#(PS: Anyone who uses this as an opportunity to be condescending or talk about how disappointed they already are will be blocked.)

[meteorstricken]

Curious what do you think of possibly 2 Sephiroth’s working against one another ? I honestly wondered if one fought at end of Remake is “Future” Sephiroth, then I started to think of “original”/past Sephiroth the one in Northern Carter frozen in Mako. At first I thought for longtime are they working together ? But then it occured to me, what if they will end against one another ?

I'm not thinking there's >1 Seph at all.

My current favorite theory casts the Lifestream as an omnitemporal entity with an active will for how things are "supposed to" play out for the planet, and Sephiroth as having access to all that information. Because he has access to that information, and is technically "dead" he's working from within to subvert it--to bring it under his control as we see in the OG, where his control over the Lifestream prevents Holy from moving until he's defeated.

I don't think there's more than one timeline or more than one Sephiroth. I think what we're seeing with the Whispers and his various appearances are how he's taken on the omnitemporal nature of the Lifestream itself, and is slowly gaining control over it. This is evident in how, toward the end of Remake, we hear the cries of the planet coming directly from the Whispers as they swarm Midgar. The Whispers are a manifestation of a Lifestream under assault.

It's all about Sephiroth's gaining control over the Lifestream, and the Lifestream's attempts to resist that effort, resulting in its erratic behavior... We're just getting to see how the sausage is made this time, so to speak--how it all leads up to Sephiroth being able to block Holy.

Here's the dude who concocted this theory, and the two parts he's released so far. He's a theologian and professor who teaches religion, myth, philosophy, and literature IRL. (He's also fairly humble, values curiosity over bitter cynicism, and is willing to be wrong, which is a rare gem for VII's broader fandom, lol.) There will be a final, third part dropping shortly if you happen to find his takes as compelling as I do.

Part 1

Part 2