Its genetic makeup ensures that it can adapt to any planet that it ends up landing on. It can take on the traits of any creature or being it finds in order to accomplish its destructive purpose. On the other end of things, it can insert its own genes into any organism, turning them into violent monsters. Using these two particular abilities, it was able to infiltrate the Cetra.
After killing one of them, it took their place so as to be able to escape detection until it was too late. Though by some miracle, the few remaining Cetra were able to band together to seal it. One more aspect of Jenova is that its cells, once separated, will attempt to gather together again regardless of whether they're in their own form or in a host.
This is called the Reunion Theory by Hojo. Contrary to what you might believe based on what you see, Jenova isn't necessarily female. Being an alien from outer space, it's unknown if Jenova even has a gender. In the game, Jenova definitely has a female form, and Sephiroth does refer to it as his mother. However, Ifalna, Aerith 's mother, refers to Jenova as a 'he' or 'it' depending on which version of the game you are playing.
This gives Jenova's gender a very uncertain nature and considering it is an alien, gender might not even matter. The name Jenova is a portmanteau, a blend of two different words; Jehova and Nova.
Jehova comes from the Hebrew word which refers to Jesus Christ. Nova comes from the Latin adjective for new but could also refer to a terrestrial explosion, such as a Supernova.
When Jenova was first discovered, it was believed to be a Cetra, so Shinra began experimenting using it. In their haste to find the promised land told of in the Cetra's legends, they began to fuse Jenova's cells with human subjects. The most famous example of this is Sephiroth, regarded as their most successful subject. Sephiroth was created by injecting him with Jenova cells while he was still a fetus.
Other subjects were merely treated with the cells and, as a result, turned superhuman. The striking narrative of Final Fantasy 7 is one of the most memorable things about the RPG, but because of the complex lore and history, it's difficult to remember all the little details.
That's especially true of Jenova, a major antagonistic presence in Final Fantasy 7 and the party responsible for virtually the entire story. Despite its importance, the lore surrounding Jenova is complex and wasn't explained very clearly in the original game.
Jenova's crucial role is easy to gloss over; it takes many different forms throughout the story so it can be hard to keep track of what is Jenova and what is not. While Jenova is generally described as a character in the Final Fantasy 7 universe , it's not even a character in the traditional sense.
Jenova has no character arc, no lines apart from when it's being used by Sephiroth, and no drive except to destroy everything. It's a truly mysterious and unnerving being that's always in the backdrop of Final Fantasy 7.
Thousands of years before the main story of Final Fantasy 7 begins , Jenova crash-landed on the planet and waged war against the Cetra, more commonly referred to as Ancients. The Cetra are known for their deep connection to the planet and they fought valiantly against Jenova, but unfortunately for them, the "calamity from the skies" had a couple of tricks up its sleeve and had supposedly been in the business of destroying planets for eons.
Jenova is uniquely capable of injecting its own DNA into other hosts, which then mutate into violent monsters. The entire point of Jenova's existence is also to destroy planets, and while its origin is unknown, it seems like the alien goes from planet to planet and simply destroys everything it finds.
It nearly wiped out the planet and the Cetra entirely, but somehow, the remaining Ancients with the help of Shiva managed to capture Jenova and hide it in the North Crater, which formed upon its explosive arrival. While the Cetra were essentially wiped out apart from a few lingering survivors, Jenova was contained for a few thousand years. One of the things that makes the franchise so great though is the characters.
They are what gives the player a connection to the story and makes the experience seem so much more real. Throughout the lifespan of the Final Fantasy series there have been some heroic protagonists and some devilish antagonists squaring off against them.
Jenova's genetic structure is a two-way conduit; it can both take in the traits of its prey, and insert its own genes to turn other organisms into violent monsters. Once Jenova lands upon a new planet it will begin to destroy every form of life it finds. Jenova can absorb its prey's memories and form, hiding as their loved ones to destroy them. As stated in Professor Hojo's Jenova Reunion Theory, once Jenova's cells have been separated from the main body they will eventually reunite into one again.
If they are inside a host body they can influence its mind and body to join the Reunion — sometimes so extremely the host organism is killed. For an unknown reason organisms affected by Jenova often grow a single wing capable of flight.
The pupils of the affected can also change into a cat-like slit, though the rest of the eye remains unchanged. Once Jenova has completely destroyed a planet it uses it as a vessel to travel the cosmos to the next unfortunate planet and this cycle may have been going for millions of years before the beginning of Final Fantasy VII.
Jenova's age is unknown but since it can lay dormant for millennia if necessary it might be older than the planet of Gaia itself. Approximately two thousand years before the main events of Final Fantasy VII, an alien creature landed on Gaia, having traveled through space on a meteor. The impact created a giant wound on the Planet's surface that would come to be known as the "North Crater".
The alien emerged from the crater and approached the Cetra using its mimicry abilities to destroy them. Its victims were infected by the alien's cells and mutated into monsters. The alien would then take the form of the fallen Cetra, using this appearance to approach and destroy their loved ones. Ifalna describes the process as the alien creature giving the Cetra "the virus". The creature destroyed most of the Cetra civilization.
Their daughter race, the humans, hid from it, while the Cetra were nearly wiped out; the few surviving Cetra banded together to defeat the creature and quarantined it inside the North Crater where it would lie dormant for thousands of years.
Despite the Cetra's victory over the "Calamity from the Skies" their civilization was lost, their numbers dwindling down to almost nothing while humans spread over the planet. As time wore on humanity forgot about the alien creature and the Cetra fell into legend. Two thousand years after the calamity's fall onto the planet all memory of Jenova had faded. The Shinra Electric Power Company ruled the planet with Mako energy but was ever looking for a more efficient way to harvest it.
Their interest piqued by the Cetra legend of the "Promised Land," the company delved into research into the seemingly long-extinct race. Approximately 30 years before the main events of Final Fantasy VII, Professor Gast Faremis excavated the alien creature's remains, mistakenly identifying it as a Cetra and gave it a name, "Jenova". Thus began the Jenova Project, an effort by a number of Shinra scientists to take Jenova's cells and use them to create a human hybrid, a Cetra who would lead them to the Promised Land.
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