoned in the defense of the Planet by the regular humans (those descended from the Cetra who gave up their Planet-revering lifestyle and subsequently lost their close relationship with the Planet), though a small band of survivors mounted an assault on the Calamity from the Skies and managed to defeat it nonetheless.[8][9] Now effectively neutralized, the creature was sealed away in the Northern Crater.[10] As a result of Jenova's onslaught, only a few Cetra would survive into the modern era.


[edit] The Jenova Project
Approximately 30 years before the main events of the game began, Professor Gast excavated the creature, named it "Jenova," and mistakenly identified it as a Cetra.[10][11] Being Shinra's top scientist, the Jenova Project was approved under his guidance and conducted in Nibelheim. The project intended to produce in the modern era an individual with the abilities of the Cetra. Ultimately that would result in the birth of Sephiroth, child to Gast's assistants (Hojo and Lucrecia), and inheritor of Jenova's power.[12][13][14] Some time after the birth of Sephiroth, Ifalna, one of the last Cetra, informed Gast that Jenova was not an Ancient, and Gast fled from Shinra in regret of what he had done. However, Hojo continued Gast's research and would later use it to augment select candidates for becoming members of SOLDIER, Shinra's elite force.[15]

Only 5 years before the start of the game, Sephiroth would learn of the Jenova Project and read the flawed reports identifying Jenova as an Ancient. Further, he would misinterpret them as stating that he was produced from Jenova's genetic material. Believing himself to be the sole survivor of a race abandoned to a sacrificial death by the species that currently dominated the Planet, he lashed out in rage, razing the village of Nibelheim and slaughtering most of its citizens in his blind wrath. He then attempted to retrieve the remains of Jenova from the nearby mako reactor, but due to the interference of Cloud Strife, only managed to escape with the creature's head, retreating with it into the Lifestream. In the time that followed, Sephiroth would gain mastery over Jenova's powers, essentially acting as an evolved form of the creature. Its own mind — that of an instinctual creature seeking to destroy — ceased to operate and the will of Sephiroth assumed control.[16]

After drifting through the Lifestream, Sephiroth arrived at the site of Jenova's impact. While in the Lifestream, he had absorbed the knowledge of the Cetra and now set in motion a simple yet devastating plan: scarring the Planet, so that when it healed, he would be situated in the middle of the wound, where he could absorb the Lifestream's energy and then be reborn as a "god" who could control the Planet's lifecycle.[17] Jenova's body was moved to the Shinra HQ in Midgar, where it remained for five years until the events of Final Fantasy VII, when Cloud tried to save Aerith. It was then that "Sephiroth" took control of Jenova's body and broke free from its container murdering President Shinra along with a multitude of the Shinra personnel working in the building.

In the time immediately following